ZILVY
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posted on August 18, 2001 10:38:28 AM
I remember the Cowboys in the white hats!!
Roy Rogers ~ Happy Trails to You
Dale Evans ~ his pardnah!!
Gene Autrey ~ I'm Back in the Saddle Again
Hop A Long Cassidy ~ good guy wore black (that was a surprise)
The Lone Ranger ~ Kemo Sabe! (Until he found out what that meant!
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Horses names:
_Trigger
_Buttermilk
_Buckskin?? (Tony)?? I can't remember
__________?
_Silver (HI YO)ooops that was the Brooklyn version....the original was HI HO Silver!
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uaru
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posted on August 18, 2001 01:26:58 PM
I even remember the horse's names that Zilvy forgot.
Roy Rogers rode Trigger
Dale Evans rode Buttermilk
Gene Autry rode Champion
Hopilong Cassidy rode Topper
Lone Ranger rode Silver
Tonto rode Scout
Zorro rode Toronado
Cisco Kid rode Diablo
Pancho rode Loco
I remember when the Cisco Kid came to our town.
I remember when owning or wanting a set of six shooters didn't mean I had hidden hostilities or my parents should take me to a social worker.
I remember when the good guy shot the bad guy in the hand, and only if he couldn't shoot the gun out of his hand.
I remember when I had a Hopilong Cassidy shirt.
Trivia: William Boyd (Hopilong Cassidy) asked for TV rights when he was making his movies in the 30s. Since nobody had any idea what they were they said "Sure, you got em partner." When the 50s rolled around he made a bundle. I believe he was the only actor that was that far sighted.
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ZILVY
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posted on August 18, 2001 01:38:01 PM
Eeeeyyyyhaw, I was hoping there was a cowboy afficinado in the group Thank you!
Boy I wish I had my cap pistols now...I could sell 'em on ebay. Being a cowboy...no I never wanted to be Dale Evans...was tough work, I was really fast on the draw and could fan my gun...when I only used one. We only shot the bad guys (who had done the town
bad!!)
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toke
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posted on August 18, 2001 01:53:48 PM
I remember the smell of caps... It always brings to mind...dusk, and badminton, and croquet...and running through the sprinkler on a hot night. In Spokane.
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Linda_K
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posted on August 18, 2001 01:59:28 PM
I remember when.... Sheriff John was our generations host for a childrens daytime TV show, as Mr. Rogers and Cpt. Kangaroo was to our sons generation. Sheriff John always did the 'red light' green light game to get us to drink our milk.
Then there was Beanie & Cecil - A cartoon from our generation.
Zilvy - Boy I wish I had my cap pistols now...I could sell 'em on ebay. My husband still has his Roy Rogers double holster and gun set in the original box. We've thought about listing it, but so far haven't been able to. We did sell his two childhood trucks. One was a Smith-Miller - a Mobil Gasoline truck and the other was a Tonka log carrier. Both from the early 50's. At that time, we really were surprised at what they brought. Especially the S/M. Guess a lot of adults were/are buying back their childhoods.
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toke
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posted on August 18, 2001 03:23:39 PM
No kidding. Did you see the $16,600 toy milk truck in the EO? Amazing what people spend their money on...
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Linda_K
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posted on August 18, 2001 03:58:34 PM
no toke, I didn't see that thread. WOW!! That's wonderful.
We had a box full of my husbands old toys. His mom had saved so many of his things. We asked our sons if they wanted any of it. They asked us what we thought they'd want with "those old things". When they saw how much they sold for....I think they'd have liked to reconsider. LOL
Is a wake-up call though, to know the toys you played with now fall into the 'vintage' catagory. 
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hepburn
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posted on August 18, 2001 04:47:08 PM
Beanie and Cecil!!! OMG!!! LOL! I remember them
Heckel and Jeckell, too.
Toke, the caps smell..just you saying it made me imagine it again. I remember running through the sprinklers in the park, on the way home from school..smelling the flowers along the path and catching butterflys oh-so-carefully so I could look at them up close...ice cream from the corner drug store and swiveling on the stools; those old mini juke box thingies sitting on the soda fountain, where you put your money in and in the other room, the jukebox plays what you chose; fourth of july and ooohing and aaaahing from the top of the warm car hood; sleeping in the back window of the car as daddy drove us from visiting the beach; my favorite teddybear that fell apart and my sister (in a moment of kindness) sewed on shiney new buttons for its eyes; playing Indian because my sister always got to be the cowboy; draping sheets over the dining room table and playing cat and mouse with my sister (she always got to be the cat and got a saucer of milk..I had to be the mouse and got cheese); playing with jacks and painting the tips of them pink, so when I twirled them they were really ballerinas
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toke
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posted on August 18, 2001 04:56:19 PM
Hep...
