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Blast from the Past

by Michael Charles Messineo — Read all 96 poems by Michael Charles Messineo

In doing research for the background of some characters in an upcoming
book, I sat down and flashed back to my childhood and took note of my
own experiences and growing up with the influences that shaped my life.
As I looked at the list, I started to see things that almost rhymed and
then I thought... Oh what the hell, have some fun and try to make a
poem out of it. So here is my attempt to kill two birds with one stone.
It may bring back some memories if you're old enough to remember.

Tuesday, November 23, 2004

I remember Howdy Doody, and Captain Kangaroo, 

Clarabell, Mr. Green Jeans, and Bunny Rabbit too

 always loved Popeye, Olive Oil and SweatPea, 

Cow cartoons with funny mice, and Mr. Bugs Bunny, 

 

Black and white cartoons when no one ever talked, 

Ruff and Ready, Heckle and Jeckle and their funny walk 

Three Stooges, Andy Devine, Roy Rogers and Dale Evans

Trigger, Sky King & Penny, the Songbird, good heavens,

 

Yogi Bear and Booboo bear, and Mr. Ranger Sir, 

Johnny Quest, Tweetie Bird and action Speed Racer, 

Felix the Cat, Pepe Le Pu, Peabody and Sherman

Saturday cartoons, a Munster whose name was Herman 

 

Abbott and Costello with Stinky on the stoop, 

Mike the cop, Mr. Fields and Mr. Bacciagalupe 

Untouchables with Elliot Ness machine guns shooting hell 

Lassie helped Timmie out when he fell down the well 

 

Road Runner Meep Meep, and Huckleberry Hound 

Wylie Coyote and that ACME anvil sound 

Tasmanian Devil, and Fog Horn Leghorn tricks 

Ma and Pa Kettle a family from the sticks 

 

Love That Bob, Our Miss Brooks, George Burns & Gracie too 

Dick Van Dyke and Laura Petrie, Car 54 Where Are You 

Sergeant Carter, Gomer Pyle, Duke and the platoon 

Million Dollar Movie all day Saturday from noon. 

 

Always watched Superman with the Chief and Lois Lane 

The Green Hornet and Kato, Bruce Lee before his fame 

Mickey Mouse Club, Spin and Marty, Dolenz Circus Boy 

Nancy Drew, the Hardy Boys, remember Real McCoys?

 

Lone Ranger and Tonto, and Casper who said Boo 

Mighty Mouse, Quick Draw McGraw and Baba Looey too 

Laurel and Hardy movie shorts, and watching Jack Lalane 

McHale's Navy, Ensign Parker drove Binghamton insane

 

Rocky and Bullwinkle, they lived in Frostbite Falls 

The Dead End Kids in trouble, the funniest Huntz Hall 

Boris and Natasha they were always plotting away 

Petticoat Junction with Uncle Joe, Gomer who said HEY. 

 

Ed Sullivan had everybody who could sing or dance 

Saturday Night Live, The coneheads were from France 

Arnold the pig on Green Acres always stole the show 

Eb and Mr Ziffel, and Haney's truck so slow 

 

Taxi was outrageous with Louie and Reverend Jim 

The Munsters, Addams Family, and My Favorite Martian 

Zorro, Flintstones, Jetsons with Spacely Sprockets 

A sidekick Buddy Ebson in a show called Davey Crocket 

 

Mr. Ed, Dukes Of Hazzard, The Flip Wilson show 

American Bandstand played the music we all know 

Leave it to Beaver with Wally and the Beev

Ozzie and Harriet's Ricky Nelson singing on TV 

 

The Man From UNCLE, Illya Kuryakin and don't forget I Spy 

Get Smart's cone of silence, shoe phones and Agent 99 

Mayberry's mild sheriff, Opie and Aunt Bee 

Goober at the station, and Otis had the key 

 

Magnum PI, Hawaii Five O we waited for Book em Dano 

Before Jack Paar, Steve Allen, and Liberace on piano 

Frankenstein, Godzilla, the Wolfman and King Kong 

Rodan, Mothra, Dracula and Mighty Joe Young 

 

My Three Sons with the saxophone music 

Chip and Ernie made Uncle Charlie lose it 

Hogan's Hero's with Klink was something 

Newkirk, LaBeau and Schultz, I see nothing 

 

Rockford Files, Mannix, Columbo, Peter Gunn 

F-Troop, Outer Limits and scary Twilight Zone 

The creature from the Blue Lagoon and Invisible man 

Sherlock Holmes with Rathbone and Detective Charlie Chan

 

And now it's on to other things, I remember jiffy pop, 

creamcicles, Good Humor ice cream man, 

TV dinners, cracker jacks, cotton candy and red hots,

one color M&M's, papersheets of candy colored dots 

 

jaw breakers and jujubees and Tang and Ovaltine 

candy cigarettes, Kool aid and egg creams 

Blackjack and Clove and Bazooka chewing gum 

fireballs and sugar straws and Penny candy fun 

 

NeHi flavored soda and favorite Nestles Quick 

gumballs, wax candy and liquorish twisty sticks 

comic book sea-monkeys really sea horse pets

speaking in Pig Latin, and the New York Mets 

 

