Culture artifacts that ...maybe not ONLY you remember....but its getting close.

^ 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).

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, 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. :slight_smile: 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!

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.

Found it several pages in to one of my Google searchs: arm pump swings.

You mean Samwise’s dad?

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Same company as Marine Boy, Speed Racer and Astro Boy?

That’s $2000 more for you, Burpo! :cool:

(Seriously, I had to look this one up! :smack: )

Some things just never go out of style! :stuck_out_tongue:

Clanky Chocolate Syrup

Wow, did you jog a memory! Don’t think I ever had it, but I remember robot shaped bottles on your grocer’s shelf.

I watched that, and I thoroughly enjoyed it.

I also watched KISS Meets the Phantom of the Park, and I thoroughly enjoyed that, too.

Also excellent for putting in the pool during the college swim meet. :wink:

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.

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.

Yes! Damn near blew the hammer over my head! Packed quite a punch, really.

I got this for my 4th birthday…rode the hell out of it. very dangerous but I survived.

Space Trainer

I have never seen or heard of another one.

Well, old geezers like you are notoriously picky. :slight_smile: At eleven, I was much easier to please.

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.

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.

Fun Fact: Wacky Packs were designed/drawn by cartoonist Art Spiegelman, best known for the Holocaust memorial graphic novel Maus.

I would think his most famous role was Gomez Addams. :slight_smile: