what stuff from the past do you wish you still had?
antipos...@127.0.0.1
This may have been asked here before, bu, let me ask any way: what stuff from
the past - which wound up getting thrown out, lost, or given away - do you
wish you still had (at the risk of much clutter).
Here's a few of mine.
-various old writings I did, especially from around 78-85
-My collection of "Mad," "Cracked," "National Lampoon," "Creem," and "Circus"
magazines
-wacky packages
-my old skateboard
-various books, albums, and cassettes I no longer have in my book and music
collection
-my Joey Ramone, William Burroughs, and various mid 70s sports star autographs
-Lite Bright
-pong
-an old single volume encyclopedia which I lost my freshman year of college
-my `scratch and sniff' card I got when I went to see "Polyesther"
Tom
rach
was about 4. I loved those shoes. I have always been a shoes hog and as a
child ,I also had an unusual passion for red (I stole a ball of red yarn
from my Aunt's knitting basket at 3, picked out a red shag carpet for my
room at 4...)and then these shoes. I can remember asking my dad for them...
they cost $1.25. He had me try them on... two wide straps and a little
stacked heel. I can see him snapping the plastic string that held them
together and letting me walk out of the store with them click click clicking
on the tile floor. I was in 7th heaven because it was the first time my
shoes made noise when I walked.
My mom wasn't pleased... said they'd ruin my feet... but those shoes are in
my heart. Man, I miss my dad.
--
rach
"cheer up, my brother, come live in the sunshine - we'll understand it all
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LizzieZ
>the past - which wound up getting thrown out, lost, or given away - do you
>wish you still had (at the risk of much clutter).
... as if I could afford to have more clutter around here!! ;-)
Hard to think of stuff right off the top of my head, but here's what I can come
up with for now:
- my Olivia Newton-John "Totally Hot" LP. I'm positive I didn't give it away,
but haven't a clue where it ended up
- wacky packages (same as you, Tom)
- my Zoom info card on Luis
- this awesome cookbook that showed how to make different animals out of food
(the one that sticks in my head is the chocolate hedgehog) - can't remember the
name of the book, though
- my Dynamite! magazines (I'd LOVE to find these!)
If I think of other missing gems, you know I'll be back to post them!
Liz
#1 Tiger Fan
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aleen the karaoke queen
CD-ROM,
best $50 I ever spent, and it's so NEAT AND TIDY!! :-) (un?)fortunately
for
me, my father is a packrat, so my room at home is basically intact from when
I
moved out way back NINE YEARS AGO! I mean I'm surprised they didn't keep my
old JOHNNY DEPP posters on the wall! Tee hee!
Have a wonderful day! :-)
aleen the karaoke queen
>===== Original Message From <antipos...@127.0.0.1> =====
>This may have been asked here before, bu, let me ask any way: what stuff from
>the past - which wound up getting thrown out, lost, or given away - do you
>wish you still had (at the risk of much clutter).
>
>Here's a few of mine.
>
>-various old writings I did, especially from around 78-85
>-My collection of "Mad," "Cracked," "National Lampoon," "Creem," and "Circus"
>magazines
>-wacky packages
>-my old skateboard
>-various books, albums, and cassettes I no longer have in my book and music
>collection
>-my Joey Ramone, William Burroughs, and various mid 70s sports star
autographs
>-Lite Bright
>-pong
>-an old single volume encyclopedia which I lost my freshman year of college
>-my `scratch and sniff' card I got when I went to see "Polyesther"
>
>Tom
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Ang
> This may have been asked here before, bu, let me ask any way: what stuff
from
> the past - which wound up getting thrown out, lost, or given away - do you
> wish you still had (at the risk of much clutter).
Here's what I wish I kept (in no particular order):
1. Arco Ark (an Arco Gas Station promo) w/all of the animals (preferably
in their original "unchewed" state
2. Zippy the Monkey
3. My mom's black and white spaghetti poodle figurines
4. My collection of 45 rpm records (must've had over 300 of 'em!)
5. My Barbie dolls with the Barbie Camper, Airplane and Townhouse
Hmm...that's all that comes to mind right now.
