1960. Wasn't even a gleam in daddy's eye yet.

Oh!!! My favorite Christmas ever was when I got my Cuddly Duddly!!! He was huge, nearly as tall as I was, and he had a cardboard choo-choo train that you could play with too ... it kind of freaked me out when I learned that Ray Rayner was one of the clowns on Bozo. I was in the Bozo audience in ... 1966/67 I think. My sister was under a year old.

(yes, I grew up in the Chicago Suburbs)

I'm out of the demographic for the question by a teensy bit. I was born in the Year of the Ox.

I forgot to mention the choo choo. I loved my Cuddly Duddly!

I so wished I could go on Bozo to play the Grand Prize Game.

Just. By a split red one.

Nope. Not in existence till 1975.

alive, yeah. But I don't remember much when I was 4. I could fill you in on early 60s swimming and parties, and stuff, though.

We swam (I'm from California); we partied, we drank. Well, my folks drank.

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http://kclibrary.lonestar.edu/decade60.html


According to my cousin who must just be getting her AARP card in the mail. This is what she did.


swimming
rollerskating
picnics
beaches
barbecues
pool parties
slumber parties
camping
hiking
fishing
dance lessons
dance performances
girl scouts
horseback riding
bicycling
Caroling
singing
laughing
playing board games
safely roaming the neighborhood



Probably all the things any generation likes to do except wear the mandatory dress.

What about running behind the mosquito spray truck?

You mean the DDT truck?

nah..no way..you're kidding right.

I googled it. wow I'm glad I missed that experience.

I was born December 12, 1960. I remember poop. Lots and lots of poop.

I would spend hours practicing throwing ping pong balls into buckets for hours. Didn't get picked out of the audience for the game, but I did end up with some great toys as a consequence. I had a drawing wheel that I played with for hours and hours ... it was a plastic platform that you put a cardboard circle into, and lined up a number with an arrow on the platform. You traced the parts of the picture that had the same number, and you found out what you were making when you had completely rotated the circle. I forget what it was called, but it was a godsend for a completely unartistically inclined child.

My brother and I were on the local Bozo Show. I don't remember it, but I hear I told a joke:

What's green and red and green and red and green and red.
A tomato in an elevator.

My brother's joke:

What's yellow and goes slam slam slam slam?
A four-door banana.

I can't BELIEVE I wasn't discovered on the spot.

I'm trying really hard, but I don't get it. I get a "four-door banana," but this one is eluding me completely.

Hahahhahaha...yeah, it's pretty bad isn't it?

I guess because the elevator would be going up and down, and the stem is still on top of the tomato? It calls for a certain suspension of disbelief. :lol: