I remember childhood - Part Two - Movies/Television/Commercials & Electronics
June 17th 2010 20:52
This is Part Two of an absolutely personal, indulgent & really long list! I have been feeling down lately and compiled these random events & items from my past to cheer myself up. Now, I feel wistful. Like most children, I couldn't wait to grow up and do what I wanted when I wanted and not have anyone tell me what to do all the time! - As grown-up, I realize that idea was highly overrated.
Feel free to share any of your long forgotten favorite memories
Television:
The Saint, aka: Simon Templar
The Avengers
Mr. Rogers Neighborhood
Sesame Street with Big Bird, Grover, Oscar the Grouch, Kermit, Snuffy, Ernie & Bert, Mr Hooper, Maria & Luis, Bob, David, Susan & Gordon, - Oh, how I wanted to live on that street
photo of last page of "The Day Snuffy Had the Sniffles" illustraded by Tom Brannon
Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
Abbot & Costello
Jonny Quest
The Lone Ranger
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Family Affair - Mr French, Sissy, Buffy, Jody & Mrs. Beasley
The Electric Company
Dadadadadadadada - Batman!
Wild, Wild West
Lost in Space
The Flintstones - can’t forget, Bamm Bamm, Pebbles, Dino & the Great Gazoo
Nanny & the Professor
Yogi Bear
Felix the Cat - The Wonderful, Wonderful cat
Kimba the White Lion
Land of the Lost
H.R. Pufnstuf -
Popeye, the Sailor Man = Why I like Spinach to this day
It takes a Thief
I dream of Jeanne
Bewitched
My Three Sons
The Partridge Family
The Jungle Book
photo of page from The Little Jungle Book
The Rifleman... and his son
I love Lucy
Captain Kangaroo
The Andy Griffith Show
The Andy Williams Show
The Donny & Marie show
The Monkees
The Carol Burnett Show
Saturday Night Live with Dan Akroyd, Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Laraine Newman, Jane Curtin, Garret Morris, Gilda Radner, Bill Murray, Joe Piscopo & Eddie Murphy (also, not an official castmember, Steve Martin
The Courtship of Eddie’s Father
Little House on the Prairie
Frosty the Snowman
Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer
Solid gold dancers
BJ & the Bear
Romper Room and the Magic Mirror: I see Tommy and Jane and Cindy
The Addams Family
the Munsters
The Big Valley
Bonanza
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Bionic Woman
Get Smart
Tarzan, Jane, Boy & Cheeta
Charlotte's Web
Saturday Morning Television
Schoolhouse Rock - "Conjunction Junction, What's Your Function?" and "I'm Just a Bill, Sittin' Here on Capitol Hill."
Sigmund & the Sea Monsters ( pictured: the first season available on DVD )
The Brady Bunch
Speed Racer
Mighty Mouse
Movies ( Even if I saw them broadcast on my television ):
Jason and The Argonauts
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Cinderella
Dancing & acting out the songs from Grease
Benji
Lassie
Heidi
Musicals with Doris Day, Shirley Temple, Gene Kelley & Fred Astaire
Logan's Run
Mary Poppins
Robin Hood
Swiss Family Robinson
Peter Pan
Sounder
the Secret Garden
Pippi Longstocking
Oliver
Watching John Wayne movies with my Dad
Planet of the Apes
The Three Musketeers
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Commercials/Taglines & Slogans:
The bunny from the Trix commercial who wasn’t allowed to eat his own cereal even though he was on the box!
I’ve fallen & I can’t get up
Don't take the car, you'll kill yourself...
Where’s the beef?
It takes a lickin’ and it keeps on tickin’
Evel Knievel
Robert Conrad Come on, I dare ya
( to knock the battery off his shoulder )
How much TV did I watch as a kid!!!!!!!!!!
Electronics:
Our very first microwave and marveling at how fast it cooked
Atari home video system & playing Pong
TV with rabbit ears, changing the channel with pliers and you as your parent’s remote control & channels 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11 & 13 & a couple UHF!
First camera with 110 film
First stereo that played records and eight tracks
Cassette tapes
Hand-held tv radio with dial to bring in channels
Trying to record Mom snoring with the tape recorder
Tandy Corporation- Radio Shack- TRS-80 Microcomputer
Pinball machines
One day my dad actually brought home a jukebox!
