5 things you had as a kid, but your kids did not have

Thu May 3, 2012, 09:36 AM

trof (43,651 posts)

1. 1. The milkman

2. Adventure serials on the radio. Superman, The Green Hornet, Gene Autrey, etc.
3. Nickel pay phones
4. Knickers
5. 10 cent double feature cowboy movies in a theater with a hundred other screaming kids.

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Thu May 3, 2012, 09:37 AM

NightWatcher (20,402 posts)

2. ArmorAll'd rear bench seats

We used to slide around like mad when dad would corner too fast. I never remember booster seats and barely remember seat belts. Then we got a station wagon where the "way way back" was anything goes.

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Thu May 3, 2012, 09:47 AM

pipi_k (16,251 posts)

7. hahahah

I remember those big old cars...no seat belts...we would slide and go flying all over the place in the back seat. Some of them were big enough that we could actually stand up.

And the only station wagon we ever had...I loved it...you're right...the "way way back" was like another country for us kids

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Thu May 3, 2012, 06:30 PM

Archae (26,340 posts)

67. Did the "way back" seat face backwards?

We used to sit facing backwards and make faces at drivers behind us.

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Fri May 4, 2012, 10:57 AM

pipi_k (16,251 posts)

94. It did!!!

We didn't exactly make faces at the people in back of us...we just sat and stared at them.

In a most disturbing way.

Dad would have seen us making faces in the rear view mirror if we were energetic enough about it. He could never tell when we were just staring...

hahahahaha!!!!

I wish I could remember what make of station wagon it was. I remember the outside being kind of a tan/brown color with what looked like fake wood panels. The interior was a cream color. And I'm almost positive there was no shift...just buttons for choosing the gears. Some sort of Plymouth or Dodge product, maybe?

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Fri May 4, 2012, 01:03 PM

hifiguy (13,029 posts)

112. Almost certainly a Ford Country Squire.

I don't remember Chrysler Corp making a wagon with faux wood on the sides though I've been wrong before. But the only Ford product I remember with a pushbutton shift was the Edsel.

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Fri May 4, 2012, 05:40 PM

pipi_k (16,251 posts)

128. You're probably

right.

I was a kid and didn't pay attention, and am probably mixing it up with a Dodge/Plymouth car my first husband had back in the early 70s.

Beautiful champagne colored with cream convertible top, it was jacked up in the back, had Thrush mufflers and a push button shift.

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Sun May 6, 2012, 09:43 PM

jmowreader (23,904 posts)

147. You know about the freeper and the Country Squire, right?

A freeper's wife told him they needed a new car, and she was going by herself this time.

Two hours later she comes home with a Country Squire wagon with wood paneling on the sides. The freeper took one look at it, went in the garage, got a crowbar and tore all the paneling off. Then he looked at the car, looked at his now-pissed-off wife, and said, "Honey, it looked better IN the crate."

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Thu May 3, 2012, 05:59 PM

A Simple Game (4,833 posts)

64. We never had a station wagon but I remember sleeping on the ledge between

the back seat and the rear window when we went to the drive-in. And I was left there for the 10 mile ride home.

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Fri May 4, 2012, 05:54 PM

SammyWinstonJack (35,105 posts)

129. I was just thinking about how we did that too. Pjs and a pillow on the ledge between the back

seat and the rear window at the drive-in.

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Thu May 3, 2012, 09:40 AM

BillStein (614 posts)

3. childhood

just sayin'

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Thu May 3, 2012, 09:40 AM

GeorgeGist (9,511 posts)

4. .

