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Cloudy · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:30 am **Posts:** 5277

Does anyone remember, "I want my Maypo"...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GXnSe7MYPGM

My brother, Bob and I not only watched this TV commercial, we ate Maypo, and actually liked it...

I think that Maypo might still be available today. If it is, I've got to find a box of it to send to my brother, Bob. His 62nd birthday coming up pretty soon, and I would love to send him a box of Maypo for the old times.

p.s. In a way this old Maypo commercial reminds me somewhat of this more recent Life Cereal commercial:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wgB25WBe ... re=related

p.p.s. Someday I might post my brother's attempt to make Wheatena for us, when out parents went out one night, and we had the house to ourselves. We were probably 11 and 7, when Bob volunteered to make the Wheatena, while I was setting something else for us to have fun with that night.

Cloudy · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:30 am **Posts:** 5277

How about the Motor Scooter...? Does anyone remember them...?

The first one I ever saw was probably in 1955, and the last one I ever saw was in the movie "American Graffiti" (1973). If I remember correctly, a goofy guy, Terry, was driving it.

Here's a very short video of the Motor Scooter in "American Graffiti":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-8RxoPcNCU

Sorry guys I have to "scoot"...

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........................... Goodnight, I'm scooting to bed."

pengwn · **Posted:** Fri Jul 06, 2012 2:24 pm

Vespa dot com?

Cloudy · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:30 am **Posts:** 5277

pengwn wrote:

Vespa dot com?

I guess that Motor Scooters are still around, but I haven't seen one on the streets for decades. Thanks to the link you gave us, I know that the company name for these motor scooters is Vespa, and that they originated in Italy. They may still be big in Europe, but I think, with some possible exceptions, they are pretty much history in the United States.

Here's a link to some information on the Vespa Motor Scooter:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=utkGxy90 ... re=related

tiefly · **Joined:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:54 am **Posts:** 1665

We always rented scooters when we were at the beach.

Yes, I wrecked a couple.

Cloudy · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:30 am **Posts:** 5277

I talked to my lady friend's son tonight about Motor Scooters in the U.S. He is very much into two-wheeled, motorized transportation. Even though Jeff rides a Harley, he knew everything about the Vespa. He says they are still big in the United States in some places, mostly big cities, and of course, they are all over Europe. I guess living in a one-horse town like Louisville, I will never see one.

p.s. What TIEFLY said about them being available at popular vacation sites also makes sense.

Cloudy · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:30 am **Posts:** 5277

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When I was a kid my mom would by me candy cigarettes. Some were just sugar, some were bubble gum, and some were chocolate. If moms bought their kids candy cigarettes today, Child Protection Services would soon be knocking of their doors. I seriously doubt these products can be easily found in their United States today. Anyone know differently?

pengwn · **Posted:** Mon Jul 09, 2012 3:13 pm

Cloudy wrote:

When I was a kid my mom would by me candy cigarettes. Some were just sugar, some were bubble gum, and some were chocolate. If moms bought their kids candy cigarettes today, Child Protection Services would soon be knocking of their doors. I seriously doubt these products can be easily found in their United States today. Anyone know differently?

You sure can't find them billed as candy cigarettes anymore, but I regularly run across candy sticks for sale in convenience stores, both in Canada and in some places when I travel the States. The variety I'm thinking of still comes in packages that kinda sorta resemble 20-packs, with fancy-looking cartoony packaging of cityscapes of London, Paris, Berlin, etc.

I like the Popeye sticks best. They're only about 2 inches long, 3/16" thick, and all white sugar with a tiny daub of pink colouring on the "lit" end. If anything, they resemble a square-ended joint more than any cigarette. Usually 25¢ per box of 16 sticks

Cloudy · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:30 am **Posts:** 5277

pengwn wrote:

Cloudy wrote:

When I was a kid my mom would by me candy cigarettes. Some were just sugar, some were bubble gum, and some were chocolate. If moms bought their kids candy cigarettes today, Child Protection Services would soon be knocking of their doors. I seriously doubt these products can be easily found in their United States today. Anyone know differently?

You sure can't find them billed as candy cigarettes anymore, but I regularly run across candy sticks for sale in convenience stores, both in Canada and in some places when I travel the States. The variety I'm thinking of still comes in packages that kinda sorta resemble 20-packs, with fancy-looking cartoony packaging of cityscapes of London, Paris, Berlin, etc.

