Things you remember but that most young folks never heard of. Pre 1980

[Chicken Chaperone]

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Minnie Pearl!!! Nurse Goodbody!!!

There aren't too many things that're funnier than a woman with the price tag still hangin' off her bonnet or Sunday hat! lol!!!
If you want to talk corny then I've got the worst tv show ever- anyone remember Benny Hill and the song 'Yackity Sax'?

Now that was bad with a capital b!

 

[EweSheep]

Saving pop tabs to make a mile long metal string LOL!

Taking metal pop bottle covers off with putting the bottle in a slot to remove it.....kids nowadays thought you can twist it off and we had to show them where to pop the cover off LOL! The look on their faces were priceless!

The sizes of those glass pop bottles were SMALLER and yep I think it was something like five cents a carton return and we buy about six to eight cartons of pop each time we went to the store.

The price stickers were found on items, not bar coded.

No electronic eye for scannning bar codes, just press the buttons on the amount and the counter would ring the amount up electronically or you hand crank it. Same for table calculaters that were not electric.

Cash and personal checks were used. I do not remember seeing credit cards being used. If you didn't have the money at that time, you had an "account" with the store.

Veggie and flower seeds were put into big wooden boxes with labels. All of it is weighed oz per price. If it didn't grow, you get a free packet of seeds that replaced the ones it didn't grow. No receipts were needed to return items...the owner knows people and honesty was the best policy.

Bike racks were common place and you ride to school on bikes.

Soul Train was a popular show to watch.

Dim buttons on floor of your vechicles.

 

[Amyable]

The Red Green Show
Muppets Tonight
Cabbage Patch Kids
Riding our bikes on the road without helmets, pads, or adults
Making chains out of gum wrappers
Chinese handcuffs
When cartoons were actually worth watching
Movie tickets under $4

Oh, and PushUp ice cream treats and making your mouth explode with Pop Rocks and soda!

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

I was born in 1986...I remember most of these things?

 

[EweSheep]

Three speed bikes

S and H green stamps

Erector set

GI Joe

Smokey the Bear

Miss Beasley dolls

brown square granny glasses

Scarves of all colors

floor lamps

Bicennential postal stamps

anything of 1776

Centennial series and Shogun movie

Alice

All in the Family

Family Classics (on Sundays)

OM hot dog whistle and commercial

Charmain toliet paper

Markers that make you "high" on those fumes

Xerox machines, two level in front to insert paper to copy and it will spit out a copy at the end.

Lava lamps

 

[Reinbeau]

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There's no way you remember my list - I was born in 1956.

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

So was my dad!

He kept most of the things he grew up with...

 

[HorseFeathers]

Oh my... I feel very small right now...

-HorseFeathers, a child of the 90's

 

[rodriguezpoultry]

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Manual typewriters!! Round screen black and white TVs. Finned cars. Drive-in movies. Playing jacks.

Is this your list?

I still have a typewriter, my dad has a round black and white screened TV, he has a 1948 Chevy, but that doesn't have fins...we have lots of car shows around here!

I played jacks when I was younger...with the metal jacks, not the rubbery ones. We had a drive-in theater in my hometown until the mini-storage units paved it over. There's still a drive-in theater in Fayetteville, AR and one in Tulsa, OK.

 

[wegotchickens]

Watching Abbott & Costello after saturday morning cartoons. Bob Hope & Bing Crosby, or Dean Martin & Jerry Lewis (when he was skinny & funny) movies.
The Scarlett Pimpernell movie and the Bugs Bunny opera cartoon.

3 Stooges
Laurel & Hardy.


My kids mock me for calling then "Magic Markers" but I remember when markers DID seem magical!! All we'd had were crayons or pencils!!