On Sep 11, 11:51*pm, "Catmandy (Sheryl)" >
wrote:
> On Sep 11, 7:45*pm, Lou Decruss > wrote:
>
> > On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:29:21 -0500, Sqwertz >
> > wrote:
>
> > >On Sat, 11 Sep 2010 17:22:08 -0400, Tara wrote:
>
> > >> I remember diving submarines that were powered by baking soda.
>
> > >Alpha Bits had the best prizes. *They also had the terrariums.
>
> > You might be too young to remember the Archies 45's glued to the
> > inside of the boxes in the 60's. *I think it might have been honey
> > comb. *
>
> > Lou *
>
> I don't think it was the inside of the box. I think it was embedded in
> the actual box. I remember cutting the record out of the back of the
> box, leaving a giant hole in the back of the cereal box and getting
> into a heap of trouble for that!!!!! *The cardboard "record" did play
> on my sister's panasonic portable record-player/am/fm radio, but you
> needed to hold it down on the turntable with a quarter. You needed to
> tape a nickle to the arm of the record player to begin with... and it
> ruined her needle. *I got into a heap of trouble for that, too!!! *Not
> for using her record player. I was allowed to use her record player. I
> was probably 6 or 7 though, so I had no idea that a cardboard "record"
> cut from the back of a cereal box would ruin a record player needle.
>
> Don't remember if it was Honeycomb, Alphabits or Super Sugar Crisp. It
> was one of the Post cereals....

I remember those records. I had one by The Archies and one that was a
condensed version of the story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" I
remember having my mom buy Super Sugar Crisp just to get the record
off the back, and I hated Super Sugar Crisp. Never liked Froot Loops
either. But I liked Trix.
I still find prizes in cereal. I buy Corn Pops a lot and for a while
they were putting little toy cars in the boxes. They were the kind
where you roll the car backwards a little bit and then release it and
the car takes off. I would save them for my nephew. Another time
they had these big clunky plastic LCD wrist watches that actually
played games. I kept those.