Ang
Davisk
the stuff I have is from the early 80's onward. I've also kept a few toys
from my earlier years in the 70's, but they are all the small little cars
and marbles I used to play with. I have trouble parting with stuff I've
received, bought, or made...
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Dixon Hayes
now so I won't go too much into my feelings over that. But here's what I wish
I had back:
--my old issues of "Mad," "Cracked" and
"Crazy"
--my toys, most notably my Hot Wheels, Matchbox cars, my Tonka Volkswagen and
my Spirit of '76 train set
--my movie posters, and the ones I had of Farrah and Jaclyn
--my "Howard the Duck" comic books (though I still have issue #5)
--my "Grease" T-shirt (the one I'm wearing in the pic on Tiny Dancer's site)
--the comic books that my friends and I used to draw of each other, a bizarre
X-Men parody in which our most self-conscious traits were actually superpowers
we used to save the world
--my wild-eyed innocence, and my fearless, unjaded look at the future...I think
my mom got rid of that at a yard sale too...
Dixon
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Dixon Hayes
the letter that welcomed me in (it was on pink stationery with the old NBC logo
on it).
Molly
Fisher Price My Friend series (My Friend Mandy, My Friend Jenny,
etc.).
Molly
Nanc
and picture it under the Christmas tree and losing my mind that Santa
remembered!
Also my grandfather's shaleleigh (sp) that was from Ireland. Although I
think one of my siblings snagged it from my dad's apt after he died.
My dad :( Although he stayed until 1984, he was around in the 70's
and I'll copy Dixon __
Trit...@webtv.net
1973-74. (Anyone else remember those or have any of those?).
Tritt
Dixon Hayes
>my Rona Barrett "Hollywood" magazines from
>1973-74. (Anyone else remember those or have any of those?).
I had one but I think I cut it up for some reason...boy that was dumb...
andy749
1 speakers (huge! 75lbs a piece)
My '72 red/orange VW bug
My '72 Ford Mustang
All LPs and 8-Tracks
My light tan suede earth shoes
All my 70s Penthouse mags
My little Panasonic stereo w/ 8-track player
My suede leather "Davy Crockett" jacket w/fringe
My fringe suede "squaw boots" from around 1970
My Deep Purple t-shirt (probably too small)
My Rolling Stones '72 Tour t-shirt
An unopened can of Frothingslosh Ale w/ the "crazy" can
Tie-dyed long sleeve underwear shirt my Aunt in Calif. sent me in '72
My blue jean jacket
My maroon velour hooded sweatshirt '78
Steve2000indeja
50 cents each originally) as well as most Mad magazines from the mid 60s-70s.
Purely financial motivation, not sentiment. These are probably worth a few
hundred bux now.
I _thought_ my dad had stored them in the 70s, only to find out a few years ago
that he cleaned that garage sometime in the 80s and dumped a bunch of 'junk.'
Lesson learned-if you want to make sure you keep something, store it yourself
and don't 'lend' it out. I have spend quite a bit of time online searching
out/downloading favorite old songs from albums I once owned-technically still
do own-that people permanently borrowed in the hazy 70s.
This is a particularly bad time to post this 'packrat 101' advice as I am just
now taking a break from annual spring cleaning and am forcing myself to toss
stuff- ("I don't really need to save that Rolling Stone from Nov 2000...the one
with Jennifer Lopez Looking Very Fine on the cover....Do I??...maybe I'll just
make a box for Cool Magazine Covers":)
I'm hopeless. Confirmed packrat. Is there a Packrat's Anonymous organization?
'Hello, My Name is Steve...and I Hang On To Everything/Anything.'
"HELLO STEVE!!"
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I used to date a woman who was absolutely great at helping with these annual
toss outs. She seemed totally cutthroat at the time. Heartless during tossouts.
No sentiment. No apprecition of the finer elements of...Stuff.
"But honey, that's my Favorite Lynnred Skynnrd T-shirt."
"It's 2 sizes too small and when was the last decade you wore it in?"
"But, but..."
TOSS!
Now I don't miss Any of the stuff we tossed. She helped get rid of 20+ years of
junk in about 2 sessions. I had lot's more room....but now I've filled it up
with more junk.
