Have you lived?

scruffy · Nov 18, 2001

Bird, Ernie, how could I forget those!? Sure do remember them....now! Thanks for the prompt! /w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif

Jeff396 · Nov 18, 2001

Funny that I was wrong on the Steve Allen and Edie Adams thing and the first picture I see on the web site Decker provided is a picture of them together.

Jeff

GlueGuy · Nov 18, 2001

it was meant just for females

That may have been the original intent, but when I was in high school, both the guys and the gals were using it for a while. By the time I graduated, we were using nothing (on our hair), and both the guys and the gals were wearing their hair pretty long.

The GlueGuy

GlueGuy · Nov 18, 2001

Was it Steve Allen

Nope, Dekker got it. It was Ernie Kovaks. She also did Dutch Masters cigars (I think)...

The GlueGuy

ERNIEB · Nov 18, 2001

Doing a little guess work, and some searching, I came up with this http://www.alliedproducts.com/ccc3/company.asp
A history of Consolidated Cigar . Edie Adams did commercials for Muriel. Seeing this I now remember her saying " Why don't you pick me up and smoke me sometime?"
Ernie Kovacs is listed as a promoter of Duch Masters, and since Edie Adams was a regular on his show, she probably did Ads for them as well.
I have no idea where I came up with White Owl,/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif It isn't even a Consolidated brand/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Ernie

heehaw · Nov 18, 2001

the sign at mcdonalds said 100,000 sold??? the howdy doodey show, buffalo bob, how about the time they gave away a shetland pony, to whoever came up with the best name??? i met the guy that won the shetland a couple years ago..the name, Chacota or something like that, suppose to be an Indian name or something.
heehaw

Mike_Dumond · Nov 18, 2001

OK, trivia time. On Oct 4, 1957, Russia launched Sputnik. A basketball sized 183 pound satelite. On Nov 3, 1957, sputnik II was launched with a passenger.

Who was the passenger?

Keep the greasy side down.
Mike

ERNIEB · Nov 18, 2001

It was a dog right?
I was 7, but I can still recall that at night sputnik was visible. We had gone to visit some friends, and the whole neighborhood was standing in their yards looking up into the sky. I didn't know what it was all about, but I could tell the adults seemed concerned. It wasn't long after that people started building fallout shelters in their backyard. Anybody remember those?

Ernie

MossRoad · Nov 19, 2001

My dad built his house with a fallout shelter. We had a pantry that was about 4 x 8 feet and the entire door was a trapdoor. It was on a counterbalanced weight, so an adult could open it easily. The ceiling was very thick reinforced concrete and I beams. It had pipes through the wall for air and water. He had plans for air and water filtration, but never finished them off. It was a very secure place to hide in tornado season/w3tcompact/icons/smile.gif.

I also remember the huge furnace in the basement. Did any of you have furnaces that were so big and loud that they scared you as a kid?

 MossRoad

tsh3 · Nov 19, 2001

A dog named Lika

Steve

TerryinMD · Nov 19, 2001

Sharpsburg, Md is bound and determined to keep anything and everything commercial from interferring with its historic image. With the Antitem Battlefield as a neighbor, the town is very deligent about not becoming another Gettyburg, PA. Amen!!

Some other oldies from TV days: Little Rascals, Soupy Sales, and who can forget, Captain Kangaroo...

Terry

uppermich · Nov 19, 2001

Did anyone else have milk breaks and Goiter pills in grade school?

Pat (Techno-Tractor Mom)

Bird · Nov 19, 2001

milk breaks and Goiter pills

Nope, that's a new one to me.

Mike_Dumond · Nov 19, 2001

Milk breaks yes, but what is a goiter pill?

Keep the greasy side down.
Mike

Jeff396 · Nov 19, 2001

How about Mr. Dressup, Casey and Finnigan. I heard a while back that the man who played Mr. Dressup, who lives in Canada, had a stroke. I don't suppose anyone heard anything beyond that?

Jeff

huckflynn · Nov 19, 2001

I guess I've lived. I remember quite a bit of this.

How about the sound of coal rolling down the chute into the coal bin in the basement?

Playing Davy Crockett and re-enacting the Alamo (and who remembers 'ol Betsy'?)

Pin boys?

Scultz and Dooley?

Going to the YMCA and using the lathe to make lamps from bowling pins?

Sitting at the lunch counter at McCrory's Five and Dime and picking a balloon which when popped would reveal the price of the banana split you just ate (from a penny to 39 cents)

ERNIEB · Nov 20, 2001

All the do it yourself magazines had articles or plans to build your own. As I recall, the filtration of air was the major problem. Dad looked at some type of already made things, that you buried yourself. I think they were fiberglas, and sort of saucer shaped. They kinda looked like a round camping trailer/w3tcompact/icons/laugh.gif

Ernie

Egon · Nov 20, 2001

Lets add:
Cranking the cream separator
licking the ladle from the hand cranked icecream maker that used real cream
Harnessing up the horses to go to town as the roads were blocked with snow
spending days stooking
shovelling barley in bin at trashing time. [ kids always got this job ]
Filling the hay mow with loose hay using a grapple and horses
buying 22 shells[ whiz bangs ]for $0.35 a box
Egon

dummy · Nov 20, 2001

Great list, some things I had forgotten all about. My wife and kids call these Senior Moments, not fond memories.

MossRoad · Nov 20, 2001

They had several plans for air filtration that required FRAM oil filters and a hand crank. Apparently, the oil filter was able to filter out dust particles that might be contaminated with radioactivity. Don't know what they'd do about water.

 MossRoad