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

[Reinbeau]

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So could I - Eddy, kiss me goodnight!

Actually, upon review of your list, I don't think Frisbees were around when I was little, nor klackers, they came just a bit later, when I was around eleven. Oh, and chinese jumpropes!

 

[Monk]

Milk Man, milk box on the porch.

Sundays, Wild Kingdom, Disney's Wonderful World and penny candy...


Also the straight six. So simple, you could understand everything, see everything, get to everything and even fix everything!

 

[backdoorchicken]

going outside
wearing clothes that fit
work
having to memorize phone numbers
having a tv with only 4 channels

 

[Reinbeau]

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Fix everything while sitting inside of the engine compartment, practically!

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Only having to dial five numbers to call someone in town.

 

[kcsunshine]

I still remember our phone # when I was a kid - 410R4.
Rolling Store would came by and we bought flour, cornmeal, coffee, thread for sewing....
You could leave 2 eggs in the mailbox and the carrier would put a stamp on your letter
Mom cooked on a wood stove and washed clothes in a ringer washing machine -
Grandmother heated her water in a black iron pot outside to put in her washer. And had a dipper to drink water that you hand-pumped from the cistern. -
Grandfather had a mill and hooked his John Deere up to it with a long belt and ground corn for meal. He could also hook up the tractor to a huge round saw blade and saw boards from big logs.
See you all don't know OLD!

 

[herfrds]

Cigarettes in a vending machine.
Getting the Atari video game and playing it on a black and white TV.
Walking to school.
Walking to the movie theater for the summer movie specials.
Walking to your friends house.
Hide and seek outside at night.

This is a little later but watching the first space shuttle go up on a little portable TV set in the front of my parents car.

saturday morning cartoons with Bugs Bunny, the Roadrunner and Wil E Coyote, Fog Horn Leghorn, Porky Pig and many more.

 

[lorrir]

Rotary telephones that sat at a desk or table on a two foot cord.

 

[chickenvirgin]

Northstar runners and the little ceramic figures of animals in Red Rose tea.

 

[EweSheep]

Disco music was popular those days

Shirts unbuttoned almost all the way to their navels, add a few gold necklaces to complete the look!

Hoola hoops

Those plastic tubes that makes a droning sound when you swing into a circular motion.

Anything "Space" foods was the craze. Candy Rocks was one of those. Tang OJ.

saddle shoes

paisley prints and wild colored plaids clothes, mostly polyster

Cotton tube socks with blue or red stripes on top, goes past knee high

Headband tubes

Cotton sneakers

Good Times, CHIPS, Little House on the Prarie, Gunsmoke

Home styled perms, no cure for frizzled hairdos

plastic model toys or figurines (remember the see thru human figures and horse figures?)

weaving your own potholders

cabinet stereo/record player, a size of a sofa with big speakers, made of solid oak....that thing lasted a very long time.

hamsters were the popular pets

our only clock was the Black Forest German made Cuckoo clock (my parents still have it and still runs)

paper mache

colorful beads hanging from doorway

hot pink, yellow, white, black flowers for wall paper (yuck, why did I pick that color!)

Mc D had Grimace, and Burgerlar and fries were fried in animal fat.

 

[Penturner]

Bell Telephone,
Returning pop bottles to the store or the rack next to the soda machine.
Recording music meant pushing the record button at the right moment while the song played on the radio. Spent many a Saturday trying to record the top 20.
Of course that was back when music was still good enough to spend that sort of time on.
Parents knew the difference between playing and reality and didn't mind you playing with a plastic gun. maybe that is what happened to Imagination.