Geez, maybe I shoulda kept Her...(or vice-versa, or whatever:)
Steve
(procrastating on going back into 'toss mode' for the afternoon here ...)
#1 Tiger Fan
induhvidual wrote:
>Two big drawers full of mainly 1960s DC and Marvel comic books (10, 12, 25 and
>50 cents each originally) as well as most Mad magazines from the mid 60s-70s.
>Purely financial motivation, not sentiment. These are probably worth a few
>hundred bux now.
If you ever develop sentiment for these Isuggest getting the CD-ROM
set of all the issues of Mad magazine from the beginning to 1998. It
is amazing!
Nanc
Thanks,
Nanc
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Paul
concert in Houston. Maria Muldaur, riding the crest of her "Midnight at the
Oasis" fame. Opening act: some guy from Jersey named Springsteen.
The Boss didn't show that night. Word was he was sick. His replacement:
Danny O'Keefe, best known (actually, known only) for "Good Time Charlie's
Got the Blues."
It was a good show just the same. I took my high school sweetie and we had a
good time.
I hear that Springsteen guy did pretty well in the years that followed...
Paul
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Paul
before that show. I miss him.
Paul
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LizzieZ
>Thanks,
>Nanc
Oh, Nanc, you must have missed out!!! They were those goofy stickers that were
parodies of real products, like Crust toothpaste or Three Mosquitoes candy
bars. Check out this great website for more background and samples:
Liz
recsec
from
> the past - which wound up getting thrown out, lost, or given away - do you
> wish you still had (at the risk of much clutter).
My weight. When I graduated in 1980 I weighed 185. Now I'm about 100 lbs
more. Course I gained A LOT of weight when I quit smoking.
Billy
Nanc
that. Maybe they were out-lawed in MA.
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Oriole Adams
>more.
Oh, good one! I wish I still had mine, too! I never weighed over 100 lbs
until several years after I graduated from high school (Class of '77). We
won't discuss exactly *how* much over 100 I am now.... ;>
On the other tangent, I can honestly say I've been a packrat all my life, and
have *most* of the stuff I wanted to keep from when I was a kid. The only
missing stuff was from about first through third grade, when I was old/smart
enough to hide my old MAD and 16 Magazines from my mom, and she threw them out.
I've bought a few replacement issues at the comic book store....interesting
how some of us will pay $7 for a magazine that has a 25 cent cover price! :)
~ Oriole ~~
The crows seemed to be calling his name, thought Caw...
Beverwyk
Sandy
everytime I think of something I don't, I get this knot in my stomache!
Mostly, I'm speaking of all my toys. I miss my Tip-and-Rock chair! I gave to
it my sister for my niece when she was little, and my sister SWEARS she didn't
throw it out (oh, yeah!...then where IS it?) and this little wind up doll my
aunt Ruthie bought for me one time when she took me and my cousin Marie to the
"square"....and my little china tea set that came in a shadow box that my
brothers best friend gave me as a gift.....and my Baby-First-Step (without her
hair cut!) and most of all, my big stuffed Pink Doll I had when I was about 3.
My mean ole cousin Betty through it down the sewer!! :(
Sandy
2-60
Class of 78
Sandy
>Thanks,
>Nanc
you don't know what a wacky-pack is Nancy?? Next time your down, I'll show you
the one thats still on my bike :)
#1 Tiger Fan
induhvidual wrote:
>The Boss didn't show that night. Word was he was sick. His replacement:
>Danny O'Keefe, best known (actually, known only) for "Good Time Charlie's
>Got the Blues."
Danny's done a lot of other fine music. Just underknown (is that a
word?). He penned the song "The Road" on the Jackson Browne "Running
on Empty" album which is just a beautiful tune. Some of his other
albums were really nice, "Redux" is a particular classic. I have done
some work with Danny through the years and he is one of the funniest
guys in the world with a really filthy sense of humour at times. One
of my most favourite people.
rach
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> My Sanity
rach
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SFHALLY
>
>>This may have been asked here before, bu, let me ask any way: what stuff
>from
>>the past - which wound up getting thrown out, lost, or given away - do you
>>wish you still had (at the risk of much clutter).
