Baby Boomer nostalgia thread

Banjo said:
I had a set of these too back when I was a child, although this was during the early 90s.
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I bet the chemicals were different. I recall having good times with all of these except telescope. It was very frustrating to find something. I preferred binoculars.
 
saywhatkid said:
I bet the chemicals were different. I recall having good times with all of these except telescope. It was very frustrating to find something. I preferred binoculars.
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Probably.

Things always change over the years. I had a lot of old-fashioned toys when I was a kid. I remember having the Etch-A-Doodle toy.
 
Remmy those "beehive" hair do's!...Mine was teased up so high, with a little clip-on bow, lots of hair spray......(was hell to comb out before washing my hair). And in the early 60's, wore tight skirts below the knee, with a big "split" up the back. Wasn't that the Marilyn Monroe fad?

Remmy the "mini-skirts" too, coming out in the latter 60's. I got suspended from school for wearing them. And dyed my hair green. Thinking back, I was so lucky to have gotten my diploma.
 
I remember the beehive hairdo's. I remember the round TV screens. I know our first TV was in a kit that my parents built.

I remember reel to reel tapes and movies.

I was born in 1963, so I was young through most of the 60's.

Reba - I really like that Silver/white tree. We had the small silver tree with the revolving disk of colors.
 
saywhatkid said:
In the years around 1965, I was getting chemistry set, telescope, and microscope. Wonder if this microscope had the tiny white tank to grow your own amoeba?
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I got the telescope.

I don't recall a tank for amoeba with the microscope.
 
rockin'robin said:
Remmy those "beehive" hair do's!...Mine was teased up so high, with a little clip-on bow, lots of hair spray......(was hell to comb out before washing my hair). And in the early 60's, wore tight skirts below the knee, with a big "split" up the back. Wasn't that the Marilyn Monroe fad?

Remmy the "mini-skirts" too, coming out in the latter 60's. I got suspended from school for wearing them. And dyed my hair green. Thinking back, I was so lucky to have gotten my diploma.
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:lol:
 
We were a bit behind the times. We did not get our own tv until Nov. 22, 1963. A few of our neighbors were fourtunate enough to have a tv before that time. We would gather at their house to watch important events on the Huntly Brinkley report (goodnight Chet, goodnight David) and of course to see Walter Cronkite.

It wasnt until 1964 that we traveled to the next state to see COLOR tv. We saw Flipper!! Lol
 
Reba said:
I got the telescope.



I don't recall a tank for amoeba with the microscope.
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As I stated earlier, the telescope was frustrating for me, because it was HARD to find what I was trying to find, and I was a young kid with little patience.

The amoeba "tank" was a small white box. There was a packet of strange looking powder that you added to the box along with some tap water. It was a "create your own miniature swamp in a box" thing. After a few days, there were protozoas and other swamp life growing in there. You would take a bit of the water on a slide and look under the scope. It actually worked pretty good. Maybe I got the deluxe microscope...:P
 
saywhatkid said:
As I stated earlier, the telescope was frustrating for me, because it was HARD to find what I was trying to find, and I was a young kid with little patience.

The amoeba "tank" was a small white box. There was a packet of strange looking powder that you added to the box along with some tap water. It was a "create your own miniature swamp in a box" thing. After a few days, there were protozoas and other swamp life growing in there. You would take a bit of the water on a slide and look under the scope. It actually worked pretty good. Maybe I got the deluxe microscope...:P
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Maybe. :P

About the only thing that showed up clearly on my telescope was the moon. It wasn't very strong. But the moon was important then anyhow because that was the goal for our space program. My dad was an engineer working for NASA as a Lockheed contractor, and showed up artists' renderings of the Apollo and Gemini capsules. It was an exciting time in the space program.

Even before that, I was interested in space. (Notice the map on the wall behind me in my bedroom.)
 

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Reba said:
Maybe. :P

About the only thing that showed up clearly on my telescope was the moon. It wasn't very strong. But the moon was important then anyhow because that was the goal for our space program. My dad was an engineer working for NASA as a Lockheed contractor, and showed up artists' renderings of the Apollo and Gemini capsules. It was an exciting time in the space program.

Even before that, I was interested in space. (Notice the map on the wall behind me in my bedroom.)
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Yeah, I was heavy into space. My dad had a nice binoculars from his Navy days, and that worked best for my stargazing. The moon was the big thing for me also. Everything else looked like dots, even with the telescope.

Nice phonograph you got there!
 
Reba said:
Maybe. :P

About the only thing that showed up clearly on my telescope was the moon. It wasn't very strong. But the moon was important then anyhow because that was the goal for our space program. My dad was an engineer working for NASA as a Lockheed contractor, and showed up artists' renderings of the Apollo and Gemini capsules. It was an exciting time in the space program.

Even before that, I was interested in space. (Notice the map on the wall behind me in my bedroom.)
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I admire your lamp with the poodle and girl like on an old fashioned skirt.
 
This was my "uniform" when I worked at the movie theater, 1970. The women wore dark blue skirst, and white blouses or sweaters. The men wore tuxedos. (I'm wearing a "fall"; also stylish then. The bangs are my hair, the long hair is fake.)
 

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Dang Reba it sounds like you had an interesting childhood growing up. I think you and my mom are very close in age. As fr me, I don't think I would have minded growing up in the 60s and 70s, everyone had the same thing. It was hard to tell who was rich and who was poor. In my opinion the best way to be raised is to have everything you need and some of what you want.
 
Reba said:
This was my "uniform" when I worked at the movie theater, 1970. The women wore dark blue skirst, and white blouses or sweaters. The men wore tuxedos. (I'm wearing a "fall"; also stylish then. The bangs are my hair, the long hair is fake.)
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Is it Dr Scholl's clogs you are wearing?
 
this is an awesome thread! Thank you for sharing your memories with the rest of us who are from different generations. Keep it up...I love it. My mom is a baby boomer.
 
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