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Yes and BD parties held in the summer the parents would being buckets of water balloons out into the back yard and let us go at it.
Anyone else remember wearing dresses to BD parties? I had a small part of my closet for BD party dresses. Don’t remember what the boys wore.
Sky King and Sea Hunt on TV.
In Pittsburgh we had Chiller Theatre starring Chilly Billy Cardille on what was then WIIC. And Paul Shannon who performed as Nosmo King on Adventure Time (Channel 4).
Staying up late to watch the test pattern come on.
The early skateboards (just a piece of wood with metal roller skate wheels).
The milk box on the front porch.
The Fuller Brush man.
My mom’s half hour off from housework each day to watch “Guiding Light”.
Meeting our dad at the trolley stop after work.
Actually walking to elementary school.
Isalys, with the chipped chopped ham and the distinctive, tall ice cream cones.
Downtown department stores (Hornes, Gimbels and Kaufmanns).
Gary Lewis and the Playboys on the radio (“This Diamond Ring” and “Just My Style”).
Roberto Clemente in right field.
Kennywood amusement park (which, thankfully, still looks like it did back then!)
And, sadly, being released early from elementary school in November 1963 and coming home to find my mom speechless and sobbing, on the couch in front of the TV.
@HarvestMoon1 I definitely remember wearing dresses with Mary Janes to birthday parties and whenever we flew. I have a photo of my father at one of the early Super Bowls held in New Orleans and he’s wearing a suit and hat.
Times have changed …
Yes @GnocchiB Mary Janes with white ankle socks. I always wanted the socks with the big ruffles around them and my mother refused saying they were “tacky.”
And the bows to keep your hair off to one side. Sometimes my mother would sweep the front part of my hair up and secure it with a bow at the top of my head.
@HarvestMoon1 Come South. Our girls still wear bows, Bobbie socks with lace and Mary Janes.
Crossing guards also.
But then could the decline of kids walking or bicycling to school, playing outside with other kids on their own, etc. be part of a general trend toward declining physical activity and the attendant growth in obesity?
Knowing what was on every TV channel at 8-9 pm; knowing every station.
Herbal Essence shampoo when it smelled good!
Hair rollers - what were those ones you heated up?
I had a little plastic dino from Sinclair from the 1964 World’s Fair. You put money in a machine outside their dinosaur exhibit and could watch the plastic being poured into the mold, cooled, and come out as a toy - I wonder how much I made my father pay for that?
This might have been mentioned, but for those of you who grew up in the Philadelphia area- Sally Starr and Chief Halftown on TV.
I loved my PF Flyers. We had to cover our school books with book covers. They could be made out of brown paper bags.
@scoutsmom I had the same Sinclair dino from the NY WF. I was probably waiting in line right behind you!
Chucko the Birthday clown…Bozzo…the Mickey Mouse Show and Romper Room (Blend and Stretch…Good Bee). My mother wore a shirt dress and gloves to go grocery shopping.
The Oscar Mayer Weiner commercial with the jingle:
Oh I wish I were an Oscar Mayer Weiner
That is what I truly wish to beeeeeeee
Cause if I were an Oscar Mayer Weiner
Everyone would be in love with meeeeee…
My bologna has a first name
It’s O-S-C-A-R…
Pert shampoo is still around, different varieties. They even have coupons in the Sunday paper. Breck shampoo disappeared decades ago.
Instant coffee still around- several brands.
Now people straighten their hair. I used to sleep on rollers (those pink soft ones or the hard bristle ones) back in HS. Needed to replace my hair dryer recently and chuckle at the technology that supposedly takes care of frizz- wasted on me.
Discovered my hair style of choice is the “Dorothy Hamill” cut when I moved and needed to find new place. Gee, and I want short hair but having the top layer over the gray (actually white since I’m a natural blonde- albeit darker than in my twenties- eyebrows still light) under layer at my temples… As a kid I once had a “pixie cut”.
Encyclopedias in several hardcover volumes- now only in libraries. Miss perusing random topics- not the same online.
@MidwestDad3 I grew up in Pittsburgh and loved Chilly Billy , Bill Cardille. His daughter , Lori Cardille, just posted on her Facebook that her dad is not well and has a recent cancer diagnosis (she doesn’t say what kind). He is now in his late 80’s. I love lemon Blennd and Isaly’s chipped ham and barbecue sauce too. They always bring back memories .
Does anyone remember TV Time popcorn?
I think you mean Bozo- not Bozzo. The red haired clown. I thought my hair looked like that.
Brands of toothpaste other than the numerous varieties of Colgate and Crest.
You can still find brands like Aim, Ultrabrite, Pepsodent, etc. on the cheap bottom or top shelf (away from typical eye level).
Close up toothpaste
Speaking of toothpaste, a controversy about a toothpaste’s brand name and logo made the news in the US a few decades ago, after a US company acquired that toothpaste’s maker. (That brand was sold in some markets in Asia.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darlie
I remember Sally Starr, was she local to Philly only?
A-n-t-i-c-i-p-a-t-i-o-n when the entire commercial was waiting for Heinz Ketsup to drip out of an upside down bottle!