Do You Remember When?

[Larry_Fout]

what was the name of Elizbeth Taylor's first husband?

Mark Anthony, of course.


An elderly gentleman was telling his friend about a new restaurant he and his wife recently visited.

"The food and service were great!" he said.

His friend asked, "What's the name of the place?"

"Gee, I don't remember," he said, "What do you call the long stemmed flower people give on special occasions?"

"You mean a rose?" asked his friend.

"That's it!" he exclaimed and turning to his wife, asked, "Rose, what's the name of that restaurant we went to the other day?"

 

[fieldlily]

Mark Anthony, of course.

I know you're joshing, he was number five (Richard Burton who played Marc Antony to her Cleopatra, that is) and the only one she married twice. Her first husband was Nicholas (Nicky) Hilton (yes, the son of Conrad Hilton...of the Hilton Hotels.) It didn't last long. She married eight times so far...I would name them all but I can't spell the last guy's name.

Love that joke about Rose.

 

[Larry_Fout]

Birdfriend I really thought is was Mark Anthony
This is a fun thread. Keeps me smiling

Liz's last was Larry. Can you imagine? What a wonderful name!! How could she dump someone with a name like that! Last name Fortensky (I think).

 

[Hackett]

Who remembers when you could buy a 6oz bottle of coca cola for 6 cents?

 

[fieldlily]

Birdfriend I really thought is was Mark Anthony
This is a fun thread. Keeps me smiling

Liz's last was Larry. Can you imagine? What a wonderful name!! How could she dump someone with a name like that! Last name Fortensky (I think).

Right, Fortensky, and I am not sure you spelled it right...but a Fortensky by any other name...or spelling...

Just for the fun of it...here are the others...just to show how I remember trivia but not where I put my glasses.

l. Nicky Hilton
2. Michael Wilding
3. Mike Todd
4. Eddie Fisher
5. Richard Burton
6. Richard Burton
7. John Werner...
8. Larry Fortensky.

 

[Under_His_Shadow]

What do you remember when?

I remember when we rented our first apartment for $55. a month. And it had two bedrooms too.

and...

Riding my bicycle to Saturday movie matinees at the local theatre: Roy Rogers, Johnny Mack Brown, Red Ryder, and many more.

There was a place next to the theatre on Main Street where we got flavored fountain drinks ...my favorite was cherry coke..(now they are back but in cans).

Mom using a ringer wash machine and drying all cloths on a cloths line out side.

Dad driving a Hudson. (long extinct now)

Mom bought me a used bicycle (my first) for $5.00 and painted it herself with house paint. I loved it!

We didn't have television but everyone listened to the radio...especially the soap operas like, Stella Dallas and John's Other Wife (no kidding) as well as Lux Radio Theatre and Auto-lite's program..Suspence.

When everything happened at train stations and we went to meet the soldiers coming home from W.W.II.

Collecting tin cans, rationing sugar, and no nylons available during W.W.II.

Working in an office without a computer but only a file cabinet where everything was kept in file folders.

I could go on and on...but it's your turn...and you don't have to go back so far as I did...just what YOU remember when.

Thanks for jogging my memory. I remember most of those.
I haven't read all the posts, so some of these may have been mentioned but
I also remember :

Blackjack chewing gum;

"Cho cho", push-up ice cream bars/cones;

The 1st time our local 5 & dime store offered 1/4 Lb. Baby Ruth candy bars. They had a big, diamond-shaped, blue & white "1/4 lb" logo in the middle of the wrapper, and cost a whopping 10¢ (twice the cost of the 5¢ two-once bars);

When potato chips came in stiff "waxed paper" kind of bags and cost 5¢ for 2 (or was it 3 or 4?) oz.;

Wax moustaches and lips the dime store sold around halloween for a penny or two each;

1/2 pint glass bottles of (both chocolate & white) milk in a machine at school for 5-10¢;

Davy Crockett raccoon hats;

When you could buy cap guns and real "exploding" rolls of caps for them. Us boys would take a whole roll of caps and hit it with a hammer to get a really LOUD bang, that sounded as loud as a firecracker;

The "Winky Dink and You" TV show, where for a small fee, they'd send you a kit which included a square piece of plastic to put on your tv screen and a "magic marker" so you could trace on the screen a "follow the dots" pattern the host (was it Jack Narz?) led you in to see the "secret picture" he was drawing;

Playing "Kick the Can" with the neighborhood kids;

Little Lulu, Tubby, and Donald Duck comic book subscriptions;

When you could mail a first class letter for 3¢ and a postcard for 2¢

Listening to the Russians' launching of "Sputnik" on our school's P.A. system;

Listening to live news reports of President Kennedy's calling Russia's bluff re' the Cuban Missle Crisis.

