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

[fowltemptress]

At the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., there's a sculpture of a typewriter eraser. I was the only person in the group who knew what it was.

Just in case someone is curious what sculpture I'm talking about . . . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Typewriter_Eraser,_Scale_X.jpg

 

[Imp]

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Very cool, There's one in the outdoor sculpture park here in Seattle too. Wonder how that works. Who copied who?

http://www.seattleartmuseum.org/emu...ofile=objects&newvalues=1&newcurrentrecord=10

Imp

 

[KinderKorner]

Haha. I was born in 90's and I remember a lot of this stuff even then.

I loved my disney record, and my banana seat bike.

 

[chickensioux]

TV (3 channels and had to get up to adjust volume and change channel)
shows:
Fantastic Features
Gilligan's Island
Beverly Hillbillies
Bugs Bunny Hour
Beanie and Cecil
Ed Sullivan w/ Topo Gigio
Twilight Zone
Outer Limits just to name a few.

Toys:
yo yos
frisbees
clackers
tops
jump ropes
Mr. Machine
wishnicks
Liddle Kiddles
Breyer Horses

Summer memories:
Buried Treasures
Circular Popsicle Trucks
watermelon seed spitting contests
hopscotch

The Beatles
The Monkees
Carol Burnett
Sonny and Cher
Red Skelton

I could go on and on......

 

[debilorrah]

Lincoln logs
Bobby Sherman
David Essex

 

[wildorchid053]

egg beaters that you cranked. daughter is 31 and didn't know what it was lol....

felix the cat cartoon

hamburgers from the drive-in in a foil bag

wearing your jammies to the drive in

playing outside in the dark and not worring about anything bad happening

rain bird sprinklers

the bread man and the milk man deliveries

phone numbers were.. edgewood 66214 instead of numbers to start

camping at huntington beach before they got rid of all the trailers..

dating and riding in my hubbys 56' chevy

starting our car with out a key and just a push button

learning to drive my dads truck with stick shift on the column

baby moons for rims

cruising pasadena blvd after the highschool foot ball games

nehru jackets and polyester suits

 

[rebelcowboysnb]

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Nothing funnier than tossing a kid the keys to a 3 speed on the column.

 

[Illia]

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Come'on - I'm 19 and I remember all that. . . So really you're not that old.

 

[seminolewind]

You could eat at the counter at Woolworth's
Dark Shadows
Spirograph and Shenanigans and mousetrap
Walking to the supermarket because we only had 1 car
the first time school allowed us to wear pants-only on Fridays
Dark Shadows
elephant bells
ecology

to be continued......................

 

[Cloverleaf Farm]

Ok, lets elaborate on the banana seat bike...don't forget the streamers on the handle bars, and the baseball card on the spokes to make it sound "neat"!

On tv:
CHIPS
Of course Saturday morning cartoons
In Portland: Ramblin' Rod (my sister was a smile winner!)
Muppets (and having John Denver on it all the time!)
Fraggle Rock
Rainbow Brite


Tape recorders that took like 8 D batteries (my first tape was Eddie Rabbit!!)

Coming home when the street lights came on
candy cigarettes (that our babysitter would burn the ends of for us)
going to the store to buy cigarettes for mom with just a note saying it was ok
laying in the back window of the car
riding in the back of the truck (or in the horse trailer)
in '82 when we lived in WY, the store down the street had GIANT swirl ice cream cones for 10 cents! We ruined our dinners with those nearly every day!
Rob Lowe posters on my bedroom wall (Corey Haim in Lost Boys has the same one on his wall!!)