1. polio
2. measles
3. chicken pox
4. mumps
5. scarlet fever

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Thu May 3, 2012, 09:55 AM

SoCalDem (99,662 posts)

9. yikes

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and you survived

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Thu May 3, 2012, 09:43 AM

pipi_k (16,251 posts)

5. OK...

1. Measles

2. A very large extended family (lots of aunts, uncles and cousins)

3. Backyard garbage pail

4. Coal heat

5. Sonic booms (we lived in the flight path of a local Air Force base and the planes flew over the house all the time, some breaking the sound barrier)

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Thu May 3, 2012, 09:47 AM

riderinthestorm (13,153 posts)

6. Banana bike seats (with the accompanying tall handle bars), rotary dial phones,

8 track cassettes, regular commercial airplane rides with a cocktail lounge area (and smokers), moms with teased-up beehive hairdos

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Thu May 3, 2012, 09:52 AM

YankeyMCC (8,292 posts)

8. 1. Married Parents

2. UHF
3. Parachute Pants
4. The Wall (I don't mean the movie or the album)
5. New Coke

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Thu May 3, 2012, 10:18 AM

guitar man (15,996 posts)

10. I remember

Fender skirts

Breaker points in car ignitions

Rotary dial phones

Mini bikes with rope start engines and no real brakes to speak of

Green stamps

Riding in the back of dads pickup truck

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Thu May 3, 2012, 03:02 PM

cyberswede (11,271 posts)

41. We still have a rotary dial phone

I bought it for my first apartment in the 80s - I had to go to the actual AT&T store and buy the window display model - they were discontinued. I hated those first "cricket chirp" phones that came out, so I went on a quest for a rotary phone.

It's the only phone in my house now with the ringer turned on. I still prefer the ring of the real bell.

My kids answer calls on it now, but they don't make calls with it.
...and I was actually able to complete a phone-based survey on it the other day - all my answers were #1, so it worked. LOL

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Thu May 3, 2012, 03:30 PM

guitar man (15,996 posts)

47. Wow

I didn't know there were still any left in service. The last one I remember seeing in working order was about 10 years ago, belonged to an elderly neighbor who wouldn't give it up.

I remember ours when I was a kid. Avacado green and it sat on a little "telephone table" with a seat attached kinda like a school desk. I grew up in a little rural community and as long as we were dialing within the exchange , we only had to dial 4 digits to call our friends lol.

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Thu May 3, 2012, 04:45 PM

cyberswede (11,271 posts)

60. Awesome!

I see those little telephone tables at antique shows occasionally. I wish we had room for one!

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Thu May 3, 2012, 06:01 PM

guitar man (15,996 posts)

65. But the coolest thing by far....

Was the outdoor telephone bells. Dad was a union freight driver, over the road trucker. When they called him out for a run the phone absolutely had to be answered or they would call the next driver on the seniority roster.

So the phone company installed a box on the outside of the house with a couple of frying pan sized bells so if we were all outside doing farm work or whatever we could hear the phone. If it was dads call time and it rang, it was an all out scramble, drop everything and run like hell to get the phone

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Thu May 3, 2012, 07:59 PM

snagglepuss (9,093 posts)

73. My Aunt lived in a ranch style bungelow and there was a little nook in the

hallway leading to the bedrooms expressly designed to accommodate a little telephone table and chair. i thought it was the high of sophistication.

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Sat May 5, 2012, 01:28 PM

pink-o (3,676 posts)

139. The standard ring tone on an IPhone

Sounds just the the old bakelite rotary phone I grew up with in the 60s.

Just in case you wanna create it with 21st century technology.

Personally, I'm very old and a chick, yet I LOVE all my techie gadgets! What I remember from my childhood is warped and skipping records, broken cassette tapes, bad pix on the TV,huuuuuuge long distance phone bills, waiting in lines at the store to buy the latest book or music releases, wasting tons of cash on developing my film, when there was only one good shot out of 200...well, you get the point.

I also remember trying on clothes at Macy's and finding burn holes in them. Every department store had ashtrays around, and the women browsing thru clothes racks had ciggies hanging from their lips, not caring what they did to the merchandise.

So yeah, I had a happy, wonderful childhood with spontaneous games of tag and hide n seek, long afternoons playing with my friends outside, great 4th of July fireworks (now banned) but I love my life in the here and now. Happy never to dial another phone ever again!