Silly putty, simple kites, and Erector sets 

hula hoops and slinky and the Etch-a-sketch 

Duncan yo-yo's, Chatty Kathy, marbles and jacks 

hopscotch sidewalk fun, don't step on any cracks 

 

The Game Of Life, Parcheesi, simple blocks of wood 

assembling your own bicycle, directions were no good 

Easy-Bake ovens, and your army men were green 

Superball, Mr. Potato Head and robot Mr. Machine

 

Monopoly, Chutes and ladders, and also Tinkertoys 

The Fort Apache Play Set and Lincoln Logs for boys 

Candy Land, stickball, skateboards if you're able 

glass bottles for your soda pop, jukebox on your table 

 

skates with metal wheels and jumping jacks in Gym, 

windshield cleaned and tires checked at your gas station

wooden soda crates, x-ray glasses for your eyes 

Washtub wringers, peashooters, and records 45's

 

Hi-Fi's, sting ray bicycles with banana seats 

Cork pop guns and Drive ins, Keds for your feet 

Fuller Brush Man, Green Stamps, metal ice cube trays 

cigar boxes with pennies saved for a rainy day

 

 Reel-To-Reel tape recorders, and shouts of tag you're it 

5 cent packs of baseball cards, how far can you spit 

Studebakers, Edsels, and cars with rumble seats 

15 cent McDonald's and shouts of Where's The Beef? 

 

eeny-meeny-miney-moe, Baseball cards in spokes 

Stay up late for Johnny Carson just to hear his jokes 

Oly-oly-oxen-free, three channels on TV 

mini-bike at age 12, my Red Wagon at age 3 

 

Station wagons, Groucho Marx on You Bet Your Life 

coonskin hats, decoder rings, shiny Boy Scout Knife 

Concentration with Hugh Downs, also Queen for A Day 

Flipping cards and jumping rope, these were things to play

 

Everyone's Mom was at home when you got home from school 

Fights were settled by foot races, there lived a golden rule

Mr. Clean, Do Overs, free glasses in Detergent 

Caps and Sparklers on the 4th, catching lightning bugs was urgent. 

 

Now I think I have to stop, I could go on all day 

Remembering the olden times while hair is turning gray 

hope this brought back memories, it was really nifty 

but I think you would have to be born around 1950. 

 

 



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Reviewed by Lisa Mings (Reader)
Reviewed on September 6, 2013
This is so fun! I just love the way that it is written. I am just starting to do a family history since my Daddy died and was searching for poems or stories from the 40 thru 60's. I think that I was led to your page my divine intervention. Thank you Mike for all your work. I have been on here reading forever. Everything that I have read is great. Keep it up. Lisa Bullock Mings

Reviewed by Joyce Rapier
Reviewed on November 26, 2004
I adored your "Blast from the Past" and ripped and romped through the looking glass. Back and forth my eyes did roam; tripping o'er memories like a rolling stone. Too fast they went, no more to be...'cept in our minds...not on TV!

Joyce Rapier

Reviewed by Rose L
Reviewed on November 26, 2004
Michael,

I simply MUST thank you for the trip down memory lane. I loved being a co-pilot on your most exquisite journey through American culture. Amazingly enough, I can remember every single reference! Not sure what that says about me personally, but I choose to think it's good! LOL

Now, as for Matlack and one of the most LENGTHY responses I've EVER seen him write LOL, I will agree that this is good enough to share and really, with your permission, that is what I intend to do!

I want to add two that jumped to mind for me....Mr. Rogers and Kukla, Fran & Ollie!!

You've definitely gone to Green Acres with this piece, and while on Walton's Mountain, may your creative muse turn you into the Six Million Dollar Man of writing! If not, grab a pop tart, a Yoohoo and just kick back listening to Peter, Paul & Mary! Otherwise, I shall have to let Godzilla and King Kong loose!! LOL

Awesome write!

~Rose~

Reviewed by jude forese
Reviewed on November 23, 2004
excellent array of memories in fine poetic style ...

Reviewed by Ed Matlack
Reviewed on November 23, 2004
Mike,
This may well be the best piece you have ever done, and for that matter the best piece I have EVER read on the Den...my apologies to all the poets I love, but this piece is so good, I am going to send it and your name all over the country and points east and west & north and south...You got my vote for best memory too, I remembered mostly all of them, but damn, only after you told me about them...by the way, did you ask for my "rights" to saying "Mr. Ed," I get big bucks for that name...Suffice it to say, I enjoyed this very much and sorry for being so long winded, I get talky when I get high, speaking of thaT I remember those little candy dots on a strip of paper, but I don't quite think they were the same kind you were talking about...LOL! I could talk all night regards your two bird killing stones here but I think there is a word or letter allotment...So find Peace thru great memories that you have herein invoked...ED & Rufuz

Reviewed by La Belle Rouge (Reader)
Reviewed on November 23, 2004
A masterpiece of nostalgic rhyme!

Reviewed by Rosemarie Skaine
Reviewed on November 23, 2004
Yes, the memories are also mine. Good read! R

Reviewed on November 23, 2004
oh, yes. i remember a lot of them too. thanks for the memory jog; a delightful write, perfect in every way! well done!


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