DARK SHADOWS FORUMS
General Discussions => Current Talk Archive => Current Talk '25 I => Current Talk '02 I => Topic started by: Gerard on May 10, 2002, 06:30:34 PM
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The lime-green coat of Cassandra, aka Angelique, has appeared. Don'tchya just love the sixties? My mom had an almost identical coat, exact same color. But she never had any problems with cigarette lighters - she didn't smoke. And she didn't have to use curses to get us to do what she wanted. She used something far more affective, every mother's ultimate weapon: guilt.
Gerard
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The lime-green coat of Cassandra, aka Angelique, has appeared. Don'tchya just love the sixties?
Gerard
Who didn't like the sixties? The '60s brought us Dark Shadows!!!!
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The lime-green coat of Cassandra, aka Angelique, has appeared. Don'tchya just love the sixties? My mom had an almost identical coat, exact same color. But she never had any problems with cigarette lighters - she didn't smoke. And she didn't have to use curses to get us to do what she wanted. She used something far more affective, every mother's ultimate weapon: guilt.
Gerard
I love all those bright prints and colors from the sixties!!
my mother was quite good at that too Gerard!!
LOL
jennifer
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Guilt - OH YEAH! [heh] And when she was really mad she would always whip out my middle name! Beth ANNE...[eek]...Angelique had nothing on her when she was in one of those moods! [batang]
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THE 60'S WERE GREAT TO GROW UP IN!!
The music can't be beat, DARK SHADOWS, THE BEATLES, BEACHBOYS.....................The bright colored fashions! Those of you who grew up then know what i'm talking about. Naturally though, I was just a baby back then .......LOL :D
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THE 60'S WERE GREAT TO GROW UP IN!!
The music can't be beat, DARK SHADOWS, THE BEATLES, BEACHBOYS.....................The bright colored fashions! Those of you who grew up then know what i'm talking about. Naturally though, I was just a baby back then .......LOL :D
And how about candy bars costing only a nickel? And going to the movies with one dollar, and with it (especially for Saturday matinees), you got a double-feature, previews, cartoons and a documentary, along with popcorn, soda, candy AND you had change left over. Remember singing the Winston cigarettes TV commerical jingle? Wearing Red Ball Jet tennis shoes? Everyone going over to the home of the first family on the block who purchased a color television? Fins on Cadillacs? On summer days, just taking off for the entire day until supper time and your parents were never concerned? (Your mom was grateful to get you out of her hair anyway.) Kids still went trick-or-treating on the actual Halloween night, and the streets were crammed full of them? Christmas decorations didn't go up in stores or on the streets until well after Thanksgiving AND only one Santa came to town for just a couple days, everyone standing in line (unlike SEVERAL now found in the SAME malls)? Having one of those gigantic, boxy, noisy window-unit air-conditioners meant that you were considered "upper crust" (the rest of us made do with open windows and fans, and no one had central air)? Singing "Downtown" along with Petula Clarke on the radio? Parents whispered about some new movie called "The Graduate" because it was considered "dirty"? "The Flintstones" was a prime-time evening animated sitcom? Sunday evening ALWAYS meant "Lassie" or "The Wonderful World of Disney", followed by "The Ed Sullivan Show", and then ending with "Bonanza"?
Gerard
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The lime green coat is a statement, but wait for the infamous dress Cassandra wears when...
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Trask exercises her.
My understanding is after she was done with it she sold to NBC and they used it as a stage curtain on Rowan & Martins Laugh-In. That pattern is a true blast from the past!
B
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I was pretty young to remember alot during that time but I did get a good education about things from watching my two older sisters, who were teenagers at the time. Who can forget playing those 45rpm records on the record player? My sister's had stacks of them and I would play them by the hour! Even though I was a young kid then, I still did enjoy alot of things that these little ones today, probably never heard of. We use to play games such as Ring o leavio (not sure of the spelling) and "Red rover, Red rover, we call so and so over," not to mention those metal roller skates, hula hoops,footsies,jump ropes and pogo sticks. It's sad to say, but I hardly ever see kids playing outside like this anymore.
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As long as you mentioned hula hoops - when they were the big thing (I'm not sure how old I was, I'll guess 10-12 or so), I could do it rather effortlessly. Nothing fancy, but just generally keeping it going was easy. Whereas my parents, aunts, etc. couldn't do it. Well, a few years ago I tried, and sure enough, I can't do it anymore!!
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Yes, the sixties were great for a lot of things. I just wanted to throw in Simon and Garfunkel as one of the things I loved at the time, not to mention Herb Albert, Al Hirt, Doris Day and Barbra Streisand. There was a feel and a fashion about the time that the 80's and 90's just didn't seem to have.
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Cassandra lamented:
It's sad to say, but I hardly ever see kids playing outside like this anymore.
That's cuz we're all talking about 60s TV shows on the computer! LOL or at least moi ... 8)
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This topic is making me feel old!
