Remember when?

[nativeNY63]

Kool Aid, Quisp, King Vitamin, FrankenBerry & Boo Berry cereal, Flavor-Aid, Mallo Bars, Flinstones Vitamins, Pizza Hut Personal Pan pizza, Choco-Bliss, Hostess Orange Cupcakes, McRib.

[marv2]

Tasty Cakes, Drake Cakes, Egg Creams, Jiffy Pop, Orange Aid, Skippy Peanut Butter, Fritos, Chick-lets, Beachnut Gum, Peposident tooth paste, Dentyne,

[arr&bee]

Hey remember that one aunt who always wore too much perfume and at gatherings you were the first one she wanted to hug?

[marv2]

Hey remember that one aunt who always wore too much perfume and at gatherings you were the first one she wanted to hug?

Yeah, My Aunt Odessa and her "Jungle Gardenia" perfume!

[arr&bee]

yeah, my aunt odessa and her "jungle gardenia" perfume!

jungle gardenia-haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

[nativeNY63]

Little Debbie's Oatmeal cakes, Jelly Belly, Chinese apples, Fanta, Fresca, Dr. Pepper, creme soda, Now or Laters, Fruit Stripe gum, Jawbreakers, Boston Baked Beans candy, Grape Heads, Count Chocula cereal, Wheaties, Bubbalisous gum.

[marv2]

Memories of Detroit:

Faygo Red Pop, Bob-Lo Island, Cain's Potato Chips, Vernor's Ginger Ale, Dot & Etta's Shrimp Shack, All American Coney Island Dogs, Bill Kennedy at the Movies, Rita Bell Prize Movies, Tiger Stadium, Fishbones, Phelps Lounge, Chassies, Fairlane Mall, Northland, Belle Isle........

[Jerry Oz]

Faygo Red Pop commercials were classics. Also, Marlboro cigarettes [[Marlboro Man) and Charmin [["please don't squeeze the Charmin" although I never knew why).

And then there were the oddly-named Hostess cake cartoon characters. I always thought they were suggestive in their names: Twinkie the Kid, Captain Cupcake, Fruitpie the Magician, Happy Ho Ho and the very unfortunately named King Dong. Am I the only one who sees double entendre there? Have since I was a little boy.

[arr&bee]

I remember when they opened-j.f.k.playgound in[64]..bobby kennedy himself was there for the dedication,it must've been[10,000]folks that day,the place is still there amazingly,but all the fun was drained long ago.

[marv2]

I remember when they opened-j.f.k.playgound in[64]..bobby kennedy himself was there for the dedication,it must've been[10,000]folks that day,the place is still there amazingly,but all the fun was drained long ago.

JAI was that in D.C.? I remember a many elementary schools being named after MLK, JFK and RFK after their deaths.

[nativeNY63]

JAI was that in D.C.? I remember a many elementary schools being named after MLK, JFK and RFK after their deaths.

Along with streets and blvds.

[arr&bee]

JAI was that in D.C.? I remember a many elementary schools being named after MLK, JFK and RFK after their deaths.

Yeah Marv,it's still standing somewhat renovated on 7th st in D.C.

[marv2]

Yeah Marv,it's still standing somewhat renovated on 7th st in D.C.

My sister and brother in law were in D.C. about 2 months ago. I need to get back there for a visit. It was always one of my favorite places. Some good,good memories from D.C. and Baltimore!

[marv2]

Faygo Red Pop commercials were classics. Also, Marlboro cigarettes [[Marlboro Man) and Charmin [["please don't squeeze the Charmin" although I never knew why).

And then there were the oddly-named Hostess cake cartoon characters. I always thought they were suggestive in their names: Twinkie the Kid, Captain Cupcake, Fruitpie the Magician, Happy Ho Ho and the very unfortunately named King Dong. Am I the only one who sees double entendre there? Have since I was a little boy.

I can see it now, but as a kid? I would have never! LOL!!!!!

[arr&bee]

That's because you're either smarter than the rest of us or...nastier-hehehehehehhe!!!

[marv2]

That's because you're either smarter than the rest of us or...nastier-hehehehehehhe!!!

I didn't say that.....but you did! LOL!!!!!

[nativeNY63]

Commercials:
Where's the Beef?, Calgon take me away, Ancient Chinese secret huh?, You deserve a break today, Twoallbeefpattiesspecialsaucelettucecheesepickleso nionsonasesameseedbun, It's the real thing, I'd like to buy the world a Coke, The Un-Cola, That's what you get at Burger Chef.

