Friday, April 15, 2005

Nostalgia

Smurfs. Punky Brewster. Small Wonder. Pound Puppies. Pound Purries. Jem dolls. Smurfs blue vitamins. Smurfs cereal. My Beautiful Dolls. Babyface dolls. My secret places. Popples. Cupcake dolls. The doll whose face you could temporarily apply makeup to with ice. Atari. Nintendo. My Little Pony. Orange Julius, located at...Good Time Charlie's foodcourt inside Sharpstown Mall. Physical Whimsical. Showbiz Pizza. Popsecret Popcorn in cool colors. Berry Bears Fruit Snacks. Garfield & Friends Fruit Snacks. Nickelodeon Gak & Slime. Kooshes. Hypercolor clothing. Bluebell ice cream cups with wooden spoons. The old Houston Children’s Museum with the life size dollhouse, store, and market. Tree-shaped pretzels that tasted buttery and so good. Pepsi Clear (Crystal?). She-ra dolls. Ravensburger games and puzzles (like the squirrel game!). Brio train set. Leggos. Playmobil! Tiny Toon Adventures reversible cars from McDonald’s. Old Happy Meal containers, cardboard and folded all cute. Polly Pockets. The shaved ice they had at the old Astrodome. My swingset, pretend store with cash register, and horsie. Bugs Bunny vitamins. No More Tangles spray. Richie Rich. Garfield & Friends. The cartoon with Marvin and his magic diaper. Peewee TV show. Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (especially the lizard toy with the long tongue that shot out). Disappearing ink guns. Purry Purry kitty (or something like that. It rattled and was supposed to “purr”), Cabbage Patch Kid –Wanda – with a sailor outfit that matched mine. Maxi dolls. Turtle stuffed animals that hid in their shells or something. Playdoh! The playdoh hairstyling kit. Shrinkydinks. Walt Disney Classics collector’s cards. Alvin & the Chipmunks cassette tape. Late Last Night pretend tape. Raffi. Secret Jewels toy, something like that. My CareBears & Snow White records. These handheld digital learning toys I loved – one was yellow and did Spelling and talked, the other was Red and did Reading. Kutz giant bubble maker. Bad magic tricks kit. Can’t forget Troll Dolls! The miniature and big ones. This cool revolving yellow and red shovel for digging in the sand.

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