# things from 70s childhood that don't exist anymore **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 21, 2003, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-from-70s-childhood-that-dont-exist-anymore/220336 "2003-12-21T17:48:06Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![JohnBckWLD](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/d6d6ee/32.png) [@JohnBckWLD](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnBckWLD)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 9:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-from-70s-childhood-that-dont-exist-anymore/220336/81 "2003-12-22T21:48:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DaveRaver \* > **• Quisp (vs. Quake) breakfast cereals** Same Capt. Crunch taste, different shape: **Freakies**. With singing cartoon monsters as spokespeople: > [@](#): > > We are the Freakies > We are the Freakies > And this is our Freakies Tree > And we never miss a meal > Cause we love our cereal > This is the Big Boss > We call him **BossMoss** > Make sure you spell it right > **Snorkeldorf** they call me > So handsome and pretty > Here’s little **Hamhose** > He’s got a weird nose > Do I really have to sing? > My name is **Grumble** > I am Cowmumble > You’re standing on my foot > **Gargle** is his name > Smartness is my game > I know more than you do > And don’t forget me > I’m **Goody-Goody** > I always do what’s right > For instance, I eat Freakies > cause it’s got a lot of vitamins > and it’s good for me > Oh we are the Freakies > We are the Freakies > And this is our Freakies Tree > Yessir… Also along the lines of “food” (they made such crap then): **Tab** Ginger Ale, Root Beer & Black Cherry. Kool-Aid knock-off: **Funny Face** drink mixes in the following flavors:[ul][li]Captain Black Cherry [/li][li]Choo Choo Cherry [/li][li]Freckle Face Strawberry [/li][li]Goofy Grape [/li][li]Jolly Olly Orange [/li][li]Lefty Lemonade [/li][li]Loud Mouth Punch [/li][li]Pistol Pink Lemonade [/li][li]Rah Rah Rootbeer [/li][li]Rootin’ Tootin’ Raspberry [/li][li]Rudy Tutti Frutti [/li][li]With It Watermelon[/ul][/li] **Vegetable flavored frozen french fries** , something along the lines of _I Don’t Like Peas_ flavored Fries. **Zots** : Hard grape, orange and berry sucker candies with _battery acid_ centers **The dancing Fig Newton** man. Oooey Gooey Rich & Chewy inside. Golden, flakey, tender bakey outside… Non-foods - The 1st 3 things off the top of my head: Making tennis ball launching cannons out of 4 steel beer cans, tape and gasoline Intelivision - Plugged by George Plimpton Amphibious cars ---
**Author:** ![gobear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/8dc957/32.png) [@gobear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gobear)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-from-70s-childhood-that-dont-exist-anymore/220336/82 "2003-12-22T21:50:32Z")
Viewmaster reels Pong Pixie Sticks ---
**Author:** ![MissTake](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misstake/32/3189_2.png) [@MissTake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MissTake)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-from-70s-childhood-that-dont-exist-anymore/220336/83 "2003-12-22T21:59:01Z")
> [@](#): > > What was the toy that was like a hoola hoop for your foot, it fit over your ankle and had a weighted ball attached with rope, the idea was to get it to rotate around your ankle whilst jumping the weight with your other foot. Another WHAMO creation I believe, I had one of those! The “string” rubber part was black and it had a yellow lemon on the end with beads or something in it! ---
**Author:** ![Olentzero](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/90ced4/32.png) [@Olentzero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Olentzero)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 9:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-from-70s-childhood-that-dont-exist-anymore/220336/84 "2003-12-22T21:59:39Z")
Three words: [Growing Up Skipper](http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2973002142&category=250#ebayphotohosting)… man, what a rack that girl developed! ---
**Author:** ![Horseflesh](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horseflesh/32/7502_2.png) [@Horseflesh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horseflesh)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-from-70s-childhood-that-dont-exist-anymore/220336/85 "2003-12-22T22:08:43Z")
Sea monkeys X-ray specs Leaded gasoline That other early arcade game, the one where two guys stand on either side of the screen and try to shoot each other while a stagecoach travels up and down the screen. Gas at 55 cents a gallon (that’s about the time I actually started paying attention to the price) ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-from-70s-childhood-that-dont-exist-anymore/220336/86 "2003-12-22T22:41:49Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by MissTake \* > \*\*It was Simon. > > Lite Brites are still available I was SO jealous when my mom bought one… as a gift to a girl I really didn’t like. \*\* Actually, now that I think about it, there was Simon _and_ Merlin, though I can’t remember which was which. One had coloured lights that would blink in some (seemingly) random pattern and you had to remember it and repeat it. The other was smaller, red, and had a keypad that looked kind of like a cross between a tic-tac-toe board and the numbers on a push button phone. I THINK the latter was Merlin and that it had a couple choices of games one of them was a memory game like Simon. Simon kinda looked like a UFO, right? And, oooo! I can still get Lite Brite? Cool! _picks up coat, starts to head to Toys-R-Us, realizes that there are only two days of Christmas shopping left, abandons the idea to avoid the insanity_ ---
**Author:** ![bigdfrombigd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/df705f/32.png) [@bigdfrombigd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bigdfrombigd)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-from-70s-childhood-that-dont-exist-anymore/220336/87 "2003-12-22T22:46:41Z")
[QUOTE] \*Originally posted by t-keela \* \*\*How about a real muscle car, a leisure suit or bell-bottoms, the **newest** Led Zeppelin album on 8-track, a $10 lid, a $4 case beer and a drive-in movie? Yeah, but only two people in the car and around 15 crammed into the trunk! ---
**Author:** ![Baker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/bb73d2/32.png) [@Baker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baker)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-from-70s-childhood-that-dont-exist-anymore/220336/88 "2003-12-22T22:50:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Larry Mudd \* > \*\*Well, by golly, is _anything_ from our childhood really gone? \*\* My virginity. ---
**Author:** ![Red\_Matrix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/34f0e0/32.png) [@Red\_Matrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Red_Matrix)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-from-70s-childhood-that-dont-exist-anymore/220336/89 "2003-12-22T22:56:42Z")
My cousin had a _Baby Come Back_ doll that walked 10 steps away, then back to you. Only 2 D-cell batteries required! How bout the _Electronic Talking Robot_? He was cool… and now thinking about my 80’s toys… Photon! (as opposed to Laser Tag) FD ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-from-70s-childhood-that-dont-exist-anymore/220336/90 "2003-12-22T23:16:54Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by JohnBckWLD_ > **_Zots_: Hard grape, orange and berry sucker candies with _battery acid_ centers** I recall having a green [Zots](http://www.groovycandies.com/NewCandyDetailFrFe.asp?CandyNumber=1477) but not the flavor. Probably lime. I wonder if that’s where the makers of that Red Bull Energy Drink got the idea for that flavor. ---
**Author:** ![Belrix](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed655f/32.png) [@Belrix](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Belrix)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2003, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-from-70s-childhood-that-dont-exist-anymore/220336/91 "2003-12-22T23:28:59Z")
Anybody remember a soft drink called “Help”? It came in various fruit flavors. They used to run these commercials where a person, the obvious vicitm of a robbery, would wiggle to the phone, knock the receiver off and shout, “I need Help!” in to the phone. The phone operator would then reply, “What flavor, please?” ---
**Author:** ![The\_Tooth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c67d28/32.png) [@The\_Tooth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Tooth)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-from-70s-childhood-that-dont-exist-anymore/220336/92 "2003-12-23T00:29:46Z")
Socker Boppers. Inflatable boxing gloves for children. Brilliant. ---
**Author:** ![Eats\_Crayons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/278dde/32.png) [@Eats\_Crayons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eats_Crayons)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 12:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-from-70s-childhood-that-dont-exist-anymore/220336/93 "2003-12-23T00:51:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by [FDISK.COM](http://FDISK.COM) \* > \*\*My cousin had a _Baby Come Back_ doll that walked 10 steps away, then back to you. Only 2 D-cell batteries required! > \*\* I had something like that (huge mistake for my parent to et me a doll for Christmas. I was a tomboy and hated all things “baby” – still do. I’ll never have kids.) I had Baby Thataway, that could crawl with two D batteries in her butt (er, that really didn’t quite come out right), and they also made the mistake of getting me some version that “toddled” on two feet - maybe it was Baby Come Back. I don’t remember it coming back, just walking a few steps then falling over. I also vaguely recall comercials for some doll that ate and pooped named Baby Alive. The two I had got wrecked because I hated them. Used all their clothes on stuffed animals (I liked stuffed animals, not “babies”) ---
**Author:** ![Tinkertoy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f19dbf/32.png) [@Tinkertoy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tinkertoy)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 1:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-from-70s-childhood-that-dont-exist-anymore/220336/94 "2003-12-23T01:31:44Z")
How about real toys in CrackerJacks, instead of this paper crap? ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 1:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-from-70s-childhood-that-dont-exist-anymore/220336/95 "2003-12-23T01:37:12Z")
I have a version of Connect-4 on my Mandrake Linux computer. ---
**Author:** ![AncientHumanoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ancienthumanoid/32/278_2.png) [@AncientHumanoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AncientHumanoid)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-from-70s-childhood-that-dont-exist-anymore/220336/96 "2003-12-23T01:42:07Z")
One of my aunts, all four of my grandparents, and one of my best friends. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![norinew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/eb9ed0/32.png) [@norinew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/norinew)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-from-70s-childhood-that-dont-exist-anymore/220336/97 "2003-12-23T01:55:53Z")
> [@](#): > > _Originally posted by Eats\_Crayons_ > And, oooo! I can still get Lite Brite? Cool! Not only can you still get Lite Brite, you can now get Lite Brite Cube, which is like Lite Brite, but with 4 screens instead of one. And, you can get “speed pegs” or some such (don’t remember what they’re called), which are like 4 or 5 lite brite pegs joined together, so instead of having to plug in so many pegs that are only going in a straight line, you can just use one of the speed pegs. But, yeah, I definitely would wait until after Christmas. ---
**Author:** ![bittersweet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/c57346/32.png) [@bittersweet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bittersweet)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 2:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-from-70s-childhood-that-dont-exist-anymore/220336/98 "2003-12-23T02:16:50Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KSO \* > \*\* > That game where the ad ended with the kid saying “Pretty sneaky, sis.” \*\* That was part of a commercial for “Connect Four”. Are Colorforms still around? What about Weeble Wobbles? Shrinky Dinks? Hippity Hops? ---
**Author:** ![Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Krisfer\_the\_Cat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Krisfer_the_Cat)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 2:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-from-70s-childhood-that-dont-exist-anymore/220336/99 "2003-12-23T02:30:19Z")
New episodes of **Match Game** with Gene Rayburn RIP) and Richard Dawson. They were the best part of my childhood! ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2003, 2:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-from-70s-childhood-that-dont-exist-anymore/220336/100 "2003-12-23T02:33:28Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by KSO \* > \*\*I just remembered–SPIROGRAPH!!! \*\* Pen & paper Spirograph [is still around but not quite the same](http://www.hasbro.com/pl/page.viewproduct/product_id.8808/dn/default.cfm). [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-from-70s-childhood-that-dont-exist-anymore/220336.md?page=4) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-from-70s-childhood-that-dont-exist-anymore/220336.md?page=6)