“Go Go Gophers”
“Have no need to fear, Underdog is here!”
“The wet head is dead”
(What has been unleashed? Must stop brain overrun!)
Ok, I’m 24 and I love my Atari, my vinyl, and my 12" black and white TV with the built-in antenna. All originals. My 39 year old husband thinks they’re junk. I just remind him that I love old relics.
That being said there’s plenty of things from my childhood that these kids today don’t know about.
Time for Picture Pages!
Anyone remember Big Chuck and Little John? (Northern Ohio reference)
Nicco was the cutest dog ever.
MTV actually showed videos (can’t believe I’m the first to say this)
“Crissy and Sara and I used to put in 50 cents a piece and walk to the drugstore for a bag of chips and a 2 litre of coke.”
Even I can’t believe how far I used to walk as a kid. We would walk 30 minutes for a Whopper. Now I’m going out of my way if it’s a 5 minute drive.
“You’ll wonder where the yellow went, when you brush your teeth with Pepsodent”
Burma Shave Signs! (For the youngsters, these signs were advertisements for a shaving creme, and were placed along roadsides, the signs each containing one portion of a verse)
*Pity all those
mighty Ceasars
who pulled each whisker
out with tweezers
Burma Shave*
And the spokecharacter for electrification of the 1940’s and beyond: Reddy Kilowatt
I’m 17 and have watched this. It’s not that old. I think they still show it, but not with Little John.
Oh gosh, I loved Underdog!
When I grow up I wanta be an iceman.
A common misconception. The mimeograph used ink pressed thru a (silkscreen-type) stencil, making (usually) black, non-smelly copies.
A spirit duplicator used a master with a purple dye which dissolved in alcohol to produce (usually) purple, smelly copies.
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&postid=2266403#post2266403
Ah, yes! That’s the one – introducing children everywhere to inhalant addictions…
Question:
Do they still make Weebles?
(You know, “Weebles wobble but they won’t fall down.”) My friend had the Weeble Haunted House and I loved it.
Yes it is, but it used to be The Hoolihan and Big Chuck Show
The greatest monster-movie hosts of any time, any where! Friday nights at 11:30 pm from WJWS in Cleveland. Last of the vaudevillians to my way of thinking.
They make Weebles still, but apparently the cute little ones of our youth are now a “choking hazard,” because I distinctly remember having Weebles of approximately the height of my Zippo (two inches?) and now they are like four inches tall and three inches in diameter.
I still use those, and I’m 21! A 21-year-old freak, admittedly; the 51-year-old 4x5 Speed Graphic gets a lot of stares and questions when I take it out. And a lot of curses and "OhmyGodI’mBLIND!"s when I pop a Press 25 (and that’s the small one). 
As far as I can tell (the official press releases are rather confusing, and I’m too tired to make much sense of them) Shell owns the Texaco brand, but isn’t changing the stations.
I still see True Confessions magazines at the supermarket. I had a record player as a kid (along with those “read along” records that come with little books). I just bought a tape about three years ago. I’ve drunk Ovaltine and Purplesaurus Rex Kool-Aid and eaten Parks Sausages.
I also remember:
See and Says with strings rather than levers.
People’s Drug, Woodies and Garfinkle’s (for the DC arearesidents).
A&P, Raleighs, Dart Drug, Memco, Bradlee’s and Murphy Co.
5 and dime stores being like dollar stores
Speak and Spell and Speak and Math
Commodore 64s (with cartidge slots and optional cassette drive)
Daisy wheel printers
A time before Walmart existed
Michael Jackson before plastic surgery
Whitney Houston being clean and sober.
I still see True Confessions magazines at the supermarket. I had a record player as a kid (along with those “read along” records that come with little books). I just bought a tape about three years ago. I’ve drunk Ovaltine and Purplesaurus Rex Kool-Aid and eaten Parks Sausages.
I also remember:
See and Says with strings rather than levers.
People’s Drug, Woodies and Garfinkle’s (for the DC area residents).
A&P, Raleighs, Dart Drug, Memco, Bradlee’s and Murphy Co.
5 and dime stores being like dollar stores
Speak and Spell and Speak and Math
Commodore 64s (with cartidge slots and optional cassette drive)
Daisy wheel printers
A time before Walmart existed
Michael Jackson before plastic surgery
Whitney Houston being clean and sober.
Fully featured 5 function handheld calculators.
Red L.E.D watches.
“Put in a pint of Redex as well”
16 rpm lp’s (anyone ever own one ?)
Torchy torchy the battery boy.
“Hear yourself on the radio”(early advert for a radio cassette player)
Magic eye tuning.
This is the BBC Light Service.
“Flying saucer hoax was weather balloon” say Air Force.
Hey Sandy, Hey Sandy, why were you the one?All those years of growing up are wasted now and gone.
Bakelite
Well, you live and learn (re: mimeograph v. spirit duplicator). I think it may be a common misconception because the teachers referred to them as mimeographs (might be somewhat akin to people calling all copiers xeroxex for a while there).
See, now I’m 23 and I used carbon paper in my Jr high. My home town blows the fire sirens every day at noon, my mom still has a rotary phone, etc.
So, am I a youngster, or an oldster?
I learned to touch-type on an olive-green Underwood. I eventually learned to go so fast that the keys got stuck together every few words, so writing on it was a real chore, trying to keep a governor on my hands. If I wanted to keep a copy of my school reports for myself, I had to use carbon paper, although I never really got the hang of it and usually ended up duplicating on the back of the first paper instead of on the front of the second. The bell to mark the end of a line was broken, so if I wasn’t paying close enough attention I’d write right off the edge of the page. A teacher asking for titles to be centered meant lots of wasted time and backwards-counting, and I still prefer endnotes to footnotes even now that I have a nifty word-processing program that will leave room at the bottom of the page automatically. Changing fonts is a lot easier now, too, although it was kind of fun to change the typewheels - I had a serif font, a sans serif font, an italic, a bold, a script and a gothic, all kept in their boxes in the typewriter case.
Ahhh… we actually still have a bell hose at a service station!! 
Tom Swift Jr. by Victor Appleton the III
Tom Swift by Victor Appleton the II
Bookmobiles
Don’t forget to shake up the milk, before you pour it.
Crusader the Rabbit, Science Fiction Theater, Mr. Wizard, Miss Francis, Kukla et al. “Hey, Cisco!” “Hey, Pancho!”
Saying “Charge it.” Without using a card of any sort.
Crackers in a barrel
Penny candy from a jar, by the piece.
“That and a nickel will get you a cup of coffee.”
Which was accompanied by a small glass bottle, with a paper stopper, containing fresh cream.
Does anyone remember why it became a “he man” sort of thing to crush a beer can after you drank the beer?
Tris