This is a group where you can add at any time anything you remember from "back then" in our society that isn't the same now. It'll be fun to read how things have changed from a first hand experience of the posters here!
I have this faint memory tickling the back of my brain...some song about a father who didn't like his daughter's boyfriend. I know that is vague, but the only other thing I remember is perhaps the sound of an engine revving on the song? It's gonna bug me until I remember, and then I'm afraid it might bug me even more.
Lisa--it wasn't Delta Dawn, though I surely remember that one. (and I fear it may burrow itself into my brain unless I stop thinking about it immediately.) ....could it be a faded rose from days gone byyyyyyyyyyy....
i KNOW...i'm going to be dreaming about that one myself. and, to be honest, i heard it enough back then! :-) i can't think of which song. i need more details.
Insomnia is evil. I finally remembered, and as I predicted, I am not exactly happy that I did. The song was "Run Joey Run." If that is my earworm tomorrow, I will be less than amused. In fact, I think I am in pain right now! Apologies in advance for putting this song in your heads!
Hooked on a Feelin' by Blue Swede!! Delta Dawn by Helen Reddy!! Gypsys, Tramps, and Thieves by Cher!! I had all the cheesy, fun 70's stuff on 45 including "The Streak" and "Mr. Jaws"!!!
Oh Great! The Beat Goes On,,LOL! I had many many 45's from my time period.. My dad joined Columbia Record Club and the first one we got was the Dave Clark Five.. Funny! Herman's Hermits,,and for some reason Moon River by Andy Williams.. Freddy and the Dreamers.. How many remember that dance? and of course,, Jan and Dean,, Beachboys,, Ripchords,,and the Beatles, whom my grandsons keep wanting the steal from me.. LOL! The Animals,,,and then the Shades of Night, Tommy James,, etc. I still have the albums. And my personal favs..Wipe Out! by the Surfari's and the Bird by the Trashmen a local group to us. I must be old!! LOL!
wipe out is awesome!! , bains, you already have a girlfriend! LOL!
i remember having these enormous speakers in each corner of the living room. my dad was proud of them, because they had such good sound for his nat king cole listening...but my mom called them the washer and dryer! haha. nothing about music was compact back then except sherry's transistor radio. our stereo had a bunch of compartments, and you had to get each one just right. then it blasted out the neighborhood.
For years all we had was a Lloyds AM-FM Stereo with Turntable and two speakers. I listened to everything from Simon and Garfunkel to Barbara to Johnny Mathis and Neil (Johnathon Livingston Seagull!) to my own stuff; KISS, Genesis, Alice Cooper, Jeff Beck, The Who and so on and so on and so on... ;-)
bains, so happy you are happy with her!!! simon and garfunkel and bathis sound so good on those big systems, don't they?? ;-)
ok, i'm not old enough to remember this, but i just learned that old houses don't have staircases big enough to accomodate queen beds. the standard size for beds until relatively recently was a full size bed. so i'm thinking that's why there were more children in the old days.
What? So that's why there's 9 kids in my family. My dad always said we're careless Lutherans..
Our record player was an RCA then a Montgomery-Wards and our TV a dinky blk and white Philco first and later years a color Zeneth console. Cool! Goodness was that heavy..I'll bet everyone had melmack dishware because it was unbreakable. Special events it was greatgrandmas old china.. No dishwashers yet,, just the boys one week and the girls the next... and of course, being the oldest I had the fun job of changing diapers for mom to help her and rinsing them out and putting them in the hylex pail to soak until we washed them every other day and hung them on the clothes line to dry,, or freeze dry in winter up here.
that's ALOT of kids, bob! did you have a gigantic house to fit everybody? was it fun or crowded? we had a family with five children who lived across the street, and i was best friends with one of their daughters. every time she came over to play, a bunch more came with her. then she and i would go off and do something, and my mother would appear with several children in her hands and ask us why a bunch of little people were watching the flintstones by themselves in our living room? then there'd be some muttering about how she didn't mind giving their mother a break, but this was ridiculous. ....so i remember houses having more of an open door policy and whoever was here, was...here! invited or not.
