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You Cant Do That On Television rocked!

Although it kinda jumped the shark when the original cast (Lisa, Kevin, Alisdair, etc)went away.

FWIW Alanis Morrisette was part of the cast for a while.

 
Getting to stay up past bed time on Monday night to watch "Lucy" and "The Doris Day Show".

Orange popsicles from the milk man.
Our first color TV..I watched "I Dream of Jeannie" and "Bonanza"..my mother made me stop watching because my eyes became blood shot.

The smell of freash green beans or peas cooking on my grandmothers stove.
The smell of "iron" water as it came out of the well.

Mother making me come in at 2pm in the summer...it was too hot to be outside, she'd turn the window unit on and I'd watch the "Big Show"

Lux dish washing liquid.

peeing in the out door toliet.

Payday candy bars at the pool.

Mother proud of the fact I was tanned to the bone. Sunshine was so healthy back then?????

the pink suit I wore to my conformation.

My first lime green leasure suit.

My first pair of brown wedge heel shoes.

Halo shampoo

Collecting NFL player stamps from the DX gas station.

SnoCones in leaking paper cone cups.

The magic recipe for homemade orange crush ice cream.

Creepy Crawler Machine, Ronco bottle cutter, GI Joe...damn no outfits to change him into!!!!!

putting the hose pipe in my mouth and making water come out of my nose.

Jiffey Pop popcorn.

Sitting out side McDonals on a summer evening (no seating inside) dipping fries in my chocolate shake..a special treat!!!

the taste of muddy river catfish and water melon (not the same as now)
 
From the local Dairy Queen/Brazier burger

Dilly Ice cream bars-Buy one dozen for $1.25. My mom with 4 four kids during the summer cheap treat and happy kids.
 
Came up with a few more: Space Food Sticks (peanut butter!), root beer Popsicles, slush mugs, The Doris Day Show, Smith-Corona Galaxy typewriters, Dial shampoo, Nik-L-Nip, Mom spending her afternoons ironing my Dad's dress shirts, The Gypsy Rose Lee Show, margarine in sticks only, fuses, finding Christmas tree needles in the carpet in March, hand-operated cash registers and the supermarket, S&H Green Stamps, cigarette vending machines, Dark Shadows.

Hey, washabear--my mom still misses "The Woman's Angle" with Sylvia Scott!
Chuck--Stu Kerr as "Professor Kool", not to mention Stu and Sylvia as the "Dialing for Dollars" hosts.
 
"Polyunsaturated, never hydrogenated, nutritionally unexcelled."
"Takes a licking, and keeps on ticking."
"Mother please! I'd rather do it myself!"
"Take a puff! It's springtime."
"You merely push the button."
"You're ahead in a Ford all the way."
"Look, ma! No cavities."
"Bring out the Best Foods, and bring out the best."
"Look for me in my bright green dress."
"N a b i s c o, Nabisco is the name you know."
"We're making Pet Vanilla Ice Cream, Pet Vanilla Ice Cream."
"Now here's Carnation's contented couple."
 
Hey, laundromat,

Thanks for the list. I remember most of those places; some of them are still here: Eastpoint, Weber’s Farm, H&S, the Hippo (which will probably never go away), High’s, etc. I had to chuckle at your mention of Cignal. Now, that place was ’80s to the core. It’s funny because a friend of mine who is not from here had heard of it and asked me about it. I think the way I described it was “flowers, flashy colorful lights, loud dance music, and a lot of drugged-out people jumping around like fiends.” That scene is definitely frozen in time for me. Sort of reminds me of the movie “Liquid Sky.” Thanks (I think) for the memory ;-)!

veg-o-matic,

Your mom rules! Not many people seem to remember Sylvia Scott. Professor Kool and “Dialing for Dollars” certainly were institutions, weren’t they?

One more, for everyone: “You can take Salem out of the country, but . . .”
 
yep dalangdon i remember Braniff, it was not peanuts and coke, they served, usually really good food in flight, individual salt and pepper shakers, cloth napkins and real flatware. washer boy creepy crawler i think was the Mattel thingmaker, many a burned finger and if you spilled the liquid, i think it was called goop on the styrofoam storage box for the set it would eat the styrofoam, the thingmaker was no EZ bake oven with light bulbs it got very HOT, i had one in the mid 60's. i doubt a " thingmaker" would pass muster today. hot& toxic
 
Hey,washabear,I was one of those people at Cignal.Knowing "Bubbles",Frank(the bartender with long hair God rest his soul,one of my best friends and lived in my building downtown),Maggie you know the girl with the beehive hairdo.She always let me and my friends in for free.I always had "shrooms"for the weekend and she and Frank would come upstairs to my apartment to share a full delli tray before we would indulge our minds to wander during the late evening hours.I will never forget the night I went there and was given a few glasses of punch from a punch bowl that lowered onto the dance floor and was treated with LSD and or Extacy.I had no clue of that and around 1:30AM,I felt my entire soul had gone on a trip and left my body dancing endlessly.It came back around 1PM and I was the only person on the floor and all I had on was my bicini underware!Still dancing with no music!The DJ had left around noon!

I went home and went right to bed leaving the phone receiver off the hook.I woke up at 7:30PM to a loud knocking on my door.It was Frank trying to find me and tell all about my unknown"stardum at Cignal's that previous night.He said by 4AM,my friends were ready to call the paramedics since their trying top get my attention to let me know they were leaving completely failed.For years after,I was called "Trance girl"and untill Frank told me what was in the punch,I was shocked to realise why,for what seamed to be forever, I was fealing I was orgasmatic!No wonder I wouldn't respond to anybody.As I got hotter,I took off more clothes!Thank God Bubbles(God rest her soul too)took them and put them asside for me.Once I woke up and spoke to Frank and Maggie,I realised what had happened and realy liked the memories it left me.Never after have I ever come near that high.Yes,those were the daze LOL
 

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