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Childhood memorys

ScottMP
ScottMP Member Posts: 5,883
in THE MAIN WALL
got me thinking of my childhood and I thought I would pass this along.

While I was down in Disney World with my family we saw an amazing firework display over the magic kingdom. We stood and watched as they played " When You Wish Upon A Star " while shooting one white firework across the sky. Just like the begining of " Walt Disneys Wonderfull World Of Disney ".

I asked my wife if she felt like a little kid on Sunday night in her P.J.'s.

All she could do was nod her head. She was all chocked up. I was alittle also.

Anyone else rememeber those wonderfull simple family nights ?

Ahh childhood, no job, no problems, NO taxes :)

Scott

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  • Darin Cook_3
    Darin Cook_3 Member Posts: 389
    Many Memories

    I remember being at my grandparents watching the Wonderful World of Disney on a sunday night. I also watched alot of Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. You Remember .... As Jim was down in the water getting the ******t squeezed out of him by the Andaconda, Marlin Perkins hovered safely above in the helicopter. It was the original Crocodile Hunter.






    Darin
  • jim sokolovic
    jim sokolovic Member Posts: 439
    \"Looks like Jim's in a bit of trouble\"...

    Now I'm going to go crazy trying to remember that chimp's name in that show! I loved the corny Disney stuff - like Mike Fink and the riverboats, and the Goofy cartoon shorts. We always had muffin pizzas while watching these shows, it was special! How about Abbott and Costello on Sunday mornings - I used to think those Andrews sisters were like Grandma types, now they get me all worked up!
  • Joannie_4
    Joannie_4 Member Posts: 6
    Oh Yes

    Disney every Sunday evening.

    Also, Saturday morning Bugs Bunny (the REAL ones) with Dad's home-made pancakes (best recipe in the world!) cooked on the woodstove.

    And don't forget Dr. Seuss before bed.

    Still makes me smile.
  • Wild Bill
    Wild Bill Member Posts: 111
    Disney

    I remember watching Disney on Sunday night, followed by Bonanza if I was lucky........the days of three network channels. I seems that there were better choices back then with three channels rather than today with 80 channels.Bruce Springsteen is so right when he sings" 56 channels and nuthin' on".
    Wild Bill
  • Dave Yates (PAH)
    Dave Yates (PAH) Member Posts: 2,162
    You know you're...

    an old fart when - you can remember taping the clear plastic sheet over the TV screen to trace Disney drawings!



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  • J.C.A._3
    J.C.A._3 Member Posts: 2,980
    Chilhood memories that will endure.

    Like Scott I remember the Sunday night regular, but the thing I remember the most is....My Mom screaming from the kitchen,"Are you watching those IDIOTS again?" on any given Saturday morning. All it took was for her to hear the music from the Three Stooges.

    After school on lousy days, when we weren't getting our daily abuse from being out "playing till the streetlights come on", there was The Little Rascals and Our Gang shorts plus the always righteous Looney Tunes. What happened to kids? They are acting too grown up for me today. When was the last time anyone saw a pickup game of stickball? Chris
  • Leo
    Leo Member Posts: 770
    Watching Walt Disney

    Watching Walt Disney and having Walt himself speak from the screen. Watching the colors go by on the screen as the song "The world is a Carosel of color" was playing but watching it in black and white trying to visualize the colors.

    Leo
  • Grumpy_2
    Grumpy_2 Member Posts: 82
    TV tracings

    I thought that was "Winky Dink and You"
  • ScottMP
    ScottMP Member Posts: 5,883
    Does anyone remember

    The Scarecrow ?

    He was an American Revolution era spy who would dress up with a scarecrow mask not to get caught by the silly British :)

    Total fanatsy on Disney but I loved it.

    Scott

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  • Wayco Wayne_2
    Wayco Wayne_2 Member Posts: 2,479
    Remember the Scarcrow?

