Robb, you too? LOL! What was with the parents in those days? My old brother was dressed as a cowboy and made to sit on a rocking horse for one of his formal pictures at around age 4 LOL!
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Does anyone remember the waxed toilet paper such as Izal that was still common in the UK during the 60s? Touring American artists would often complain about it and could not believe that we used such an uncomfortable product. I don't know if any other country used this.
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That sailor suit photo of mine was from 1949. So, they were doing that for many years. My cousin, who shared a bedroom with me, had a cowboy suit, and took a picture on a rocking horse. I had a cowboy outfit, too, but never took a studio photo in it.
Marv, what's with the four letter word?
Remember this..............
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Yeah, I remember. On the commercial, the foil burst open when it was finished. The first time we bought Jiffy Pop, we thought that was how it was supposed to work and wound up making the whole crib stink of burnt popcorn for days.
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If you mean Winnipeg, I don't think so, but don't know. I'm still in The Netherlands. I don't go to Canada until November.
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They may well have had some snow already, but probably not a big storm. And it probably has melted away. If Manitoba got snow, then Alberta and Saskatchewan must have as well. We used to get our first appreciable snow in October. We started laying down our ice in the backyard rink, in October.
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;) If I'd have tried that in winter, early spring or fall, even for just a half hour, my parents would have had a fit, and I'd have had to shovel tonnes of coal into the furnace, to get the house's temperature back to livable [[55 degrees F). And my neighbours wouldn't have heard it, anyway, as their windows would have been closed, in any case..
Remember when we would refer to a hot chick as...a badd mama jamma?
Hey tomatotom,do you know what the term[phat]refers to?
Oh just checking,this thread is called[remember when]so you may read some things that aren't familiar.
What was the worst Winter you all remember where you live or lived?
All of the winters in the sixties were bad,of course i was a kid in the early sixties so it was fun for me and my pals.
Yes those were rough, especially the Winter of 1967,but the 70s were absolutely the worst in Michigan, Ohio and Southern Ontario Canada. I'd have to say that Winter 1977-78 with the Great Blizzard of '78 kicking off that January was the worst. I've lived through blizzards in different years ,but nothing like that one. This was a very familiar sight for about 2 weeks:
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Hey that looks like the inside of grady's freezer.
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In Winnipeg in 1949-50, we had a tough winter. It was very cold, with extend periods below 30 degrees below zero, and both early and late heavy snowfalls from October to April. Then in late April and May, we had terrible flooding.
We had lots of winters back then with extended periods of Polar weather, others of lots of heavy snowfalls. Real winter was a normal occurrence back in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. We had more than 60 below zero several times and lots of cold wind, where unprotected skin would freeze. Sometimes we were colder than large parts of Mars! ;) I used to ski to school [[like they do in Norway.
There were a handful of really cold winters I remember in Europe. I think 1989 [[or was it '87?) we had well below zero temperatures in places that it hadn't gotten so cold in a long time, like The islands in Denmark, Coastal Norway, The coast of Holland and Friesland, and they had a three foot snow dumping in Southern England. Also, we had another cold year in the early 1990s.
I also remember a couple really cold winters and other snowy winters in Chicago in the '50s, '60s and '70s.
They still get some pretty good floods in Manitoba. I think the coldest January for us was January 1977 where the temps were like 25-28 below zero for whole weeks at a time. In 1982 we got a pretty good blizzard in Denver with about 23 inches and in January 1996 I measured 34 inches of snow at my house on Long Island.
When I was in the eighth grade, we had a blizzard so bad, they closed the schools for two weeks. Learning from the year before when something similar happened, the school board arranged to have kids go to another school two days a week in the second week instead of staying home. My junior high school went to class at our rivals, Roosevelt Junior High. The second day, we had a fire alarm ring out. We all rushed out, glad for the break in our day. When we got outside and lined up, we were pelted by hundreds of snowballs. The Roosevelt kids had made a bunch and set the trap to perfection.
It was hilarious. I guess it beats what they'd do today, which would probably be to mow us down with AR-15s.
How many here used to actually go home for lunch in elementary school?
There many times I had to climb out of an upstairs window with a snow shovel, and make my way to outside the front or back door, and shovel away snow so we could get out, and then shovel snow away from the other doors.
We kept a couple snow shovels in the tall cabinet in the back porch entry, so we didn't need to clear the garage door area first [[as that was a lot more) shoveling.
Yep, we had a ball because there was always a group of us,laughing and joning[making fun of each other]..as stevie once said-i wish those days could come back again!!
Hey robb,you make a good point about shoveling your neighbors yards, back then folks looked out for one another,and i still shovel my neighbors yard today and they shovel mine.