Lazy Flamingo
04-21-2005, 09:53 AM
I Remember The 50's & 60's :lol:
( I Did This For My High School 40th Reunion Website )
Think back, how much of the following can you remember ?
When McDonald's signs said "more than one million sold"
When shopping centers were closed on Sundays
When subliminal advertising on television was legal
Percolated coffee
The Good Humor ice cream man dressed in white with
the change machine on his belt
Dances: the twist, the pony, the frog, the mash potato,
the hully gully, the swim
Twiggy hair cuts
"Mod"
The "Peace Sign" with two fingers
"Far out, Maaaannnnn..."
Grooovy
Hippi's and Yippies
Hitch Hikers
"Choppers" - Motorcycles
Candy Apple Red Mustang Convertibles
Love Beads
"Make Love, Not War"
The "McCartney Mystery" when they said on
the radio that Paul had died
Marilyn Monroe
John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
The assassinations of:
JFK, Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King
Teddy Kennedy and Chappaquidick
Jesus Christ Superstar
Hair
"I'm OK, You're Okay"
Ying and Yang
ESP and Transcendental Meditation
LBJ and Lady Bird
J. Edgar Hoover
Vietnam war protesters
Civil rights breakthroughs
Alice B. Toklas
Woodstock
Manual typewriters
Vinyl records: 45's and LP's, Diamond needles
Scratched and warped records
The 1964 World's Fair
Dr. Timothy Leary:
" Tune in, Turn on, drop out"
Abbie Hoffman
Richard Alpert aka Baba Ram Das
Making and wearing Tye Dye T-Shirts
Oooooommmmm
Flower Power
Dice hanging from the rear view mirror
Your lucky "rabbits foot"
Wolfman Jack
Peggy Fleming
Herbert Hoover
Richard M. Nixon
Spiro T. Agnew
The old NBC Peacock and accompanying jingle
Esso / Exxon "Put a tiger in your tank"
Full service gas stations
S & H Green Stamps
The Age of Aquarius
Zap Comic Books
I Remember Our Clothes
PF Flyers / Run Faster - Jump Higher
Keds
Black patent leather shoes with lacey anklets
Fishnet stockings
Go Go boots
Hot Pants
Pedal pushers
Culottes
Hip huggers
Mini, Middy, and Maxi skirts and dresses
Bell bottoms
Jeans with fringe added in funky colors
and patterns
Nehru collars with medallion necklace
Dippity Do
Falls, fake eyelashes and white lipstick
Penny loafers
"Day of the Week" Underwear
Gauchos and panchos
Fringed leather purses belts and vests
Hair teased and combed into beehives
Hair that would touch the roof of the car
I Remember The Tube (TV)
The Mousekateers, Romper Room
Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop
Gumby & Pokey, Bozo the Clown
Beanie & Cecil, Clutch Cargo
Bullwinkle with Rocky the Flying Squirrel
Boris - Natasha, Duddly DoRight
Captain Kangaroo & Mr. Green Jeans, Kaboom
Mr. Magoo, Bozo the Clown, H.R. Puffinstuff
The Banana Splits, The Flintstones, The Jetsons
The Ed Sullivan Show, Queen For A Day
I Love Lucy, The Monkees, Mr. Ed
American Bandstand, Lassie
Truth or Consequences with Bob Barker
The **** Van Dyke Show Concentration,
Lost in Space, Green Acres, Gidget
Petticoat Junction, Bewitched, Gilligan's Island
Dennis the Mennis, My Three Sons, That Girl
My Mother the Car, The Flying Nun, F Troop
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Room 222, McHales Navy
The Munsters Batman, 77 Sunset Strip, Route 66
Bonanza, Dark Shadows, Dragnet, Get Smart
Honey West, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
The Adams Family, The Outer Limits
The Man from U.N.C.L.E., I Dream of Jeannie
Mod Squad and Star Trek
The Wizard of OZ once a year
The family gathered around the set on Sunday
nights to watch the Wonderful World of Disney.
All on 5 channels ...
Cable???
Heck no! We had "rabbits ears" aka antennas
I Remember The Movie Theater
2001 - A Space Odyssey, Planet of the Apes
Bambi, Love Bug, That Darn Cat, Lady and the Tramp
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (with Pia Zadora)
Hello Dolly, Dr. Shivago, Cleopatra, Ben Hur
Fiddler on the Roof, Mash, Valley of the Dolls
Easy Rider, Midnight Cowboy, Mrs. Robinson
Love Story, Summer of 42
I Remember The Commercials
Coke: on a mountain top
"I'd like to teach the world to sing in three part harmony"
Sugar Pops are now called Corn Pops
The other one with the character Sugar Bear
Super Sugar Crisp
"Puffa Puffa Rice": Hawaiian themed
"I want my Mapo"
Shake n' Bake
"More Park Sausages, Mom"
Brylcreem - "a little dab will do ya!"