[marv2]

I use to love this one:

[nativeNY63]

Chemistry sets, Lincoln Logs, Erector Sets, Wham-O, mini electrical circuit boards, Rockum Sockum Robots, Silly String.

Tv -
Super Friends & the Legion of Doom, Mickey Mouse Club, Gigantor, Frankenstein Jr., Baggy Pants and the Nitwits, Captain Caveman & the Teen Angels, The Wonder Twins, The Sid & Marty Croft Hour, Romper Room, Johnny Quest.

[Jerry Oz]

Chemistry sets, Lincoln Logs, Erector Sets, Wham-O, mini electrical circuit boards, Rockum Sockum Robots, Silly String.

Tv -
Super Friends & the Legion of Doom, Mickey Mouse Club, Gigantor, Frankenstein Jr., Baggy Pants and the Nitwits, Captain Caveman & the Teen Angels, The Wonder Twins, The Sid & Marty Croft Hour, Romper Room, Johnny Quest.

Electric trains, Slinky, Slime, Play-Doh, electric football boards, the 64 pack of Crayola, G.I. Joe, toy soldiers...

TV-Space Ghost, the Monkees, Banana Splits, Lance Link [[Secret Chimp), Jonny Quest, Tennessee Tuxedo, Go-Go Gophers, Mr. Peabody & Sherman...

[marv2]

Action Jackson, Etch-A-Sketch, View masters, Ka Knockers, Spy Rings, Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots, Pogo Sticks, Speed Racer, Hot Wheels, Cecil & Beanie, Huckaberry Hound, Quick Draw McGraw, Atom Ant, Mighty Mouse, Top Cat, Groovy Ghoulies, Davey & Goliath, Crusader Rabbit............

[Jerry Oz]

...You sunk my battleship! It takes two hands to handle a Whopper, McDonald's is my mind of place, Finger Licking Good, Air hockey, Pong, Space Invaders, Donkey Kong, Pac Man, New Wave, Moog synthesizers, Roland TR-808, CBGB, boom boxes, Kangol Hats, adidas shoes...

[marv2]

Polaroid instamatic, Tide and Clorox, Arm & Hammer baking soda, Ivory soap, Ipanema Tooth paste, Hai Karate, Raleigh cigarettes, Strongheart dog food, Old Dutch Pretzel sticks, Double Bubble gum, Bazooka bubble gum, Burger Chef, Hardees, Sealtest Ice Cream, Peyton Place ........

[Jerry Oz]

Car phones that were the size of a load of bread, CB radios, 8-tracks, rooftop TV antennas, white wall tires, regular gas, car hop service at restaurants, paying a dime at the swimming pool, calling "shotgun", spending all day with your friends in the Summer, sneaking home after spending all day with your friends in the Summer, ripping the cellophane from the record that you just purchased and broke several laws flying home to hear, your excitement when you heard something great on that record before anybody you knew was aware that it existed, listening to the mix tape for the first time that it took you four hours to make, busting out of church on Sunday afternoon feeling like you just got paroled...

[marv2]

Car phones that were the size of a load of bread, CB radios, 8-tracks, rooftop TV antennas, white wall tires, regular gas, car hop service at restaurants, paying a dime at the swimming pool, calling "shotgun", spending all day with your friends in the Summer, sneaking home after spending all day with your friends in the Summer, ripping the cellophane from the record that you just purchased and broke several laws flying home to hear, your excitement when you heard something great on that record before anybody you knew was aware that it existed, listening to the mix tape for the first time that it took you four hours to make, busting out of church on Sunday afternoon feeling like you just got paroled...

I got my first "mobile phone" in 1994. Big as shoe! I got my first "car phone" in 1995 in Boston. It took up the whole front seat console between seats. They gave me a mic attached to the sun visor so that I could drive and talk hands free. 8 Tracks always sucked! I miss seeing the rooftop TV antennas. Where did they all go? Who went up on all the houses and took them down?

[nativeNY63]

I got my first "mobile phone" in 1994. Big as shoe! I got my first "car phone" in 1995 in Boston. It took up the whole front seat console between seats. They gave me a mic attached to the sun visor so that I could drive and talk hands free. 8 Tracks always sucked! I miss seeing the rooftop TV antennas. Where did they all go? Who went up on all the houses and took them down?

Marv, I still got a rooftop antenna on my house! By the time I get it down, it'll be back in style! Like everything else nowadays.

[Jerry Oz]

Marv, I still got a rooftop antenna on my house! By the time I get it down, it'll be back in style! Like everything else nowadays.

