OT: Are you older than dirt?

[Zarathustra]

Erector sets

I had my erector set... right next to my "LINCOLN LOGS"! Which one was the best?? THE SHADOW KNOWS!

 

[Zarathustra]

I don't remember BlackJack gum. Was Butch Wax in an orange tin? If so, I might have one floating around somewhere. For the old NJ people, was there a Service Merchandising store in or near Montvale NJ? One of everything was on display. If you wanted to buy it, you filled out a form and gave it to a worker who went in back and got it for you. Now in high crime areas this is making a comeback. History repeating... Sadly, I remember everything else.

Remember the Outer Limits? We control the vertical! Ha, ask a kid what the vertical is.

How about Rod Steiger and the TWILIGHT ZONE... Not to mention, but I will, " Alfred Hitchcock Presents "

How old are "Rabbit Ears?

 

[Topsail]

How about Rod Steiger and the TWILIGHT ZONE... Not to mention, but I will, " Alfred Hitchcock Presents "

I think you mean Rod Serling as host of Twilight zone

 

[Bald Husky]

Saturday morning TV shows for kids, and I don't mean cartoons.

-Sky King
-Fury
-Cisco Kid
-Lone Ranger
-My Friend Flicka
-Roy Rogers
-Zorro

 

[Skeets]

I remember us guys wearing Chuck Taylor All Stars more than PF Flyers. Chuck's were mandatory for my Junior High and High School basketball teams and all of the other schools we played.

Back in the day "Cons" were the Air Jordans among other sneakers (Keds, PF Flyers, etc.)

 

[HuskyNan]

Saturday morning TV shows for kids, and I don't mean cartoons.

-Sky King
-Fury
-Cisco Kid
-Lone Ranger
-My Friend Flicka
-Roy Rogers
-Zorro

You forgot one:

For the record, I saw these as reruns years later!

 

[Bald Husky]

You forgot one:

For the record, I saw these as reruns years later!

Clutch Cargo was an animated cartoon, before its time.

 

[Skeets]

You forgot one:

For the record, I saw these as reruns years later!

This I don't remember. The fact that it's in color says to me it's way too new. How about "Crusader Rabbit"? If memory serves me correctly, that was in black and white. I believe Crusader Rabbit (and Rags the tiger) was the precursor for Rocky and Bullwinkle.

"Speed Racer", which was newer, was a Japanese anime decades before that became a thing with my kids.

 

[CL82]

I had to count again. I got 5, so almost in the "getting there" category, but at least I know what several of the others are. I think a true whipper snapper would get zero and have no clue what any of these things are.

Be quiet. The adults are talking.

 

[willtalk]

How many of you have ever ridden in a rumble seat or stood on a running board?

I must admit I do not remember Black Jack gum. But then I did not pay any attention to the brand except to the double bubble kids commercial. How about the small coke bottles you bought out of the machine for 5 cents. Or how many of you ever had a Winky Dink set? I did not care for Howdy Doody. He looked too weird ( kind of the Chucky of his era ) and Clarabell and Mr Bluster were just too bazear for my taste. The same went for Pinky Lee who was just plum crazy.

Who ever remembers talking through cans connected by string?

 

[HuskyNan]

 

[Zarathustra]

I think you mean Rod Serling as host of Twilight zone

Just showing my age! THANKS, Z

 

[Forego]

Saturday morning TV shows for kids, and I don't mean cartoons.

-Sky King
-Fury
-Cisco Kid
-Lone Ranger
-My Friend Flicka
-Roy Rogers
-Zorro

Andy’s Gang with Midnight the Cat and Froggy the Gremlin. Froggy was a troublemaker and therefore my favorite.

 

[MdStang]

I remember Butch Wax as being a roll on product, smaller than deodorant roll on and light bluish in color. Although it was hard to maintain that stick up front of the crew cut in winter. Got swished by my "tossle cap". That's a wool cap with a ball on top for all you non-Yinzers.

 

[Forego]

How many of you have ever ridden in a rumble seat or stood on a running board?

I must admit I do not remember Black Jack gum. But then I did not pay any attention to the brand except to the double bubble kids commercial. How about the small coke bottles you bought out of the machine for 5 cents. Or how many of you ever had a Winky Dink set? I did not care for Howdy Doody. He looked too weird ( kind of the Chucky of his era ) and Clarabell and Mr Bluster were just too bazear for my taste. The same went for Pinky Lee who was just plum crazy.

Who ever remembers talking through cans connected by string?

I agree with your thoughts about Howdy Duty. However, I did have a crush on Princess Summerfall Winterspring.
No rumble seat for me, but I do remember sitting on a jump seat in the back of a Checker Cab in NYC

 

[Jackcatscal]

20 for 20. Yikes! How about "Gerald McBoing Boing."

And Winky Dink and You. See Winky Dink and You - Wikipedia.

 

[CONN78SEJ]

All of them

Me too. I definitely remember JFK and Ike, John Glenn, Drive in theaters (the Pix and Candlite in Bridgeport), Mantle & Maris, Hurricane Donna in 1960, the Clyde Beatty/Cole Bros Circus in Bridgeport, and Pleasure Beach Amusement Park in Bridgeport and the rickety old wooden bridge you had to drive over to get there. It was a great time to be alive and just a kid. Could never decide on PF Flyers or US Keds?

 

[Jackcatscal]

Tin foil to you.

And the refrigerator was the "ice box."

 

[Jackcatscal]

Andy’s Gang with Midnight the Cat and Froggy the Gremlin. Froggy was a troublemaker and therefore my favorite.

"Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!"

 

[CONN78SEJ]

Saturday morning TV shows for kids, and I don't mean cartoons.

-Sky King
-Fury
-Cisco Kid
-Lone Ranger
-My Friend Flicka
-Roy Rogers
-Zorro

Officer Joe Bolton, Mickey Mouse Club (Cubby, Doreen, Annette, Roy, Spin and Marty), Bozo the Clown.

 

[MSGRET]

On this site, I have to mention: Girl's Half Court Basketball: 3 players from each team on both sides of the court. No one could cross the half court line........This stopped in 1971.

Actually the last 6 on 6 girls basketball ended in Oklahoma in 1995. The Iowa Girl's High School Athletic Union voted unanimously to end the game after their 6 on 6 girls basketball tournament in 1993. Two years after that Oklahoma ended their 6 on 6 basketball after their final 6 on 6 tournament.

 

[AzHusky]

Not sure how many of you grow up in Connecticut, but I watched the Ranger Andy show, followed by The Big 3 Theater.

 

[MSGRET]

I remember everyone of the 20, here are a few more.

1. How about the 12" black and white TV screen in a 4' x 6' wooden cabinet.
2. Then there is the record player that could play 33, 45, and 78 records.

 

[AzHusky]

Or going to the Drug store to get replacement tubes for the one's that had burned out in the TV. There was a box that contained replacement tubes.

 

[Bigboote]

Not sure how many of you grow up in Connecticut, but I watched the Ranger Andy show, followed by The Big 3 Theater.

Mr. Goober, too!