"Timex - takes a lickin' but keeps on ticking"
The Pillsbury Doughboy Boy
"Nothing says lovin', like something from the oven,
and Pillsbury says it best"
"Hey, Mikey - He likes it" - Life Cereal
"Calgon, take me away"
"Ay, Yi, Yi, Yi, I am the Frito Bandito"
"Munch, munch, munch a bunch of Frito's
Corn Chips"
Punchie says: "How about a nice Hawaiian Punch"
Madge says: "You're soaking in it" Palmolive Dish liquid
Aqua Velva ads
Charlie says: "Good and Plenty, Good and Plenty,
Good and Plenty"
The Doublemint Twins....
"Double your pleasure,
double your fun with Doublemint,
Doublemint Doublemint Gum
Lucky Charms - magically delicious
N E S T L E S
Nestles' make the very best CHOCOLATE
Quisp and Quake Cereal
Quake disappeared, Quisp fared longer
Sorry Charlie, we only want tuna that tastes good
Cigarette Commericals on TV ...
29 cents bought you a pack of cigs
Winston tastes good like a cigarette should
I'd walk a mile for a Camel
Marlboro man
Salem
Chesterfield
Pall Mall
Tareyton
Kool
Lucky Strike
I Remember Our Toys
Hoola Hoops, Easy Bake Ovens, Silly Putty
Skiddle Kiddles, Candy Land, Uncle Wiggly
Monopoly, Clue, Go to the head of the Class
Operation, Ping Pong, Hot Wheels
Pogo Sticks, Jacks, Jump Rope
Chinese Jump Rope, Colorforms
Duncan YoYo's, Incredible Edibles
Clackers
Two clear plastic balls on a string
You hold a ring and move your hand up and down
and they would make a clacking sound
Note: They were eventually banned
Barbie - cutting off her hair
making her and Ken do the nasty
GI Joe, Dominos, Super balls
Mexican jumping beans
Soap that grew hair - called "Fuzzy Wuzzy"
Making chains from gum wrappers in class
Lincoln Logs, Troll Dolls
Homemade tissue flowers
with a bobby pin in the middle
Plastic dip flower kits
Playing Cowboys and Indians
Making multicolored pot holders on
the frame and giving as gifts
Making things out of popsicle sticks
or toothpicks
Silly Sand, playing Cowboy and Indians
Erector Sets, Thumbelina, Baby Bye Bye
Electric scissors, Hoppity horse
Barrels of Monkeys, Oiuja Boards
Playing Go-Fish, Solitaire and Concentration
Tiny Tears dolls, Chatty Cathy
Origami, Roller Skates, Scrabble, Sea Monkeys
Rock 'em, Sock 'em Robots, Ant Farms
Lite-Bright, those ball shaped radios that
looked like a smiley face, skatemania.
I Remember The Crazy Food
Bosco and milk
Ovaltine if you were desperate
Strawberry Quick
Penny candy
5 cent candy bars
Eating a whole package of Chicklets at once
Putting aspirin in the Coca Cola
Bird's Nest
Egg fried in hole in a piece of white bread
Abdows Big Boy
Hot Fudge Ice Cream Sundea
French Fries & Onion Rings
Root Beer Float at A & W
Sugar and butter Sandwiches
Rolling and mushing a piece of
Wonder Bread up in a ball and eating it
Screaming Yellow Zonkers
Banana Sandwiches with mayonnaise
and sugar or banana & peanut butter
Kool Pops, Scooter Pies, Birch Beer
Bubble Up, Moon Pies
"Real" Frozen Custard
Funny Face Drinks: Kool Aid
Goofy Grape
Jolly Olly Orange
Rootin 'Tootin Raspberry
Lemon Lime
I Remember Eating Out / 50's
Burger Chef ....
Burgers - 6 for $1.00
Fries - 6 for $1.00
Shakes - 6 for $1.00
**** NOTE ****
There was no such things as:
McDonalds
Burger King
Wendy's
Ho Jo's - Howard Johnson's
White Hut - Burgers & Hot Dogs
White Castle - Burgers
5 & 10 Cent Store Lunch Counters:
Woolworths
Newberry's
Kresges
Neisners
Going to drive-in restaurants and
the girls bringing it out to the car
and placing it on the tray that you
slid into the car window space .....
Abdows Big Boy
A & W Root Beer Stand
When Roy Roger and Arby's used
real roast beef .... A real slab of beef
they used to carve sitting under hot lights
( I Did This For My High School 40th Reunion Website )
Think back, how much of the following can you remember ?
When McDonald's signs said "more than one million sold"
When shopping centers were closed on Sundays
When subliminal advertising on television was legal
Percolated coffee
The Good Humor ice cream man dressed in white with
the change machine on his belt
Dances: the twist, the pony, the frog, the mash potato,
the hully gully, the swim
Twiggy hair cuts
"Mod"
The "Peace Sign" with two fingers
"Far out, Maaaannnnn..."
Grooovy
Hippi's and Yippies
Hitch Hikers
"Choppers" - Motorcycles
Candy Apple Red Mustang Convertibles
Love Beads
"Make Love, Not War"
The "McCartney Mystery" when they said on
the radio that Paul had died
Marilyn Monroe
John Fitzgerald Kennedy and Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy
The assassinations of:
JFK, Bobby Kennedy and Martin Luther King
Teddy Kennedy and Chappaquidick
Jesus Christ Superstar
Hair
"I'm OK, You're Okay"
Ying and Yang
ESP and Transcendental Meditation
LBJ and Lady Bird
J. Edgar Hoover
Vietnam war protesters
Civil rights breakthroughs
Alice B. Toklas
Woodstock
Manual typewriters
Vinyl records: 45's and LP's, Diamond needles
Scratched and warped records
The 1964 World's Fair
Dr. Timothy Leary:
" Tune in, Turn on, drop out"
Abbie Hoffman
Richard Alpert aka Baba Ram Das
Making and wearing Tye Dye T-Shirts
Oooooommmmm
Flower Power
Dice hanging from the rear view mirror
Your lucky "rabbits foot"
Wolfman Jack
Peggy Fleming
Herbert Hoover
Richard M. Nixon
Spiro T. Agnew
The old NBC Peacock and accompanying jingle
Esso / Exxon "Put a tiger in your tank"
Full service gas stations
S & H Green Stamps
The Age of Aquarius
Zap Comic Books
I Remember Our Clothes
PF Flyers / Run Faster - Jump Higher
Keds
Black patent leather shoes with lacey anklets
Fishnet stockings
Go Go boots
Hot Pants
Pedal pushers
Culottes
Hip huggers
Mini, Middy, and Maxi skirts and dresses
Bell bottoms
Jeans with fringe added in funky colors
and patterns
Nehru collars with medallion necklace
Dippity Do
Falls, fake eyelashes and white lipstick
Penny loafers
"Day of the Week" Underwear
Gauchos and panchos
Fringed leather purses belts and vests
Hair teased and combed into beehives
Hair that would touch the roof of the car
I Remember The Tube (TV)
The Mousekateers, Romper Room
Shari Lewis and Lamb Chop
Gumby & Pokey, Bozo the Clown
Beanie & Cecil, Clutch Cargo
Bullwinkle with Rocky the Flying Squirrel
Boris - Natasha, Duddly DoRight
Captain Kangaroo & Mr. Green Jeans, Kaboom
Mr. Magoo, Bozo the Clown, H.R. Puffinstuff
The Banana Splits, The Flintstones, The Jetsons
The Ed Sullivan Show, Queen For A Day
I Love Lucy, The Monkees, Mr. Ed
American Bandstand, Lassie
Truth or Consequences with Bob Barker
The **** Van Dyke Show Concentration,
Lost in Space, Green Acres, Gidget
Petticoat Junction, Bewitched, Gilligan's Island
Dennis the Mennis, My Three Sons, That Girl
My Mother the Car, The Flying Nun, F Troop
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Room 222, McHales Navy
The Munsters Batman, 77 Sunset Strip, Route 66
Bonanza, Dark Shadows, Dragnet, Get Smart
Honey West, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In
The Adams Family, The Outer Limits
The Man from U.N.C.L.E., I Dream of Jeannie
Mod Squad and Star Trek
The Wizard of OZ once a year
The family gathered around the set on Sunday
nights to watch the Wonderful World of Disney.
All on 5 channels ...
Cable???
Heck no! We had "rabbits ears" aka antennas
I Remember The Movie Theater
2001 - A Space Odyssey, Planet of the Apes
Bambi, Love Bug, That Darn Cat, Lady and the Tramp
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (with Pia Zadora)
Hello Dolly, Dr. Shivago, Cleopatra, Ben Hur
Fiddler on the Roof, Mash, Valley of the Dolls
Easy Rider, Midnight Cowboy, Mrs. Robinson
Love Story, Summer of 42
I Remember The Commercials
Coke: on a mountain top
"I'd like to teach the world to sing in three part harmony"
Sugar Pops are now called Corn Pops
The other one with the character Sugar Bear
Super Sugar Crisp
"Puffa Puffa Rice": Hawaiian themed
"I want my Mapo"
Shake n' Bake
"More Park Sausages, Mom"
Brylcreem - "a little dab will do ya!"
