Ah, Nostalgia: The Sixties

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danie

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Creepy Crawlers.

Are you talking about those plastic tabs that would grow into dinosaurs and stuff when you heated them up?

My brother had that thing. You've got to love a toy for little kids that comes with its own hot plate.
No, this:
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There was a mold you poured liquid mess into, then put it into a little oven to cook it into a rubberized insecty thing.
I can still smell those things cooking.
 

Pucker

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Creepy crawlers, hot metal and molten plastic reminds me of the sights and sounds and smells (mostly) of growing up in the industrial heaven that is Northern NJ. Sorry my joke fell so flat.

New Jersey gets a bad rap.

My mother's family is from Delaware, and on Summer vacations we would take a car trip to go see them. Most of that trip is the New Jersey Turnpike, which -- at least in the late '60s and early '70s was literal hell on earth.

But New Jersey is called The Garden State for a reason. I'd be willing to bet a lot of people would be surprised at what New Jersey is, if they actually went somewhere in it besides Atlantic City (or Newark).
 

Pucker

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I don't remember that, but I had a brother, so I'm sure we probably did!
Do tell, what did you try to melt?

This post reminds me of that Friends episode with Giovanni Ribisi as Phoebe's brother.

"I really liked talking to you about the stuff I like. You know . . . how I like to melt stuff . . . and how I don't like stuff that doesn't melt."
 

Pucker

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Plastic toy soldiers, my brother’s collection of Troll Dolls, and my younger sister’s Barbie Dolls. They all seemed to be made from a kinda soft plastic.

Did anybody else besides me call these things Wishnicks when you were a kid?

The idea was that you could rub the hair and make a wish and then . . .

Well . . . that was pretty much it.
 

Dana Jean

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Did anybody else besides me call these things Wishnicks when you were a kid?

The idea was that you could rub the hair and make a wish and then . . .

Well . . . that was pretty much it.
Yes. something like that. And yes, rub the hair and make a wish. I still have a collection of the big troll dolls.
 

Pucker

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No, this:
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There was a mold you poured liquid mess into, then put it into a little oven to cook it into a rubberized insecty thing.
I can still smell those things cooking.

Yeah . . . I remember that. My brother had a similar thing that came with the same hot plate, but instead of tubes and molds it just had these little plastic tabs that looked like Starburst, only a little bigger, and the fun was supposed to be that you put the piece of plastic on the hot plate and then stood back and marveled at what it grew into.

Big fun for little kids.
 

DiO'Bolic

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Did anybody else besides me call these things Wishnicks when you were a kid?

The idea was that you could rub the hair and make a wish and then . . .

Well . . . that was pretty much it.
We called them "Wishnicks" also back in the 60's. But say that word today to describe them and people look at you like you're from outer space.
 

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New Jersey gets a bad rap.

My mother's family is from Delaware, and on Summer vacations we would take a car trip to go see them. Most of that trip is the New Jersey Turnpike, which -- at least in the late '60s and early '70s was literal hell on earth.

But New Jersey is called The Garden State for a reason. I'd be willing to bet a lot of people would be surprised at what New Jersey is, if they actually went somewhere in it besides Atlantic City (or Newark).
Spent the late 50's early 60's living 18 miles inland from AC. Go inland a tad more- farmland, pine barrens, beautiful homes with ample open space. Clean fresh air too.
 
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Tery

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On New Jersey:

New Jersey did not have a scenic reputation, but most of that stigma had been established by New York City residents, joking about the raw and odoriferous parts of New Jersey bordering Manhattan—which did much of the city’s dirty work in industry and waste-handling. But away from the often noxious strip from Hackensack to Hoboken, other parts of the Garden State were actually very attractive, from the northern woodlands and farming towns along the Delaware River across from Pennsylvania, and the Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area, to the Pine Barrens in the south enclosed in the Pinelands National Reserve.

Peart, Neil (2007-09-25). Roadshow: Landscape with Drums: A Concert Tour by Motorcycle (pp. 263-264). National Book Network - A. Kindle Edition.