    I even remember tune to the Scarecrow theme song. Egads, You've tapped into a pool of memories I havent thought of in a long time. How bout old Yeller. I've been a dog lover ever since. What was the one about the Irish Setter. Big Red??? Old Walt was way ahead of his time. If Goofy was a dog that talked, why was Pluto not able to do the same? Inquiring minds want to know. Does any one remember the screen you could attach in front of your TV to change Black and White into color? Turns out it was just glass that was tinted to change the screen into five different color from top to bottom. My Gma kept hers on for years. WW

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  • Jeff Lawrence_24
    Jeff Lawrence_24 Member Posts: 593
    The scarecrow?

    Do you mean this?

    http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0055929/

    (Sorry I can't set it up as a hyper-link!)

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  • BillW@honeywell
    BillW@honeywell Member Posts: 1,099
    Howdy Doody & Capt. Kangaroo...

    Were the first TV shows I remember, "Disneyland" came on later, in black & white...Davy Crockett, Mike Fink & the River Pirates, The Mickey Mouse Club. Roy Rogers, Rin-Tin-Tin, Rama of the Jungle, Yancy Derringer, Paladin(Have Gun, Will Travel), Rawhide, Bonanza,Sky King...somebody stop me!!!
  • Leo
    Leo Member Posts: 770
    Bill, nobody but nobody

    Nobody ever mentions Sky King, can you remember his neice's name?

    Leo
  • BillW@honeywell
    BillW@honeywell Member Posts: 1,099
    Her name was...

    Penny, and I remember Sky King on the radio, long before it ever made TV. Jimmy Buffet also mentions her in his song "Pencil-Thin Mustache". "I remember bein' buck-toothed & skinny, writin' fan letters to Sky's niece Penny". His plane was called the "Songbird".
  • JimGPE_3
    JimGPE_3 Member Posts: 240
    Sea Hunt

    LLoyd Bridges introduced me to MAYDAY! the international distress call. He was kidnapped on his own boat, then convinced the bad guys that if he didn't get a message through to his wife she'd worry and send the cops. He called land and asked that they "tell my wife May I'll be gone all day."

    "Hey, wait a minnit," says the guy on the other radio, "his wife's name ain't May! Hmmmm." Cops called, day saved.

    They don't write stuff like that anymore!
  • ScottMP
    ScottMP Member Posts: 5,883
    THATS IT

    Jeff I can't beleive you found that :)

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  • John R. Hall
    John R. Hall Member Posts: 2,245
    Scott

    We were at that same parade a few years ago and I was getting that warm fuzzy feeling until some fat guy stepped on my toe. #$%^&?!

    Disney songs make we well up, too.

    Sniff...
  • ScottMP
    ScottMP Member Posts: 5,883
    Hey

    I was'nt even there that day :)

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  • Jeff Lawrence_24
    Jeff Lawrence_24 Member Posts: 593
    My Bride

    Scott, my wife, Linda, and I love watching old movies. The website, Internet Movie Database, is a treasure trove of all kinds of movie and TV information.

    Glad I could share it with you.

    Jeff

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  • ScottMP
    ScottMP Member Posts: 5,883
    I became a Scuba Diver

    Because of that show.

    " Suddenly it happened ... "

    The guys was always in trouble and yet was in a five foot pool :)

    Scott

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  • ScottMP
    ScottMP Member Posts: 5,883
    Wayne

    My mother told me that thier first TV had a plstic screen that you put over it. The top was blue for the sky, the middle was yellow for the faces and the bottom was green for the grass :)

    If my mother said it, then it Must be true.

    Scott

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  • Leo
    Leo Member Posts: 770


    I remember when his show came on you would hear "Out of the blue of the western sky comes Sky King", brought to you by Nabisco.

    Leo
  • Doug Murphy_3
    Doug Murphy_3 Member Posts: 15
    Old!

    Boy you guys are really old!
    Although I do remember the Sunday night disney movie.
    Muppets on tuesday night were a big hit for my age group.
    hehe. I love busting nuggets!
  • Dave Yates (PAH)
    Dave Yates (PAH) Member Posts: 2,162
    We should

    go diving together! I like warm tropical waters though instead of that Maine frigid frothy churned up low-viz stuff. I'll take my bugs without claws, thank-you very much(G).

    Ever try a night dive?

    Yup, Lloyd drove me into the drink too! As fond as I was of Sky King, you'd think I would be flying my own plane too(G). Or - wearing a mask and riding a horse, or.........

