For Christmas a couple of years ago, I got my parents some Charles Chips in the canister from the Vermont Country Store. They were always my mother’s favorites.
“Five minutes to show time…four minutes to show time…”
I loved jello 1-2-3. And donut squares. They were like pop tarts but we’re soft and had a square hole.
I remember watching Zoom, and Community Auditions and Davy and Goliath after church on Sundays.
How about the Banana Splits TV Show? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtD4mn9CeH4
And did Bob Marley “sample” from the theme song for Buffalo Soldiers?
Love this thread. I had many of these things. Still have my Jacks. Yes, we did play outside all day, but I also remember lots of tv shows. Family pictures recount that my parents definitely weren’t safety nuts, but my mom drew the line at getting me Jarts. Finally got the knicker-knackers with my paper route money.
Pick up sticks and Mystery Date.
B-B-Bats, R.C. Cola, Ovaltine, Pizza Spins, Fruit Stripe gum, Chiclets, Razzles, Candy Dots, Bonomo Turkish Taffy, Ding Dongs,Yodels and Gino’s hamburgers.
Rock Em Sock Em Robots, Fascination, Stratego, Little Kiddles, Silly Putty, Gumby and some crazy ass soap in the shape of a bear (?) that grew hair.
Punks in the summer.
Absolutely played Jacks - can remember spending hours on the kitchen floor playing with my oldest brother -it would always annoy my mother that we were underfoot when she was trying to make lunch or dinner.
I also have a memory of some machine - kind of like an easy bake oven - but you poured liquid into the mold and it made these plastic figures or maybe they were insects. Creeples?
That’s Creepy Crawlies @HarvestMoon1
Tiddlywinks!
Harvey Wallbanger cake, Sonny & Cher, Short & Sassy, Long & Silky.
Hands Down and Tip-It.
I thought what others referred to as “footsie” was called the Jingle Jump.
Loved Perry Mason! I guess I was just of an age to appreciate solving a mystery.
“Fractured Fairy Tales” were amazing. So funny!
Schoolhouse Rock on Saturday mornings.
Green stamps!! yes, LOL
@HarvestMoon1 So happy someone remembers Gino’s hamburgers… that’s when my family went, never McDonald’s. I associate it with Sunday evenings… a bittersweet time since Gino’s was a treat, but the weekend was over, and there was homework to be done before bedtime.
My mom would ring a bell when it was dinner and we’d all hear it wherever we were on the block, playing spud in a neighbors yard, playing in the woods, riding bikes and come running. Everyone’s Mom had a yell or a bell and everyone knew whose Mom it was.
Yup, we’d go home when the dinner bell rang or when it got dark, whichever came first.
And people’s dogs just roamed free. No electric fences but they usually stayed in their yards. We knew all the neighborhood dogs by name.
We’d swim in the pool and play Marco Polo until our fingers were wrinkly or play sardines and freeze tag in the yard. We made awesome tree forts and we would camp in the woods.
@HarvestMoon1, we used to dress toads in the Little Kiddle clothes, and they sometimes got away. My mom found a toad skeleton in a Nurse Niddle outfit in a window well one time.
amandakayak, I think you must have been my neighbor! I inherited our bell; it’s a huge brass bell, and I love it. (Also loved spud and kickball down the middle of our street)