Wiff, We lived in suburbia USA in a housing developement..it was a three bedroom rambler with one bathroom. Dad threw up a couple partitions in the basement but that's it. 4 girls and 5 boys plus, gr-grandma on the fold out couch most the time.. neighbors,,, kitty-corner across the street had 12 kids in the same size house. Here is the funny part,, my youngest sister and brother are blue eyed blonds..the rest of us had darker hair and some brown, green and blue eyes of course... Someone asked my dad about the blond/blue eyed younger two kids and are they the milkmans? Dad's response was,,"Nope, I ran out of color!" Funny you should bring up the open-door policy because my parents would never turn down a kid who was kicked out the house by their parents. Most the time they were from a family or two down the block usually the cops kid, accountants kid or the teachers kid...I even remember a couple foster kids to a family down the block who found sanctuary at my parents home because the foster kids parents were drunk most the time...Dad and mom would never turn them down from a meal or place to sleep and stay if need be. This was the 50's and 60's and no county agency ever gave my parents a nickel for having a heart...
wow, bob! that's alot of people in one house! we had alot too, but not sleeping over night after night! ha. however, like you, we were the house where anyone could run away. my parents never turned away a kid...or an adult for that matter. there was always someone running away from home or someone whose parents did something wrong and the kid needed a safe place. do people still do that? they should! maybe there wouldn't be so many kids on the street if they had a friends' house they could go to. we had one little girl here who might as well have been another sister, she was here so much. her parents didn't give a darn about her, and my parents did. i miss that kind of humanity!
Wiff, I have doubts that this happens that much anymore. My son's family has had a few down in the cities but it seems the law enforcement and county people come into the situation and make it a bad choice by having a heart these days. It's pretty risky these days... In my teens I would stay at a friends house in the big city and I liked it up until the race riots after Martin Luther King was killed and the Northside went nuts blaming all us less than colorful kids. Enough of the bad... It was terrible. Him and I got whompt in an alley by about 15 kids because of color which was so wrong. In some ways we understood the situation but never understood the hurt it inflicted upon us nor why!
yep, it's important to not overly idealize the past. i'm old enough to remember some seriously bad racial stuff too. i'm so sorry you were in the violence of it. i remember a time when there was a racial divide in my school that was scary at times. and unfair at the best of other times. i think even though there's so much yet to be done, we've made progress.
My parents always took in "strays" as well. Almost always adult friends of theirs who were down on their luck, getting divorced, needed a place to recover from something or other. Was good and bad, eh. Really Bad in one instance though they still deny it ever happened... {sigh}
In another they get no choice to deny it, just a grandson! Heh! I think that that episode finally learned 'em on the cons of the habit. Mom's only ever taken in strays pets since m' nephew showed up. :-)
Ahh, but even Good People do some Very Bad Things when they're down on their luck and put in unusual circumstances. The others have to grow up dealing with the consequences.
Just saying; be careful even when it seems the least expected.
Today I couldn't get the "Real McCoys" song out of my head as well as "Petticoat Junction", "Lassie", and "Green Acres". Weird! I was asked if I remember "Rin-Tin-Tin" ,"Zorro", "Flicker","Car 54", "77 Sunset strip", "Route 66", "Twilight Zone", "Outer Limits" and "The Lone Ranger".. Yep, I watched all of these at some point in time in the 50's and early 60's. My mom asked if I remember sitting on dads lap watching "Jackie Gleason", That I didn't recall..But "McHales Navy", I do..LOL! I must be losing my mind..I actually can hear their theme songs in my head..
McHale's Navy and Gomer Pyle, USMC were both hilarious military sit-coms. From the '70s, and not funny as such, Ba Ba Blacksheep with Bobbie Conrad was a fave. Love his pitbull terrier!
Well Gallllleeeee! Funny. 70's.. Taxi, All in the Family, oh so many good memories... Red Fox..Laugh In.. X gets the Square.. What's My Line was my grandmas favorite.. Funny how much we can recall of our youth..
Was there a Barnaby Jones? Marcus Welby MD..Dr Killdeer? Wow? I didn't watch them much so I'm guessing..Wasn't there a Vincent Edwards who was a Dr Casey? and who was doctor who lived in the motorhome in the parking lot of some hospital? My Three Sons with Fred MacMurray ring a bell from back then as well as Father Knows Best with Robert Young.. and of course, my personal all-time favorite M*A*S*H the tv show.
ok, so back to the "too many choices" thing for a minute. i had to buy bandaids today. i had no idea what i was doing. there are the barbie ones, the sponge bob ones, the ones that don't let water in, the antibiotic ones, the airtight ones (weren't they always?), the kind for knuckles, the kind that are fabric....and i could not find the old fashioned original regular ones that i know how to use!!! ...
MASH is so good, bob. it is just classically good. one of those gifts from television. and there's soooo much about my three sons that i do not understand. the only character i could relate to is ernie!
Yes MASH is a gift! We would watch it every night before bed,, especially in my 20's and 30's. A real treat of laughs and tears I truly enjoyed. Potter, BJ and Alan Alda as well as many other stars.. Now all we have up here in the northland is the Red Green Show which is funny and a guy show..LOL! They are re-runs out of Canada on our local PBS station..... Ernie was cool..too!
I loved MASH and still do ...bought the boxed set end of year and am still working my way through it...one more season to go and then the finale....oh I cried then and am thinking now will be the same.......
once in awhile the cosmic forces come together to give us something as brilliant as MASH, and we're so lucky that the network didn't get rid of it before it took off. shows like MASH and All in the Family make me so angry that we have so few good shows on now....this reality crap is such crap. television is such a wonderful place to bring art to everyone. i'd like to see it used far better than this. MASH was an example of art and popularity mixing so well.
I love MASH, too. And I'm thankful for re-runs, otherwise I'd probably never have started watching it.
I agree Lisa that there's a lot of bad TV, but I actually think there's been a lot of good shows on in recent years. Shows that are well-crafted, well-acted, and intelligent. Dexter, Lost, The Wire, just to name a few. I'm hoping it's a trend that will continue.
yes, they are good. hi helen! i'm not saying there isn't anything. but i am mourning the significant decrease in the number of well written, well acted story shows. the rise in reality stuff during prime time has made even good sitcoms disappear. i really liked "men of a certain age", ray romano's new show, but they took that off. sigh. i thought that was really well written. ...anyway speaking of stuff we remember, i remember that i used to think it was so cool that my little friend's family had this huge console of a tv that had a turntable in the top, two speakers built in on either side, room for all the records, and room for all the stereo components! it took up their whole living room! :-)
record players can be really cool, mariah, when they play those great old vinyl records we used to get. nothing like a great big old fashioned album to see the art and the words....and it sounds great on a great turntable! vinyl is making a comeback, so i guess record players are too, huh? ....i really liked "men of a certain age". i'm so bummed it got cancelled. i'm hoping that enough people write in and bring it back. the people i know who like it REALLY like it. the people who don't, don't. i thought it was written well. and it's one of the few shows that takes on the topic of men's feelings.
i don't remember that ,elle. but it makes me think how many things we've replaced with plastic. that's not good. soda tastes better out of glass bottles. just sayin'!
I don't think Q-tips are made from plastic, though. I think they're more like lollipop sticks now. But yes, much, too much plastic!!! I don't drink soda anymore, but I think you're right. (I can't TELL you the last time I had soda...and out of a bottle no less!)
well what is that stick if it's not plastic? some kind of shiny paper? hmmm. maybe that's what it is. can we get rid of all the plastic wrapping on EVERYTHING? i remember when things weren't wrapped so tightly you couldn't get in them. you know what i really don't like in the way of plastic? all this weirdly scaled children's toys made out of plastic that looks like it'll last into eternity. big ugly odes to plastic. i like old toys that are made of wood or real materials.
maryrose, we just crossed at the same second! what are you doing up??? ;-) i definitely do remember the bottle openers! and i remember glass bottles before they were chic. i also remember my dad not liking cans, because he didn't want us drinking that much soda at once time, and he didn't like the idea of half drunk cans. ha! he used to insist on those big bottles for family using, and it just wasn't fun that way. this is really pushing my memory, but i seem to remember my mother getting milk delivered in glass bottles when i was super little. i'm not sure though.
Oh, milk in bottles - for SURE!!! With a little piece of cardboard as a stopper. (That sure wouldn't fly in THIS day and age!) Delivered by the milk man. Mom would put the washed-by-her empties in the insulated box on the back porch and the milkman woud leave new ones. Not sure how he knew WHAT to leave though (I'm fuzzy on that part). I also remember the inch or so of pure cream in the top. Mom would shake it so the cream would disperse, but it never failed that some of it would remain in a clump...and that clump would always manage to find its way into MY glass. : [
And as for the Q-tips, Lisa. I don't buy the name brand, so the real deal MIGHT have a plastic stick. Like I say, the ones I use have a stick that is just like a lollipop stick.
Ahhhh, but iPods are far superior, MR! You get to pick the songs and you don't have to worry about tuning them in. (Was there anything more frustrating than that static in the middle of your favorite song?? <wink>)
I was in my early teens when I got a "portable" radio..about a foot long and that much high and took a pile of batteries then they started shrinking till the big boom boxes came around and made my little radio look petite ..now that is one thing I wish I had hung on to...LOL
ok, points well made about the ipod, BUT when everyone was tuning into the same stuff, it was more of a communal experience. we all had the same fave songs. now everyone is in their own private idaho!
Actually, I remember transistor radios all too well...and fondly. Yes, as to the "community", Lisa. (Although in my group of friends, we often had different likes and dislikes!) OH, the rush of hearing a new song by a favorite artist for the first time. <thinking of the first time I heard "Yesterday"...late at night...in the dark...priceless!>
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Bains
Yummy Yummy Yummy I Got Love In My Tummy
And I feel like lovin' you!
LoL
Jul 29, 2011
wiffledust
wipe out is awesome!! , bains, you already have a girlfriend! LOL!
i remember having these enormous speakers in each corner of the living room. my dad was proud of them, because they had such good sound for his nat king cole listening...but my mom called them the washer and dryer! haha. nothing about music was compact back then except sherry's transistor radio. our stereo had a bunch of compartments, and you had to get each one just right. then it blasted out the neighborhood.
Jul 30, 2011
Bains
GF just left, Lisa. She is Awesome! :))
Jul 30, 2011
wiffledust
bains, so happy you are happy with her!!! simon and garfunkel and bathis sound so good on those big systems, don't they?? ;-)
ok, i'm not old enough to remember this, but i just learned that old houses don't have staircases big enough to accomodate queen beds. the standard size for beds until relatively recently was a full size bed. so i'm thinking that's why there were more children in the old days.
Aug 1, 2011
Robert Muscovitz
What? So that's why there's 9 kids in my family. My dad always said we're careless Lutherans..
Our record player was an RCA then a Montgomery-Wards and our TV a dinky blk and white Philco first and later years a color Zeneth console. Cool! Goodness was that heavy..I'll bet everyone had melmack dishware because it was unbreakable. Special events it was greatgrandmas old china.. No dishwashers yet,, just the boys one week and the girls the next... and of course, being the oldest I had the fun job of changing diapers for mom to help her and rinsing them out and putting them in the hylex pail to soak until we washed them every other day and hung them on the clothes line to dry,, or freeze dry in winter up here.
Aug 1, 2011
wiffledust
that's ALOT of kids, bob! did you have a gigantic house to fit everybody? was it fun or crowded? we had a family with five children who lived across the street, and i was best friends with one of their daughters. every time she came over to play, a bunch more came with her. then she and i would go off and do something, and my mother would appear with several children in her hands and ask us why a bunch of little people were watching the flintstones by themselves in our living room? then there'd be some muttering about how she didn't mind giving their mother a break, but this was ridiculous. ....so i remember houses having more of an open door policy and whoever was here, was...here! invited or not.
