Who Remembers....
 

A few nights ago on the radio the DJ was talking about an event that occured in 1983. The Cabbage Patch Kid doll. I remember my mother almost getting beat up trying to get one of those studid dolls for my sister.

I was thinking about all kinds of forgotten little memories, so who remembers......

Tough Skin Pants????:D

What do you remember that might help us to rember something we havent thought about for years???

You know what I haven't had in a while....Big League Chew

Ha ha. I found a place in SF that has some. At the end of Pier 39.

I can't find that stuff in grocery stores.

In the same league as hambone, I miss the Josta soda. I really liked that stuff!

I know that place. They have tons of throwback candy. Very interesting in there.

Now an obscure one:
Anyone remember this old TV show called Special Delivery? All I remember was some puppet guy with a big nose...or no nose...or something like that.
My parents told me I loved the stupid show.

I love Big League Chew! I remember playing baseball as a youngster and we all thought we were so cool because we had are chew like the big boys.

Who Remembers ....

Fat Albert???

hahaha family guy?

i remember garbage pail kids:D

the only thing i really remeber from the 80's were chuck taylors...everyone wanted them in all colors and styles, i guess its coming back, i went into a journeys shoe store and woah.

oh and acid washed jeans :-P

THANK YOU! :thumbsup:

Rubiks Cube, New Coke, Big Track, rock'em sock'em robots, Wacky Packs.....I could go on for hours :D

Stompers 4x4s.
Alvin and the Chipmunks.
Those two crash test dummies from the seatbelt commercials.
New Coke.

leg warmers.
Punky Brewster!
Who shot JR?

This is making me feel old.

I remember Teen Magazine, and pinning up the pictures on my wall (my mom hated when I did that)

I remember roller skates with 4 wheels.

Candy I remember: Charleston Chew (best when frozen), pixie stix, and gobstoppers.


*can I go off in the corner now and cry? or at least color my gray hair?

JEM!

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Don't forget the candy cigarettes that looked and tasted like chalk.

Don't cry sweetheart...I will always have your back on age, and you can never get older than me. :icare:

The '50's Micky Mouse Club anyone? Soupy Sales? Or a more recent zinger that Pan reminded me of today..."Plunk your magic twanger, Froggie".

candy cigarettes!! oh! I do remember those!

and Fun Dip! and Pop Rocks!

ooh, Fun Dip and Pop Rocks! My favorites! :D

Totally. There was a girl in my class who was always pinching her ear and talking to Synergy.

Buddy, I think that was chalk.

Who had a pair of LA Gear, with the million different colored laces. Mine were white, grey sparkly, and pink. I've heard they wern't cool on the coast, but here in Ohio they were the shiznet.

oh no he dident'
oh yes him did!

Abba Zabba ... ugghhh.
Wax Lips ... gross

what? did you say Billy fucking Idol, Jams, and fat laces?

dwayne wayne?

I LOVE Alvin and the Chipmunks. I am overwhelmed by nostalgia every Christmas when I hear The Chipmunk Song (Christmas Don't Be Late), as the cartoon was very popular in my youth.

I also remember that when I was very small I loved to get up for Mousercise every morning, and then watch all my favorite shows on Disney, like Dumbo's Flying Circus. The Disney thing was mostly because from age 2-5 that was the only channel we got besides HBO (which had Babar).

Snowy...we have much to talk about on Sunday. The Frickin' Chipmunks!? :lol:

I love Family Guy so much, I almost laughed so hard that I pissed myself because of this. Way to go.

How about... Crystal Pepsi, the clear Pepsi? While not that old (92-93), it was extremely short-lived.

Loved Soupy Sales. White Fang, the 'show me' board-show me a sweaty angry hobo and I'll show you a hot crossed bum.:D
Turkish Taffy?
Lemon Tootsie Pops?
Wax Lips?
Transistor pocket radios? That got FM?
Mary Janes? both the shoe and the candy
Lilt
The ORIGINAL hiphugger jeans
Bonnet hair dryers
Sun-in

Excellent!

- Curling long hair with orange juice cans. We slept on those nasty bastages. :)

Super bright colored Hair Scrunchies... I had them in every hot pink and hot purple color imaginable and color coded with my outfits :)

and the song....

"hey mickey you're so fine, you're so fine you blow my mind, hey mickey *clap clap* hey mickey".........

:D

sweetpea

Loved wax lips, although we weren't allowed to have them at school, evil bastards!