Feel free to share any of your long forgotten favorite memories
Television:
The Saint, aka: Simon Templar
Mr. Rogers Neighborhood
Sesame Street with Big Bird, Grover, Oscar the Grouch, Kermit, Snuffy, Ernie & Bert, Mr Hooper, Maria & Luis, Bob, David, Susan & Gordon, - Oh, how I wanted to live on that street
photo of last page of "The Day Snuffy Had the Sniffles" illustraded by Tom Brannon
Sonny & Cher Comedy Hour
Abbot & Costello
Jonny Quest
The Lone Ranger
The Mary Tyler Moore Show
Family Affair - Mr French, Sissy, Buffy, Jody & Mrs. Beasley
The Electric Company
Dadadadadadadada - Batman!
Wild, Wild West
Lost in Space
The Flintstones - can’t forget, Bamm Bamm, Pebbles, Dino & the Great Gazoo
Nanny & the Professor
Yogi Bear
Felix the Cat - The Wonderful, Wonderful cat
Kimba the White Lion
H.R. Pufnstuf -
Popeye, the Sailor Man = Why I like Spinach to this day
It takes a Thief
I dream of Jeanne
Bewitched
My Three Sons
The Partridge Family
The Jungle Book
photo of page from The Little Jungle Book
The Rifleman... and his son
I love Lucy
Captain Kangaroo
The Andy Griffith Show
The Andy Williams Show
The Donny & Marie show
The Monkees
The Carol Burnett Show
Saturday Night Live with Dan Akroyd, Chevy Chase, John Belushi, Laraine Newman, Jane Curtin, Garret Morris, Gilda Radner, Bill Murray, Joe Piscopo & Eddie Murphy (also, not an official castmember, Steve Martin
The Courtship of Eddie’s Father
Little House on the Prairie
Frosty the Snowman
Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer
Solid gold dancers
BJ & the Bear
Romper Room and the Magic Mirror: I see Tommy and Jane and Cindy
The Addams Family
the Munsters
The Big Valley
Bonanza
The Six Million Dollar Man
The Bionic Woman
Get Smart
Tarzan, Jane, Boy & Cheeta
Charlotte's Web
Saturday Morning Television
Schoolhouse Rock - "Conjunction Junction, What's Your Function?" and "I'm Just a Bill, Sittin' Here on Capitol Hill."
Sigmund & the Sea Monsters ( pictured: the first season available on DVD )
The Brady Bunch
Speed Racer
Mighty Mouse
Movies ( Even if I saw them broadcast on my television ):
Jason and The Argonauts
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Cinderella
Dancing & acting out the songs from Grease
Benji
Lassie
Heidi
Musicals with Doris Day, Shirley Temple, Gene Kelley & Fred Astaire
Logan's Run
Mary Poppins
Robin Hood
Swiss Family Robinson
Peter Pan
Sounder
the Secret Garden
Pippi Longstocking
Oliver
Watching John Wayne movies with my Dad
Planet of the Apes
The Three Musketeers
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Commercials/Taglines & Slogans:
The bunny from the Trix commercial who wasn’t allowed to eat his own cereal even though he was on the box!
I’ve fallen & I can’t get up
Don't take the car, you'll kill yourself...
Where’s the beef?
It takes a lickin’ and it keeps on tickin’
Evel Knievel
Robert Conrad Come on, I dare ya
( to knock the battery off his shoulder )
How much TV did I watch as a kid!!!!!!!!!!
Electronics:
Our very first microwave and marveling at how fast it cooked
Atari home video system & playing Pong
TV with rabbit ears, changing the channel with pliers and you as your parent’s remote control & channels 2, 4, 5, 7, 9, 11 & 13 & a couple UHF!
First camera with 110 film
First stereo that played records and eight tracks
Cassette tapes
Hand-held tv radio with dial to bring in channels
Trying to record Mom snoring with the tape recorder
Tandy Corporation- Radio Shack- TRS-80 Microcomputer
Pinball machines
One day my dad actually brought home a jukebox!
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