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Grasshopper Green 06-20-2006 03:12 PM

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Originally Posted by Apmle
Bill as I thought totally wrong on what those were.

Okay here is a few for MY generation. I saw a lot of people only knew a handful on the original list.

Kangeroos
Parachute pants
Transformers and Gobots
Atari
Aqua Net
Scooters (not those Razors they have today)
Windows V3.1
My Little Pony
Tape singles (music)
Acid/stoned/galaxy washed jeans
New Kids on The Block
Cell phones were only something rich people had
Beepers/ pagers
Super Tecmo Bowl (and at the arcade games only cost a quarter)
Garbage Pail Kids
Beta Movies
BA Baracus

This is my kind of list...don't forget the jelly bracelets, leg warmers, and oversized t-shirts with the sleeves rolled up. :D I remember 5 from the original.

abaya 06-22-2006 08:29 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by maleficent
1. Blackjack chewing gum
2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
14. 45 RPM records
16. Hi-fi's
18. Mimeograph paper
19. Blue flashbulbs
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins

If you remembered 11-15 Don't tell your age.

Wow, I didn't think I was THAT old... I'm not even 27 yet! :lol: (I remembered 12). I guess my parents were just old-fashioned, what can I say... and they refused to let go of the 70's, long after I was born. Not to mention we lived in the boondocks... (does that phrase date me as well?). :)

Average_Joe 06-23-2006 06:48 AM

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3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
15. S&H Green Stamps
16. Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with levers
18. Mimeograph paper
19. Blue flashbulbs
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
25. Wash tub wringers
16 of these at age 38.

troit 06-23-2006 09:19 AM

Amazingly enough I remember about 20 of them and I am not that old!?! ;)

My favorite - Mimeograph paper. You always knew when the teacher made copies in the morning before class because the room would have that smell. Nothing like making copies with a hand cranked machine...

maleficent 06-23-2006 09:52 AM

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Originally Posted by troit
My favorite - Mimeograph paper. You always knew when the teacher made copies in the morning before class because the room would have that smell. Nothing like making copies with a hand cranked machine...


there's a scene in the movie fast times at ridgemont high, where Mr Hand passes out a bunch of mimeographed pieces of paper to the class, and every single one of them sniffs the paper for the "high" that came with it ... :)

I remember that buzz when I was in grammar school when I was on detention for one reason or antoher, and making copies was one of my punishments :)

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Originally Posted by dd3953
215. S&H Green Stamps (but i am not sure how this counts, because they started them up again)

The last grocery store I shopped at, had them, but it wasnt the green stamps anymore - they were the green stamp points that you collected-- on line... The original green stamps used to be fun.. mom would hand us blank books, and a brown paper bag full of the stamps and let us go to town on a rainy afternoon...

dd3953 06-23-2006 09:52 AM

2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
13. Howdy Doody
15. S&H Green Stamps (but i am not sure how this counts, because they started them up again)
17. Metal ice trays with levers
23. Drive-ins
25. Wash tub wringers

so i guess i am getting there :D & i don't mind at all

Bill O'Rights 06-23-2006 10:37 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by maleficent
The original green stamps used to be fun.. mom would hand us blank books, and a brown paper bag full of the stamps and let us go to town on a rainy afternoon...

Oh yeah...I remember well those rainy afternoons, licking and sticking and licking and sticking and licking and...welll...you get the idea. Remember how "stiff" those redemption books got when they were filled? I remember it being so much fun...but for the life of me...I couldn't tell you why.

maleficent 06-23-2006 11:06 AM

it was like tom sawyer and the fence painting... :) i'm convinced...

loquitur 07-03-2006 07:25 PM

2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
6. Home milk delivery in glass bottles with cardboard stoppers
9. P.F. Flyers
11. Telephone numbers with a word prefix (Olive - 6933)
12. Peashooters
14. 45 RPM records
15. S&H Green Stamps
16. Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with levers
18. Mimeograph paper
19. Blue flashbulbs
20. Beanie and Cecil
21. Roller skate keys
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins
24. Studebakers
25. Wash tub wringers

Yikes, I remember 20. I must be decrepit as all hell.
So how come I always have an erection?

mokle 07-03-2006 10:00 PM

i remember 8 on the original list.

A few of the others listed too...

"a dab will do ya"

oracle2380 07-06-2006 12:04 PM

2. Wax Coke-shaped bottles with colored sugar water
3. Candy cigarettes
4. Soda pop machines that dispensed bottles
5. Coffee shops with tableside jukeboxes
9. P.F. Flyers
12. Peashooters
13. Howdy Doody
14. 45 RPM records
16. Hi-fi's
17. Metal ice trays with levers
18. Mimeograph paper
19. Blue flashbulbs
22. Cork popguns
23. Drive-ins

How about these:

Bannana Man/Danger Mouse
Penny Racers
You Can't do that on Television
Kids Incorporated
Simon and Simon
The A Team
M.A.S.H.
Fraggle Rock
Dr Who

Grancey 07-07-2006 10:07 AM

Ahhh.... I still have my Puffinstuff and Bugaloos lunch boxes.
"The Bugaloos, the Bugaloos, they're in the air and everywhere....."

I also ate Space Food Sticks on a regular basis - chocolate and peanut butter.
I had my purple Banana bike until a few years ago.
James at 15...Land of the Lost...

those were the days....but I can't be old


those were the ones I used and shows I watched....
how many I remember................. a lot

queedo 07-26-2006 09:24 PM

I got 19, I guess I'm older than dirt

krwlz 07-28-2006 02:49 PM

Wasnt Land of the Lost a cartoon about dinosaurs? If so, even at 21, I remember that one. I know of a lot of the others, but have never seen them.

EDIT: And M.A.S.H. is immortal... That was too great to ever die, or stop being appreciated... I hope anyway, lol.

maleficent 07-28-2006 03:03 PM

Land of the Lost was a live action show- with a blonde haired girl in pigtails..and her older brother who was kind of a greg brady wannabe...(in his johnny bravo stage) the two kids, with their archaeologist father were on a routine expedition and an earthquake hit.. and chaos ensued weekly..

Bill O'Rights 07-28-2006 08:43 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by maleficent
...with a blonde haired girl in pigtails...

I had such a crush on Kathy Coleman. :love:

Johnny Bravo...O M G. My brain had selectively lost that bid of Brady Bunch memory. And...for very good reason.

flat5 08-12-2006 09:25 AM

Things I remember as a child.

78 record recorder.
Malt shops
spud guns
Book of Knowledge encyclopedia
flying wing
crystal sets
Jerrold McBoing Boing
Mickey Mouse Club
Oscar Lavant Show
Dean & Jerry
BC348
11W4096 (CB)
W6CPR (first ham licence)

that's enough


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