Sun in... turned my hair slightly orange, but i loved that stuff :D


sweetpea

Who remembers...
The Green Machine
The big Wheel

One of my best family friends recommended that to me when I was in middle school to help my hair out...but alas, my mother had no idea how to do it and it had most definitely gone out of style.

Now I rely on a fat-barrel curling iron and a straightening iron.

As for wax lips, I remember my dad bringing me home some from a conference one time when I was about 8. Seems so long ago.

I respect you, man... and I'm with you on the others...

New Coke?

I can feel my tongue rocking back and forth while weeping softly.

Banana bikes
The Night Gallery (Rod Serling after The Twilight Zone)
Space Food Sticks
Pet Rocks
Mood Rings
Whizzers
SST Racers
The "Goose" Pump (think Hot Wheels)
Space 1999
Melissa Gilbert...in pig tails.

Clackers.

Grancey still has hers. Does anybody else remember these weapons of mass destruction? They were two colored solid glass balls dangling from each end of a thin rope. You grabbed the rope in the middle and moved your hand up and down. The balls would then fly up and down and CLACK into each other above and below your wrist and you'd see how long you could keep it up. It sounded like a machine gun if you did it right.

Every kid in school at one point had horrible black-and-blue bruises all over their forearms from these little missiles, but the only reason they finally outlawed them was because the glass would eventually BREAK on you. Yikes!

How did we survive childhood? We're the same generation that played with Lawn Darts.....

It's called...natural selection. ;)

Something that, the more I look around me, I realize that maybe we shouldn'ta hadn'ta oughtnta messed with.

car hops on roller skates...my first Schwinn bicycle...sportswidow is right about the old age feeling that goes with these memories. I'm glad for them though.

Allrighty:

The show Kids Incorporated, Mini Pops albums, Big Wheels (turning them upside down and spinning the wheel to "make Popcorn", Green Machines, Crystal Gravy, Fast Ones....

One pop cultural icon that I'm surprised hasn't been revived, is Max Headroom. Not only was the tv show inspired, he was all over advertising and whatnot. Matt Frewer, the Canadian actor who played him is still around ,and if Alf can be brought back occasionally, surely there's a place for Max.

In fact, the more that I think about, there has been zero reference too him since he faded away. Of all the humour today that revolves around pop culture references, I can't recall a single wry nod to him. How odd.

Smurfs....I even had smurf bed sheets. They were my favorite by far. lol

Cabbage Patch: my parents couldn't afford a real one so somewhere they found a knock off and bought it. I still have it somewhere. hhmmm

Glow worms

its Slinky,

its Slinky,

a most remarkable toy.

Its fun for a girl or a boy.

Nothing like the sights and sounds of a Slinky easing down a flight of stairs. Never could master the turns in the stairway.

Oh man, that reminds me of a Pixie Stix story.

A few years ago we were over to my sisters place for vacation and went to one of the fun parks, with go karts and skee-ball and such. So here we ar playing these game and winning tickets. This was before babygirl so we had to find something to purchase with the tickets for ourselves at the end of the day.

We're looking around at the "prizes" they have to offer and we see the giant Pixie Stix. You know the ones that are three foot tall? We think to ourselves "Oh yeah, I remember those from when I was a kid"

So we get them and are walking out to the parking lot giggling like schoolkids. My brother-in-law decided not to get one, and we considered him a party pooper for not indulging in our childhood with us.

We snip off the ends and the three of us, my sister, my wife and myself all tip them back anticipating the greatness to which we remember.




Did you know those are pure sugar???:eek:


Well yeah, so did we. But we remembered them tasing a lot better.:lol:


My brother-in-law still reminds us of that incident to this day.

At least now everytime we go over there and win tickets, at least we have someone with us to use the tickets.

Hey, remember those little suction things that came in cereal boxes? Just little rubber bowl things that you pushed inside out and set on the table and then they would eventually pop up?

Didn't they have to get rid of those cause some kid sucked his eye out or something?

Oh yea...or, when my hair was really long, I'd wrap it around my head soaking wet, bobby pin it in place and go to sleep.

Remember:
Falls with their attached headbands?:lol:
Nehru jackets?
Indian gauze shirts?
Smock tops?
Corner sub shops? (instead of chain stores)
MacDonald's when it was a drive-up
Drive-in movies
Magilla Gorilla:lol:

My first 'adult' schwinn had chrome fenders, pink seat, rest was white. It was an automatic-no gears and no handbrakes-you stopped by pushing the pedal backward. God, I loved that bike!!

Somewhere my mom bought a bike like this. That's what I grew up riding until I was like 21. My two nieces and my sister were trying to ride it (not at the same time of course :lol: ) and could not figure out how to brake. My brother and I were saying "push back on the peddle". They were looking at us like we were nuts.