I like the Popeye sticks best. They're only about 2 inches long, 3/16" thick, and all white sugar with a tiny daub of pink colouring on the "lit" end. If anything, they resemble a square-ended joint more than any cigarette. Usually 25¢ per box of 16 sticks

Just got back to Louisville tonight, and my house mate, David, (DHB) told me exactly what you said about "all white sugar with a tiny daub of pink colouring on the 'lit' end." However, I seem to remember those old candy cigarettes being considerably longer than 2 inches. If my memory serves me right, back in the day when I got them, they were as long as real cigarettes.

Cloudy · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:30 am **Posts:** 5277

Postage due stamps are no longer printed by the U.S. Postal Service. Years ago, when somebody sent you a letter, and failed to put enough postage on it, the post office would deliver it to you anyway, along with cancelled postage due stamps attached to the letter, that told you how much you needed to pay the mailman for the sender's under payment. As a philatelist in my youth, I remember two versions of them.

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There were earlier postage due stamps, but they came before my time.

p.s. I have a number of them in my collection, including some that I finagled my local post office to sell me mint and uncancelled. I've got a feeling that postage due stamps in that condition are pretty hard to come by these days.

Oh my gosh, it's gotten way too late again tonight so:

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........................................."Goodnight I'm going to bed."

pengwn · **Posted:** Tue Jul 10, 2012 10:22 am

Cloudy wrote:

pengwn wrote:

Cloudy wrote:

When I was a kid my mom would by me candy cigarettes. Some were just sugar, some were bubble gum, and some were chocolate. If moms bought their kids candy cigarettes today, Child Protection Services would soon be knocking of their doors. I seriously doubt these products can be easily found in their United States today. Anyone know differently?

You sure can't find them billed as candy cigarettes anymore, but I regularly run across candy sticks for sale in convenience stores, both in Canada and in some places when I travel the States. The variety I'm thinking of still comes in packages that kinda sorta resemble 20-packs, with fancy-looking cartoony packaging of cityscapes of London, Paris, Berlin, etc.

I like the Popeye sticks best. They're only about 2 inches long, 3/16" thick, and all white sugar with a tiny daub of pink colouring on the "lit" end. If anything, they resemble a square-ended joint more than any cigarette. Usually 25¢ per box of 16 sticks

Just got back to Louisville tonight, and my house mate, David, (DHB) told me exactly what you said about "all white sugar with a tiny daub of pink colouring on the "lit" end." However, I seem to remember those old candy cigarettes being considerably longer than 2 inches. If my memory serves me right, back in the day when I got them, they were as long as real cigarettes.

The Popeye sticks are smaller. The other variety I mentioned would be the same size as a typical cigarette. No idea if they still look like one anymore, as I haven't seen the inside of one of those packages since about 1986

Cloudy · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:30 am **Posts:** 5277

Long ago I bought lick-on tattoos at the penny candy shop. (Lapant's store on an alley in Rome, NY. to be exact.) I think a roll (maybe a sheet) of them cost a nickel or a dime.

I can find no Google images of them, so I'm pretty sure that they are a thing of the past, that even Google doesn't remember.

Your lick-on tattoos were gone the first time you took a bath, sweated too much playing baseball, or your mother told you to get them off...!

tiefly · **Joined:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:54 am **Posts:** 1665

Cloudy wrote:

Long ago I bought lick-on tattoos at the penny candy shop. (Lapant's store on an alley in Rome, NY. to be exact.) I think a roll (maybe a sheet) of them cost a nickel or a dime.

I can find no Google images of them, so I'm pretty sure that they are a thing of the past, that even Google doesn't remember.

Your lick-on tattoos were gone the first time you took a bath, sweated too much playing baseball, or your mother told you to get them off...!

I've seen kids at the high school with 'transfer' tattoos...sorta like the lickable omes you're talking about.

Not sure how they work, tho.

MiniYoda · **Joined:** Wed Feb 24, 2010 2:55 pm **Posts:** 733

tiefly wrote:

Cloudy wrote:

Long ago I bought lick-on tattoos at the penny candy shop. (Lapant's store on an alley in Rome, NY. to be exact.) I think a roll (maybe a sheet) of them cost a nickel or a dime.