"Timex - takes a lickin' but keeps on ticking"
The Pillsbury Doughboy Boy
"Nothing says lovin', like something from the oven,
and Pillsbury says it best"
"Hey, Mikey - He likes it" - Life Cereal
"Calgon, take me away"
"Ay, Yi, Yi, Yi, I am the Frito Bandito"
"Munch, munch, munch a bunch of Frito's
Corn Chips"
Punchie says: "How about a nice Hawaiian Punch"
Madge says: "You're soaking in it" Palmolive Dish liquid
Aqua Velva ads
Charlie says: "Good and Plenty, Good and Plenty,
Good and Plenty"
The Doublemint Twins....
"Double your pleasure,
double your fun with Doublemint,
Doublemint Doublemint Gum
Lucky Charms - magically delicious
N E S T L E S
Nestles' make the very best CHOCOLATE
Quisp and Quake Cereal
Quake disappeared, Quisp fared longer
Sorry Charlie, we only want tuna that tastes good
Cigarette Commericals on TV ...
29 cents bought you a pack of cigs
Winston tastes good like a cigarette should
I'd walk a mile for a Camel
Marlboro man
Salem
Chesterfield
Pall Mall
Tareyton
Kool
Lucky Strike
I Remember Our Toys
Hoola Hoops, Easy Bake Ovens, Silly Putty
Skiddle Kiddles, Candy Land, Uncle Wiggly
Monopoly, Clue, Go to the head of the Class
Operation, Ping Pong, Hot Wheels
Pogo Sticks, Jacks, Jump Rope
Chinese Jump Rope, Colorforms
Duncan YoYo's, Incredible Edibles
Clackers
Two clear plastic balls on a string
You hold a ring and move your hand up and down
and they would make a clacking sound
Note: They were eventually banned
Barbie - cutting off her hair
making her and Ken do the nasty
GI Joe, Dominos, Super balls
Mexican jumping beans
Soap that grew hair - called "Fuzzy Wuzzy"
Making chains from gum wrappers in class
Lincoln Logs, Troll Dolls
Homemade tissue flowers
with a bobby pin in the middle
Plastic dip flower kits
Playing Cowboys and Indians
Making multicolored pot holders on
the frame and giving as gifts
Making things out of popsicle sticks
or toothpicks
Silly Sand, playing Cowboy and Indians
Erector Sets, Thumbelina, Baby Bye Bye
Electric scissors, Hoppity horse
Barrels of Monkeys, Oiuja Boards
Playing Go-Fish, Solitaire and Concentration
Tiny Tears dolls, Chatty Cathy
Origami, Roller Skates, Scrabble, Sea Monkeys
Rock 'em, Sock 'em Robots, Ant Farms
Lite-Bright, those ball shaped radios that
looked like a smiley face, skatemania.
I Remember The Crazy Food
Bosco and milk
Ovaltine if you were desperate
Strawberry Quick
Penny candy
5 cent candy bars
Eating a whole package of Chicklets at once
Putting aspirin in the Coca Cola
Bird's Nest
Egg fried in hole in a piece of white bread
Abdows Big Boy
Hot Fudge Ice Cream Sundea
French Fries & Onion Rings
Root Beer Float at A & W
Sugar and butter Sandwiches
Rolling and mushing a piece of
Wonder Bread up in a ball and eating it
Screaming Yellow Zonkers
Banana Sandwiches with mayonnaise
and sugar or banana & peanut butter
Kool Pops, Scooter Pies, Birch Beer
Bubble Up, Moon Pies
"Real" Frozen Custard
Funny Face Drinks: Kool Aid
Goofy Grape
Jolly Olly Orange
Rootin 'Tootin Raspberry
Lemon Lime
I Remember Eating Out / 50's
Burger Chef ....
Burgers - 6 for $1.00
Fries - 6 for $1.00
Shakes - 6 for $1.00
**** NOTE ****
There was no such things as:
McDonalds
Burger King
Wendy's
Ho Jo's - Howard Johnson's
White Hut - Burgers & Hot Dogs
White Castle - Burgers
5 & 10 Cent Store Lunch Counters:
Woolworths
Newberry's
Kresges
Neisners
Going to drive-in restaurants and
the girls bringing it out to the car
and placing it on the tray that you
slid into the car window space .....
Abdows Big Boy
A & W Root Beer Stand
When Roy Roger and Arby's used
real roast beef .... A real slab of beef
they used to carve sitting under hot lights