Tiki is old

[tikistitch]

Everybody has someone who forwards around all those million dollar cookie recipes and dire warnings of missing toddlers who are now attending grad school. In our case, it's our father in law, who dutifully sent off this "Ha ha lookee you're so OLD!!!" email. Actually, we're not old enough to remember car hops, nor Topo Gigio, nor most of the rest, but we actually had - for a time at least - a Chatty Cathy doll. We say for a time, because she obviously wasn't beloved enough to survive moving house whilst tiki attended third grade. To be honest, we don't remember a damn thing she said, we only remember being fascinated to hear there was an actual, tiny record player inside, and trying to figure out how it might work. tiki was a weird girl.

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[nitasee.livejournal.com]

Oh, Tiki, I is old. I don't remember car hops, at least not the roller skating ones, though we did have Sonic drive-in where food was delivered to the car (usually by surly minimum-wage slaves). I do remember Topo Gigio ("Helllllo, Mr. Eddie"). My sister had a Chatty Cathy doll, but I really can't remember the doll actually talking - I think we wore out the voice box early on. We also had an Annette Funicello doll. And I had a Mrs. Beasley doll, which I never much cared for.

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I have no clue what Chatty Cathy said, I can't even remember he voice, I just remember being absolutely fascinated with the mechanism (maybe because my dad is an engineer?).

I never cared for Mrs Beasley either. But I knew someone who knew someone who went to high school with the kid actress who played Buffy. They said she had a locker full o' drugs!

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I'd heard tons of rumors about her drug use. The kind of thing stuff you'd read in the tabloids, except in her case it was for real. She died at 18 from an overdose.

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

You're right, she was kind of a precursor to Britney, wasn't she? I mean, before the era where they'd follow people around for the supermarket tabloids.

I'm forever grateful myself that I escaped high school before the era of video phones.

[loli-cat.livejournal.com]

Yeh, my sister had a Suzy Smart doll.

And I remember Topo Gigio...regretfully...

[avalonjones.livejournal.com]

There was an A&W in Corvallis, Oregon that had roller-skating carhops as late as 1972. I remember going there with my mom. And when I was visiting my folks in Arizona in December, we drove by at least one drive-thru set up like a carhop place, with the order menus by each individual parking spot, so they must have had carhops too. The place was busy when we drove by, so it must still be doing okay. :)

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

Kinda OT (but it's my blog, so I can be as OT as I wanna be!) but there was a drive-in movie theater near here 'til very recently (it's now, or at least last I saw, used for a swap meet). I couldn't think of a worse place in the entire country to put a drive-in, I mean, how could anyone see the screen in the middle of a rainstorm? And there's no rainy season - or rather, it's all year long.

[avalonjones.livejournal.com]

I can remember being taken to drive-in movies when I was 4, which would've been 1968. And I know there was ONE remaining drive-in in Columbus when I left--although who knows for how long. Drive-in movies are definitely one of the cooler things from the past, and it's a shame that people these days won't get to experience them.

[jabberwockypie.livejournal.com]

Everybody has someone who forwards around all those million dollar cookie recipes and dire warnings of missing toddlers who are now attending grad school.
I've threatened people with bodily harm for doing this and they stopped. I can see how it wouldn't be an option with your father in law, though.

I had a reproduction Chatty Cathy for a while! . . . I'm not helping, am I?

Chatty Cathys are kind of ugly and had huge teeth. The babies are downright scary and sort of look like they want to eat your soul.

[tikistitch.livejournal.com]

There were *baby* Chatty Cathy dolls? I didn't know that.

I used to be a lot more obnoxious about forwarding urban legends and the like. But, giving most people links to Snopes I've found just pisses 'em off, and they don't learn. Nowadays, the rule is, if I have to wade through more than 2 or 3 forwards, I just delete.