Jacks! I loved jacks...and hopscotch. The secret was a chain with just the right heft to it...
I can just hear my Dad mowing the lawn with the reel mower...that neat little snicking sound. They were so much better than power mowers, weren't they? All the frogs and toads and such had plenty of time to get out of the way... Cherry Cokes and malts and Runaround Sue...
You know, we have an old soda fountain mixer. Wonder if I could get the fixings somewhere to make my sweetie a malt? That would put him into bliss...
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toke
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posted on August 18, 2001 05:05:41 PM
Linda K...
Here's the link to the story on the toy. Too bad the dealer was a crook (  ) but, still... Look at the price this baby got! Amazing.
I could use a house call like that, right now...
http://www.auctionwatch.com/mesg/read.html?num=2&thread=409024
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hepburn
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posted on August 18, 2001 05:12:31 PM
Vanilla cokes!! Going to the Stand across the street from the school for lunch and getting taquitos and fries and a vanilla coke
The swamp cooler on the house..when it was hot, daddy would turn it on and I would sleep like a baby listening to it whirl and rumble.
Chinese hopscotch, where you put oodles of rubberbands together and hop one leg over, one leg pushing the bands, one leg over, one pushing the bands; playing with bee bee bugs, aka rollie pollies; chasing a bird around the yard with a salt shaker and daddy laughing hysterically because he told me that if I poured salt on a birds tail, I could catch it; using an umbrella and jumping off the moneky bars pretending I could fly with it; digging a hole in the backyard, thinking I would wind up in china
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Microbes
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posted on August 18, 2001 05:24:39 PM
I dug one of those holes. Dad didn't find out about it till the dirt had been totally scattered and had "disappeared". Boy was he mad.
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toke
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posted on August 18, 2001 05:31:47 PM
Creamy, draft A&W rootbeers! Hours and hours trying to trick doves into my "box on a stick" trap...knowing we'd be friends forever, if I could only get hold of one... Swiping a watermelon and being completely unable to get it open...total frustration. I managed pomegranates, though... The greatest cave ever, under a huge willow...
Oh boy...all this nostalgia makes me need to commune with my maltless one... G'nite. See ya tomorrow
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hepburn
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posted on August 18, 2001 05:34:36 PM
G'night Toke. I think we would have been the bestest friends if we knew each other during those times. Tell ya what..if you ever find some jacks at a yard sale, do buy them, then paint the round tips with pink nail polish and spin that baby...and spin one for me. I will do the same
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Linda_K
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posted on August 18, 2001 05:41:20 PM
toke - thanks for posting the URL. I had just done a search and saw the thread and was coming back to say...NOT so wonderful for it's original owner. The seller got caught with his pants down, IMO. No way was he waiting to be sure the deal was solid when he paid her and had already taken his commission. He's a thief. I hope she does file a suit. Man....
hepburn - So, you remember them too.
Editing to ask hep if you're talking about the B & S cartoons or the Puppet Show.
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hepburn
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posted on August 18, 2001 06:36:27 PM
Cartoons, lindak. I have never seen a puppet show.
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jt-2007
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posted on August 18, 2001 07:09:47 PM
I remember the puppet shows that toured schools. They were unbelievably wonderful.
I know that I saw Wizard of Oz and several others only I can't remember what they were now. They vanished about mid-elementary and I have SO wished that my kids could see them.
They had the sound effects and light effects and these were TALENTED puppeters!
T
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Linda_K
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posted on August 18, 2001 07:47:27 PM
Okay...just a little clarification here. When Terri (Hi) said she remembered it I wondered how someone her age (she's young enough to be my daughter) could have seen this program. Did a quick search and here's what I found. If anyone's interested
The show my husband and I watched only ran from 1948 to 1955.
Then in 1962 an animated version was on TV.
Then in 1988 another 'all-new' version was on TV.
So that explains (to me) why so many remember (SPELLING CORRECTION > Beany and Cecil.
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tabbs
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posted on August 18, 2001 08:11:08 PM
I remember I wasnt allowed to look at LIFE magazine because it had bloody pictures of the Vietnam war.