All of what you listed, Gerard, is so vividly enmeshed in my memory chips, it's almost sepia-tinted! Damn!
I wore all the same dreadful, incredibly bright colors we see on DS now, skirts up to THERE, fishnet stockings (Ruby would have been proud). I had a bright, electric yellow coat that I just adored!
Yeah, the 60's were a more innocent time for kids, no doubt about it. I used to play with my friends allllll day, not returning home until dinnertime--or maybe not until after.
Remembering. . .
Love, Robin
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Don't forget walking to the store to buy your Dark Shadows Cards. I drove by my old nieghborhood just last week. I could almost see myself walking to the store, now it is a pizza palor. Talk about times being so very different. I lived near a small airport. You could use this phone anc call the air traffic controler and they would let you up into the tower.
Birdie
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Since we are talking about fashion when we were in high school I'll throw in my fashion statement. We are talking fifties here. Perfectly round large skirts with poodle dogs around them, the skirts over many can cans, and underskirt made out of net and many ruffles and lace. Some even had hoop skirts. Bobby socks and saddle shoes. We wore our blue jeans rolled up mid calf. Looked fine then, wouldn't even think of it now. Puts me in mind of a Statler Brothers song titled "Do You Remember These?" country song. Just thought I'd share this.
Tanis
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Gerard,
How about the Soupy Sales Show, Shindig, I Spy, and Hullabaloo? I always liked the Jetsons and Johnny Quest on the tube as well.
Do you remember when the Cathoic newspaper for each archdiocese ran the list of "condemned movies" each week? (We used to check that list and then try to get into the movies that the Church had condemned!)
I remember staying up late one night to see Jonathan Frid appear on the New York Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. When Mr. Frid came out and shook hands with Johnny and Ed McMahon (You are correct, sir!!!), I almost did not recognize him. Without all of that heavy makeup, Mr. Frid looked quite normal.
Jonthan Frid once appeared on the old Mike Douglas Show from Philadelphia. (They used to drive New York celebrities down to Philadelphia in a limousine, the ninety miles down the beautiful New Jersey Turnpike to PA.) The great jazz singer, Joe Williams, was also a guest on the show as I recall. When Mike Douglas showed a Dark Shadows clip where the aged Barnabas gives Carolyn a hickey, Mr. Williams just about fell out of his chair laughing at the sight of it! Mr. Frid also got a big laugh out of that scene!
Bob the Bartender, who misses the wit and wisdom of the former presidential candidate Pat Paulsen from the Smothers Brothers Show.
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And how about candy bars costing only a nickel? And going to the movies with one dollar, and with it (especially for Saturday matinees), you got a double-feature, previews, cartoons and a documentary, along with popcorn, soda, candy AND you had change left over. Remember singing the Winston cigarettes TV commerical jingle? Wearing Red Ball Jet tennis shoes? Everyone going over to the home of the first family on the block who purchased a color television? Fins on Cadillacs? On summer days, just taking off for the entire day until supper time and your parents were never concerned? (Your mom was grateful to get you out of her hair anyway.) Kids still went trick-or-treating on the actual Halloween night, and the streets were crammed full of them? Christmas decorations didn't go up in stores or on the streets until well after Thanksgiving AND only one Santa came to town for just a couple days, everyone standing in line (unlike SEVERAL now found in the SAME malls)? Having one of those gigantic, boxy, noisy window-unit air-conditioners meant that you were considered "upper crust" (the rest of us made do with open windows and fans, and no one had central air)? Singing "Downtown" along with Petula Clarke on the radio? Parents whispered about some new movie called "The Graduate" because it was considered "dirty"? "The Flintstones" was a prime-time evening animated sitcom? Sunday evening ALWAYS meant "Lassie" or "The Wonderful World of Disney", followed by "The Ed Sullivan Show", and then ending with "Bonanza"?
Gerard
Wow what a summary Gerard It brought tears to my eyes! sometimes i long for the Mary Tyler Moore days and want a next door neighbor like Millie LOL
we also used to go up the park and spend all day with
the Recreation person doing crafts and things the town paid for.Forget that nowadays!
jennifer
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Wow, Jennifer I use to go to the park all day in the summer. The day the gimp lady came was a big day. One not to be missed. How about snaps and beans? We have the game beans called something else now, more politically correct. I have to laugh my husband was the checker champ of a park in the other section of city I lived in.
Jennifer, it is so funny that our growing up years are almost the same. Too funny.
Birdie
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During the 1960's I grew up on a block of 30 suburban houses with roughly 90 other kids. 2 families had 11 kids each and another 2 had 8 apiece. Average was about 4.
