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Back In My Day

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The original Winnie the Pooh books.

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Dabbing red mercurochrome over cuts and scrapes.

I used these when I was a kid, more than half a century ago!

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Lots of love...lots of love beads :)

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At least it was musical and portable...

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The Sound Of Music first screened in 1965. I've seen it so many times...

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Lori Karger My favorite!!!!

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Jessi Burlingame I cry every time I watch it. My husband thinks I'm crazy because I can recite it line for line!

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Cec Dennis-Lelean There are also Singalongasoundofmusic sessions where you can dress up as a character or thing from the movie, sing along to every song, hiss the baroness, boo the nazis etc. Great fun!

One of my many Swatch watches (with guard). This photo doesn't show the full glory of the purple band and the hot pink hands...

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Loved the Monkees, their show, and their music.

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Transistor radio - only AM stations back then.

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Hopscotch...a stick of chalk, and you could play anywhere.

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Sony Walkman cassette player and radio. I shudder to think how many batteries I chewed through...

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Rubik's cube...much frustration :)

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I loved Thunderbirds, and even when I became an adult would get up early on Saturday morning to watch it.

Gomer Pyle USMC.

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My little sister used to wave goodbye at the end of each episode, when Lassie raised her paw.

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Milk was left on the door step...and bread delivered in a horse-drawn van.

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The Beatles.

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Archie comics.

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Monty Python...funniest.thing.ever!

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1977 - Saturday Night Fever was hot, the Bee Gees soundtrack was everywhere, and all you wanted to do was dance!

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Saturday morning cartoons :)

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Sit up straight, with your hands together on the desk in front of you!

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Gold stars were the ultimate reward for good schoolwork!

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I owned so many vinyl LPs (long-playing records).

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It seemed like everyone had on of these Shape Balls.

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SRA Reading Program. I loved working through the colours...and when you'd completed the year's work, you were allowed to use the library for "free reading", yay!

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We're talking anything up to 40 years here!

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Ingrid Boulting in an ad for Biba, 1970s.

1970s Tupperware.

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Carole King "Tapestry".

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The cover of the Abbey Road album. They said Paul was dead. They used this picture and said his being barefoot was one of the clues. I was so sad.

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Like, totally, what people wore in the 1970s.

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I loved these toys...

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No email, no Skype, expensive rare phone calls...sending letters was really the only option.

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