The memory lane thread :)

[Nothinbuttheblood]

Movies: Police Academy, Crocodile Dunde, Adventures In Babysitting, Ferris Buellers Day Off, Tootsie, Can't Buy Me Love, Raiders of the Lost Ark. Etc, etc.

TV Shows: Happy Days, Cheers, The Cosby Show, Night Court, Family Ties, Silver Spoons, Solid Gold, Three's Company (although its very painful to watch now.) Police Squad (which was the precrurser to the Naked Gun movies,) AL TV, etc. I am sure I am forgetting a lot here.

What's really nice is I have been able to watch those old movies and shows (including the original Star Trek) with my kids and I didn't have to worry about bad language or any of the stuff that is common place now

 

[MountainBluebird]

Oh, ha ha, I loved that Little House episode!

 

[BeeSchmidt]

41 here so I qualify!!!

Definitely was an Atari 2600 fan, along with that old Pong machine that costed 100s of dollars back then.

Old Disney live action like the "Black Hole" "Tron"

 

[LindaJ617]

Oh wow, great memories just reading this thread. Loved some of those shows, especially Little House on the Prairie and the Waltons.

After losing my Mom last month, I've been down memory lane quite more frequently lately. My Mom loved music! She was always singing. So the 70's music comes to mind of course. Eagles, Chicago, KC and the Sunshine Band, Styx, Neil Diamond, CCR....good memories. Was def much more into music and playing outside than the TV shows. Who knew, soon enough, I would have a walkman and be able to play outside AND listen to my music!

 

[MountainBluebird]

Sorry to hear about your mom, Linda. My dad passed away a few months ago. He wasn't much of a music listener or a TV watcher. He liked to read and build things in his workshop.

 

[LindaJ617]

Sorry to hear about your mom, Linda. My dad passed away a few months ago. He wasn't much of a music listener or a TV watcher. He liked to read and build things in his workshop.

Thank you for your condolences, and I am sorry about your dad.
Thinking about Mom gives me those great memories of the 70's, 80's, and she's at peace. It's a good thing.

That's a good thought about memory lane: Books! I loved to read too! My favorites were The Hobbit, The Flowers in the Attic series, Anne of Green Gables, and some Grace Livingston. I wasn't a big Nancy Drew fan though, like many of my friends.

 

[Peripatetic]

Who knew, soon enough, I would have a walkman and be able to play outside AND listen to my music!

No kidding! My first Walkman was as big as a brick, but it was amazing to think that I could listen to my tapes anywhere! Music and books have been so important to me throughout my life. I'm so thankful that they I can continue to enjoy them no matter how old I am.

 

[LindaJ617]

Music and books have been so important to me throughout my life. I'm so thankful that they I can continue to enjoy them no matter how old I am.

Yep! I began to love reading early on and still to this day read voraciously! I have to admit my favorite guilty pleasure is murder mysteries. I'm sure I could find more important things to do at that time, but sometimes a girl just has to take a bubble bath and read.

 

[TamaraLynne]

I grew up in a large family on a small farm. Climbing trees,building forts,had a make believe house under a large row of lilac bushes along the road, eating wild apple,strawberries,grapes,blackberries, raspberries. Hiding under the field of ferns in a clearing in the woods. Putting a hammock at the top of a tree with the leaves blowing gently all around me. running into wildlife like a field of deer or the time a family of possums that hung upside down in a tree(as we were waiting for the schoolbus) throwing things at hornet and bees nests and running away like the wind.Riding horses,playing with the baby pigs(they are sooooo cute!) Riding bikes(lots of bruises and scrapped up knees and ankles which reminds me that I went barefoot all summer. Star trek was the most watched but on Sunday the wonderful world of Disney would come on and I would hope with all my might that it would be something like snow white or sleeping beauty or lady and the tramp...I think what was on though would be the apple dumpling gang...but we only had three channels and the news is what was on the most...parents always trumped kids as far as the t.v. went. Most of the fun was in the summer...winter was not my favorite time of year.

 

[TamaraLynne]

Oh...and the practicing of the spock handsign of "Live Long and Prosper"

 

[LindaJ617]

Oh...and the practicing of the spock handsign of "Live Long and Prosper"

too funny.

Your memories of growing up on a small farm are very similar to mine. We didn't have a farm but we lived on 15 acres and it was very much the country simple life. I loved the apple and peach trees (not the flies though!) but my favorite was our grape vines. White and concord.
Our garden was full of everything from corn and eggplant to peas and tomatoes. I would love to watch Mom do her canning. She made the best bread and butter pickles!

Our property was surrounded by a towering line of pines. My brother and I would hide behind them and throw snowballs at some poor soul driving by. One stopped, walked up our driveway, knocked on the door and told our parents! Ohh boy did we get a whoopin!

The Sunday night Disney was the best! I had completely forgotten the Apple dumpling gang!

And yep parents trumped kids on TV! We had a hour or maybe two after the bus dropped us off before Mom and Dad got home though. We had 5 channels and yep, the news was always on!

 

[Urbanredneck]

Sadly they put 2 of the best shows, 6 Million Dollar Man and Disney, on Sunday nights so we seldom got to watch them.

Video games were really cool in the 80's.

 

[TamaraLynne]

Sadly they put 2 of the best shows, 6 Million Dollar Man and Disney, on Sunday nights so we seldom got to watch them.

Video games were really cool in the 80's.

The arcade places were cool in the late 70's and early 80's !! We even had a small restaurant inside the arcade that catered to teens...perfect hangout. My favorite game was Ms Pac Man and the guys really liked I think it was called Gallaga? something like that. Roller rinks were a big thing to. All the drive ins around here have been taken out...the closest drive in is about 2 hours from us...drive ins are almost extinct.

 

[MountainBluebird]

Yes, I sure remember the roller skating being a big deal. Sometimes our school would go and it was one of the most popular and looked forward to activities.

 

[1Sam24:12]

I remember walking to the $1 movies in the summer with my best friend. I think we saw Foot Loose a dozen times! Loved roller skating. When we didn't go to the rink, we were skating around the neighborhood. Good times!

 

[rainy]

Wow it seems a blink away , I remember when the movies were a dollar, roller skating seeing rocky horror picture show in he car for five dollars. Loved to dirt bike and skate board , and go to the beach. The video game place at the mall was fun.
Fun days

 

[1Sam24:12]

^ Yes is does!

I remember going to the mall with my best friend and hanging out at Orange Julius. We'd buy nachos with extra jalapenos to see who could eat the most jalapenos first without having anything to drink. Those were the days of having a stomach of steel!

 

[Jimmy P]

I loved playing neighborhood Kickball...that was so much fun...going exploring in the woods...the way times felt safer when I was a kid...

 

[1Sam24:12]

I remember playing Wiffle ball in the front yard with all the neighborhood kids. We all stayed in trouble with the mean lady next door because she would holler, "Get that ball out my yard!" every time a ball would roll into her yard. Ohhhh the memories.

 

[Peripatetic]

I think the mean old ladies won, because kids don't just "play outside" nearly as much now. I guess our kids' memory lane will be filled with organized activities and less roaming of the neighborhood.