>
This just came up in a roundabout way with some friends a few weeks ago. A
friend was adding a section to his website concerning a portion of our lives in
the 70s so we were all digging for things for him to scan and use. And after I
found a matchbook from a disco we used to go to (Even the name was a
stitch--City Disco Park) I mentioned that I wished one of us had saved the
lists that the DJs used give out of their top hits and playlists. We used to
use them to find the records we loved to dance to. So my vote is for those and
for the other ephemera of the times that I wished I'd kept. Flyers, posters,
newsletters and photos--especially the ones I never got around to taking.
Harold Osler
The Wanderer
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Buddy
from Brooklyn
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yuh wouldn't know it all."
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"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning."
Aristotle Onassis
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The Wanderer
"certain" age your metabolism slows down and no matter what you do (short of
starvation) it just stays. It's like it's saying "I'm here. Deal with it."
--
Buddy
from Brooklyn
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yuh wouldn't know it all."
Thomas Wolfe from Death To Morning
"If women didn't exist, all the money in the world would have no meaning."
Aristotle Onassis
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recsec
Autin, a redneck!!" I'm sorry there. That's a line from a country song
called The Redneck National Anthem by Vernon Oxford from 76.
Billy
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> All the more of you to love, Billy... thats all :)
>
> --
>
> rach
Awww shucks!!! Face turns 3 shades of red.
Billy
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> Dont blame smokin' Bill.LOL No, really I agree with ya'. Once ya hit a
> "certain" age your metabolism slows down and no matter what you do (short
of
> starvation) it just stays. It's like it's saying "I'm here. Deal with it."
>
Well the doctor said I swallow a lot of aggression. Well that & a lot of
pizza's!! HAHA Pizza HAHA!!
No really I don't think I have ever had metabolism. I have always had a
weight problem. It's just this last time I quit smoking I just couln't stop
eating for about 3 months. Finally got that under control but have yet to
lose the weight. But it's an ongoing battle & one day before I die I will
win it.
Billy
Molly
in my hometown has. They usually have old magazines, and I found some
of the Rona Barrett mags there once.
Molly
Molly
Molly
Richard Edwards
on my second collection now, mostly Technic/Mindstorms, but I wish I
had kept the rest.
Rick
Lose one WHAMMY to reply
The Man From Mars
I remember 1977-78 very well. I was in the 8th Grade.
Later.
#1 Tiger Fan wrote in message ...
>My girlfriend from my first two years of college, in 77-78.
Phaedra Alwell
I wish I still had:
My Fisher Price Toys ( cash register, ball with carousel horses inside
that played music, school desk)
My first Record Player with records ( fortunately i still have most of
the records but not the player)
first edition books
my first pair of skates
My stuffed Tazmanian and Tweety ( each were 3 feet tall)
my cookie monster stuffed animal
Freddie Fetchit and Alvin the Aardvark
Holly Hobbie
Phaedra '74
Phaedra Alwell
too.
I miss my dad and want him back
I also have my " wild-eyed innocence" that Dixon described, haven't lost
it yet and don't plan on it...
IF i wish for the body that i had back when i was younger can i have
that too? : ) Teeheeeteehee
phaedra
" I would give everything I own,
give up my heart, my life, my home
just to have you back again".
-Bread
#1 Tiger Fan
induhvidual wrote:
>If you don't mind me asking, what happened to her?
>
>I remember 1977-78 very well. I was in the 8th Grade.
>
>Later.
>
>
>
>#1 Tiger Fan wrote in message ...
>>My girlfriend from my first two years of college, in 77-78.
She was two years ahead of me in school. After she graduated she went
back to the Chicago area, from whence she came. I spent half of that
summer playing baseball in Alaska and half on the road with a band.
