I had one of those!!! I LOVED that bike! In fact, if I think back over all the toys and things I played with growing up, that's the one I remember most! I called it my dill pickle!
i have one of those. it's even green! (and shiny chrome) picked it up at a "junk shop" type place a few years back and cleaned it, polished it, gave it lots of TLC and added some streamers....the guy told me that it was a gift to his oldest son in 1964, son rode it for 2 years, and then was stored away in the basement until he decided to sell it.... and yes, i ride it in the summer sometimes (it's full size, not the smaller one) - it gets quite the reaction from the neighbourhood kids. . and their parents. :lol: before you think i'm nuts for having & riding that at the age of 30, read my sig. :mrgreen:
click to see a banana seat bike (not mine, just an internet picture) ... closeup of a banana seat itself .. see how the shape resembles a banana?
I used to have a banana seat bike. I also had an alarm clock that had Raggedy Ann & Andy & they sang to wake you up.
I had a Darth Vader night light that my grandma painted for me in a ceramics class. It was a very large bust. His eyes and light saber glowed red. I remember laying awake at night staring at it... very afraid. I loved my granny too much to not use it. I was worried that I'd offend her. But I didn't sleep at all the whole time I owned it. Then one day my older step brother broke it while playing in my room. I cried outwardly, but was secretly VERY relieved. lol. I also remember non-wireless remote controls. I remember chasing my remote control cars all over the street just to keep from pulling too hard on the cord. And I remember being the remote for the TV. I remember aluminum foil snakes hanging from our TV antenna. Oh wait. I'm looking at a set of those, now. I remember having my left hand smacked by the nuns when I would write with it. I'm right handed now. I also remember staying home by myself from the age of 7 on. Sometimes for multiple days while my mom was in the hospital. No one called DFS. Instead, the neighbors looked in on me. I remember snow days. Good, old fashioned, snow days. With sleds, and carrot-nosed snow men, and neighborhood kids playing on the best hills, no matter whose yard we were in. I remember yards before privacy fences.
On snow days we hung out at the park a few blocks from my house. It had the best hill. If you hit those bumps just right, you were airborne. We spent most of the winter there, snow days or not. Come to think of it, we spent most of the year there. It had a basketball court & baseball diamond at the bottom of the hill & playground equipment at the top. I remember playing full contact football, on the hill, with all the kids in the neighborhood (boys & girls). I don't see much of that now. It's kind of sad that our kids may not get to have memories like that. Life was just so much easier and more carefree back then.
NOT FAIR!!! I just found this thread and you've already said all the "good" ones!!! Listening to "The Monkey" records and being "go-go dancers" to them. My grandma writing my cousin and I a note so we could buy her cigarettes down at the corner store (!!!), and buying candy with the change. This was just a few blocks away from Ohio State University, and it just amazes me how we use to "run" those streets, even then! Going to Grandma's house, and being bored while the adults either watched "Peyton Place", or talked about the latest thing that was happening on "Peyton Place". "Dark Shadows" when it first came out! (Barnabas Collins and Angelique!) Donny Osmond's first hit..."Sweet and Innocent" or "Go Away Little Girl"...I don't remember which, but it was one of those! Michael Jackson when he was the "little brother"..."Got To Be There", and watching "The Jackson Five" cartoon on Saturday Mornings. When Saturday Morning Cartoons was safe to watch.... My mom complaining when gas went to over 50 cents a gallon Disney World opening being built Watching "The Wonderful World of Disney" on Sunday nights Drive-In Theaters Trick-or-Treating until after dark!!! Riding a bike WITHOUT a helmet, and NO ONE CARED!!! Squeezing 10 or more cousins in the back of the station wagon, and not worrying about buckling up Wearing dresses to school EVERY DAY! White gloves being worn to church
That whole writing a note for cigarettes thing allowed my sister to start smoking young. She'd write a note asking the gas station guy to sell them to me, and she'd sign it with our mom's name. I'd walk to the gas station, by myself, and they'd sell them to me without a question.
I can remember when Colour TV was not taken for granted. I can remember separate water fountains at the mall. I can remember the first video games that left a stripe on the TV if you played them too much. Blip, blip, .......blop, blip.......blop. Then there was the fancy one that also went Blip blip, blop, blipblop, blopblip, blip, blip also. I remember when wall to wall carpeting was the rage, now folks want tile again. I remember when every living room had a set of "glass grapes" on the table. Captain Kangaroo, Mr. Green Jeans, The Electric Company, and all of the cartoon shorts about educational topics like Conjunction Junction, I,m Just a Bill and others.
Loved Captain Kangaroo, The Electric Company, and 3 2 1 Contact! I remember when we got a microwave, the beginning of MTV, and when we got cable and HBO. I most loved being able to be out in my neighborhood and not being afraid(but still aware). I knew everyone and could walk to school and play in the neighborhood. *Sigh* I wish my kids had that luxury. We had green shag carpet and green appliances. EEK! I have a green fridge right now! Oh, and Big Wheels, Donny and Marie Dolls, and when Annie was at the movies.
We had two-toned blue shag carpet in our bedrooms. My parents re-carpeted the other parts of the house, but I had that carpet until college. We saved one piece in the bathroom closet because we knew there would come a day when our kids would not believe us!
Two-tone orange shag!!! I got it when I was around 7th grade. I painted the walls yellow, with orange shelves and painted the closet door orange. Oh, and I had a poster of the Donny Osmond on the ceiling, because I got the album for my birthday and didn't have wall space for it. So my really-cool aunt suggested that.... Oh, and I remember when everything was "groovy", which, of course, preceeded everything being "far out"!
Our living room carpet was three-tone--yellow, orange, and brown. We got rid of then when I was about 6, though. But I guess we just loved that blue too much!
I received an e-mail today that reminded me of other things to add to this post. 1. No panty hose - we had girdles to hold them up. 2. Top Value trading stamps 3. Laundry detergents had free glasses or dish towels in it. 4. No safety caps on medicine 5. Prefixes on our telephone numbers - Glendale 6-1111 6. Roller skate keys 7. Dive in movies 8. It you got too close to a boy/girl you would get "cooties". Back down memory lane.
I received an e-mail today that reminded me of other things to add to this post. 1. No panty hose - we had girdles to hold them up. 2. Top Value trading stamps 3. Laundry detergents had free glasses or dish towels in it. 4. No safety caps on medicine 5. Prefixes on our telephone numbers - Glendale 6-1111 6. Roller skate keys 7. Dive in movies 8. It you got too close to a boy/girl you would get "cooties". Back down memory lane again.
How about Blue Chip Stamps? I remember those from when I was little. And that Conjunction Junction reminded me of Petticoat Junction! And Mr. Ed, the famous horse of course!
Doea anyone remember the shows on Nickelodeon back in the 80's called Belle & Sebastian and also Today's Special? I can't find anyone who remembers these! I loved these shows. What about The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis, Car 54 Where Are You, Dragnet, Get Smart? Now I watched some of these in reruns on Nick at Night back in the 80's but I loved them. I remember I had a little blue record player that looked like a suitcase. I would carry it around and play my favorite 45. It was Saturday Night by teh Bay City Rollers. I dont' know the exact year but I know it was in teh 70's because I was living in Sharpstown in Houston at the time.
