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Old 12-16-2010, 09:57 AM   #1 (permalink)
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Way back when...

Post something from way back when...something was cool in your day.

reebok pumps were the in thing when i was a kid. all my favourite players wore them and i envied their skills because of course reebok pumps made them do what they do.

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Old 12-16-2010, 10:12 AM   #2 (permalink)
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...I thought the age difference between us was greater than it apparently is.

I never got into them, but POGs were pretty popular when I was in junior high.



Some of my friends and I would casually play Magic: The Gathering as well.

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Old 12-16-2010, 10:15 AM   #3 (permalink)
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I'm pretty sure these were issued to kids when I was growing up.

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Old 12-16-2010, 10:27 AM   #4 (permalink)
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Who could forget these lovely things?



and clackers were cool. Or they were, until safety advocates starting popping up.

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Old 12-16-2010, 11:14 AM   #5 (permalink)
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bell bottoms


Dr. Scholls sandals


toe socks


maxis


platform sandals


---------- Post added at 02:14 PM ---------- Previous post was at 02:12 PM ----------

Annie Hall

(a look I still draw on to this day)
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Old 12-16-2010, 11:40 AM   #6 (permalink)
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Who could forget these lovely things?

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and clackers were cool. Or they were, until safety advocates starting popping up.

I remember clackers. I had a solid red coloured set. Extremely annoying for those who were using them. As dangerous as a pair of nun-chucks.

I found a clip of them in use:

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Old 12-16-2010, 11:42 AM   #7 (permalink)
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and I can't find a picture of these flip-flops on the internet...we called them deckies, I think. but everyone wore these in New Smyrna.
I was also particularly enamored of this type of sundress at the time.
this is me circa 1977 or so.

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Old 12-16-2010, 11:48 AM   #8 (permalink)
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- very cute MM!

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Okay, here's something that was all the gear when I was in high school: everybody had an Adidas sport bag. Carried everything from your lunch & books to your running shoes or bathing suit.




Nobody had backpacks. if you didn't have an Adidas bag, you pretty well carried your stuff loose.
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Old 12-16-2010, 11:50 AM   #9 (permalink)
 
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these folk became cool once i figured out the whole irony thing.
plus they're great.


this helped my high school brain


and this helped the lower regions

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Old 12-16-2010, 12:19 PM   #10 (permalink)
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When I got over these....




I got into these....






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Old 12-16-2010, 12:24 PM   #11 (permalink)
 
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My microscope was the coolest thing. My 9 year old self danced with joy when I opened that gift.

I loved my Earth-shoes. They were dark brown & reminded me of polished buckeyes.
I spent a lot of time gazing down at them during math class.
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Old 12-16-2010, 12:44 PM   #12 (permalink)
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I wanted them all, but we couldn't afford them all. Which is to say, I had chewy, my brother had Han. I had Vader, my brother had Luke, etc. I remember thinking that only rich people could afford a Millenium Falcon:
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Old 12-16-2010, 01:57 PM   #13 (permalink)
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Some of the coolest things to have were Ninja Throwing Stars in the early 1980's. I was able to buy them via mail order from the back of martial arts magazines when I was in the 6th grade.
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Old 12-16-2010, 04:21 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Woah! Everybody had one of these in grade 8 and you'd use them until the handles wore out.

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Okay, here's something that was all the gear when I was in high school: everybody had an Adidas sport bag. Carried everything from your lunch & books to your running shoes or bathing suit.



Nobody had backpacks. if you didn't have an Adidas bag, you pretty well carried your stuff loose.
Going back a bit further... Big Jim ruled!





And the Planet of the Apes Treehouse! I loved this thing.



And of course... Star Trek (I didn't own this but my best friend did). The teleporter was the coolest.

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Old 12-16-2010, 05:12 PM   #15 (permalink)
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A must have...



You also had to have an album to put these in...



She was about the coolest thing ever, and the ONLY reason I've ever eaten a Wheatie



And all the cool kids "smoked" these...

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Old 12-16-2010, 05:59 PM   #16 (permalink)
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When I was in high school all the cool kids were rocking these...



Jnco jeans
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Old 12-16-2010, 05:59 PM   #17 (permalink)
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Along with the Trapper Keeper you had to have the other sticker world of Lisa Frank

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Old 12-16-2010, 06:24 PM   #18 (permalink)
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anyone remember Wacky Packs?





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Jnco jeans, sticker albums, Lisa Frank...these are things my kids had. argh.
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Old 12-17-2010, 12:20 AM   #19 (permalink)
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memories....... spent countless hours upon hours playing this stuff.

