BS: Things you grew up with, still around

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: vindelis
Date: 01 Apr 03 - 06:30 PM

Mother's Flatley. (For those who don't know what I mean - everyone these days has a tumble dryer to do the same thing).

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: JennyO
Date: 01 Apr 03 - 09:44 AM

Arnotts biscuits - Monte Carlos, Scotch Fingers - yum!
Icecreams in cones (but more flavours now) - I still like vanilla
The family piano, and other items of furniture
My grandmother's house, and lots of other lovely old Federation style houses
Frangipanis

Oh dear, I am really going on a trip down memory lane, here!

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: DMcG
Date: 01 Apr 03 - 09:31 AM

Scott's Porage Oats - and even the packet is (more or less) unchanged!

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: Sandra in Sydney
Date: 01 Apr 03 - 09:27 AM

Lots I remember from Vicks vapa rub (got a jar in the kitchen) to various yummy sweet things & savoury stuff & household products.

I didn't remember crayons - I had Derwent pencils. Eventually I had 72 full length pencils (they're on the bookshelf beside me). But only 6 or maybe 12 half length ones when I was at school.

Wagon wheels (mashmallow filled biscuits in case they were only a local treat). In my day in an open waxed paper bag, now hermatically sealed in foily/plasticy stuff. Half the fun is gone.

Fantales (my colleagues were sharing a bag & the wrappers yesterday).

Minties, like Fantales a threat to teeth, we used to tear the wrappings around & around & around & try to make the longest trail.

Skateboards - a 45 year old friend got on his nephew's skateboard recently & fell on his bum, bruising it very badly. But he still remembered how to fall, even to he had forgotten to practice a bit
before trying something elaborate,

BP Petrol - my parents had a garage with a shop where our dog Lassie used to eat Wagon Wheels unless Dad put the box on the counter. How many kids ate what would be called contaminated food today? And we all grew up healthy.

And of course, neighbourhood singalongs where everyone entertained themselves (now we call them singing sessions)

sandra

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: RangerSteve
Date: 01 Apr 03 - 06:59 AM

Ivory Soap.
canvas sneakers - Converse still makes them.

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: Alba
Date: 31 Mar 03 - 11:24 PM

Milk of Magnesia
Irn bru (soda)
Imperial leather soap
Branston Pickles
Nice people
not so nice people
Scott's Porridge oats

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: jets
Date: 31 Mar 03 - 10:25 PM

If you want something thats delicious, you know well enough,you will find your wishes with MARSHMELLOW FLUFF.
I believe that the above, was the first singing commercial.
The fluff is still with us and my wife is still with me.

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: Mark Clark
Date: 31 Mar 03 - 08:31 PM

Well, I was going to say Meigs Field.

      - Mark

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: Jim Dixon
Date: 31 Mar 03 - 07:13 PM

Ivory Soap
Dial Soap
Lipton Tea
Coca-Cola
Pepsi-Cola
Popsicles
Bazooka Joe Bubble Gum – though I don't think you can buy the pieces singly any more – wait! Is that the brand of gum, or just the name of the comic that came in it?
Budweiser – well, it was the first beer I ever drank, and it's still here
Donald Duck comic books
J. C. Penney
Dixon pencils – they're still the best brand, if you like wooden ones
Bayer aspirin – but now I buy generic
Hostess Twinkies
Premium Saltines
Ritz crackers
Marshmallows – well, they're pretty much the same no matter what brand you buy
Graham crackers - ditto
Nabisco vanilla wafers
Animal crackers – is that a brand name?
The St. Louis Post-Dispatch
Time magazine
National Geographic
The Reader's Digest
TV Guide
Monopoly
Scrabble
Tootsie Rolls
Campbell's tomato soup, also chicken noodle soup

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: Kim C
Date: 31 Mar 03 - 01:35 PM

Yes! Vernor's is everywhere. I must admit, however, I lean toward Canada Dry, or whatever happens to be on sale for 99 cents.

More things I grew up with: Oreos!!!!! Krispy Kreme doughnuts, although they are smaller now. Likewise GooGoo clusters.

