Pete Trips Down Memory Lane

Pete, this is a great post. Your news links & comments are meat and potatoes, but your fun and nostalgia posts are apple pie dessert. I look forward to the more you say you've got! Meanwhlie…

Kaleidoscopes. Growing up, our house never had them, but thank goodness my pal Tom's had them. Kaleidoscoping is one of my favorite tools in the digital art
program, too. I had a whole series of these.

Someone gave me a mood ring once. I might still have it buried in a drawer, somewhere. Now they have clothing that changes color according to your "mood." Or something.

Those old metal ice cube trays could be a real hassle.

No matter how many times I'd buy them, I'd never have gummed reinforcers where & when I needed them.

And the trick to Jiffy Pop was, if you keep it on the stove until the last pop is heard, you've burnt the bottom of the batch, if not the whole thing. And boy, what a smoke when you opened up one of those that was burnt! The modern version of this, of course, is microwave popcorn, with added chemical so the smoke is extra toxic.

"GRANNY PUT THESE IN THE TUB SO WHEN I TRIED TO SLIDE FORWARD AND BACK TO MAKE WAVES,IT HURT LIKE HELL"

Hahahahaha! They started as shower-tub safety things. Then they migrated to Volkswagen buses. Eventually, they ended up all over the scenery and gals on Laugh-In. Gritty plastic flower power, baby!