I remember cutting all the hair off of my sisters barbies.
I remember when gay meant happy.
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saabsister
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posted on August 18, 2001 08:26:03 PM
I remember summer nights spent at the Biograph Theatre in DC - watching "Monterey Pop", "Reefer Madness",W.C. Fields and Marx Brothers films.
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mcjane
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posted on August 18, 2001 11:37:52 PM
Our milk man had a horse & wagon
A lamplighter came every evening to light the gas streetlights on my grandmothers street in Philadelphia
Spud cigarettes
Bubble gum that had one baseball card in each pack
Fountain Cokes
Looking at the roof on people's houses to see who had TV
When you could buy cough syrup with codeine over the counter, you had to sign for it.
When there was no such thing as Penicillin
jt & misscandle Disco Ball, that was sooo funny.
Zilvy What does Kemo Sabe mean?
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mcjane
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posted on August 18, 2001 11:40:55 PM
Zilvy
I think the horse named Tony belonged to
Tom Mix.
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MrsSantaClaus
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posted on August 18, 2001 11:46:48 PM
I remember my mirror ball. It presided over many a wedding. I wonder how many of my couples are still together?
I had the coolest tube lights, too. They went to the beat of the music. I wondered what happened to them - until I visited Mom's this week - and my brother showed me the cool stuff they were gonna auction off. I took those babies right home. Now, what the heck am I gonna do with them?
I remember hearing Reunited for the first time ... how beautiful it sounded.
I remember 8 track tapes
I remember life before the internet.
I remember Mom's Rambler ... geez, she could make that car fly .... and us fly around inside it
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Baduizm
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posted on August 19, 2001 12:05:20 AM
I remember when a WC hamburger cost a nickel, and came loaded w/mustard, ketchup, onion and pickles.
Sugar babies could be purchased in a bag, for a nickel. Slim Jim, and Slo-Poke's too.
Spaz: Most of those from you, too, regarding McDonald's. Supersized meals have generated super-sized folks, LOL.
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ZILVY
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posted on August 19, 2001 08:52:00 AM
McJane my husband and I agree you are right Tony was Tom Mix' horse.
Now who rode Buckskin was that Gabby Hayes horse?
I've sent you a link to Kemo Sabe, kind of interesting...I was only doing a tongue in cheek comment...there have been several jokes about Indian hordes coming at the duo, the Lone Ranger tells Tonto we have to do ,....(whatever) and Tonto turns to the Lone Ranger and says, "What do you meanWE, Kemo Sabe? Or the Lone Ranger says, "If someone doesn't tell me what Kemo Sabe means I'm gonna shoot myself!" Tonto smiles and remains silent!! Spoofs that's all.
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spazmodeus
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posted on August 19, 2001 04:53:59 PM
I remember UHF and the round antenna you had to hook up to the back of the TV -- which always seemed to bring better reception when there was a wad of tinfoil clamped to it.
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mcjane
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posted on August 19, 2001 05:16:50 PM
Remember those gaudy TV lights we used to put on top of the TV. A ceramic black panther with a bulb inside is the one I remember most.
Wish I still had one.
And, remember when you bought a plastic sheet
in green, flesh color & blue to stick on your screen to make it look like color TV.
Edited to add:
I remember when TV signed off for the day at 10:00pm & the first color shows were all cooking shows.
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Microbes
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posted on August 19, 2001 06:09:33 PM
Remember the stupid little plastic dogs we put in the back window of the car that nodded their heads.
We called 'em Head Bobbers.
I remember sneaking into the drive-in in the trunk of my Cousins car just to save 50 cents.
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Linda_K
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posted on August 19, 2001 06:35:32 PM
I remember the silver, aluminum x-mas trees. They had three plastic colored sections that rotated thus changing the color of the tree from red to green to ??. I think this was from the 60s, but not sure. All I remember was going to visit my mom and there was this 'from outer space' x-mas tree. I thought she'd lost her mind. People still interested in buying those too.
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ZILVY
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posted on August 19, 2001 07:24:02 PM
I remember the "TEST PATTERN" and waiting for a show to come on in the afternoon in living Black & White!!
LindaK My folks had one of those trees too...there was a parody done of the
song Twelve Days of Christmas...
"and a Partridge in a rust proof aluminum tree!" I don't think it ever was a hit but a local station played it around the Holiday every year.
McJane my 85 year old Aunt has a ceramic leaping Impala still on top of her TV.
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