Remember when?

[marv2]

That site brought back some childhood memories. My favorites were:
Surfside 6
77 Sunset Strip
Bourbon Street Beat
Adventures in Paradise
Hawaiian Eye
Peter Gunn
and my favorite....Thriller

I loved "Thriller" and "Peter Gunn".

[robb_k]

I loved "Thriller" and "Peter Gunn".

I grew up at the end of the 1940s and through the '50s. Most people in Winnipeg didn't have TV in their homes until 1955 or '56. There weren't a lot of great TV series back then. I watched "Science Fiction Theatre", "Hopalong Cassidy", "The Lone Ranger", "Sergeant Preston of The Yukon", "Tales of Adventure", "The Last of The Mohicans", "Hudson's Bay", but mainly, what was good was all the old films from the 1920s through 1940s [[on CBC, not broken by commercials).

[arr&bee]

Right on lakeside,hawaiian eye was my fav detective flick,with the too cute connie stevens.

[arr&bee]

Remember when[mannix]was so cool because had a phone in his car?

[marv2]

Remember when[mannix]was so cool because had a phone in his car?

Yeah and his assistant, Peggy [[Gail Fisher). I got my first phone installed in the car in 1995 while living in Boston. LOL!

[arr&bee]

And i bet you had a cute girl named-peggy,you rascal-hehe!!

[marv2]

And i bet you had a cute girl named-peggy,you rascal-hehe!!

Her name was Chandra actually.................................heheheheh ehe!

[lakeside]

Never had a car phone. I was lucky to have a car!

[marv2]

Never had a car phone. I was lucky to have a car!

I got my first car phone while living in Boston in 1995 from Bell Atlantic! It took them 4 hours to install it. LOL!

[lakeside]

Remember phone booths? Are there any left?

[arr&bee]

remember phone booths? Are there any left?

greasy grady has one in back of his eatery,it's for emergencies only...and there's always a long line!!

[lakeside]

http://fortune.com/2011/11/29/what-e...pened-to-tang/

Anyone remember 'Tang'. That was a big deal when I was a kid. I think a single
serving had something like 29 gm. of sugar. Diabetic heaven. Then, there
was Hawaiian Punch. Yikes....we drank that stuff?

[sansradio]

http://fortune.com/2011/11/29/what-e...pened-to-tang/

Anyone remember 'Tang'. That was a big deal when I was a kid. I think a single
serving had something like 29 gm. of sugar. Diabetic heaven. Then, there
was Hawaiian Punch. Yikes....we drank that stuff?

Not only do I remember Tang and Hawaiian Punch, but does anyone here remember Keen? It was a Tang-adjacent product from the early-to-mid-70s with a red color.

[lakeside]

Not only do I remember Tang and Hawaiian Punch, but does anyone here remember Keen? It was a Tang-adjacent product from the early-to-mid-70s with a red color.

I've never heard of Keen. I had to look that one up. Interesting. Did it taste like
Kool-aide?
https://clickamericana.com/eras/1960...ixes-kids-1963

[sansradio]

I've never heard of Keen. I had to look that one up. Interesting. Did it taste like
Kool-aide?
https://clickamericana.com/eras/1960...ixes-kids-1963

It was the love child of Kool-Aid, Tang and crack cocaine.

[marv2]

It was the love child of Kool-Aid, Tang and crack cocaine.

LOL!!!!! I was addicted to Kool-Aid too! LOL!

[Jerry Oz]

http://fortune.com/2011/11/29/what-e...pened-to-tang/

Anyone remember 'Tang'. That was a big deal when I was a kid. I think a single
serving had something like 29 gm. of sugar. Diabetic heaven. Then, there
was Hawaiian Punch. Yikes....we drank that stuff?

I used to prefer Hi-C over Hawaiian Punch. But it was super sweet as well.

[lakeside]

Speaking of things to drink. I remember Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill Wine
when I was in college. It was cheap! I think that stuff did brain damage!

[Jerry Oz]

Speaking of things to drink. I remember Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill Wine
when I was in college. It was cheap! I think that stuff did brain damage!

Do you remember when Bartles & Jaymes took the nation by storm with their wine coolers. There's a bunch of them out there now.

[robb_k]

Speaking of things to drink. I remember Boone's Farm Strawberry Hill Wine
when I was in college. It was cheap! I think that stuff did brain damage!

Boone's Farm Blueberry Wine doesn't hold a candle to Manischevitz Blueberry or Blackberry. But all the winos drank it. It was one of the biggest sellers at my father's store on The South Side of Chicago, and then also in his store in The Crenshaw area of L.A.

[arr&bee]

My uncle used to put grape kool-aid in the wine bottle so he wouldn't have to ante up when it was his turn to pay,hehehe!!

[marv2]

My uncle used to put grape kool-aid in the wine bottle so he wouldn't have to ante up when it was his turn to pay,hehehe!!