Being shocked and saddened the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated, and later on when his brother Robert was killed;

The Sunday night when our astronauts landed and walked on the moon, as I watched it live on TV.

 

[Larry_Fout]

Thanks Under His Shadow (as we truly are) I also remember many of the things you mentioned.

I do remember Coca Cola for 6 cents in the 6 oz bottle then they went to 10 oz. It was great when Double Cola came out with the "huge" 16 oz bottles.

We used to play kick the can and hide and seek.

The old commercials were funny. One of my favorites was Ovaltine. Also a favorite TV show was "Death Valley Days" was sponsored by 20 Mule Team Borax.

A neat show that many of the family watched was Ted Mack's Amateur Hour. One of the local kids sang on there. Was never really into Howdy Doody but it was a biggie for sure, Clarabell and Capt. Bob. My Grandad and I used to watch Friday Night fights. He loved it. My grandmother would make hotdogs with all the trimmings and we would sit and root for the underdog. Many of the boys fell in love with Annette Funicello (Mickey Mouse Club) . I can remember the adventures of the Hardy Boys kept me on the edge of the chair and Red Skelton and Milton Berle kept me on the floor .

 

[Under_His_Shadow]

Thanks Under His Shadow (as we truly are) I also remember many of the things you mentioned.

I do remember Coca Cola for 6 cents in the 6 oz bottle then they went to 10 oz. It was great when Double Cola came out with the "huge" 16 oz bottles.

We used to play kick the can and hide and seek.

The old commercials were funny. One of my favorites was Ovaltine. Also a favorite TV show was "Death Valley Days" was sponsored by 20 Mule Team Borax.

A neat show that many of the family watched was Ted Mack's Amateur Hour. One of the local kids sang on there. Was never really into Howdy Doody but it was a biggie for sure, Clarabell and Capt. Bob. My Grandad and I used to watch Friday Night fights. He loved it. My grandmother would make hotdogs with all the trimmings and we would sit and root for the underdog. Many of the boys fell in love with Annette Funicello (Mickey Mouse Club) . I can remember the adventures of the Hardy Boys kept me on the edge of the chair and Red Skelton and Milton Berle kept me on the floor .

Thanks Larry. I remember those also.

Some of our favorite 1/2 hr. family TV shows back then were, "Alfred Hitchcock Presents", "The Red Skelton Show", Jack Benny, "The Honeymooners" , The Tonight Show (w/Jack Parr, but I usually wasn't allowed to stay up for that), "Gunsmoke", "Rawhide", "The Twilight Zone", "The Outer Limits", and of course we never missed "The Ed Sullivan Show". I never was much for Howdy Doody either. We never missed "The Steve Allen Show" either, with his "Man on the Street" interviews, one of which was always that ultra-nervous guy played by Don Knotts, and others like Tom Posten, etc. Then there were the Friday night wrestling matches with people like Vern Gonya, and his famous "sleeper hold", and "Gorgeous George", etc.! Funny!

Before we got our 1st B & W Television, I would go over to the neighbors after school in the afternoons & watch the hour long show, "The Fun House" on a buddy's parents' TV, which had several 15-20 min. shorts like "The little Rascals" (Stymie, Alfalfa, Buckwheat, etc.), "The 3 Stooges" and Laurel & Hardy". That show always made my day as a youngster!!

Ahhhh! Those were the days weren't they? Sweet memories!

 

[Valentine]

I loved Alfred Hitchcock, Twilight Zone and the Outer Limits!! That reallllllly brings back memories. I remember my dad LOVED Maverick.

