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re: OT nostalgia thread - what do you remember growing up that's not common anymore?
Posted on 9/17/14 at 8:31 am to Spaceman Spiff
Posted on 9/17/14 at 8:31 am to Spaceman Spiff
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Kickball and dodgeball in elementary school
The really tall slides in elementary school
candy cigarettes
Choose your own adventure books
rotary telephones
TVs without remotes
Donkey Kong and Pac Man
Playing outside until dark
BB gun wars
The variety pack of cereals that came in little boxes - where you could just open the box/bag and pour the milk in
big league chew
cow tales (candy - one of my favorites)
100 grand candy bar
the little wax bottles that had flavored juice in them
lincoln logs
Sears Christmas catalogs
Just a few that I can remember...will add more later
Solid list. I do think Big League Chew is still around and my son and his buddies stay outside pretty much all the time until dark, although I agree it's not near as common as when we were kids.
Here's something else you use to see that's not around any more....
Nevermind the drink (I've never even heard of it). But look at the type of bottle. Remember when all 2&3 liter bottles had that black plastic bowl glued to their bottom?
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Posted on 9/17/14 at 8:34 am to papasmurf1269
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getting up to change the channel
My Dad had a remote as long as I can remember. It was myself or my brother sitting by the tv and changing it as he barked out orders
Posted on 9/17/14 at 8:40 am to htownjeep
I remember going down Florida Blvd in the 70's with my Dad having a beer sitting in one of these and it wasn't a big deal at all...didn't really even try to hide it back then from what I can remember.
Posted on 9/17/14 at 8:41 am to htownjeep
what about board games in general. Now a days kids don't really have an interest in them. I remember growing up we would play Scrabble, Mouse Trap, Don't Break The Ice, Kerplunk, etc. Now if it can't be played on a phone, it's not fun or interesting.
Posted on 9/17/14 at 8:41 am to Darth_Vader
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Remember when all 2&3 liter bottles had that black plastic bowl glued to their bottom?
Oh yes - all of them had that, didn't they?
I hadn't really paid attention to see if Big League Chew is still around.
My son, who is five, wants to be the Lone Ranger for Halloween... We were watching the oringal (b&w) one day and now he is hooked on it.
Posted on 9/17/14 at 8:42 am to htownjeep
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My Dad had a remote as long as I can remember. It was myself or my brother sitting by the tv and changing it as he barked out orders
I remember we got a TV with a remote around the start of the 80's. One thing we never did get though was cable. It just was not available way out in the country where we lived. Instead we had this...
To pick up ABC & NBC, you'd go outside and turn it facing one way. To get CBS and PBS, you'd turn it a different way. If there was nothing on those four channels you wanted to watch then you just had to find something else to do.
Posted on 9/17/14 at 8:43 am to Spaceman Spiff
Kids don't ride bikes like we used to in the 80's. There would be packs of us after school. We would put coke cans between the frame and the tire to make a loud whirring noise or clothespin playing cards in the spokes. Also had those little plastic colored things on the spokes that would slide around as you rode.
Posted on 9/17/14 at 8:43 am to USAF Hart
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what about board games in general
Posted on 9/17/14 at 8:45 am to Spaceman Spiff
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I hadn't really paid attention to see if Big League Chew is still around.
Anybody else remember Bubble Burgers?
Posted on 9/17/14 at 8:47 am to Darth_Vader
One of my favorite toys from when I was growing up was a little WWII pacific island playset where you could launch an airplane (mine had a Corsair) with a rubber band. Man would that thing fly! For the life of me, I can't remember what that thing was called. I would love to find one somewhere.
Posted on 9/17/14 at 8:48 am to Methuselah
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Sets of Encyclopedia Britanica or World Book in peoples houses.
had em
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Playing tackle games like British Bulldog and tackle football at recess at school.
did that, even though we weren't suppose too
video rental places
telephones
99 cent/gallon gas
Posted on 9/17/14 at 8:49 am to Spaceman Spiff
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One of my favorite toys from when I was growing up was a little WWII pacific island playset where you could launch an airplane (mine had a Corsair) with a rubber band. Man would that thing fly! For the life of me, I can't remember what that thing was called. I would love to find one somewhere.
I remember having something similar where you'd launch a airplane via rubber bands. Seems like the launcher was handheld though. I have no idea what it was called.
Posted on 9/17/14 at 8:49 am to Spaceman Spiff
in the summer my mom would basically lock me and my brothers out the house so what did you do to get a drink?
Posted on 9/17/14 at 8:50 am to CroakaBait
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He went all Adrian Peterson on me for that stunt.
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Apparently there were some valuable Beatles records mixed in there.
I literally laughed out loud and blew coffee on my desk...good Lord that's funny.
Posted on 9/17/14 at 8:52 am to htownjeep
here are some things that I found pictures of:
My all time favorite game ever (Nolan Ryan Strike Zone):
Crossfire Board Game:
Bubble Tape:
Warheads:
My all time favorite game ever (Nolan Ryan Strike Zone):
Crossfire Board Game:
Bubble Tape:
Warheads:
Posted on 9/17/14 at 8:54 am to Methuselah
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- Sets of Encyclopedia Britanica or World Book in peoples houses. - Banana seats on bicycles. - Playing tackle games like British Bulldog and tackle football at recess at school. - Getting tests and assignments at at school with purple ink from a mimeograph machine. - Comic book spin racks at the drug store or department store where you could get comics for a quarter. - Shrimp boxes in the river when you could actually eat what came out of it.
Add rotary dial phones
Being the remote for my Dad. Changing the channels with the knob on the TV, and getting bitched at if I spun it too fast.
purple ink from a mimeograph mmmm I can still smell it.
This post was edited on 9/17/14 at 9:01 am
Posted on 9/17/14 at 8:56 am to crash1211
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school with purple ink from a mimeograph mmmm I can still smell them
Yeah, I remember that well. Shite would get on you if you weren't careful. I think that smell will stick with me forever.
Posted on 9/17/14 at 8:59 am to crash1211
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school with purple ink from a mimeograph mmmm I can still smell them.
I remember those.
All our handouts looked like this...
Posted on 9/17/14 at 9:00 am to TygerTyger
Finding Dad's discarded Playboys in the take out trash. Ah, the days of youth, innocence and the startling stirrings in me wee little shorts.
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