<p>My dad used to iron my hair for me, putting a tea towel in between my hair and the iron. It was the most stupid thing: I have natually wavy hair, so it would be all wavy down to about ear level where we'd been able to pull it safely away from my head to iron it, then board-straight, and because it was so thin, it would fly away and look wispy and unhealthy.</p>
<p>But bless his heart for being patient enough to do it for me. (Grandma used to say, "Someday you'll be glad you have that naturally wavy hair." Little did I know she was right.)</p>
<p>Does anyone else have hair that gets wavier as they get older? I have had to learn blow drying in my middle age. Oh hate it hate it hate it. That hot head feeling? The smell of the dryer? Ugh.</p>
<p>I had a friend in college who tried to dye her dark hair blonde over the summer. She tried to color it back before wchoool started and it turned kelley green! My hairdersser explained the phenomenon to me one time (why that happened) but I forget. Mootmom-- can you help here?? You seem to know the answer to everything :) How about that Doby Gillis trivia question??</p>
<p>O.K. O.K. I'll join in with the nostalgia. I may have missed the reference to any of these and if I repeat, please forgive me. I had an older sister so I know this stuff -how about rolling your hair with coke cans? The ever popular "Sun-In" hair destroying spray? Sunbathing with a mixture of (I think-Iodine? mercurochrome? methiolate? ) something purple from the medicine chest and baby oil. I believe that was a REALLY good idea, to more highly focus the harmful but tanning rays of the sun. Why didn't y'all just sit under a giant magnifying glass?</p>
<p>As far as strange food or drink products, I still buy Fresca, and Orange Crush. I would buy Wink! if I could find it, and Bubble-Pop, and the Dog and Suds Root Beer and hotdog stands in the Midwest that served rootbeer in a megaphone. </p>
<p>Does anybody remember a dessert product called "Whip and Chill" which after mixing would set up in a few minutes in the frig into sort of a processed mousse? It was very popular, but disappeared all at once. Like it was banned. I have often reflected on why. What could possibly have been in it? I also never received my class action notice for some Whip and Chill linked malady. Maybe next week.</p>
<p>SBMom, regarding old tunes, I have been converted by TheMom and D to iTunes. I have a small monthly allowance and I'm downloading all sorts of things that I'd never go out and buy a full CD for but are great for a cut here and a cut there. Lamentably, not all artists and/or songs are on iTunes. Biggest disappointment so for is no Led Zeppelin at all...I wanted their cut of "Stairway to Heaven" and Heart's cover doesn't quite cut it. There is Barry McGuire but no "Eve of Destruction" and no Bob Seger ("Night Moves) whatsoever. </p>
<p>Otoh, obscurish numbers by the Pretenders, Dion, Nena, and Niilson are all Score!!!</p>
<p>I often pair movies together for hypothetical double features, e.g., Dr. Strangelove/MASH, Victor Victoria/Tootsie, etc. and I find myself wanting to do the same thing with music. Somewhat to my bemusement, D had downloaded "Hotel California" and I wanted "Stairway to Heaven" to pair with it. And then I do floggin-headed things like downloading two versions of "Layla," both Derrick and the Dominoes and Eric Clapton's "unplugged" version.</p>
<p>Curmudgeon and TheDad may have forgotten the customary procedures but I remember them. Man on the floor (board)!!! </p>
<p>I guess I must have been in third grade when the Beatles appeared. We watched them on The REALLY BIG SHEUOOOW, but I dont remember being very impressed. I know I parroted my father complaining about their long hair. I remember my older female cousin being excited about them. Her favorite was Ringo. I told her, Hes the ugly one! She defended him by saying he had a bad back. I still havent figured that one out. Not much later, when I realized long hair was cool, hair length became a major point of dissension with my father until I graduated from high school several years later. </p>
<p>Interesting how regional memories differ. I dont remember Charles Chips in our area until the late 70s or even 80s, and I think they were in bags then. No milk man, unless you count my father who milked the cows we kept on our small farm in the middle of our small town. There were sometimes ice cream trucks, but they were locally owned. I never saw Good Humor stuff until it was in a grocery store. We usually purchased our fudgesicles at the ballpark. If you were really from the country you tended to like RC cola with peanuts added, topped off with a Moon Pie! Its probably a guy thing, but I remember being more intrigued with the X-ray glasses than with the sea monkeys. I finally saved enough money to order a joy buzzer, but it was hard to get anyone to fall for it because they didnt trust me when I suddenly wanted to shake hands with everyone. </p>
<p>At first, I thought it was a little odd to have the younglings joining us in Sinners Alley, but I realized its important for teaching them responsible drinking habits as well as passing on the cultural history and traditions in our cyber-oral tradition. DD loves it when I tell stories about growing up in the almost-country. She says they sound like Tom Sawyer stories. </p>
<p>I think this pub is going to work out all right! Ive always enjoyed this kind of rambling conversation when everyone is able to relax and talk about whatever comes to mind. The Germans have a name for it: Gemütlichkeit I dont believe there is an equivalent English word, and there are many possible definitions, but I like Time of good feeling best. Maybe Happy Hour works too!</p>
<p>Curmudge, you can buy Whip and Chill on that Vermont Country Store site. While you're there, you can pick up Dippity Do and perms by Toni. I'm tellin' ya, they have it all!</p>
<p>curmudge, Sun-In is still sold, I last used it (ahem) about 2 summers ago (only to add streaks, I swear).</p>
<p>jym626, color-treated or permed hair can</a> turn green in reaction with chlorine; some residual chemicals form a copper compound. Must have been some similar reaction in the re-dying process. This happened to our Swedish au pair the first time she got into our hot tub in 1992 (heh heh, "natural blonde" my eye). Dunno about Dobie Gillis's milkman, though. (Actually, not true: I looked it up online and found the answer, so I am ineligible to reply, but at least I'm honest.)</p>
<p>doddsdad, what region was your region? </p>
<p>And on that note, I think I'll go hike in Yosemite for the next four days. Carry on!</p>
<p>This thread is too much fun. Still drink Fresca but I forgot about Whip and Chill--the class action suit for damages had to do with faulty middle-aged memory. Curmudgeon, you don't remember getting the paperwork?</p>
<p>In South Jersey we lived on Tastycakes, Taylor pork roll "samwiches" and Scrapple (if you don't know what Scrapple is, you don't want to.)</p>
<p>SBmom, regarding great candy, for my husband's 50th birthday party, I ordered from <a href="http://www.oldtimecandy.com%5B/url%5D">www.oldtimecandy.com</a> and the guests loved seeing all this stuff that they forgot about (Whip and Chill effects again) like: Wax Lips, Teaberry gum, Charleston Chews, Mary Janes.</p>
<p>And games we played on the streets of Atlantic City out all day until it got dark: Kick the Can, Red Light, Green Light, Stickball and on rainy days, with our paper dolls--I had Jackie and Caroline Kennedy.</p>
<p>Ok I'm officially an old geezer but thank you for reminding me to do my Kegel exercises as I sit here typing. (Forgot--darn Whip and Chill!)</p>
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