    I'm coming beanie boy! or Here he comes to save the day...

    Tune in next week for another adventure.

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  • Dave Yates (PAH)
    Dave Yates (PAH) Member Posts: 2,162
    Holohan & Boltz

    The two old geezers in the balcony on The Muppet show? They were modeled after Holohan & Boltz!

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  • J.C.A._3
    J.C.A._3 Member Posts: 2,980
    As Hunt usually posts.....

    HAhahahahahahahahahahahahah !

    Thanks for the visual Dave, it made for the best chuckle of the day so far!

    Now everyone, Let us enjoy a laugh for the day, as we all know that it is good for the soul! ( Old King Cole, from the Stooges short "Malice in the Palace". Chris
  • ScottMP
    ScottMP Member Posts: 5,883
    Dave

    The older I get, the less time I can swim up here. I use to go in around June 1st and then end around Sept. 1st.

    Now its two weeks in August :). And even than its questionable.

    Aahhh the caribian, blender drinks, warm sun and skimpy outfits ( just not on me ).

    Scott

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  • BillW@honeywell
    BillW@honeywell Member Posts: 1,099
    Ah,yes, The Muppets...

    Jim Henson was a genius that was taken from us way too soon. Of all the "modern" TV shows, "The Muppet Show" was one of the most enjoyable. Gonzo & his chickens and Fungus collection, The Swedish Chef, Pigs in Space, Dr.Teeth & Electric Mayhem (Animal on the drums), Crazy Harry Plays with...electricity! BZZZZZZZT! Great stuff!
  • S Ebels
    S Ebels Member Posts: 2,322
    Ahhhh yes

    Captain Kangaroo, Mr Greenjeans, Mr Bainter the Painter, Mr Moose and the ping pong balls........... Have you ever heard the story of Bob Keshaan's heroism during the Korean war? I can still hear the theme song and the jingle of that big key ring. That show actually had some intellectual content compared to the drivel that is on today. Neither of my daughters allow their kids to watch the "cartoons" that are on today. They are all about being the "baddest" or else a bunch of mindless eco-nazi junk.

    Who remembers Underdog and Sweet Polly Purebred or Mighty Mouse or Dudley Do-Right. Boris, Natasha, Rocky and Bullwinkle? I loved Mr Wizard and Tennessee Tuxedo.

    But that's just the TV end of things. I remember warm summer days swinging off the rope or diving out of the trees overhanging the pond here in town. A lot of Saturday nights would find Gramps, Dad and all of us who were old enough taking our bath down in the pond.

    Aunt Karlene's home made root beer in the shade after a hot afternoon stacking haybales on the wagon. New Year's day we'd have probably 200 local folks show up with their families to go skating and sledding down the hill by the pond. Nothing was advertised or announced, it was just something that everyone did. There would be a huge bonfire out on the ice for roasting hotdogs and all the mothers would worry that is was going to melt its way through 14" of ice. Never did.
    The community picnic in the township park on the 4th of July. Dad would get me up at 5:00 AM to listen to the annual dynamite charge being set off down by the dam, then we'd go to the store and haul about 500#s of ice and 50 cases of pop over to the picnic area. We'd take a new stock tank from the store and fill it with ice and pop to be sold at the canteen set up in the woods. All the money went to support a local family working as missionaries in Argentina if I remember right. That's 40 years ago and I wonder if things have changed for the better.
  • Dave Yates (PAH)
    Dave Yates (PAH) Member Posts: 2,162
    The great Gonzo!

    Remember when he & Camilla were riding down the road in his plumbing truck and he turns to her and says "Great plumbers are born - not made!"?

    He's my hero(G).

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  • ScottMP
    ScottMP Member Posts: 5,883
    AAhhhhh

    A Bear in his natural habitat .... A Studebaker !

