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

[algopurple]

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I still have the front page from our newspaper the day they torn down the wall.

Oh and does anyone remember :

shrinky dinks
jelly shoes
boom boxes

I had jelly shoes and a boom box that was HUGE!

Rainbow brites

She-rah (SP) and Heman

Ridding in the back of a pickup and dangling my legs off the tail gait.

Ridding on the tire fenders of any of the tractors my dad drove and sleeping on bean sacks in the fields while my dad planted.

 

[Dar]

Pee-Wee Herman

 

[turney31]

Coke-shows........Movie for 6-pack of returnable bottles.

 

[Gonzo]

walking and riding bikes everywhere! And drinking from the waterhose in the summer! oh, and PONG, and atari..

 

[Melissakins]

Leaving in the morning to go play and not coming home until you either heard your mom yell or you heard the whistle.

Reel to Reel players (Dad still has one of those)

AFRC places overseas (Armed Forces Recreation Center) open for Armed Forces guys/Gals and their families to relax in while on vacation

Playing in the bunkers in Hitlers General Walker Hotel (Hotel Platterhof) and not thinking anything of it.

Your friends parents sticking you in the corner along with their own kids when you all did something wrong.

Getting up at 0'dark hundred hours on the weekends to wait for Saturday morning cartoons (only day of the week they came on) and seeing an episode of Star Trek first.

AFN (overseas tv station) - only one in English other then the dubbed stations

Parachute pants

BMX bikes, no helmet, no pads, just you and whatever you had on.

Making jumps from scrap wood and jumping them - also falling off scraping knees and getting back on or you were a sissy.

Riding on the back of tractors and the big watering containers for livestock kept offsite

Pop Rocks

Glow in the dark anything

Neon clothing

Walking a couple miles to the bus stop even in winter/rain

Beta Max

Top Loading VCR's

when Cabbage Patch Dolls came out and how crazy mothers were trying to get them for their children

Blow up furniture for Barbie

Holly Hobbie

TV Dinners that you cooked in the oven

LOL

just a few things that stick out in my mind.....

 

[Penturner]

See if anyone has this one.
Buying day old chicks for a dime from the place one block down the street. Hatchery set right next door to a grocery store. This would have been 1967 or 68. Nobody questioning what two kids barely 7 years old are going to do with a couple of dollars worth of chicks. Parents did not wonder how we got the money to buy them, they knew we had earned it.
Still no grown up stepped in to tell us about brooders and such. They let us live and learn. I think kids where more important than chicks in those days.

 

[Slinkytoys]

The yellow sign with the red arrow is for Sunoco gas company. The tank used to have gauges for you to "dial" the octane you wanted in your gasoline. They weren't out west, mostly midwesten/eastern states.
Bull Durham tobacco in fabric bags with papers to roll your own cigarettes. Prince Albert in a can. Penny arcades with real games for pennies. Having to wear a hankie on your head if you weren't wearing a hat to church. Having the church bells call the parish to mass. Sidewalks made of real slate (faster to roller skate on) instead of rough concrete. Skateboards that didn't look a thing like the ones today (and you couldn't do all the things on them that you could today LOL)
Joker B/Leo bloodlines in Appaloosa horses.
Wistful sigh...............
Slinky

 

[2DogsFarm]

When not every house owned a TV set.
Those lucky enough to have a huge wooden-cased behemoth with a teeny (7"?) B&W screen invited everyone else over to watch Uncle Miltie Berle on Tuesday nights.
Later there was:
Hit Parade
What's My Line
Ted Mack's Amateur Hour

When did everyone get allergic to peanuts?
99.9% of schoolbox lunchboxes had PB&J and somehow we all lived.

Sinclair gasoline signs with the brontosaurus.
What was the gas company that had the red & white Pegasus-shaped signs?

 

[Monk]

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How true...

 

[calicokat]

I loved to watch "Family Affair", remember Buffy & Jody & Sissy. Uncle Bill and Mr. French. And the star of the show: Mrs. Beasley!!

For Christmas this year a local station ran some episodes of old shows - Petticoat Junction, Family Affair, etc. The family affair episode had Eve Plumb playing an ill class mate of Buffy's. Shock of all shock, she didn't get miraculously healed at the end of the show. And the kids cried over it. THat would never play in this day and age, LOL!