She would have stayed out in the west and gone to grad school nearby
but I got scared and let her go. She was perfect for me. Even though
I am very happily married to the best wife in the world, I still
think of her from time to time. Last time I did some checking, about
6 months ago, she was married with two kids. Last time I saw her was
on TV in 1984 as she was on the Olympic Equestrian team. I was
surprised when I heard her name mentioned and found myself transfixed
at this sport that I had formerly had so little interest in, even when
we were dating. She was a beauty, a brown-eyed blonde, great figure,
talented clarinetist, was on the tennis team and the diving team, and
graduated with honours in Biology. She was a bit shy but oh so fun.
Oh well, enough of that. There is so much in my life today. I have a
wonderful wife and 5 kids who I am very proud of. I am on the verge
of a great teaching position at a good university in my home town
where we own a house already, and the two girls in college are both
honour students, the oldest is starting her PhD program (in Biology)
this year.
Enough. Its almost 1 am. I think I am rambling for I received a
very long (14 page) letter from an old college friend who I hung out
with sometimes but never really dated. She worked as my accompanist
and we were pretty good buddies even 'though she was always a bit
unusual. A very brilliant gal. The letter was disturbing for she has
somehow, through a few bad experiences, seemingly turned into a
racist. Coming right now, in the midst of all this good stuff I'm
having, this was a bit saddening to me. She also shows some other
signs of not being really stable. I hadn't heard from her for about 17
years before a few months ago. It is a bit unnerving to see the
descent of a friend. While I know I cannot save the world I would
sure like to try sometimes.
Aargh. I must get to bed. Good night all. Wish me luck in the final
round of interviews. I found out today I am one of the three
finalists.
rach
--
Good luck with the interviews, first of all. If you need, I have ideas for
taking out the other finalists but you'll have to visit a guy named Frankie
Fingers. In all honesty though, I'm sure you'll be fine anyway... without
Frankie.
About your friend... does she mention what brought about these views? Was it
actual dealings with people she knew or strangers that brought this about? I
wish I knew what to say on this one...out of all the people with anti social
views, I think racists are the scariest because they get so worked up and
stay in the closet about a lot of things until their poison spills over.
Maybe you can shed some light for your friend.
A few months ago, a friend at work mentioned that he didn't have a prejudice
bone in his body until starting the job we're in. He went on a tyrade of how
"these immigrants" should learn English, how they get their health cards,
SINs and driver's licences right as they "get off the boat" then bitch and
moan to us that it takes two days to get residential phone service whereas
in their own countries, they likely didn't have phones and how the "regular
Canadians" are always patient (a big HA HA for that one). I didn't really
know what to say to all this other than: " well you know Noel, everyone has
a story... and besides, your yard isn't quite big enough for the burning
cross and the rednecks that accompany it." He hasn't said anything since.
Although it isn't prejudice, I get asked "what are you?" all the time.
People have guessed me as half *everything* including Japanese, Native and
of course black. When I come back with 3rd generation Canadian, they have no
idea what to say next. A few mention... well where did THEY come from? and
the line of questioning continues. From time to time I make things up to see
how stupid they actually are. My finest work was that my mom was Cherokee
and my father was Japanese. The woman actually bought the story and I forgot
to tell her the truth so a year later, her son, who was very interested in
both cultures started asking me all these questions. She pulled him into the
kitchen and told him "those kind of people don't like being asked about
their 'mixed' heritage." It made me furious and sad at the same time so I
wonder how much worse it makes people that are of other ethnic backgrounds.
Pretty sad that these ignorant people are lurking around out there with
their degrees of hatred.
Dixon Hayes
grew up in a small town with its quota of rednecks and one man on my street
actually had a KKK sticker in the cab of his pickup truck). But oddly, I never
encountered so much of it as I did when I was in college in Tuscaloosa. There
seemed to be this large group of obnoxious white males (many of whom weren't
even from the South) who seemed to envision white persecution from black people
at every corner. One guy even went on for several minutes that a black
cafeteria worker was guilty of racism because she handed him a smaller cut of
fish than the others. (I was next in line and she handed me a larger cut and
smiled at me. And I'm as white as this guy.) These guys were not bad off
either, based on how they dressed or how they spent their free time (I had to
work alot during college). I never, ever could figure out this weird mentality
that white people (especially rich ones) needed to hit the streets singing "We
shall overcome." I don't know if it was unique to the Reagan era or it if
happens all the time, but whatever it is, I always thought it was sick. sick,
sick. Still do. And I'm worried that these guys have college degrees (I think
they were business students) and quite possibly the higher positions that come
with them.
