[mikeandnancy1112]

You are the first person I know who remembers Winky Dink. I have asked people for years and everyone thought I was nuts. Finally, someone remembers. Thank you!!!

[Boomer]

Originally Posted by mikeandnancy1112

You are the first person I know who remembers Winky Dink. I have asked people for years and everyone thought I was nuts. Finally, someone remembers. Thank you!!!

Oh, thank you. And don't you just hate that when people look at you like you are nuts. (happens to me a lot)

Next time, you will just have to make them look at this link. There are some other Winky Dink links on You Tube, too. But I have a terrible connection tonight and so I could not watch this all the way through. Darn.

I hope you never drew directly on the screen and got into big trouble.

Boomer

[ame]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wolnhfwwr9I[/ame]

[golf2140]

I remember everything mention. I also remember my dad bringing in a large metal container of milk. Mom washed the bottles then filled them with milk. They were then put in the " ice box".

[gary42651]

I remember all but the devil dog, had a paper route and collected 35 cents a week for a 6 day week, 5 cent coke machine with the siver handle, sometimes in the winter the milk would freeze and my mom would let us eat it like ice cream, we also had our bread delivered, you would put a sign in the window if you needed bread. In the summer you would leave the doors and windows open and not worry about strangers breaking in. Mothers didn`t have to work, and everyone watched over everyones kids. In the summer I would work on the farm picking string beans for 35 cents a baskit and it had to weigh 16 pounds, cut grass for $2 a yard, shovel snow for 50 cents a sidewalk. for 50 cents you could see a movie and buy a bag of popcorn and a coke. If someone was out of work, all the neighbors would make sure they had food and money until they got back on their feet, no welfare back than. The people in the villages remind me of the great days as a kid

[The Great Fumar]

Originally Posted by Sue&Gene

I remember the strawberry man pushing his cart down the street, calling out "Straawwberrees...Strawberries!!". How about the "Omar Man"? best cinnamon rolls ever!

Our guy had his horse yell for him.....which all my life I have felt was cruel until I realized he was a ventriloquist .....

fumar fator .....

[The Great Fumar]

Originally Posted by Boomer

Chuck,

I remember seeing Kate Smith, but I don't remember ever being allowed to stay up late. I guess it must have happened once or twice. Maybe I talked a babysitter into it or something.

I never really thought about Kate Smith maybe being the fat lady referred to in the saying, "It's not over 'til the fat lady sings." But I guess it could be.

I always thought the expression got its source from a comment by somebody who was talking about when you know an opera is almost over. Somebody who was not thrilled about going to the opera I guess.

I think it is kind of interesting to think about how those old sayings get started. Geez. I sure can be boring sometimes.

Boomer

Kate always sang "When the moon comes over the mountain " and I loved it but I must admit that I thought she may have been the mountain ....

fumar the critic...........

[chuckinca]

Per Wikipedia:

"Kathryn Elizabeth "Kate" Smith (May 1, 1907 – June 17, 1986) was an American singer, best known for her rendition of Irving Berlin's "God Bless America". Smith had a radio, television, and recording career spanning five decades, reaching its pinnacle in the 1940s."


Believe she is also "best known" for "When the Moon comes over the Mountain" also, but her video of God Bless America was used at the end of the day's TV broadcasting - at least in Chicago.


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[Hawkwind]

Originally Posted by mikeandnancy1112

You are the first person I know who remembers Winky Dink. I have asked people for years and everyone thought I was nuts. Finally, someone remembers. Thank you!!!

Remember them all so I must be petrified wood.

The Winky Dink Magic Window, oh yes. I remember it well.

Ah the sprinkling bottle is another. My Mother passed away in 2006 and up until that time she still had a sprinkling bottle close to or on the corner of the ironing board. Even though she has a very good steam iron it just was not as good as the sprinkling bottle and the steam portion was never used. She made the sprinkling bottle from a ketchup bottle and used a nail to poke holes in the metal cap.

[2BNTV]

[QUOTE=chuckinca;307697]I remember all the above except never heard of a Devil Dog - in with penny candy so it is probably some kind of candy?

ckuckina:

Sorry for the confusion. I should have made two separate statements.

Penny candy was one item.

Devil Dogs may have been 10 cents and not 5 cents, (can't remember exactlty - senior moment). The chocoalate cake with the cream filing that you find in conveniece stores that now cost about 89 cents and contains two small pieces.

[chuckinca]

Thanks for the clarification - are they still called "Devil Dogs" in today's gas mart type stores?


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[herbaru]

Originally Posted by chuckinca

Thanks for the clarification - are they still called "Devil Dogs" in today's gas mart type stores?


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Yup, see link for picture.
[ame]http://www.amazon.com/Drakes-Cakes-Devil-Dogs-Pack/dp/B002NG81F0[/ame]

[chuckinca]

Thanks for the pic -

Here's what they look like here in Norcal, I have never had one but my wife recognized your pic of them:

http://www.littledebbie.com/products/DevilCremes.asp


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[K9-Lovers]

Well, I certainly enjoyed the Winky Dink show, never have seen that one before. But all this talk about the sprinkling bottle brings back memories of the smell of that hot iron on cotton . . . remember that smell from the steam created when the iron hit the little sprinkly spots? And, speaking of smells, I still miss mimeograph ink. All the kids in our class would grab their test/quiz and everyone would bury their face in that paper and take it in . . . aahhh.