<p>more fun memories…</p>
<p>teen heart-throb…bobby sherman:) </p>
<p>barnabas collins on ds too:) there was a ds board game too:) </p>
<p>tv shows - gentle ben…and flipper…hogan’s heros…dynasty…dallas…and one of my personal favorites…miami vice:) don’t ya luv that music at the start of the show and the pink flamingos:)</p>
<p>One of my favorite shows was “Soap”
starring Richard Guillaume and Billy Crystal
Bosom Buddies with Tom Hanks and PEter Scolari
and the Duck Factory with Jim Carrey
Oh and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman
( I must have watched a lot more tv then- the only time I watch it now is when I am at the gym- or if I remember which day CSI is on 
)</p>
<p>fredo-</p>
<p>Small world ! we were talking about wicking nightgowns just the other night! What’s the link to the catalog??
And pye- You’re welcome. For the mouseketeers names? I feel like a bastion of useless information! And thanks again for the Sky King reminders!</p>
<p>update–</p>
<p>My friend HIGHLY recommends a wicking nightgown made by nitesweatz (<a href=“http://www.nitesweatz.com)%5B/url%5D”>www.nitesweatz.com)</a>. She said it is a little more expesnive, but WELL worth the extra money!</p>
<p>Re: Wicking night gowns…</p>
<p>If you don’t need a long gown, I have used my son’s sports shirts that have the wicking capabilites. There are all kinds of brands – even Walmart has a version for about $7.</p>
<p>jlauer-
Are the wicking sports shirts in the sports section of Walmart?</p>
<p>Fluffernutter sandwiches (I mean when they FIRST came out, TV commercial and all) … peanut butter, marshmallow fluff, soft white Wonder or Bond bread…yum!!</p>
<p>We weren’t poor (or rich) but I remember mom pinning together patterns she got in magazines so she could MAKE my sister dresses. My own daughter got a kick out of that.</p>
<p>Someone mentioned SRA -----I loved them! I think brown was OK, green was better and red was higher (best readers)…you got to finish out a color and move up…fun</p>
<p>Hostess marshmallow snoballs - did anyone really eat these things?<a href=“http://www.freshchocodiles.com/hostess/snoballs.html[/url]”>http://www.freshchocodiles.com/hostess/snoballs.html</a></p>
<p>you guys are grossing me out
I guess I can thank my mother for not letting me have candy or much sugar until my brother was about 3 ( so I must have been 7), I didnt get the same taste for it as they did-
I did like the kind of sugar things that you suck on though-jolly rancher- sticks or bars? green apple and watermelon-
I also remember making a sugar daddy sucker last for weeks</p>
<p>The wicking sports shirts are in the mens section - where they sell gym shorts, etc. They are the generics for Nike Dryfit and Under Armour.</p>
<p>2331clk,</p>
<p>sra’s - wow - yes, i luv’d these. i used to race against 2 or 3 boys in my class to see who could progress the fastest:) we used these mainly in 7th and 8th grade. i’m thinking these were yesterday’s version of today’s “enrichment” opportunities in the classroom??? looking back i remember now that it was the better students who seemed to enjoy these and make a competition out of it.</p>
<p>My kids’ elem school still uses SRA reading cards. They have been updated because now their questions do a better job developing “critical” reading skills.</p>
<p>I’m sorry, I haven’t read every single post, but did anyone learn French or Spanish with the tapes in school which began with the warning, “Under applicable Federal law, this tape may only be reproduced with the advance written permission of the publisher. French, Level I, Reel 3, Ecoute et repete.”
Followed by some incredibly scintillating dialog like “La neige est belle aujourd’hui. Si on allez faire du ski?” (Pardon my grammar.)</p>
<p>I also do remember the “duck and cover drills” in elementary school. I was trying to explain these to my kids the other day, going down to the basement in the school, putting our heads against a locker, and shielding our eyes, or the other drill where we merely crouched beneath our desks. As if.</p>
<p>I was in Gr 2 during the Cuban Missile Crisis and I remember the duck and cover drill (under the desk with a Pink Pearl eraser between your teeth…I don’t know whether that was supposed to stop your teeth from shattering from the nuclear explosion, or to stop us from giggling). Being a concerned child, I found a copy of my father’s “7 Steps to Survival” a nuclear survival manual and felt much more in control after reading it…
and when Cheney was pulling for Duct Tape & Plastic Sheeting, well I knew where he was coming from… ;)</p>
<p>I remember coming home from kindergarten with notes pinned to my clothes.</p>
<p>This may be a function of location as well as age.