Makes me thing about how my dad bought a satellite dish about six months after I moved out of the house. That thing was probably seven feet across and pulled in feeds from all over the world. I was mad because if he'd bought it earlier, I would never have left. To make it worse, my big brother moved home from California and got my bedroom AND the benefit of watching every basketball and baseball game [[in addition to all of the country's superstations) that I missed out on. C'est la vie.

My folks had to pay somebody to come salvage and remove that thing about 10 years ago. It was obsolete since all of the satellites began encrypting their feeds. I guess using the little dish from Directv and paying a monthly fee was more economically sound than paying some guy $100 or so every month or so when their box got scrambled again.

[marv2]

Makes me thing about how my dad bought a satellite dish about six months after I moved out of the house. That thing was probably seven feet across and pulled in feeds from all over the world. I was mad because if he'd bought it earlier, I would never have left. To make it worse, my big brother moved home from California and got my bedroom AND the benefit of watching every basketball and baseball game [[in addition to all of the country's superstations) that I missed out on. C'est la vie.

My folks had to pay somebody to come salvage and remove that thing about 10 years ago. It was obsolete since all of the satellites began encrypting their feeds. I guess using the little dish from Directv and paying a monthly fee was more economically sound than paying some guy $100 or so every month or so when their box got scrambled again.

Jerry, we always had rooftop antennas when I was growing up until I got to Jr. High. That's when my father got one of those antenna towers that go up from the ground past the roof of the house. The tower was connected to the TV and to a control box inside. You could turn the antenna in the direction you wanted just by turning the dial on the box. I had to use it most when it would get late if I wanted certain Canadian tv channels. That tower still stand behind my mother's house near her driveway.

[nativeNY63]

Hopscotch, marbles, Jacks, dart boards [[metal tip darts!), Operation, Stratego, Uno, sandlot football, playing H.O.R.S.E. or 21, cops & robbers, cowboys & indians, stickball, handball.

Tv -
Welcome Back Kotter, Gomer Pyle USMC, My Three Sons, Family Affair, Mayberry RFD, F -Troop.

[nativeNY63]

Howard Johnson's, Holiday Inn, Coney Island, Palisades Park, Jones Beach, Circle Line, walking up the circular stairs in the Statue of Liberty, Twin Towers [[WTC) Observation Deck, playing in the water from an open water hydrant in Summer, napping on the fire escape.

[marv2]

Howard Johnson's, Holiday Inn, Coney Island, Palisades Park, Jones Beach, Circle Line, walking up the circular stairs in the Statue of Liberty, Twin Towers [[WTC) Observation Deck, playing in the water from an open water hydrant in Summer, napping on the fire escape.

Cedar Point! Bob- Lo Island, Kings Island, Sea Word, Geauga Lake, Ellich Gardens. I've been to the top or the crown of the Statue of Liberty. Had my birthday party in the public gardens at the Twin Towers in 1998.

[Jerry Oz]

More TV:
CBS' Saturday night lineup: All In The Family, The Jeffersons, Mary Tyler Moore Show, Bob Newhart Show, Carol Burnett Show. Greatest night in TV history. And for a while, MASH was in there as well.

NBC's Thursday night lineup: Cosby Show, Family Ties, Cheers, Night Court, Hill Street Blues. Second greatest night in TV history.

Other personal notables:
Greatest comedy of all time: Sanford & Son
Greatest science fiction show: Twilight Zone [[followed by X-Files and Lost)
Greatest drama of all time: Hill Street Blues and St. Elsewhere
First crush: Denise Nicholas and Karen Valentine [[Room 222)

[marv2]

More TV:
CBS' Saturday night lineup: All In The Family, The Jeffersons, Mary Tyler Moore Show, Bob Newhart Show, Carol Burnett Show. Greatest night in TV history. And for a while, MASH was in there as well.

NBC's Thursday night lineup: Cosby Show, Family Ties, Cheers, Night Court, Hill Street Blues. Second greatest night in TV history.

Other personal notables:
Greatest comedy of all time: Sanford & Son
Greatest science fiction show: Twilight Zone [[followed by X-Files and Lost)
Greatest drama of all time: Hill Street Blues and St. Elsewhere
First crush: Denise Nicholas and Karen Valentine [[Room 222)

Friday Night line up in the Fall of 1969:

Brady Bunch, Partridge Family, Room 222, Courtship of Eddie's Father, Love American Style. This change up some but these were the core shows I enjoyed.

[marv2]

I bought the DVD set of Room 222. Later on in the 70s, one of my favorite shows was "James at 15, then James at 16". Great underrated show.

[Jerry Oz]

I have the Sanford & Son box set. Love it. Also have the That's My Mama complete DVDs. Need to dust them off, plug in my DVD player and watch them soon. I wish I could find Frank's Place [[also a very underrated show) and Baby, I'm Back.

[marv2]

I have the Sanford & Son box set. Love it. Also have the That's My Mama complete DVDs. Need to dust them off, plug in my DVD player and watch them soon. I wish I could find Frank's Place [[also a very underrated show) and Baby, I'm Back.

I really liked "Baby I'm Back" and of course "What's Happening", along with Welcome Back Kotter" and "Barney Miller".

[Jerry Oz]

Seriously, you have to be my brother from another mother, marv. I was going to list that lineup but then I saw Sanford & Son ran against the Brady Bunch a couple years later and couldn't write anything that might indicate I wasn't Fred Sanford's #1 homeboy. But we watched those shows on ABC religiously as little kids.

Also, Lincoln Hayes was one of our biggest role models on The Mod Squad. I still get excited when I see Clarence Williams III on something. And is it me, or did Peggy Lipton get prettier the older she grew? How did Q mess that up?

[marv2]

Seriously, you have to be my brother from another mother, marv. I was going to list that lineup but then I saw Sanford & Son ran against the Brady Bunch a couple years later and couldn't write anything that might indicate I wasn't Fred Sanford's #1 homeboy. But we watched those shows on ABC religiously as little kids.

Also, Lincoln Hayes was one of our biggest role models on The Mod Squad. I still get excited when I see Clarence Williams III on something. And is it me, or did Peggy Lipton get prettier the older she grew? How did Q mess that up?

Peggy Lipton was hot, hands down! She didn't even have to strip on the show to keep your attention. She was just mad, cool sexy to me. We all use to say "Linc Hayyeeess.....! LOL!

[Jerry Oz]

Frank's Place was criminally underrated. CBS played around with its time slot and made it hard to find. Two seasons of the most African-American television that ever aired. Loved this show to death and haven't seen anything like it before or since.

[marv2]

Frank's Place was criminally underrated. CBS played around with its time slot and made it hard to find. Two seasons of the most African-American television that ever aired. Loved this show to death and haven't seen anything like it before or since.

That was one of the better shows in the 80's. That and "Crime Story".

[nativeNY63]

I bought the DVD set of Room 222. Later on in the 70s, one of my favorite shows was "James at 15, then James at 16". Great underrated show.

I thought I dreamt the James dramas! Thanks for reassuring me. Seared in my memory banks! The kid who played James was a young actor with alot of range, I remember.

[marv2]

I thought I dreamt the James dramas! Thanks for reassuring me. Seared in my memory banks! The kid who played James was a young actor with alot of range, I remember.

That was Lance Kerwin. I think I really related to that show and to him because he was the exact same age as I was. I was also in high school at that time. I watched it every week. Lance also starred in "Salem's Lot" one of the scariest made for TV movies ever.

[nativeNY63]

Seriously, you have to be my brother from another mother, marv. I was going to list that lineup but then I saw Sanford & Son ran against the Brady Bunch a couple years later and couldn't write anything that might indicate I wasn't Fred Sanford's #1 homeboy. But we watched those shows on ABC religiously as little kids.

Also, Lincoln Hayes was one of our biggest role models on The Mod Squad. I still get excited when I see Clarence Williams III on something. And is it me, or did Peggy Lipton get prettier the older she grew? How did Q mess that up?

Jer, I feel the same about CWIII! Case in point: Check out his toooo brief role in The Butler. And YES! Peggy Lipton did bring the pretty since Mod Squad. At the time, that's what hooked me on the show! Well, you know Q is like 300 yrs. old. So I wasn't surprised by the break up. Remember the rambling monologue he gave on MJ & the music industry a few years ago?

[nativeNY63]

I really liked "Baby I'm Back" and of course "What's Happening", along with Welcome Back Kotter" and "Barney Miller".

And the spin-off of Barney, Fish [[Abe Vigoda).

[marv2]

And the spin-off of Barney, Fish [[Abe Vigoda).

Yep! I think that was Todd Bridges first role. Do you remember the fat kid that played on that show? He was hilarious.

[Jerry Oz]

And the spin-off of Barney, Fish [[Abe Vigoda).

Fish was too funny. Both the show and the character. Abe Vigoda was born to play fish like Carroll O'Connor was born to play Archie Bunker and Sherman Helmsley was the perfect George Jefferson. ABC did not give the show the chance it deserved to catch on.

[marv2]

"James" [[Lance Kerwin) is not 15 anymore! LOL!

[marv2]

Watched this every week:

[marv2]

Great memories here.....

[arr&bee]

Meeting a new girl while cruising on your bike,and thinking about her all day.