Do You Remember "goldenrod" Tablets From Childhood?

[Demos]

'Goldenrod' didn't turn up anything useful in the Paper subforum so I'll request your indulgence here. I learned to (s)crawl on these damn things in elementary school in the early to mid 60's and now it seems their very existence has been virtually scrubbed from the worldwide web's vast collective memory. The sum total of my googlings amounts to nothing more than a handful of mentions in short stories, obscure memoirs, and defunct blogs. An image search returns exactly zero results. You may think I've been sniffing too much ink, and even I begin to doubt my own being when I encounter so much difficulty in unearthing my past, but I insist they are real (or once were).

 

As this is as much a test of my sanity as it is of your patience I will for now forgo providing such sketchy details as I remember about this fugitive Goldenrod, blank slate of my youth. I don't want to influence your memories, I want your recollections pure; therefore in furtherance of this "scientific" exercise in nostalgia please also refrain from reading what others have written until you have posted whatever details you yourself may recollect. I will wait a decent interval then tell what I remember. I am most interested to find what others can confirm about this totem of my childhood.

Edited March 7, 2012 by Demos

[hardyb]

http://www.essences.com/vibration/may01/goldenrod.html

http://www.stpeterschoolnr.org/news.htm (look at supply list for grades 3 and 4)

Even inspired the naming of a singing group:

http://www.answers.com/topic/the-goldenrods

Edited March 7, 2012 by hardyb

[ziggy57]

I googled Goldenrod tablets out of nostalgia, too. They were used in the public schools I attended in and around Pittsburgh, PA in the 1940s-1950s. When I mentioned them to friends here in North Carolina, I was met with blank stares. No one had ever heard of them. I figured it was a Pittsburgh thing. I loved school and was always happy to go back in September (the day after Labor Day) and receive my supplies. I'm finding more and more that many things I remember from childhood no longer exist, including the schools I attended.