POST BOOMERS/PRE X - finally, a thread just for us - Thread 6

[WIMom]

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YOU WERE THERE!

[MasonGal]

Thanks for the new thread. This is unbelievable!!

I could go on and on all night going down memory lane - but I am going to have to get off here soon - and go to bed.

I will definitely bookmark this!!

[WIMom]

Well, that last thread lasted, 10 minutes. And, do you notice, no one rushes to be first?

[DouglasKC]

These threads sure turn over fast...

Here's one for winter time freepers.....those ugly black winter boots with the buckles on them, wearing breadbags under your mittens and on your feet for extra wetness protection in the snow. Later on, getting your first pair of moon boots. Riding in saucers down the hills. The real long stocking caps...

[Think free or die]

The Phiso-Hex thing got me remembering. . .

When we were in grade school, every winter we'd get notes sent home alerting parents to the latest outbreak of communicable disease - chicken pox, measles, mumps - complete with symptoms and incubation period. Now kids are immunized.

Watching my kids growing up and remembering my own childhood has been really interesting. I've come to understand how much more freedom we had as kids than do most kids today. We had a lot of freedom of movement and rode our bikes everywhere. We could disappear for hours and nobody freaked out. We walked to school and home again for lunch. We played without a lot of supervision, and made up all sorts of games. Most of us lived to adulthood without blowing ourselves up or getting picked up by miscreants. It was a good time to be a kid, despite those somewhat weird older brothers and sisters.

[TexanMom]

The stocking caps... the longer the better. And if you swung your head REAL fast you could pop your friend in the nose with the pom-pom on top!

[WIMom]

Thread 6, and moon boot were first mentioned!

[TexanMom]

I did not read through all the threads... but what about "Shake a pudding" ? It was AWFUL but we had to have it!

[WIladyconservative]

Long, drawn out standing Ovation for WImom. My stomach hurts from laughing so hard. Thank you all for the reminiscence. I'm still giggling about the Scooter Barbie with the grow-able boobs . . . .but did everyone forget about the *ugly* Barbie - MIDGE?

G'night all!

[MasonGal]

See you all later. I'm going off to bed, now.

This has been a wonderful trip down memory lane. Thanks for the memories!!!

[Sabertooth]

Reply to #186 on Thread 5

The Edge of Night was even better in the late 60s and early 70s, before they let the baby-spawning Dr. Miles Whathisname onto the stage. The one that married Nicole Drake after Adam died.

Just cops, lawyers, mobsters, and their assorted wives and girlfriends in Monticello, with mayhem and murder and courtroom drama that would have had that girly-man Raymond Burr hiding under Della Street's skirt.

[MasonGal]

Oh - I just read your post - before signing off.

I liked Midge - how about her boyfriend - Alan?

[DouglasKC]

but did everyone forget about the *ugly* Barbie - MIDGE?

This really did make me laugh out loud because I remember my sister playing with the neighbor girls and having to fight over who had to be Midge.

[MasonGal]

Well - maybe my Midge was different than yours. My Midge had brownish hair - that was a flip.

[WIMom]

I had mumps, one side only, the measles and chicken pox. How about packing a lunch, hoping on your bike, leaving the house at 8 or so and not coming home til dark AND never telling you mom where you were? We did it all the time and it wasn't a big deal.

[WIMom]

Shake a pudding! Remember 3-layered jello, the name escapes me.

[edayna]

When we were in grade school, every winter we'd get notes sent home alerting parents to the latest outbreak of communicable disease - chicken pox, measles, mumps - complete with symptoms and incubation period. Now kids are immunized.

Which reminds me - with all the brouhaha over smallpox vaccines and biowarfare - weren't we immunized against smallpox? Isn't that the reason we have scars on our forearms? I wondered about that when I took my kids in for vaccines (hang on - "vaccines" means "vaccinia/smallpox" so let's say "immunized"), and their shots didn't give them the trademark scar like mine.

Yeah, I know my old smallpox vaccine probably won't do me any good now - but back then everyone got it, right? So why are they now saying it's not safe? I'm digressing, I know...but it is on topic, sort of. We all have that scar, right?

[right-sidedNYer]

wearing breadbags under your mittens and on your feet for extra wetness protection in the snow

And all these years I was certain that my mother was the only mother who did this!! LOL!!! I'm so sorry I came in on this thread so late. Looking forward to reading the other threads.

[boxlunch]

How about "shake and bake"