When I was younger...

[dreamof145]

Back in the 60's and 70's I remember going to school dances on Friday nights in the school gym. We had one a month.

Also, my girlfriends and I'd get together a lot of afternoons after school and practice dance steps while watching WHERE THE ACTION IS on tv. Do you remember the dances we used to do? I remember "four corners", "twist", "monkey", and the 'bump' but I forget some of the others.

[JEC48]

How about the boogaloo? Since the title of this thread is -when I was younger- what about some of the old TV shows. This past weekend they had a Leave It to Beaver 24 hour marathon. The last 2 episodes they showed were the first 2 that were shown on TV and they had a different Wally and a different Dad. Blew my mind. Mr. Clever was sitting in a chair and smoking a cigarette. Was very strange. Even though it was a different Wally, it was funny that they had the same mannerisms. And remember dream when we only had about 3 or 4 channels? Boy times sure have changed.

[bradybunch]

I think I can remember my Sister doing something called the swim. I may be wrong.

JEC48, I thought the very first Ward Cleaver was odd too.

[JEC48]

And Dream, you probably remember when there were no panty hose. Had to wear a garter belt or girdle to hold up your nylons. What about when we were younger you HAD to wear a dress to school. Pants were not allowed until, at least for me, I was in 9th grade and they had to be nice slacks, no jeans. By the way, I'm 51.

[dreamof145]

Yep - I remember the Beaver. I also liked Lost In Space, The Munsters, My Friend Flicka, Roy Rogers Sunday Matinee and Shirley Temple theatre.

I wore a dress also to school and in winter with Pants under! I was fat back then, but double me up with clothes and I looked like a whale. YUK. I hate to think about those days. Yep, no panty hose and I wore saddle oxfords to school because they would last the entire year, never wear out. When they got too small, I passed them down to my sisters. And I got newer used ones from my older cousins. lolol

Also...I had real long hair and I'd use VEGETABLE CANS with both ends cut off as curlers to roll it. I think I have a photo of me with my hair rolled like that somewhere. Man, what was I thinking?

[JEC48]

Well dream, your thread has made my mind start thinking of the "old days." I remember in high school that they had a smoking section. If your parent wrote a note to the school advising that it was ok that you smoke, then you could go to a certain section outside of the school to smoke cigarettes.

[JEC48]

Yeah, I remember the tin cans. Did you ever use jello as a setting gel? This was before dippity-do.

[JEC48]

Hey, my mother made me wear pants under my dress too! And always made me cover my head with an ugly scarf and gave me god awful home perms.

[dreamof145]

Yes, we had a smoking section...I'd forgotten about that. We also got paddled in school if we were bad by a big huge board that was in the principals' office. I never did, but one of my girlfirends did once for saying a badword in the bathroom and a teacher walked in and caught her. I think she said the SH__ word cause she got a runner in her nylon. lolol

[dreamof145]

YES, jello in the hair. And then dippity do. I also used beer if I could steal one from my stepdad. I also had a book on making your own cosmetics and my sisters and I'd do the strangest things. Sometimes we'd smear mayonnaise all over ourselves, oatmeal and honey, egg yolks and I don't know what else. We were always in trouble for stealing food and beer for our grooming. We had a huge family and the food was needed to feed us, not beautify us.

The TONI HOME PERMS...Oh my. I looked like I had an afro and used to cry myself to sleep. It was bad enough being the fattest kid in the class...but when you had a perm that made your hair frizz and stick out all over...that was way too much to take. lololol