things from 70s childhood that don't exist anymore

[cornflakes]

Oh yeah, and macrame sweaters. You know, the open weave type.

[Flowerchild]

Originally posted by phouka:

some sort of cartoon (school related?) where the letters of the alphabet were people. The vowels were women, and the consonants were men. I remember thinking it was a little unfair, since there were only six vowels and twenty consonants.

The letter people? that was a puppet show where the letter where people, and as I recall, the vowels were women.

"Come and meet the letter people
Come and meet the family
Come and meet the letter people
A B C D Follow me

There were also these coloring books that came with a special pen. You’d color something in with the pen, and the invisible drawing would become visible.

They still make invisible ink books. theres 2 different kinds I believe, one where theres pictures you color in with the pen and othere where you read trivia questions and then use th pen to find the answer and other similar games. I think i might have seen them at books a million or someplace like that,.

[Eats_Crayons]

*Originally posted by pokey *
**That’s pretty regional but I guess so is The Pop Shoppe!! Just seeing those bottles brings back memories of birthday parties. **

Mmmm. Black Cherry! I also liked the cream soda, though it was without doubt the weirdest tasting cream soda ever.

[Another_Primate]

Sir bars.
The company that made them also made Look bars and Big Hunk bars, which, I think, are still around. But I haven’t seen a Sir bar for years.

[Stage_Manager]

*Originally posted by Mikie *
**Perhaps from the 80s?

I remember a candy bar called no jelly (it wasn’t capitalized IIRC) that was basically a soft peanut butter center covered in chocolate. The TV commercials involved a male/female vaudeville-type act: he was PB and she was jelly, and she wore a cute tutu but never got to go onstage. He kept apologizing to her backstage, about how she never got to go out, but all the people wanted was Peanut butter – but no jelly.

Please, someone else remember this, too. Please. :dubious: **

The kind folks at the old time candy company feel they were perhaps a regional thing.

I’m sure it was made by a national company; Hershey’s or suchlike. Anyone?

[elmwood]

*Originally posted by pokey *
**Something on that page also reminded me of Commander Tom on one of the Buffalo stations which brought back a huge flood of nostalga for this campaign they had in Buffalo at the time for having pride. I can’t remember who called it “Talkin Proud Land” but they became obsessed with their own self esteem (maybe because it was such a pit) so all the promos were about pride in Buffalo? All the cartoons were on channel 29 and the song went, “Get to know us! Buffalo 29 Get to know us! *Take a liiiiiitle bit of time.” They showed crappy cartoons after school.

That’s pretty regional but I guess so is The Pop Shoppe!! Just seeing those bottles brings back memories of birthday parties. **

“Buffalo’s got the spirit!
Talking proud! Talking proud!
Listen up, and you’ll hear it!
Talking proud! Talking proud!
The good life that we share
With nice people who care
It’s time to tell 'em all we’re up and standing tall!
Standing tall!
Buffalo’s got the spirit!
Talking proud! Talking proud!
Listen up, and you’ll hear it!
Talking proud! Talking proud! Talking proud! TALKING PROUD!”

BTW, that was the early 1980s.

Channel 29 is essentially the Toronto Fox affiliate; Buffalo ID, US call letters, but all domestic Canadian market commercials. It’s the only station in the US that aired the “I AM CANADIAN!” Molson commercials, from what I heard.

Kids in Buffalo also got thier fill of Canadian television, even though it wasn’t as fun or nostalga-inducing as the stuff airing south of the border. Flintstones on Channel 9 at 12:30, The Gentle Giant, Uncle Bobby with Bimbo the Birthday Clown (Uncle Bobby and Bimbo never celebrated the birthdays of kids from Buffalo, even though Commander Tom always said “happy birthday” to Canadian youngsters), Reach For the Top, that Cottonelle commercial where a white kitten drags tissue paper all over a house, and Canadian Minute on CBC, a show with government-sponsored putdowns of the United States like “The Canadian side of Niagara Falls is larger and prettier than the American side” or “Alexander Graham Bell was a Canadian, so the telephone is really a Canadian innovation, not an American invention.”

What’s that Canadian show that features just images of ducks and moose feeding, with droll narration about how the featured animals can be found in abundance in northern Ontario? Hinterland Profile?

“At … the Pop Shoppe!” (pops open hand on mouth)

[Vlad_Dracul]

Dijon Warlock… I still have my Star Trek playset, complete with crewmembers, a couple of aliens, and several super-heroes who were built on the same action-figure design.

[Sigmundex]

I was just thinking about this earlier tonight, and now I have a place to talk about it… does anybody else remember their local drug store having a vacuum tube tester? It was a stand up thing sort of like one of those 25 cent “strength tester” boxes you see in an arcade. It had a flat panel with a whole bunch of round, pinned openings, and when your tv would stop working you’d pull out the vacuum tubes, bring them down to the tester at the drug store, and plug them in to see if they worked or not. I still remember when my dad would pull the back off the tv (and I remember that vacuum tube smell very well), pull out a few tubes and send me down to the CVS.

[Krisfer_the_Cat]

MMM thanks Sternvogel Pogo… lots of great memories there.

For any Utahns or ex’tahns here: Wonder Bread with the HUGE 33 on the front.

I remember Zoom as well, although I quickly got bored with it.

penny candy that cost a penny? No tax on anything under 10 cents?

Bicenntenial: I have a set of thick glass goblets put out on the Bicenntenial, They are blue with red stems and have stars or a Bicenntenial motto on them. Tacky as all hell. I tried to sell them on e-bay and no one wanted them!

Somewhere here I still have my pet rock.

[Larry_Mudd]

elmwood– Hinterland Who’s Who.

Had a very “medicated” vibe, didn’t it?