You can still hit your wrists with the “modern” klick klacks.
You remember Kimba and Underdog. I can’t believe noone’s mentioned Pong. Herbie the Love Bug, Benji and Champ. Pop Rocks. Playing cards clothespinned in the spokes of your bike, accompanied by the long orange flag that your friends would race up behind you, yank down and whack you in the back of the head on impact.
We got us a convoy…
And that wonderful urban legend about the Mikey kid who died from eating pop rocks.
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For some reason many of your gradeschool mates were packing around huge Goody combs which were proudly displayed sticking out of their back pockets.
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you still believe to this day the network had NO BUSINESS canceling Welcome Back Kotter (even though Vinnie wasn’t on the show anymore)
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If you were lucky, you could listen in on someones telephone conversation because your parents still had a “party line”.
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more on phones… You just got a push button phone. Man, how futuristic. Later your parents wonder why there is a call to Japan on the phone bill. You didn’t mean too, you were just using the new phone as a musical instrument.
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You were positive by the time you were 35 people (including yourself) would be living on the moon.
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When you were young you learned how to make “coffee”. Two spoonfuls of dry brown junk and hot water.
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You have memories of being young and watching the dot in the center of the TV screen slowly fade away after you switched it off. That was SO COOL!
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At a high school dance some kid dropped to the floor and started spinning around on his back. At first you think he’s epileptic.
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Later a song by the B-52’s comes on and everyone flops around on their backs on the floor. You begin to wonder if epilepsy is contagious.
– Just when the hormones started kicking in all the girls started wearing “tube tops” which had a tendency to slip just enough to get a peak at nipples which resulted in spending half the day walking around school with your science book over your nether regions .
- You end up with a name like “Seven”
…you remember watching some man on television give a speech and your mom saying, “I hope he doesn’t go crazy and order the military to disband congress”, and you figure out years later that that guy was President Nixon and he was resigning.
…you were bombarded with Bicentennial Regalia in every grade school classroom for a year, and rode your bike in the 4th of July parade with red, white, and blue crepe paper and streamers tied to it.
…you remember when they came out with Giant Sweet-Tarts that were about the size of a silver dollar. They only lasted for about a year because kids would suck on them so hard that their tongues would get rubbed raw and start to bleed.
…one word…ZOOM!
…one phrase…“HEY YOU GUYYYYYYYYS!!!”…said by the lovely and talented Rita Moreno on “The Electric Company”
…you remember Morgan Freeman as “Easy Reader”, the hippest booklover at The Electric Company.
…Yes, you had a Pet Rock.
…Sleestack
LOL!
<Chaka>
SELESSATAKA! SELESSATAKA!
</Chaka>
(I always had a thing for Holly)
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You remember when the ‘100 Grand’ bar was actually a ‘100 Thousand Dollar’ bar.
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Pachinko machines were all the rage (at least in LA)
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When the teacher asked you to recite the Preamble you asked if you could sing it. (I actually did that.)
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S-A-TUR-DAY…NIGHT!
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Running up 60,000 on Galaxian was worth a weeks worth of bragging.
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Your hippy mom took you to ‘Tommy’ and you didn’t get it. But Tina Turner scared the hell out of you.
- Jonathan (Born Feb, 1967)
Oh, and KISS being interviewed by Paul Lind didn’t seem weird at all.
Paul Lind: So, how long does it take to get that make up on, anyway?
Gene Simmons (deadpan): We don’t wear make up.
Paul Lind: NYAYAYAYAAAA
My dad purchased a small TV when he was in college that did that. He gave it to me last year, and I loved to watch the little dot disappear. Now it’s broken.
What about that long assed caramel candy bar that would take like a hundred years to eat? What was that thing called? I remember Its whole selling point was that it lasted a really long time. It also had a measure on the back so you could challenge yourself to eat a certain amount with in a certain time. Was it the marathon bar maybe?
Oh, yeah dinosour eggs too…Yummm
Well SHAKES in the UK the bar was (appropriately) “Texan - takes a whole lotta chewin’.”
You can say to cops who are younger than you “…in my eighteen years of driving experience…”.
…The presets on the radio in your parents car were those little black “buttons” that required some serious finger strength to push (for a kid).
