Comments on: They ARE a girl group!

By: Joan Stringer

Joan Stringer — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 12:19:52 +0000

Cool! I may get those bead “curtains” after all these years! Have to get Extra Heavy Duty ones though because my cats will love to play with them! Thought of some other cool toys: Rock ‘em Sock ‘em Robots (recently back, as Doug posted), and that ride I think was called the Sit and Spin. It was round and you sat in the middle turning big wheels with the handles on the inside. It was to simulate a Tilt-A-Whirl, but it probably turned you till you puked, which is why Santa didn’t bring one to our house! Also liked the Lite Brite, Magic 8 Ball, Hot Wheels (had TONS with red-lined tires that are valued today!), and the ice hockey tabletop games. We had more to use our imagination with, that’s for sure!

By: jeaniebeanie

jeaniebeanie — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 12:50:00 +0000

I got my sleazy blue Easy-Bake Oven for the great Pratt Christmas of 1965! Leslie also got “Help,” which she played all day. I remember just fingering all the food packets in the box in amazement before even daring to try them! Actually, as I recall, I was sitting in that winged chair sideways and playing with Marianne all day while the Beatles sang over and over and over … For some reason, “Hey! You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away” sticks out in my mind the most. Maybe Leslie was trying to play the end part on her flute.

Oh, the cost of any Easy-Bake Oven back then? $15.95! Do the math! I think it’s pretty much the only gift I got.

Joan, those bead “curtains” have been back in for ages. Molly got them for her door at LImited Two, but they kept tangling every time we walked in or out, so Tom put up catches for them.

By: Joan Stringer

Joan Stringer — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 01:30:02 +0000

Ah, yes. Those great toys and fads of the 60’s and 70’s. My sister and I did get a Hula-Hoop, Etch-A-Sketch, Nerf Football, Operation game, Chrissy the doll with growing hair, and a Tyco racing set for various birthday and X-Mas gifts. And we got the blue classic Easy-Bake Oven. It’s now sold as a microwave-type oven! Like Jean though we wanted Go-Go boots to no avail! I always liked those plastic bead “curtains” that Julie Kavner had in her doorway on “Rhoda”. Yup, those were the days!

By: DOuG pRATt

DOuG pRATt — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 19:42:50 +0000

I briefly wanted a G.I. Joe, but the idea of a “doll for boys” did seem a bit weird at the time. Of course, today they’re not dolls. They’re action figures!

We had an Easy-Bake Oven. It made very good little cakes. Like my Kenner Super Show, it used a light bulb (the Give-a-Shows were flashlights). Whose Easy-Bake was it, if not yours?

By: jeaniebeanie

jeaniebeanie — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 18:48:43 +0000

D.J. Rogers? A K-3 fan? Hmm. Somebody said you are also a closet Jimmy Webb fan (I’m shamelessly uncloseted on that score).

Dougie, please post the cool pic you sent me of the girlz in their cool purple outfits and go-go boots so I can, YES, once again, lament to myself how Mom never bought me a pair. The only other item I begged her for was an Easy-Bake Oven. As she had two other daughters in that age range, I can see why she had to say “no.”