Do you remember the 60's?

Does anyone remember Mexican Jumping Beans? What a deal THOSE were!! If you held them in your hand until they warmed up, they were supposed to "jump" around. And what about sea monkeys and Archie comics. Great fun! When I was about 5 years old, I had a Suzy Smart doll. Does anyone else remember her? She was a talking doll who came with her own school desk and blackboard. She had several different sayings, and the one she seemed to repeat most often was "2+2 is 4". Great memories!
Dawn <wage-endower@home.com>
ID USA - Friday, November 10, 2000 at 19:22:25 (EST)

Born 1951- Do you remember Patty-playpal? She also had a brother named Peter Play-pal. How about bazooka bubble gum. It came wrapped in a comic where you could save so many, and order toy's from them? They also had a chance to win a pony. My mother was scared to death that I"d win one, as we lived in the city. Life was so much easier then. Kids had to use thier imaginations, and our parents had to fight to get us to come in at night. Now, we fight to get the kids to go outside! There was also tons of teased hair, and funky eye glasses. Does anyone remember Chum-Gum? I once went on a class trip to Museum Village, in New York. My mother had given me two dollars, and I spent it all on Chum-Gum. I can still taste it! The movie, The Attack Of The Fifty Foot Woman, was one of the movies I liked the best. There was also a movie about a fifty foot man. The Mickey Mouse club, Captain Kangaroo, and later The Soupy Sales show, were also favorites. Lincoln logs were in, and high top converse allstar sneakers. They had to be red! Another thing that was really there, was a Suzy Snowdoll. Mine was red. I guess I liked that color. Tiny Tears, skate keys, and Give A Show Projector, were pretty neat. Oh, to be back there again just for a day!!!!!!!!!
Ellie <tommyduh@aol.com>
Venice, USA - Sunday, November 05, 2000 at 09:26:42 (EST)

Does anyone remember a battery-operated 45 RPM record player you carried around with you. You popped in a 45 and it was ejected when thru. You could carry it upright, in the seat of the car, and it hardly ever skipped. It was kind of oblong in shape and came in hot colors. I think these came out in 1967, 68 or 68, bit I can't remember what they were called.
Teri Johnson <excel2thet@myexcel.com>
USA - Wednesday, October 04, 2000 at 23:13:40 (EDT)

One of my favorite bands was the Creedence Clear Water Revival! Do you remember my favorite songs of the Creedence? Fortunate Son, Green River, It came out of the sky, Lodi, Run through that Jungle, Long as I can see the light, Lookin out my back door, Have you ever seen the rain,& Proud Mary. What about those cars. My favortie 1962 Ford Falcon Ranchero ( uglist vechile Ive ever seen, but I love them) Restoring one. I love the beetles. TOYS!!! Do you remember Gumbi? I really liked the web site.. One last thing Bull handle bars and banana seats!!
Mark A. Jones <FroggyJones@cs.com>
Palmyra, In USA - Sunday, September 03, 2000 at 00:15:31 (EDT)

1963-64 I remember being told that the Beatles wouldn't last a year while Alabama Governor George Wallace was proclaiming that segregation would last forever. Nobody used the word "pregnant" on TV and radio stations would "refuse" to play some keen new song that you heard about. Late at night, I could sit in my room and tune in distant radio stations like WLS in Chicago. I felt socially "stigmatized" when my folks split-up. Divorce was a rarity amongst the common folk of 1963. I believed that astronauts really were "supermen" and that the United States would win the Viet Nam war in a year or two. Loretta Young's TV show was sooo good. So was Jackie Gleason, Arthur Godfrey and Art Linkletter. What a special age we wre living in and it was "destined" to get better thanks to technology. I was certain that I would be living on the moon by the year 2000. At grammar school, I loved getting MY WEEKLY READER. It was all about the cool future we were going to have because grown ups were doing such neat things in the early 1960's. Space travel, the Space Needle, the AstroDome, and the new "small" computers wre going to make life better and better. Everything was "new and improved". Some people wanted to use nuclear bombs to dig a new canal across the middle of Florida back then. And how about those futuristic transparent domes that would one day cover our cities and keep the "harmful" forces of nature out of our environment. The world has really changed. Mostly for the better, I think.
Jim McDade <moonshot@uab.edu>
Birmingham, AL USA - Thursday, August 24, 2000 at 17:02:32 (EDT)

I was born in 1956. I remember Diver Dan ("He protects and he saves his friends under the waves. That's where you'll find Diver Dan"), the Sandy Becker Show and Claude Kirchner (the ringmaster). I remember wax lips, candy necklaces, dots (dots of candy on a strip of white paper), fluffer nutter, Ronzoni sonobuoni, Veep ("Veep never spoils your appetite"), Vivarin ("Get a little lift from Vivarin"), the Maxwell House coffee percolator. My favorite toys: Patty Play Pal, Tearie Dearie, Chatty Cathy, Etch a Sketch, Spirograph, Silly Putty, Tammy doll, Give A Show projector, Operation, Shirley Temple doll. AHHH! The memories.
MTW315 <mtw315@aol.com>
NY USA - Wednesday, August 09, 2000 at 14:37:06 (EDT)

Who remembers the Bupkis?, a rubbery humpty dumpty creature aprox. 4" high. Came out in the 60's (in N.J. anyway) I think by Berry creations and contained some lovely toxic solvent that took the varnish off all my parents best furniture (they still have a few peices with Bupkis butt prints intact.) I still have one but can't find any mention of them anywhere. Anyone else?
carole biondello <talata@continet.com>
eugene, oregon USA - Sunday, July 16, 2000 at 17:39:11 (EDT)

Here in the office we keep discussing this toy/fad that we can't remember the name of. It was a funny looking doll type of thing and the arms and legs had a clip in it that fit around your arm or leg. They came in all different colors and the girls would wear them all over their arms and legs. Does anybody know what I am talking about? This would have been in the early 60's
Kathy Moyer <Kathy_Moyer@nih.gov>
Bethesda, MD USA - Tuesday, July 11, 2000 at 12:22:40 (EDT)

I WANT HOT GUYS PICHURES NEXT 2 THERE LYRIC AND HAVE THEM ONLY BE SEXY
MISTY <ANGELBB014>
LOVES PARK, IL USA - Thursday, June 29, 2000 at 14:19:40 (EDT)

Anybody remember "Earthborne Shampoo" with all of it's different scents? The "Pop Shoppe" soda's?
B Ricketson <brendonr35@hotmail.com>
Austin, TX USA - Saturday, June 24, 2000 at 13:13:41 (EDT)

Looking over your site was alot of fun and brought back tons of memories such as cars of that time came standard with V-8's and seatbelts (no shoulder strap, only lap belt) was an option!!! No airbags back then only a metal dashboard painted the same color as the exterior. Back then you could buy gas and pay at the pump just like today only then you gave cash money to the guy that filled your tank with gas, checked your oil and cleaned the windshield, at a good place they even checked the air in the tires. No self serve then. The gas choice was Ethyl or Regular and Amoco was known as Standard. Just think, the cars had huge v8's, all metal construction, no seat belts, no plastic parts and the paint on the car as well as the gasoline contained lead and we lived to tell about it. As far as tv in the Chicago area we had Ray Rayner weekday mornings with his Cuddly Duddly puppet dog who read jokes that viewers sent in. He had a pet duck Chelviston and a director he called Chauncey. Cartoons and shows I remember watching that I didnt see listed here are HR Puff-n-Stuff, Dasterdly Doright, as well as Quick Draw McGraw with his sidekick Bobba Louie
Mike <sellat69@aol.com>
St. Charles, IL USA - Thursday, June 08, 2000 at 04:01:24 (EDT)

Do you remember the bobo the clown punching bag that has the squeak nose. Do you have any pictures of that to show me?
john baker <jnb68@ yahoo.com>
hilton head , sc USA - Saturday, May 27, 2000 at 17:03:57 (EDT)

I remember the talking bugs bunny the first one had EVER MADe DO you have a pichure of that?
john baker <jnb68@YAHOO>
HILTON HEAD, SC USA - Sunday, May 14, 2000 at 15:13:13 (EDT)

I remember...The original 6 "Funny Face" characters: Goofy Grape, Injun Orange*, Freckle-Face Strawberry, Chinese Cherry*, Loud-Mouth Lime & Rootin' Tootin' Raspberry. (* - These flavors were replaced by the more P.C. "Jolly Ollie Orange" and "Choo-Choo Cherry"). I still remember the TV jingle. Quisp & Quake. Giant Ouija Boards; they had to have been at least 30 inches long! The heart was still the same size, though. The Original Schraper Cootie Game. When the lead pipe in the CLUE game was actually made out of lead. The SOMA Cube. Saccrine. When cartoons were aired during prime-time. Leonard Nemoy singing "Billfold" (and making a total --- out of himself) on a TV show called "Where the Action Is", which was sort of like "American Bandstand", but on the beach. Moola Coola ("The softdrink that comes from cows"). Rock'em Sock'em Robots ("You knocked my block off!"). Who's the Funny Man? ("Which - one - will - it - be?"). I hated that show. Cool McCool. Army men. When we were kids, we didn't have much toys so we played with DIRT, or DIRT accessories like Army men. Creepy Crawlers and the psuedo-food-like Incredible Edibles. Wishniks. Nifty Notebooks. Slide Rules. I still have a few of them. Barrel of Monkeys - the giant version, with 6-inch monkeys in a huge canister. Charles' Chips (and Charles' Pretzels).B&W TV sets with no UHF knob.When AM Radio was "cool".Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass (The Lonely Bull, Volume Two, South of the Border, Whipped Cream and Other Delights, Going Places...). This may sound crazy, but I remember my parents having one of these albums in tape format; not a cassette, not an 8-track, but something that looked liked a very thick floppy disk! Does anyone else remember this, or do I just have a short circuit? Keds tennis shoes. A 'Flesh' Crayola Crayon. Reiter & Hart milk (which is now just plain Reiter). Mumbley Peg and Jacks. "This is a test. This is only a test." Record players... MONO record players with the "16" and "78" speeds. 45-RPM adapters. Why they called it a phone "dial". When 'Courtney' was a guy's name. For some reason, I do not remember the assination of JFK. Of course, I was only 6 at the time and didn't care too much about it. Then again, I'm 42 and still don't care about it.-CMcF
Courtney McFarren

Andi comments: I remember the first time I watched Dick Van Dyke trip over the ottoman. Wonderama on Sunday mornings. Our favorite meal was Howard Johnson's frozen chicken croquettes from a box. The McDonald's opened the golden arches went around through the roof on each side. You couldn't eat inside, you got your food and ate in the car. Also Gino's had special deals on Wednesday's I think it was $.10 hamburgers and $.15 cheeseburgers. This was the only night of the week we could eat out. Also remember Big Buddy bubble gum and getting a Lilt at Easter time. Crazy times. Wish they were back. Your site is really cool. I love the 60's, and I used to havea site like this! It was really cool reading this, and I was totally into it! Keep up the good work!
Marilena Borella

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Mr Beers

Marvelous site! I totally agree that Mark Lester was to die for, and he still is! (I'm 38 and I'm STILL in love with him1) I remember all the things you mentioned, and don't forget the Monkees on Saturday morning, or doughnut-shaped Panasonic radios (I still have mine, in blue), slinkys and "Hip" gum, the round psychedelic-colored gum. Again, charming site. Regards, Jan
Jan Lugenbuhl

I found your web site and am wondering something. You know how sometimes you will just wonder what ever happened to people, a show, etc.....? I used to watch a tv show everday after school - probably early 60's - with Sam Riddle a Calif. disc jockey - and he had a really cute blonde girl with him named Cam. I think it was called the "Sam and Cam " show. I have been going through some old things and would love to know what happened to them. I think people danced on it, etc. I thought my life was over if I ever had to miss it! I am 43 now.  Any info on this? Please write back. I also have over 200 45 records. Would love to talk to people who loved the 60's like I did......
Jeanne Travis

Hi Robin, and Greetings from a former 60's Hippy! Nice page you put together. There is so much here I had forgotten about over the years and it's been nice browsing through it. I could spend hours looking through all your stuff and I probably will. Thanks for the Memories!
Eagle

I wonder if anyone remembers a plastic ball that came apart in the center, and had spouts on each end. You opened it up, put a scoop of icecream inside, snapped it shut, and put one end into a bottle of "pop", making an icecream float. Mine was red and white, but I don't remember what they were called, and nobody I talk to even remembers them! I imagine these were in the early 1960's. Also, wasn't there a drink called "King Stir". There was a tablet on the end of a plastic stirring stick, and you stirred it into a glass of water to make a kool-aid type drink. Oh - and while I'm at it, I sure miss Pizza Spins! YUM!!
Jayne

GREAT site - what a wonderful trip down memory lane. My favorite thing was those big balls filled with air with a loop at the top to hold on and you bounced all over - HOPPITY HOP it was called. I was devestated when my little brother put a pencil through it. I still love to drink TaB diet soda. Remember "zots" candy that fizzed in the middle?
Brenda

I am a teacher and was looking for some memories from the 60's for a parent/child project. Your website was the best thing I could have found. I enjoyed reminiscing and called my husband in for him to share. I knew you had to be from MD when you mentioned Gino's. Do you remember Amechi's or The Hot Shop? Thanks it was fun!
Donna

Excellent! I'm 42 years old and reading the stuff on your web site...the toys...Pixie Stiks, wax lips...the music...just great. And when I saw your picture in the Nehru jacket and Twiggy hairdo I had this big stupid grin on my face. You've put together something here that is more than just a collection of 60's stuff. There's a synergy here. I saw your picture and it's almost like I remember sitting next to you in school. I'll be back often. Next best thing to a time machine. You can't go home again, but you can thumb through the photo album...and your site is so much more than that. I appreciate all the work you've done here. I might even go out and buy Barry Williams "Johnny Bravo" album. (Whoa! Let's not get carried away here.) Thanks again...
John Webster

I found this site looking for info on how to play chinese jump rope. I gave one to a friend's 10 year old daughter who had never seen one. Her mother and I remember the first few jumps. Does anyone remember how to play this? I've also noticed some of our favorite candies making a comeback. Remember Razzles - first they're a candy, then they're a gum! I've been able to find them along with wax lips, fizzies, pop rocks, flying saucers, nickel nips(those little wax bottles filled with colored sugar syrup) and have started introducing my nephews to these favorites from my childhood.
Lynda Pagliarulo

Great Page! It brings a smile to my face and an occasional tear to the eye! Great memories!
Karen

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