Really, really pushing back the wall of tv past. Crusader Rabbit anyone? I had an offical Crusadar Rabbit hat with the ears and everything.

Yogi Bear
Huckleberry Hound
Tom Terrific
Quick Draw McGraw
All wooden Tinkertoys
All wooden Lincon Logs in the really huge round box
Superman in black and white
Only having 3 tv channels
Cars without air conditioners
Phone numbers starting with two letters
Sputnik
Wondering what the hell a "Honda" was

Sitting at the airport watching planes come and go. Really, with my folks, we took a blanket and a picnic basket. We would lay on our backs on the hood of the car. Car hoods were actually made of stuff back in the day and our 58 Chevy hood was quite roomy.

No car seats, we would just stand in the middle of the front seat. Mom or Dad would catch us when they stopped the car.

Slide rules, and I can still operate one.
Captain Kangaroo
Bozo the clown
The Wonderful World of Disney every weekend, with Walt Disney himself.

My first bike seemed huge at the time. It had the big tank with headlights, full fenders, and a luggage rack. My dad was so excited! We took it out in the back yard and he was pushing me on it, of course he finally let go and I was biking. He did, however, forget the whole how to stop thing. I get to flying down a slight slope and, I'll never forget this, got scared so reached out and grabbed the fence. BAD plan! Got bonus ice cream out of the deal though. :D

Dr. Demento

You forgot Wally Gator and Snaglepuss. Ah, Hanna Barbera. What would my childhood've been without 'em.

Interesting thing about sliderules. We have 8 engineers on staff where I work. Not one of 'em know how to work a sliderule. True. Sad, but true

howard stern as a local ny dj when he was funny.

*holds up hand* I Do. I Do.

Remember the front plastic wheel would break and a big chunk would be missing and you would keep riding it anyways. Man you could do some serious 360s by slaming on the breaks and turning in those things. Lots of good memories with that toy.

Who remembers slime?
(kind you bought in a can at the store, and the kind on Double Dare)

back in my day, those hp programmable calculators that you can buy for 9.99 at target were several hundred dollars... slide rules were the cheap way to go and very efficient.

You and I could run that cartoon list for a while. Our engineers can't operate a slide rule either. I've shown mine to some of the younger engineers and they are just confused that we sent folks to the moon with them. Not a one could even figure out how to multiply using one!

If all the computers die, you young folks will all be at our mercy. BWAH HA HA HA!

Let's see:
Land of the Lost (Sleestacks! Chaka!)
Witchy-poo...I can't quite remember that show (something about a dragon?!? And a magic talking flute?), but I do remember an affiliated show about Sea Monsters and the son monster was actually nice...Grrr, what were those called? "Brothers" was in the title, I think.

The life-sized Barbie-doll head that you could put on her makeup and do her hair.

EZ-Bake Ovens! Loved those things, but my mom refused to buy the tiny brownie packets for the same price as a box of regular-sized mix ("But Mooooommmm! They taste so much better from the 'EZ-Bake oven!'" LOL)

Strawberry Shortcake dolls with that awful, plasticy strawberry and whatever scent.

Pop corn poppers

Lite Brite

I remember making innumerable pot holders with some kind of plastic "weaving" form and raggy strips of cloth--that you had to buy, ha!

Latch hook rugs

Spirograph!

Electronic Battleship--man, I was like a psychic on that thing, and was certain that eventually the Navy would recruit me for real-life ship hunting. Yup, always the egomaniac, but at least I was patriotic about it.

HR Puffnstuff!

etchasketch, trying to draw a circle or a curve was a sonofabitch.

Damn...beat me to it.
Tell me that whoever dreamt that one up wasn't on a bad trip. :D

I still have mine. All the paper inserts are shot, but I still have the "hard"ware.
I still have that, too. I'm sure that after 30 some odd years, the pens are dried up, though. :rolleyes:

I also still have my original etchasketch, and my original "Operation" game.

Who shot JR...
The Krystal Alexis catfight that ended up in the pool...

Kologne Kiddles? Anyone? I had gardenia. I still have the bottle.

I remember those... never had one though...

