What Products Do You Miss Most From Your Youth?

[Mr. Ected]

Rotary dial phones? Transistor Radios? Any particular brand of cereal or other food?

I asked a number of people this question last week and we spent hours reminiscing. Unfortunately, I've already forgotten some of the best suggestions.

Care to help out?

[ret5hd]

1. visible abs? hair (in the right places)?

[HarveyDarkey]

37. Not really products

but I miss them too

[iamthebandfanman]

thats debatable in this day and age

of cosmetic surgery ... lol

[timtom]

438. Hair in the right places!

I'm so glad I'm married and not subjected to that. (No hair in the right places, that is.)

[theoldman]

2. My regular dose of cod liver oil.

On second thought, I don't miss it at all.

[Fumesucker]

8. I take cod liver oil every day..

I'm bipolar and find that cod liver oil and coconut oil together work about as well as any drug regimen I've taken to keep it under control.

I can't even taste the stuff any more, might as well be vegetable oil.

[Fuzz]

3. Prell! That was some green color and powerful stuff!

;)

[Mr. Ected]

5. Hai Karate!

And yes, Prell. What the hell was IN that stuff?

[bettyellen]

283. dish washing liquid

[Laura PourMeADrink]

456. Hai Karate - laugh out loud. At Christmas, at this old variety

store that's still around, I bought my husband a trio - English Leather, British Sterling and Canoe !

[4_TN_TITANS]

543. British Sterling....

When I was two, I kept my parents up with me all night at the playground because I had downed a bottle of BS. Still can't stand the smell of it after burping it up all night. Something about they couldn't let me fall asleep on that type of alcohol.

I graduated to beer.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

732. Dude, drinking shaving lotion is WAY too hardcore

even for a little kid! That is fucking SICK! You should be glad it didn't kill you!

[LoZoccolo]

775. Deleting - I posted in the wrong sub-thread - sorry! n/t

[TuxedoKat]

505. Have you seen the commercials for it on YouTube?

Someone posted them on another forum last year. I didn't know all these old commercials were on there. Here you go, I only remember the first one. The second one must have been on after my bedtime on late night tv since it's a little racier!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RV2CeLXPYes&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWn9EmbFTRo&feature=related

[bdamomma]

520. oh how funny I'd rather see those commercials

than those stupid Viagra, Cialis commercials!

[TuxedoKat]

534. Yes, me too.

The way the pharmaceutical companies gloss over all the horrific side effects too in smooth, calm voiceovers -- stroke, blood clots, death, etc., like they were nothing to be alarmed about -- is too scary.

[Amelie]

747. Those look like Axe commercials!

[lamp_shade]

6. Tame cream rinse - the best - it had no wax in it.

[tridim]

16. Tame is so old school.

Kind of like "Body On Tap".

[Canuckistanian]

113. Oh yeah! "Body on Tap", the beer shampoo!

That was bizarre.

Wow, that brings back memories.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

450. WOW, forgotten that - that stuff REALLY worked nt/

[coinstar queen]

590. I have very thick hair, which gets tangled when long...The best conditioner EVER

was this stuff from the Jirmack brand (I remember that Victoria Principal hawked it) and it was in a jar...It said something about "a London Fog of ...." and had placenta in it and smelled godawful but I have never had anything as good as that stuff.

[sufrommich]

100. That was great stuff! nt

[bedazzled]

15. don't know if they still make prell - but bought 3 tubes of it last week!

at our neighborhood non-chain druggist.

works great!

[pipi_k]

102. I still buy it

Yep, some places still sell the stuff. I think I got it at Walgreens. Whatever...it's now in a nice plastic bottle (remember the glass bottles, then the clear plastic tubes?).

My hair really feels fresh and clean when I use it (not more than once or twice a month because it's rather strong)

I think I use it as much for the smell as for the cleaning power

:7

[NoSheep]

166. You can strip paint with Prell, lol.

:7

[Art_from_Ark]

172. Prell

For some reason, I loved to see that commercial with the pearl slowly sinking to the bottom of the Prell bottle.

[bdamomma]

492. and guess what that pearl fell right to the bottom

when I tried it, yes, I was quite curious to really see if that could happen.

[Art_from_Ark]

663. I had always wanted to try that

but I could never find a pearl

[coinstar queen]

581. LOL! What about Body on Tap with the beer in it?

:bounce:

[hedgehog]

620. I give you this link with a warning - this store can get addictive!

http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/browse/Home/Apothecary/Hair-Care/Body-on-Tap-Shampoo/D/30100/P/1:100:1000:10070/I/f10833?evar3=BROWSE

[renate]

760. oh GREAT. Thanks a LOT

Like I need an addictive Internets store.

:)

(Did you see their Old Time Gum Sampler? Awesome!)

[jberryhill]

284. The original Herbal Essence is available outside the US /nt

[omega minimo]

330. ORIGINAL NON-CRAPORATIZED MUSIC

:bounce:


and Herbal Essence :blush:

[Greybnk48]

339. I LOVED the scent of that shampoo!!

[Control-Z]

477. I miss the original

Herbal Essence so much. I miss the smell. mmm.

[AngryOldDem]

738. So do I!

On occasion where I work we get the sample bottles of it, which I promptly appropriate for my own privare usage. I liken it to finding small nuggets of gold.

I could never understand why the whole product line was rebranded and reformulated. It wasn't broken. It didn't need to be fixed.

[Arkansas Granny]

500. I've tried some of the new stuff that I found locally. The smell just isn't the same.

[DangerousRhythm]

765. Is that the green one with the hippie lady and flowers...

or something on the label? Kind of a flat bottle as I recall? I may actually have a drop of that left somewhere under my sink. O_O

[gauguin57]

354. I found a tube of Prell that I bought when they temporarily brought it back ...

... of course, it smelled different, and wasn't as exciting as it was in my youth. I was a Prell-and-Tame girl (remember Tame? Detangled like the wind!)

[jberryhill]

357. Roll the tape.... It's Concentrated...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5r40tSjej8&feature=related

[bdamomma]

493. wow that brings back memories.

dove soap hasn't changed their scent, still smells nice.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

449. omg - flashback ! LOVED that smell n/t

[dorkulon]

565. I miss Prell too.

Pretty much dish soap, but I miss it.

[roguevalley]

608. ice cream cones -huge ones- for 7 cents, five cent stamps,

my dad's impala, the Hamms beer commercials, dirndl shirts. :)

[Muttocracy]

639. you can still get it from Vermont Country Store - online or catalog :)

[DawgHouse]

789. Yes, the commercial was intriguing.

you could drop a pearl in Prell and it would float to the bottom. Not sure what the advertisers were saying but I remember that commercial!

[HopeHoops]

4. Quisp

They brought it back in 05 for a short while, but then it went away again.
;(

[Mr. Ected]

7. Bought 6 Boxes of It A Few Months Ago at Dollar General

For a buck a box.

The roof of my mouth is still torn up.

[HopeHoops]

20. That's one of the things I LOVED about that shit!

You remembered breakfast ALL DAY!

[proud patriot]

Mentholatum chap stick

man I loved that stuff

[lonestarnot]

224. me too they now call it soft lips w/ flavor crap.

[gauguin57]

356. I love Soft Lips! Even with the "flavor crap."

It tingles!

[proud patriot]

711. okay I'll look for that , Thanks

:)

[Art_from_Ark]

338. I think they still sell that in Japan

I could almost swear I saw some recently kicking around the house somewhere

[Art_from_Ark]

676. Here you go-- the Japanese version of Mentholatum chap stick

http://item.rakuten.co.jp/sapoot/4987241105052/

It retails for a little more than $1 in Japan.

[proud patriot]

710. Thank you Art

:)

[kywildcat]

800. Devils Food Cookies.

A&P's, School House Rocks, Room 222, Medical Center, The Courtship of Eddies Father, The Kool Ghoul and Batty Hatty from Cincinnati. HR Puffinstuff.

[Art_from_Ark]

801. Room 222

Looking at it now, it seems that Walt Whitman High resembled a university more than a high school.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

803. That show was the source for two of my first crushes

Karen Valentine and Judy Strangis.

[Art_from_Ark]

807. Karen Valentine was one of a long line of '60s crushes

Diana Rigg (Emma Peel), Barbara Eden (Jeannie), Barbara Felden (Agent 99), Lee Merriwether (Catwoman), Juliet Mills (Phoebe Figalilly)...:loveya:

[tridim]

30. I was a King Vitamin fan

Quisp never did it for me, although I did like Capt. Crunch.

[HopeHoops]

41. I remember that one too!

There was also the one with all of the safari animals - I forget the name of it. Sort of like Alphabets but with lions and zebras and giraffes for shapes.

[greenbird]

160. Crispy Critters

[kimmylavin]

213. Indubitably!

Used to love those commercials!

[Buns_of_Fire]

785. "New... Post... Crispy... Critters..."

THEONEANDONLYCEREALTHATCOMESINTHESHAPEOFANIMALS!

[Lorien]

286. Oh yeah!

[2Nurselady]

337. My favorite cereal

I used to love "Crispy Critters."

[HopeHoops]

478. Thank you!

Those were yummy!

[mitchum]

93. "King Vitamin...have breakfast with the king"

great stuff

[tosh]

57. Oooh - Quisp was my favorite, followed closely by...

Captain Crunch.

[tosh]

66. Not a product, but DIME STORES!!

My small town was fortunate enough to have three, with wooden floors and glass bins of various candy sold by the pound just inside the front door. At halloween, they'd be loaded with wax lips & tongues & such; at valentine's, those candy hearts like we have at DU. I carefully selected my first fishbowl there along with the goldfish, gravel, fishbowl decor, etc. to keep in it. What a wonderland they were.

Ooops: posted in subthread by mistake. Oh well.

[tridim]

82. Absolutely, Dime stores rocked when I was a kid

Ours was called TG&Y, no idea if it was national. They had a big version and a small (old) version of the store at different locations. The small one was much more fun.

[juno jones]

94. It was national

We had one in Freeport, IL and there was one in TX when I went there.

Much better than Wal-mart.

[konnichi wa]

110. They weren't truly national but at one time they had a thousand stores.

My best friend in high school was the son of one of the founders, in Oklahoma City. He could have been filthy rich but he had zero interest in the business...he (and I) went to college together to major in engineering. :D

[Art_from_Ark]

186. Speaking of dime stores and Wal-Mart

Sam Walton's first store in Bentonville, Arkansas was a Ben Franklin store. My grandmother took me there on my 5th birthday to pick out a present (I think I got some cowboy pistols). But the two dime stores in neighboring Rogers were better, I think-- Sterling's and Russell's. Sterling's had fruit-filled chocolates imported from Finland for 10 cents a bar (they actually cost just a dime!), while Russell's was the place to shop for Halloween supplies-- wax whistles, syrup-filled skulls, and that sort of thing.

[NoSheep]

165. I remember the smell of the Dime Store. Did yours have a lunch counter?

Fresh popped popcorn?

[tosh]

170. Only 1 of our 3 had a lunch counter but they all had fresh popcorn.

Ahh, the fond memories, LOL!

[NoSheep]

194. We had 5 different lunch counters all within a couple of blocks of each other.

Grilled cheese, fries, really slimy cheesburgers. I loved it!

[timtom]

439. This is for us five-and-dime lovers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwevqcForgM

[tosh]

609. Ah, so nice...thanks for that!

[NoSheep]

696. Thanks timtom. I enjoyed that.

:hi:

[Laura PourMeADrink]

451. greasy hotdogs rolling on those cylinders - root beer in a mug ! nt

[immoderate]

792. The original Dad's Root Beer.

It had a distinct bitterness that was unique.

--imm

[KoKo]

637. Yes...and roasted peanuts....the Turkey Dinner with Trimmings was to die for...

even the jello with real whipped cream, real lemon pie, pecan pie... and no HFCS...but real sugar in the jello and the rest. Mashed Potato with real gravy...real green beans (not those water soaked tasteless things) and dressing with real bread with no HFCS or Glutens from China.

Ahhh...the aromas...those were the days!

[gauguin57]

707. Dime stores ... the cheap plastic earrings. the stale popcorn. the parakeets flying around ...

... after accidentally getting loose from their cages.

Dime stores were paradise. With $5, you could hang out all day and just be in absolute nirvana.

[lucretia54]

721. Yes, "Ben Franklin 5&10" and neighborhood hardware stores...

where you could actually find something that will work!

[orleans]

420. here's the cereal i loved and have missed for years

[Hissyspit]

479. Same here.

[htuttle]

73. I voted for Quisp!

It was WAY better than Quake!

[jberryhill]

282. Why am I embarrassed to say that was the first election in which I voted

Ugh... and yes, I voted for Quisp.

I must now go kill myself.

But I am willing to bet that if one did a study, it would find that more Quisp voters grew up to be D's and more Quake voters grew up to be R's.

Betcha.

[Art_from_Ark]

342. I think think I voted for the Trix Rabbit

to be finally allowed to eat the cereal he was hawking.

[jberryhill]

360. Silly Rabbit, Always After Me Lucky Charms /nt

[orleans]

423. lucky charms? you can't get them anymore? i'm eating a bowl now

bought them at jewel.

[timtom]

440. And I did neither

and consider myself more of an anarchist.

(on those political spectrum quizzes, I always end up in the lower left of the lower left quadrant)

[dixiegrrrrl]

127. The cereal?

It is in our Dollar store all the time. but not in a supermarket here.

[Hissyspit]

281. Kaboom.

It had some heft to it. Quisp was too sugary and airy for my taste.

[Wednesdays]

299. Kaboom was one of my faves

Kaboom also led to my discovering inflation when I was a little kid...I remember seeing the price on the box was 33 cents. A few months later I saw that it had gone up to 35 cents!

:wow:

[DawgHouse]

791. When I was on the Bozo show, we all got a free box of Kaboom!

LOL. Good times...

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

315. They still sell Quisp around here

Apparently, it's sold in limited markets now. The Acme always has it.

[coinstar queen]

585. I was just thinking about Quisp this morning...ROFL...Remember Kix?

I always thought it was rather tasteless...small beige-ish balls of corn, perhaps? Maybe they still make it; I dunno.

How about Buckwheats? I loved them...they were flakes and had maple sugar coating!:9

[Roon]

737. Kids like kix for what kix's got

mothers' like kix for what kix has not..

[readmoreoften]

9. Product 19. /nt

[Mr. Ected]

Buc-Wheats.

But I think I was their only customer.

[madamesilverspurs]

43. Zoom.

[gauguin57]

370. LOVED Product 19.

I could go for some of that stuff.

And some Fruit Brute.

[HughBeaumont]

464. They still make it.

Saw it last week at Giant Eagle.

[tridim]

10. A neighbor of mine bought a "Jarts" set the other day.

No more sharpened steel point, they're plastic and rubber now. :(

I was bored to tears playing with jarts that don't stick in the ground (and your opponent's head).

I'm sure I'll think of some others.

[Mr. Ected]

Jarts + Lawyers = Product Liability Heaven

I miss em too.

[dddem]

689. speaking of dangerous, but fun products,

I'm not sure if they were really called this, but we called them klik-klaks. 2 arcrylic balls on the end of strings that you bounced off of each other. Loved 'em.

[TwilightZone]

52. You can still buy the 'real' ones.

They come in pieces, however, and they're ridiculously expensive. http://www.lawndartparts.com/

"New" ones are $85 or more *each*.

[SoCalDem]

446. Wanna buy an original set? I have one.

:evilgrin:


still has the price tag..from Sears.. I think we paid $3.98

[bdamomma]

495. oh geez, I remember those.

do they still make those?

[AngryOldDem]

739. No sharpened steel points? Then why bother?

And let me tell you, you haven't lived until you've played a game of Jarts at dusk.

[JanMichael]

11. Keds sneakers (yes, I still have a pair)

Ivory shampoo and conditioner

There's more. A lot more. I miss the entire time between 1968-1988.

[RebelOne]

491. Keds are still around. I have a practically brand-new pair. n/t

[CTyankee]

12. It seems like every product I like gets "retired" as soon as I discover it.

Too many to say here, unfortunately.

I don't know why that is. It just is...

[Happyhippychick]

13. Space Food Sticks

[Mr. Ected]

17. I Got Swatted With A Paddle By My 5th Grade Teacher

For parading around class with 2 space food sticks in my ears (peanut butter) and 2 in my nostrils (chocolate).

[HopeHoops]

25. Weren't those called "A-1" or something?

And they came out about the same time as TANG, which sucked beyond any contemporary measurement.

[Mr. Ected]

29. Like TANG, Space Food Sticks Had NASA's Approval

Evidently, they never ate the shit.

But my mother was impressed by the nutritional value.

That's why they spent more time in my nose and ears than in my mouth.

[HopeHoops]

32. I actually liked the space food stick things.

But to be fair, I put mustard in my milk and on lemon cookies around then so I might not be the best judge of food quality from that era.

[Happyhippychick]

71. What is up with you and Mr. Ected that you stuck those things up your nose?

Must be a guy thing :)

[HopeHoops]

75. I didn't stick them up MY nose.

I stuck them - um, never mind.

OKAY, OKAY! I ADMIT IT! I stuck one in the teacher's pencil sharpener once. The statute of limitations ran out on that a LONG time ago!

[Mr. Ected]

143. But I Did!

Once a clown, always a clown.

One day, I plan to re-create this feat in the courtroom.

My last day, of course.

[Art_from_Ark]

195. I used to have Space Food Sticks in my lunch box

but invariably, some other kid would buy them off me for a quarter or whatever.

