my sister & I used to sit in our gravel driveway, barefoot, playing with our Tonka trucks (the METAL ones you could actually hurt each other with) candy for 1cent, 5 cents, and 10 cents (I remember being upset when they raised it to 15cents) full-size candy bars for less than 50cents
I remember playing kick the can until dark. We could pretty much use the better half of the street. I remember these harness' that you could put on a child and that was a "child restraint". I remember when your mom could tear your behind up without the fear of someone calling social services on you. My mom's favorite weapon was her wooden spoon! Being able to walk my 4 year old baby sister to town (I would have been 14) for a treat from the bakery and not even thinking twice.
I remember paying about 30 cents, maybe 35, for a can of soda. I barely remember Laugh In, The Odd Couple, The Partridge Family, MacMillan and Wife, Columbo, and McCloud. I remember Jaws at the movies. I remember when VCRs were close to 600.00.
I also played kick the can. Had a several albums. Remember when we got our first VCR. Jaws at the movies my best memory that I would love to share with my son is buying soda bottles out of the machine. You put your money in and opened the door and took out a bottle of pop. (yes I call it both) and then you used the bottle openner on the side of the machine. My papa use to put pennies in my bib overhalls and you could go to the store and get some candy. Remember when you could ride a toy horse for a penny. Now the only store around here that has rides is walmart and they are 50 cents or more!
These are all great posts. I remember a lot of this stuff. Especially the 80's stuff. But,..... did anyone else own a pair of these?
remember: rotary phones vinyl records (even the little 45s) typewriters trick-or-treating from the time you got home from school until whenever you decided to go home going to the corner store with 1$ and being able to get a soda, a bag of chips, or ice cream, a comic book and a candy ..... when phones were attached to one spot and one spot only. Any attempt to deviate from that spot would result in knocking down half of mom's chatchkies with the coiling cord. I remember when you could fit a family of seven in a maverick and we could all go on a vacation ! in a truck! because you did nto have to wear seatbelts ( not knocking that as I once was hanging upside down in a truck by my seatbelt and was grateful to God for it!) I remember when it was okay to go to the school and play after school and before school and it was considered a safe zone! I remember when going 'trick or treating' was about the costume not the junk you got! I remember when...... kick the can meant you were free not that you were getting rid of a habit! I remember when kids could walk to school, and when dad wanted you to come home he would call your name or whistle his special sound and you would know it was time to go! I remember when kids showed respect for anyone older than they were by calling adults Sir, and Ma'am, and Miss !
Being home while your parents were at work, and playing with all the other neighborhood kids 'til the parents got home---and not being called a "latchkey child". My brother and sister and I walked 2 miles to school and 2 miles back everyday in Arizona when I was 6 and 7. I learned to type on a typewriter, not a keyboard. When a neighborhood was a neighborhood and everyone hung around outside and talked while the kids played. When people moved to a town, and actually worked in that same town---no commuting 50 or more miles each way, every day! When skateboards were cheap toys, and we thought a friend of ours was rich cuz her mom bought her a $49 bike! Yes, I remember that children respected adults! I also remember when parents and teachers had the right to discipline children when needed---not to be mean or ornery, but because the child needed to be disciplined to learn, and remember, right from wrong! Now Teachers are not allowed to discipline their students, and the students know that.....so chaos ensues! Wish the pendulum could swing back that way a little on this one! I remember my dad saying gas would NEVER reach $1.00, and being shocked when it did! I remember watching Bonanza (my mom LOVED Little Joe), and I also watched the Donny & Marie show!
Me too!!! And I learned 10 key on an adding machine - NOT a computer keyboard! Not to mention - I learned SHORT HAND!!! My "computer" class was all about learning Basic and Ascii - and we had those HUGE floppy disks and computers that didn't have memory in them at all!
Krista, I was thinking about shorthand earlier! I can still remember some of it and I graduated in 81!! I remember (not necessarily a good one) when "tornado drills" were called "air raid drills". I remember babysitting for people I had never even met based on recommendations from people I did know.
I remember watching Drag Net. I remember watching Hawaii 5 0. I remember the Mouseketeers. I remember Pharmacies having soda fountains & ice cream. I remember hotdogs being about 50 cents.
I remember watching Romper Room as a young child and Zoom when I was older. "Send it to Zoom! something something, Boston, MASS 02134, send it to Zoom!" Sorry for the loopiness, I think I need to get to bed!!