…Your parents’ new car came with the latest in sound reproduction…The eight track. At exactly half way through the cassette…CLICK.
…Your parents had no problem in allowing their grade school aged child to ride his bike down to the Stop-n-Shop then on to the City Park to play unsupervised with friends, returning 5-6 hours later. (My nieces and nephews stand
…Teetertotters (aka seesaws) were standard on every play ground.
… For that mater playing outside in the summer until your best friend got the coolest thing ever…an Atari.
…The presets on the radio in your parents car were those little black “buttons” that required some serious finger strength to push (for a kid).
…Your parents’ new car came with the latest in sound reproduction…The eight track. At exactly half way through the cassette…CLICK.
…Your parents had no problem in allowing their grade school aged child to ride his bike down to the Stop-n-Shop then on to the City Park to play unsupervised with friends, returning 5-6 hours later.
…Teetertotters (aka seesaws) were standard on every play ground.
… For that mater playing outside in the summer until your best friend got the coolest thing ever…an Atari.
-Your first crush was Jimmy on HR Puffinstuff
-Your parents borrowed your roach clip which you just used for decoration on your jeans
-I had a Pet Punk Rock with a green Mohawk (still do)
-You wore knee-high socks with you satin shorts
-You grew up on AM radio
-You went to the skating rink every weekend in junior high
-You cut the sleeves and necks off your t-shirts in high school
-You had a Mrs. Beasly doll
-In junior high you looked as if you were poured into your jeans every morning
-You had a banana skate board
-Does anyone else remember the Lemon Twist?
-You know the words to Rapper’s Delight by heart
Born Feb 11, 67
I was born in '81 but growing up in the South (which I realize more and more everyday is about 10-15 years behind the rest of the country) I clearly remember almost every single thing mentioned in this thread. Computers are still considered ‘just for geeks’ around here. It’s pretty sad actually.
Shakes, I think you’re thinking of the Marathon bar. It was a full 12 inches of caramel and chocolate “braided” together.
It was one of my favorites.
Anyone remember Choco-lite? It was better than the Crunch Bar!
TV wasn’t on 24 hours a day – it actually signed off at midnite? I remember watching the test pattern, anxiously awaiting the Star Spangled Banner and the waving flag film to signal that the broadcast day would start again at 5 or 6 in the morning.
(b.1967)
. . . You’re the same age as Laura Dern, Carrot Top, John Wayne Bobbitt, Nicole Kidman, Matt LaBlanc, Kristen Johnston, Julia Roberts, and Anna Nicole Smith.
. . . Jayne Mansfield, Evelyn “girl in the red velvet swing” Nesbit, silent movie hottie Tony Moreno, Ann Sheridan, Laverne Andrews, Che Guevara, the great Mrs. Parker, Alice B. Toklas, and Bert Lahr died the year you were born.
—Eve (who enjoys doing IMDB searches)
…Grape Ape, El KaBong, Captaaain Caaaaveman!!!
…Quisp, King Vitamin (cereals)
… I think the candy may have been a Slo-Poke. It had a stick.
…No leash laws, dogs wandered the neighborhood.
…I had an Orange Crush, the COOLEST bike around. Fat slick in back, tiny tire in front (with shock absorbers) 5 speed gear shift right where it was most dangerous to future breeding, with a tiny plastic 8 ball on the top of the shifter.
…I was too cool (just a smidge too old) for the Bugaloos, but can sing the whole song.
…The only person who wore a bike helmet was Evil Kneivel. The whole snake canyon jump was kinda lame, I wanted to see a motorcycle, not some lame ass rocket thing!
…Legal to drink alcohol at just the right time, they were changing the laws everywhere, those younger than me had to wait until they were 21.
…Yard Jarts (lawn darts), now that was some serious injuries just waiting to happen.
Holy Cow!!!my old bike wasn’t an Orange crush, it was an Orange Krate!!! Now I remember! Admire one just like it here!
http://www.bikeicons.com/1970%20Schwinn%20Orange%20Krate.html
OMG I know this is off-topic but that is probably the freshest bike I’ve ever seen in my life. Too bad it’s $3,500 