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Travelgrrl t1_jdvpyae wrote

I loved this and even more, HR PuffnStuff. Such a crush on Jack Wild! (The musical Oliver reinforced this.)

They're hard to watch as an adult, though.

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humanregularbeing t1_jdz81xk wrote

Those teen magazines were an inseparable aspect of my crushes back then.

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Travelgrrl t1_je0aryk wrote

My 3 sisters and my favorites: The Monkees (we each had our favorite Monkee; RIP Peter Tork), the Osmonds, the Cowsills, Jack Wild and Mark Lester, Bobby Sherman, Kurt Russell, Michael Landon, David Selby of Dark Shadows fame, and pretty much all the guys from Here Come The Brides!

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humanregularbeing t1_je0g9ik wrote

:-)!

We made a model of the town in Here Come the Brides out of a shoebox. You lifted the lid and the sides fell down. The long part became the main road. One long side stayed up and became the saloon and the place where the girls lived. The other long side lay flat and was the water, the dock with some ships. We also made stand-up cardboard characters (and maybe horses?). Then you could put it away at the end.

We must be remembering the same couple of years, although maybe I'm a bit before you. You forgot the Jackson 5, the Partridge Family (went with my younger sister to a David Cassidy concert!), the Brady Bunch, Johnny Whitaker, the guys from Emergency (?!)… I'd better stop.

Another part of it was the fold-up posters. Do young people have posters these days (they also came in LP albums)? They have to have fold marks and the corners have to be torn from all the times they've been taped and re-taped to the walls.

Such fun.

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Travelgrrl t1_je36v2o wrote

The town model sounds amazing. My older sisters made an entire town for troll dolls (the 1960's ones) for us all to play with and they called it "Lilliput" which I didn't get until I was an adult.

I DID like the Jackson 5, but we didn't care for any teen idols from Partridge Family, Brady Bunch, or Sigmund. Randolph Mantooth - YES.

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