"This will take you back"

[mm1228]

Speaking of no seatbelts. Anyone remember the arm through across the chest to catch you when your parents stopped (if they caught you in time).

 

[LegacyOfLove]

Wow, this has brought back a lot of memories! I remember when curfew was "coming in when the street lights came on"....or - until you could hear mom/dad yelling for you to get home.

I too played in the rock/gravel piles near our house. I can remember spending many hours outdoors. It wasn't my parents job to entertain me, I had to find ways to entertain myself!

I remember before video games came out...and then when Atari and Intellivision first hit the general public! Wow - those were the days - Pac-Man & Donkey Kong games!!

We never had cable TV - and even my friends who did - if they were from "well-off" families - they even got HBO! (No digital cable back then and there certainly wasn't 100+ channels to choose from). Also, there were no "parental controls" on TVs either. Sheesh...how did we manage to make it through our growing up years without TVGuard? (Hmmm...maybe media has changed...ya think?!?!)

I also remember really snowy winters and tromping through the snow in those big "moon boots" and wearing "leg warmers". And to think, they were actually COOL!

I sure do miss those days when things were so much different. (Now WHO is feeling old? Me!)

 

[onlooker]

Reading of of this really saddens me. Our poor children of today!!
I remember having pong...the going high-tech with Calico-vision.
What about moon boots and parachute pants?
I even remember getting a descrambler box (illegally) so we could have "On" and "It" TV.
I remember actually laying in the rear window of our car and sleeping on long trips.
But honestly, what I miss most of all is Taking a bath around 7 or so then putting on the PJ's, mom popping a big old paper bag full of pop corn, and going to the drive-in movies.
And the old Levi's Jeans commercials. The one where the background was black and all the people were just outlines, except those who had on Levi Jeans...lol...and the "dog" being walked was the Levi logo.
The the one with the goofy song: Lee-he-he-he-he-vies Bawk! Bawk!
When you actually got to see Wiley-E-Coyote get smushed by the boulders and the Road Runner get hit in the face.
Perkalator (sic) coffee pots
ok...I'll stop for now.

 

[Espada]

I can remember actually having to get up and change channels on the TV. We are SO pampered, now!!!

I can remember not even having a colour tv and no video, okay I admit we only had three channels so the chances of actually missing something was rather slim. Now we have 300 and I can't find anything to watch so I can guaruntee I will miss something.

 

[HeatherJay]

Reading of of this really saddens me. Our poor children of today!!
But honestly, what I miss most of all is Taking a bath around 7 or so then putting on the PJ's, mom popping a big old paper bag full of pop corn, and going to the drive-in movies.

We still do this with our kids a couple times a year. There's a drive in about 5 minutes away from my mother in law's house, so whenever we go to visit in the summer time, we usually dress the kids in comfy clothes, take some popcorn and snacks, grab some blankets or sleeping bags, and go to the movies. Sometimes my MIL will even grab her bug candles to keep the bugs away. There's also a drive-in about 45 minutes away from where we live...next town over...so sometimes we go when we're here at home, too.

I also remember getting the plastic cups out of Quaker Oatmeal...anyone else remember that? I always though that the cups were the best part about oatmeal when I was a kid. We had quite a little collection of "oatmeal cups", too.

 

[Littlemouse]

Anybody remember Kangroo shoes the ones with the pocket on them or am I much younger then you guys.

 

[WannaWitness]

Schoolhouse Rock

Messy Marvin

Woodsey Owl's "Give a Hoot, Don't Pollute" and Smokey Bear's "Only you can prevent forest fires."

"Betcha bite a chip!"

When Rick Schroeder was called "Ricky Schroeder".

A nice game of tetherball.

And the time when we thought age 30 was sooooooooo far away!!!

 

[LegacyOfLove]

Oh, I thought of another thing. (I am pretty sure I haven't seen it mentioned yet!)

Who remembers the "Super Bowl Shuffle" song?

 

[HeatherJay]

There was a show that I loved on PBS called JellyBean Junction. The lady wore a train engineers overalls and hat.

And I'll admit it was one of my favorite parts of Saturday morning...MENUDO on ABC!

 

[lucypevensie]

We had a TV that had to "warm up" when you switched it on. It took about a minute before you got any picture or any sound. Black and white of course.

We only got one channel - CBS. The kids who lived in town could get all THREE channels! And the really rich kids who had cable could watch something on most of the other 13 channels on the dial!

The TV broadcasting day was ended at midnight with the national anthem and footage of a flag flying in the wind.

 

[lucypevensie]

I just thought of something. Remember when gasoline got up over a DOLLAR? Several stations did not have space on their signs for a 3 digit price so they had to add an extending arm off to the side where they could add a 1.

 

[WannaWitness]

Anybody remember Kangroo shoes the ones with the pocket on them or am I much younger then you guys.

I remember them being advertised.... never had any, though.

 

[lucypevensie]

Did anyone have a grocery store in town where you had to write the prices on the items yourself? Each item had just one price sticker on the shelf, and you had to write the price on the item with one of the "grease pencils" that the store provided.

Then one day a NEW grocery store came to town that had scanners. My mom was certain that the mark of the beast was the next thing to come!

 

[HollyHobbie]

Remember Saturday (Looney Tune cartoons ) Saturdays at the Mattenee (cant spell ) With The Lone Ranger , Roy Rogers (my childhood heart throb LOL ) Lost in Space ,Romper room, Captin Kangaroo ! the Muppets !. When cracker jack boxes where larger and had better prizes than they do now. When you could get candy lip sticks ,rings fireballs ect for 5 or 10 cents .

When you had to go to school regardless if the school had heat or not and there were a lot less days off of school ?

Remember when the grading scales where A-F and you weren't passed from grade to grade because of your age or athletic prowess .

Or when womans clothes had more clothing to them and showed less skin !

Love In Christ
Holly Hobbie
Laura

 

[lucypevensie]

How about candy cigarettes. I was not allowed candy much but for sure never THOSE.

 

[Veiled Viper]

Oh yeh!!
Those were great fun!!If you blew into them,sugar smoke would spew out the front like smoke!

How about candy cigarettes. I was not allowed candy much but for sure never THOSE.

 

[HeatherJay]

Oh yeh!!
Those were great fun!!If you blew into them,sugar smoke would spew out the front like smoke!

They still sell them, but they're called "candy sticks" now. LOL, where's the fun in candy sticks??

 

[Mark2010]

This will take you back!


We played 'king of the hill' on piles of gravel left on vacant construction sites, and when we got hurt, Mom pulled out the 48-cent bottle of Mercurochrome (kids liked it better because it didn't sting like iodine did) and then we got our butt spanked. Now it's a trip to the emergency room, followed by a 10-day dose of a $49 bottle of antibiotics, and then Mom calls the attorney to sue the contractor for leaving a horribly vicious pile of gravel where it was such a threat.

We didn't act up at the neighbor's house either because if we did, we got our butt spanked there and then we got butt spanked again when we got home

I recall Shmuley Goldberg, from next door, coming over and doing his tricks on the front stoop, just before he fell off. Little did his Mom
know that she could have owned our house. Instead, she picked him up and swatted him for being such a goof. It was a neighborhood run amok.

Yep. Maybe if we went back to spanking people, society wouldn't need to build as many prisons as they do these days.

 

[HollyHobbie]

Amen to that Mark !

Love In Christ
Rudolphs cousin
Rubby lol !

Or I mean Laura (AKA Holly Hobbie )

 

[WannaWitness]

Yep. Maybe if we went back to spanking people, society wouldn't need to build as many prisons as they do these days.

I've got to agree!