[kestrel91316]

64. Wow, I had totally forgotten those. Peanut butter, chocolate flavors. YEAH.

[renate]

761. were they anything like Tootsie Rolls?

Funny the things that come back to you after 35 or 40 years, but I remember a friend of mine eating Tootsie Rolls and going "These taste like Space Food!" I actually still think of Space Food every time I have a Tootsie Roll, even though I never had the original.

[htuttle]

76. I was just going to say that

Space food sticks, a glass of Tang, a blanket thrown over a table with me sitting underneath -- that's how I went to the moon when I was 8 years old...

[QueenOfCalifornia]

517. Bang, zoom Alice!

Ralph was always sending her to the moon. :rofl:

The image of your space travels made me smile.

[notadmblnd]

777. My mom had a CandyApple Red Foprd Fairlane 500 with the big

slant window in back. That's how we went to the moon. We'd lay up on the back and look through the glass at the stars. My mom had a thing for taking us kids for a drive at night. We also went to the moon in snowbanks in the winter in our custom made snow drift space chairs. Lost in Space was the scariest TV on. I couldn't watch it it scared me so much. Now I watch the reruns on HULU and can't believe how silly it was.

[mitchum]

87. ms mitchum recently bought me a box of those from an online...

retro candy company.
Sometimes memories taste better :)

[Vidar]

126. Loved those too.

[Lorien]

You can still get them:

http://www.funkyfoodshop.com/spacefoodsticks-c-23.html

[gauguin57]

372. I totally lived on Chocolate Space Food Sticks.

... oh, and Figurines (an early diet cookie).

[JeffR]

373. You totally rawk!

:fistbump:

Loved me some Space Food Sticks.

[orleans]

424. yes, i think of those when i think of a childhood friend of mine

her mom used to give us those as a "special treat"

i prefered the peanut butter flavor

[sarge43]

14. I miss the Sunday morning newspaper comic strips.

Flash Gordon, Tarzan, Prince Valiant, Terry and the Pirates and more. Full page, beautiful detailed art work, high adventure, savored for hours.

[gauguin57]

416. Dondi!

Comics were WAY better back then. Haven't read newspaper comix in years.

[MADem]

18. I still have a few rotary dial phones--we use 'em, too. I have a transistor radio, too.

Still works, don't use it much. I have a couple of "Hi Fi's" too! One of 'em works!

A great place to look for old stuff is the Vermont Country Store catalogue. They often remanufacture old stuff: http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/Shop

Click on "Brands from the past!" You can buy Fizzies, Bosco, Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific shampoo, Fuller brushes, fels-naptha soap...all kinds of stuff!

[Mr. Ected]

26. You Rock!!

I'm saving that site as a favorite.

[MADem]

46. That is where my family shops for my holiday gifts! Great stuff! nt

[lamp_shade]

50. Order a POTICA (rolled pastry thing). They're made fresh and are to die for.

I order them at Christmas as gifts for family and friends.

[blaze]

39. One of my favorite sites!!! nt

[KoKo]

104. That Catalogue from "Vermont Country Store" is a REAL TREASURE!

Thanks for posting it.

I'd say another one is "Country Curtains" catalogue from the "Red Lion Inn."

[Habibi]

168. Oooooh! They have Bun Bars!

Fave candy when I was a kid, next to Reese's P-butter cups.

[gauguin57]

363. My mom was a fels-naptha fan ... and I loved my Fuller brushes!

I found Fizzies in a retro shop at the beach, and put them in my sister's Christmas stocking.

Now, if I could just find some Funny Face drink mixes ... "Goofy Grape, Jolly-Olly Orange, Freckle-Faced Strawberry, Choo-Choo Cherry, Loud-Mouth Lime and Rootin' Tootin' Raspberry!" (they replaced Injun Orange and Chinese Cherry with politically correct substitutes).

[MADem]

515. These people at VT Country Store actually solicit requests for stuff.

You should pop off an email to them and ask for those drinks!

I had a relative who was thrilled when "Herbal Essence" shampoo, in the original formula, was on offer. I guess it had a distinctive smell or something!

[kittykitty]

749. Just bought a cake of Fels-Naptha soap at the Giant Foods chain

In McConnellsburg, PA. It is a burg, but has a fantastic supermarkeet!

[iamthebandfanman]

681. we have some too but

we were told by AT&T that they wouldnt work on our phone line, that it had to be tones...

we did attempt to try it before asking them and it didnt work...


i think the new rotary phones usually have an option to make it send tones so that they work...

btw, i dunno if it still works or not ... nor would i dare try it these days...
but it used to be that you could record the tones onto a micro-recorder and use it on pay phones...

everything on them is/was tone based , even the money going into the slot let the system or operator know how much you were putting in ...

ill plead the 5th on ever having tried it in my younger years(pre-18) ;)

[MADem]

698. Look on the bottom of the phone--there might be a "tone/pulse" switch.

Ours work fine, except when you get stuck in voicemail hell. We have them at a summer joint and don't see the sense in upgrading.

[Winterblues]

19. Sears and Roebucks MoPeds

$189.00, they would do forty miles an hour down hill with a tail wind but really really kewl...

[KoKo]

117. Sears & Roebuck Catalog...everything you could ever want in Rural America!

Walmart replaced that one, nicely...but it was NEVER THE SAME!

[csziggy]

21. Hydrox cookies - they had better filling than Oreos n/t

[tridim]

28. I bet you a dollar the magic ingredient was lard.

I think Oreo changed their filling recently too. It doesn't hold together any more upon twisting.

[Happyhippychick]

138. Hydrox are Kosher. Not sure how that fits in with your lard theory unless there is vegetable lard.

That's what they served us in synagogue, we always wanted Oreos instead.

[tridim]

191. My bad, it was Oreo that used to use lard. Hydrox are coming back BTW.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121193695783324733.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

[csziggy]

212. But that story is a year old - where are the Hydrox?

Rats - they only did it for the 100th anniversary LAST YEAR!
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/foodwine/2008140367_hydrox27.html



I guess the stores around here didn't get any. I'm going to go off and pout now.

[stlsaxman]

469. when i was a kid i used to call the first black psychedelic rock guitarists...

Jimi Hydrox...

:hide:

[Bluenorthwest]

471. Oreo filling is no longer Oreo filling

It is now made with High Fructose Corn Syrup, which is why you notice a difference. They ruined Oreos.

[bdamomma]

502. they ruined Tootsie Rolls too, remember when they tasted like chocolate

and were bigger too.

[immoderate]

790. Yeah, and they were really fudgie! And the fudge turned light when you pulled them.

Now they're just a caramel. Three Musketeers was different too. More chocolaty and less sweet.

--imm

[babylonsister]

36. Me, too! They had a much better, distinct flavor. Loved them! nt

[KoKo]

136. "Lard" had a good taste...before Cholesterol worries and Mad Cow...

It won't come back...but did give a certain "gravitas" to food... believe me..on this.

[babylonsister]

145. I'm talking about the cookie part. The flavor was better. nt

[KoKo]

148. Not only "cookies" was what I'm saying..it was in everything.....

GRAVITAS...weight to all kinds of things from pie crusts to corn bread, cookies and fried foods....

But...it's very bad for our arteries...

[Arugula Latte]

336. Good thing we have healthy modern replacements like hydrogenated soybean oil

;)

[tridim]

149. I have a block of lard in my cupboard

I use it very sparingly. Makes almost everything taste better.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

317. They still make Hydrox

[tridim]

22. Do they still sell Crazy Foam?

I think it was just repackaged shaving cream.

[Oeditpus Rex]

358. And Silly Soap

Press the button, shoot it like a gun!
C'mon, everybody, let's have fun!
I'm Daniel Boone!
I'm a baby raccoon!
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[HughBeaumont]

465. We used to have Crazy Foam fights.

Those were the days.

[endless october]

23. Burger Chef.

and vinyl LPs, although you can still get them if you shop around.

[Hissyspit]

278. I thought I was the only one who remembered Burger Chef.

I wonder if we'd really be impressed with it like we are in our memories if we could eat it today.

[endless october]

553. i was wondering the exact same thing.

that cheeseburger and milkshake combination was indescribably awesome when i was 6. i wonder if i'd still be that impressed now.

i'm going with yes.

[slampoet]

621. I have a Burger Chef glass and t-shirts LOVED their AWFUL food when i was little.

[dysfunctional press]

485. what about jeff?

:shrug:

[LiberalAndProud]

614. Vinyl LPs absolutely! The digital age has ruined music.

Music today has no depth, no melody (4 notes). I blame it all on CDs. Best Buy has a "Black Is Back" display. I picked Elton John up and gave him a hug. I will never never never give up my turntable.

[villager]

24. Team Flakes!

[etherealtruth]

31. My very favorite cereal .... ever!

[villager]

42. Et tu!?

I still miss it!

[etherealtruth]

106. C'est vrai

As my little brother wolfed down Count Chocula and Franken Berry all I wanted was Team.

Special K is my sad replacement cereal.

[villager]

320. I eat Special K now and again only because it's the sole remaining sad echo of Team Flakes

and yet, doesn't quite seem the same on my "mind's tongue..." ;-)

[blogslut]

63. Sigh

I loved Team Flakes. The flavor was yummy.

[villager]

86. on top of that, the nostalgia is abetted because my *grandma* served them!

Often with half and half!

Yow!

[Lorien]

273. I loved those too!

It was one of the only "grown up cereals" that I loved as a kid. :-)

[stlsaxman]

475. WOW the instant i saw that picture- i could TASTE them again!

Team Flakes were awesome!

[ThomWV]

27. Dristan. It was the only thing that ever worked on my allergies and one day it disappeared

And I've always wondered about that. It was good stuff, it worked, and then one day it was simply gone. Not a word, just disappeared as fast as a nasty talking arab in front of a CIA dude. Maybe someone found out something about it before the lawyers did and that made it disappear. Who knows?

[MADem]

55. It held hands with Anacin and they went over the hill together. NT

[Arugula Latte]

111. They don't make Anacin anymore?

Wow, that's weird. Come to think of it, I haven't seen it advertised in ages ...

[DangerousRhythm]

766. Ha, I just asked someone this a few days ago at the supermarket.

I have a 6 DVD set of old commercials and there was one for Anacin and I said hm, I wonder if they still make that...

I guess they don't? I didn't even notice. :(

Edit: Apparently they do! http://www.anacin.com/

[hvn_nbr_2]

89. That was the only thing that worked for me when I was a kid.

But the ingredients are all readily available:
phenylephrine HCl 5 mg, chlorpheniramine maleate 2 mg and acetaminophen 325 mg

I'm pretty sure that when I was using it, it had aspirin instead of acetaminophen. Years later, I concluded that it was kind of dumb to put aspirin in an allergy tablet that people are going to take multiple times per day for a long time. It would be even worse for acetaminophen because of the studies that have come out about long-term overuse of acetaminophen. It could be that the lawyers said there was potential legal liability. Or maybe people just decided to take other things.

[KoKo]

120. They got rid of "Dristan?" .....What about "4-Way Cold Tablets"...they Worked...

My dad always made me take them when I started sneezing. They worked...for the minor cold stuff...imho

[KoKo]

122. Cod Liver Oil...as a Spring Tonic. My Grandma shoved that down my throat...

She said "...after being inside all Winter...all kids need a dose of this to get their "systems going."

Now, I hear that doctors are recommending this to patients with High Colesterol who are on Pravacol/Lipitor and the rest of the Statin Drugs...to take to reduce hart attack events.

FISH OIL...make sure it's strained for the Mercury contamination. But...back then...Cod Liver Oil was a BOOST to us kids...vile as it was to gag down.

[yy4me]

437. You brought back bad memories, my folks used to stuff a spoon

of that vile liquid at me every morning. I shudder now at the memory. It must have been cheaper then to buy liquid. I vaguely remember tiny round clear yellow pills too. My folks must have splurged at the Rexall store if they had one of their 2 for 1 sales for those.

[ThomWV]

467. Yeah - one day it was just off the shelves like it never existed

I moved to south Florida in the mid 60's and it was like stepping into alergy hell. I honestly thought for a while I was going to have to move back out of the state it was so bad. Dristan took care of it though. When I moved to West Virginia in the late 70's I had the same problem in the spring and fall - pollen. Once again, Dristan took good care of it where nothing else worked.

Then one day in an eye-swollen, nose-dripping, sneezing, headache from hell fit I went to the drug store to buy a bottle of the soothing little pills and none were to be had. It was as if the earth had opened up and swollowed every one of them ever made. No store had them, no store has ever had them since.

It still scares the hell out of me that someone thought it was important to make sure no trace of the things existed ever again after I had taken hundreds of them over the years.

[jberryhill]

362. It would take a capsule THIS big....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zwRSo6GRgKo

Dristan does it all.

[orleans]

430. google it. it looks like you can still get it. somewhere. n/t

[peacebird]

33. Suave detangling creme , "Evening in Paris" perfume...

those soft pink "spoolies" - check out the Vermont Country Store - it is a total blast from the past!

http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/Shop

[Laura PourMeADrink]

453. wow - what a flash you brought back. I gave my 3rd grade teacher

a bottle of Evening in Paris - blue bottle, right?? loved it.

I think you might be wrong on the curlers though. Weren't spoolie those ones that you wrapped you hair around and then snapped them shut??

[peacebird]

624. i thought spoolies were the soft pink plastic "spools" you wound hair around then

"popped" so the edges folded over your hair?

[progdog]

645. Check out the site Peacebird posted.

They have "Evening in Paris". I miss "Blue Carnation" cologne. That was a loooong time ago.

[bdamomma]

506. wow, that is a cool site.

remember Dippity-do, I do I used to use it, to make my naturally curly hair go straight, used to plastered that stuff on my bangs, curly hair on top but straight bangs!!!

[stray cat]

34. cornbran cereal

[TwilightGardener]

269. Yes! I loved this cereal!

[peacebird]

35. check out Vermont country store! it's a hoot!

http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/Shop

[pipi_k]

109. Isn't it though?

Stuff I haven't seen in nearly 45 years or more.

Someone mentioned "Evening in Paris"

GAK

:puke:

My mother used to wear that crap. It made me gag, even as a kid

[Manifestor_of_Light]

796. "White Shoulders" was pretty rank too.

It came in a glass art deco bottle with a round pink cap.

I think the old ladies bought it for us high school girls, because there was nothing sexy about it.

Therefore we wouldn't be going out and dropping our panties with a sonic boom. :evilgrin:

[madamesilverspurs]

38. Skate keys.

And the skates that could be adjusted to fit on my shoes.

[timtom]

441. Now that you mention it,

what about the in-line skates that were so popular a few years back?
I haven't seen any in a very long time.

[CatholicEdHead]

40. Jarts

though I still have a set around.

[stevedeshazer]

44. Score

I've been missing that for a long time.

:(

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1h8ueqf70vs

[blaze]

45. The original Wheat Chex. nt

[tridim]

47. Erector sets, old fashioned Lego..

and various other mechanical toys that could easily cause serious injury.

I had a toy rivet gun that used plastic rivets. The tool was a high speed drill-like thing that spun so fast it heated up the plastic and melted it into a rivet head. It was a very dangerous toy, I probably burned myself 10 times with molten plastic.

[Mr. Ected]

51. The Original Creepy Crawlers Was Pretty Dangerous Too

Burned my little hands and fingers and arms many a time creating those useless bugs.

[jberryhill]

365. Don't touch a hot ThingMaker....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C-irD_4UZ_E

Creepy Crawlers! Creepy Crawlers!

[Danmel]

781. My cousin amy had Creepy Crawlers

her carpet was stained all different colors from the plastic goo you squirted into the molds.

[gauguin57]

379. Burned myself all the time, but had those rubbery insects all over the place.

I also had a Pick-a-doodle Thingmaker mold, and some Mini-Dragons molds. Remember Plastigoop (the stuff you made them with)? I had glow-in-the-dark Plastigoop, with which I made lots of vampire teeth (I still have some of those) ... had a mold for that, too!

Remember Incredible Edibles?

How about Vacu-Form cars (you melted the plastic and then pulled the mold on top of it to create car parts?) Man ... did we ever have some toxic crap to play with!

[RobinA]

630. Fun Flowers

We had Fun Flowers, the girly version of Creepy Crawlers. Spent HOURS making those things. Can still remember the fizzzz when you took the metal tray out of the Thing Maker and put it in the tray of water. Toys you could hurt yourself on, those were the days!!!

[Mr. Ected]

48. KABOOM Cereal

Actually, I don't miss it at all. It wasn't very good.

But I remember it.

Rice Krinkles. Little frosted rice krispies. Yummy.

[Art_from_Ark]

225. Kaboom cereal

Slightly better than Clackers

I think that Rice Krinkles was one of those cereals that was being hawked on the "Linus the Lion-Hearted" cartoon show, where every character seemed to have his own cereal.

[Hissyspit]

285. Those were my two favorites, too!

I was trying to remember Rice Krinkles' name. They had such an unusual flavor.
I was buying Kaboom up until a few years agovand thought it held up.

[ThomWV]

468. Its that the same stuff they sell on TV that will clean the spots off a leopard?

[Kalyke]

49. Newspapers.... with real news in them. eom

[The_Commonist]

53. Record albums.

They were works of art, sometimes even better than the music on the LP!
CD jewel cases just ain't the same.

To go along with that - Record players, tube amplifiers and big speakers in wood cabinets.
Music just doesn't sound as good as it used to...

Oh well!

[Canuckistanian]

234. Buying 45rpm singles at Woolworth's

What did they cost, maybe 75c? Then having a burger at the Woolworth's lunch counter.

