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

[jerseygirl1]

A protractor....................do they still use them?

 

[darkstarr nite]

wow ... you are calling me young and I am 31 ...

 

[Scoop]

How about those bikes with banana seats?

 

[FortWorthChicks]

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We were in the car when my son was singing something about smurfs. So my husband and I started in talking about the smurfs.... it took him a while but my son finally asked "What is a smurf?" lol I rented a dvd and he loved it.

when the tx lotto started
TV shows,
hurricane Alicia
THE Cross your heart bra commercial!

 

[darkstarr nite]

Now I read through this thread and I remember most of those things .... I remember using tapes in high school ...

 

[jerseygirl1]

Does anyone remember when they sold lottery tickets from a vending machine???????? I mean, original lottery tickets///// 1970's................not the scratch offs

 

[jerseygirl1]

Remember when grocery stores delivered?

 

[Birch Run Farm]

I was 17 in 1980 and graduating high school. As a kid prior to that I had already grown up working several jobs (since the age of nine) and really did walk to elementary school or to an actual bus stop far from the home driveway from what was Junior High and beyond. School busses didn't stop at every driveway like they do now and most parents did not drive their kids to school or sit in the car driving their kids too and from the end of the driveway to the house like they do now. School was mostly reading, writing and 'rythmatic back in those days and most kids worked after school (or busted butt to get on sports teams) to go to college and/or pay for their cars. This was also the time period that hanging out at the mall was beginning and also when some kids (unfortunately) had everything handed to them. Most young adults were very independent back then. To most of us it was pretty funny to see 'sissies' or momma's boys, etc as we called them. Nowadays this appears to be the norm. No one can even ride a bicycle with out pads and helmets! One neighbor picks all of her kids up in an electric golf cart from the bus every day, they don't walk anywhere and you can tell.

I know several people from that time who STILL live at mom and dad's home. They are the ones who had it all provided to them!

No one had cell phones or computers and real stereos and albums were IN. Eighties music was so great and MTV and the music video was born! If kids didn't get along they fought hand and fist and no one shot each other, ever.

 

[Addictedtothebirds]

Kaboom cereal, tab soda, pop rocks and the show bozo the clown. Who didnt think they could stand at the line and throw that ball of paper in to each one of the cans to win those corny prizes.

 

[deb1]

That little yellow thing that you had to put in the holes of 45s.

The fact that you had to tape pennies to the arm of the record player in order to weight it down.

Someone mentioned Saturday Morning cartoon. Darn it. Cartoons were special back then. You didn't get to watch them all the time. There was no special children's cartoon channel. You had to wait until Saturday morning to watch your favorite cartoons.

Do they still sell weebles, those little plastic figurines that you couldn't knock over. The jinge went, "Weebles wobble but they don't fall down."