I remember we didn’t have to dial all of the 7 numbers to reach someone in our town, but we had to call the operator to get long distance.
I remember our first house that had a television built right into the wall (1950 Levittown) and when disney wasn’t in color (Davy Crocket coonskin hats, my first cost of living adjustment when comics went from a dime up to 12 cents. The old television western series (Buffalo Bill Junior, Annie Oakly, Cisco Kid, Range Rider…the pre startrek westerns (Have Gun will Travel - Christie Brinkley’s Dad Don wrote some great episodes) My dad was an amatuer electrician and he built a stereo based on some plans he saw and we listened to a train ride through our living room until one of the local stores started to carry stereophonic records…so we could hear classical music until it caught on with pop.</p>
<p>When FM meant there probably wouldn’t be many ads and a stoned hippy or a classical music instructor were at the mike.</p>
<p>Schwinn Varsity ten speed bikes drew us away from home, Dobie Gillis introduced us to beatniks…like manard G Krebs…</p>
<p>25 cent movies, silver dollar night drive in movies…where you paid two dollars, got a silver dollar back and the show consisted of multiple japenese horror (rodan, godzilla) movies. I am so old that I remember that saying something was made in Japan meant it wouldn’t work.</p>
<p>2 cent chicklets from the subway platform machines, a 20c meal from White castle. I have paid 19cents a gallon for gas and once had a mortage payment including tax and insurance for under $200 a month.</p>
<p>All of this and I didn’t know I was old until I saw a poster with all of the Presidents on it and I realized how many I had been alive for…and that I had voted in the elections of all the living Presidents.</p>
<p>yes 20 cents at White Castle; I remember for a quarter you could get a burger and coke when McDonalds first opened… $.15 for the burger, $.10 for the coke.</p>
<p>BHappyMom…my memory of the Cuban Missile Crisis—> we 3 biked to school, me (oldest) in front as the leader, baby sis in middle, then my younger brother, dutifully in single file. I recall telling my bro and sis to go as fast as possible, since the Russians were going to bomb us with the “missiles”, pedaling as fast as possible while scanning the sky. Scary stuff…</p>
<p>I didn’t like SRA cards-
When I was progressing faster than the rest of the class, it was obvious the teacher didn’t know what to do- so I slowed down and brought my own reading material to read in my desk, while after I had finished my cards that I had alloted for myself.
Unlike now, where classrooms seem more competitive, it wasn’t good to stick out- because it flummoxed the adults.</p>
<p>speaking of school
stale milk in thermoses
and they didn’t have ziplock sandwich bags, it was either gladbags that folded inside or baggies with a twist tie.
and play day for the last or near to last day of school-
we spent our time cleaning our desks- but then we had games all day on the playground ( which used to be a NIke Missile site).
We didn’t have a cafeteria anyway- and lunch was served outside on paper plates ( the sign of decadence) hot dogs- potato chips and Ice Cream bars!!</p>
<p>Ok-
I am doing my own little research experiment. I bought an inexpensive wicking t-shirt from walmart and an obscenely overpriced “nightie” from nitesweatz, as well as some “homeopathic” pillsto take at nite to help you sleep and not sweat (probably has eye of newt and other such potions in it). I’ve also been eating edamame (supposed to eat soy to help the nite sweats). So…if I get a decent nite’s sleep, I’ll have no idea which of these things did it, but who cares!! I will try any in any combination to sleep through the night! I am tired of waking up at 2 and 3 and 4 and 5… Any other pointers??? I am a “newbie” in the realm of hot flashes (aka “power surges”, “my own personal summer”, etc) and nite sweats-- Help!!!</p>
<p>Make sure you can’t see your alarm clock, I turn mine away, cause when I look at it and see 1:45AM, then 2:23AM, then 4:56AM…I sleep better not seeing how much I am not sleeping</p>