I'm so old I Remember when:

[Nomadicus]

I remember when he was making the news helping people kill themselves.

 

[RedwoodCoastChick]

I don't remember anyone remembering Soylent Green?

I was an extra in that movie!

One of the "degenerates" roaming the streets... My psych professor worked out a deal with the studio where his students could be extras and their pay went to help fund the campus psych clinic. It was great fun - for a day or two, which was the deal our prof arranged. [The experience also made it clear to us that none of us ever wanted a career as a movie extra, standing around waiting & waiting, talking to the professional extras about what it was like in their line of work.]

"Makeup" was dirt & Vaseline so we'd look unwashed & sweaty, we had sandals made of pieces of tire tread & rope, ragged clothes. We had no idea what the film was about, just that our "co-stars" were Charlton Heston & Edward G. Robinson (never laid eyes on them during our crowd scenes), it was a science fiction apocalypse-type story and we were the miserable masses. Found out later it was based on the novel "Make room, Make Room" - loosely. I could see myself in tiny glimpses in a couple scenes among the milling wretches...

 

[Brooks_]

I don't remember anyone remembering Soylent Green?

Yes, a real product.

 

[theoldchick]

 

[theoldchick]

 

[chrissynemetz]

I was an extra in that movie!

One of the "degenerates" roaming the streets... My psych professor worked out a deal with the studio where his students could be extras and their pay went to help fund the campus psych clinic. It was great fun - for a day or two, which was the deal our prof arranged. [The experience also made it clear to us that none of us ever wanted a career as a movie extra, standing around waiting & waiting, talking to the professional extras about what it was like in their line of work.]

"Makeup" was dirt & Vaseline so we'd look unwashed & sweaty, we had sandals made of pieces of tire tread & rope, ragged clothes. We had no idea what the film was about, just that our "co-stars" were Charlton Heston & Edward G. Robinson (never laid eyes on them during our crowd scenes), it was a science fiction apocalypse-type story and we were the miserable masses. Found out later it was based on the novel "Make room, Make Room" - loosely. I could see myself in tiny glimpses in a couple scenes among the milling wretches...

That is so cool!

 

[theoldchick]

 

[chrissynemetz]

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I've owned every item in this picture

 

[Nomadicus]

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For interesting factual reading, read the patent application for the original Slinky. Just the spring. Read that one before you consider applying for one.

 

[BDutch]

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I bet it was a wooden dog in your days. Such a pity they make almost everything in plastic nowadays.