ngdawg

And some things we did in the *ahem* 60's and 70's that are back:
Flare-legged jeans
Skinny jeans
ballet slipper shoes
The Sassoon cut (one side down over the ears, other side short, almost shaved)
oversized earrings
Bleached stripes in the hair (goes with the Sassoon cut)
Beads
Thick black eyeliner
Dark-rimmed nerdy glasses
crocheted bags
ponchos
Thick-tired bikes (now called 'beach cruisers')

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Grasshopper Green

I don't know if anyone has mentioned Shrinky Dinks, but they were one of my favorite things when I was a young child.

Anyone remember a show...I think it was called Greatest American Hero...it was with a young blond guy with curly hair and I think he wore a red suit...I watched it when I was really young and I loved it.

Drive-in movies. I remember being woken up after dark when I was about 4 and going to watch Superman 2 at the drive in.

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Gatorade Frost

Google Image Search - Sassoon Cut

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SugahBritches

"Haaaay, Haaaay, Haaaaay!!! It's FAT ALBERT!!!"



LMAO!!! I'm actually singing this too!

I've not read this whole thread so I'm probably repeating someone.

--Grape Nehi

When the bottled man brought our drinks and took the empty bottles back with him. There was actually DELIVERY!

--My mom's teased hair pieces

--Dressing up for the Florida Gator Games

--My Daisy Bee Bee Gun

--Putting tinfoil on the spokes of my banana seat bike (oh, I was soooo cool)

--Jiffy Popcorn

--HangTen

--Yahtzee

lindalove

Remember Puffalumps?!

They're back I guess, saw them at Target. Brought back memories!!

(unless they've been around for a while now and I'm just oblivious - I *think* they've been gone for a while and are just now coming back)

Carno

Ha, my sisters loved Puffalumps. I remember they had the pig and the elephant.

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mirevolver

I can't believe nobody brought up "Where's Waldo?" I spent whole days with that book.

As for Crystal Pepsi, here's the whole explination of the rise and fall of that drink. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crystal_Pepsi

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paulskinback

I had some HUGE LA Gears, we used to keep the licence plate tags on them that said "LA GEAR"! oh my god what were we doing?

I've still got a bottle of Crystal Pepsi

Remember Silly Putty?

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Intense1

After reading this thread, something has been just swishin' through my memory. Let me display my "age bracket" by starting this one:

(okay, hear the music begin to play) "Scanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of sports...."

Hope that is the beginning - I was very young when it was out.

Hee

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lindalove

How about Yardley by London Lemon Spray, Sun In, and Dippity Do setting gel?

guthmund

Shirt Tales! Their shirts expressed their emotions. The tiger (his name is Tyg; I had to look that up ) would take off running and leave his stripes behind.
I found the opening bit online here at Retrojunk. I also found out that Nancy Cartwright (the voice of Bart Simpson) played Kip Kangaroo

The moose named Montgomery was from the Get Along Gang. For Christmas one year, my sister got Dottie Dog and I got Montgomery Moose. I still have the doll although the clothes disappeared a while ago.

There's some good stuff in this thread... Voltron, Thundercats...
What about Silverhawks? Wuzzles?

Gummi Bears
bouncing here and there and everywhere
high adventure that's beyond compare
they are the Gummi Bears

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uncle phil

like, the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat?

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hunnychile

Troll Dolls of every size & every color of hair imaginable.
The Banana Splits on Saturday morning TV
The Flintstones on Thursday nights
The original Twilight Zone Show on TV....in black and white!
40 Inch bell bottom jeans...yikes!Drive-In Movie places where they had a swingset next to the snack bar. And sneaking in kids in the trunk of someones car.

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Lady Sage

Muppet show Tuesdays at 7pm

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sea hunt...

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Intense1

Did anyone else pinch off the orange Levi tags from their friends' blue jeans?

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hagatha

Clackers --invented in a time when it was still okay for an 8 year old to go to the store and buy smokes for their parents. And candy ones for themselves, Popeye cigarettes were my brand of choice.
Does anyone remember the show Circle of Fear? It was one of the most terrifying shows I watched as a kid.
And David Cassidy was all the rage with the girls....

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Leto

- clackers - nunchucks on string. In the winter they would shatter into pieces from the cold.

- Pop Rocks??? oh yes. My brother and I had loads of fun feeding those to our cat.

- David Cassidy, Peter Frampton & Bobby Sherman. All the girls liked 'em

TV shows (hopefully they havent been mentioned yet):

H. R. Puffnstuff
Rocket Robin Hood
Rocket Ship 7 (from Buffalo)
Space Ghost / Herculoids

Donny & Marie Osmand (I must say that I was a little bit country!)
Beachcombers
Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom (with Marlin Perkins i think)

The Gong Show (Jean Jean the Dancin' Machine!)
Fernwood 2Nite (Martin Mull)

Commercials:

my fav: the timex watch (for the Marlin) with the diver at Acapulco
- Resdan (dandruff control - with the black market guy in a trench coat selling it to Americans cause you could only buy it in Canada)
- Brylcream: a little dab will do ya
- what about the phrase: "the wet head is dead" ? for non greasy hair product


Toys:

MAJOR MAT MASON!
Smash Up Derby

AND....