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Sat May 5, 2012, 04:50 PM

Sequoia (12,448 posts)

140. Same here; it's a powder blue Princess Phone.

And it works when the electricity goes out. One day a kid came over to phone his dad and he didn't know how to use it. Remember old tv shows when the bad guy would dial a number and the agent/spy could tell what number he called based on the time it took for the rotary to spin.

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Thu May 3, 2012, 10:39 AM

HopeHoops (47,675 posts)

11. Mine have pogo sticks.

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Thu May 3, 2012, 10:48 AM

JCMach1 (21,219 posts)

12. Ford Falcon with milk crates for back seats...

LOL

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Thu May 3, 2012, 04:06 PM

SCantiGOP (2,705 posts)

53. First car I bought was a 66 Ford Falcon

Paid $700 for it in 1972, it had 104,000 on it. I put almost 50,000 on it without a major repair, and when it conked out I was finally in a position to buy a new car so I sold it for $50.
50,000 miles for $650 is a value I will never get again.

The other notable thing I remember from my youth were LIBERAL REPUBLICANS! And liberal Southern Democrats. Some of the strongest opponents of the Viet Nam war were Republicans, many from the West.

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Thu May 3, 2012, 08:04 PM

kwassa (15,641 posts)

74. I drove to Woodstock with my friends in a Ford Falcon wagon

We lost the clutch on the Pennsylvania turnpike on the way home with no money and nothing to eat but saltwater taffy from HoJos.

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Fri May 4, 2012, 04:03 PM

truedelphi (25,931 posts)

123. It sounds like you were really there.

I remember visiting a friend of mine who lived on campus, and he was so excited one time because I brought him a can of tuna and a loaf of bread from my parents' pantry.

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Thu May 3, 2012, 10:49 AM

raccoon (21,259 posts)

13. 1. Mumps, 2. Measles. (I don't have kids, but thought I'd chime in on this.)

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3. Black and white TV.

4. Non-sexual spankings and slapping.

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Thu May 3, 2012, 11:04 AM

LibDemAlways (12,940 posts)

14. The "children's table" at dinners with family and friends

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doctor's house calls

the freedom to get on a bike and go to a friend's house without my mom arranging a formal "playdate"

drive-in movies

tvs without remote controls

cars without seat belts

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Thu May 3, 2012, 08:05 PM

snagglepuss (9,093 posts)

75. Yeah no tv remotes. Of course there were just a handful of channels so no need to

surf. Instead of surfing channels people continually eyeballed tv guides. What home didn't have a tv guide?

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Thu May 3, 2012, 08:41 PM

LibDemAlways (12,940 posts)

77. Having to repeatedly turn the tv dial manually caused it to fail quickly so that

someone had to fiddle with it in order to get anything other than snow. I remember that some stations wouldn't come in unless the dial was situated between two numbers. We'd carefully position it, then back slowly away, and if we were lucky it would stay for a few minutes.

Sure got a lot more exercise watching tv back then.

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Thu May 3, 2012, 09:56 PM

snagglepuss (9,093 posts)

81. That is a riot. I had no idea anyone else had to situate the dial between two numbers.

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Thu May 3, 2012, 11:18 PM

LibDemAlways (12,940 posts)

86. It had to have been a common problem. Those were also the days when

a tv repairman would show up with a tube tester and a truckload of tubes to make repairs when the whole thing went on the fritz - which was often. Today all my daughter has to worry about when she wants to watch some crappy show is hoping the satellite connection isn't momentarily lost. Technology has come a long way.

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Fri May 4, 2012, 12:16 PM

Archae (26,340 posts)

106. My Dad's first career was as a TV repairman.

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He did TV and radio repairs on the side until tube TV's and radios finally simply went away.

I learned how to fix what were called "barn radios."

These were AM radios that a farmer would have in his barn, and I still remember the two tubes that usually went out and had to be replaced.

35w4 and 50c5.

I made about $5-10 a week fixing those radios, and to a 12-15 year old kid in the early to mid-70's that was good money.

