A Blast from the Past. To all those born between 1930 and 1979. (Eden: houses, construction)

[Robhu]

Pinky Lee
Howdy Doody
Captain Penny
Barnaby
Rin Tin Tin
Lassie
The Mickey Mouse Club-Annette Funachello (sp?)
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans -"Happy trails to you, untill we meet again". Remember that song?
Attaching balloons or baseball cards on your bicycle fender brace so they would touch the spokes and pretend it sounded like a motorcycle. If you put one on each wheel you had a two cylinder motor. Seemed to make that bicycle go faster. LOL. I wander how many baseball cards I ruined that would be valuable today.
Sled riding down a very long and fast hill with my dog and trying to keep him from jumping off.
My first little transistor radio that only received AM.
Buying a whole lot of little watermellon look alike candy slices for .10 cents after you picked up pop bottles and turned them in for the deposit. The candy tasted like watermellon too.
Not worrying about the neighbors, they all looked out for us but let us be kids.
Baseball, football, playing hide and seek after dark and always hiding with one of the neighbor girls. That was fun.
Playing cowboys and indians with toy pistols and holsters. Cowboy hats, bird feathers and all. Broomsticks were our horses. Mine was always named Trigger even if it was my turn to be an Indian.
Breathing good ole fresh air and being physically active year round instead of sitting in a house all the time playing wih some kind of electronic box thing.
The first color TV we got. That was something. Still only had three channels though and you had to get off the couch to change them.
Rabbit ear antennaes.
INDOOR PLUMBING. THAT WAS REALLY SOMETHING. No more frosty throne in the winter.
Feather tick mattresses and pillows. Like sleeping on a cloud. If you weren't allergic to them.
Cutting the grass with a people powered, motorless, reel type mower. If you didn't push, it didn't cut.
Making shiny pennys by rubbing mercury on them. Didn't know what it could do to us then, but we all lived to be normal. I think.
This is a fun thread. Brings back all the good memories of a simpler, more innocent time when life didn't seem to be all hurry and haste and you appreciated what you had because it had to be earned. Parents and teachers made you earn it and taught responsibility. If you messed up, you knew you would have to pay the consequences and you learned from it.
Parents were strict but fair in most cases. I was free to do what kids did back then but I knew there was a line I didn't want to cross.
Common sense and respect were still in vogue.
I miss those days. I wish my grandkids could experience those times but I'm afraid they are gone forever and we are less fortunate because they are gone.
Sorry for rambling on, I get carried away a little thinking of those good old, happy, and carefree childhood days.

[scammed1]

I remember the silver guns and red caps that came on a roll. You shot it and the caps popped. I always liked the smell. Can you imagine that on toy shelves today?
No doubt I would have been able to retire years ago had I had my baseball cards. Can't imagine how much they would be worth.
My mom always bought that gallon of Pistacheo ice cream from Gouz. That was my dad's favorite. I remember visiting the cows, watching the bottles go around the conveyor belt and waiting all bundle up in winter to pay.

[ClarkStreetKid]

Originally Posted by scammed1

I remember the silver guns and red caps that came on a roll. You shot it and the caps popped. I always liked the smell. Can you imagine that on toy shelves today?

I still have mine and the leather belt and holsters, though the cap guns are now a mismatched set. The fact that they have lasted for 40+ years tells you something about the quality of the toys we had back then.

[Ann1]

How about Sky King and The Million Dollar Movie? Car 54,where are you?Topper and the invisible dog Neil.

[TCK]

I was channel surfing and ran across my favorite cartoon of all time.

TOP CAT

[TCK]

I always had my cowboy gun with me. In fact I was dismissed from Sunday School as a child because I was warned not to bring it anymore. I always wore peddle-pushers and my guns and cowboy boots. I was a tom boy. The day I was thrown out of Sunday School, I had worn one of those dresses that went way out with the stiff slip under it. Hid my gun in my undies and it somehow fell out. I got in trouble!

The red caps I liked to stretch out between two rocks and then hit them with a rock. Loved the sound and smell.

Used to go to a dairy farm that made fresh ice cream and afterwards you could ride a little train. It was in Dade County, FL if anyone remembers. I remember walking through one of the screened doors and there wasn't air-conditioning back then.

Those were the days......I just sounded old!

[TCK]

Chaddy baby doll. You pulled the string and it talked. Remember those?

[ClarkStreetKid]

Originally Posted by Ann1

How about Sky King and The Million Dollar Movie? Car 54,where are you?Topper and the invisible dog Neil.

Cisco Kid (Duncan Renaldo was the coolest), Super Car, Fireball XL-5, Stingray, Tobar the 8th man, Kimba, Skippy the Kangeroo, Flipper and Branded (extra points if you remember the naughty version of the theme we kids sang).

[TCK]

CHADDY KATHY doll

[flu189]

Originally Posted by 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 .

This I remember from channel 5. It was Martin Abel and I believe the last name of the news anchor was Jorgensen.