Dixon
===========
"Oh, Andy, this is an all points! We better get right on it! Let me see if I've
got my bullet."
--Barney Fife
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ChesterB
>wish you still had
-my 30 inch waistline
-my brothers crate full of ALL the original Marvel comics that he sold for
under a $1,000 (yikes!!!)
-all the paperback novels I read
-the day i asked Kim Costanza out to the "50's dance", and she said that she
couldn't cuz she had to go out for her grandpa's birthday. then, when she
showed up at the dance late I belived what my friends told me, that she had
burned me. like a sucker I didn't realize that she was there to see me.
+++++++++++++++--
hoot man
#1 Tiger Fan
induhvidual wrote:
>About your friend... does she mention what brought about these views? Was it
>actual dealings with people she knew or strangers that brought this about? I
>wish I knew what to say on this one...out of all the people with anti social
>views, I think racists are the scariest because they get so worked up and
>stay in the closet about a lot of things until their poison spills over.
>Maybe you can shed some light for your friend.
She lives in downtown Seattle and, although she had some tough
dealings with African-Americans in the past, she saw the Mardi Gras
violence this spring. There were small gangs of four or five
African-American youths going around randomly attacking and maiming
white people. One young guy around 20 years old was killed as he
tried to defend a young woman who was being set upon by these
hoodlums. Since there was a great mix of races there and all the
violence was black on white it really had a racist tone to it,
regardless of what the local Seattle NAACP tried to deny. This rising
tone of violence is worrisome. Maybe much like the WWJD (What Would
Jesus Do) bracelets that many folks wear these days, protestors should
be issued some WWGD (What Would Gandhi Do) bracelets. My friend was
very traumatized and she is not the most stable of folks to begin with
(her dad is a big shot psychiatrist too) so her journey to the edge
doesn't consist of very many steps.
rach
--
> She lives in downtown Seattle and, although she had some tough
> dealings with African-Americans in the past, she saw the Mardi Gras
> violence this spring. There were small gangs of four or five
> African-American youths going around randomly attacking and maiming
> white people. One young guy around 20 years old was killed as he
> tried to defend a young woman who was being set upon by these
> hoodlums. Since there was a great mix of races there and all the
> violence was black on white it really had a racist tone to it,
> regardless of what the local Seattle NAACP tried to deny. This rising
> tone of violence is worrisome. Maybe much like the WWJD (What Would
> Jesus Do) bracelets that many folks wear these days, protestors should
> be issued some WWGD (What Would Gandhi Do) bracelets. My friend was
> very traumatized and she is not the most stable of folks to begin with
> (her dad is a big shot psychiatrist too) so her journey to the edge
> doesn't consist of very many steps.
>
>
> #1 Tiger Fan
> **************
Anyone is welcome to use my WWBD bracelet too... or the book by the same
name. At any rate, I hope your friend takes a few steps back :)
rach
Jeff Troutman
> Two big drawers full of mainly 1960s DC and Marvel comic books (10, 12, 25
and
> 50 cents each originally) as well as most Mad magazines from the mid
60s-70s.
> Purely financial motivation, not sentiment. These are probably worth a few
> hundred bux now.
Actually, depending on the issues and their condition, we're possibly
talking a few thousands here. Not that this will make you feel any
better...
>
> I _thought_ my dad had stored them in the 70s, only to find out a few
years ago
> that he cleaned that garage sometime in the 80s and dumped a bunch of
'junk.'
My grandmother did the same thing with her comics. From the *1940s*.
Knowing that I was a collector, yet. Ah, the heartbreak.
Jeff Troutman
Jeff Troutman
>
> This may have been asked here before, bu, let me ask any way: what stuff
from
> wish you still had (at the risk of much clutter).
>
Most of the things I tossed were actually given away to orgs like Goodwill
and such, so I don't really miss them as they went to a good cause. Most of
the rest of it I've kept. I still have notebooks from grade school
somewhere in storage.