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Fri May 4, 2012, 03:28 PM

treestar (40,421 posts)

121. Reminded me of another thing

The horizontal problem - where the picture would go up and you had to use that dial to get it to settle down

Also, snow in general. The unused channels that were all snow all the time

The TV going off the air at night and playing the national anthem

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Fri May 4, 2012, 10:03 PM

RFKHumphreyObama (15,031 posts)

133. Interestingly, I was a child of the 80s and lived in SE Asia

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And we also had the TV go off at night and start again in the morning/afternoon playing the national anthem of the country I was in

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Sat May 5, 2012, 11:44 AM

treestar (40,421 posts)

136. And if sleepless at night - nothing to do but read a book!

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Thu May 3, 2012, 11:08 AM

geardaddy (14,308 posts)

15. 1. Curb feelers on cars

2. Sting-ray bikes (banana seats, sissy bars, and high handlebars)
3. Bub's Daddy bubble gum
4. Homemade skateboards
5. No facemasks on hockey helmets

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Thu May 3, 2012, 02:48 PM

cyberswede (11,271 posts)

36. Bub's Daddy!

Green Apple was the best!

How many of those could you cram in your mouth? We'd try to fit as many as possible - drooling & hardly able to talk.
Thanks for the memory.

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Thu May 3, 2012, 02:57 PM

geardaddy (14,308 posts)

38. I hated Green Apple.

LOL I loved grape.

I would always put the entire rope in my mouth.

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Thu May 3, 2012, 03:39 PM

GoCubsGo (12,978 posts)

49. When I was a kid, hockey players didn't wear helmets.

One didn't start seeing them until the late 1960s, after Bill Masterson died from hitting his head on the ice.

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Thu May 3, 2012, 03:42 PM

geardaddy (14,308 posts)

50. I played in the mid-70s

Pros didn't have to wear helmets, but kids did have to.

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Thu May 3, 2012, 04:19 PM

GoCubsGo (12,978 posts)

56. Most of the pros were wearing them by the 1970s, too.

But, it didn't become mandatory until 1979. The year I was born, there were still goalies who weren't wearings masks. No many, but I think they all came to their senses within a few years of that. Shows you how old I am.

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Thu May 3, 2012, 04:43 PM

geardaddy (14,308 posts)

59. I remember goalies without masks.

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Fri May 4, 2012, 01:05 PM

hifiguy (13,029 posts)

114. Gump Worsley

to be precise.

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Fri May 4, 2012, 01:27 PM

geardaddy (14,308 posts)

115. Bingo!

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Fri May 4, 2012, 04:05 PM

truedelphi (25,931 posts)

124. And as a kid, I don't remember baseball players all

Re-arranging their family jewels, in front of the fans. Maybe I was so young that behavior went over my head, but I sure don't recall it happening.

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Thu May 3, 2012, 03:59 PM

geardaddy (14,308 posts)

52. Coffee percolators

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Thu May 3, 2012, 08:57 PM

laundry_queen (4,155 posts)

79. At my grandmother's house

They still use her old percolator to make coffee whenever we have a reunion. That's the only coffee my grandmother would drink. It still works - must be 40 years old. So my kids actually DO know what one looks (and sounds) like, LOL.

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Thu May 3, 2012, 06:25 PM

siligut (10,994 posts)

66. And the Canadian hockey players had no teeth

Remember that? And it was just accepted because they were hockey players

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Fri May 4, 2012, 10:47 AM

geardaddy (14,308 posts)

92. Yep!

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Thu May 3, 2012, 11:41 AM

benld74 (4,594 posts)

16. Yeah my kids say I sound old

1) 5 TV channels 2,4,5,9,11
2) ONLY - black and white TV
3) non-air conditioned schools
4) $5 gives you BIG fun on a Saturday night!
5) Police 'take' your beer away - AND THATS ALL

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Thu May 3, 2012, 12:54 PM

madinmaryland (52,892 posts)

24. We had UHF channels (14-82) also. PBS and a couple of independent stations.

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Thu May 3, 2012, 11:51 AM

Arugula Latte (40,051 posts)

17. ...

1. a horse

2. a stereo with a turntable
3. a waterbed (well, it was actually my sister's)
4. a classic metal swingset
5. one of these twisty radios:

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Thu May 3, 2012, 12:34 PM

pipi_k (16,251 posts)

18. Don't know if anyone

remembers these (or even had one) but when I was a kid we had these little radios that looked like miniature fire hydrants...red with a sort of metal rod on top with a knob that you pressed down to change the stations...attached to the radio was a wire with what looked like (when I got older and knew about such things) a roach clip on the end that was clipped to the metal bed frame.

I was about 8 or 9, so this was 1960 or '61.

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Thu May 3, 2012, 12:40 PM

Arugula Latte (40,051 posts)

19. That sounds cool. I don't remember those -- I was a 70s kid.

We did have a round radio, as well as the twisty one:

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Thu May 3, 2012, 04:23 PM

GoCubsGo (12,978 posts)

57. Wow! That's a blast from the past. Another...

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Also from Panasonic:

On edit: Guess I should have read the whole sub-thread before I posted this. BTW, they're called "Toot-a-Loops". It's an S, it's an O, it's a crazy radio.

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Fri May 4, 2012, 12:28 PM

nadine_mn (2,374 posts)

108. oh that brings back memories!!!!

I had one, man, wish I still did!

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Thu May 3, 2012, 02:57 PM

Gidney N Cloyd (10,442 posts)

39. I had one of those but it looked a little more like this:

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Thu May 3, 2012, 04:28 PM

GoCubsGo (12,978 posts)

58. I had one that looked like this:

I shit you not.

I decorated it with stickers from the Harlem Globetrotters cartoons that was popular at the time. Got those from a cereal box.

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Fri May 4, 2012, 12:03 PM

Arugula Latte (40,051 posts)

103. Pretty damn boss as well!

The craftsmanship looks excellent, too.

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Fri May 4, 2012, 12:23 PM

GoCubsGo (12,978 posts)

107. Hey, it was free.

My dad worked at a plumbing and heating wholesaler. One of the suppliers gave it to him. It actually had a fairly decent radio inside.

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Thu May 3, 2012, 05:05 PM

grilled onions (1,451 posts)

61. One Was Shaped Like A Rocket

It cost under $3 and you clipped it to the telephone. Don't know what happened if the phone rand at the same time!

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Thu May 3, 2012, 12:47 PM

geardaddy (14,308 posts)

22. I always wanted one of those!

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But I had the crappy transistor radio with the leather case.

Sort of like this:

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Thu May 3, 2012, 01:02 PM

Arugula Latte (40,051 posts)

26. It was pretty "boss" if I do say so myself!

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Thu May 3, 2012, 02:46 PM

Myrina (8,913 posts)

35. OMG I had one of those!!!

Thanks for the throwback!! I'd completely forgotten about it!!!

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Fri May 4, 2012, 01:06 AM

Populist_Prole (2,475 posts)

88. Had the same thing. Called a 'Toot a Loop'

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Fri May 4, 2012, 12:05 PM

Arugula Latte (40,051 posts)

104. Another thing we played with (didn't own, though) ...

Lawn darts. Living on the edge, baby!

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Thu May 3, 2012, 12:44 PM

geardaddy (14,308 posts)

20. I thought of another couple.

1. cameras with film
2. Flash bulbs or cubes.

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Thu May 3, 2012, 02:17 PM

MatthewStLouis (673 posts)

33. Isn't it amazing to think we only had 4 flash pics on there! And a roll of 24 pics was awesome.

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Thu May 3, 2012, 03:01 PM

geardaddy (14,308 posts)

40. I loved those cameras.

and remember when they came out with the pocket version?

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Thu May 3, 2012, 03:04 PM

cyberswede (11,271 posts)

42. and the Flip Flash!

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Thu May 3, 2012, 03:13 PM

geardaddy (14,308 posts)

44. Yes!

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Fri May 4, 2012, 11:03 AM

pipi_k (16,251 posts)

97. Yes!

We had one...

