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

Remember when peterS liked me............
remember ??????????????? piss off, old man.

 

Remember when there was a crew of us and we all got along and broke balls reallllllllllll good ?

 

Remember when you could let the kids out to play without worrying about Lamour pulling up in the van offering free rides to the "Candy Store".

 

Adam 12
Flipper
Petticoat Junction
Remember putting the light on the end of the CB antenna so it would light up every time you keyed the mic????

Green Acres
Rocky and Bullwinkle
Mighty Mouse
Crusader Rabbit
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strangers always have the best candy.

 

Rob even gave you your own lounge to hang out in.

 

Watching Hee Haw for the babes.

Riding in the back window shelf on vacation trips.

Ordering something from Sears at the catalog desk and waiting forever for it to arrive.

 

Flying:

Paper tickets for air travel -- an "e-ticket" was something that got you on the good rides at Disneyland (and there was only ONE Disneyland).

When you got to the airport, you handed them your ticket and walked across the tarmac to the plane. No security - no need!

Hot young stewardesses in mini-skirts or hot pants (my Dad would always ask the stewardess to retrieve his sport coat from the overhead shelves!).

And they were called "stewardesses", not "flight attendants".

 

That's so funny you say that.

My dad told me when he was in the army he got "stuck" sitting with the stewardesses on a flight once. And yes, he said they were attractive.

 

Dated one of those "clothes line" Hee Haw girls a couple of times way back when..........cool

 

Receiving Blue Chip stamps at the filling station engaged in a Gas War with the one across the street!!

 

I remember...

clothes shopping at Caldor.

watching two hours of Knight Rider and then two hours of the A-Team every saturday afternoon.

watching Kung Fu flicks on WPIX channel 11.

when disks were spelled with a 'k' and floppy disks were actually floppy.

Leisure Suit Larry.

my Texas Instruments 99 4/A computer.

playing catch and breaking windows.

Topps baseball cards with hard gum.

Garbage Pail Kids!

Herbie the Love Bug.

my first eight track player.

my first Walkman - no tape, just the radio!

buying cigarettes for $1.85.

tokens (before they had holes in them).

In Living Color.

Married with Children.

Tracy Ullman and the Simpsons before they were their own shows.

Rubles.

the Canadian one dollar bill when it was still in circulation.

Mr., Mrs, ma'am, sir, please, thank you and no elbows on the table.

Micro Machines.

driving my Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars through the dirt outside.

one-cent candy at the pharmacy - and pharmacies that weren't CVS or Walgreens.

candy stores.

televisions with 13-channel knobs that required turning via getting my ass up and walking over to the set.

Atari.

telephone booths.

those red fire and police towers on street corners - the ones with the buttons and the speakers, and you'd push the button and somehow be miraculously transferred to the police or the fire department.

the day my father told me I had to wear a seat belt.

marbles, Lincoln Logs, Erector Set.

Bazooka Joe.

the Soviet Union.

the color newspapers that the Daily News put out during Desert Storm.

the citizen band radio.

Thriller.

HBO on channel six.

Ocean Pacific.

seeing graffiti in the subway.

the '86 World Series.

 

I remember when shopping malls had that wonderful smell of pipe tobacco from the older gentlemen sitting on the benches as their wives shopped.

 

this thread started? Oh the good ol' days...

 

Hang Ten T shirts.......

 

AFX slot car racing sets.
Schwinn Sting Ray bicycles
Screaming Yellow Zonkers

 

Gemco!

 

Ocean Pacific (OP) was popular?

Remember those stupid hats with the flip up bill bicyclists wore?

 

That came later but yeah.

 

D'OH!

How about FEDCO or Whitefront?

Hmmm, Whitefront....now there's a name that wouldn't go over all that well in the new millennium!

 

I know. But it was like they replaced the Hang-Ten shirts.

 

Yes.. Fedco! My grandparents used to drag me to the one in North Hollywood.