Life couldn't get any better.

[lucretia54]

723. Sometimes the albums even came with posters!

[walkaway]

54. Personal Bomb Shelters

When I was a kid some futuristic and paranoid company manufactured them. They used to pay people to spend a week or a month in these little igloo-like bomb shelters that were installed in the parking lot of the local gas station.

What could be cooler than tormenting some poor guy through the window of a claustrophobic pod while simultaneously contemplating the total annihilation of mankind. 1961 was a great year!

[Tanuki]

56. I miss Black Cow suckers!

You might like this site for finding some forgotten goodies that are still being made:
http://oldtimecandy.com/

[OneGrassRoot]

58. Slightly before my time, but I remember my aunt used it....

every day.

Dippity-Do.

Some magickal hair product that intrigued me as a child. I can remember the smell; and the pink color of it, with bubbles.

Time to Google Dippity-Do and see if it's still offered in the plethora of modern "hair products."

Ha! So, I just Googled and someone is selling 40-year-old jars of Dippity-Do! That magical elixir...

http://www.bigredtoybox.com/cgi-bin/toynfo.pl?dippitydooindex

[kestrel91316]

72. Back in junior high when I used to sleep with plastic curlers in my hair to

gove it SOME curl (this was before electric curling irons and handheld blow dryers) I used Dippity-DO to hold the set. Every night except weekends. For at least 3 years. Fortunately, long straight hair became established as more hip so I got to quit.

[OneGrassRoot]

78. LOL. I could recall the smell, the jar, and the gel itself....

but for the life of me I couldn't remember HOW she used it! I just knew I couldn't wait to be able to use it. Then, as you said, by the time it was time, straight hair became "in." So, no Dippity-Do Days for me.

So, it is a "setting" gel for curlers? Remember when girls used soda cans and even beer cans as curlers?

:rofl:

[gauguin57]

414. My sister used orange-juice-concentrate cans.

I loved sitting under the bonnet hairdryer with the hose.

[surrealAmerican]

244. I sure don't miss THAT stuff.

I remember the weird smell of it. My mother used it on my hair until I was old enough to comb it myself.

[gauguin57]

410. Oh YEAH ... we used Dippity Doo to get those lovely little "spit curls" on our cheeks.

Well, that stuff, and that pink cloth tape that kept your curls in place till you were ready to go out?

[dugaresa]

611. my mom set my hair using Dippity Do

[TorchTheWitch]

59. Danish Go-Rounds

Vaguely like a pop-tart but waaaaaay better.

[Art_from_Ark]

215. I remember the commercial for Danish Go-Rounds

A new kind of pastry
Frosty and tasty
You'll love new Kellogg's
Danish Go-Rounds

I only had them once-- they were "special occasion" treats

[ThingsGottaChange]

294. I thought I was the only one who remembered those!

Those were totally awesome!!! Put Pop Tarts to shame. Probably quit making them cuz they weren't filled with as much sugary crap!

[nevergiveup]

60. Studebakers

and Corvairs.

[eridani]

307. Nash Ramblers

My first and only new car.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

457. Beep beep, beep beep

lol!

My parents had one. :)

[unapatriciated]

719. my dad had a nash rambler...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4W7oZBhAJg

my mom had a rambler station wagon, learned to drive in it.

[RebelOne]

494. Used to own a Studebaker. Owned a Corvair, too. n/t

[kestrel91316]

61. Fizzies. Especially the root beer flavored ones.

[OneGrassRoot]

65. They're baaaaaack.......

http://www.fizzies.com/history.html

I loved root beer, too. :)

[pipi_k]

130. Fizzies...yay!!! Also...

My mom used to buy us the paper drinking straws (for milk) that had the flavoring inside the straw.

Chocolate or strawberry I think were the only choices, but anyway, when you drank the milk through them it would pick up the flavor that was in the straw.

ooohhh...and that reminds me...

Pixie Stix

remember shaking the powder out and it was sweet/sour?

I think my favorite flavor was lime


:)

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

233. Yummmmy!

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

62. Cliquot Club ginger ale

The Mars bar in its original shape with the nuts on TOP, dammit.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

67. Stripe toothepaste

That was fun. Thin bright red stripes on a pure white ground. Pretty!

[dipsydoodle]

70. You can still get that in the UK

Think so anyway.

[mwooldri]

185. Sure can :)

http://www.boots.com/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/ProductDisplay?categoryParentId=4317&storeId=10052&productId=867527&callingViewName=&categoryId=4384&langId=-1&catalogId=11051

This one has two coloured stripes: green and blue.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

538. oh drat--searched for toothpaste and no results

Hi mwooldri--thank you for the link.

No results though...seems there is no toothpste at all available through the site.

Oh well, we tried! :shrug: :)

[mwooldri]

601. Guess what? I found it here in GSO, NC in our Wallyworld

(Sorry not many places open to shop at 2am...)

Very same toothpaste. Didn't buy it though, I needed something for "sensitive teeth".

[BlancheSplanchnik]

607. mail me one!

heee just kidding!

:P

[dipsydoodle]

68. First example sounded about right

Telephones which made a ringing noise......lol. That is as opposed to 'phones playing whatever instead of doing that.

edit to add : ring, ring..... ring, ring...........

[blogslut]

69. The Original Herbal Essence shampoo

That stuff smelled heavenly.

[OneGrassRoot]

81. Oh, YES!!!!!

The Original Herbal Essence. Man oh man, I can smell it like it was yesterday.........

[jberryhill]

288. Still available outside of the US

My wife and I ran into it a while back, and neither of us can remember what country we were in. Might have been New Zealand.

[jberryhill]

353. Can't find the other commercial

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THn66mgHKk8&feature=related

[blogslut]

371. I miss the Herbal Essence artwork too

Of course, that kind of artwork is back in fashion, so maybe it'll return.

Mostly, I miss the scent of that shampoo. It was sooo green.

[shraby]

74. Walnetto candy

[Webster Green]

77. There was a hard & filled Christmas candy peanut shaped..

They were found among the hard-filled Christmas candy mix, but you could get a bag that was all peanut type. I loved those things.

They tasted kind of like peanut-butter logs. :9

[sufrommich]

199. I loved those! nt

[Art_from_Ark]

432. I remember those candies

They were small, square, pillow-shaped things. I remember getting a can full of those things one year.

Buttercrunch squares? Peanut butter squares?

[Mike 03]

79. There was this amazing toy, and I can't remember the name. It was my all time favorite

toy.

It was a small blue box that looked like a transistor radio, maybe four inches by seven inches by one or two inches deep, and you would insert a little disc (like a little record) into it and it would play and tell you (teach you) about the subject on the disc, and the subjects were things like "The first car to break the land speed record," or some amazing airplane (just to make up a name, the P-52 Mustang) that performed well in one of the wars. Also some of the little discs talked about amazing events in sports, great quarterbacks, fantastic race drivers...

I loved the ones that had to do with the fast cars and planes.

This was probably in the early 70s or thereabouts.

For the life of me I can't remember the name.

I would give anything to know what it was called so I could Google it and learn a bit more about it. It was popular at the time, but not hugely successful, like Etch-A-Sketch or Silly Putty or Lite Bright.

[tridim]

84. I remember that, but I don't know the name

The modern Lite Brite is awful, the pegs fall out and it runs on batteries for cripes sake. Boooo!

[OneGrassRoot]

88. Maybe it's a more advanced version of this toy from the 70's?

The Magic Answer Machine? Maybe it had elementary info cards as shown here and more advanced as you describe?

http://earlyxer.com/Content/Play-Time/Board-Games/Educational.aspx



:)

[gauguin57]

381. I remember those ... but can't remember what they were called. A friend of mine had one.

I remember those little discs.

[annabanana]

80. Ipana toothpast

"Brusha Brusha Brusha, with the new Ipana"

[timtom]

444. Bucky Beaver!

[mykpart]

83. I miss my Gremlin, made by American Motors.

For vintage and classic toys, there is another website, Betty's Attic. I found Holly Hobby there.

http://www.bettysattic.com/website/aspfiles/home.asp

[Laura PourMeADrink]

458. I miss my very first car - $1,500 on G Washington's birthday sale

a Ford Pinto

[mitchum]

85. Hashish

[abq e streeter]

153. Damn-you beat me to it

And WHY did that disappear anyway? Damned shame...

[Fozzledick]

205. Increased demand in Europe

No longer enough price differential to make it worth shipping across the Atlantic.

[abq e streeter]

265. We're Americans dammit.. We're # 1... we should have top priority

this world is just so unfair

[ThomWV]

470. Are you kidding? I could buy enough hash to fill a house at $12 a gram any day I wanted to.

[abq e streeter]

577. have you noticed a sudden influx of Duers heading to WV by any chance?

Why there and not here? Its still so damn unfair ( he cried, stomping his feet and threatening to hold his breath till he turns blue and passes out)

[dysfunctional press]

488. thai-stick

[No DUplicitous DUpe]

666. That's the one I was thinking of.

1975 ahhh. (Not that I have completely grown up)

[DainBramaged]

90. Carter's Little Liver Pills

[bdamomma]

509. remember Geritol commercials?

[DainBramaged]

537. you bet

one of my on-line gaming characters is named Sir Geritol.

[Art_from_Ark]

675. Ted Mack used to hawk Geritol

on the Original Amateur Hour. That, and Sominex sleep aid, I think. That was a show that was definitely geared toward a more mature audience.

[ellenfl]

91. whip 'n chill! chocolate, of course. oh, and drumstick

rice made by minute rice. two of my favorite munchies. :hippie:

ellen fl

[KT2000]

411. Oh yes - Whip & Chill

Loved that stuff and it was fun to make.
Strawberry was my fave.
They should bring it back.

[blonndee]

92. I miss Chunky and Bit'O'Honey.

I know they still make Bit'O'Honey, but it's hard to find. Do they still make Chunky? I never see it anywhere. My favorite. :(

[tridim]

97. I liked Bit-O'Honey filling remover too.

[blonndee]

159. Right? LOL.

I don't care, I love it. :)

[Horse with no Name]

183. You can buy Chunky at Dollar General Stores

However, I am pretty positive it is made in China these days...

[blonndee]

221. Yikes!

I don't love anything that much. I don't think.

[WillowTree]

650. Nope. Made in Brazil.

I just checked the ones in my refrigerator.

[Orangeone]

271. you can find them at Longs Drug stores

Have you ever tried cup o' gold? I love those and Bit o'Honey.

[WillowTree]

649. Walgreen's sells Chunky.

My all time favorite candy bar. Picked up a prescription last week and now there are three Chunkys in my fridge!

[blonndee]

702. They do? Ooh I will try them. Thanks!

I'm also glad I'm not the only Chunky fanatic. They're so rare, I almost hate to eat them when I do find them. :)

[Grey]

95. real ice cream

My first Ford Falcon. '64 with all the chrome....

[Texasgal]

96. I miss youth dew

from Estee Lauder. My Mom used to wear it and then I did for years until they stopped making it. :(

[TuxedoKat]

216. Long Lost Perfumes

I used to wear that too! It was a very unique and distinct fragrance. I didn't know they stopped making it but I haven't worn any colognes regularly for years. This company doesn't offer a version of Youth Dew at the moment but they have versions of several others. You could ask them if they have any plans to offer it.

http://www.irmashorell.net/Perfume-and-Fragrance/classic-legacy-perfume

[End Of The Road]

768. Oh! de London

from the Twiggy days. I wore it all the time, but can't recall what it smelled like. I'd love to find some to see if it would make me feel thirteen again.

[Greybnk48]

344. They still make Youth Dew!!

I have a bottle right now and scented deodorant (roll on). Go to the Estee Lauder web sit.

[MADem]

516. That stuff puts me instantly in mind of a late and beloved relative.

She really liked it--it was the "surefire" gift in her later years!

[gauguin57]

706. Sorry, but ew. I hated the smell of Youth Dew.

So many of my friends wore it, and it just made me gag.

Then again, I was waltzing around wearing Love's Baby Soft, which, in sufficient quantities, could make anyone choke, as well.

[Danmel]

783. Jontue

by Revlon. They also made "Charlie' remember Charlie

"There's a fragrance that new today and they call it- Charlie!
Kind of young, kind of wow, Charlie!
Kind of free, kind of now, Charlie!

I think a really young Cybil Shepard was in the ads

[sufrommich]

98. Green Goddess salad dressing. nt

[scarletwoman]

107. You can still get it! At least I found some a couple years ago.

I think the Vermont Country Store has it.

sw

[sufrommich]

112. WooHoo! I'm off to google it. Thanks.

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

321. Annie's makes it

[zalinda]

508. I found it at a Walmart Supercenter. n/t

[merh]

672. I've found it at Big Lots

I bought several bottles because potato salad isn't the same without it.

[KoKo]

99. "Tame Creme Rinse" for those of us with "Humidity Prone Hair."

and some product from "Freeman" that did the same trick. They got bought out and the company that bought them out trashed their products and never replicated the formula for that "orange smelling restorative" for those of us with "compromised hair."

There's other stuff...but those are the ones I miss the most...

[Laura PourMeADrink]

455. LOL "humidity prone haire" love it. !

[konnichi wa]

101. My mom's waffles.

:-)

[TuxedoKat]

529. This company has a pretty good waffle mix...

http://www.goldenmalted.com/index.php?sid=35b825d4c2a22bef2ba805f4b120631a

[scarletwoman]

103. Seven-Up candy bars. Probably very regional, since the candy company that made them, Pearsons,

is headquartered in St. Paul, Minnesota. They still make Nut Goodies and Salted Peanut Rolls, though -- YAY!

The Seven-Up Bar was way cool -- it was basically a mini chocolate assortment, like what you get when you buy a box of chocolates (that which life is like) all connected together by chocolate into a single entity. It had different shaped segments that you could break off from the whole, each with its own distinct filling. The jelly filling was my favorite (which had a rectangular shape), and I always saved it for last.

There were seven different fillings in all -- hence the name -- coconut, caramel, nougat, maple, some kind of fruit cream, jelly... I can't remember what the seventh one was :( (probably some kind of nut).

It was the BIG SPECIAL TREAT of my childhood. I have no idea when they stopped making them, the Seven-Up Bar just faded away quietly sometime between my too-sophisticated-for-candy high school years and my totally organic-brown-rice-and-tofu hippie years (the 60s).

Not forgotten but not mourned: Flavor Straws and Wax Lips.

sw

[scarletwoman]

123. Damn. Does NO ONE ELSE remember Seven-Up Bars?

:cry:

[OneGrassRoot]

133. LOL....

Sorry, no, I don't recall those at all. Seems they were also called Sky Bars? (I just Googled)

I just wanted to give you a hug....:hug:

These memory-lane threads do me in...I'm stuck in a haze of remembering fragrances more than foods this time: Dippity-Do, Body On Tap shampoo, Loves Baby Soft, Gee, Your Hair Smells Terrific, Herbal Essence....ahhhh

[scarletwoman]

200. Thank you for the hug! :-D

I've been busy googling, too. It seems that Sky Bars had only 4 segments, not the same thing as the Seven Up Bar.

One interesting factoid I came across: the Seven Up Bar was invented and named (in the 30s) before the soft drink, 7-Up.

I've also come across references to one of the segments being a chocolate covered Brazil nut -- I sort of remember that, so my original list of the segments is not entirely accurate.

I came across a post from someone who remembers the Seven Up Bar in New Mexico, which would make it rather more widespread than I originally thought.

I've also confirmed that it was made by Pearsons. Have you ever come across a Nut Goodie or Salted Nut Roll?

sw

[OneGrassRoot]

Now THAT sounds familiar....

both of those. Very familiar.

I grew up in Pittsburgh but also traveled frequently to Alabama to visit family. So many things were regional then. Dr. Pepper, for example, wasn't available in Pittsburgh (or the North in general perhaps?) until the late 70s, as I recall.

I couldn't wait to go to Alabama when I was little to get YooHoo and Dr. Pepper.

[LiberalAndProud]

677. Pearsons Salted Nut Roll is my favorite candy bar.

Still around at every convenience store in this state, I'd guess.

[dixiegrrrrl]

142. Yes..on the West Coast...or something that sounds just like it.

The name is not familar but your description is.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

323. I do, but then, I'm from Minnesota

:-)

You did not imagine them.

[Hardrada]

409. I do! I think I had one or two in my life but can't recall

if I bought them in Minnesota and Iowa. Now you made me miss something I had utterly forgotten about. They sound like they would be expensive these days!

[bdamomma]

510. I remember seven up soda but not the bars.

[Sebastian Doyle]

579. I do!

Don't think I've seen one since the 70's though. :evilfrown:

I imagine they probably had some legal problems with a certain soda company though.

[TygrBright]

726. Me, me!! They were my absolute favorite.

My esposo's childhood buddy, whose family make their own eccentric little regional candy product (Google "Val-O-Milk") told me why Pearsons stopped making them.

The Dr. Pepper Company bought the 7-Up soda company in 1986, and nailed Pearsons with a copyright suit.

Tacky, tacky, tacky...

Oh, yeah, I MISS me my Seven Up bars...

wistfully,
Bright

[pipi_k]

135. I remember them too

the jelly one was also my favorite!

wasn't the seventh one filled with marshmallow or something?

[scarletwoman]

146. Oh, thank you, thank you! I don't feel so alone now!

I think you're right about the marshmallow! My least favorite, so I'd eat it first to get it out of the way.

Thank you again! (*sniff*)

sw

[NoSheep]

164. I had seven Up Candy bars! What about Nickle Nips? They were little wax Coke bottles

with syrupy liquid inside. Came in a six pack!

