Remember when..............................

Cinnamon toothpicks! There are probably still some splinters somewhere in my digestive system from those dang things!

 

Heck yeah!

Anybody know where I can get a case of them?

 

Remember when losers put pieces of cardboard on their bicycle front forks with clothes pins so the spokes would rub against them?
Click, click, click, click,....yawn. To be really cool, you tied a balloon to the fork and folded it back into the spokes for a really cool Harley Davidson sound as the spokes rubbed against the balloon......chubb, chubb, chubb, chubb,.....

It lasted about 2 minutes until the balloon broke! Buy hey,....it sounded cool for 2 minutes!!!

 

Damn, this thread makes me feel old.

 

Yeesshhh... I still have fore arm bruises from those things.

Holy cow. These are some great memories.
- I still have my parents console stereo system (gutted to make a speaker system)
- I still have my Etch-A-Sketch

Ha ha. Already taken, but Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, Emergency 51, CHiPS

I remember going out with friends from neighboring blocks for a game of baseball on the street corners

Remember when Christmas actually started after Thanksgiving

Remember using the gravel portion of the street to make roads for hot wheels cars (maybe that was just the block I lived on)

Remember weeble wobbles

Remember Lego bricks and that it took thought before replicating anything within eyeballs view

Remember jacks

Remember when only doctors were basically the only profession that had anything resembling a pager

Remember Saturday morning cartoons (Bugs Bunny kicked tail! Never realized how much classical music and opera was there.)

Remember School House Rock (TV taught me a few things when it was on. I also remember when TV signed off at night and played the star spangled banner when signing on).

 

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Remember when skate boards had metal or big plastic wheels and was for transportation, and any 'tricks' was you actually falling on your *ss?

When you could read every number on the gas pump when filling a tank instead of this blur that stops at an obscene total?

Pinball machines had mechanical score counters that maxed out @ 99999 instead of today's umptenth million top scores? (related to gas pumps?)

The colored version of 'Space Invaders' was actually a sheet of plastic with horizontal colored stripes over the b/w monitor?

Going snow skiing in leather boots attached to the ski with springs? Afterwards, parents running the car so the exhaust heat would thaw the laces so you could untie the boots?

And my favorite memory: Remember that archaic 'imperial' or 'British' units of measurement before the US converted to the metric system? Ahhh, the good 'ol days...

 

Remember Whacky Packs

Remember Gladiator movies and Japanese Monster movies on Saturday Morning

Remember Ultra Man

Remember Tube Tops and Hip Huggers and the Girls that wore them.

Remember Swingers Magazines and sending naked polaroids throught the mail.

Remember optional seat belts in cars

Remember Aurora Monster models

Remember German Stoner rock = CAN
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Mad Pimp Style at the Disco. I used to a be a DJ at Maxims in Tysons Corner VA. Got fired for playing too much James Brown
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Programming a computer with punch cards.
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Plato's Retreat Good Times, Good Times
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Crew cuts. Skinny neckties (black) with white shirts, black slacks, and pocket protectors.

When a computer filled a gym.

The British Invasion. Girls screaming through "A Hard Day's Night".

Twiggy.

Dance Cards.

Remember slide rules?

Fireball XL-5. Space Angel.


Remember when unruly kids were actually expelled from school?
When "challenged" kids were "left back"?
When Johnny *COULD* read?


... and Morgul as the friendly drelb.
(Say goodnight gracie.)

And, for the younger crowd, the SSPHMMs: (Silver suited purple haired moon maids) --- "Interceptors, Immediate Launch!"
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Some old TV shows:

ADAM-12
Room 222
My Mother The Car
Gilligan's Island
Doby Gillis
The Huntley-Brinkley Report
American Bandstand
Gidget

Remember buying Mad Magazine when the new issues would come out?

How about Dr. Dimento on late night radio?

 

....and back in high school. every girl you wanted to de-virginize was wearing Dolphin Shorts!


Except in Yosemite where they were wearing deer hide........

 

Remember when Puppet shows were... COOL
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How about....

San Francisco riding gear jeans

Square knit ties

Pong

Candy stores with penny candy (that really only cost one cent!)

Making ramps out of whatever you could find to jump your bikes over

Playing street hockey or kickball IN THE STREET

Yelling "CAR" when a car was coming down the street and having to move the goal out of the way

Station wagons with rear windows that would roll down

Fighting over who got to ride in the "way back" so you could look at the other cars behind you

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Remember when Ike was a president, not a hurricane?

 

Speaking of which, do you remember the motocross king....

Bob HURRICANE Hannah?

 

Or..... "Hi, I'm Buster Brown, I live in a shoe; this is my dog Tag, he lives in there too!"

 

Remember Spectreman (Beware of Dr. Gori! [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORhApd4z6GI])

Remember The Space Giants

Remember rubber monsters in general.