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  • #863769
    Fast Forward
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    ChanieE: Thank you. Last night, I did remember the “meet me at the grocer” line but that was it so thanks for the rest of it.

    #863770
    ronrsr
    Member

    Come to where the flavor is. . . come to Marlboro country.

    If you don’t smoke, don’t start. If you do smoke, quit. (last commercial by the Marlboro Man, William Talman, as he was dying from lung cancer)

    #863771
    ronrsr
    Member

    Come on over to the L&M side…

    Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch.

    To a smoker, it’s a Kent (happiness is).

    At manly times like these… (L&M)

    Call for Phillip Morris!

    Cool and refreshing as a summer shower. (Newport cigarettes)

    You get a lot to like with a Marlboro: filter, flavor, pack or box.

    It’s not how long you make it, it’s how you make it long. (Winston Longs)

    Why don’t you pick it up and smoke it sometime? (Muriel Cigars)

    Come up to the Kool taste, the coolest taste in any cigarette. (Kool cigarettes)

    It’s what’s up front that counts – Winston

    #863772
    AinOhdMilvado
    Participant

    wellmeaning busybody

    – I don’t think the blue covered Chumash w/linear Rash”i translation was done by JPS.

    #863773
    wanderingchana
    Participant

    Chayav, that was an AA reference…

    #863774
    EzratHashem
    Member

    The days when the majority of moms believed that having a baby meant raising a child all day, not farming them out asap and returning to work!!!

    Cute memories of the metal milkboxes & phone number names (ours was Edgewood)–also remember playing games in the street daily with all the kids on the block–, what about the guy in the truck who came around to sharpen knives?

    #863775
    EzratHashem
    Member

    2 things I find scary about being “over 40”—today noone memorizes phone numbers anymore. Who needs to , they are all in the phone memory!! But what happens if you need a phone number in an emergency and your phone isn’t accessible? Same for GPS. Today noone needs to use a map, your GPS tells you where to go. But what if the GPS suddenly is not functioning and you never learned how to read a map?

    #863776
    bbubbee
    Participant

    The blue linear Chumashim were not printed by JPS but by MP press. They were the precurser to the Metzudah Chumash.

    How about Simchas Torah in Shul dancing with a flag that had an apple on it.

    Hi ho Tonto – Kimosabi

    Roy Rogers & Dale Evens

    Superman Clark Kent

    Perry Mason

    Dr, Kildare

    Ben Casey

    Romper Room

    #863777
    Health
    Participant

    “I’m not going to try it.” “Let’s get Mikey to try it -he eats anything.” “Yea.”

    Mikey tries it.

    “He likes it – Hey Mikey!” (Life cereal)

    “My bologna has a first name its…..ahhh…..

    o-s-c-a-r

    my bologna has a secong name its….ummm…

    ma-y-e-r

    i luv yo eat it every day and if yoo ask me why i’ll

    sa a a a a a a a a a a y cuz oscar myer has a way with

    b-o-l-o-g-n-a” (Oscar Mayer deli meats)

    #863778
    mom12
    Participant

    I’m still one of those moms who dont send their children off to school till age 3 1/2 or 4 yrs old (depeending on the month the birthday is)

    then I get ‘punished’ and my daughters are put into nursery cuz they were unfortunate not to have been in a classroom yet….

    #863779
    ronrsr
    Member

    I wish I was an Oscar Meyer Wiener.

    #863780
    aries2756
    Participant

    cigarettes and alcohol were advertised on tv.

    I remember getting the polio vaccine in school. I remember getting the dental slips in school to make sure we went to the dentist twice a year, which is not the norm these days. I remember the teacher administering an eye exam making you stand at the back of the room while she hung an eye chart on the board.

    #863781

    I’m loving this thread. Reliving my childhood. Too bad kids today don’t have as much fun as we did, playing “in front of the house” until your mom called you in for dinner. Now they’re expected to know in Pre-1A (a fancy name for kindergarten) what we knew in 1st grade. And I hear the public schools in NYC are making even more ridiculous requirements, which, of cousre, we’ll have to emulate in yeshivas.