Also, I had one of these...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polaroid_Swinger

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Fri May 4, 2012, 05:16 PM

Gidney N Cloyd (10,442 posts)

127. "It's more than a camera, it's almost alive, only nineteen dollars and ninety-five"

B/W film and there was some chemical developer you'd have to CAREFULLY rub on the pictures.

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Thu May 3, 2012, 12:44 PM

Baitball Blogger (11,211 posts)

21. Open space.

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Thu May 3, 2012, 12:52 PM

gratuitous (49,292 posts)

23. A healthy respect for machines with moving parts

Imparted to me by my parents who had enough experience with the sometimes unpredictable nature of machinery, particularly in farm country where they grew up. They passed that fear/respect on to me and my siblings, but I don't see young folks nowadays with anything approaching an appreciation that this or that machine (as way cool as it is) might just punch your ticket if you're not careful or stand too close.

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Thu May 3, 2012, 01:02 PM

Bruce Wayne (692 posts)

25. 1. A mother

Poor little Damian. I so worry about him sometimes.

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Thu May 3, 2012, 01:04 PM

Archae (26,340 posts)

27. Lawn darts.

"Thingmaker" toy and any other toy that gave me 2nd-degree burns.

Chemistry sets that made stink bombs and other explosives.

Real playgrounds.

Actual music, not autotune.

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Thu May 3, 2012, 01:06 PM

geardaddy (14,308 posts)

28. My brother had the "Thingmaker"

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Thu May 3, 2012, 01:54 PM

Broken_Hero (58,996 posts)

29. Okay

1. walkman/stereo with a working cassette player, I'll also throw in 8 track, and record player.

2. type writer

3. Floppy discs

4. vhs player/beta max/laser disc player

5. solid lunch boxes, it seems all the lunch boxes I see are all very soft, unlike the metal tin battle hammers I had when I was growing up.

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Thu May 3, 2012, 02:00 PM

RiffRandell (2,964 posts)

30. Atari, Big Wheel, Sit n Spin,Typewriter, and records. n/t

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Thu May 3, 2012, 03:13 PM

geardaddy (14,308 posts)

45. I so badly wanted a Big Wheel and a Sit n Spin.

Didn't get either.

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Thu May 3, 2012, 04:18 PM

RebelOne (26,791 posts)

55. My son got a big wheel for Xmas one year.

I don't remember when, but I stayed up late on Xmas eve putting it together.

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Thu May 3, 2012, 05:40 PM

SoCalDem (99,662 posts)

62. There's a company that makes adult-version Green Machines

and I think they also do a Big Wheel version.. I almost bought one for my impossible-to-buy-for grown up son

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Fri May 4, 2012, 10:24 AM

geardaddy (14,308 posts)

90. Holy crikey.

I have to get one!

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Fri May 4, 2012, 12:56 PM

SoCalDem (99,662 posts)

110. a few links to try

http://bigwheelrally.com/store/adult.htm

http://www.huffy.com/products/Product.aspx?pid=413|2|10

http://blog.makezine.com/2006/02/14/diy-green-machine/

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Fri May 4, 2012, 01:01 PM

geardaddy (14,308 posts)

111. Thanks!

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Thu May 3, 2012, 02:04 PM

JustABozoOnThisBus (9,913 posts)

31. more stuff

Suicide knobs on steering wheels
Smallpox vaccination
Coaster brake on bike
Unsupervised time
Encyclopedia
Sliderule

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Thu May 3, 2012, 02:14 PM

MatthewStLouis (673 posts)

32. I'd replace 4 with Saturday Morning cartoons; now they can be 24/7.

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Thu May 3, 2012, 02:45 PM

Myrina (8,913 posts)

34. Free time & the ability to go exploring alone or w/other kids ...

... nowadays kids are micro-managed to the max and not even allowed to stand at the end of their own driveways to wait for the school bus.

Shit, we used to walk to school and stop at the candy store, or detour to the park on the way home for a couple hours ... nobody disappeared & no parent was freaking out/calling the FBI.