Growing up Skipper - barbie's sister that grew boobies
Dawn dolls
Baby Alive - the doll that shat

Rock 'em Sock 'em robots-- you could make the red robot's head fly off

Nerf anything

Dancerina.....she had a tiara on her head that you pushed to make her spin

Clackers.............. the dangerous ones that were banned

grape ape, captain cave man, jabber jaws, the jetsons, thunder cats, voltron, robotech, tranzor Z
skids (pants)
Z cavaricci (sp)
slouch socks that you had to wear 2 colors at a time and buy shoes 4 sizes too big so you could wear both pair, leg warmers
hyper color, she-ra and he-man, popples, rainbow bright, strawberry shortcake, skip-it, ewoks, my buddy and kid sister, teddy ruxpin, my little pony, puffalumps, pogo balls, my pet monster, care bears, pound puppies and purries....

shall I stop now or keep going???

Super ball
Silly putty
Smokey the Bear
Caps, good old rolls of red caps, sitting out on the porch on a slow afternoon with a roll of caps and a hammer.
Roy Rogers and Dale Evans
Popcicles from the ice cream truck
going barefoot allllllllllllll summer
Sha Na Na

Gobstoppers and Big League Chew can be found at QuikTrip, so anyone in KS, MO, OK, IL, IA, NE, GA, TX, or AZ can relive their childhood whenever they want. :P

How bout Suzy Snowflake, Hardrock, Coco & Joe, Garfield Goose - Ray Raynor.

Puffa Puffa Rice
Quisp vs Quake
Ah ah ee ee tookie tookie
Uh oh, Chongo!
Eep opp ork ah ah

I have in my basement, the toy from Mattel called "vacu-forms'. It was a machine with a handle that, when turned on, created a flow of hot air. You put a plastic square over a hard plastic mold ( it came with little molds like toy cars), pumped the handle and it'd suck the plastic sheet down over the mold and Ta-dah! you had a toy. It's still in its original box, has most of the forms, thenow- dried up paint bottles and probably a few sheets of plastic. The box says copyright 1964-I think we bought this a couple years after that.
I have a Chatty Cathy that still talks(but I got her a few years ago from an estate sale)
Remember the bar of floodlights your dad had to hold up while filming with his Super8 movie camera?:lol: All our home movies have us kids squinting:lol:

Wachu talkin bout Willice??

Speed Racer and the Mach 5

Pong

Atari

Colecovision

Slipe-n-slide???
I got some of the worst "road rash" in my life from one of those. Brilliant idea. Long ass strip of plastic wet down with the hose and run like the wind. I think a good slide a kid easily could hit about 130+mph, until ya hit the grass at the end.Ouch:lol:

De plane, de plane.

How about the crying indian for the anti-pollution commericals..

Voltron -- Greatest Ever

Thundercats -- Duh

You Can't Do That on Television -- SLIME!

as far as candy went.. I liked the Astro Pop thingies that always stuck to your teeth and if you bit too hard.. you couldn't open your mouth for 20 minutes. I used to put them in the sun and get them a little hot and give them to the kids I hated. Of course when they'd bite down.. I laughed and laughed as they cried because they couldn't open their mouths.

Q-bert
Pac-Man
Shrinky-Dinks!
Mad Libs
Zork--text based, ha!

Why am I not surprised?:lol:

Moose & Squirrel

Vincent Price advertising "Shrunken Heads" (you'd make a face in an apple dehydrate it down and it woulkd be a "shrunken head"

local TV movie hosts: The Ghoul, Big Chuck and Houlihan (now Big Chuck and li'l John), Superhost

Waking up Sunday mornings to watch old "Blondie"/ Abbot and Costello/ Martin and Lewis movies

Watching Roy Rogers and Charlie Chan films on Sunday mornings.

OMG OMG! *runs around the room squealing* I havent thought about that in years, and I wanted one desparately!

Wacky Wallwalkers!

I remember back when they actually put cool toys in the cereal box instead of making you collect a bunch of UPC codes and mailing them in. For awhile I used to eat HotWheels cereal not because it was good, but it came with a free HotWheels car.

Also Bonkers candy. I used to love that back in 84-85, then I couldn't find it anywhere for years. I stumbled across it in a convenience store in '93, and haven't found any since. I was feeling pretty nostalgic back in '93 when I foundit.

I had one as a kid.... used it once and it was just not as fun as it looked.

I remember those things. I never heard about the story about a kid sucking his eye out though. I do remember that they hurt pretty bad if you stuck them to yourself though.

Just a note on the candy cigarettes. Did you know they used to be called "candy cigarettes" until some time in the 1980s when they had to be changed to "candy sticks". Apparently the government were worried that they would be promoting smoking to children. Of course, the new name change didn't work. Most children know anyway that they are supposed to resemble cigarettes.

what about those annoying garfield suction cup thingies that you stuck to the rear window of your car... (thoughI swear I never did... :D )

I think I remember that. Wasn't it about this department store with a mannequin that came to life at night? He dressed like Rudy from Fat Albert.

