BS: Things you grew up with, still around

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
Date: 31 Mar 03 - 10:48 AM

Coronation Bloody Street

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: 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: Stilly River Sage
Date: 31 Mar 03 - 01:30 PM

Ipana toothpaste

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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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).