Posted on 10/12/2001 3:54:37 PM PDT by WIMom
Also, we had a REAL Thing-Maker! Nothing but an out in the open hot plate with those stupid little tweezer things to remove the metal mold. I had a butterfiles and flowers one, and my bros had the Creepy Crawlers (and later the "Incredible Edibles"). I can't tell you how many times we burned our fingers - probably every time we played with it! My kids have one and you can't even open the fool thing unless it's cooled down to a certain level. Kinda takes all the excitement out of it....
Leaves me out. I was born in '53.
We were too young to serve in Vietnam, but remember the news.
My birth date was in the draft lottery for 1972, but I had a deferment and the combat was winding down anyway.
. . . the Beatles were just a band that some might not like . . .
The Beatles--at least the 1964-65 Beatles--were definitely the Fab Four! They were terrific! And what a sensation they created! We haven't seen anything like it since.
. . . and old Trek was cheesy and not well written.
I saw a bunch of the episodes when it first came on, but was not crushed when it was cancelled.
. . . we are more conservative/libertarian as a whole than the older boomers.
A lot of us "older boomers," born in the early '50s, are pretty conservative.
And of course, we faithfully watched The Brady Bunch every Friday night.
Never saw the show. Haven't watched much series TV since the early '70s.
Stone Cold's date of birth: May 10th, 1977.
WRONG GENERATION!
Hit it, o photoshop meisters!
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The Talking View-Master.
I remember getting this under my Christmas tree every year during the early 1970s. This was high-tech stuff at the time! There were literally thousands of "reels" available during the "hey-day" of the Talking View-Master. Cheesy mini-episodes of Gilligan's Island and Disney films. Reels about the Grand Canyon and Yosemite National Park. The Monkees, The Banana Splits, and of course, The Partridge Family. After a while, the film would start popping out of the reels and then you had a one-dimensional view (each image had two photos that superimposed upon each other and gave a colorful 2-D effect).
Here is this week's selections from the 70s Jukebox from hell. I'll pick the year 1976:
"Muskrat Love" by Captain & Tennille
"Fernando" by Abba
"I Only Want To Be With You" by Bay City Rollers
"Jeans On" by David Dundas (later turned into commercial)
"You Are The Woman" by Firefall
Those pics gave me some serious Flashbacks complete with olfactory stimuli!
Burnt fingers and and the smell of singed plastic goop!
Woohoo them was fun times!
Muskrat Love....Boy what we listened to.
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