<p>Sybbie, my memory has gone all etch-a-sketch these days.</p>
<p>I had brown and white saddle shoes ( this is when everyone else wore PF flyers to school)- they were made uglier because the cheap shoe polish didn’t match.
I also had a camel hair coat that was probably quite nice but I felt really dorky-everyone else wore ski jackets to school- not wool coats
Oh and kilts!
I loved my kilts- I guess they made up for the saddle shoes almost.</p>
<p>Pouring glue on your palms and letting it dry and peeling it off
those graduated readers- I think it was by SRA- we didn’t have novels we ahd to read these cards and then answer the questions- it was deadly dull- I used to sneak a book and read it in my desk- good thing I was at the farthest back corner.
I actually liked the school lunch it wasn’t heavy on the soy product and orange cheese the way they are now- but usually I had squshed tuna sandwiches.
Lunch boxes
I used to have a beatles lunch box- it was blue-but my mom threw it out when it got rusty- oh I remember- she put wood grain “contact” paper on it, that made it look horrible, but when I tried to take it off, it took a lot of the paint with it :(</p>
<p>BOBBY SHERMAN</p>
<p>I showed my Ds his pictures and that went…ummm…mom…</p>
<p>There was a certain smell from the cafeteria, not sure what it was, it wasn’t a bad smell, jsut something I only smell when in a school caferteria</p>
<p>Anyone else know that odor?</p>
<p>Charlie Perfume
Aqua Velva
Old Spice</p>
<p>listening to the weekly top ten on the radio, and running out to the store to get the 45, and being really cool cause you liked the B side</p>
<p>english leather</p>
<p>I had a Patty Playpal doll, too. Also, Chatty Cathy and Tiny Tears.</p>
<p>The first two schools I attended didn’t have cafeterias. The teacher would dole out the milk at lunchtime and we could also buy little bags of potato chips or Dipsy Doodles. I remember what a treat it was when it was Hoagie Day!</p>
<p>When I was in 7th or 8th grade, I remember we’d all save our allowance and on Fridays we’d walk to the local music store and buy the latest 45 rpm records.</p>
<p>Saddle shoes! My mother must have thought they were better for your feet b/c they were leather. When someone asked me if I had orthopedic shoes is when I knew they were seriously out of style.</p>
<p>Toni home perm–don’t ask!</p>
<p>Madame Alexander Dolls–I had the ballerina and she was the most beautiful doll in the world. Fully jointed.</p>
<p>Plaid lunchbox. Plaid everything. Looking back, I don’t think there was a concept of “children’s” clothes in the late 50s, at least not for school or better wear. We seemed to wear small versions of teen clothes, which were pretty much versions of grownup clothes*. And the colors were rather somber, which made the frivolous, colorful clothes of the 60s all the more shocking. And fun :D</p>
<p>*Poodle skirts excepted.</p>
<p>Split shifts in school 1962-63, as the baby boomers hit elementary school.</p>
<p>Anyone else remember Dippity Do and that pink hair tape, used to tape down errant bangs?</p>
<p>alongfortheride
I think Van Morrison will be upset to find out he is dead. It will ruin his tour this year 
. I think you meant Jimmy Hendrix.</p>
<p>There is a long list of “oldie goldie” memories in the sinners alley thread-- around posts 51-160. Its a great read. Some things mentioned there that I haven’t seen in my quick scan here are: spoolies (for your hair) whip’n chill, junket (tapioca) sun cameras, Bosco, Maypo, to name a few… If you are feeling nostalgic (or just OLD) go read the sinners alley posts
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=62644&page=3&pp=40[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=62644&page=3&pp=40</a></p>
<p>Spider bikes, banana seats, and sissy bars. It was cool for a girl to ride a boy’s bike. </p>
<p>Saturday morning cartoons!! Flinstones, Jetsons, Bugs Bunny, Land of the Lost, Tom and Jerry…</p>
<p>jym, I think maybe alongfortheride meant Jim Morrison, not Van. I’m glad that Van is still around! :)</p>
<p>Oh, and while tanning with baby oil (sometimes mixed with iodine I think?), you had reflect the sun with a record album, covered with tin foil, to maximize your potential for skin cancer (which we didn’t even really realize was a risk).</p>
<p>alwaysamom yes to post 95 lol…Grew up in South Jersey, land of mosquitoes and punks :).</p>
<p>While we followed the spray truck inhaling the poison, mom or dad actually opened the house windows…nothing like dinner plates covered in deet!!</p>
<p>-covering books with brown Acme bags</p>
<p>-the cloak room</p>
<p>-we had some kind of big adjustable rubber band type thingy that went around our books</p>
<p>-actually carrying books for gf</p>
<p>and Philly area kids TV shows----Pixanne, Gene London, Sally Starr, Bertie the Bunyip</p>
<p>alwaysamom-
Thanks for the catch. Mitchuncle also caught that in the first page of this thread. I remember Joplin and Hendrix and their deaths so close together. I also remember TURNING DOWN an invitation to hear Joplin in NYC because I was uncomfortable going into the City at night. What a FOOL I was!!</p>
<p>ANyone remember the airraid drills we had in school? Like sitting in the hall with our head in our hands was going to do anything!</p>
<p>You know you are old when someone you have known since they were babies is called in for jury duty</p>
<p>Oh, my God! Spoolies! I’d forgotten.</p>
<p>I also remember Dippity-Do.</p>
<p>Shake-A-Pudding… yum!</p>
<p>2331clk, yay for south Jersey. There are several of us on CC from the area. :)</p>
<p>I also remember the brown Acme bags covering my school books; and the cloakroom!; the ‘rubber band type thing’ had a clip-ish type thing that held it together - I had one in h/s; and all those tv shows! Do you remember Captain Philadelphia (Stu Nahan who actually was a friend of my parents) and Happy the Clown?</p>
<p>gymeni-
I used to take that stuff to school, fill it from the water fountain and eat it in math class! Yum!</p>
<p>Anyone chewing their Teaberry gum and doing the Teaberry shuffle? Or are you all sitting and eating your whip 'n chill and drinking Tang.</p>