[OneGrassRoot]

169. Seems a lot of this stuff is regional. Nickle Nips?

I don't recall the name but I sooooooo remember the little wax Coke bottles. I loved those at the time...lol...but thinking about it now kinda makes me wanna throw up.

;)

[NoSheep]

171. They were disgusting! But I liked them anyway!

[tridim]

198. I LOVED those wax bottles! Tried one a few years ago and it wasn't all that bad.

Certainly brought back the memories very quickly. The flavor is the same.

[bdamomma]

512. remember drinking the stuff in those bottles, and then chewing

and spitting out the wax!!!

[NoSheep]

174. Here you go. I spelled it wrong! (I hope you can see them at the link)

http://images.google.com/images?gbv=2&hl=en&sa=1&q=wax+bottles&aq=f&oq=

[OneGrassRoot]

179. OMG, did you see the wax lips on that same page?

LOL....my goodness...I remember those, too.

[NoSheep]

192. yep. This thread made me feel all warm and fuzzy!

[scarletwoman]

208. OMG! The little wax Coke bottles! I SO remember them!

We used to buy them at the Penny Candy counter of the little corner grocery store when I was in 1st grade!

It was a really big deal when I was a kid to get a nickel from my parents and run to the corner store to buy 5 cents worth of penny candy. Oh, the decisions! :o

sw

[carlyhippy]

631. oh yeah! I loved those!! n/t

[Mopar151]

105. Sunoco 260

Kendall GT-1 motor oil, made in PA. (the green stuff). Schiefer clutches. Goodyear bias -ply racing tires, made in Akron, Ohio. M&H tires. The original Kraze Korlacki parts truck. Essem hot dogs.
Real theatre popcorn with REAL melted butter. Good penny candy counters - esp. Mint Juleps, Mary Janes, Squirrel Nut Zippers, and the good chocolate coated caramels.

[KoKo]

139. EXXON GAS STATIONS! ......ayyyyyyy before we knew about their evil...n/t

[Art_from_Ark]

231. You mean when they were called Esso stations

and their advertising slogan was "Put a tiger in your tank"?

[Mopar151]

367. In our town

The guy down the street with the Gulf station had a sign up: "Tiger Fuzz removed from gas tanks!"

[Canuckistanian]

108. Red Ball Jets - the shoe, not the band

I think I actually had a pair of them once.

[Mr. Ected]

118. PF Flyers Too

You used to get a cool gift if you bought a pair...like a secret detector ring or something equally as fantastic.

[Canuckistanian]

228. Couldn't get those in Canada

But I remember the ads on American TV from Buffalo, NY.

[dysfunctional press]

486. pf flyers are still around.

[IDemo]

I begged Mom for a pair when I was 5

and was deeply disappointed when they didn't make me "run faster and jump higher" as the commercials had promised. :cry:

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

114. Fizzies and Yucatan gum.

[Mr. Ected]

115. Arthur Treacher's Fish and Chips

Ate there every Saturday with my family for almost a year.

Got home, caught the end of Sanford & Son, then on to the Mary Tyler Moore show.

Those were good times.

[scarletwoman]

121. Oh yeah! LOVED the malt vinegar!

There was one close to my neighborhood, I loved picking up take-out there. And they did real Brit style "chips", not the damn French fries that everyone else tries to pawn off as "Fish and Chips".

I've been mourning that particular loss since the early 80s.

sw

[sufrommich]

129. Loved Arthur Treachers ( and your description of Saturday night).

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

132. Arthur Treacher's was GREAT

Had one close by when I was in my teens and ate there often. Sure wish they were still around.

[Berry Cool]

182. They are, in some places. I used to live down the street from one until last year.

I know of at least three Arthur Treacher's here in Northeast Ohio...one in Euclid on Lakeshore Boulevard, one in the food court at Richmond Town Center in Richmond Heights and a third in the strip mall across the street from Richmond Town Center.

Still love those damn hush puppies!!

[verges]

243. There's also one in Summit Mall in Akron,

and I think there is stilll one in Barberton.

[many a good man]

202. Here you go!

http://www.arthurtreachers.com/locations.htm#top

[tridim]

150. How the hell did Long John Silvers beat Arthur Treacher's?

There are NO good fish places any more.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

223. Hmm. I will keep that in mind

the next time I am anywhere near Ohio, where they seem to be common as dust. :hi:

[Berry Cool]

279. That's pretty funny.

I never realized Ohio was like Arthur Treacher's Central. I did miss them quite a bit when I moved to upstate New York, where there appear to be very few indeed...

[femrap]

261. Oh....I loved fish and chips!

and that malt vinegar...is there anything like it today????

[KoKo]

116. "Royal Crown" Cola

Is it still made? Better than Coke and Pepsi...and the last Coke I had in a movie theater tased like "disinfectant."

Pepsi..always tasted like "disinfectant."

RC...was REAL!

[elleng]

247. Yes, thats it, disinfectant!

Never drink EITHER of them!

[Art_from_Ark]

347. As I recall, RC had a contest once in the '60s

where you would pry the cork liner off the bottlecap to see if you had won a prize. I think I won a quarter once, and I was so excited because the drink had only cost a dime.

My summer tennis teacher (a local high school coach) used to bring that stuff to the lessons and sell it to us during break time so we wouldn't dehydrate. She had a car which was a GTO (I think) 440, but she had stuck a "sticky number" (used for mailboxes) over the 0 to make it look like "442". I never understood why, but apparently back then the 442 was the "cool" car.

[jberryhill]

368. Me & My RC

What's good enough for other folks...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bksAaMWHAB8

[jberryhill]

374. I'm Sure You Recognize This Lovely Melody As "Stranger In Paradise"....

...but did you know the original theme is from the Polyvetzian Dances Number Two by Borodin?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBhGjo9TuAc

...and did you give a shit?

[bleever]

393. So many of today's popular tunes

were actually written by the great masters.

[gauguin57]

401. My sister and I used to recite that commercial all the time!

LOL! Thanks for that trip down memory lane!

[jberryhill]

587. It Holds The Record For Longest Running Commercial Ever /nt

[CTyankee]

774. Cashmere Bouquet bath soap

At my beloved aunt and uncle's house in Brownwood, Texas she always had a bar at the bathroom sink. My uncle had a bottle of his favorite bourbon in the corner of the bathroom, right behind the clawfoot tub. So I have a strange memory of the smell of that soap the the bourbon after he had just opened it for a swig. Many years later, after he had died and she was elderly, she and my other aunt would sit in the living room having "highballs" which they referred to as "iced tea."

[lanlady]

643. now that's a trip down Memory Lane!

My mom and I used to make fun of that commercial whenever it was on (and it was on pretty much all the time!) What was the other song--was it "Theme from Elvira Madigan" or something?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

795. Theme from Elvira Madigan is Mozart's Piano Concerto #24.

You may throw money if you wish. :D

[ThomWV]

473. RC Cola is available at all of the grocery stores we use - its commonplace

I prefer it to pepsi but quit buying it simply because the cans they use are of much thinner metal and I was constantly poking holes inthem and having RC spray out all over hell and gone. Pepsi cans are at least somewhat thicker and don't puncture so easily.

[dysfunctional press]

490. i grew up with my mom's 'diet-rite cola'...

the first time i had a 'real' coke, i was in heaven.

[bdamomma]

518. was not crazy about Dr. Pepper.

You can be a Pepper too, remember that commercial.

[Buns_of_Fire]

787. ...and a Moon Pie!

Trouble is, I can still find Moon Pies. It's tough finding an RC Co-Cola these days.

[qanda]

119. Fortune Bubble Gum

It was the best and only cost a penny.

[KoKo]

125. Was that the one that gave you "cartoon cards" ...ones you could trade?

:shrug:

Oops...BAZOOKA Bubble Gum was that one, I think...whatever.

[Art_from_Ark]

343. Yeah, if you saved up enough Bazooka mini-comics,

you could trade them for some dinky prize. I can't remember what I sent off for.

[OneGrassRoot]

124. Wow, check out this link "stuck in the 70s" --

http://www.stuckinthe70s.com/products.htm

BTW, I've been using Bonne Bell Dr. Pepper Lip Smacker since 1975. Still my favorite.

:)

[chatnoir]

324. Omg, some of these are a riot

Your Guy: Your No. 1 Reason for Midol

Be the you he likes. Good to be around, any day of the month. Midol helps...

When you feel good, you're good to be around. So use Midol. You've got a beautful reason.



:wtf: :rofl:

[OneGrassRoot]

448. LOL, I know! I certainly don't remember THAT adhesion.....

but that cracks me up! :rofl:

[gauguin57]

391. OMG ... I wore Avon's Sweet Honesty AND Love's Baby Soft

love that site!

[gauguin57]

394. This one makes me sad.

[RebelOne]

496. Love's Baby Soft is still around. I saw it on sale somewhere last week. n/t

[bdamomma]

504. Love's Baby Soft cologne used to wear that too.

[carlyhippy]

632. yep...I have a bottle of it in the bathroom...n/t

[coinstar queen]

594. I can smell Love's Baby Soft in my mind right now...

I don't know if I ever actually had a bottle, but I believe I once did...What about Lip Smackers by Bonne Bell...those huge lip gloss stickers were so fat and they had a cord you could hang around your neck!

[AngryOldDem]

740. I wore Sweet Honesty too...

...I think it was the first perfume I ever wore...

Also...didn't Love's Baby Soft commercials feature Donovan's "Wear Your Love Like Heaven"?

[bdamomma]

523. oh my Bonne Bell products I remember using those too.

using those when I was a teenager!! brings back some memories.

[pipi_k]

128. I was a teenager during the sixties, and I sort of miss...

that ghastly white lipstick we wore.

A whole generation of teenaged girls walking around looking like zombies.

Add the heavy liquid black eyeliner and it's like the "Dawn of the Dead"


:7

[KoKo]

131. The one that some Chick in James Bond Movies wore? White lips with the Flip?

[pipi_k]

140. High fashion back then... :)

I was a failure though. My hair wouldn't flip no matter what I did to it.

[KoKo]

151. Those "dead white lips with tinge of pink" really was the ultimate turn on, though...

In humid air parts of the USA...it was DEFINITELY HARD to get "THE FLIP." I know.....:-(

[sufrommich]

137. Remember the Yardley Paintbox eye shadows? A

slightly used one sold on Ebay for over $100.00 last fall. God,I loved that paintbox ( and the white lipstick).

[greenbird]

176. I absolutely loved my

Yardley Eye Shadow Paint Box.

[gauguin57]

396. I used to wear white lipstick on my lips AND on my eyelids!

That white eyeshadow wasn't white enough for me, I guess! Zombies is right!
Remember Yardley Slickers ... white, white, white!

[Systematic Chaos]

657. Well hey, at least you didn't go around looking like you just sucked off a Greyhound bus.

During the dawn of the 90s there was a fashion "trend", especially among Hispanic girls but a lot of white ones too, where they wore the ultra baggy gangsta pants (they looked big enough to fit me and I was about a size 46 at the time) and a shirt, and then with their makeup they fucking INSISTED on outlining the outside of their lips in black, heavy pencil.

I worked in a 7-11 at the time and every single time one or more of them walked in I'd ask them to "have a nice day, and oh... please give me back my pants and stay away from the back of idling diesel vehicles, mmmkay?"

:rofl:

[Stevenmarc]

134. Ebinger's Blackout Cake

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

235. OMG they were outstanding!

[elleng]

250. Hey, New York!

.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

452. lol! Yep! Entermann has filled the gap but no where as good

as Ebinger.

[elleng]

615. I remember family discussions about it.

AND now a piece of 'my' history. Thanks!

[Mr. Ected]

141. Does Anybody Remember Clackers?

And back in 1970-1971, all the kids in my grammar school wore MIA/POW bracelets.

[OneGrassRoot]

147. It was one of the first things that came to mind....

You mean that "click-clack" toy made of glass that they ended up recalling because they shattered? LOL

I loved those. :)


Younger people would think it's a sex toy. :)

[Mr. Ected]

152. Those Are the Ones!

We never had an incident, but I sure wouldn't let MY kids play with them now, if they were still on the market!

[gauguin57]

425. Those are Click-Clacks ... THESE were Clackers ...

[mitchum]

157. Yes, I had plenty of bruises on my inner forearm from Clacker mishaps

[surrealAmerican]

251. I remember when they banned them in my school.

[jberryhill]

293. Yup - banned everywhere in short order

The thing about Clackers is that they looked pretty simple, but provided several ways to injure yourself and drive anyone in earshot absolutely crazy.

[carlyhippy]

633. the clackers were my favorite toy

I had them at school one recess, and was doing the double clacker, where they clacked both above and below my wrist, anyway....one of the balls flew off the string and became a missle across the playground, good thing no one was in the line of fire of that ball...

[madeline_con]

728. Yes, I loved mine!

You could stand outside in the afternoon and hear them from all over the neighborhood.

[AngryOldDem]

741. I had a pair. They were cool.

They were popular until it was discovered that the fun came at the risk of great personal injury, as did most of the neat stuff we had back then.

Jarts...clackers...riding bikes without wearing helmets...how in the hell did we ever reach adulthood?

[KoKo]

144. Peanuts in Frozen Pepsi...and 7-Up Floats with whatever flavor of Ice Cream

that went into the "Float."

[dixiegrrrrl]

154. Noxema.

No matter how bad the sunburn, slather that stuff on and the next day you are fine.

haven't seen it around for years.
Have they stopped making it?

[OneGrassRoot]

161. It's still around!

Yay! One of my faves. Love the smell.

They have a whole line of products now. :)

http://www.noxzema.com/

[elleng]

252. Use it EVERY DAY!

and for whomever has a burn!

[Kitty Herder]

318. Me, too. It better not disappear. n/t

[Hepburn]

155. Tangee Natural Lipstick....

...sigh...

[quiller4]

162. Tangee is still available from Vermont Country Store n/t

[Hepburn]

163. Really????

Thank you...:hug:

[merh]

180. reach back to the past

http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/browse/Home/Apothecary/Cosmetics/D/30002/P/1:100:1000:10020

[Hepburn]

210. I absolutely LOVE that stuff...

...and it does exactly what it says it does: It changes color to suit the person's coloring!

:loveya:

[merh]

How cool

I'm going through that website now, so many neat things, things from the past.

I don't see any macurachrome though :silly:

[elleng]

254. Try mercurochrome, or somesuch.

.

[merh]

255. thank you, I hadn't tried to spelling.

edit: That's the spelling and I didn't realize it contained mercury.
http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/2518/what-happened-to-mercurochrome

It was the miracle orange stuff for our knees and elbows, for our cuts and scraps.

We called it monkey blood.

[elleng]

276. Yup, and no pain!

.

[kskiska]

377. I remember when we rubbed paregoric on babies' gums

when they were teething. Turns out it's a tincture of opium and camphor. Now I know why it stopped them from crying.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

459. Is that still around? Used to love the smell and how it made your

boo-boo turn red/orange

[bikebloke]

547. The Red Medicine

:scared:
It was the worse thing about getting scraped or cut.

[bdamomma]

524. wow how cool, never heard of Tangee

something else I can blow my money on, maybe my girls would like that.

[NoSheep]

156. Dream Drops, Shrinky Dinks, Kiddles, Lincoln Logs, ahhhhhhhhh.

[quiller4]

158. Chickletts and Black Jack chewing gum, Horlucks malted milk

tablets, Tame creme rinse, Woodhue and Tigress cologne, Aspergum for sore throats, Ginger Beer, fresh ground chuck or ground round from the neighborhood butcher shop...

[schmuls]

752. I love black jack chewing gum. It's back for a limited time at the

Vermont Country Store.

[knitter4democracy]

167. Real Coke and the way Pepsi used to taste.

I can get them here in Latino grocery stores--Coke and Pepsi from Mexico where they still make it using sugar and not HFCS and with the older formulas. It's always a treat.

[Berry Cool]

187. Supposedly, that's what Pepsi Throwback tastes like.

I have yet to come across any, or I'd be curious to try it, but some DU'ers say it's made with sugar and tastes like Pepsi used to in the pre-HFCS days.

[HughBeaumont]

472. I bought five cases.

It's only available for a limited time.

And yes, it's WAAAAAY better than High Fructose Corn Throw-up Pepsi. No nasty battery-acid aftertaste.

[Sebastian Doyle]

589. Yeah, it's good stuff.

And that's from a formerly committed Coke drinker. Ultimately, the Mexican Coke in the glass bottles still tastes better, but it also costs three times as much to buy a case. Pepsi Throwback in cans beats the Hell out of HFCS "Coke" in cans.

Hopefully though I hope that Pepsi sells enough of this (and the Mountain Dew throwback) that it encourages not only them to make this a permanent product, but that Coke takes the hint. They already make the Kosher Coke one month out of the year, so it's not like the boys in Atlanta forgot how to make it with sugar.

[Horse with no Name]

173. The lunar space module toys you got when you filled up at Texaco

Those, and lawn darts of course.

[NoSheep]

178. Here's a link to 50 pieces of Penny Candy for only $23.50!!!

http://images.google.com/imgres?imgurl=&imgrefurl=http://www.tomandsallys.com/fun/9.html&usg=__Hm4LL8jxkH1WM1aXXAPsZhRrjE8=&h=293&w=323&sz=57&hl=en&start=13&tbnid=S4p7cRcSZf5DFM:&tbnh=107&tbnw=118&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dwax%2Bbottles%26gbv%3D2%26hl%3Den

:rofl:

[bdamomma]

525. love those hot ball candies!! they still have those around.

