# Culture artifacts that ...maybe not ONLY you remember....but its getting close. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 15, 2018, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633 "2018-08-15T03:00:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 11:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/81 "2018-08-15T23:09:51Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Lawn darts (aka Jarts). We had a set and did play with them. > > Some kid I met was hit with one once: someone threw it into the air and it came down into his shoulder. He told the story like a war veteran talking about a minor wound. I know many people that still have Jarts. We use to play with them a lot in the 80s. > [@terentii](#): > > Now tell me who remembers Marty Engels? šŸ˜› > [@terentii](#): > > Bingo! Also half of _ **Iā€™m Dickens, Heā€™s Fenster** _. > > Can you name the other half? šŸ˜‰ I do remember him and the show. It was actually available on Youtube a few years ago. The other half of the show was the great and wonderful and very long lived John Astin. > [@Dung\_Beetle](#): > > How about [Colorforms](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorforms)? I had a Peanuts themed set with dozens of little pieces. I had a Peanuts one also, I was a Snoopy fanatic. My first 45 was Snoopy and the Red Baronā€™s Christmas. They still sell Colorforms though. Theyā€™re not gone, just somewhat rare like Booby Trap, Break the Ice or Mouse Trap. > [@aurora\_maire](#): > > [Lite Brite](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lite-Brite) > > I still have one of these. Rather I have the board. Years ago I put a plastic bag of the pegsā€¦somewhere. I wanted one of these as a kid. Never got one. I did have Spirograph though, who remembers those? Still for sale but not often seen anymore. Here is an obscure one, does anyone remember the old [Disney Haunted Mansion board game](https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/5893/haunted-mansion-game) with spinning ghosts? Who remembers **Cecil & Beanie** by Chuck Jones? Very funny though the animation was the flat minimalist 60s cheap animation. Really odd one, does anyone remember at movie theaters in the 70s into the 80s the pre-preview scene filler of swirling colors that I think were a heated oil being projected? ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/82 "2018-08-15T23:28:01Z")
Thereā€™s one thing that stands out to me as I was super, insanely jealous of this thing. My friend that had this barely remembers is and no one else Iā€™ve talked to remembers having or seeing one. This would be a late '60s or early '70s toy, something a child could ride on. It had a center pylon with an electric motor, and two long-ish arms each with a spaceship-esque thing you could lie down on. Once aboard, there was some way to start it spinning, probably quite slowly despite my memory of zooming around on it. Ring any bells for anyone? ---
**Author:** ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/83 "2018-08-16T00:07:00Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > ā€¦ > > Who remembers **Cecil & Beanie** by Chuck Jones? Very funny though the animation was the flat minimalist 60s cheap animation. > > Really odd one, does anyone remember at movie theaters in the 70s into the 80s the pre-preview scene filler of swirling colors that I think were a heated oil being projected? My brother had a Cecil stuffed toy with a pull string voice box . I had a Beanie Boy one, My Beanie Boy said ā€¦ā€œHelp Cecil Helpā€ā€¦his Cecil saidā€¦ā€œIIIIIIIIIā€™m coming Beanie Boyā€. ---
**Author:** ![Sefton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/5daacb/32.png) [@Sefton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sefton)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 12:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/84 "2018-08-16T00:33:14Z")
Back in the 80s, Nickelodeon had a show called _The Third Eye_, which played British sci-fi series. Some of the stories were stupid, but a few of them were excellent. Iā€™ve never met anyone whoā€™s heard of the show. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 12:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/85 "2018-08-16T00:40:24Z")
> [@Sefton](#): > > Back in the 80s, Nickelodeon had a show called _The Third Eye_, which played British sci-fi series. Some of the stories were stupid, but a few of them were excellent. Iā€™ve never met anyone whoā€™s heard of the show. Well, shucks, youā€™re welcome to come meet me. (Which is to say: The Guy Who Still Recalls That Stupid ā€˜Nidusā€™ Song.) ---
**Author:** ![SmartAleq](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/smartaleq/32/163_2.png) [@SmartAleq](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SmartAleq)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 12:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/86 "2018-08-16T00:50:55Z")
Another piece of home playground equipment we had as kids but never saw another oneā€“circa probably '64-66. I have no idea what itā€™s called so Iā€™m going to have to describe it! It was made of tubular metal and stood on four splayed legs. The top was cross shaped, with four seats facing the middle, one at the end of each arm. Each seat had a handle and pedal (they worked as a pushme/pullyou sort of arrangement) that attached in the middle. As youā€™d push and pull the handle/pedal, the thing would start to rotate and when you got four kids on that thing going full guns it would go around like gangbustersā€“and those handle/pedals did not idle, theyā€™d keep pumping back and forth as long as the thing was going. You had to have at least two kids sitting opposite to make it work, and if you did things juuuust right you could get the entire assembly rocking and bringing its legs off the ground as it swung around. What the hell was that thing? We had a lot of really dodgy and probably dangerous stuff like thatā€“I suspect my dad was not that invested in fatherhood since he kept buying and bringing these things home. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/87 "2018-08-16T00:53:54Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Who remembers **Cecil & Beanie** by **Chuck Jones**? Very funny though the animation was the flat minimalist 60s cheap animation. Surely you mean Bob Clampett! :dubious: It was even in the outro music: \* ā€œA Bob Clam-pett car-too-ooooon!ā€\* ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 1:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/88 "2018-08-16T01:02:27Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > I never heard of this before but I had to Google it. I found a clip with Froggy. What I donā€™t get is how a 50s show was in color. Maybe itā€™s been colorized? > > [https://youtu.be/L9pPFCjRPvM](https://youtu.be/L9pPFCjRPvM) In the 1950s, everyone who mattered knew that mass market color TV was on the horizon. A lot of shows were filmed in color in the belief theyā€™d be aired that way eventually. IIRC, NBC was already the first all-color network by 1960. The other networks followed suit, albeit slowly; by September 1966, everything was in color. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 1:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/89 "2018-08-16T01:10:13Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Who remembers **Cecil & Beanie** by Chuck Jones? Very funny though the animation was the flat minimalist 60s cheap animation. > > Really odd one, does anyone remember at movie theaters in the 70s into the 80s the pre-preview scene filler of swirling colors that I think were a heated oil being projected? Not to be pedantic, but youā€™ve also reversed the names. It was _ **The Beanie and Cecil Show** _. I think the swirling colors you mention were film of a lava lamp. You can still buy these at Walmart (I have two). ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/90 "2018-08-16T01:19:13Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Not to be pedantic, but youā€™ve also reversed the names. It was _ **The Beanie and Cecil Show** _. > > I think the swirling colors you mention were film of a lava lamp. You can still buy these at Walmart (I have two). Sorry about that, the show went off when I was 1. It never ran much in syndication in the NYC market, I can just barely remember the show. Did I get the ā€œit was very funnyā€ part right at least? The Swirling thing was like a lava lamp but it wasnā€™t a lava lamp as far as I can recall. Spencers has never stopped selling lava lamps BTW. It did look like a heated oil thingy though like a lava lamp. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/91 "2018-08-16T01:35:47Z")
> [@Dropo](#): > > Clanky Chocolate Syrup > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Yh-FGZQ58](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Yh-FGZQ58) I remember seeing commercials for Bosco when I was little, but I donā€™t think it was available in Minnesota. At least, we never had it in our home, though I did tell my mom to buy some. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/F-aCP3SVu-Q/hqdefault.jpg "Bosco Chocolate Syrup Commercial (1950s)") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-aCP3SVu-Q) ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 1:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/92 "2018-08-16T01:35:52Z")
[Creepy Crawlers](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creepy_Crawlers) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/93 "2018-08-16T01:37:52Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > Sorry about that, the show went off when I was 1. It never ran much in syndication in the NYC market, I can just barely remember the show. Did I get the ā€œit was very funnyā€ part right at least? Yeah, you get a pass for that. šŸ™‚ ---
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 1:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/94 "2018-08-16T01:39:11Z")
> [@Sefton](#): > > Back in the 80s, Nickelodeon had a show called _The Third Eye_, which played British sci-fi series. Some of the stories were stupid, but a few of them were excellent. Iā€™ve never met anyone whoā€™s heard of the show. Letā€™s seeā€¦The Haunting of Cassie Palmer, Children of the Stones, and Into The Labyrinth. Nickelodeon in those days imported a lot of UK and Canadian content. After school, I used to watch You Canā€™t Do That On Television, The Third Eye, and The Tomorrow People back-to-back. ---
**Author:** ![P-man](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/p-man/32/3606_2.png) [@P-man](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/P-man)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/95 "2018-08-16T01:40:05Z")
Iā€™ve had fizzies in the 2010ā€™s. They sold them at the Sugarloaf craft fair at the Montgomery County, MD fairgrounds. Ms. P remembers Kimba, but I sonā€™. Itā€™s possible it was on our ABC affiliate, which we couldnā€™t pick up because it was UHF. ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 1:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/96 "2018-08-16T01:41:12Z")
> [@What\_Exit](#): > > The Swirling thing was like a lava lamp but it wasnā€™t a lava lamp as far as I can recall. Spencers has never stopped selling lava lamps BTW. It did look like a heated oil thingy though like a lava lamp. You mean this? Colorforms also put out a set of rubber "Outer Space Men" action figures that are now worth a small fortune: [![](https://2warpstoneptune.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/cos-1.jpg) ](https://2warpstoneptune.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/cos-1.jpg) On eBay, a rare complete set of them is selling for a mere $35,000. And then, there was Odd-Ogg: [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/aPbCq4qOBOs/hqdefault.jpg "1962 ODD OGG Battery Operated Toy by Ideal") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPbCq4qOBOs) ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/97 "2018-08-16T01:44:19Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#): > > [Creepy Crawlers](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creepy_Crawlers) We had that, my brother got the original Creepy Crawler one and then my older sisters got an expansion pack which was molds for flowers and butterflies and brighter color liquids. The main unit got hot enough to burn yourself. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/98 "2018-08-16T01:45:59Z")
[quote=ā€œDropo, post:96, topic:819633ā€] You mean this? [/QUOTE] No, not that one, but Iā€™ll play around on Youtube and see if anyone posted it. Good idea. ---
**Author:** ![What\_Exit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/what_exit/32/10652_2.png) [@What\_Exit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_Exit)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/99 "2018-08-16T01:53:58Z")
This is very close: [Droopy Projection Oil Wheel - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NanuPncgcrc) Called _Droopy Projection Oil Wheel_ Another candidate: [Psychedelic Oil Projections - Party Like It's 199 - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jnf1JZOaxIE) Psychedelic Oil Projections. ---
**Author:** ![Pork\_Rind](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pork_rind/32/111_2.png) [@Pork\_Rind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pork_Rind)\ **Post date:** [August 16, 2018, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/100 "2018-08-16T01:54:06Z")
> [@Dropo](#): > > You mean this? If weā€™re remembering the same thing, it was more like thisā€¦ ...as if maybe one of those thin oil toys was sitting behind the lens. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633.md?page=6)