My parachute pants were purple and grey. And I had a pair of leg warmers that were bright green and red. Neon socks (neon anything, actually). Hyper color tshirts -- the color of the shirt turned based on your body heat. Jordache with the horse on the back pocket and Calvin Kleins with the little loopy thing. Kangaroo tennis shoes My Saturday Night routine -- take bath, wash hair. While mom brushed my hair (it was very long and thick) we would watch -- Lawrence Welk, Hee Haw, The Mandrell Sisters, Donnie and Marie, Love Boat, and Fantasy Island. No channel surfing because we only had 3 channels and PBS. I remember when McDonald's introduced Chicken McNuggets and the hot fudge sundae (and caramel and strawberry). The sundaes were only 25 cents. I remember how horrific it was when gas actually hit $1/gallon. Z28s baby. Oh yea. My dream car. couldn't convince dad I needed it though. . .. I know exactly where I was when the shuttle exploded and I remember exactly what I was doing when it was announced that Ronald Reagan had been shot.
Mood rings Toe socks I remember when a family in our church bought a Suburban for $10,000 and that blew me away at the time because that is what my folks had paid for their house only a few years before that. Duck boots Moon boots
She WAS truly outrageous! :lol: I remember our first VCR when I was 11, and my parents did not get cable until long after I had moved out and gotten married, so I always had to watch it at my friends' houses. We had a rotary dial phone until I was 13, and my boyfriend had MC Hammer pants. :roll: My grandparents had a party line until I was old enough to remember--maybe 6 or so? My aunt had an 8 track player when I was little, and when my uncle bought a boat when I was about 12, it had one in it. We thought it was such a hoot going through the tapes. Wonder why the previous owner included those? :lol: I was cracking up reading some of these. I turned 31 this summer, so I am in there with a lot of you!
Oh, and I remember watching The Wonder Years the first time it was on. Dh and I watched the whole series again at the beginning of the summer and it was so funny the difference 20 years has on your perspective. But it still made me feel just like I was 11. Oh, and on Tuesday nights when I was young we always watched Riptide on NBC at 7:00 and then Moonlighting (ABC?) at 8:00.
I remember when party lines were on phones. You would have a certain ring for each one on it. My cousin had one and it drove me crazy.
Oh my goodness, I LOVED Romper Room! I never saw Zoom as a child, I didn't know they had it then! My kids watched ZOOM---but it was not an old show.
I remember Romper Room, Mickey Mouse Club, Bozo the Clown and Captain Kangaroo. I remember when President Kennedy was shot. The first man stepping on the moon. Seeing a color tv at the neighbors house for the first time. Getting our first color tv! The Beatles first US tv appearance! Gas wars in the early 70's Going to the movie and getting a popcorn for 35 cents total. Going to see The Graduate in high school. Having to wear skirts or dresses to school. Bell bottom pants and mini skirts Janice Joplin Woodstock Pope John Paul the First Watergate Buying a bottled drink out of a chest type fridge on the honor system. Buying cheese and crackers when they sliced the cheese off for you. Calling elderly neighbors Aunt and Uncle or Mr. and Mrs. Respecting teachers Bible drills Two week VBS Spending weeks during the summer with relatives in the country without your parents. I remember when sliced sandwich bread came in a celephane package instead of plastic bags. When most girls came to school in handmade dresses. Black and white saddle oxfords. I can feel the blisters now. These were the sturdy hard bottom kind not the cute soft ones! These were built to last! Man I am getting old!
I remember when it either came back out or extended their coverage when my older ones were younger. I did the "I watched that as a kid!" to my kids. My sis and I both got a kick out of it because we loved that show. I was only 5 months old when President Kennedy was shot, but is it really weird that after hearing about that morning from my mom when I was younger, I have a picture in my head of that morning. My gm and my mom had me in a stroller getting ready to walk downtown when the news came on. My mom made us wear dresses to school!! The boys thought it was funny to come flick up a girls skirt or dress and shout "dress up day!"! We were tomboys so we would wear shorts under our dresses so we could still climb and hang on the monkey bars. Hey Deena and Beth, do you remember "bend and stretch, reach for the stars, here comes Jupiter, there goes Mars"? It is weird the things I remember from way back and lose and can't remember things from yesterday! Getting old! I loved the thing they had for the kids where you could stand on a cup type container that had strings attached so you could walk on them like platform shoes. We made some out of tin cans that worked just as well and made a funky noise!