[cmd]

175. 25 cent a gallon gas.

nt

[tabasco]

177. CLUBS

SPEARS

[OneGrassRoot]

181. ....

:spray: :rofl: :hi:

[Mr. Ected]

184. Remember Cereal Boxes With Cut Out 45's on the Back?

I had "sugar, Sugar" by the Archies and thought it sounded pretty good on my cheap little phonograph.

[Berry Cool]

188. How about the Jackson 5 records too?

On the Alpha-Bits box.

And the 3-D baseball cards. I still remember the commercial for those with Willie Mays.

"Willie Mays! The "Say Hey Kid'! He's hit more home runs than any living ballplayer!" (At the time, it was still true.)

[tridim]

207. Oh man that's a good one! I had all kinds of cardboard and floppy acetate 45's.

I'm guessing I caught the tail end of that trend.

[gauguin57]

402. I still have my cardboard cut-out record of "Valerie" by the Monkees, and ...

... a record by a made-up group called the Sugar Bears.

They sounded like crap, but they were SO COOL! And they were FREE on your cereal box! Weee!

[Art_from_Ark]

734. I never could play those records

As I recall, they had the small spindle hole for 33 1/3-type records, but my record player at the time would only play 45's with the big hole.

[carlyhippy]

634. I an Archies record from the back of a box of cereal

n/t

[mwooldri]

189. 3 digit phone numbers.

My old phone number was Plaistow 201. The area code was 040388. Neighbouring exchanges could be dialed with a lot shorter area code.

[boomerbust]

190. The Hank Aaron Rookie Card

That I put in the spokes of my bike to make noise and get some well earned attention.:smoke:

[sufrommich]

196. lol. nt

[tridim]

201. My dad said he did the same thing.

He also said he had 5 of them. All lost.

Yes, I searched grandma's house. :)

[slackmaster]

193. Fireworks and lawn darts

:hide:

[tridim]

203. Little pyro checking in

I outgrew fireworks and guns by about age 14.

I'd still love to play a game of real Jarts.

[dugaresa]

613. I loved Lawn Darts! I think they should bring them back

if you aren't capable of playing Lawn Darts and surviving, then the world is better off without you.

:evilgrin:

I am sure that is awful for me to say but I do miss that game

[Mr. Ected]

197. Jello 1-2-3

Jello + mousse + creamy topping.

[Oeditpus Rex]

352. Get it right

According to the kids in the commercials, it was foam, sauce and jelly-jammy. :D

[gauguin57]

403. That stuff was NASTY (the foam on the top always tasted like the dog's breakfast).

But it was magical, so who cared?

[carlyhippy]

635. good stuff, I saw a recipe somewhere on how to make it

it was something like mixing jello and cool whip in a blender....I will have to google it again..

[madamesilverspurs]

204. I want my Maypo!

[Sparkly]

226. pssst....

http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/browse/Home/Food-Candy/Food/Breakfast/Maypo-Cereal/D/30100/P/1:100:1020:10270:100650/I/f00262?evar3=SEARCH

[Muttocracy]

641. I've bought that a grocery stores here recently, so it's still around. nt

[FourScore]

206. The game Masterpiece.

They don't make it anymore, but I loved that game when I was young. Old copies of it sell for hundreds of dollars now.

Clue was great too (the best actually), but it's still around and is still great. Now I play it with my kids.

[kimmylavin]

229. I completely forgot about Masterpiece!

We used to play that in my G&T classes!

Seems they've got some reasonably prices ones on eBay. :)
http://shop.ebay.com/items/masterpiece%20game?_dmd=2&_sop=12

[FourScore]

240. Wow! Thank you for this link.

I tried to look into buying one about two years ago and the cheapest one I could find was listed at 200.00. I hadn't looked again since. I'm getting one of these. Thanks a bunch, kimmylavin!

[Contrary1]

209. Lustre Creme Shampoo and Fizzies...

Three Stooges Saturday Marathon Matinees.

[Stinky The Clown]

211. Cott (brand) Birch Beer

[elleng]

258. Cotts went to my summer camp!

.

[Hotler]

214. Fizzies......that is all.

[Sparkly]

227. pssst....

http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/browse/Home/Food-Candy/Food/Beverages/Fizzies-Drink-Tablets/D/30106/P/1:100:1020:10270:100640/I/f09808?evar3=SEARCH

[kohodog]

217. Tang, and a little later...orange sunshine!

[kohodog]

222. Oh, I forgot:

SCREAMING YELLOW ZONKERS!

[gauguin57]

404. Yessss! Loved those yellow lumps of sugar!

Many of my adolescent cavities are thanks to the Zonks.

[bdamomma]

527. remember those it was popcorn in some sort of a covering

sort of melted in your mouth.

[FloridaJudy]

651. The boxes were a work of art.

Surrealism, of course. The only other label that fun to read is Dr. Bonner's Soap.

[RufusTFirefly]

297. Funny Face drinks

This flavor and Chinese Cherry were mercifully renamed when Pillsbury realized (duh!) that they were offensive.

[Art_from_Ark]

311. Oh yeah, the orange flavor was renamed Jolly Olly Orange

and Chinese Cherry became Choo-Choo Cherry
Also in the line-up were Lefty Lemon-Lime, Goofy Grape, Freckle-face Strawberry, and, my favorite, Rootin' Tootin' Raspberry

[gauguin57]

383. Yeah ... they became Choo-Choo Cherry and Jolly-Olly Orange.

I have Funny Face drink packets in my childhood scrapbook! (goofy grape, of COURSE!)

[Dan]

218. Butternut candy bars

[Sparkly]

219. Let me introduce you all to Vermont Country Store...

First time I saw this place, hooked up by another DUer, I spent a week's grocery money... http://www.vermontcountrystore.com

(Start by clicking on "brands from the past," then "apothecary" or "food" or whatever.)

[CTyankee]

573. Just don't buy their clothing. I requested a couple of things from the store

for Christmas a few years back. The merchandise was just awful; thin and chintzy. I put them in the Goodwill bag without ever wearing them (I think it was a nightgown and a bed jacket).

[pacalo]

220. Chum gum, Fortune gum, Dickies potato chips, Tigress cologne,

& lots of local (New Orleans) products that have been discontinued.

One of them, Elmer's Peppermint Puffs, was my favorite candy. They literally melted in your mouth, like cotton candy.

[Harry Monroe]

647. I love Elmers candy!

I only see them around Easter time now. Heavenly Hash, Gold Bricks and Pecan Eggs. Heavenly Hash (no you can't smoke it!! It's a chocolate lump filled with marshmallow and almonds) are my favorites. It's not Easter unless I have some! I love to stick them in the freezer and eat them frozen!

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

230. Melody cookies and Breck conditioner.

[kimmylavin]

232. Pine Brothers Cough Drops!

They were barely medicinal, and I used to eat them like candy.
Chewy cough drops... genius.

[elleng]

263. Dad bought them for me,

honey or cherry flavor, not medicinal at all, I think!

[kittykitty]

751. 3 of us sat in the back of the room in Geometry, and ate a box every day, then we

stored the empty boxes in the slots under the 3 student table/desk. At the end of the year we got them out and marveled at how many there were, but put them all back. For all I know there are still there for someone to find and wonder about.......

[TuxedoKat]

236. So many things

The old flavor of Vick's Formula 44, Gleem toothpaste (you can still get it, but not around here), same with Aquamarine Shampoo. There was a cereal I really liked but I can't remember the name. It was something like a rice cereal and had a really distinctive flavor and I think had a Chinese character on the box.

[Art_from_Ark]

267. I think the rice cereal was Rice Krinkles

The Chinese character was from the "Linus the Lion-Hearted" cartoon show. He had some sheep who went "Ba-a-a-a-a, ba-a-a-a-a so-o-o-o-o"

[TuxedoKat]

497. OMG! Yes, I think that was it!

Thank you! I don't remember the commercial though, and I only had the cereal a few times,
but I remember it because it had such a different taste (good though) of any other cereal at the
time. Wish it was still available. Thanks again -- I've been wondering about this for years!!! :)

Edited to add -- right after you posted the name I rushed over to google "Rice Krinkles" and found this commercial for it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9gVA01U34k&NR=1

I vaguely remember Linus the Lion-Hearted. I should look him up on You Tube too and wake up some brain cells in that area!

[Art_from_Ark]

772. Take a look at this

Linus the Lion-hearted opening theme, with the various characters (including So-Hi, the Chinese guy) plugging their own cereals

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mq4JSNC_wLg

[scarletwoman]

237. Anyone else remember Bonomo's Turkish Taffy?

It came in long flat bars, vanilla, chocolate, strawberry, and banana -- banana was my favorite. We used to put the bars in the freezer to harden and then whack them on the kitchen table to break them up into little pieces.

We'd put a frozen chunk in our mouths and suck on it until it softened and then chew it down. It was easy to amuse us kids in the 50s...

:D
sw

[tridim]

239. Yep, Turkish Taffy at the pool. The pool that had two diving boards, another thing I miss.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

248. Loved the chocolate and strawberry

flavors. There were always a couple of bars in the freezer during summer when I was a lad.

[scarletwoman]

253. Cool! (so to speak) Another Minnesotan with Turkish Taffy in the freezer!

:hi:

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

259. Vanilla was my favorite. :)

[elleng]

266. YOU SAID IT!

Was waiting to get to the end of the thread!!!

Yup! Vanilla! Would WRECK my teeth now!!! HUGE favorite then!

[Berry Cool]

272. I remember it. Always for sale at the grocery store of my VERY young days

when I walked there with my older sisters, as they went to buy their Beatle bubblegum cards.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

328. Chorus: "B-O, N-O, M-O, Bonomo...

Oh, oh, oh, It's Bonomo's...
Child's voice: (candy)"

[eleny]

555. If you got it cold you could "Smack it and crack it!" into pieces

[NYC_SKP]

238. Soda pop without high fructose porn syrup. nt

[glitch]

241. Anything that now has high fructose corn syrup in it.

Which is just about everything.

edit: and bacon.

[bleever]

245. We might have been better off with cyclemates.

[glitch]

305. Or even sugar (at least enough of it triggers the "full" response, eventually). nt

[madamesilverspurs]

242. Ben Casey shirts.

[elleng]

268. Ben Casey!

Fergit about the shirts!

[Lugnut]

378. I had one of those!

I was a teenager at the time. I had a mad crush on Dr Kildare. :D

[radiclib]

246. WINK!

The SASSY ONE! From Canada Dry! Nothing like it since.:bounce:

[Art_from_Ark]

340. Wink, the "sassy one"?

I always thought it was the "sensible one" from Canada Dry :shrug:

Tasted a bit like Fresca, as I recall.

[Mopar151]

390. Just like Squirt

grapefruit soda

[Captain Hilts]

249. Post Fortified Oat Flakes cereal. nt

[Art_from_Ark]

256. Transistor radios

My first one I got as a 7-year-old and spent most nights listening to WWL out of the "Roosevelt Hotel, New Orleans, Louisiana".

Some things I fondly remember that haven't been covered yet-

Sunshine Yum-Yums (the best store-bought cookies I ever ate)
Jungle Juice fruit punch-- 10 cents a pint (a sure sign of summer vacation!)
Sergeant Toppit whipped cream in a can
Some very politically incorrect "automobile" trading cards featuring such classic "cars" as "Chevy Eater" and "Bonzai Bomb"
Zero candy bars
Mystery Comics Digest

Then there was the original Mountain Dew, which seems to have started out as an Ozarks brand that was competing with Kickapoo Joy Juice (bottled in Springfield, Missouri). The bottles (returnable for deposit) featured a hillbilly and the TV commercials had the slogan "Ya-hoo! Mountain Dew! It's GOOD fer YEW!"

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

262. I remember those ads!

Cartoon hillbillies and the catch phrase was "Mountain Dew - it'll tickle yore innards!"

[Art_from_Ark]

275. I'd plum forgot about that other catch phrase

"It'll tickle yore innards!"

[stlsaxman]

480. on the bottle next to the hillbilly sitting against the outhouse with a long piece of grass

in his mouth used to be the words "Bottled by Clemm and Jake" and the names always changed depending on the bottling plant.

[femrap]

257. Seeing The Beatles for $5.00 at

Crosley Field in Cincinnati. My grandma's fried chicken and strawberry shortcake. Eating at home was a zillion times better than eating out. Corn on the cob picked from the field and then boiled and eaten.

[w8liftinglady]

260. Little Kiddles-I had almost every one

[etherealtruth]

622. I don't see the lilac one ... or the lily of the valley one

Thanks for the memory

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

264. Hamm's Beer animated ads with the Hamm's Bear

Another classic piece of Minnesotiana.

[scarletwoman]

270. "From the land of sky blue waters..."

waaaters

From the land of pines,
Lofy balsams,
Comes the beer refreshing,
Hamms, the beer refreshing."

(Ta da dum dum dum)

Oh yeah. :D

sw

[stlsaxman]

482. Bear Whiz Beer!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZqEpUw6ilQ

[Sebastian Doyle]

592. Great ads, shitty beer.

Kinda like the Olympia Beer "Artesian" ads.

[elleng]

274. Italian Ices!

In the candy store around the corner under the Myrtle Avenue El!

Hand made, lemon, scooped into little paper cup, which was damp and scrunched up before reaching home, because eating it required squeezing the ices up from the bottom!

OH to live in Brooklyn, Now that Spring is Here!!!!

[eleny]

559. I used to take the Myrtle Ave El to college!

And once in a while got myself a frankfurter with onions from a lady who sold them out of the back of her big station wagon under the el.

There is nothing like those Italian ices.

[elleng]

629. Lived there 'til I was 9, '54.

Can't remember getting any other stuff there, but may have. El's down now (and my neighborhood looks GREAT!)

[Johnny Noshoes]

690. Ah the El

The MJ train with the wooden sides. They got rid of those in 1968. The line going down to Navy Street is long gone but the M lives on - I take it every day to get to work. M train from Fresh Pond Road to Fulton Street, 2 train to Times Square. New York wouldn't be the same without the subway I love this town.

[kansasblue]

277. CPO jacket

8 tracks

[eShirl]

280. breakfast cereal names that proudly featured the word SUGAR

Sugar Smacks
Super Sugar Crisp
Sugar Pops

[Art_from_Ark]

300. Then there was Tony the Tiger's favorite

Sugar Frosted Flakes

[Lydia Leftcoast]

326. And my favorite...Sugar Jets!

[Art_from_Ark]

364. Weren't Sugar Jets being hawked at one time

by Rocky and Bullwinkle?

[ohheckyeah]

287. Mint

julep candies.....although I did find a place last year that sells them. Prell shampoo and the light pink shiny lipstick that I can't remember the brand name of but I loved the smell of it.

[madamesilverspurs]

289. tetherball

[noiretextatique]

541. tetherball was mad fun

thanks for the reminder. i haven't thought about tetherball in years.

[blogslut]

290. One more

It was probably a regional thing. But when I was young we would walk to the five & dime and buy a hunk of fresh sugar cane. There is no taste in this world as wonderful as chewing on fresh sugar cane.

[bdamomma]

531. fresh sugar cane, my husband says kids in Jamaica would

eat that or chew on it, that would make their teeth white.

[blogslut]

617. Yeah, you chew on it, or suck on it

I can still taste it in my mind, after all these years. Fresh sugar cane is cool and delicately sweet. I've seen websites that sell it individually but they charge too much.

[Art_from_Ark]

291. The '60s music beat

It seemed to die out almost as soon as the '60s did, maybe with the break-up of the Beatles?
At any rate, the '70s sound never could measure up, as far as I was concerned.

[elleng]

309. For examples,

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA7_3l23b5o

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=56eIeV5xk3A&feature=related

[Art_from_Ark]

476. Here's another example

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ve9N9oaXU18

[RufusTFirefly]

292. Meet the Swinger. Polaroid swinger!

It's more than a camera. It's almost alive! It's only nineteen dollars and ninety five!

Watch the original commercial. Listen who's singing the jingle (he wrote it too, apparently) and check out the cute brunette who was not yet famous.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7k2uwJmwxo


I also miss Teaberry gum (and the Teaberry Shuffle!)

[Art_from_Ark]

302. I loved that commercial

That commercial is so-o-o Summer of '68
The best of times, the worst of times

[bdamomma]

550. couldn't catch her face is that Ali McGraw.

[RufusTFirefly]

558. Yup. That's Ali. And that's Barry Manilow singing the jingle! n/t

[bdamomma]

557. I found that Teaberry gum commercial

take a look.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fk11Acjofu8

[RufusTFirefly]

561. Great. Thanks. Back in the days when Herb ruled!

I've got two left feet though, so I'm not sure I can get that shuffle down. I wonder how the ad agency came up with that idea?

[bdamomma]

568. do you remember when Herb Alpert used to have on TV specials

all the time? I liked his music too.

[RufusTFirefly]

572. I played the trumpet as a kid, so I was a big Herb fan...

But it's strange. I don't remember his TV specials.

I do remember the cover of Whipped Cream though, which seemed pretty racy to me at the time. Ah innocence!

[bdamomma]

575. one of his best albums, yea, cover was racy at that time.

[Art_from_Ark]

667. I remember a Herb Alpert special

It was probably around 1969 or so. He played Spanish Flea, A Taste of Honey, This Guy's In Love, and I can't remember what else.