I can find no Google images of them, so I'm pretty sure that they are a thing of the past, that even Google doesn't remember.

Your lick-on tattoos were gone the first time you took a bath, sweated too much playing baseball, or your mother told you to get them off...!

I've seen kids at the high school with 'transfer' tattoos...sorta like the lickable omes you're talking about.

Not sure how they work, tho.

my step kids have worn them. They get them through machines inside restaurants, from arcades at the bowling alley, or other simple sources. There is enough adhesive on them now that all you do is peal the back, put it on your arm, then peal the front.

FrankC · **Posted:** Wed Jul 11, 2012 8:38 pm

Cloudy wrote:

I talked to my lady friend's son tonight about Motor Scooters in the U.S. He is very much into two-wheeled, motorized transportation. Even though Jeff rides a Harley, he knew everything about the Vespa. He says they are still big in the United States in some places, mostly big cities, and of course, they are all over Europe. I guess living in a one-horse town like Louisville, I will never see one.

p.s. What TIEFLY said about them being available at popular vacation sites also makes sense.

Cloudy, I saw a middle age guy on a motor scooter today here in Hanover Park. I use to see them all the time when I worked in downtown Chicago. Several People rode them to work during the summer. You could quickly zip through crowded downtown traffic.

Cloudy · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:30 am **Posts:** 5277

MiniYoda wrote:

tiefly wrote:

Cloudy wrote:

Long ago I bought lick-on tattoos at the penny candy shop. (Lapant's store on an alley in Rome, NY. to be exact.) I think a roll (maybe a sheet) of them cost a nickel or a dime.

I can find no Google images of them, so I'm pretty sure that they are a thing of the past, that even Google doesn't remember.

Your lick-on tattoos were gone the first time you took a bath, sweated too much playing baseball, or your mother told you to get them off...!

I've seen kids at the high school with 'transfer' tattoos...sorta like the lickable omes you're talking about.

Not sure how they work, tho.

my step kids have worn them. They get them through machines inside restaurants, from arcades at the bowling alley, or other simple sources. There is enough adhesive on them now that all you do is peal the back, put it on your arm, then peal the front.

YODA, those ain't the cheap lick-on tattoos that you bought from the penny candy store back in the 1950's. Just spit on your arm, press the tattoo you want, hold it down for about 20 seconds, lift off the paper, and voilà, you were tattooed.

Cloudy · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:30 am **Posts:** 5277

FrankC wrote:

Cloudy wrote:

I talked to my lady friend's son tonight about Motor Scooters in the U.S. He is very much into two-wheeled, motorized transportation. Even though Jeff rides a Harley, he knew everything about the Vespa. He says they are still big in the United States in some places, mostly big cities, and of course, they are all over Europe. I guess living in a one-horse town like Louisville, I will never see one.

p.s. What TIEFLY said about them being available at popular vacation sites also makes sense.

Cloudy, I saw a middle age guy on a motor scooter today here in Hanover Park. I use to see them all the time when I worked in downtown Chicago. Several People rode them to work during the summer. You could quickly zip through crowded downtown traffic.

Okay, okay... I guess motor scooters are still around, but I still have not seen one since the 1950's, other than the one Terry drove into the wall in "American Graffiti" way back in 1973.

Cloudy · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:30 am **Posts:** 5277

I'm sure that there are no longer any of the old roller skates that you locked on to the soles of your shoes with a key.

I only had one pair of these roller skating contraptions, back in 1951 or 1952. Did anyone else ever have them?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIFknAdVvNM

"La la la la la la la la, la la la la la la"

Cloudy · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:30 am **Posts:** 5277

I had to learn hand signals for my written driver's test in New York State back in the late 1960's, even though pretty much all automobiles had turn signal and brake lights back then. Kentucky made them a legally unacceptable way for drivers to let those behind them know what they were going to do many years ago.

I can remember my parents using them, but I never did.

Have any of you older guys or gals ever used hand signals in the car to communicate with other drivers except this one:

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(That's a photo of TEVERETT giving Liljol the bird as he ran a stop sign in front of the car she was riding in.)

