<p>I’m glad this thread started, it’s bringing back <em>great</em> memories. Here’s the “million dollar question”, though: does ANYONE (besides me) remember the Show N’ Tell? It was a toy and that’s all I’m gonna say (let’s see who else remembers). I tell friends to this day about that thing and they don’t have a clue as to what I’m talking about!</p>
<p>I think I remember what the Show N’ Tell toy was. We never had one but I think a friend did. Was it a TV/record player that showed a story on the screen while the record played?</p>
<p>YOU WIN, jlauer!! How come no one remembers that thing? I absolutely <em>loved</em> my Show N’ Tell! Haven’t even been able to find anything about it on the internet, if you can imagine that!</p>
<p>Edited to add: Ok, as fate would have it, I found a picture of it on the internet after I initially posted this! (<a href=“TimeWarp Vintage Toys 1950s 1960s 1970s Old Toys For Sale”>TimeWarp Vintage Toys 1950s 1960s 1970s Old Toys For Sale)</p>
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<p>I think we called them “gaucho pants”</p>
<p>and I think the version for golf are called “plus fours”</p>
<p>I remember that thing…but only after being reminded…sigh</p>
<p>do you remember those book covers taht were 3-D like?</p>
<p>No, no, no Emerald. Not <em>that</em> kind of trunk, but the really flimsy carboardy ones with cheapy metal clasps that cost about $19.99 from Sear’s; the one you took to summer camp. THAT is the trunk we used as a coffee table (I have seen some gorgeous trunk coffee tables…not these!)</p>
<p>Mine actually had like a snap at the knee, so they were tight, like old fashioned golfers pants, with my earthboots</p>
<p>I rocked</p>
<p>So i wore plus fours, and they were burgandy courdorouy…with a little cord vest to match for a school dance, dancing to Tonights the Night by Rod Stewart…what a geek i was</p>
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<p>Ours was KEystone3-1173 Boy was that a long time ago!</p>
<p>Oh, the memories of CEdar 4…</p>
<p>WHO still has a mailbox slot in or near their front door???"</p>
<p>Many of my neighbors–ours is next to our door, and he walks up. We know him by name; he’s like a member of the family.</p>
<p>“Wow!!! I haven’t heard of any doctors that that do this in the states – but maybe it happens in very small rural towns”</p>
<p>My H often made house calls-in a large city. But then, his office was a van…</p>
<p>“speaking of bugs, how about following the mosquito spray truck on our bikes…how are we still alive?!?”</p>
<p>OMG-- I thought we were the only ones with the Mosquito Truck! My Dad was a chemist,and he wouldn’t let us anywhere near it. Mom would rush to close all the windows when it came by.</p>
<p>“remember the S&H green stamps!!! We’d get them at the grocery stores and save them in “books” and trade them in for stuff.”</p>
<p>Unfortunately, Dad wasnt’ so smart about tobacco. We collected Raleigh cigarette coupons to trade in. We slept under Raleigh coupon blankets–the same brand that eventually killed him.</p>
<p>My additions:</p>
<p>buffalo sandals–with the ring of leather around your big toe.</p>
<p>Quiana shirts</p>
<p>long hair with bangs and “sideburns” (hair at sides of your face cut shorter.)</p>
<p>peasant shirts --lots and lots of embroidery</p>
<p>Wallabies</p>
<p>Wallabies are BACK</p>
<p>The kids wear them to school.</p>
<p>My H had the ugliest out of date GREEN Qiana shirt. He thought is was so great because of the feel – but it was a hideous green. He wore it once when we went out and I asked him to never wear it again – so dorky. Ugh… (of course he still doesn’t understand that you can’t wear any blue with any blue ---- no, teal blue doesn’t “go” with grey blue pants.)</p>
<p>We have the mail slot NEXT to the front door, many have them into the garage in the garage door</p>
<p>Where are the mail boxes then?</p>
<p>I am surprised no one has mentioned Saddle shoes
I hated mine so bad- ugly ugly-
and not too comfortable either
I also had to wear * undershirts* I used to go around the corner of the house and take them off before I went to school- don’t even ask me about slips or petticoats-
dotted swiss dresses?
where did my mom come up with this stuff?
One summer we went to disneyland- we also visited relatives who lived in santa monica and I had some decent school clothes for the first time in my life
striped mini skirts with vinyl belts
faux-leather mini skirt with matching vest
purple panne velvet shirt with matching skirt- <B</p>
<p>actually I think you could wear teal with grey- especially if the depth of color is similar.</p>
<p>-Turkish Taffy
-Nesbitt’s Orange pop
-Having a milk box
-Chinese jump roap… made from the rubber bands you’d beg from the probably homeless people who put flyers on the doors of houses
-getting a hunk of ice from the milk man
-being afraid to go home if the teacher called your mom
-Thing maker
-Betsy Wetsie
-Patty PlayPal
-Ronco stuff
-rabbit ears
-coming in when the street lights came on in the summer
-everyone was Mr. or Mrs.
-the knife sharpener man
-iron lung for polio victims</p>
<p>emerald…</p>
<p>Thanks for bringing up saddle shoes! We had to wear the all white ones or the blk/white ones.</p>
<p>We had to wear undershirts, too. My mom tried to buy some for her grand d’s but that went no where!</p>
<p>Had my fair share of “dotted swiss” dresses.</p>
<p>E: I wrote teal with gray blue (different color it’s a blue with a grayish cast to it – I probably should have wrote: blue gray since blue is the dominant color (not the gray))</p>
<p>Emeraldkitty… I detested saddle shoes. I can remember begging for at least navy blue and white. Nope… they had to be black and white or worse, brown and white.</p>
<p>How about a Pixie haircut? Or a Toni home perm. Oh the horror!</p>
<p>Prell shampoo</p>
<p>Tanning ourselves with oil</p>
<p>I gave myself a home perm…I looked like Lil Orphan Annie</p>
<p>Chrissie and Velvet</p>
<p>maxi coats</p>
<p>fred braun shoes</p>
<p>my older sister had a suede jacket with long fringes (how i lusted for that jacket through most of my teen age years)</p>
<p>etch-a-sketch</p>
<p>speed racer and gigantor (the spaced aged robot)</p>
<p>My mom made me get a “pixie” haircut after she grew tired of combing out my long curly hair after washing (If there were hair products back then, she didn’t know about them or thought they were an unnecessary expense.)</p>
<p>I still remember the smell from the Toni home perms my mom would give herself.</p>
<p>I had a Bobby Sherman album… I had such a crush…</p>
<p>breck girls</p>