[eleny]

563. Yes, Ali, but the blonde in the sunglasses looks a lot like Cybill Shepherd

[SoCalDem]

678. I have several packs of teaberry gum in my desk drawer

I polished off the Black Jack & Clove gum.. I am awaiting their return..(hope hope hope)..Until last year I could buy them online..

[kohodog]

295. My Steve Canyon Helmet

Anyone remember Steve Canyon? He was a test pilot or something. His helmet was cool.

And Gigantor, a huge plastic robot toy that sucked.

[IDemo]

296. SuperBall, Lincoln Logs, Matchbox cars

[Art_from_Ark]

334. I got a Superball for my birthday once

I took it outside, bounced it in the street, it landed in a neighbor's bushes, and I never did find it :cry:

And my mother would often take me to the local hardware store (which doubled as a toy store) to pick out a Matchbox car (made in England by Lesney)

[CakeGrrl]

298. Orange Quangaroos (cereal), original TANG, and Great Shakes

Oh well, the Quangaroos might have had a carcinogen in that orange dye, but dang, they were good stuff!

Original Special K shaped like little saucers.

Oh, and the pudding/mousse stuff with the hard chocolate top. My favorite flavor was peanut butter.

Flex shampoo and conditioner.

ORIGINAL Trix: Cherry Red, Lemon Yellow and Orange Orange. I don't touch the version that has purple in green in it. If it ain't broke...

[Bluebear]

301. Fizzies, Crazy Foam, Burger Chef, Fuzzy Wuzzy soap & 60's Motown music :)

[merh]

303. vac-u-form

I actually bought one off of e-bay. I used to love to watch my brother when he made the toys, he wouldn't let me use it, I was too small and a girl.

I now have one and it is so cool. :silly:

[merh]

304. The Big Burger Grill

My sister wanted the Easy Bake, I had to be different and I was a tomboy, so I wanted the Big Burger Grill. I got one for Christmas.

I used to make hamburgers for dinner on Saturdays with it (okay, so I made maybe one or two, but I did help make dinner. I also made pancakes for breakfast on it.)

[Initech]

306. The cheesy direct-to-video movies from the 80's

Man there were some good fuckin' ones. Unfortunately a lot of them will never see a proper DVD release.

[SmileyRose]

308. The original Batman show. / Gilligan's Island / Flintstones all back to back

I think I was a senior in HS by then but it was nice to come in from school and be able to lay around and VEG in front of TV before Mom and Dad got home and started barking orders about chores and homework.

[Broken_Hero]

310. Good radio

shows, like Adventure radio spots, telling pirate stories, stuff like that. Constructs, b-b-bats, and a lot of toys from GI Joe, Transformers, Heman, Superfriends, Silverhawks....

Soda in glass bottles....

eta:star wars toys...can't believe I forgot those.

[demigoddess]

345. I remember stories on the radio. serials that you could listen to every week

I spent some of my youth overseas so only had a few years of listening. but today all people do is argue politics or news.

[eleny]

571. You can still listen online...

Just in case you haven't seen these free web pages -
http://www.otr.net/
http://www.live365.com/cgi-bin/directory.cgi?genre=old%20time%20radio
http://www.radiolovers.com/
http://wpr.org/webcasting/audioarchives_display.cfm?Code=otr

I downloaded Media Player Classic to be able to listen to the various current BBC programming and it opens most of these old time radio shows, too.

:hi:

[Kat45]

312. Anyone remember Funny Face drink mix (like Kool-Aid)?

There was a song in the commercial and a 'character' for each fruit involved. In what was apparently an early instance of pc, two of the character's names--Injun Orange and Chinese Cherry--were changed. They're the characters I remember from when I was a kid, and here's the commercial with the old characters.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PuUlWnYkYtw&NR=1

[RufusTFirefly]

314. Yup. See package at this post

Right here

[Arugula Latte]

332. Oh my gosh. Haven't thought of those in years and years.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

461. you reminded my of a funny story. My husband's aunt was a

real talker and when he was little, in front of the whole family, he said to her: "bye bye LOUD MOUTH LIME!"

[Maru Kitteh]

313. I don't miss any "stuff" - I just miss my dad and my grandma. n/t

[satya]

429. I'll never stop missing my grandma--but some of that stuff reminds me of her.

Orange Slices candy, Jeno's pizza rolls and orange soda.

But the best stuff you can't buy:
cherry pie
fried chicken
ginger-snap cookies

and the smell of her perfume when she was getting ready to go to church on Sunday morning.

:hug:

[KakistocracyHater]

316. ignorance

believing the adults around me meant what they said, alas

[Maru Kitteh]

388. Oooh, that's a good one. I'm so jealous of my cats when they crawl up on my chest to sleep

I want to sleep like that again. Without concerns and plans running through my mind even though I'm in slumber. I want to rest listening to the beating heart of a being and feel that kind of all-enveloping security and peace again.

Ignorance would be helpful in that regard.

[SpookyCat]

319. Marathon Bars!

And the cowboy in the commercials. I had such a crush on him when I was a wee thing...LOL!

[Arugula Latte]

329. Loved the Marathons!

Remember how they had the ruler on the package to show you how long it was?


And here is your cowboy:


Funny, I posted about Marathons earlier today in another thread:
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=105&topic_id=8778795&mesg_id=8779849

[SpookyCat]

392. Yes! That's him! LOL! Thanks for that!

Yup, I remember the ruler, and caramel/chocolate which I loved, but now would likely taste like wax..HA!


This is a fun thread. Comrade Snarky and I were just talking and I remembered big metal "cans" of grape soda, and Chiparoos (sp)and coming home for After School Specials and monster movies on Saturday afternoons.

OH! And Creature Features! HA!


:-)

[zalinda]

526. His name is Patrick Wayne

John Wayne's son.

zalinda

[mitchum]

569. That was John Wayne's son playing the cowboy

[Arugula Latte]

580. I wonder what he's doing now ... nt

[villager]

322. have we broached Helms Bakery items yet?

[here_is_to_hope]

484. Ah Helms...

I ate donuts fresh of the Helms truck as a kid and lived in the bakery in Culver City after it closed and became...gasp...lofts.

[Jane Eyre]

325. Bazooka Joe Bubble Gum Comics

I used to pick them up off the ground during my brother's little league games. I collected enough to send them off for a monogrammed necklace. A little research shows that they are still around, but not quite the same:

http://www.bubblegum-comics.com/

[Art_from_Ark]

327. Anyone remember Kellogg's Puffa Puffa rice

A Hawaiian-themed cereal with "oceans of energy"?

[Oeditpus Rex]

366. Ay-uh, ay-uh

:D

[Art_from_Ark]

384. Yeah, that was how the commercial ended

I thought that was one of the coolest cereal commercials ever.

[Bluebear]

648. Eya, eya!

[AzDar]

331. Two words: Gnip. Gnop.

:toast:

[Art_from_Ark]

351. Pronounced guh-nip guh-nop

Wasn't that a game where you hit plastic levers to get a ball into a hole or keep it out of one?

[lucretia54]

722. "Pretty Feet!"

You rub off all the dead skin and your cuticles- I'd steal it from my mom's cabinet.

[TheKentuckian]

333. Space Dust by a mile and no Pop Rock aren't the same

I crave Space Dust still after all these years.

[Jane Eyre]

335. Green Stamps & Duz Detergent

My mom got green stamps at the grocery store. I used to love licking them and sticking them in the little books, then looking at the catalogue to see what items you could get with them. Everyone's mom seemed to have ordered a wall clock with metallic rays sticking out. You could only get it with Green Stamps.

I also loved to pull out the dishes from the Duz Detergent boxes that my mom got. Sometimes they had glasses or towels, but the best were the 10K gold rimmed "Golden Wheat" pattern dishes. I saw some in an antique store recently and it brought back memories.

[Kat45]

346. Oh yeah, my mother had one of those wall clocks.

I can't remember what else she got with the Green Stamps, but I do remember the clock. It hung on the wall above the mantle.

[Art_from_Ark]

375. My mother got a rocking chair with S&H green stamps

She had books and books of those things.

[gauguin57]

405. Got my first guitar with green stamps ... and the first bookshelf I "bought" for myself.

And the first portable tape recorder I got when I was a newspaper reporter was bought with Green Stamps. When I was a teenager, my favorite T-shirt said, "Kiss Me, I Give Green Stamps."

[madamesilverspurs]

503. First guitar...

Mom got mine with green stamps, surprised me with it on my birthday. It was black with a big white 'note' on the face. And the strings were made of, I think, extruded razor blades.

[RebelOne]

498. I remember S&H green stamps well.

Got a lot of neat stuff with them.

[bdamomma]

532. oh jeez, my mother had a clock like that in our living room.

[Jennicut]

341. Metal lunch boxes from the 1980's. I can only find the crappy plastic kind for my kids.

The metal ones rocked.



I had a cool Strawberry Shortcake similar to this one.


I also loved Atomic Fireballs, Fun Dip (white candy sticks to dip into fizzy powdery sugar), chocolate candy cigarettes (would SO not fly today but was okay in 1985) and button candy strips. Yum.

[leftofthedial]

348. Pro-worker Democrats.

That and clove chewing gum.

[proteus_lives]

349. I don't know if these count but...

MTV, back when it actually was MUSIC television. So good, now its just a bunch of shitty reality shows. I blame the Real World.

Also, My mom's pork chops and meat lasagna. She and my dad went veggie when I was about 12 and she stopped making them. :cry:

[Recursion]

350. Raw milk n/t

[gauguin57]

355. I'm about four times too old for it now, but Love's Baby Soft Lemon Scent.

I used to LOVE wearing that stuff.

[Hannah Bell]

427. love & yardley

http://retrokimmer.com/2009/02/wear-your-love-like-heaven.html

[gauguin57]

660. Those lovely phallic containers!

[Danmel]

784. I loved Yardley "Pot O Gloss"

little round containers with lip gloss. They also had dream eye shadows (which I can't wear anymore because it settles in my crow's feet!)

And little pots of scent- they had sandalwood and patchouli

[bdamomma]

552. I remember wearing Love Baby Soft Lemon Scent too.

[gauguin57]

359. " ... if you can't shampoo, Minipoo ..."

... it was this powder shampoo you could use if you didn't have time to shampoo, or if you were in the hospital and couldn't shower for some reason. Smelled like hell, and made your hair look white!

[EFerrari]

361. Atomic Fireballs.

[gauguin57]

369. Crispy Critters.

"The one and only cereal that comes in the shape of animals."

[JVS]

428. Indubitably

[jberryhill]

376. Pocket Fisherman

Like, "Hey, Jim, watcha fishin' for in your pocket?"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Fh_YwAnv7w

[Manifestor_of_Light]

380. Delaware Punch.

Teaberry, Clove & BlackJack gum.

Junket ice cream mix with a little plastic thing with a crank on it.

Jax beer commercials. "Mabel, Black Label!" beer commercials.

Hawaiian Punch only came in concentrate form, and one flavor.

Tom's Peanut Butter Bar -- hard crunchy stuff like a butterfinger.

Sugar Pops, Sugar Frosted Flakes, Sugar Crisp -- they have taken "sugar" out of the names.

Sugar Bear in the Sugar Crisp commercials.

Quaker Puffed Rice commercials featuring the 1812 Overture. "Shot from guns!".

Hercules and Superman on TV after school in lively black and white. I think George Reeves and Steve Reeves were in those.

Where the Action is! With Freddy Cannon and Paul Revere and the Raiders.

Sky King and Penny.

Troll dolls. Made by Thomas Dam in Denmark. Technically known as "Dam Dolls". So ugly they were cute.

Rat Fink -- little plastic rats in diff colors out of a gumball machine. You could get a plastic ring with a post on it, to put the rat on. He was designed by Big Daddy Roth, who made model kits with freaked out caricatures with bloodshot eyes. In junior high, the girls would wear one or more of different colored rat finks around their necks on a string.

Mouse Trap Game - I still have mine.

We got a Zenith color TV in 1964, so we were really hip. We watched many shows in color: The Flintstones, Batman, Bonanza, Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color, Laugh-In, The Jack Paar Show, Get Smart, I Dream Of Jeannie, Bewitched, The Smothers Brothers, Jonathan Winters, Let's Make a Deal, Jeopardy with Art Fleming.

PBS Color: The Great American Dream Machine, The Andersonville Trial.

B&W shows: The Addams Family, The Munsters, Twilight Zone, Outer Limits, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Ed Sullivan, Jackie Gleason, Concentration with Hugh Downs, Queen for a Day, Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle, Fractured Flickers with Hans Conreid, Adventures in Paradise with Gardner McKay(My first crush when I was five years old).

[Art_from_Ark]

406. Rat Fink rings

I always heard about them, but I never actually saw one. At my school, it was considered an insult to say "Your mother wears a Rat Fink ring"

I remember the Puffed Rice commercial, too: "This is the cereal that's shot from guns! So delicious 'cause it's shot from guns!" And my mother used to say "If it were really shot from guns, it would taste like gunpowder!"

[gauguin57]

412. I had little Rat Fink plastic models ... got them from gumball machines.

I don't think I had a ring, though.

[Jane Eyre]

549. 1812 Overture

That was the theme song used in the commercial.

I also remember that there was a Rice Krispies commercial where a sad clown sang "No more Rice Krispies...we've run out of Rice Krispies...." to the tune of "Il Pagliacci"

[noiretextatique]

544. i LOVE Delaware Punch

best drink ever. now i will have to find some :7

[jberryhill]

583. Still retails in Mexico

I had never heard of this stuff until two months ago when I found it in a 7-11 in Mexico City.

Coca-Cola owns the trademark, and they keep it alive in odd markets.

I picked it up as a curiousity, being from Delaware, which has no discernible connection to this stuff.

[noiretextatique]

602. thanks... you can buy the syrup online

the bottled variety isn't sold here anymore because of a coloring agent used in it.

Delaware Punch is named for the Delaware grape from which its flavor is derived. The grape is native to Delaware County, Ohio, and the drink therefore has no affiliation with the state of Delaware.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delaware_Punch

[1]

382. back in the day... we could return giant pop bottles for a nickle...

and back in the day you could buy a candy bar for a nickle.

a pop bottle for a candy bar was the greatest exchange ever.

ever...

[gauguin57]

385. Green Ghost game (which you can buy on E-bay), Kreskin's ESP game (same) ...

and Spirograph (ditto) ... but I still have mine!

[gauguin57]

386. And Barbie: Queen of the Prom game (I still have mine from the '60s).

You had to have a dress, be a member of a club, and have a boyfriend (pick a card!) to become Queen of the Prom. TWISTED game, but we played it all the time!

[Kat45]

655. I still have mine too!

Then there was the "Mystery Date" game, which my friend had. You hoped you didn't get the drip, Poindexter. lol

[Skittles]

387. not sure if I got the brand right but

Vidal Sassoon shampoo - came in a brown container - had the most wonderful smell

[SpookyCat]

398. I think you're right. I also remember V05 goo of some kind...

[gauguin57]

389. Stax cereal

(you could stack them -- they were little waffly-type things). ... and yes, that's Marty Ingels (Shirley Jones's wacky husband)

[Greyhound]

395. Click-Clacks. n/t

[gauguin57]

407. Outlawed in our junior high ... those things were DANGEROUS, dude!

But then again, so were most of our toys. Toxic, hot and dangerous.

[Greyhound]

419. Yes, but so are Yo-Yo's (originally a weapon in the Philippines(?)), skateboards

(I have the scars to prove it), bicycles, sticks and stones, etc.

Live is invariably terminal, enjoy what time you have.

[gauguin57]

397. "Winky Dink and You" -- the show that got you to draw on the TV screen!

Well ... you'd send away for this clear screen to put on your TV, and then they'd ask you to draw a bridge so Winky Dink and his dog could cross over. Stuff like that. My brother, unfortunately, didn't bother sending away from the screen! :eyes:

[ima_sinnic]

436. ha! just thinking of that yesterday! I had the screen and drew on the TV! (nt)

[latebloomer]

713. Me too!

God, I must have been about 2 or 3.

[abq e streeter]

574. One of my earliest memories is drawing on that screen

Gee, you'd think that being involved in an interactive relationship with electronic media from such an early age that I wouldn't be so high-(or even medium) tech impaired, but alas........also,completely unrelated, isn't there a DUer who goes by the user name winky dink?

[latebloomer]

715. Yes, there is!

I once replied to him/her, wondering if s/he too had drawn on the TV, but s/he didn't answer.

[gauguin57]

399. Simba the White Lion, Skippy the Bush Kangaroo, Speed Racer, Dark Shadows.

Not products, but cool TV shows!

[Art_from_Ark]

413. I was just talking about Skippy with an Australian I know

and he started reciting some lines from the show, and we started singing the theme song.

[OneGrassRoot]

433. Oh. my. gosh.

I LOVED Simba, and Dark Shadows was da bomb. The remake in the 90s sucked. I'm still hoping for a good remake.

:)

[bdamomma]

554. oh my, Dark Shadows that used to be on at 4 pm in afternoon

wasn't it? I loved that show, Barnabas, Quentin and Angelique, and Vicky, that was a great show.

remember the music??

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zaI1fldJbZs&feature=related

[6000eliot]

400. Fruit Float by Libbys

It was canned fruit to which you added milk in order to make a tasty fruit pudding. God only knows what it had in it.
http://www.roadfood.com/Forums/tm.aspx?m=95038&mpage=

[Mrs. Overall]

513. And the Libby's jingle:

If it says Libby's, Libby's, Libby's
On the label, label, label
You will like it, like it, like it
On your table, table, table
It says Libby's, Libby's, Libby's
On the label, label, label.