Now that is a slick trick. LOL!!!!

[robb_k]

Now that is a slick trick. LOL!!!!

That trick wouldn't hold water. He'd have to spike it with a little [[ a few drops of) Pine Sol!

[robb_k]

There was no Tang, Hi-C, or Kool Aid when I was a kid. We had real juice. We didn't even have plastic back then. All our toys were wood and/or metal. No air conditioning in people's houses back then. Not even in offices or department stores. The only place you could go for relief in summer was a movie theatre. You could stay there all day for a quarter if you were under 12. We had a lot more fresh food and drinks back then. My grandparents always had a giant backyard with a little farm [[big vegetable garden and fruit trees). We had lots of fresh fruit juice in late spring, summer, and early fall. We ate almost no packaged food.

[arr&bee]

Right on robb, you were a kid during the classic days,i'm a bit younger[50's-60's]but i too could get into the movies for a quarter and stay all day..one cartoon and two movies and alot of fun.

[Jerry Oz]

Right on robb, you were a kid during the classic days,i'm a bit younger[50's-60's]but i too could get into the movies for a quarter and stay all day..one cartoon and two movies and alot of fun.

I remember going downtown with my sister and brother. A quarter each for us to ride the bus for seven or eight miles and if I recall correctly, it was .75 for tickets to the cinema four double or triple features. It was always typical grindhouse fare: Hammer horror films, blaxploitation, biker movies, Godzilla flicks and b-movies of all make. One day we saw a movie called "The Gruesome Twosome" that no 8, 10 and 12 year olds should ever see. Scenes of people cut open with chain saws, bloody scalps on those foam heads you find in beauty shops, a guy eating someone's liver and straight pins being stuck in someone's eyeball are all indelible memories. We went home and Mom made sloppy Joes that night. I'm pretty sure I didn't sleep. I still wonder why the person at the ticket booth thought it was appropriate to let us in to see that.

[marv2]

I remember going downtown with my sister and brother. A quarter each for us to ride the bus for seven or eight miles and if I recall correctly, it was .75 for tickets to the cinema four double or triple features. It was always typical grindhouse fare: Hammer horror films, blaxploitation, biker movies, Godzilla flicks and b-movies of all make. One day we saw a movie called "The Gruesome Twosome" that no 8, 10 and 12 year olds should ever see. Scenes of people cut open with chain saws, bloody scalps on those foam heads you find in beauty shops, a guy eating someone's liver and straight pins being stuck in someone's eyeball are all indelible memories. We went home and Mom made sloppy Joes that night. I'm pretty sure I didn't sleep. I still wonder why the person at the ticket booth thought it was appropriate to let us in to see that.

The grossiest horror movie we saw was when I was in high school. It was called "Rabid". Totally disgusting LOL!

[lakeside]

The grossiest horror movie we saw was when I was in high school. It was called "Rabid". Totally disgusting LOL!

Wasn't that with Marilyn Chambers, the porn star? If so....yep, it was pretty low rent.

[marv2]

Wasn't that with Marilyn Chambers, the porn star? If so....yep, it was pretty low rent.

Yeah, I think so. I think she is the one that was infecting people with rabies.

[arr&bee]

the grossiest horror movie we saw was when i was in high school. It was called "rabid". Totally disgusting lol!

hey marv,i remember that one,haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!

[arr&bee]

They let you in because your money was green[hehe]remember as kids we would hang with our gang and think that it would never get better.

[marv2]

As a kid in the early to mid 60s we go to the movies in the early afternoon on like a Saturday and stay for hours until my parents finished shopping or whatever they were doing LOL! We generally saw movies like Godzilla eating some city, Elvis in Hawaii or having a "clam bake", Frankie and Annette or some generic horror film. They showed cartoons between the films. Many times we would see the same movie twice in one day. I don't remember the cost but it was definitely under a dollar for kids our age [[5-12 yrs.).

[Jerry Oz]

As a kid in the early to mid 60s we go to the movies in the early afternoon on like a Saturday and stay for hours until my parents finished shopping or whatever they were doing LOL! We generally saw movies like Godzilla eating some city, Elvis in Hawaii or having a "clam bake", Frankie and Annette or some generic horror film. They showed cartoons between the films. Many times we would see the same movie twice in one day. I don't remember the cost but it was definitely under a dollar for kids our age [[5-12 yrs.).

I remember going downtown with my sister and two cousins to see "Let's Do It Again" in a double feature. I don't even remember the second flick. We decided to stick around and watch the main feature a second time [[which you could do back in those days; now, they kick you out) and although we laughed the first time in a half-full theater, the movie seemed to be much funnier with a full house. It's my favorite movie to this day.

[sansradio]

i remember going downtown with my sister and two cousins to see "let's do it again" in a double feature. I don't even remember the second flick. We decided to stick around and watch the main feature a second time [[which you could do back in those days; now, they kick you out) and although we laughed the first time in a half-full theater, the movie seemed to be much funnier with a full house. It's my favorite movie to this day.

"Would you tell this child to take this thing outta my face before I make her eat it?!???!!??!!?"

[Jerry Oz]

"Would you tell this child to take this thing outta my face before I make her eat it?!???!!??!!?"

Man, I have been a Denise Nicholas fan since "Room 222". I think she and Karen Valentine were my first crushes when I was in the second or third grade.

And to tell you how much I love that flick, about 10 years ago, I saw it for the first time after 20 years and I recited every line as if I was reading the script.

[Jerry Oz]

They let you in because your money was green[hehe]remember as kids we would hang with our gang and think that it would never get better.

There was an old porn theater in my neighborhood that somebody bought and fixed up a little. They showed blaxploitation and kung fu movies. One of the very best times of my life was when, in 7th and 8th grade, me and my buddies would drop a dollar and go see something new every Friday night. We saw the best kung fu movies [[which were also the worst kung fu movies, by the way). We saw Pam Grier's boobies on a large screen. We saw all sorts of everything and it was better because I was with my dudes having a great time.

I'll never forget the time when they finally got a copy of Bruce Lee's "Return of the Dragon" [[aka "Way of the Dragon") after advertising it to be coming "next week" for half a year. We all showed up, excited but found that they raised the price that night from $2 to $5 and none of us could afford to go in. We saw older cats dressed up in their best gear walking in with their dates like they were going to the Playa's Ball. I was so pissed off. Sometime in the summer before 9th grade, the city shut down the theater, having found rats and other creepy things crawling around. We didn't see anything with the lights turned off.

[marv2]

In 1964, I saw this movie at the now long gone Rivoli Theater in Downtown Toledo. It gave me nightmares for weeks afterwards it seems:

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[lakeside]

I saw this as a kid and it scared the bejesus out of me when the movie started
they swung a skeleton over the audience suspended on a wire. One of those
William Castle inventions. Started my lifelong fascinations with haunted houses
and the paranormal.

[marv2]

I saw this as a kid and it scared the bejesus out of me when the movie started
they swung a skeleton over the audience suspended on a wire. One of those
William Castle inventions. Started my lifelong fascinations with haunted houses
and the paranormal.

That was one of my favorites too. Never saw it in the theater, but watched it on TV growing up.

[lakeside]

That was one of my favorites too. Never saw it in the theater, but watched it on TV growing up.

Seeing William Castle movies in the theater was a real treat as a kid. It brings to mind
"The Tingler" where they wired the seats to give people a shock. Never saw that one
in the theater, only on TV.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...905-story.html

[marv2]

Seeing William Castle movies in the theater was a real treat as a kid. It brings to mind
"The Tingler" where they wired the seats to give people a shock. Never saw that one
in the theater, only on TV.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment...905-story.html

I was going to mention The Tingler and the special effects they used in theaters. I only got to see it on TV though

[robb_k]

I was going to mention The Tingler and the special effects they used in theaters. I only got to see it on TV though

Didn't they warn potential audiences that if you had a weak heart you shouldn't watch it?

[arr&bee]

Haaaaaaaaaaaa,hey jerry,i went into one of those old moldy movie palaces[hehe]in the late sixties and when something ran across my foot i thought it was a puppy til i looked down...it was no puppy-agghhhhh!!!!!

[lakeside]

[marv2]

That's it! That was the one. I remember we saw it at the AMC Showcase Cinemas in Toledo. It was so gross that more than half of the audience got up and left the theater right in the middle of it.
It was Winter and very cold, so we stand until the bitter end! LOL! BARF!

[arr&bee]

Remember when we got that cute little puppy and we had to drag him down the street on his little lease,and one year later that big shaggy mutt was draging you?

[marv2]

Remember when we got that cute little puppy and we had to drag him down the street on his little lease,and one year later that big shaggy mutt was draging you?

Yep! I had this German Shepard puppy my father got in 1969. By the summer of 1970 we couldn't control him for going after the garbage man. The dog was super strong and super big!

[robb_k]

We had a Samoyed puppy who grew to be quite large. I used to take him for runs in the snow. After he got big, when I took him for runs in the snow, and he'd see an animal to chase, and the hunting instinct took over, he was so strong, I couldn't keep up. He'd forget I had him on a leash. He'd sometimes drag me through the snow for a long way. Lucky those few times the snow was deep, and he didn't pull me into a hidden fallen tree. I might have been gored to death.

[lakeside]

My last Rottie was about 10 lb. at birth! LOL! Not quite. He did reach 135 lbs. at
2 years. All muscle. We went through 12 weeks of confirmation training...which was
a godsend. Only a couple of times I got drug down the street...literally. Actually,
the sweetest dog I ever owned.

[arr&bee]

Today they are called-homeless,but back in the day they were-bums,winos.