Oh, yeah. I always loved The Pokey Little Puppy. I bought a copy of it for every one of my little nieces and nephews.
In* The Eiger Sanction* (1975), Gregory Walcott does this bit in a scene where Clint Eastwood questions his competency to take over the mission. Couldn’t find a suitable clip, but it was released 2 years before Carter Country appeared on TV.
I remember wanting a Dark Tower boardgame when I was a kid. Never got one. Apparently a kickstarter for a revised and modernized version is in the works. Maybe they’ll do Crossbows and Catapults next.
I checked it out and looked at some on ebay but that’s still not what I had. The pieces are too big and it doesn’t come with the mat and the little trees and stop signs. I’m thinking maybe what I had was some sort of playset. Probably bought at TG&Y or the Ten Cent Store since we were poor and didn’t get a lot of name brand toys. But thanks for your suggestion!
I never read this until just a few years ago. (It didn’t take very long. 
) I was horrified that their mother fed them, as a treat, CHOCOLATE CUSTARD! :smack: It was known even then that chocolate is extremely toxic to dogs.
Yep, Little Golden Books are still published, and still purchased by the millions, usually with the same stories and updated graphics. We get them donated to the library by the dozens, and most of them end up in the recycle bin because they’ve been crayoned in, have pages missing, etc. However, some of the older ones are surprisingly valuable. They’re popular in large part because they are inexpensive.
We had Ring-a-ma-Jigs. I had totally forgotten about those until I saw the post earlier; I remember using them as a Barbie patio table or footrest.
Something else I had forgotten about until today, probably dredged up by current headlines, was the PSA that aired from about Christmastime until the deadline, that was done in still-animation and a voiceover that said, “All aliens must register at the Post Office by January 31st.” As a grade-schooler, we were surprised that the stills depicted people and not creatures with extra body parts, scales, antennas, etc.
I had a friend with that game, it seemed cool at the time but I do recall it eating batteries really quick. Either D or C cell.
Got my grand nephew a Super Friends one for Christmas. Before that I hadn’t thought of them in years.
Sheez - finally caught up here.
That’s extraordinarily trippy trivia.
Trying to remember some of them from my bedroom door when I was a kid:
Squabble (Scrabble) - a couple yelling at each other over a board game, and on the wall behind them is a (heh) plack that says “Home Sweat Home”.
Killy Putty (guess) - kids blasted airborne by an exploding egg.
aw hell - here, enjoy:
Seem to recall (incorrectly?) that this non-car racing enthusiast kid back in the 70’s remembered a “Big Daddy” Don Garlits.
Wiki calls him “Swamp Rat”, but my (fawlty?) memory thinks otherwise.
(holy crap, digs…trying to truncate your quote…those were some of the most crazy-ass URLs I’ve ever seen!)
How about KSTW Tacoma’s Brakeman Bill?
Unfortunately, this doodleart page doesn’t show the “Progress” poster (gigantic traffic jam) that one of my sisters coloured and put up on her wall back in the day.
There was a 70’s game called Wing-it, where you put a stack of white poker chip-sized disks into a little contraption that looked like a Viewmaster that was on its side. You pull a spring-loaded lever and BOOM one of the disks goes flying out from the bottom of it.
An embarassing aside: when I was 9 I got into a Whip-it fight with a friend: each of us lieing down flat on our stomachs on the living room carpet about twenty feet from each other, embroiled in mortal combat, bonking each other in the face with Whip-it disks. But when Mrs. Lightbody saw the huge pool of urine on her carpet thanks to my out-of-control laughing - that was no laughing matter.:o
Not to be confused with whatever the hell this shit is.
How about squirt rings? Dumb plastic rings attached to a little (usually water-filled) bladder that you’d squeeze and zap someone in the face with?
ok - this’ll be my third and final bladder-themed entry: those little plastic spiders that had a - yes - little bladder thingy underneath that was attached to a long, hollow wire that had on its other end yet another bladder that you’d squeeze to make the spider JUMP!
In Shreddies boxes - those Herbie the Love Bug VWs that you hooked onto an elastic band on a mini track and then released it - ZOOM!
Quite disappointed there’s been no mention of the classic and, well, totally noisier-than-shit Electro Shot Shooting Gallery
No love for meccano?
heh, thanks…‘babe’.
I’m sure plenty of other people remember this, but I miss the digest size TV Guide with localized listings.
Holy shit! Someone else remembers Brakeman Bill! I was on Brakeman Bill.
I don’t recall Stan Boreson on TV, but I had a couple of his albums as a kid. I remember J.P. Patches.
And on the subject of northwest children’s TV shows, does anyone remember Boomerang? It was years later I found out the host was Marni Nixon, who did the singing for Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady, and a few other big musicals in the '60s, too.
I recently noticed that there is a Bunnicula animated series. Remembering having read at least one of the books in primary school, I googled for more info and noticed that the dog in the books loved chocolate cupcakes.
The completely inappropriate Popeye cartoons, post WW2 maybe, with the Japanese villains as stereotype drawings as was the custom then and Popeye saving the world with his fists.
And a Tarzan where he ran through the jungle yelling “Nazi, Nazi” and included a horrifying scene where they tethered 2 palm trees to the ground, tied people to them, and then cut the tethers so that the people where thrown into the air and their extremities flew off. WW2 era, I suspect, never have seen it since, and never have forgotten it either.
During WW2 and not inappropriate for that time. Now? only as a historical piece.
I hope we can assume that the upcoming live action **Dumbo **movie does not include the racist stereotype crows.
I’m sure no one remembers this one. It was obsolete before I was born, but we used it all the time.
The Nichols Damp-Proof Salt Shaker.
My grandfather bought out the world’s supply when the factory went out of business and sold them for thirty years. It was a clever design: the holes were in a tower kept under glass. When it was on the table, moisture couldn’t get in. You then would shake it up and down to add salt.
It was a big seller where I grew up, which was on eastern Long Island and with water on three sides.
We ran out of them in around 1970 and divvied up the last of the stock to the family.
The product is long defunct but unless there’s been some sort technological advancement in salt shakers over the last 50 years, that doesn’t necessarily mean the Nichols Damp-Proof Salt Shaker is obsolete. Since the patent has expired, there’s nothing preventing other halloware manufacturers from putting the product back on the market. In fact, there already might be salt shakers for sale now that use Nichols’ unique design.
If you google damp-proof salt shaker you’ll see that such things are available but based on a different principle.
As the fiendish Boris S. Wort?
(or was that JP Patches?)
Thankyouthankyouthankyou!!
At last, someone else remembers this thing!
We moved east from L.A. when I was four and a half - sixty years ago this month - and I have roughly two dozen memories from L.A. before we moved. This particular one has been annoying me for years.
**Fun Fact: ** I was watching a bio of Hedy Lamarr on the Documentary Channel tonight. Turns out that in addition to frequency hopping, she invented (working with chemists from Howard Hughes) what were basically Fizzies to make up for the shortage of Coca-Cola during WWII. The tablets (cubes, actually) didn’t go over well because the chemistry of the drinking water in different parts of the US differed and they couldn’t dissolve properly. I wonder how the problem was (if ever) eventually solved. The ones I drank in Minneapolis dissolved just fine.