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Old 12-17-2010, 01:47 AM   #20 (permalink)
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Old 12-17-2010, 05:24 AM   #21 (permalink)
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That shit was fo' real, dlish.
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Old 12-17-2010, 08:09 AM   #22 (permalink)
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Fond memories of the hot plastic smell.



My microscope was the coolest thing. My 9 year old self danced with joy when I opened that gift.

I loved my Earth-shoes. They were dark brown & reminded me of polished buckeyes.
I spent a lot of time gazing down at them during math class.
This reminded me of this. This was a toy for boys but I soooo wanted to play with my brother's. Ahhhh technology. It was a Thingmaker. Creepy Crawlers would have been my Thing of choice.

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Old 12-17-2010, 08:16 AM   #23 (permalink)
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Oh, Trapper Keepers. I remember mine, it was purple with bright pink neon-tubing hearts all over it.

I also remember jelly bracelets, jelly shoes, and garbage pail kids.
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Old 12-17-2010, 10:13 AM   #24 (permalink)
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I still remember that the school supply lists we had expressly said "NO TRAPPER KEEPERS". I had one anyway, for keeping my stuff at home together.

I loved (and still do love) anything with Hello Kitty on it. I had pencils, pencil case, stickers, erasers, and now I have pencils, and a SIGG water bottle with her on it:

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Old 12-17-2010, 10:25 AM   #25 (permalink)
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That shit was fo' real, dlish.
damn right..what about kung fu master on the Atari 2600?

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Old 12-17-2010, 10:27 AM   #26 (permalink)
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Atari 7800 is where it's at, and it's backwards compatible!

I remember Trapper Keepers, but I never had one and can't for the life of me figure out why they wouldn't be allowed.
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Old 12-17-2010, 11:04 AM   #27 (permalink)
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Well, in the early years of elementary school, a Peechee sufficed for carrying school work to and from school.



A Trapper Keeper took up too much room in the primary school desk, made noise when it was opened, and in later elementary school, proved to be too small for the amount of loose-leaf notebook paper teachers wanted us to have on hand.
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Old 12-17-2010, 11:48 AM   #28 (permalink)
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that looks pretty retro Snowy, I doubt that you're that old!
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Old 12-17-2010, 01:44 PM   #29 (permalink)
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HA! I love this thread.

I wore these in the early 80's and then again in the late 90's, They came back.


I believe Jr High was when it was cool to tight roll your jeans


It was cool to wear your Eastland shoes with your tight rolled jeans.


I also had a period where I got a "Rachel" Hair Cut, but never styled it right:


I was totally Angela from My So Called Life, She (and I) dressed like this at first:


Then started dressing like this:


I even had that exact same plaid, flannel dress. I wanted to dye my hair the same color, but my mom wouldn't let me.
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Old 12-17-2010, 02:01 PM   #30 (permalink)
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anyone remember Wacky Packs?


I remember those...had a shoe box full of them...parents thought I was nuts spending money on them...


How about these.....

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Old 12-17-2010, 02:14 PM   #31 (permalink)
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I wanted to dye my hair the same color, but my mom wouldn't let me.
My mom did let me :P

And I wasn't allowed to wear jelly shoes after I tripped and fell one too many times. Mom got tired of bandaging me up, so the jelly shoes went into the garbage.
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Old 12-17-2010, 03:32 PM   #32 (permalink)
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ok, b(o)(o)bby, bring it on!!!
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Old 12-17-2010, 05:11 PM   #33 (permalink)
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Balloon in a tube. Apparently you can still buy these online.

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Old 12-18-2010, 03:45 AM   #37 (permalink)
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Qix was awesome. Do you remember Tempest?




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Old 12-18-2010, 04:06 AM   #38 (permalink)
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Tempest was the ONLY game I played at arcades. Many many quarters were lost to that particular addiction. I would skip lectures to head downtown to the "The Wizard" arcade hoping that there was nobody on the game. Most likely there wasn't because it was just too frustrating for most people.

I've tried to play emulated versions on the PC, but it isn't the same as having the upright unit that you can stand i front and spin the big metal knob, and slam the red button.
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Tempest was the ONLY game I played at arcades. Many many quarters were lost to that particular addiction. I would skip lectures to head downtown to the "The Wizard" arcade hoping that there was nobody on the game. Most likely there wasn't because it was just too frustrating for most people.

I've tried to play emulated versions on the PC, but it isn't the same as having the upright unit that you can stand i front and spin the big metal knob, and slam the red button.
I had a girlfriend who was awesome at Tempest. She would stand there for hours, crowds would gather around to watch her. Those piercing, screechy, crunchy sounds are embedded in my memory forever. She was good at all video games. She particularly loved Tempest, though.
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