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Englishman

I like whelks. Soaked in vinegar and with a good dash of pepper whelks are delicious. If you poke one up your nose and walk along the street you get a lot of attention.

Englishman.

Kenneson

Oh, yes! For the good old days. "And a one, and a two, and a three."

Gopher

Homogenized American hits for the over-65 set played by a big band and a guy with an accordian. I always preferred the originals to the way Welk "interpreted" them for his audience.

foreword

And don't forget "Geritol"...one of the first well advertised scams to air on National TV during that show...Geritol was some sort of magical supplement with iron...

Yes, what torture it was, having to watch this for an hour just before the "Hockey Night in Canada" every Saturday night. Nothing else to watch then....you just had to take the good with the bad. Channel surfing didn't exist, geez, when I think about it...even remotes didn't exist

Yerusalyim

Lawerence Welk was on Saturday where I'm from, my grandparents used to watch it (shutter). But yes, I remember The Wonderful World of Disney...IN LIVING COLOR, sponsored by MMM MMM Good, MMM MMM Good Campbell's Chicken Soup is MMM MMM Good. And then Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom....man o man the memories.

Tatiana

OMG, I do remember Lawrence and those damnable bubbles!!!! It was my grandmother and grandfathers favorite show on Sunday. But, the end was the best when the folks got up and did the soul train line when the credits were rolling.

But, does anyone remember the Geritol scandal? I remember my mom saying that it was condemned by the society because it was made with blood by-products? My grandmother threw out about 10 bottles of the stuff. I was scared of it for a long time.

Sunnygal41

Wow! We all went flying back in time about 40 years didnt we????? LOL! I, too, was a member of that generation! Remember Flipper? And Gentle Ben? And, there were only about three channels back then, and you only had either that aluminum aerial on top of the house, or you had the rabbit ears on the set! LOL! And, if the president had something to say to the USA, then there was such a hue and cry in every household! How about the yearly serving of The Wizard of Oz, and being so scared when that Wicked Witch tried to set the Scarecrow on fire????? Or what about staying up late on a weekend to watch Frankenstein........or The Wolf Man???????? Sunday night was bath night in our house. I remember mom yelling out the door: "Teeeerrrrriiiiiii..........Annnniiieeeee, time to come in!" That was back when kids actually played outside with one another in the neighborhood, instead of sitting in front of a TV or computer playing Nintendo games..............I remember one time, my dad took the trunk lid off to do repairs and he leaned it against the side of the house and it became a space ship for all of us to take turns flying in............and the Flexible Flyer during winter, with the Eagle laminated on the boards.........it made the sled go alot faster, didn't it????????? Don't you all laugh too hard now, I've got one memory that is sooo funny.......my sister and I had watched the WWofD and it was the one about the Tiki House and the Birds who all sang..........."Let's all sing like the birdies do...tweet tweet tweet tweet tweet".......well, my sister and I decided to sort of improvise the song a bit.......so, we're sitting on the swing attached to the big oak tree near the house and were singing that song at the top of our lungs, only instead of tweet, we're saying "twat!" LOL! Totally innocently! Couldn't understand why our parents suddenly appeared on the porch and bum rushed us both into the house! And, speaking of Geritol, I had mono when I was 17, and got the bright idea of buying myself a bottle of Geritol to "build myself back up with". I bought a HUGE bottle, and ended up throwing it out after ONE helping! Someone told me to mix it with OJ and it would taste okay, EWWWW!!!! BLECH!!! It didn't help a bit.

Terri

asleif_dufansdottir

Remember Flipper? And Gentle Ben?

Yes! Yes!!

We always watched Disney and Wild Kingdom (along with every other nature program) but thank God only watched LW a couple of times when dad's parents were visiting. What show was it...Carol Burnett or something, that had a Halloween show where the monsters were singing "consider yourself at home"??

We got about 3 stations really well but when my uncle put in a TV tower he could get PBS from Topeka!

logansrun

Oh, and another topic which hasn't been discussed here: cabbage.

B.

Surreptitious

This is true Brad. Particularly corned beef and cabbage.

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