Jeff Troutman
Sandy
>that. Maybe they were out-lawed in MA.
No they weren't! I used to get them all the time. Georges just didn't carry
them I guess ;)
Steve2000indeja
"Arrggghhh!"
Steve
>
Nanc
Sheesh!!
PS am I surprised you still have one on your old bike??? no!! Not after
Jimmy told us about you making him go through everyone's garbage in
Cambridge looking for the same medicine cabinet that was in your house
growing up- LOL
Sandy wrote in message <20010502151938...@ng-mf1.aol.com>...
Sandy
>Jimmy told us about you making him go through everyone's garbage in
>Cambridge looking for the same medicine cabinet that was in your house
>growing up- LOL
>
ROTFLMAS!!!! Nancy you kill me! I think you got the story a little mixed up!
I found an antique wood medicine cabinet one day walking the kids to the park
at the day care I worked at. It was out for the trash. So on my lunch break,
I went back with my girlfriend to get it. Why would I search all over
Cambridge for the cucky old tin medicine cabinet I had in my old bathroom! I
can still go to HomeDepot and get one of those!! lol!
Oh, I just have to call Jimmy in to see that!
Your so cute! ((((Nancy))))
Oh, and I still have my Tippy-Toes doll, too!
Nanc
cover.
Oh and as far as the Tippy Toes doll goes. :-P
Sandy wrote in message <20010503150920...@ng-cv1.aol.com>...
Sandy
>cover.
Hey, do you want me to call in the back-ups? Just cause your memories not what
it used to be, don't pick on me! ;)
>Oh and as far as the Tippy Toes doll goes. :-P
Well, you'll have to be MUCH nicer that this if you want me to let you play
with her next time your over!
Tiny Dancer
>This may have been asked here before, but, let me ask anyway:
>what stuff from the past - which wound up getting thrown out, lost, or
>given away - do you wish you still had (at the risk of much clutter).
I miss all the magazines people have mentioned, especially Mad and
Cracked for humor and 16 Magazine for the hunky dudes and dudettes.
And I miss the innocent doe-eyed girl that used to soak up all that PR hype:
"Can You Be Elton's Girl? (Or Donny's or Michael's) Take Our Test!" :-)
Wish I had kept my original albums (lost in a break-in) with all the kiddy
scrawls on the covers even though that dropped their value right down the
drain, purely for sentimental reasons. The little hearts on the Elton albums
and the written lyrics I slaved over. I still have some of those with a few of
my 45s along with the first 45 I bought, Ferrante and Teicher's "Theme from
'The Apartment'".
Wish I knew what happened to my Snoopy watch. Red background with the
classic Snoopy figure in the middle. Bit confusing as his arms were both the
same length so when one paw's on 12 and the other's on 3 it's either 3 o'clock
or a quarter after 12. Back then, it didn't really matter much anyway :-)
I lost both a jean jacket and a pair of pants that looked like denim but weren't.
The main attraction was the TON of patches I sewed lovingly on each one.
The jacket had a massive version of the classic Who logo with the arrow
shooting out of the O in the middle and was surrounded by Clash patches
and various Union Jacks. The pants, however, were a true work of art. They
used to sell denim patches with a drawing of the performer's face on them
and I anchored Elton right at the bottom of my right leg and the Union Jack
at the bottom of the left. From there, I worked my way up each leg adding
more patches (The Clash again along with lots of slogans and happy faces).
They ended just below the knee but if I still had them then they'd probably
go a lot higher!
And I have to jump on the Dixon bandwagon to agree with this one:
>--my wild-eyed innocence, and my fearless, unjaded look at the future...
>I think my mom got rid of that at a yard sale too...
Amen, oh to be young and free and full of dreams again.
Cheers,
TD
So you settle down and the children come
And you find a place that you come from
Your wandering is done
And all your dreams of open spaces
You find in your children's faces
One by one
from Harry Chapin's "Story Of A Life"
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Tiny Dancer's X-Files Episode Guide
http://www.insanity.com.au/td/
The Sesame Street Lyrics and Sounds Archive
http://i.am/tinyd
Tiny Dancer
>1. Arco Ark (an Arco Gas Station promo) w/all of the animals (preferably
>in their original "unchewed" state
>2. Zippy the Monkey
>3. My mom's black and white spaghetti poodle figurines
>4. My collection of 45 rpm records (must've had over 300 of 'em!)
