Nostalgia

I have been having fun the last couple of weeks collecting pictures that bring me back to the 60's and 70's.  There were so many pictures that I couldn't possibly add them all but here is just a little sampling of some of the things that I had and experienced in my younger years.

This was called a wiglet and I had one that matched my natural color perfectly.  These were all the rage in the late 60's and early 70's.  I used to keep mine on a styrofoam head and take it to the hair dresser to have it styled.  I thought it was so beautiful and it make me about 6" taller!  You really had to use a lot of bobby pins to keep it securly fastened.



This is the Beatles in 1964 when they first came to the US and appeared on the Ed Sullivan Show. Everyone was glued to their black and white TVs on that Sunday night.  What a thrill!!



This is what the entrance to Disneylnad looked like in the early 60's.  I went there for the first time when I was 14 in 1964.  I fell in love with it then and I still love it now!



During my high school years I spent just about every Saturday night during the summer at the drive in with these speakers in our car windows.  We really did not watch the movie that much.  We spend most of our time at the snack bar or outside  our cars socializing with our friends!



Ah English Leather cologne.  If you wanted to be a popular guy in the 60's you had to wear English Leather.  All the guys who were cool wore it and I might add they wore too much of it.  It was kind of strong and musky smelling, but all the girls loved it.



In case you can't tell this is an ice cube tray.  They were made out of metal and had a lever you pulled on to make the ice cubes come out easily.  (the ice tasted a little like metal)  There were no ice makers in my childhood and we used to get in big trouble if we didn't refill the tray after we emptied it and put it back in the freezer!



I remember watching Lassie every Saturday morning.  I can still hear Timmy yelling "Lassie" when Lassie wandered off to save someone who was drowning or lost in the wilderness.  That Lassie was a pretty amazing dog.  He would always come back limping with a bleeding paw!



This was just like the wringer washing machine that my Mom used every Saturday morning to do the laundry.  Mind you there were automatic washers back then but my Mom refused to have one.  She said they didn't get the clothes clean.  It would take her hours to do a load and she had to stand there and put every piece of clothing through the wringer to remove the excess water.  I used to love to go out to the garage and watch her when I was really little.  It was fascinating to me.  After she finished she would take the clothes to the back yard and hand them on a clothes line to dry.  My job was to hand her the clothes pins and I thought that was a pretty special job!



Good ole Blue Chip Stamps.  Every trip to the grocery store you received stamps depending how much money you spent.  My job was to lick them and put them in the books.  After several books were collected we would go to the blue chip stamp store and redeem them for appliances, and other household goods.  I remember our toaster came from the Blue Chip Stamp store along with glasses, dishes and pots and pans.



I had a pair of  clogs just like these in high school.  I used to wear them with tights or nylons.  They were so comfortable but they made so much noise on a hardwood floor.



These were called Ditto jeans and I had several pairs of these in all different colors in the early 70's.  They had to be really tight and hug your butt as you see in this picture.  Not cute!  Oh and the wooden bracelets were a great accessory to every outfit.



Ali McGraw and Ryan O'Neal.  Everyone was in love with them and this book and movie.  I thought it was so awesome but by today's standards it was pretty dumb.