[gauguin57]

408. Freakies cereal!

I think I still have a little plastic Freakies model somewhere.

[Bennyboy]

415. MR SALTY thin pretzel sticks (Nabisco)

Man I got a tub of french onion dip that is just waiting for one more box...

[gauguin57]

417. The original "Tales from the Crypt" comic paperpack books.

I used to scare myself out of my MIND with those. My mom had to throw them out so I could get a decent night's sleep.

[gauguin57]

418. The original "Strangely Enough" book (bought it through Scholastic at school).

That book kept me up crying and shaking with fear so many nights when I was a kid. LOVED it (and still have my original copy somewhere ... I want it buried with me!) It's all these supposedly true-life stories of the paranormal. TERRIFYING to a kid.

[Art_from_Ark]

670. I remember that book

It freaked me out, too. Especially the tale about the "Haunted Sentry Box".

[gauguin57]

699. For me, it was the story about the painting with the light in the window.

Someone had an oil painting, with a little yellow light painted in the window of a castle. The night the master of the house died, the yellow disappeared from the painting. Eeeeeeeeeek!

Also: "New England's Darkest Day" ... which was about how everything went totally black in the middle of the day back in the 1800s. I figure it was probably Krakatoa erupting or something, but who knows.

The writing was just so effective in that book ... designed to give you the maximum creeps!

[Art_from_Ark]

735. Was there some story about the "Devil's Footprints" in there?

It was about some creepy thing that decided to walk across the snowy English countryside when everyone was asleep and its footprints were always spaced at the same interval no matter what obstacles were in its way.

And I don't know if this story was in that book or not, but I always got creeped out by the story of some travelers after the Civil War who stumbled upon a creepy house in Kentucky one night. They found a secret room that was inhabited by corpses, and one guy was so fascinated with them that he ended up getting locked inside the room and the other guy couldn't get him out.

[gauguin57]

744. There definiately was a "Devil's Footprints" story in "SE"

And that corpses story ... eeeeek!

[Art_from_Ark]

748. Then there was the story about the Iron Mountain,

a Mississippi River paddlewheeler that rounded a bend in the river and was never heard from again :scared:

What else was in that book?

[gauguin57]

754. I remember one about a dove that sat on a snowball bush ...

... I think it had a wound on its breast, and it was the ghost of some dead woman. There was one about a giant piece of ice that fell to earth (before air travel) ... and one about a flying cigar in the sky. DAMN! The whole book was creepy ... and obviously SO memorable. That's one of the few books I kept from my youth ... I'll have to find it and look through it again.

Found this on a lighthouse-story Website:
"C.B. Colby's Strangely Enough, sea story "The Man Who Fell Forever." A sailor named Curly climbs a deserted lighthouse with a friend. When he gets to the top, Curly throws himself over the side. The horrified friend rushes down to the base and looks around, but can't find the body. Curly was never seen again."

Some other fans (on Amazon) remember a story about an old lady and the mysterious high-pitched whistle: http://www.amazon.com/Strangely-Enough-C-B-Colby/dp/0590031236

[gauguin57]

756. The other "Strangely Enough" story that scared the crap out of me was the phantom TV signal ...

... a TV signal supposedly appeared years after the channel went off the air ... Author Colby got us to think about TV signals ... where they go -- off into space -- and when they might come back. For some reason, that used to give me bigger goosebumps than some of the UFO/ghost stories!

[gauguin57]

757. From a comment on snopes.com ... I remember this one!

"In Colby's version, a man walking by the shore finds the clay marbles, not in a bag, but just tucked into a crevice in the rocks. He tucks a handful of them into his pocket and tosses them out to sea one by one -- but when he gets home finds that there's one left, and keeps it as a souvenir. It's not until years later that he reads about pirates supposedly disguising gemstones by covering them with clay: he digs out his little marble and inside it finds "a small but perfect blue-white diamond". That's where the story ends..."

[Art_from_Ark]

758. I remember that phantom TV signal story

A few months after I read that, I had a similar experience-- although I was watching TV in Arkansas, there suddenly was an announcement "This is WCMB-TV, New York". That was late '60s or early '70s. I was getting all excited because I had read about something similar in SE, but my mom said "They're probably just playing around at the cable company."

[Hardrada]

421. Lunch Bars for just 3 cents. I was always delighted at the bargain.

They had green wrappers and were very good also. Anyone else recall these?

[Jane Austin]

422. Chocolate Tapioca!

Jello brand.

It was my ultimate comfort food.

[gauguin57]

426. Ultra-Brite toothpaste!

"Ultra-Brite ... gives your mouth (blows kiss) ... Sex Appeal!"

Ultra-Brite was my CB handle back in the 1970s! LOL!

Here's a very young Farrah Fawcett doing an Ultra-Brite commercial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAQLJvVPF3E

[orleans]

431. french's mustard in the GLASS JAR

and revelon's moondrops facial moisturizer

[dipsydoodle]

434. delete - posted in wrong place.

n/t

[dipsydoodle]

435. Time for a song........lol.

Those Oldies But Goodies" Little Caesar and The Romans :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dB-Tr3WnrKE

[Vinca]

442. Drive-in movies.

There are still a few around, but it's just not the same. I have great memories of being a little kid in pajamas going to the drive-in with my brother and my dad.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

463. omg - me too. It was great. I was thinking that it would be cool

to revive them - with technology of today - wouldn't need those clunky speakers.

[Mnemosyne]

519. The drive-in here uses radio for sound now.

Still cool to go!

[noiretextatique]

542. me too...pajamas and all

plus a big bag of popcorn we made at home and sodas.

[Thothmes]

443. 19.9 cent a gallon gasoline would be nice.

[SoCalDem]

445. not products, but I miss

lightning bugs
salamanders
toads
frogs
lizards
pollywogs in ponds
unfenced land
dirt paths
canned foods with only water as the "other ingredients"
12 yr old girls who LOOK 12 yrs old
kids playing sports in street clothes..with no parents screaming at them
seeing people without a clip-on thingie on their ears..blinking..

just a few that came to mind

[Mr. Ected]

447. Zotz Anyone?

Sweet little candies with a foamy, sour center.

[Hubert Flottz]

454. Opera Creme Cookies!

I'd love to have one more bag of those before I die!

[Laura PourMeADrink]

460. When a tomato actually tasted like a tomato. No matter what

even from a farm, they don't taste like they used to

[merh]

521. not only taste like a tomato

they smelled like tomatoes

Sometimes you can find the real home grown, tasty tomatoes at the farmers market.

(I smell my tomatoes when I am trying to find ones to buy, they have to smell like tomatoes before they taste right.)

[madrchsod]

462. whip`n chill...

[Trailrider1951]

466. Beeman's gum

I used to sit on Daddy's lap and fish the pack out of his shirt pocket...........both are long gone now. But the taste of wintergreen brings back the memories.

[mod mom]

474. Slow poke sucker.

I've been thinking about one for days.

[Teaser]

481. meth

.

[Rambis]

483. Pro Keds shoes with the stripe

[stlsaxman]

487. Mister Machine (never had one- always wanted one!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8WHQI5iKYfM

[dysfunctional press]

489. $20 lids.

:hippie:

[closeupready]

501. Dime and nickel bags that really were $10 and $5. LOL

Not me, of course, just saying... :rofl:

[bdamomma]

499. remember S&H green stamps, god that is going back.

putting those stamps in a book then you can get an item.

[Neecy]

507. Shake-a-Pudding

I still remember the jingle from Saturday morning cartoons:

There's a new kind of pudding
that you can make
and it's called Shake-a-Pudding
and all you do is shake
shake-shake-shake a pudding
shake-shake-shake a pudding

All it was was instant pudding in a cup, but it was fun shaking it :)

[Mrs. Overall]

511. Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman.

[Bluebear]

605. +1

[stevedeshazer]

703. Best show ever.

[Bozita]

716. and Fernwood Tonight

Hilarious!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HAkYuAATzA

[sybylla]

514. Fizzers, drive-in movies, Bottle Caps, banana seat bikes and monkey bars on playgrounds

Sometimes I can still find Bottle Caps.

I was lucky enough to be able to take my kids to a drive-in in the area before it closed in 1995.

Once in a while I see an old set of monkey bars on a forgotten playground and am transported to the days when my friends and I would scramble across them so fearlessly as we played tag or some other game. I'm sure they are disappearing because of insurance costs.

I know banana seat bikes are coming back, but they just don't look the same covered in cheap plastic doodads.

And fizzers, I miss them most. What in the hell happened to all the good fizzing candy?

[NNN0LHI]

522. Vicks Formula 44-D The black liquorish flavored stuff

It was the best cough syrup I ever used. Loved the taste. And it really did work. Good buzz too.

Don

[TuxedoKat]

528. YES!!!

I've posted about it in other threads, including this one. I bought some recently and they changed the flavor and it was horrible. It's the only cough syrup I ever enjoyed taking. I wish the old flavor was still available.

[Peacetrain]

530. Real Coca Cola made with cane sugar not corn syrup

[dysfunctional press]

533. they've got it at costco.

i bought 3 cases this weekend.

[Peacetrain]

545. I wish I had a costco nearby

:(... A friend of mine from Mexico, says that the bottlers in Mexico all still use cane sugar..and when her family comes to visit, they cannot stand our soda..

[dysfunctional press]

618. you can get "pepsi throwback" and mountain dew too- both made with sugar...

and both available at grocery stores nationwide- "for a limited time"

[raccoon]

535. Betty Crocker Data bar mix. Group medical insurance with my employer. nt

[OneBlueSky]

536. Fizzies . . .

Fizzies were little tablets (kinda like Alka Seltzer) that, when dropped into a glass of water, created an instant carbonized soft drink . . . came in all kinds of flavors . . . in high school, there was always an ongoing conspiracy to fill the swimming pool with Fizzies, but it never happened (I think) . . . not the greatest nutritional value to be sure, but lots of fun to play with . . . and drink . . .

[appleannie1]

539. Black Jack gum and Burma Shave signs

[MetaTrope]

705. Black Jack taffy and Regal Crown Sours

There's a knockoff "Black Taffy" available these days, but its sweetness is a lot more overpowering than I remember. Or maybe my tastebuds have changed.

Nothing out there is on a level with the Sours.

[noiretextatique]

540. ice cream trucks and jolly rancher candies

they were all the rage in southern california in the 1960's. the best one was the fancy pink and white truck that had soft serve ice cream.
and jolly rancher candies...we used to melt a few jolly rancher sticks, then and mold them together to make one big multi-flavored sucker.

fireworks were better then, and so was mcdonalds.

[madamesilverspurs]

546. TV lamps...

so you wouldn't strain your eyes to watch television. Big scam, but I'd love to get my hands on the lavender rooster that used to sit on top of our TV cabinet.

[Laura PourMeADrink]

654. Yes. ! And TV Trays !! Wonder if you can still buy those.

[bikebloke]

548. Classics Comics

Literary classics were transformed into comic form. The Three Musketeers, Treasure Island, Robin Hood and others.

Prince Valiant ran in the Sunday funny papers as a serialized comic.

[kiva]

763. Yes, Classic Comics!

My first introduction to classic literature...I remember Jane Eyre, The Prince and the Pauper, The Prisoner of Zenda. There was also one about JFK, I remember leaving it on the train and crying because mom wouldn't go back and look for it.

[babydollhead]

551. gee your hair smells terrific shampoo

Ka-boom cereal

[alfredo]

556. Oertel's 92

They had a great neon billboard that was fun to watch.

[Stinky The Clown]

560. Mister Softee

My first job after getting my drivers license was driving a Mister Softee truck.



Like the Good Humor truck on steroids. And we didn't have to wear that stupid uniform. We also didn't get to have that cool coin changer on our belts.

[lanlady]

644. the Mr Softee song

Da da da da da da da da da
His name if Mr. Soooooftee

(Nowadays that would be code for "got Viagra?"

[muffin1]

562. Milk Plus 6

and Gee, Your Hair Smells Terrific.
Ooh, and corduroy Levis in all colors!

[Mr. Ected]

564. Candy Cigarettes

Used to buy them at the dime store all the time.

My mom was always afraid I'd become addicted.

She was right.

I am totally addicted to sugar to this day.

[bdamomma]

567. great thread, makes a person misty eyed not bad I lived through

some interesting times.

[dugaresa]

612. The Candy Cigarettes that were gum and not those sugar sticks

I remember the ones that were gum, they had a wrapper around them and so much powdered sugar around the gum that you could blow on them and make them smoke.

Never smoked in my life, but I loved those things, they were too cool.

[dorkulon]

566. Long glass bottles of Cherry Crush.

Nothing tastes the same out of plastic.

[sagetea]

570. Fire water soda pop it was a cinnamon flavored soda

and had a cowboy and indian on the can.And of course Ideal cookies from Keebler, they were peanut buttery and chocolate heaven!!!

[coinstar queen]

576. Wacky Packages, those crescent-shaped radios, turntables, Now and Laters...

Wax bottles, licorice chewing gum...

[jberryhill]

586. The Panasonic Twist Radio

An eBay staple:

http://cgi.ebay.com/RED-PANASONIC-AM-TWIST-RADIO-NEAR-PERFECT-MINTY-_W0QQitemZ220416620945QQcmdZViewItemQQimsxZ20090518?IMSfp=TL090518163008r21604

[coinstar queen]

588. OMG! I never had one, BTW...

x(

Thanks for that blast from the past.

(I didn't mention 8 tracks because I remember my stereo having one and listening to a Kinks' album and right in the middle of a song, you have to flip over the 8 track and it picked up on the other side. Very inconvenient!)

[abq e streeter]

578. Fabulous Furry Freak Brothers comics

[coinstar queen]

582. I can't believe how many posts you've gotten...Ever smell English Leather?

LOL...

Oh, and that reminds me...what about Pearl Drops? Do they still make that? It was toothpaste that came in a little plastic bottle and my aunt always used that brand.

[bamacrat]

584. Crystal Pepsi.

[coinstar queen]

591. Shasta, Mr. Pibb, Nehi...I MISS GLASS SODA BOTTLES!!!!!!!

They had waaay better mouth-feel plus kept cold stuff cold!!!!! Also, the little soda bottles: I think they are bringing them back but they better use cane sugar instead of HFCS, rat bastards!

[coinstar queen]

593. Hey, can someone help me out with the same of the shampoo that had all those people in boxes

"...and they told two friends, and so on, and so on..."

Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific! I think is a kaput brand.

What about Breck? I wonder if they still make that...

[Mr. Ected]

806. Faberge Organics Shampoo

Featuring a very young Heather Locklear.

[Lautremont]

595. Wig Wag.

Awesome chocolate bar!

[coinstar queen]

596. Do they still have Freshen Up gum? I loved how it squirted in my mouth...

Mmm...

[Mr. Ected]

684. Wow! I'd Forgotten About Freshen Up!

Like chewing soft minty bubble gum, with a juicy center.

Who WOULDN'T have liked it?

[Touchdown]

804. In HS, we called it cum gum.

:rofl:

[DeltaLitProf]

597. The Bar None candybar

the nonincidence of students texting during my classes

[rbixby]

598. Lawn Darts!

Self-explanatory

[Hotler]

625. My 90 yr, old neighbor across the street .....

has a set and we have been playing for years.

[peacefreak]

599. Regal Crown Sour Cherry rolls

Much better than Lifesavers.

[TuxedoKat]

640. Wow, I hadn't thought of those in years

but they were great! Wonder if they are still available anywhere.

[LeftHander]

600. I miss nostalgia...

you know adults would sit around and pine for products and other ephemera from the past....

[Laura PourMeADrink]

653. I heard someone said that the reason we all long for the good old

days and things associated with the good old days is because we were younger (not that there was anything measurably better) just that we long for our youth. such a simple thought and probably true

[Mr. Ected]

746. Further Evidenced By the Nearly 800 Responses To This Question!

Maybe the creepiness of the 21st century has caused us all to remember our pasts more fondly.

[mwooldri]

603. LSD. Nope not drugs but...

£.s.d


12 pennies make a shilling, 20 shillings to the pound. You had florins (2 shillings), half-crowns (2.5 shillings), crowns (5 shillings) half-sovereigns (10 shillings or £0.50) and shillings (£1).

[Art_from_Ark]

767. I have almost that complete set

All I need is the farthing.

Interesting-- When I read Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, the introduction said that a shilling was worth about 25 US cents. But when the currency was decimalized, a shilling became 5 New Pence, which is currently worth about 7.5 US cents.

[Scurrilous]

604. Quaaludes. n/t

[dixiegrrrrl]

606. Avon's Wild Country aftershave...

I still blush, thinking of the man who wore it, wayyyyy back in time when I was was younger and lots more energetic.

Almost a 1,000 comments and only 10 recs????????????

This is a great thread.
Thanks for the time travel.

[blm]

610. GHOULARDI

.

[kwassa]

656. Cleveland! Parma jokes!

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

669. STAY SICK!!!

Not from Cleveland, but I read a couple of articles on Ghoulardi over the years.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

616. Fisher-Price Corn Popper push toy.

http://www.thisoldtoy.com/L_FP_Set/toy-pages/700-799/788-cornpopper.html

I had one. Drove my mom crazy. She gave it to the maid so HER kids could drive her nuts with it. :D

:rofl:

[carlyhippy]

638. my kids had one of those about 15 years ago, haha..n/t

[no_hypocrisy]

619. The original Clairol Herbal Essence shampoo.

Loved the smell of that stuff.

[carlyhippy]

628. oh man, that stuff smelled so good!

They don't make it anymore in that particular scent, do they?

