What do you remember...................

[SignosaurusRex]

How about...

 

[James Burke]

Rex...I'm thinking more of the 70's version...the Wizzer...always getting wound up in my hair.

For all of us who were kids in the 70's, check this out:

http://www.plaidstallions.com/

 

[Jillbeans]

Growing Up and Liking It
and the nuns making all the boys leave the room.
Making it seem like some big fun treat was going to happen.
The ugliest doll ever, Jane West.
Howard Johnson's clam dinners and bubble gum ice cream.
The welcome look of a Holiday Inn sign after a long car trip with 6 kids in the 1964 white caddy.
Gumby and Pokey.
Little Golden Books.
My big sisters using Dippity Do and giving me quarters for not telling my parents about their boyfriends sneaking into our room.

 

[gabagoo]

here are a few items I remember

 

[Steve C.]

Did you ever roll your own? ...tobacco I mean.

and bobs mention of shakes and malts made me think, somewhere along
the way didn't malts get lost? Where can you order a Malted Milk Shake now?
And there was a time I can remember when all drugstores had a soda
fountain in the back.

 

[gabagoo]

I cant leave these two items out

 

[gabagoo]

almost forgot.....

 

[Mike Paul]

One of the coolest things on my Christmas list as a kid...
Shrunken apple head kit.

http://stolloween.blogspot.com/2008/08/shunkles.html

Came with little eyeballs, long wiry hair & teeth to make them... very cool

 

[emo]

Lincoln Logs

Coleco's handheld Electronic Quarterback (pong with chasing dots)

the old reel to reel tape recorders. 60's ipods I suppose. Blackmail machines in our house

the Super Ball (one cost us a whole weeks worth of groceries one time!)

the good ol' monster models - Frankenstein, Dracula etc. Oh the smell of toxic Testor's paints and model glue.

Loved the Stingray!! Hated the viewmaster - very limited slide selection - probably all biblical.

And man, I'd forgotten all about those shattering Clackers.

 

[Gino]

Now who isn't humming that catchy little tune in the back of their heads right now ??

da..... dum dedum da dum dedum da dum da da da da deedum.........
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[petrosgraphics]

for you girls out there, SPOOLIES

erector sets.. electric trains... coonskin hat.. all of the baseball cards we ruined placing

them in the spokes of your stingray.... or the balloons you inflated to put in the spokes,,
what a sound...

pretending your driving dad's big chrysler imperial with the wings on the back...

 

[curtrnev]

Metal quart oil cans

 

[petrosgraphics]

for you girls out there.... SPOOLIES

erector sets.... all of the great baseball cards we ruined placing in the spokes

of your bike... the balloons you inflated and also placed in the spokes of your bike..

pretending your driving your dad's chrysler imperial with the wings on the back...

8mm home movies, with the bank of lights mounted to the top of the camera....

then sitting around at home watching them, over and over.....

 

[Gino]

I'm sure there are many people on here that haven't a clue as to what these little babies are.................

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[GypsyGraphics]

Two of my favorite toys were, the oh so cool Close N Play (record player)

...and my Beatnik Scooba-Dooba doll. She said hip stuff like "Dig my crazy black stocking."

 

[ova]

I remember the S & H Green Stamps. We had the Top Value Stamps in this area. Got my first ball glove with them. My Mom made me put all the stamps in the books. I think it took a hundred books for that thing I wasn't smart enough to use a damp sponge. I think I can still taste the glue.

 

[GypsyGraphics]

Remember when Arco gas station gave away a set of two Noaks' Ark animals with each fill-up. If i remember correctly, you had to buy the Ark. Oh, and of course there was the set with Noah and what's-her-name (Mrs. Noah).

 

[signage]

no keys

They were a bitch on cold days!

 

[curtrnev]

How about dishes with a tankfull of gas or the metal lunch boxes. It's funny seeing the old Mcdonalds pictures I was born in Downey.

 

[kgirl]

ahhh......the days of making brownies for the first time......and who can forget fundies.....I suppose you can still get them off the net somewhere...