Episode Reviews - "A Night in the Woods" - season 5

[stevea]

Originally Posted by Tankeryanker

So what did we wear for play? I am thinking I had some kind of tenni runner then.

In the Walton's, Jim Bob wears Converse high tops.

Wait, I had to be wearing tennis shoes. I remember going to Gemco and getting a red pair. They were magical and made me run faster.

I'm talking the 1950s and 60s--it's really hard to remember, but I'm thinking sneakers like Keds. This was before Adidas, Nike, etc.

[Sgt. Saunders]

I’d just like to know where Eddie got that terrible looking sweater of his: at Goodwill, from Haband’s or at Robert Hall? (You have to be a “certain” age to remember Robert Hall stores.)

[stevea]

Originally Posted by Sgt. Saunders

I’d just like to know where Eddie got that terrible looking sweater of his: at Goodwill, from Haband’s or at Robert Hall? (You have to be a “certain” age to remember Robert Hall stores.)

I think I remember the sweater you're talking about -- did it have lapels like a shawl would have?

Maybe from the clearance rack at Gimbel's basement? (or whatever department store had a branch in downtown Mayfield lol)

I remember Robert Hall but haven't heard that name in years--kinda went by the wayside like Thom McAn stores?

[Sgt. Saunders]

June probably took Beaver to Thom Mcan’s to get new shoes for school unlike that pushy and unbelievably presumptuous neighbor, who wanted Wally to immediately take her little son to the store to buy shoes. Talk about chutzpah!

[Tankeryanker]

Originally Posted by stevea

I'm talking the 1950s and 60s--it's really hard to remember, but I'm thinking sneakers like Keds. This was before Adidas, Nike, etc.

Late 60s-70s. Mine could have been keds. I didn't get magical tennis shoes in the 70s. The magic was gone by then.

Adidas came out when I was in the 5th grade ish. I remember how they were leather and so cool looking.

[MichaelMartinD]

Originally Posted by stevea

Beach Haven had beautiful beaches. The ocean there has a good amount of undertow. The thing to do was watch where you were i relation to one of the lifeguard flags. When you get dragged down to one, plod back up to the other one.

I asked my mom and she said she remembers that big storm in 1962 that destroyed many homes. And now some of the photos in my album showing her and her brothers standing in front of derelict houses on the seashore make sense.

[MichaelMartinD]

Originally Posted by Sgt. Saunders

I’d just like to know where Eddie got that terrible looking sweater of his: at Goodwill, from Haband’s or at Robert Hall? (You have to be a “certain” age to remember Robert Hall stores.)

I think at least some of the actors on LITB were wearing their own clothes. Barbara Billingsley said in an interview that she wore many of her own outfits on the show, and maybe the same was true of Ken Osmond. That sweater strikes me as a real period piece - I'm not sure anyone makes that kind of shawl-collar sweater anymore except maybe some company that aims at a retro look.

[stevea]

Originally Posted by MichaelMartinD

I asked my mom and she said she remembers that big storm in 1962 that destroyed many homes. And now some of the photos in my album showing her and her brothers standing in front of derelict houses on the seashore make sense.

You learn something every day.

I recall us driving north and seeing the ocean water rushing through. You couldn't go any further toward the north end of the island.

[biffbronson]

Originally Posted by stevea

I remember Robert Hall but haven't heard that name in years--kinda went by the wayside like Thom McAn stores?

I think one of my dad's old heavy winter overcoats had a Robert Hall label inside. Something like this:



I still have a few Thom McAn shoeboxes he and my uncle had repurposed over the years. I believe Thom McAn stores lasted quite a long time, making it into enclosed malls over several decades. Later on the brand was sold at Kmart stores.

A lot of my school clothes came from JCPenney -- IIRC I had some of their "Garanimals" clothes that were coded to match shirt & pants etc. My mom was a trained seamstress so it was very easy for her to make alterations -- like if she bought pants for me on sale that were too long.

[Sgt. Saunders]

It’s just as well that Wally, Beaver, Eddie, Lumpy, Larry, Julie, Mary Ellen, Gilbert and the rest of the kids on LITB did not attend parochial school in Mayfield, USA.

Jesus, those uniforms that boys and girls had to wear in Catholic grade schools back in the 1950s and 1960s were God-awful.

In my school, the girls had to wear red plaid skirts and the boys had to wear bright red sports coats. The kids at the nearby public school used to shout out, whenever they saw us in those ugly-@ss sports coats, “The red coats are coming! The red coats are coming!”

I don’t think the Catholic kids have to wear those dreadful outfits anymore. At least, I hope they don’t.

[MichaelMartinD]

When I was in Catholic school in the 1990s the boys wore white or light blue Oxford shirts, navy blue ties (they were clip-on at first and then we eventually graduated to a real tie), navy pants, and an optional navy cardigan in the colder weather. The girls had tartan plaid skirts and white or blue blouses. I didn't really like wearing the uniform at the time, but I now credit it with teaching me how to dress properly.

[stevea]

Originally Posted by MichaelMartinD

When I was in Catholic school in the 1990s the boys wore white or light blue Oxford shirts, navy blue ties (they were clip-on at first and then we eventually graduated to a real tie), navy pants, and an optional navy cardigan in the colder weather. The girls had tartan plaid skirts and white or blue blouses. I didn't really like wearing the uniform at the time, but I now credit it with teaching me how to dress properly.

I recall the girls wearing green skirts--the whole outfit was a green theme. This would have been in the 1960s in south New Jersey.