 

[fieldlily]

I loved Alfred Hitchcock, Twilight Zone and the Outer Limits!! That reallllllly brings back memories. I remember my dad LOVED Maverick.

My favorite Hitchcock was Rear Window...especially since Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly were in it. And a wonderful character actress named Thelma Ritter. Does anyone remember her...especially in Rear Window...?

 

[McWilliams]

I go clear back to the beginning of TV and remember our first black and white TV. We'd have neighbors over and when a tube 'blew out' one of the fellows would dash around to the 7-11 store to buy a replacement so we could see the rest of Miss America show!
Other favorites at the time were the Colgate Comedy Hour, Saturday Night HitParade, Cheyene, Gunsmoke and so many others as they were so good and so family oriented. We never had to screen what the children watched! So many great children shows were on! One was a girl in a black cat suit, Kitirik in the afternoon. The kids loved watching her. She had a baby, named him little Kit and the show went right on! Not very many years back she opened a used clothing store near here, Upscale Resale and I read it was owned/managed by the former childrens show star Kitirik. I went there to tell her that I'd raised 6 kids while she'd babysat them for me! She said that I'd never believe how many came and told her the same story! She was just great for the kids!
Also the Steve Allen Tonight show, even before Jack Parr had a segment, 'Where are they now'. I laughed and laughed at that hilarious show which included Don Knott.

 

[Hackett]

I even remember My Little Margie. I loved that show. It was in front of that old black and white TV set that I witnessed my sister's first kiss.....yuck!! it ruined the entire program for me. LOL

 

[Larry_Fout]

It was in front of that old black and white TV set that I witnessed my sister's first kiss.....yuck!!

That about sums up the way I remember mine.

Also who could forget the great Jack Benny show. Lots of crazy stuff on there

 

[Buckaroo]

Who remembers when you could buy a 6oz bottle of coca cola for 6 cents?

How about a Lotta Cola for 15 cent aND THE 10 CENT CAKE

 

[Buckaroo]

I remember one night all us kids wanted to see Lights Out , a 50's thriller we all liked. Well my father was getting ready for bed and we chimed in and said we want to see Lights Out and he responded by saying lights are going out and turned everything off. We were dissappointed and of course whined to good ole mom and she said turn it on but low. Moms were good like that!!!!

 

[Hackett]

What fun memories these are. Does anyone remember watching the radio?

 

[Larry_Fout]

Does anyone remember watching the radio?

That's the kind of thing I excel in

 

[Under_His_Shadow]

What fun memories these are. Does anyone remember watching the radio?

Oh sure. I listened to (and watched - with my mind's eye) "Dragnet", "Amos and Andy", "The Shadow", "Corliss Archer", "Burns and Allen", and other radio programs that I've long forgotten, plus radio music programs playing songs like, Patty Page's, "How Much is that Doggy in the Window?", Sinatra's "High Hopes", Tennessee Waltz (also Page's?), "Yellow Bird", "Peter Gunn's Theme" (by Henry Mancini I think?), etc. Which reminds me, I also enjoyed the Peter Gunn TV show and the detective show that Ephram Zimbalist Jr. starred in (was it "77 Sunset Strip?). Oh, and of course that "Route 66" TV series, and lest we forget, there was Dr. Kildare, Father Knows Best, and Ozzie & Harriet Nelson?

Oh, and every time I chew on one of those generic brand, fruit-flavored antacids from Sam's Club, it reminds me of how those tiny, hard, round candies tasted as a child, that came on a long strip of white paper that you had to bite off the paper. Same exact taste! Anyone else remember those?

 

[fieldlily]

Does anyone remember watching the radio?

I love this question. Actually sometimes we all sat around the radio and set our eyes on it as we listened...so I guess you could say we watched it. More often I would work on a scrapbook, doing ironing (remember when we ironed everything?), or painting pictures, or played with dolls...during a radio program. Sometimes I still do that with T.V. Have it on when I am fixing dinner and listen to it...while doing something else.

When I was pretty young...I would fall asleep listening to the radio in the other room as my parents listened beyond my bedtime.

 

[fieldlily]

kidding