Aug 2, 2011
Bains
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wiffledust
wow, bob! that's alot of people in one house! we had alot too, but not sleeping over night after night! ha. however, like you, we were the house where anyone could run away. my parents never turned away a kid...or an adult for that matter. there was always someone running away from home or someone whose parents did something wrong and the kid needed a safe place. do people still do that? they should! maybe there wouldn't be so many kids on the street if they had a friends' house they could go to. we had one little girl here who might as well have been another sister, she was here so much. her parents didn't give a darn about her, and my parents did. i miss that kind of humanity!
Aug 2, 2011
Robert Muscovitz
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wiffledust
yep, it's important to not overly idealize the past. i'm old enough to remember some seriously bad racial stuff too. i'm so sorry you were in the violence of it. i remember a time when there was a racial divide in my school that was scary at times. and unfair at the best of other times. i think even though there's so much yet to be done, we've made progress.
Aug 2, 2011
Bains
My parents always took in "strays" as well. Almost always adult friends of theirs who were down on their luck, getting divorced, needed a place to recover from something or other. Was good and bad, eh. Really Bad in one instance though they still deny it ever happened... {sigh}
In another they get no choice to deny it, just a grandson! Heh! I think that that episode finally learned 'em on the cons of the habit. Mom's only ever taken in strays pets since m' nephew showed up. :-)
Aug 2, 2011
wiffledust
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Bains
Just saying; be careful even when it seems the least expected.
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ok, so back to the "too many choices" thing for a minute. i had to buy bandaids today. i had no idea what i was doing. there are the barbie ones, the sponge bob ones, the ones that don't let water in, the antibiotic ones, the airtight ones (weren't they always?), the kind for knuckles, the kind that are fabric....and i could not find the old fashioned original regular ones that i know how to use!!! ...
MASH is so good, bob. it is just classically good. one of those gifts from television. and there's soooo much about my three sons that i do not understand. the only character i could relate to is ernie!
Aug 11, 2011
Robert Muscovitz
Aug 11, 2011
nancy Sanchez
I loved MASH and still do ...bought the boxed set end of year and am still working my way through it...one more season to go and then the finale....oh I cried then and am thinking now will be the same.......
Aug 11, 2011
wiffledust
Aug 12, 2011
Helen
I agree Lisa that there's a lot of bad TV, but I actually think there's been a lot of good shows on in recent years. Shows that are well-crafted, well-acted, and intelligent. Dexter, Lost, The Wire, just to name a few. I'm hoping it's a trend that will continue.
Aug 12, 2011
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maryrose, we just crossed at the same second! what are you doing up??? ;-) i definitely do remember the bottle openers! and i remember glass bottles before they were chic. i also remember my dad not liking cans, because he didn't want us drinking that much soda at once time, and he didn't like the idea of half drunk cans. ha! he used to insist on those big bottles for family using, and it just wasn't fun that way. this is really pushing my memory, but i seem to remember my mother getting milk delivered in glass bottles when i was super little. i'm not sure though.
Aug 17, 2011
Maryrose Orlans
Up too late, again :-)
Aug 17, 2011
Elle MacNeil
Oh, milk in bottles - for SURE!!! With a little piece of cardboard as a stopper. (That sure wouldn't fly in THIS day and age!) Delivered by the milk man. Mom would put the washed-by-her empties in the insulated box on the back porch and the milkman woud leave new ones. Not sure how he knew WHAT to leave though (I'm fuzzy on that part). I also remember the inch or so of pure cream in the top. Mom would shake it so the cream would disperse, but it never failed that some of it would remain in a clump...and that clump would always manage to find its way into MY glass. : [
And as for the Q-tips, Lisa. I don't buy the name brand, so the real deal MIGHT have a plastic stick. Like I say, the ones I use have a stick that is just like a lollipop stick.
Aug 17, 2011
Maryrose Orlans
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Elle MacNeil
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nancy Sanchez
I was in my early teens when I got a "portable" radio..about a foot long and that much high and took a pile of batteries then they started shrinking till the big boom boxes came around and made my little radio look petite ..now that is one thing I wish I had hung on to...LOL
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