>5. My Barbie dolls with the Barbie Camper, Airplane and Townhouse
I hear you on the Barbie dolls, Ang, especially the groovy Barbie Camper!
That was just too cool for words back then, all that detailing with the stickers
and the kitchen, just magic. I never graduated to the Airplane or Townhouse,
you lucky duck! I'm going to hate myself for asking but I have to know, what's
a spaghetti poodle figurine?
Cheers,
TD
It went zip when it moved
And pop when it stopped
And whirrr when it stood still
I never knew just what it was
And I guess I never will
from Tom Paxton's "The Marvelous Toy"
Tiny Dancer
>Tritt wrote:
>
>>my Rona Barrett "Hollywood" magazines from 1973-74. (Anyone else
>>remember those or have any of those?).
>
>I had one but I think I cut it up for some reason...boy that was dumb...
I chopped up a few in my day, what were we thinking, huh? I think Rona ran
a few mags at one point, at least I remember reading her a lot anyway,
especially the very glitzy "Rona Barrett's Hollywood" one. It's their own fault,
the pics were too good and just *had* to be snipped out for the scrapbook
or latest craft project! I could always count on nice "candid" shots of celebs
racing through the airport to their latest film shoot or album recording (just how
candid these were is up for debate, I'm sure!), it was all oh so Hollywood and
life in the fast lane. My starry-eyed self ate it all with a big ol' spoon.
Cheers,
TD
Oh Bennie, she's really keen
She's got electric boots, a mohair suit
You know I read it in a magazine
from Elton John's "Bennie and the Jets"
Tiny Dancer
>Hey Tom! I have every issue of MAD magazine from the sixties on,
>on a CD-ROM, best $50 I ever spent, and it's so NEAT AND TIDY!! :-)
Yeah, that would be cool but a CD can never replace that intoxicating yet
moldy and mildewy aroma books have, not yet anyway! :-) There's just
something about running your fingertips over the pages of an old book
and releasing all those delicious smells from yesterday, ahhhhhh. Close
your eyes and you can almost picture the musty attic someone tucked it
away in long ago. I just love the smell of used book shops.
>(un?)fortunately for me, my father is a packrat, so my room at home is
>basically intact from when I moved out way back NINE YEARS AGO!
>I mean I'm surprised they didn't keep my old JOHNNY DEPP posters
>on the wall! Tee hee!
Awww, they've got a little Jolie shrine going :-) Can you blame them?!
Cheers,
TD
I have my books
And my poetry to protect me
from Simon & Garfunkel's "I Am A Rock"
doug holverson
old Estes, Centuri, and AVI Astroport catalogs.
A red, tin toy, fiction drive, Mercury style space capsule with a little tin
astronaut floating around inside (my Dad said it was "John Glenn").
Major Matt Mason, Doug Davis, and Castillo.
A Little Big Book (I think that it was in the family since my mom was a kid
back in the '30s) featuring Mickey Mouse and the gang flying up to this
science fictiony, mystery island floating in the air. I think it finally
fell apart after being manhandled by too many kids, grandkids, and great
grandkids.
DGH
doug holverson
> From: Richard Edwards <rocki...@WHAMMY.home.com>
> Organization: Excite@Home - The Leader in Broadband http://home.com/faster
> Newsgroups: alt.culture.us.1970s
> Date: Wed, 02 May 2001 03:08:23 GMT
> Subject: Re: what stuff from the past do you wish you still had?
>
> One word. LEGO! If you have any, DO NOT get rid of your LEGOs! I'm
> on my second collection now, mostly Technic/Mindstorms, but I wish I
> had kept the rest.
>
I got my remaining Legos (got the big set for Christmas around '67) stashed
in a box somewhere. :)
However, certain big ol' fat black tomcat peed in that box. =:o
DGH