guypaul

The Peyton Place era

Posted on 05/09/08, 03:44 am

SoCalMom reminded me of a late 60s movie in a recent message and I got to thinking about some of the TV shows I remember from the Peyton Place era that I never hear anyone else talking about.
I remember "Dark Shadows," "Pistols and Petticoats," "The Mothers-In-Law," "My World and Welcome To It" "The Ghost and Mrs. Muir" "Daniel Boone," "Flipper," "Land of the Giants," "Lost In Space," and "The Jackie Gleason Show" as being favorites. To recall now how the tubes smelled in the TV when it was warming up, and the test patterns with the Indian heads or the weather dials, or to wonder - when a program was broadcast "In Living Color" just what it might be like to watch it on a color TV .... It all kinda surprises me so much has changed in so little time.

Also, remember how - before the Tylenol scare - nothing used to have safety seals or "for your protection" foil, plastic or other packaging? Remember how shampoo, mayonnaise, ketchup, cokes, milk and orange juice all came in glass bottles? Toothpaste, Chapstick, and hand lotion was sold in metal containers? Some of that I miss .... cokes definitely taste better out of the tall glass bottles and the seals on some of the products are a little over-the-top secure ... I'd be okay with something I could just tell if it had been tampered with without needing a screwdriver or scissors to break in to. However, I don't miss dropping a whole jar of mayonnaise on the floor (it makes a distinct sound, by the way) glass in the shower, rusted and leaking tubes of toothpaste, melted chapstick (those metal tubes got REALLY hot) or stepping on flip tops in my bare feet. (I just remembered, there was a transition between the flip tops and what we have now .... remember a little button kind of thing on the pop cans? I'd almost forgotten.)

You know were all of this is leading, don't you?
I want you to call Kellogg's and ask them to bring back "Kellogg's Concentrate Cereal."
Then contact Yuban and inquire as to the missing lady on their can of coffee.
And finally, convince Coca-Cola to put the sugar back in their Cokes.
Maybe, for good measure - just to see how much bargaining power we have - we could ask about Shake-A-Puddin', Quisp and Quake, Adams Orange and Sour Apple gum and what the hell they've done with all of the cream rinse?!!

Bommers unite! (That's affection, not lust)

• Reply #1 05/14/08  12:29am
  
  Beesley
  Summer is coming. It makes me miss Sea 'n Ski and Nosekote. I'd just like to smell them again.
• Reply #2 05/15/08  1:42am
  
  guypaul
  http://www.seaski.com/
  
  Although I don't think the formula is the same. Also, the bright green groovy hard plastic bottle (that always heated up in the sun and made the lotion separate and go rancid) has been replaced. Who would have thought a white container would make sense for something you might expose to prolonged exposure to the sun?
  
  Here is the formula for Nose Kote:
  http://books.google.com/books?id=5...
  
  
• Reply #3 05/15/08  10:28pm
  
  Beesley
  Thanks! On Sea 'n Ski, at least they have the lettering right. But I'm with you - it isn't the same without that green bottle.
  
  On your list of television shows, I watched (and liked) "The Mothers-in-Law," "My World and Welcome to It," and "The Jackie Gleason Show." My grandmother lived with us and watched a lot more television than anyone else in the household. My mom frowned on television, so my sister and I didn't watch much of it. But I could go into my grandmother's room in the evening and hang out with her and get away with watching television that way. I'd sit on her bed and watch shows like "The Jackie Gleason Show," "The Red Skelton Show," and "What's My Line?" She drank beer and always gave me sips of it. On "The Jackie Gleason Show," I always enjoyed seeing the women in sparkly evening gowns in between acts.
  
  Did anyone ever see "It's About Time," which was a short lived series about astronauts that went back to pre-historic times? I don't remember it that well, but I remember it as being pretty strange. I remember watching it during the summer of 1966, at my grandmother's house in New Jersey, when we drove back there to get her to bring her out to California.
• Reply #4 05/17/08  1:43am
  
  socalmom61
  Shake a puddin! Do you remember the dessert One, Two, Three?
  Oh Guy, I love this thread.
  Loved Quisp and Quake. I had a chain of flip tops that wrapped around my roon twice!! It was the coolest.
  Herbal Essence shampoo with the lady in the lake with flowers on the label? Maybe it was Eve in the Garden of Eden, now that I come to think of it. Bonne Belle lip Smackers in a fat tube you could wear around your neck and roll on lip potion. Avon Skin So Soft original scent and the original scent bubble bath!
  Propa PH for those pesky skin eruptions.
  Silver POW/MIA bracelets.
  Close and Play record players.
  Oh gosh, the list goes on...
• Reply #5 05/17/08  2:33pm
  
  socalmom61
  I can just smell sea'n ski. I forgot all about nose kote. I remember that smell too. And Coppertone. Did you guys have the big billboard wherever you lived that had the dog pulling the bottoms off the young girl and it was mechanical? I guess that would be a pretty big blunder today.
  I do remember that show, Beesley, you reminded me of it. I remember the theme. But we used to sing, "It's about time, it's about space, it's about time I smacked your face," somehow, I don't think it went quite that way! I used to watch Hope Lange in the Ghost and Mrs. Muir too.
• Reply #6 05/19/08  3:52pm
  
  Beesley
  I loved that billboard, with the dog and the little girl. Vermont Country Store sells some "hard to find" products. They carry Lemon Up, Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific, and Love's Baby Soft (same phallic bottle) and Bonnie Bell Ten-o-Six astringent, although why anyone would want Ten-o-Six is beyond me - I remember it as being kind of like turpentine. One, Two, Three jello! I loved that stuff! We used to put it in all my mom's odds and ends of booze glasses, so I remember eating it out of a martini glass, which made it extra elegant. Here's one for you in the snack department - remember Bugles? I loved Bugles. There's a Japanese company that makes a very similar snack - maybe it is the same - I couldn't believe it when I went to a Japanese store and there were Bugles, which had disappeared from the big chain stores. And Scooter Pies. I loved Scooter Pies.
• Reply #7 05/19/08  4:58pm
  
  socalmom61
  I loved Bugles!! They kind of dissolved. Wasn't there another snack they sold around the same time as Bugles that were like them, but not?
  I loved Scooter Pies. People try to say they're like Moon Pies, but they're not. They're Scooter Pies and they're wonderful.
  Lemon Up shampoo was really good. Remember Milk plus 6? Or Clairol Condition? They also smelled great. Not to forget:
  Geeyourhairsmellsterrific!!
• Reply #8 05/20/08  5:15pm
  
  Beesley
  The snack I remember from the Bugles era was a round crunchy thing, it looked like a bicycle tire with spokes. But it was supposed to look like a tiny pizza. It was a pizza snack, light orange with darker red dots on it (pepperoni?) and I remember it coming in a lime green package. I don't remember the name. That may not be the one you are thinking of, but I've got those two together in my mind.
• Reply #9 05/20/08  10:55pm
  
  socalmom61
  THAT'S IT, BEESLEY!!!!!!
  What were they called??? The little pizza rounds. They came out and died out about the same time. Now I'll be wracking my brain.
  
• Reply #10 05/22/08  8:33pm
  
  Beesley
  I think I found the name. Pizza Spins. Sounds like something that happens after you eat an extra-large pizza and drink a six pack of beer - by yourself.

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