    BTW, what was a typical yeshiva tuition in say the ’50s and ’60s in NYC? Most of us moms who work now are doing so because that’s the only way a family can send their kids to yeshiva.

    #863782
    always here
    Participant

    please pardon the interruption to your question..

    I was just reminded how when we lived on the top floor of a 5th floor walk-up, across the street from Prospect Park, my Mother, a’h, used to tie some money in a piece of paper (probably a quarter) & throw it out the window to me. .. we’re talking like early 60’s.

    #863783
    usbaers
    Participant

    aries: re the dentist: i remember the dentist coming to our school and giving us toothbrushes and some little red pill that would stain our teeth where we didn’t brush well. It didn’t taste bad, either, but the dye was probably carcinogenic! A shame, it was a great motivator.

    Also the TB patch test was given in school. We would watch for those bumps, fascinated, and try to guess if any of us would have to move to Arizona or wherever those sanitoriums were, like Annie Sullivan (sp?) and her brother Jimmy in The Miracle Worker (which we all had to read for class).

    #863784
    apushatayid
    Participant

    When I was growing up Ed Norton worked in the sewers of Brooklyn. Now he works in Hollywood.

    #863785
    me too
    Member

    I thought he fights Viruses that attack computers

    #863786
    🍫Syag Lchochma
    Participant

    We used to laugh so hard at abbot and costello and the old time radio shows (my parents used to play them for us even though they were before my time). I showed my kids the ‘who’s on first’ clip but it wasn’t the same.

    #863787
    aries2756
    Participant

    Who’s on first is a classic and always will be. Every true comedian will try to do a version of it. You just have to know how to deliver it.

    #863788
    cherrybim
    Participant
    #863789
    always here
    Participant

    Cafe Wha?, The BitterEnd, The Fillmore East, midnight showings of ‘The Rocky Horror Picture Show’ @ the Waverly…

    hope this doesn’t get deleted like my morning listings of Jewish rockers

    #863790
    aries2756
    Participant

    Triple S J, JDL, Rallies in front of the UN…..

    #863791
    wanderingchana
    Participant

    RHPS is alive and kicking. I hear.

    #863792
    cherrybim
    Participant

    The Gas Light Cafe, Your Father’s Mustache, The Flick Ice Cream Parlor, The Purple Onion,

    #863793
    oomis
    Participant

    Wow, did you give me some good memories! I also liked almost anything from 1962-3. The Rabbi’s Sons wer my all-time favorite group in Jewish music. I still sing the songs from their very first album.

    #863794
    cherrybim
    Participant

    The Rabbi’s Sons are still my favorite too.

    #863795
    aries2756
    Participant

    My little Margie, My Mother the Car, Car 54 Where are You?, Mister Ed, The Farmer’s Daughter, Father Knows Best, The Millionaire, Loretta Young, Denise the Menace, Queen for a Day………I’m really just exercising my memory.

    #863796
    mom12
    Participant

    It looks like I better get out of here..

    I dont remember everything just some..

    It looks like I might be too young..

    I grew up in de 60’s and 70’s..li’l young no?

    those were the years when everybody went to the same school and nobody was better than their neighbor or friend..

    Those were the years we respected each other and we lived and let live!

    #863797
    hanib
    Participant

    the flinstones,.. the muppet show…. little house on the prairie…facts of life… different strokes…growing pains…

    i bet you can figure out how old someone is by the shows and commercials they remember

    #863798
    AinOhdMilvado
    Participant

    cherrybim…

    Remember…

    Donovan, Melanie, John Denver, Aliza Kashi (I think the FIRST Israeli entertainer to ever come over here, she was even on regular TV shows), The Four Ayalons, Pirchei Sings album (Pirchei Agudas Yisrael – with Noach Dear!)

    #863799
    AinOhdMilvado
    Participant

    oomis1105…

    Along with The Feenjon, remember The Olive Tree?

    Those were the good old (college) days when you could have a great time sitting with friends just sipping a warm cider and listening to a solo guitar player singing Israeli folk songs…

    #863800
    aries2756
    Participant

    Yup, if you went to the village it meant you went to Cafe Feenjon or the Olive tree.