In the summer, the little ones came out the doors at 7am and it was non-stop play all up and down the block till the teenagers reluctantly dragged themselves in at 10 pm. We played kick-ball, freeze tag, and "Johnny-on-the-Pony" endlessly. We marked up the entire street with hop-scotch grids and "bases". We sold one another lemonade, swapped bats and balls and raced each others soap-box cars.
Night time was best. The bigger kids helped the little kids catch fireflies in mayonaise jars,.....and then terrorized the same little ones with ghost stories. We played "Man From Uncle", chasing and hiding from one another behind our father's cars, using up countless batteries in our flashlights.
No organized sports in summer, no expensive equipment, and probably best of all, no adult interference in what we were doing....unless we got completely out of hand and then ANY father on the block was licensed to hand out justice.
I wish I could have given my kid THAT childhood.
Rainey
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Pat Paulsen! Wow Bob there's a blast from the past! It's funny you mention him, the wife and I were watching an episode of the Monkees the other week where Mr. Paulsen does his politician stint. Great stuff.
B
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I had a blast from my past while my Mom was here visiting last week. My dad put all of his reels of home movies from the 1960's on video finally. My Mom brought them with her, and I duplicated them. It was great seeing me with my brothers, parents, friends, my old neighborhoods, all the old cars, etc. My daughter got to see what I looked like when I was her age and younger, riding my bike, and playing, also what I looked like when Dark Shadows was on for the first time back then. I was such a little kid! I don't remember that much from the 60's, so it was great seeing those films!
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What a great topic!! I loved growing up in the 60's - as kids we played Ghost In The Graveyard in our neighborhood and got to stay out in the summer until 11 or 12! DS was on 1 summer in 1969 at 7pm in the evening because the local ABC affiliate was getting letters from concerned parents over the devil worship the show allegedly promoted! I worked in construction a few years back, in a nice subdivisions in the summer and the streets were deserted. No kids playing, no bike riding, nothing. I guess all the kids were inside on playstation. Even the tennis courts in this high priced subdivision were empty.
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Gerard, you have an incredible memory. And you are obviously, at least as old as me! What was the show with Johnny Blue?Was that Big Valley? And I loved Top Cat.
The kids all still trick or treat here in my part of Kansas City.
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Big Valley..I think the sons of Victoria Barkley were Jerad, Heath and Nick and the daughter was Audra.
And HEY...KC, Kuanyin..... can't walk down memory lane without paying respects to our fave kiddie shows..Whizzo and Torey and Old Gus!!! Not to mention Wonderama!!! Oh, and *shudder* Uncle Ed?
Also, does anyone remember the precurser to Power Rangers, called..Johnny Sokko and his Flying Robot?[/color]
[shadow=purple,left,300]Always, Minja ;D[/shadow]
Go Speed Racer...Go!! ;D
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I'm trying to remember where Johnny Blue was, Kuanyin. Was it The Big Valley, or was it High Chapparel? And I also loved Top Cat! My mom use to buy me the Gold Key books with Top Cat stories, and I couldn't wait until the daily TV airing of his adventures. My favorite part was the closing credits where he turned in, using that garbage can as his bedroom, setting the alarm clock, putting on those eye-shades and all that.
Now, does anybody else remember the first season of The Flintstones when it was in black and white? Of course, we only had a b&w set, so we didn't know the difference. But the end credits were slightly different. As Fred pounded on the door screaming for Wilma to let him in, the scene panned back showing all of Bedrock, lights snapping on in the windows of the houses. When it turned to color, that scene was no longer used. On rare occasion, the Cartoon Network will run those old b&w episodes for nostalgia sake.
Gerard
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Top Cat, was my favorite too. Can you remember the names of the other cats in his gang? Let me give it a whirl, Bennie the Ball, Chew-co, Soook, Fancy. Thats what I come up with.
I even had the 45 with the Top Cat theme song.
Birdie==close friends get to call me T.C.
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A walk down Memory Lane is always nice- ;D
Since I moved to the US from Sweden when I was 7, I missed out on some of the early to mid 60s American culture, but what I did experience still holds a special place in this old heart of mine.
I can't say I have ever liked the acid greens, pinks and generally psychedelic patterns so popular then, but I did have a sheer, full-skirted dress with small pink flowers over black that I loved. I also remember how Shelley, one of my classmates, sported a high 60s coiff complete with big, honking bow on my 8th birthday. Then there was the Spirograph set I got and the Minidragons set that came with a small "oven" and bright colored plastic gook to make the little dragon parts out of. Anyone remember those? There was also an edible bug "kit". :o
And the Smothers Brothers! I loved them even as a child, although many of the political references must have been a bit over my head. Amazingly, even my politically conservative father loved watching them. Mom still owns a couple of Smothers Bros. albums.
Of course, the nicest 60s memory of all was the birth of my baby brother in 1968. I still have a photo of him as a tiny tot with a Snoopy for President t-shirt! I'm happy to say, all grown up, we've become the best of friends.
Oh, I could go on and on! [wavey]