[slampoet]

623. The HONER CLAVINET, ARP Synths, Quadraphonic sound, Banana Seat bike, PINBALL!!!!!PINBALL!!!!

I have yet to find an old Clavinet that sounds anything like the ones i hear on 70's recordings. i really wish they just start making them again.

Whatever happened to pinballs? I used to play more than 25 different ones a week in the late eighties and early 90's but now the only places i see that have more than one or two pinballs are special "arcade museums" or are people's private collections.

It's a little sad that pinballs are becoming a private collector experience more than a public amusement.

[carlyhippy]

626. "Blue Jeans" perfume, "Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific",

Peanut butter Space food sticks
Orange/Cherry Charms sweet and sour suckers
My figure :(
the smell inside the frozen novelty freezers at the quick shop (I know, what a strange thing, but it's a smell from the childhood)
click clackers:

[Mr. Ected]

627. Electric Football Games

10 minutes to set up your players, mess with the feathers on the bottom to help "direct" them, a cotton ball for a football, and watch the players turn aimlessly in circles until your running back scored a safety for the opposing team!

[Art_from_Ark]

671. I remember that

That's exactly how the game was "played". The "field" vibrated and the "players" went every which way except where you wanted them to go!

[Mike 03]

636. Does a toy called "Talk and Play" ring a bell with anyone?

It was a portable radio sized box in which you insert these discs, and the box would play the content of the discs, which were ordinarily sports-related, like the best racers in the Indy 500, or the first car to break the land speed barier, or some amazing air plane.

[Harry Monroe]

642. Tang!!

Gotta get me some Tang!

[Harry Monroe]

646. Electric Football!

Doesn't get any better than that! You'd set up your formations just so and then the damn guy would either run right to the sideline or backwards. And the quarterback/kicker. Run the play and then when your receiver got downfield (yeah right! He was either behind the line of scrimmage or on the sideline), you'd flick the switch off and then try to flick the ball at the receiver. If you were lucky enough to hit the receiver with the foam ball (I don't think I ever did), you'd then put the foam ball in the crook of his arm, place him back on the field in the same spot and flick the switch back on and the board would once again vibrate and then the receiver would run into the sidelines or backwards.

Pure madness and the stupidest game ever invented. I loved it!!

I still have my players I hand painted myself and my playing field complete with vibrator under the board. My son and I will play from time to time; the playing field also makes a great field for paper football!

BTW, anyone still play paper football?!

[Touchdown]

805. ATARI !!!!!!

Fuck this complicated Halo & Grand Theft Auto shit!

I want to shoot blocks with other blocks... using a REAL JOYSTICK!

[WillowTree]

652. Flav-R-Straws. The original Slip 'n Slide. Fanta Red Cream Soda.

[proud2BlibKansan]

658. Pssst! Spray on dry shampoo

[Canuckistanian]

664. There were 6 "esses" in Psssssst!

I remember the jingle from the radio!

We never had the stuff, I always wondered if it actually worked.

[Kaleva]

659. The never used containers of Viagra

[elleng]

661. Fizzies here!

So many people asking about them, here they are!

http://www.vermontcountrystore.com/browse/Home/Brands-From-The-Past/Food/Fizzies-Drink-Tablets/D/30106/P/1:200:2000:20045/I/f09808?endecaid=BPXXXXSLBN03

[kster]

662. 16 oz Glass bottles of soda

[Fountain79]

665. PB Max

Chocolate and peanut butter candy that used real peanut butter and was 10 times better than reeces peanut butter cup.

[miyazaki]

668. I remember if i had about a buck fifty in my pocket

back in the late seventies I was a rich kid. I would skip down to 7/11 maybe
buy a couple of comic books, a slurpee, and some Kiss Cards!!

[Dark]

673. Good cartoons. Darkwing Duck, Doug, Aaaaah! Real Monsters and, of course, Rocko's Modern LIfe.

I feel so bad for kids today. Their cartoons suck compared to the old days...

[lib2DaBone]

674. My Belt Changer.. giving out S&H green stamps.....

I worked in a gas station all through high school. I got to carry the money canger and give out green stamps for every dollar purchased. Gas was 30 cents a gallon and you got a set of steak knives and a 6 pack of pepsi. I had to wash the windows and check the oil.




The stamps came in a little booklet with tissue paper betwen the sheets. I carried it in my back pocket and had to tear them out. If I forgot to give them out one lady got very upset...

[Manifestor_of_Light]

679. In Texas we had pink Big Bonus stamps.

They had a store where you could get stuff and redeem them. Never saw S&H Green Stamps in Houston.

Reel to Reel tape machines. I was a classical music freak (still am) and I got an Akai reel to reel that was truly state of the art.

I knew a guy in orchestra who played French Horn. He had a reel to reel too. He would come over on Saturdays with his tapes and we'd listen to the Ring Cycle.

Short wave radios. We had a Hallicrafters.

[Thegonagle]

680. Lick-m-ade "Fun Dip." They were sugar sticks dipped in flavored sugar. Do they still make that?

There's a memory...

I'm only 34, but I haven't seen that stuff in a long time.

[carlyhippy]

694. yeah, but they call them "fun dip" now

heres a site, but I think you can find them at any candy store or grocery store. The sticks were my favorite part and ate them first haha.
http://www.oldtimecandy.com/lik-m-aid.htm

[Warren DeMontague]

718. Holy fuck, that was what I thought of, too. That and "Wacky Packs".

That Lick-m-ade stuff was complete crack for kids. ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZaaang!

[dashrif]

682. Old school

BMX bikes they don't makem like this anymore and evey one wanted a Kuwahara

[Jack Sprat]

683. window unit air conditioning

cold and the hum of the motor made sleeping near it very deep.

real coca cola in small bottles from a freezer machine.

Falstaff beer

farmer's markets with fresh vegetables

[notadmblnd]

779. We used to play quarterbounce with Falstaff beer

I can barely remember (probably cause we drank so much of it), but didn't it have something under the cap?

It also gave ya the screaming shits if I recall correctly?

[Tabasco_Dave]

685. Cracker Jacks with a REAL toy prize

Not that piece of paper they call a prize.

[MindPilot]

686. Taco Bell's "Bellbeefer", White Castle, A&W, Chicken Delight, Shakey's

and Arby's used to be a LOT better...so did McDonald's for that matter.

Great Shakes was a malted drink mix that came with a plastic shaker; pour in the milk, add the powder, shake it up and it was a decent malt.

I kind of miss real plastic model glue, high-VOC paint and DDT. Yeah they were toxic as could be, but goddamnit, THEY WORKED!

And slot cars -- I really enjoyed building, tuning and racing slot cars.

[yy4me]

687. The real "Orange Crush" with bits of orange floating around.

You can still buy it today but it is far removed from the product of my youth.

We were not allowed to have soft drinks, bad for our teeth said Mom. But there would appear a bottle of Orange Crush after a visit to the grocery store. The 4 of us had to share 1 bottle. If we were lucky, Mom would make a float with Vanilla Ice Cream.

[BlueMTexpat]

691. Our mothers must have been sisters ...

it was the same thing with the four of us (my baby sister wasn't yet born), only it was always Coca Cola. What a treat and boy were the eagle eyes watching to make sure that one of us did not get one drop more than the others!

[BlueMTexpat]

688. Avon's "Timeless" cologne ...

and some of the others ... "Nearness" and "Here's My Heart" that they also stopped selling ... but "Timeless" was MY cologne. I still have one bottle that I have never opened. My current favorite is "Coco Mademoiselle" (not Avon at all). But those early Avon scents were great.

What a great trip down memory lane: Coca Cola with the real cane sugar taste, sofa fountain shakes and floats, the original Shredded Wheat, Burma Shave billboards (especially during long, generally otherwise unscenic, highway drives in MT), Hamm's beer commercials, and so on and so forth with those who have already mentioned them!

Another set of beer commercials that I loved (even though I must confess that they weren't from my "youngest youth" and might only have been available regionally) were the Rainier beer commercials with the "Raineer" sightings and Mickey Rooney.

[Mr. Ected]

692. Huffy Bikes With Banana Seats

Probably the most comfortable bicycle seat I have ever experienced.

Poppin' wheelies and braking to a skid. Miss it. Really miss it.

[Art_from_Ark]

780. I don't know if the brand was Huffy

but I had a "buzz" bike with banana seat that I rode everywhere

[PADemD]

693. Sky Bars

Old Time Candy

You can buy it here:

http://www.oldtimecandy.com/

[immoderate]

794. Yeah, and Necco wafers! Especially the all chocolate ones.

--imm

[bdamomma]

695. kick

[Kansas Wyatt]

697. American Made Products

Which actually lasted, and were not built to just throw away and replace.

[scheming daemons]

700. Schoolhouse Rock on Saturday mornings...

[Muttocracy]

712. A couple of months ago I watched some of those with my little nephew on VHS

and I'm still walking around singing the tunes! :)

[absyntheminded]

701. G.I. Joe, SSP's (Crash up Derby), Vertibird, Slotcars (H.O.)

Evil Kinevil (sp?), and my 5 speed Schwinn with sissy bar, banana seat and the springer front end and small front wheel/tire

[gauguin57]

704. Batman bubble gum cards and Dodge Darts.

And Disney before it turned into tween-pop-marketing-mania.

[gauguin57]

708. "... Your Wind Song stays on my miiiiiind ...."

Actually, it smelled like cheap, drugstore crap, but it takes one down memory lane, doesn't it?

Maybe it's still available ... can't say I really look for it at the ole CVS.

[gauguin57]

709. This is the best thread ever.

I could read and re-read this all day.

[Mr. Ected]

720. I Wish There Was A Way I Could Save This Forever

As a relative newbie on DU, I think it's really cool that so many people have posted so many responses to my request.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

729. Without Question!

I've been around DU for four+ years and this is the sweetest and most entertaining thread ever.

Thank you Mr. Ected, for a little trip back to childhood, innocence and fun.

[gauguin57]

714. Soaky Toys! They were bubble bath containers shaped like all our favorite cartoon characters.

"Soaky soaks you clean
And every girl and boy
Gets a toy when it's empty,
When it's empty it's a toy."

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5160566793110380110

[sarcasmo]

717. My 80's Perm.

[lucretia54]

724. I miss going down to "The Fountain" and getting a grilled sticky and a cherry coke.

[Art_from_Ark]

736. Ah, the old soda fountain at the pharmacy

And right next to it was the magazine rack that had interesting magazines that were not in wrappers and were not strictly "verboten" to minors :evilgrin:

[Seeking Serenity]

725. 700+ replies and no one mentioned these. I'm shocked.

Big John's Beans. The. Best. Pork. N. Beans. EVAH!



Johnson's No More Tangles. I went through a bottle of this stuff every two weeks.

[Norrin Radd]

727. 1st and 2nd edition AD&D and D&D books, published by TSR,

not by the scum at WOC.

[FVZA_Colonel]

730. Exosquad Toys

God those things were so much fun.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

731. Kick!

This deserves to last for months and is probably the most wonderful thing ever on DU.

Special Honorary DUzy to Mr. Ected for this marvelous post and everyone who has responded to it or else, Skinner!

:kick:

[Mr. Ected]

770. Thanks!

My ability to articulate my politics is abysmal, so this may be my one and only chance for fame and fortune on DU!

[Mr. Ected]

733. Terrariums and the Eco Sign

The environmental movement was in full force in the 70's!

[gauguin57]

743. I had that ecological symbol all over my textbook covers in the '70s.

And wow ... I can see the bright-green moss of my friends' terariums (teraria?) in my mind.

[madamesilverspurs]

742. Telephone booths

and those pop machines where you had to grab the bottle by the cap and slide it to the opening, the Fuller Brush Man, the milkman who came in for coffee when it was cold, jacks and my Betsy Wetsy doll.

[leftyladyfrommo]

745. Evening in Paris - I always bought it form my mother.

Didn't smell very good but it was cheap and the bottle was pretty.

[schmuls]

750. I was going to say Fizzies but I got some at the Vermont Country

store. We used to put them on our tonques to get a "cheap thrill". I also miss Jets cereal.

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

753. kayo chocolate soda

where you often drank the entire bottle in one gulp

[kittykitty]

755. Drugstore.com sell a lot of those "missing products" that you don't think exist anymore--especially

hair products, perfumes, skin products. Search for what you want. Sort of like Vermont Country Store, but they don't make you buy 3 of them to justify the price.

[Art_from_Ark]

759. I know it sounds weird, but I kind of miss cigarette and cigar commercials

They had some clever jingles and slogans, but we kids liked to twist the lyrics around to turn them into anti-cigarette commercials.

Like: "You can take Salem out of the outhouse, but... you can't take the outhouse out of Salem"

There was a Muriel Cigars commercial with some babe singing "Hey big spender... Spend... a little di-i-ime with me" (they apparently were 10 cents each). But what aroused me was that as she sang "di-i-ime", she flipped a dime into the air-- a Mercury dime, which fascinated me to no end in those days.

But my favorite commercial was the New Benson & Hedges 100's commercial, which showed smokers getting into awkward positions because their cigarettes were too long-- but what made the commercial was the music-- pure '60s with a sort of European exoticness to it.

http://www.tvparty.com/g2c/bensonhedges00.ram

And no, no matter how enticing the commercials were, I never started smoking. I wonder, though, if anyone was ever lured into smoking by a TV commercial?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

797. Edie Adams did Muriel cigar commercials.

She was the wife of the great and crazy Ernie Kovacs.

Remember the Benson & Hedges 101s?? "A silly millimeter longer"??? :D

And the Alka-Seltzer commercial with the interesting music - "No Matter What Shape Your Stomach's In"??

:D

Jax beer commercials were funny. They were line drawings. One lady had a bird choir that sang "There is a Tavern in the Town". "Sing, birdies!!" :rofl:

[Art_from_Ark]

802. I saw an Edie Adams Muriel commercial on Youtube

and she was singing that song, but the commercial was from the early '70s and by then they had replaced the Mercury dime with a Roosevelt dime.

I think the 101s might have been made by another company that was trying to outdo Benson and Hedges. At any rate, I do remember that jingle.

I'll have to look up that Jax beer commercial-- I vaguely remember cartoon birds singing in some commercial.

[denem]

762. Planter's Dry Roasted Cashews - full of bad stiff but

I loved them. Went AWOL about ten years ago. The dry roasted peanuts formula lives on. Just as bad for you, but it's not the same.

[Prophet 451]

764. Newsround

I'm British and I miss the kids TV we had back then. Newsround was a news and current affairs show for kids. Even watching it now, it's impossible to identify any political bias. We had endless shows explaining actual hard sciences to kids (all fronted by Johnny Ball), proper history shows and drama, mixed in with the best of American cartoons (Scooby Doo,for example (before frickin' Scrappy)).

Now, it's just endless cartoons. And not even good cartoons.

[lefthandedlefty]

769. Full service gas stations

Real Thunderbirds and Lincolns like the ones made between 1960 and 1968.Two door hardtops I hate four door cars mini vans and extended cab pick-ups or anything front wheel drive.

[Mr. Ected]

771. My Weekly Reader. Highlights.

I remember reading about the success of Cheech and Chong one summer day somewhere around 1973 in My Weekly Reader. That was about the same time that the Sears catalog carried HOOKAHS for sale on their pages.

Good times.

[ensho]

773. milk without man made hormones - whole cottage cheese! dag nab it!

all this 2%, 4% cottage cheese is not as good or tasty as whole cottage cheese. believe it.

and of course, nowadays, it too has man made hormones

[LoZoccolo]

776. Doo Dads snack mix

I just realized a while ago that that disappeared off the face of the earth and I didn't notice.

[notadmblnd]

778. Black Cow all day suckers

[Mr. Ected]

782. POA/MIA Bracelets In the Early '70's

A lot of my classmates wore them in 5th and 6th grade.

They had the service member's name and the date they went MIA or POW.

Next to my personal graffiti of eco signs and peace signs, I see the activist in me started very young.

[L. Coyote]

786. Growing 99% of our own food.

We bought sugar, salt, and a few other food items.
We grew grains, raised beef, pork, chickens,
cured our own bacon and ham, made sausages.
We had milk cows, made our own butter, bought cheese.
Two large freezers for meats, berries, vegetables.
The root cellar wintered potatoes and carrots in sand.

I worked a team of horses before my legs were long
enough to drive tractor all day at age eight.
Work days started as early as five, went to dark.
On the seventh day we rested between chores.

[Buns_of_Fire]

788. *singing softly* I look back at the way I used to look at life

Soft, white dreams, with sugar coating outside
It was great, so great
Young and innocent days
.
.
.
Now, I see the lines of age upon your face
Time has gone, and nothing ever can replace
Those great, so great
Young and innocent days...

Ray Davies (The Kinks): Arthur, Or The Decline And Fall Of The British Empire (1969)

(I miss the Kinks, too.)

[cwydro]

793. Sea n' Ski suntan lotion.

I loved the smell.

[tuckessee]

798. Baseball & other trading cards packaged with gum. n/t

[Mr. Ected]

799. Waking Up On Saturday Mornings To Watch Cartoons

Before the 24/7 onslaught of Cartoon Network and its god-awful array of so-called children's entertainment totally desensitized our kids from the special nature of Saturday mornings.

Those human-puppet treats that I loved so much, eg, HR Pufnstuf. Or the schlocky live action cartoons ala Shazam!

[lpbk2713]

808. I remember those flypaper things that came in a tube.

You would pull them out and hang them from something. We usually had a couple of them around the house
in the summer time because no one had A/C and it was easy for flying insects to get in the house.