# Culture artifacts that ...maybe not ONLY you remember....but its getting close. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 15, 2018, 3:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633 "2018-08-15T03:00:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/41 "2018-08-15T14:40:10Z")
^ Sorry, that was my last remaining brain-cell. ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/42 "2018-08-15T14:43:58Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > ^ Sorry, that was my last remaining brain-cell. Mr Patty Duke, though he’s quite famous in his own right. Also the only surviving male villain on Adam West’s _ **Batman** _ (I think). ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/43 "2018-08-15T14:55:12Z")
I don’t know of anyone else who used to subscribe to _Musician_ magazine and has any of their _A Little On The CD Side_ compilation discs, or remembers them. Very few people I encounter remember an old cartoon called _Kimba The White Lion_. A few weeks ago I was at a kid’s birthday party and he got a [Sit-'n-Spin](https://www.amazon.com/Playskool-34451-Sit-And-Spin/dp/B0050Q3PXS/), and no one else in the house – at least a dozen adults, ranging in age from early 20s to mid-70s – remembered them from ~40 years ago! When it was unwrapped I exclaimed “oh, I loved that when I was a kid!” and all I got were blank stares. > [@Johnny\_Ecks](#): > > I remember that in the 80s, there was a fad for stickers. Yaaaaasss! In grade school/the early 80s, recess used to be all about trading stickers with other girls. 🙂 For a few years the best gift I could get was stickers. Lisa Frank designs ruled – I even had Lisa Frank bedsheets at one point! ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 3:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/44 "2018-08-15T15:04:29Z")
Those burning snake things that everyone’s mentioning aren’t forgotten. They’re still a thing. If you buy a variety pack of fireworks there’s often one or two packs of them included. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/oYytdZuV47M/hqdefault.jpg "Black Snake Firework 1") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oYytdZuV47M) ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/45 "2018-08-15T15:07:26Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > enclosed metal swingsets where you pump yourself by pulling two metal levers, and were presumably safer because it was difficult to fall out of the frame. > […] > I can’t find an image for them because I can’t remember what they were called. Found it several pages in to one of my Google searchs: [arm pump swings](https://www.google.com/search?q=arm+pump+swing). ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 3:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/46 "2018-08-15T15:13:09Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Mr Patty Duke, though he’s quite famous in his own right. Also the only surviving male villain on Adam West’s _ **Batman** _ (I think). You mean Samwise’s dad? > [@Misnomer](#): > > I don’t know of anyone else who used to subscribe to _Musician_ magazine and has any of their _A Little On The CD Side_ compilation discs, or remembers them. > > Very few people I encounter remember an old cartoon called _ **Kimba The White Lion** _. > > A few weeks ago I was at a kid’s birthday party and he got a [Sit-'n-Spin](https://www.amazon.com/Playskool-34451-Sit-And-Spin/dp/B0050Q3PXS/), and no one else in the house – at least a dozen adults, ranging in age from early 20s to mid-70s – remembered them from ~40 years ago! When it was unwrapped I exclaimed “oh, I loved that when I was a kid!” and all I got were blank stares. > > Yaaaaasss! In grade school/the early 80s, recess used to be all about trading stickers with other girls. 🙂 For a few years the best gift I could get was stickers. Lisa Frank designs ruled – I even had Lisa Frank bedsheets at one point! (Bolding mine) Same company as Marine Boy, Speed Racer and Astro Boy? ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 3:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/47 "2018-08-15T15:16:33Z")
> [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > You mean Samwise’s dad? That’s $2000 more for you, Burpo! 🆒 (Seriously, I had to look this one up! :smack: ) ---
**Author:** ![terentii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/terentii/32/212_2.png) [@terentii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/terentii)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/48 "2018-08-15T15:18:45Z")
> [@davidm](#): > > Those burning snake things that everyone’s mentioning aren’t forgotten. They’re still a thing. If you buy a variety pack of fireworks there’s often one or two packs of them included. > [https://youtu.be/oYytdZuV47M](https://youtu.be/oYytdZuV47M) Some things just never go out of style! 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Dropo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ce7236/32.png) [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 3:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/49 "2018-08-15T15:20:36Z")
Clanky Chocolate Syrup [![]( " - YouTube") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Yh-FGZQ58) ---
**Author:** ![burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/burpo_the_wonder_mutt/32/365_2.png) [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/burpo_the_wonder_mutt)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/50 "2018-08-15T15:26:17Z")
> [@Dropo](#): > > Clanky Chocolate Syrup > > [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Yh-FGZQ58](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6Yh-FGZQ58) Wow, did you jog a memory! Don’t think I ever had it, but I remember robot shaped bottles on your grocer’s shelf. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/51 "2018-08-15T16:06:42Z")
> [@Ethilrist](#): > > I seem to be pretty rare in that I remember watching the Star Wars Holiday Special. Perhaps even more rare because I enjoyed it, but that’s a different topic. I watched that, and I thoroughly enjoyed it. I also watched _KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park_, and I thoroughly enjoyed that, too. ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/52 "2018-08-15T16:07:19Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > And then there were Fizzies, soft drink tablets that bubbled like Alka-Seltzer. My favorite was root beer. Anybody remember those? They were almost as good as soda fountain phosphates (my favorites were cherry and lime). Haven’t had one of those since the early '80s. Also excellent for putting in the pool during the college swim meet. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![CaptMurdock](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/captmurdock/32/11736_2.png) [@CaptMurdock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CaptMurdock)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/53 "2018-08-15T16:11:00Z")
> [@mbh](#): > > I watched [SW Holiday Special], and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Not me. Even at fourteen, I was watching with a “Are you eff-ing kidding me?” look on my face that made my jaw hurt for a week. I still want to know how they got Harrison Ford to sign on for it. Bribes, threats, scandalous photos… > [@](#): > > I also watched _KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park_, and I thoroughly enjoyed that, too. Now THAT I enjoyed, and probably because I didn’t have many expectations (not a big KISS fan, then or now). Cheesy fun. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 4:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/54 "2018-08-15T16:12:21Z")
> [@Johnny\_Ecks](#): > > I remember that in the 80s, there was a fad for stickers. Might be a little earlier, but remember “Wacky Packs”? The door to my old room in the house I grew up in is still got sticky residue from those things on it. > [@burpo\_the\_wonder\_mutt](#): > > Ever hit the whole roll with a hammer? Yes! Damn near blew the hammer over my head! Packed quite a punch, really. ---
**Author:** ![ThisSpaceForRent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thisspaceforrent/32/345_2.png) [@ThisSpaceForRent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThisSpaceForRent)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/55 "2018-08-15T16:51:20Z")
I got this for my 4th birthday…rode the hell out of it. very dangerous but I survived. [Space Trainer](http://www.weirduniverse.net/blog/comments/space_trainer) I have never seen or heard of another one. ---
**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 4:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/56 "2018-08-15T16:52:21Z")
> [@CaptMurdock](#): > > Not me. Even at fourteen, I was watching with a “Are you eff-ing kidding me?” look on my face that made my jaw hurt for a week. I still want to know how they got Harrison Ford to sign on for it. Bribes, threats, scandalous photos… > > Now THAT I enjoyed, and probably because I didn’t have many expectations (not a big KISS fan, then or now). Cheesy fun. Well, old geezers like you are notoriously picky. 🙂 At eleven, I was much easier to please. ---
**Author:** ![Roderick\_Femm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/roderick_femm/32/14875_2.png) [@Roderick\_Femm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roderick_Femm)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 5:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/57 "2018-08-15T17:26:21Z")
Andy Devine had a kids show in the late 50s called Andy’s Gang. I believe it had a live child audience for the live bits. I think much of the actual entertainment came from cartoons, but the live bits were uniquely creepy. One of the featured characters was Froggy the Gremlin. And Andy’s inimitable introduction of him, “Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!” at which Froggy would appear in a puff of smoke. You just don’t see kids shows like that these days. ---
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/58 "2018-08-15T17:27:39Z")
> [@Misnomer](#): > > Very few people I encounter remember an old cartoon called _Kimba The White Lion_. Kimba is pretty well-known, if only for the controversy over the similarities between Kimba and Disney’s The Jungle King. Even outside of that, Kimba made a more lasting impression than several other Japanese imports from that time period: Prince Planet, Marine Boy, Tobor the 8th Man, Johnny Sokko and His Flying Robot, etc. ---
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/59 "2018-08-15T17:35:34Z")
> [@Gatopescado](#): > > Might be a little earlier, but remember “Wacky Packs”? The door to my old room in the house I grew up in is still got sticky residue from those things on it. Fun Fact: Wacky Packs were designed/drawn by cartoonist Art Spiegelman, best known for the Holocaust memorial graphic novel Maus. ---
**Author:** ![aurora\_maire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aurora_maire/32/328_2.png) [@aurora\_maire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aurora_maire)\ **Post date:** [August 15, 2018, 5:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633/60 "2018-08-15T17:53:30Z")
> [@terentii](#): > > Mr Patty Duke, though he’s quite famous in his own right. Also the only surviving male villain on Adam West’s _ **Batman** _ (I think). I would think his most famous role was Gomez Addams. 🙂 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633.md?page=2) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/culture-artifacts-that-maybe-not-only-you-remember-but-its-getting-close/819633.md?page=4)