Want some music to go along with the picture? If so, click below...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GizTr6Q ... re=related

Gogetem · **Joined:** Mon Jan 11, 2010 11:31 am **Posts:** 790

Cloudy wrote:

I had to learn hand signals for my written driver's test in New York State back in the late 1960's, even though pretty much all automobiles had turn signal and brake lights back then. Kentucky made them a legally unacceptable way for drivers to let those behind them know what they were going to do many years ago.

I can remember my parents using them, but I never did.

Have any of you older guys or gals ever used hand signals in the car to communicate with other drivers except this one:

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(That's a photo of TEVERETT giving Liljol the bird as he ran a stop sign in front of the car she was riding in.)

Only the last one. It's often needed here. :lol:

Cloudy · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:30 am **Posts:** 5277

I asked this question on this thread a long time ago, and I am surprised that no one has answered it yet.

Here it is again:

Why didn't Cassius Clay win the heavy weight gold medal in the 1960 Rome Olympic games?

p.s. I would expect SPOTES would have the answer in a heartbeat, but I'm guessing that he doesn't check this thread out.

Heck, while I'm at it, I'll add this question.

Why did Ingemar Johansson lose the heavy weight gold medal in the 1952 Olympics in Helsinki?

p.s. Ingemar was the boxer, who later won the world's heavy weight championship in 1959 by knocking Floyd Patterson to the canvas seven times in the 3rd round, when the referee called the fight, giving Johansson a TKO victory.

p.p.s. I think these two questions qualify for the "Try to Rember" thread.

Cloudy · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:30 am **Posts:** 5277

Gogetem wrote:

Cloudy wrote:

Have any of you older guys or gals ever used hand signals in the car to communicate with other drivers except this one:

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Only the last one. It's often needed here. :lol:

GOGETEM, the last time I flipped someone the bird on the highway, he flipped it back at me, drew a gun from under his seat, and pointed it at me. I hit the brakes, got behind the ass hole, called the cops on my cellphone, told them where we were, as I followed him down Shelbyville Road for at least ten minutes. Hell, if we were flying aircraft, I had out manuevered him, and had him in my gun sights, but alas my Toyota Previa didn't have any 50 calibre machine guns to shoot him down.

I followed this jerk until I came to my turn off to go home, and I decided home was the place to go. The cops never showed up, even though I was telling their dispatcher exactly where we were as I was following the guy, who brandished a gun, and threatened to shoot me.

p.s. Since that night I have never flipped the bird at any drivers, no matter how much they might have pissed me off. If they flip me the bird, I just smile back at them. Call me a coward, but you never know if they have a gun under their seat.

Cloudy · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:30 am **Posts:** 5277

Back in the 1950's there were kiddie car seats, which hooked over the the back of the front bench seat of the car, so junior would be entertained, and mom or dad could pick his bottle up for him when he dropped it.

My little brother had one exactly like this, steering wheel and all:

Today I can't think of a better way to launch junior straight through the windshield, after losing part of his face to the rearview mirror as he flew by it, if the car ever had an accident. At the time I was envious, because I had to sit in the backseat, and didn't have a steering wheel to play with.

Cloudy · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:30 am **Posts:** 5277

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Bubble up and Royal Crown Cola bottled sodas were the first 16 ounce bottled soft drinks I ever saw back in the late 1950's or early 1960's. I would ride my bike a mile and a half up to Vaith's country store in Stokes, NY, to buy them. Vaith's country store is now gone, as well as my bicycle, and I'm afraid that Bubble Up and Royal Crown are gone too.

Anyone remember those 16 ounce bottles of Bubble Up and Royal Crown, or better yet does anyone know if they are still around...?

p.s. After Googling the pictures of the bottles, I think they might still be around, but I haven't seen either one for sale for the last 50 years.

Cloudy · **Joined:** Tue Jan 12, 2010 4:30 am **Posts:** 5277

Many years ago people used to get dressed up to fly on airplanes. Today they are dressed in T-shirts, cut-off jeans, and wearing flip-flops on their feet. Back then there was no such thing as a male flight attendant, there were only gorgeous stewardesses, who wiggled their way down the aisle.

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Yeah, today the planes are better and faster, but I wouldn't mind it, if it took more time to get where I was flying, if I could ride with people and stewardesses like those pictured above.

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