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 31 Mar 03 - 01:30 PM

Ipana toothpaste

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: Blues=Life
Date: 31 Mar 03 - 01:24 PM

Kareem's Sky Hook. Well, I may be the only guy using it, but I put it up last night playing high school kids, and they had no idea what it was, or how to defend against it. I'm only 42, that's not old, is it?

Hook....Swish!

Blues

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: Beccy
Date: 31 Mar 03 - 10:59 AM

I think I keep having kids 'cause they play with all my favorite toys:-)


BTW, KimC- can you get Vernor's in TN? When we lived in KY we had to have people ship it to us.

Beccy

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: GUEST
Date: 31 Mar 03 - 10:48 AM

Coronation Bloody Street

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: GUEST,Kim C no cookie
Date: 31 Mar 03 - 10:47 AM

I forgot to mention, the classic Disney animated films.

Beccy, I am going to try that! It sounds great! And I love ginger ale, although nowadays I buy the diet kind.

Think I will buy myself a Lite-Brite for my next birthday. :-)

And let's not forget the good ol' Etch-a-Sketch. One of my favorite toys when I was a wee lassie.

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: GUEST,James
Date: 31 Mar 03 - 10:44 AM

Players cigarettes,Lyon Brand corn syrup, Big 8 Gingerale,Tancook sauerkrat, Drum shag tobacco,Fray Bentos.

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: Troll
Date: 30 Mar 03 - 10:10 PM

Nehi Grape soda. Also Orange and Strawberry. Take an Orange Nehi and dump in a package of Planters Salted Peanuts. Ahhhhh.

troll

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: CraigS
Date: 30 Mar 03 - 08:15 PM

I can't consider Yoo-Hoo or Cel-Ray without thinking of Kaylan and Volman's "Do You Like My New Car?" on the Frank Zappa Fillmore Live album, but it's strange to find some brands in this list that have died in GB, and some GB brands surviving in the US. And no-one said Pepsi! How about comics - Dandy, Beano, Superman, Spiderman? Liquifruta cough mixture with garlic, so everyone knows you are suffering. McGowan's Highland toffee, with the hairy cow on the packet - Macaroon and Raspberry Ripple bars - there's a lot to be found in a corner shop in Glasgow, behind the Brasso, DuraGlit and Dreft.

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: RangerSteve
Date: 30 Mar 03 - 07:38 PM

Oreos, Hydrox, fig Newtons, Keeblers Pecan Sandies, Lorna Doones, GirlScout thin mint cookies. Clark Bars, Sky Bars, Chunky (getting harder to find, though.). Yoo Hoo. Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray (who would have thought that celery soda would work? It does, but only the bottled kind, the canned version is awful). Speaking of Oreos, It's hard to believe that you could improve on perfection, but they came out with a version called Double Stuff Oreos, half chocolate cream, half peanut butter cream. God was with them when they thought that one up.

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: Sam L
Date: 30 Mar 03 - 05:20 PM

Hippies, Daylia, ha.

Hippie girls with that perpetually startled look in their eyes like they were thrown from a horse when they were kids. I don't know if they still make those girls, or if people restore them in the garage like vintage cars.

In my short film, Youbetchurrassic Park, a crazed businessman finds some old hippie DNA in a petulie bottle in the pocket of a mohair jacket, and clones them on an island, for tourists. When scientists arrive to study them it kind of gets Hair-y--they turn on, and begin to question basic tenets of scientific method, chemistry and physics.

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: Beccy
Date: 30 Mar 03 - 12:22 PM

Boy, Peter T., aren't you a charmer?

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: Peter T.
Date: 30 Mar 03 - 10:39 AM

Yankee arrogance.

yours, Peter T.

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: GUEST,The Banjoest
Date: 30 Mar 03 - 10:29 AM

Johnny Cash, Earl Scruggs and Gibson Mastertones.