    Scott

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  • Wayco Wayne_2
    Wayco Wayne_2 Member Posts: 2,479
    I remember the

    same cartoons. There's no need to fear,... Underdog is here. I remember Dudley Do Right surrounded by a pack of vicious wolves. He looks in his Mounties guide book and reads out loud, "Wolves, wolves, go away, come again some other day." and of course the wolves all run away yelping. Rocky and Bullwinkles, Boris Badenoff, a play on the name of the then current opera star, Boris Gudenoff. Hey Rockie, watch me pull a rabiit out of my hat. Again? Roar! That tears it I gotta get a new hat. We used to ice skate on the nearby resevior when I lived in Randolph MA. Good times. Wish my kids had it the same. But then again, they've got Sponge Bob Square Pants. :) WW

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  • Matt Clina
    Matt Clina Member Posts: 90
    What was in that magic pill?

    I don't think a cartoon could get away with that these days. The hero is a scrawny weakling until he takes a pill out of his ring. It also made him more popular with the ladies.

    I also don't think a hero like Courageous Cat would get away with all of those guns in today's world. That guy had a gun for everything. I still imitate that Frog bad guy in front of my kids, but they have no idea what I am talking about.
  • JimGPE_3
    JimGPE_3 Member Posts: 240
    Bullwinkle . . .

    Anyone remember what college Bullwinkle went to?
  • BillW@honeywell
    BillW@honeywell Member Posts: 1,099
    That great school in Frostbite Falls, Minnesota.....

    WHATSAMATTAU! Meheheheheh! Natasha, we get moose and squirrel next time!
  • Bill_24
    Bill_24 Member Posts: 26


    If I remeber correctly it was Watsamata University
  • JimGPE_3
    JimGPE_3 Member Posts: 240
    Yep

    Good ol' Whatsamatta U.

    At my last place of employment there was a Russian woman who spoke English with a charming Russian accent. I did not know here well, and did not know how much of a sense of humor she had, but I mentioned to one of the architects that someday I was going to ask her to say the sentence, "Borris daahling, get moose and skvirrel!"

    I was pouring a cup of coffee one day and she walked up and said, "Borris daahling, get moose and squirrel."

    "NOOOOOO!!!!" said I, "its skvirrel!!! SKVIRRLE WITH A "V"!!! Don't you know ANYTHING about speaking with a Russian accent???"

    What a dissappointment!
  • Weezbo
    Weezbo Member Posts: 6,232
    Jeesh....Whatabout Tombstone territorry?

    Then later The Rifel man :) Old Alfred himself "Good EEEEVENNing...." Dr. Who in the Return of the Daleks:) Mighty mouse The early renditions:) The little Toaster jummer outer ...Mammy! :) Shirley Temples Life time:)Theater.Sargent Bilko:) Uncle Milty :) Red ...clem kadiddle hopper:) later Jonnathan Winters :) the sixteys were cool too :) Sea Hunt dude was related to one of my buddies ...the old cartoons underwent some serious political correctnes about 1960ish..no more mighty mouse ...new kid on the block was Atom Ant :)
  • ScottMP
    ScottMP Member Posts: 5,883
    Steve

    I read Mike Mulligan And His Steam Shovel to my boys because of the Capt. I can still here his voice. Yes and Manfred the Wonder dog !

    My mother claims that The Capt. and Mr Greenjeans use to have some interesting conversations that where just for the adults watching. Stuff about Mr. Greenjeans looking tired and he claiming he was " Up late with a sick Friend " :).

    One of my favorite childhood memoreys id riding in the back of a giant station wagon facing backwards with the tailgate open. Oh yea, try That now.

    I give my kids sparklers and let them run around on the backyard just to try and give them those memorys.

    Scott " Official Child of the Wall " Milne

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  • BillW@honeywell
    BillW@honeywell Member Posts: 1,099
    Man, did you just shake some cobwebs out ...

    Tom Terrific and Mighty Manfred, the Wonder Dog! Felix the Cat, Farmer Alfalfa. Tom & Jerry (not the cat/mouse duo but a tall guy & short guy, No, not Mutt & Jeff from the funnies) and all those great jazz sound tracks from the old black & white cartoons. How about all that great early Warner Bro's stuff...Bugs Bunny, Yosemite Sam, Elmer Fudd, Daffy Duck, Sylvester & Tweetie. Pepe LePew and the RoadRunner & Coyote classics came a bit later.
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