I remember that. I loved that show. In the opening he would slide down the rail of the escalator. And there was that mouse that lived in the playhouse.

Holly Hobby!

Raggedy Ann and Andy

Yeah you guys got it!

:thumbsup:

old TV shows like:
Battle of the Network Stars (it was actually a special and I loved it as a kid)

James at 15 (then 16) starring Lance Kerwin

Class of '65 it would go through a person's life from graduation in '65 to the 10 year reunion

Quincy Jack Klugman being Jack Klugman only solving murders and deaths as a pathologist/coroner

Scientists have determined that "pussification" was created from the Big Bang that occured when Lance Kerwin and Robbie Benson collided.

Well...that's what I heard.

I bet that more than half of you, maybe three quarters, BOR excluded, don't know what any of these shows were about.

Route 66
77 Sunset Strip
Dark Shadows with Barnabas Collins
Queen for a day
Authur Godfrey
Art Linkletter
The Green Hornet, well that waaaaaasssss a little later.

:lol: scary thing is I liked both as actors. Add Scott Baio, Adam Rich and Ralph Macchio... and you'd have quite the movie.

Watched them all and even remember silly things like "Cookie, Cookie, lend me your comb", or "Kids say the funniest things." Heh ::shuffles out of the room::

Revokes your man card and schedules your castration soon...

Don't even tell me you were a James at 15 fan? Good gawd that crap was worse than Family? melodrama central...

scott baio? Ok - well maybe because of the babes that he banged but chachi was no actor... :D

Who remembers this guy
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or this guy
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or
http://www.grudge-match.com/Images/fatalbert.gif

What a fun thread. I forgot about a lot of that stuff.

I remember the cartoon Gummi Bears and they drank the juice that made them jump really fast away from the enemy. They used to make the juice and I remember being disappointed that I couldn't jump like them, but I'd pretend to anyway.

Then there were the Shirt Tales...I remember they were animals living in a park and their shirts were magic, but I can't remember what they used them for.

And there was a cartoon with a caboose and a moose named Montgomery. I have no idea what the cartoon was or what is was about, but a little piece of my brain is used to remember that much of it I guess.

Someone mentioned Kids Incorportated...and now that song is stuck in my head. Thanks :p I'm hearing a loop of 'KIDS Incorporated K-I-D-S yes!'..it's quite annoying..lol

Garbage Pail Kids were also some of my favorites...but my mom hated those cards and threw them away...even the stash I hid because I knew she hated them. :(

I also had rollerskates with the pom-poms on the toes. Yea, I was a dork, but they were cool back then. And the little flicker things on my bike that made noise when you rode. I sometimes used baseball cards, but my cousin tore them off when he got mad at me. He felt bad afterwards though and gave me his skateboard...so it was a decent deal I suppose. :)

Banana clips, side ponytails and those round plastic things with the bar in the middle that we girls used to thread our shirts through to crop them up a bit..... MEMORIES........

Creeple People.

Bop bags.

Chinese handcuffs.

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And this company:

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I can't believe nobody has mentioned hyper color Tshirts.

Beverly Hills Teens
Silverhawks
Ducktails

...because the gun that came with the caps NEVER worked longer than one or two pops.


We lived on a hill and put this thing down....Unfortunately there were a lot of trees at the bottom. No matter how centered we thought we had it, we'd always end up running into one. Good times, good times.

Caboodles
Banana seats
Rock tumbling kits

Who Remembers....

That feeling from getting a brand new 64 count box of Crayola crayons, with the sharpener on the back?

The smell of mimeograph paper?

Dick, Jane, Sally, Spot, Puff and Tim?

Handlebar streamers?

When you got a lollipop for sitting still at the barber?

When they would clean your windsheild, check your oil, and check the air pressure in your tires whenever you filled your gas tank?

The dark indigo, wear like iron, stiff as a damn board rigidness of a brand new pair of Sears Toughskins...every September?

The smell of a pile of burning leaves in the Autumn?

When going for "groceries" entailed 3 seperate stops...the butcher shop, the grocer, and the bakery?

Thats one of the first things that got me started on this thread...

BOR do you remember Buster Browns to go with those tough skins???:lol:

Buster Browns


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How about being thrown into piles or jumping into piles of leaves every autumn?

I remember that Cabbage Patch Craze!!
Was in my senior year of high school in 1983, working in retail.
KRAY-ZEE, nutty people. Clamoring over each other to get in possesion of those dolls.:eek: