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Does anyone remember Nifty Notebooks? Apparently these weren't around too long because I have mentioned them before and never found many who remembered them. They were vinyl covered notebook binders that opened at the top instead of the side. And there was also a place for your pencil at the top when it opened. The front flap folded behind the back and it was very neat - didn't take up a lot of space on the desk.
I'm so old I still think THE WIZARD OF OZ will be on once a year.
Oh this has been fun reading all the posts! I must be old because I remember so much mentioned here!
Oh, I have fond memories of the "way-back" of the station wagon, tumbling and wrestling with each other on those long car trips out west before the interstates went all the way through!
I can remember many times (in the 50's) my grandpa going fishing with us kids (3 of us). He would put the flat-bottom boat in the back of the pickup and we would climb in and sit on the seats of the boat - of course he did tie the boat in but he also always had a half pint of whiskey with him, for medicinal purposes only!! I miss my grandpa - those were the days!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mrs-M
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Hi Shalom! :) Darn it all anyway, I don't remember them. I think I remember something similar though.
Heydude. But it is! In our viewing zone, The Wizard of Oz broadcasts at least once a year, but I know what you mean. :)
Ctg492. Me too! Scary isn't it. :)
SiouzQ. The back of station wagons really did make for the best playgrounds of all didn't they!
Zigzagman. That sounds like fun! Somehow when you look back on events such as these and know they included the likes of loved ones who are now gone, it makes the events and memories all the more better!
I'm so old I've permanently forgotten the one, "I'm so old" memory I wanted to share!
Those nifty notebooks sound great. I can hang around stationery stores forever, just looking at all the index cards and different kinds of pens and stuff. Maybe it's a librarian thing.
I actually have a rotary phone. It is the main phone I use because the sound is so much better that the cordless.
I'm so old I remember the launch of MTV 30 years ago this week, and the original VJ's.
herbgeek, video really DID kill the radio star. Nowadays, it's not how you sing (with autotune, anyone can sing now), it's how you look and what kind of controversial video you can make. I've always had a thing for dark curly hair and Mark Goodman was the man!
I remember when strangers would start conversations instead of constantly checking/texting their phones. What kind of social skills will the adults of the future have when they can't even make eye contact?
Remember the old shampoos? Prell, Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific, Body on Tap (had beer in it!), Flex, Short & Sassy (I had a Dorothy Hamill cut). My mom used to wear Jean Nate' body splash. Just saw that in CVS today and had to take a sniff. My perfume is from the 40s--L'Air du Temps is my signature scent. Were there any celebrity perfumes years ago? My mom swore by Deep Magic moisturizer, which isn't made anymore.
I do miss people dressing up to go out in public. Today so many people just shuffle along in baggy shorts, old t-shirts and flip flops in the summer.
Remember how controversial it was years ago when John Ritter had his own spinoff show from Three's Company, called Three's a Crowd, and people were complaining because he was living with his girlfriend and they weren't married? How times have changed. I'm not a prude but I'm a bit shocked at what is shown on regular cable channels and stunned at what they get away with on series from HBO/Showtime.
I'm so old I remember shampoo in glass bottles.
Gardenarian. Yes, the sound and the look, Re: rotary phones! :) Just love the retro look.
Herbgeek. Me too! Sometimes it seems like longer, other times no so much.
Pony mom. You made me smile with this, "video really DID kill the radio star"! :) Yes, I remember when strangers would strike up conversation, old shampoo commercials and pantyhose commercials, and when everyone dressed fashionably and neatly.
Thinkgreen. LMAO! You got me TG! I can't say I remember shampoo in glass bottles, but I remember when disposable diapers came in boxes, and the old foot-pedal operated diaper pails!
I'm so old I remember Archie Bunker's Place and clunky old 8 track cassettes! Talk about revealing my age! Does anyone remember this commercial jingle?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7We7hLFuDQ
I'm so old I remember using (and sharpening) wooden pencils. Does anyone even use wooden pencils anymore?
I know wooden pencils aren't that old of an idea that will throw anyone here, but just the same, I don't see anyone using them anymore.
I remember that commercial Mrs. M! Did not know that was "Sue Ellen Ewing" though.
I love using pencils..though the must be "Ticonderoga" brand -- they simply write better! We stock up during back to school season. Out of 20 or so employees, I think I am the only one who uses pencils!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mrs-M
Raising my hand here, Yellow Number 2 (I like them) and I have a pencil sharpener on the wall in the basement. Funny, every home we have bought has had a pencil sharpener in the basement and this home is only 20 years old.
My dad has the rotary Black phone on the wall, only one he will use. The line I will remember forever is "Don't stretch the CORD!" Yes we were allowed 2ft tops from the kitchen wall to carry on our personal conversations! The other thing about phones I remember and still in my folks home is the 4 prong plug for the phones. Mom has to use an adaptor for her newer phones to plug into the old 1935 outlet.
We had a good all metal (except for maybe a bit of plastic on the handle) pencil sharpener on the wall in the basement when I was growing up. I buy mechanical pencils now (the cheapo papermate ones) because I don't like the way either the hand-held plastic little sharpeners or the electric ones sharpenen the #2 pencils.Quote:
Originally Posted by ctg492
We use pencils a lot. We have an electric pencil sharpener and a crank pencil sharpener, crank sharpens best. We use pencils in the wood shop and to mark music. It is a mortal sin to mark music with a pen.
Whoops-a-daisy, looks like I fluffed on the wooden pencil thing. OK, wooden pencils are still alive and well. :) Good to know actually, because in my own silly way I still see wooden pencils as being old-fashioned, and everything old-fashioned is all good with me!
Hmmm....... thinking what else...
Crank car windows///do they still make those? My last one was in my Yugo :)
LMAO! Ctg492! :) It's been sooo long since I've manually operated (rolled/cranked down) a car/vehicle window! So long in fact I don't remember the last time.
Herbgeek. I didn't, but shame on me, the actresses name is right at the top of the video, yet I didn't see it! :)
My car (Toyato Echo) has crank windows - I prefer them actually. My previous car had the automatic ones and each one has a separate motor, so when one goes out you have to have it fixed and at that time it was about $100.00. So good old crack ones are just fine and not so expensive to repair.Quote:
Originally Posted by ctg492
Okay, this is a BIGGIE. I am so old...........I remember my great grandfather having what he called a "quill". It was a glass straw that he used to drink from. Not disposable, a glass one. It was bend so that it was easy for someone who might be sick in bed to drink from. Does ANYONE at all remember this?
No, but I learned cursive using a quill in second grade. Not really, I used a ‘pencil’.http://www.simplelivingforum.net/ima...002%5B1%5D.gifQuote:
Originally Posted by Shalom_Poet
YES! I've seen "quills" in some antique shops and am dying to start collecting them (uh, gazingus pin?) I'm so old I remember when FM radio was a HUGE deal, but we all kept listening to AM anyway for a few years. (Why?)
I'm so old it only took 5 digits (DIALED) on the wall phone to call my friends, and my grandma still referred to numbers with their exchange name. "Lucerne 3543, please?)
I don't remember that one, but I remember my grand dad using a straight razor, a strop, and shaving soap in a mug. I've actually thought of giving it a try someday.
Wooden pencils smell good. When our house was for sale a little boy was so excited by our pencil sharpener that he wanted to be sure it stayed with the house.
Funnily enough, I just thought of that L'Eggs commercial this week. I saw someone with legs like that, but she WASN'T wearing pantyhose. Are there facelifts for legs??
Did anyone have one of those plastic carrying things for half gallon milk cartons? Ours was blue, and I think it had daisies on it. The carton slid in from the top, there was a handle and one or two horizontal hard plastic straps. Made it easy to hold for pouring. Oh, and those cow shaped creamers? My great aunt had one that mooed.
Our small drinking glasses were the flowered glasses from sour cream.
Not only do I recall them, I have two, a half gallon one and a quart one.Quote:
Originally Posted by pony mom
Now here's the "I'm so old ... part." I've had them since 1972 when my summer job from college was as a plastics machine operator. I'm sooo old that "I made them". Wish some one still sold them today.
WorldFoodie
Woops, looks like they still make them somewhere...
http://www.soundbytes.com/Merchant2/...&Store_Code=SB
OMG! World Foodie, that's it!! I didn't think they made them anymore since most milk containers I see are plastic handled ones.
hair rollers, the plastic kind that you slept in all night. With my hair, I had a curl for about 2 or 3 hours......also do you remember Dippity Doo?