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: *daylia*
Date: 29 Mar 03 - 10:18 AM

Dr. Seuss
Dear Abby
Hippies
Dairy Queen ice cream cones (tho they've gone from a nickel to about $1.50!)
Dubble Bubble bubble gum
Mars bars
Mozart, Beethoven, Bach, and the Rolling Stones
Angels
Volkswagen bugs
Scooters
Roller skates
Stupidity
Brilliance
Kraft caramels
Star Trek!

daylia

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: JennyO
Date: 29 Mar 03 - 10:14 AM

Vegemite
Weetbix
Fountain tomato sauce
Cadbury cocoa
Sorbent toilet paper
Mortein fly spray
Pez
Streets icecream
Santa Claus
Bryants Pies (the local pie shop, in Goulburn where I grew up. It's still there! Gary Bryant was in my class - he used to serenade me by singing "Tutti Frutti" - ah memories!)

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 29 Mar 03 - 06:43 AM

...can you still smell Necco wafers in the air as you walk down Mass. Ave. past MIT?

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: harvey andrews
Date: 29 Mar 03 - 06:28 AM

Second hand bookshops
Shropshire
Birmingham City football club
The BBC
War (born1943)

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: Mudlark
Date: 29 Mar 03 - 02:06 AM

Juicyfruit gum (ack)
Bosco (double ack)
Jujubes (often equalled trip to the dentist but they lasted thru/movie
Breck Shampoo
Tootsie Pops
Ajax (so use Ajax...boom boom...the foaming cleanser...floats the dirt
right down the drain) and Dutch is still around too
Lava and that long bar of grayish-green "laundry" soap that is good for
poison oak
Kools

A Detroit shortcut to a Boston Cooler...6 oz of Vernors, 2-3 oz of cream.

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: catspaw49
Date: 29 Mar 03 - 01:51 AM

Oh yeah.....Necco Wafers are still around. NECCO stands for New England Confectionary Company and they are now owned by UIS, a Fortune 500. Oddly enough, UIS owns 5 other companies which are all automotive related (Airtex, Wells, REM, Luberfiner, Master). This piece of worthless trivia is brought to by yours truly, a former rep for Airtex.

Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: Sam L
Date: 29 Mar 03 - 12:38 AM

Necco wafers? All I know is nabisco wafers. "Nabisco corners" is sometimes a term for a mistake in design classes.

Twister, a game for drunk adults which was foisted on kids (too easy, like hunting cows) is still around.

Hot wheels technology has come a long way. 3-D cards, as in cracker jack prizes, have added layers.

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: Ely
Date: 29 Mar 03 - 12:24 AM

The only toy I ever wanted that I didn't get was a Radio Flyer wagon--one of the really big ones you can haul your friends around in. I still swear I'm going to get one some day just for the Hell of it.

Do they still make the sleds with the metal runners? I've got my dad's Yankee Clipper--I can't use it here in Texas, but I nearly killed myself on it a few times when we lived in Colorado and could get good ice tracks on the hills in the winter.

My mother pines for Red Hot Dollars (which are actually fruit-flavored, go figure). They still make them but a lot of places don't carry them.

I almost forgot Necco wafers. You can't roof a gingerbread house without them!

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 11:52 PM

I love it. These are things we take for granted, like Hershey's, Milk Duds, and let's don't forget Hot Dogs. Jim

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: mack/misophist
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 09:34 PM

Sometines it seems the things I prized the most are all gone.

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: Sam L
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 09:27 PM

A&W root beer. Pixie sticks--still have to teach lids how to manage them. Balsa wood planes. Cracker Jack. Grape jelly of the Concord grape developed by Ephram Bull whose gravestone reads He sowed, Others Reaped.

But not sissy bars, bananna seats, clackers, periscope sets. And yet--lawn darts.

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: Beccy
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 07:29 PM

One more thing- Star Kist Tuna and Kraft Macaroni and Cheese (although my parents never let me eat Kraft Macaroni and Cheese- God Bless 'em- they made mac and cheese from scratch.)

Beccy

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: Beccy
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 07:26 PM

Kim C- I figure if we could make Boston Coolers in Northern Michigan, Southern Kentucky, and now in Western New York, I figure you're safe making one in Nashville. Take a couple scoops of vanilla ice cream and add it to a great deal of Vernor's Ginger Ale in a blender. Whir it up a couple times so that you still have some nice chunks of ice cream. Pour into a tall glass. Serve with a straw and an iced tea spoon.

...And I say GO FOR THE LITE BRITE. It was my favorite toy as a kid and it is my favorite toy to use with my kids. It's actually a venue for artistic expression. You don't HAVE to use the templates they give you. You can use the back of the black sheets or use the blank ones. It's really, really fun and it's a cheap thrill for $10. Do it- be a kid again!!!!!!

Beccy

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: Ulysses 1874
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 06:37 PM

Brands I use now that I also grew up with:

Bird's Custard
Tayto Crisps
Jacobs Cream Crackers
Fairy Liquid
Imperial Leather Soap
Marvel Dried Milk
Chef Tomato Ketchup
HP Brown Sauce
Odlum's Flour
Stork Margarine
Royal Baking Powder
Chivers Marmalade
Batchelor's Baked Beans
Campbell's Tinned Soup
Lyons Green Label Tea
7-Up
Saxa Salt
Oxo Cubes

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: Burke
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 06:36 PM

Nabisco Fig Newtons
Barqs' Rootbeer
Velveeta Cheese
Cheese Its
Chex Mix
Hellman's Mayonaise
Cheese Curls

Are Charles' Chips still around? The place that sold the big cans near here went out of business.

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: Kim C
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 06:00 PM

What's a Boston Cooler and can I make one in Nashville?

Tidy Cat clay cat litter. I never have been able to warm up to the scoopable kind. I just can't commit to making myself scoop poop out of the catbox every day.

They still make Lite-Brites and Easy-Bake Ovens. I never had either one, although many's the time I've been sorely tempted to treat myself.

Crayola Crayons in the big box of 64. I know they've changed up a few of the colors, but what the hey.

Bonne Bell lip gloss in the glass bottle.

That Maybelline mascara in the pink-and-green tube.

Dreamsicles and Bomb-Pops.

Nestle Quik.

I got a chuckle out of Bee-dubya's answer, so I'll add one to it: Billy Graham. And another: Mike Wallace.

The Tonight Show, although the host has changed.

The Grand Ole Opry, again, the lineup has changed but the show must go on.

Kraft cheese slices in the plastic wrap. Not real cheese in my estimation, but great for grilled cheese sammiches.

Pall-Mall cigarettes. My dad used to smoke em.

Chuck Berry. The Rolling Stones. Aerosmith. George Jones.

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: Ebbie
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 05:41 PM

I have a l o n g memory- I was born in 1935. Practically the only thing that hasn't changed is drugstores. They smell just as they did when I was a kid.

Then some time back I inadvertently bought Pepsodent tooth paste. Taste memory rushed in- it's the brand we used when I was little, although we used tooth powder, as opposed to paste. I don't know if they even make tooth powder any more.

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: Beccy
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 04:52 PM

The key with Vernor's is that you cannot inhale through your nose when taking a drink from the can. The ONLY way to drink it is from the can with the exception of Boston Coolers (which reminds me!!!)

Boston Coolers (Vernor's G.A. mixed with vanilla ice cream. mmmmmm)
Pork Rinds (what can I say- I grew up in MI *and* KY)
Jello brand pudding (chocolate)
Knox blocks (BIG YUM!!! Esp. when made with concord grape juice.)

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: Ely
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 04:31 PM

I love Vernors! It makes everyone else in my family choke.

Valomilks (like Reese's peanut-butter cups but with marshmallow instead of peanut butter)

Tak-A-Boost/Drink-A-Toast (a weird New Jersey drink--it comes as a concentrated syrup and tastes kind of like flat Dr. Pepper. You eat pretzels when you drink it. My mother is from New Jersey and she brings gallon jugs back whenever she visits her family.)

Those little metal cap bombs--do kids play with caps any more? We had six-shooters, too.

We've had Teaberry gum (and Black Jack, the licorice gum) as long as I can remember. We used to get it at REI before it went yuppie.

Horehound candies

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: catspaw49
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 04:16 PM

Ah yes.....the first pop I remember drinking.....Vernors Ginger Ale!!

Krepples (aka Scrapple)
Frog Eyes (large size tapioca pudding)
Schwinn Bikes (just bought one for Tristan)
Reese Cups (I'm with Kim)
Baseball Cards (though sadly I had no idea they'd ever be worth anything)


Spaw

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: Beccy
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 04:07 PM

Mackinaw Island Fudge
Bazooka Joe gum
Snyder's of Hanover Sourdough Pretzels
Poland Seltzer Water (fruit flavors)
Lipton Tea (made as sun tea)
Downy Fabric Softener
Maruchan Ramen
Pasties (the Cornish- not breast- variety)
Salt and Vinegar chips (or salt 'n vinnies, in the family lingo.)
RC Cola
and... my favorite...

Vernor's Ginger Ale

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: Bee-dubya-ell
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 03:43 PM

Queen Elizabeth
Fidel Castro

Mickey Mouse (unfortunately)

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: Peg
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 03:20 PM

oh I was going to say Lea and Perrins Worcestershire Sauce! You mind-reader! My favorite brand of this wonderful condiment...

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: Morticia
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 03:13 PM

it's yummy, thats what it is :)

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: MMario
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 01:33 PM

And thanks to Two Fat Ladies I even know what Gentleman's Relish is!

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: Morticia
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 01:24 PM

Birds custard
Lea and Perrins
Marmite
Cadbury's Drinking Chocolate
Gentlemans Relish

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: GUEST
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 01:15 PM

my pee pee

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: katlaughing
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 11:24 AM

Vicks vap-o-rub!

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: MMario
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 10:57 AM

70's fashions?

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: Mrrzy
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 10:53 AM

How about things you are old enough to remember them inventing, like silly string and silly putty?

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: MMario
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 10:42 AM

but the roadrunner's still around!

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: Kim C
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 10:41 AM

Reese's Cups (my favorite candy in the WHOLE world), Goody hairpins & ponytail holders, Lay's potato chips, Oscar Meyer bologna, Miracle Whip, Saturday morning cartoons (although the cartoons themselves have changed somewhat).

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: Peg
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 10:35 AM

Teaberry gum; back after a long hiatus!

Vinyl records, but maybe not for long.
Wise potato chips
Seventies fashions; not sure why they keep coming back, but it's kind of comforting that they do...

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: MMario
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 09:16 AM

happily - my parents.

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: Alasdair
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 09:08 AM

Cups of tea
McVite's chocolate digestives
Robertson's jam
Hot ribena when you have a cold
A generally equable temperament with a tendendency to fly off the handle from time to time

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: Allan C.
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 09:03 AM

Love

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: AllisonA(Animaterra)
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 06:10 AM

King Arthur Flour
Ovaltine
milk in glass bottles (very hard to find but there's one local dairy that still has them!)

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 01:39 AM

Chevy
Ford
Chrysler

;-)

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: Metchosin
Date: 28 Mar 03 - 12:45 AM

Miracle Whip
Fry's Cocoa
Keen's Dry Mustard
Quaker Oatmeal
Arrid Deodorant
20 Mule Team Borax
and a dinted brass and leather fireplace bellows with a ship on it.

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: katlaughing
Date: 27 Mar 03 - 11:37 PM

Most of these I don't use anymore, but they are still around:-)

Bic pens

Chapstick

Crisco oil

Gleem toothpaste

Jiffy cake, muffin, and cornbread mixes

Nestles' chocolate milk powder

Sugar babies

Tootsie pops

Swiss Army knives

Walter Cronkite:-)

Subject: RE: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: Padre
Date: 27 Mar 03 - 11:29 PM

White Lily flour
Ramps
Dr Pepper
Moon Pies
Valleydale Sausage (with the marching pigs)
Carhartt Work clothes
The 1928 Book of Common Prayer

Subject: BS: Things you grew up with, still around
From: GUEST,Jeep Man
Date: 27 Mar 03 - 11:23 PM

What things have you literally had around all your life and have become part of you? I will start with these..Coke, Dukes Mayonaise, Arm and Hammer baking soda,Calumet Baking powder,Case Knives, etc. Jeep