A Blast from the Past. To all those born between 1930 and 1979. (Westbury: to buy, school)

[TomMoser]

How about hiding people in the trunk to sneak into the Green Acres Drive In Theater?

[Grasonville]

Anybody remember the Soupy Sales show?

Never missed Soupy with White Fang and (I think) Black Tooth.
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Yup - I grew up in Bellmore in the early 1960's. I used to think that The Three Stooges television show "waited" till I got home from school to be on MY TV. I was shocked and disapointed when I was late one day - and it had started without me

We also spent either Saturday or Sunday in the summer at Rockaway Beach - the whole extended family would meet at the spot directly down the stairs from Howes Baths and the Arcade. Same spot on the beach each time - the men played cards - the woman played mah jon 9sp?)

I was given $1.00 and that was good for 20 games of skiball (and at 5 you could run around the boardwalk all by yourself) - you won tickets and you traded the tickets for prizes.

Then for "extra" money you could hunt for returnable bottles that ended up near the boardwalk pylons.

I am officially OLD

[ClarkStreetKid]

How do you mention the Stooges and not Officer Joe Bolton! I have a picture of me and Officer Joe.

[nancy thereader]

Originally Posted by lisak64
Girls never wearing red clothes on Friday. If you did, you were a s*ut
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Green on Friday (lesbian).

Slam Books ? Remember those?

[nancy thereader]

Remember...
"It's 10:00 p.m. ... Do you know where your children are?"

Martin Aben , right? Remember when he and that college professor would debate the Viet Nam war issues and he'd rant about "hippies" going barefoot in the villages .

[nancy thereader]

Didn't Herb Sheldon start Wonderama? He was a neighbor of ours and his kids used to give parties for the little children.

Winky Dink?

The Merry Mailman ? We saw him once on the New London-Orient Ferry with his then five year old daughter Joey. Remember Joey Heatherton ?

[ClarkStreetKid]

* Al Hodge (as Captain Video (1955 - 1956)

* Jon Gnagy (mid late 1950's)

* Sandy Becker (1955-56, and again from 1957-59)

* Pat Meikle (co-hosting from 1955 to 1956)

* Herb Sheldon (1956-1957)

* Bill Britten (best known as New York's Bozo the Clown, co-host in 1958)

* Doris Faye (co-host in 1958)

* Sonny Fox (1959-1967)

* Bob McAllister (1967-1977)


Each week, audience members of Wonderama received a goodie bag as detailed on the show, containing varying items including:

* An Oral-B toothbrush
* An issue of Dynamite Magazine
* A supply of Good Humor ice cream
* A box of Hostess Twinkies
* A 6-pack of RC Cola
* A package of Fruit Stripe Gum
* A gift certificate for Burger King or McDonald's
* A pack of Lender's Bagelettes.
(Each child also got a necklace made from a Lenders Bagelette which had either their name or their last initial painted on it.)
* And a 45 record of one of the music artists who performed on the Wonderama episode each week.

Today they'd get a slice of wheat break, soy milk and a copy of Earth in the Balance.

[gentlearts]

In the 50's everyone's parents smoked and cars didn't have air conditioning. So when you went on a family trip, all the cigarette ashes used to blow into the back seat.

Our mothers sent us out to play in the morning and we'd better not show up and bother her until lunch. After that, we'd be sent back out until dinner, and after that we had to be home when the street lights came on. My mother had no idea what we were up to or where we were, but if we were doing something we shouldn't, one of the neighbors would let my parents know about it and we'd be in trouble.

[Grasonville]

Originally Posted by ClarkStreetKid

How do you mention the Stooges and not Officer Joe Bolton! I have a picture of me and Officer Joe.

Post it - I also remember the McDonald's in Merrick near Bohack's Grocery Store (?) with the red and white tiles - it was only a walk up (no indoor seating) but the sign said "Over a MILLION sold"

[scammed1]

Originally Posted by nancy thereader

Didn't Herb Sheldon start Wonderama? He was a neighbor of ours and his kids used to give parties for the little children.

Winky Dink?

The Merry Mailman ? We saw him once on the New London-Orient Ferry with his then five year old daughter Joey. Remember Joey Heatherton ?

Who remembers Chuck McCann? He had a kids show and, and , and there goes that early senior moment again.. A little help here people.