Anything from K-Tel.

hunnychile

Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots!
Barbies little sister, Skipper. Barbies Dream House and her car...
The Monkees.
Wonder Woman, Linda Carter. Ahhh those power bracelets!
Black and White Saddle Shoes (their come back in 1969)
Ironing my girlfriends curly hair to be pin straight.
Pulling the hanger loops off the back of a cute guys button down shirt.

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Deltona Couple

Hmmm.. Not sure if anyone has mentioned all or any of these but...
Parachute pants? (think MC Hammer!)
Vanilla Ice (the singer)
the ORIGINAL Starwars collectables!
Creature from the Green Lagoon. (Filmed in Florida I think)
the ORIGINAL King Kong?
Charleston Chew?(candy)
The Blob (Movie)
Playdough!!!
Slinky!
The Blue Lagoon (I was SOOOO in love with Brooke Shields!!!)
The One-Eyed-one-horned-flying-purple-people-eater? (Song)

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Bill O'Rights

Jeezus, DC...when did you grow up? You covered references from about 6 different decades, spanning about 70 years.

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maleficent

That I remember only from the afternoon movie -- i think it used to be on about 4:00 on ABC 0 it was good afterschool watching - every week it'd be a different theme of movies.. sometimes Gidget - sometimes Horror movies - the blob was one of my favorites...

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JumpinJesus

Things I remember:

Monster Mash on KTVU channel 2 on Saturday afternoons.

The Chicago White Sox wearing shorts and big wide collars on their jerseys.

Watching "The Love Boat" and "Fantasy Island" on Saturday nights.

Going to see "Jaws" at the drive-in when I was 6 and trying to convince my cousin I was shivering because I was cold....in July....when it was 80 degrees out.

There were these things that let you make shrunken heads out of dried up, baked apples or something like that.

Weebuls Wobble but they don't fall down...

I remember when they used to put those square records on boxes of cereal that you could cut out and play on a record player (or were they inside the box?).

I had this Evel Knievel (sp?) dragster that you would attach to this box and pull on this cord thing. The dragster would take off and a parachute would open up on it. I crashed that thing a million times.

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Ustwo

Son of Svengoolie

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frogza

Cheerios commercials featuring a stick figure playing some sport, getting tired, eating cheerios and bouncing back to win. When he'd eat his cheerios you'd hear "Cheeri-iri-os"

My brother and I used to go into the back yard after Saturday morning cartoons when they'd play that commercial and try eating cheerios to make us run faster, we even tried shouting Cheeri-iri-os to see if that helped. It didn't.

thingstodo

Just come to Detroit. It's a favorite of our pitchers and now the fans!

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Fearless_Hyena

I'm more interested in who *doesn't* remember these

Wall-mounted rotary phones and the ringing sound they make?

Reach out and touch someone!

Gator Gum

Schoolhouse Rock

The Land of the Lost

And ever have a TV without a remote?

Jackebear

I can't believe the coller-up thing is back, you know on golf/polo shirts. The 80's called...they want their coller back.

How about the Bay City Rollers?? S, A, T,U,R, D,A,Y Night!

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Leto

Bracelets?? Oh yes, the bracelets. nudge nudge. Remember on American Dad (? I think ) when Superman flies up to WonderWoman while she is using the toilette on her invisible plane??? too funny.


Ditto with the collar up. So damned affected. I hated it back then, and was on the 'Coller turn Down patrol' to 'fix' this errant style. circa 1979 - 80.


That good 'ole rock n roll road show,
Saturday Night, Saturday Night,
keep on Dancing to the Heart and Soul of
Saturday Night, Saturday Night


"Pigeon toed - under growed flying purple people eater!"

Yes! I had K-Tel's 'Goofy Greats'. Chock full of one hit wonders (Guitar-zan, Alley Oop, Rockin Robin etc)

Also, in the 70's or '80's Nair did a commercial which used the Purple People Eater tune, or part of it for the "We wear Short Shorts" part.

Fremen

Ahhh, this is a thread after me own heart.

My earliest toy memories are of Army Men, Lincoln Logs, Candy Land, Sit-n-Spin, Pick-up Sticks, Jacks, Six-Million Dollar Man action figure, Evil Knievel action figure and wind-up motorcycle.
Also, Hula-hoops, and those lemon-looking things you put around your ankles and twirled them around yourself while skipping over them.

There were so-o-o many more toys, but it would take too long to list them.

TV shows: Saturday mornings were wonderful...and so many already mentioned...hmmm there was Shazaam, Bugs Bunny and the rest of the Looney Toons, Scooby Doo, Peabody and Sherman, Tennessee Tuxedo, Blue Falcon and Dyno-Mutt, Mighty Man and Yukk, Sigmund and the Sea-monsters, The Flintstones, The Bugaloos, Lost in Space, the Lost Saucer, Electra Woman and Dyna Girl, Laffalympics, Wacky Races, Inch High Private Eye, Secret Squirrel, The Banana Splits, and so on...

I used to love watching all of the Saturday afternoon Westerns, too.
The Lone Ranger, The Rifleman, Big Valley (Linda Evans, hubba-hubba), Rawhide, Bonanza, Branded, Hondo, then there was the Tarzan tv series, Batman, The Green Hornet, Kung Fu, Wild Kingdom, and the list goes on...

Sunday's were always started with Davey and Goliath, and some guy named Bill that read the funny-pages on tv and it was sponsored by the Ft. Worth Zoo.

Also, anybody remember the book series, The Three Investigators? Great set of children's books.

Great thread.

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MSD

a CVS in Miami Beach soid Big League Chew when I was there over the summer.

Anyone remember Love Potion 69, brainwash, and the other Skeleteens drinks?

I remember my dad telling me that Crystal Pepsi was just a marketing gimmick, it tasted the same as regular, and no, he would not spend more on it because it was the same thing.

I have a Cabbage Patch doll somewhere downstairs, I think it's in the cedar closet.

Bill O'Rights

Impressive. But you forgot one very important one.

Lancelot Link
Secret Chimp

And his sidekick Matta Hairy

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rjnjr

What about the Hippity Hop? I'm not sure how that toy made it through to my generation (although we did have Jarts, too , so ...) but we nearly broke our necks as kids trying to out-jump each other on that thing. I'm not sure what they were made of (recycled tires?) but they were tough - we used to bounce right through the doorway & out into the yard. Hours of fun. Days of recovering from the chafing.

+1 for The Three Investigators. Read them all. Good stuff.

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Fremen

I should be shot!

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Lizra

Ha ha! Yes...there were no blower dryers (till Sasoon ) I have curly hair and endured the orange juice cans coming out a ponytail that was on top of my head....till I discovered ironing my hair on the ironing board. Had to have that perfect "cheerleader flip"

Dippity do, hair tape, Happy Face face wash cream...that Bonne Bell ten-o-six lotion, Biba make-up, pot-o-gloss, how about those elastic belts that held the sanitary napkins in place...before some GENIUS figured out putting tape on them!
Bub's Daddy bubble gum, wearing a head scarf to keep your ears warm. I wish more little girls wore headscarves......

TV.......Dark Shadows, Where the Action Is, Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In....."WIN MARK LINDSEY'S LOVE BEADS" on the cover of every other Teen Magazine.....

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USMC6531

I do remember Drive-In movies. Used to go to the swap shop every Sat. night and watch something. ANd if it was no good I'd just change the radio station to the movie behind us and turn around and watch whatever else was on. What I miss is the $1 Movie theaters,

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noodle

I can remember sitting in the tree down the street with my friends "smoking" candy cigarettes... you blew in the end and "smoke" came out. We were cool.

And swinging on our original swingset that was metal and had to be put in the ground with concrete. You were really cool if you could make the entire thing rock. It only had two swings and a slide, connected by monkey bars.

I'm now singing the theme songs to KIDS Incorporated, Knight Rider, and the Slinky commercial... thanks.

Where are the My Little Ponies, Muncheechees, Snorks, original Fraggles? C'mon you guys.

I still have my Puffalump somewhere. And my parents' attic smells like Strawberry Shortcake dolls. It makes me laugh hysterically whenever we open it.
And my family used to go to Cleveland, Georgia to Babyland General when I was a kid and we were on vacation. Know what's "born" there? You can do it....

We actually watched Cabbage Patch Kids born right out of the cabbages in the "garden." It was awful, but we loved it then. I have one of the originals.

I remember te day that MTV started, wearing neon everything, riding cool in a Caprice Classic as big as a house, hiding the Beastie Boys from my parents, those little mice and animal people you played with in dollhouses (I was obsessed), inflatable Barbie furniture, the original Trivial Pursuit, Sweet Valley High books replacing Nancy Drew...

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What about Bubble-Up?

Xera

I'm still singing shot through the heart.

how about Pat Benetar and Olivia Newton John and the whole world wanted to Get Physical?

Who remembers Elvira hosting the Halloween shows? Hell for all I know she still might, but I haven't seen her in at least 10 years.

He-man, She-ra and shrinky dinks made the world go around.

I loved my yellow banana seat bike.

Buying our first microwave oven in 1981.

Moms feeling safe letting their kids, at 6,7 years old ride their bikes anywhere in the neighborhood, as long as we were "in yelling distance"

Oh what about those trick bikes? Seemed like every boy in the world, and about half the girls were doing some amazing gymnasitic tricks on those things for a while.

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cellophanedeity

I may be too young for this game. My memories include:

* The Beetlejuice cartoon
* The Ghostbusters on TV
* Zoodles
* Orbitz soft drink http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orbitz_(soft_drink)
* And a hundred thousand other things that, when I think about it, happened a decade ago.