Yes, I remember those rollers, and dippity do. What about Spoolies? Little rubbery things you wound your hair around then they folded down? The things you remember....................Wow.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tenngal
Wow, this thread is really fun...and I must be really old. A few pages back someone talked about glass shampoo bottles: I remember when Prell went into a plastic bottle and the TV ad for it was a falling Prell bottle...oops! But no worries!
I'm so old I remember washing my hair once a week on Saturday night (with Prell, of course) and later, as I got to be about eleven, arguing with my mother to be able to wash it more often. Once Dippity Do came into wide use, I think frequent hair washing became more important....after putting all kinds of junk in your hair, you did have to wash more often, maybe?
Mom used the empty Prell bottle filled with water, frozen as our Ice Bag if we fell or something. Always in freezer when I was little.
Cream Rinse, later name changed to Conditioner.
Shalom. Never heard of a quill before.
Rozie. I'm so old I remember when the number part of clock radios flipped down (like cards) with the changing of each minute/hour. So antiquated..... The minutes were on one wheel, while the hours were on another, and if the house was quiet you could distinctly hear the sound of the minute/hour number cards flipping. Ugly as sin, too! P.S. Love hearing about the phone stories!
Rogar. My dad had a friend who shaved (daily) using a straight razor, shaving soap in a mug (with brush), and a strop. My dad says he gets just as close a shave using his old safety razor without all the fuss. (Too bad you don't live closer, as I definitely see this as having all the workings for a classic head to head shave-off competition). Dad (with his safety razor) up against you with your straight razor.
Pony mom. I don't remember the plastic milk carrying dealies, but your entry made me remember the old toothpick holders with the birds. You bumped the bird in the back of the head causing it to dip it's sharp (pin beak) into the holder and fetch a pick! Neatest little things.
WorldFoodie. So neat that you worked in a plastics factory and made the plastic milk carriers. Sure enough, I visited the link you posted and I definitely don't remember them.
Tenngal. Absolutely, I remember them, and the Dippity Doo! Never used the Dippity Doo though...
Shalom. Yes, I remember spoolies!
Leslieann. Bam! Flashback!!! OK, now I remember. Yes, the TV commercial for no-break shampoo bottles! Would have never remembered it had you not mentioned it.
Ctg492. I remember my mom using Tame Creme Rinse. It was her thing, and dare any of us kids use it without her permission, look out! Boy, would she ever get mad! She'd go off on a tangent telling us how expensive and special it was, and that it was only for her to use. So consequently, in our house, we used soap!!!
Tame! Yes, Tame! Thanks, Mrs. M. We all used Tame. And Creme Rinse turned into conditioner and honestly, before the 1960s nobody "needed" it. That makes me think pretty hard about all the things that I think I "need."
Shampoo used to be much harsher than it is now. Plus without hand held blow dryers it would take forever to dry your hair. My college dorm in the 80's still had the big bubble domed hairdryers from the 60's and earlier in the basement.
I remember tooth powder (Pepsodent, I think). My orthodontist used to use it. Keds Oxford sneakers for women, they go in and out of fashion. I predict they will be back in style in a few years. Stirrup pants with seams down the front. Capris went out of style for a while but now seem to be back to stay. Mini-skirts and hot pants and go go boots and pants that flared below the knee. Hip huggers. Half terry cloth aprons with some sort of design in "fall colors".
And in the late 70's/early 80's, for whatever reason, the girls who "partied" (i.e. smoked pot) all wore long denim coats.
Leslieann. I remember the smell of Tame just as if I were smelling it right now. It was a unique scent. Strong and defined.
Anne Lee. I'm laughing right now because I'm thinking about 1960's design. Why in the world those old hairdryers needed such big and puffy balloon/bubble styled hair-toppers is beyond me! :laff: Love your memory!
I'm so old I remember when women wore terry cloth shorts! They were tight fitting (like most everything 60's), and had a fluffy nap to them. Ugly as sin they were when I think about it now.
I remember Dop shampoo - the first stuff that appeared in little square plastic sachets. Think it was French!
Linc o lin - a beer shampoo.
Remember hot pants? 1970 style?