    #863801
    always here
    Participant

    or the places I mentioned.. depending on ‘where you were at’ back in the day 😉

    #863802
    anon for this
    Participant

    I’m not quite over 40, but was wondering whether there were any other Monty Python fans on here.

    #863803
    cherrybim
    Participant

    AinOhdMilvado – I still have a vast record collection including a rare private album of Simon @ Garfunkel – rally for Gene McCarthy rally at Central Park.

    #863804
    AinOhdMilvado
    Participant

    oomis1105, cherrybim…

    I was, and (forgive me) still am, a big Simon and Garfunkel fan.

    Anyone remember the Israeli duo called The Parvarim?

    They made an album of Simon and Garfunkel songs that they translated into Hebrew. I still have it. It was amazing, – it sounds exactly like Simon and Garfunkel but, as I said, in Ivrit…

    Sounds of Silence = Tzleelai HaSheket

    (Are you going to)Scarborough Fair = Im Panecha HaYom le’Yreed

    etc.

    #863805
    AinOhdMilvado
    Participant

    cherrybim…

    Did you HAVE TO mention Farm Food???

    Now I’m salivating for a plate of their UNBEEElieveable pirogen with sour cream!!!

    YUMMMMMMMM.

    #863806
    aries2756
    Participant

    Was Farm Food the one that everything was in the vending machines?

    #863807
    AinOhdMilvado
    Participant

    aries2756…

    I think you’re thinking of the Horn & Hardart Automat.

    Farm Foods was a regular sit-down milchig restaurant.

    #863808
    cherrybim
    Participant

    Pirogen was what my wife ordered at Farm Food too.

    My friend got married at Farm Food; halavai if we could have weddings like that today, we’d be just as happy and save a bundle too.

    Remember the tiny deli on Broadway and 48th(?) run by an elderly chossid; the only fleishigs near Times Square, and no hashgacha.

    #863809
    aries2756
    Participant

    I remember going to the big market on 13th avenue with my father. Not unlike the shuk in Machneh Yehuda.

    #863810
    AinOhdMilvado
    Participant

    “Remember the tiny deli on Broadway and 48th(?) run by an elderly chossid; the only fleishigs near Times Square…”

    Yes, I do remember the place, but not the name.

    There was also a dairy place I think, also on B’dway within a few blocks of this fleishig place.

    Anyone remember the name of that one???

    #863811

    OMG, my first date with my husband was to the Olive Tree!

    #863812
    ☕ DaasYochid ☕
    Participant

    Who remembers when:

    You actually dialed someone’s number on a rotary phone?

    “Hanging up” meant suspendin the phone on its cradle?

    The area code for the entire NYC was 212?

    The newest recording medium was the eight-track?

    Cuomo was governor of New York State? (Oh, that’s right…)

    You had to stop at a gas station to ask directions?

    There were earphones but no iphones?

    Going online meant that you had to wait for the people ahead of you?

    A web site was removed with a broom?

    A desktop had paper on it, a notebook had paper in it, and a laptop had a baby on it?

    A printer worked for the newspaper?

    A monitor would tell on you to the teacher if you misbehaved?

    A hard drive meant up a steep hill in an old jalopy?

    #863813
    eclipse
    Member

    I remember when it didn’t hurt to be on my feet 24/7.Then again,I remember when I wasn’t ON my feet 24/7.Hmmm.

    #863814
    commonsense
    Participant

    toa aries, the market became friedman’s grocery which recently closed down and supposedly a pomegrante type store is opening there.

    #863815
    TheGoq
    Participant

    Bump of the day. I’ve got to clean out my cr closet for pesach.

    #863816
    Shticky Guy
    Participant

    Bump of the day. I’ve got to clean out my cr closet for pesach.

    Lol goq. Another great thread. My, you’ve been having a bumpy ride the past few days! Are you feeling a little oongalukshena?

    #863817
    R.T.
    Participant

    8 inch floppy disks with 160k space, vinyl LP’s; 33, 45 and 78 rpm

    Writing on fulscap with pencils

    SlideRule for calculations (I still have one)

    #863818
    TheGoq
    Participant

    Oh yeah shticky like you wouldnt believe but B”H im better now.

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