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Thu May 3, 2012, 02:54 PM

wysimdnwyg (1,948 posts)

37. Let's see if I can come up with 5 without hints from others

1. 45 and 78 rpm records and my own player
2. Black and white tv with four channels
3. Candy cigarettes
4. The ability to safely go out and play in the yard - and other yards in the neighborhood - without adult supervision
5. Lawn darts

Yeah, some things actually do get better over the years.

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Thu May 3, 2012, 03:10 PM

WhoIsNumberNone (4,510 posts)

43. Afternoon TV

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Cartoons that weren't promoting a toy line or a colectable card game
25 cent comic books & candy bars
Vinyl records
Movies not written by the marketing department
Jim Henson

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Thu May 3, 2012, 03:43 PM

geardaddy (14,308 posts)

51. That's my childhood, baby!

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Thu May 3, 2012, 03:14 PM

MerryBlooms (2,026 posts)

46. 1. Learning to drive on back roads and your neighbors smiled and waved

2. Penny candy
3. Williams Bread Wrapper Day at the local movie theater
4. Mowing lawns for summer money
5. Parents smoking in the house

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Thu May 3, 2012, 05:42 PM

SoCalDem (99,662 posts)

63. I learned to drive on I-35

The section from Salina Kansas to Oklahoma was all paved, but not yet open, so my friend would take me out for lessons on that beautiful pristine Interstate..The car? a '56 yellow Cadillac

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Thu May 3, 2012, 06:39 PM

MerryBlooms (2,026 posts)

68. Beaut!

I grew up in the back hills of Jacksonville Oregon. My dad was a heavy equipment operator for the county, so any project he was working on was ok for me to learn/drive on after I turned 10 and then up the back roads of J'ville from 12 on. lol, great times and to this day I still drive a manual tran.

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Thu May 3, 2012, 03:30 PM

solara (2,735 posts)

48. Wow.. these lists really take me back

1. Black rotary phone with a cord AND a party line
2. Hula hoop
3. Nickle sodas and candy bars/25 cent movies
4. Schwinn bike without hand brakes ( had to back pedal to stop)
5. HI-FI with turntable, built in speaker and a 45 adapter

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Thu May 3, 2012, 04:16 PM

hifiguy (13,029 posts)

54. Quality food products that were locally made,

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and not filled with processed crapola, like Peters' and Schweigert franks.

Whitewall tires - my dad had 'em on the tuxedo '59 Impala coupe we had when I was a boy (There are people I would kill to have that car just as it was back in 1963).

The neighborhood kids getting together and putting aside their feuds for sandlot baseball once a week.

Axel and His Dawg (possibly the single best local TV kid show in history - the surrealism of Monty Python one discovered in the teen years wasn't much of a reach if you grew up with Axel)

Axel

Real, hand-drawn cartoons whose purpose was no higher than good entertainment (Thank you Warner Bros.)

LP records.

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Fri May 4, 2012, 10:58 AM

geardaddy (14,308 posts)

95. I'm too young to have watched Axel

But I remember Casey Jones and Roundhouse Rodney at lunchtime (remember when you got to go home for lunch at Minneapolis Public Schools?)

I also remember Carmen, Clancy and Willy in the mornings. I'm friends with Alan Lotsberg's (Willy) daugher.

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Fri May 4, 2012, 11:12 AM

hifiguy (13,029 posts)

98. I remember Clancy the Cop and Willie Ketchum like it was yesterday

Every morning before heading off for school I'd check in with Clancy, after Clellan "Axel" Card passed away. When I was in early grade school I'd go home, or to our neighbor lady's house after my mom went back to work, for Lunch with Casey once a week or so. School was only about three blocks away in Bloomington.

Allen Lotsberg hosted Comedy for Big Kids/Comedy Classics on Sunday nights in the early 1970s and that was my introduction to the Marx Brothers and a lot of the Laurel & Hardy oeuvre. He warped me for life!

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Fri May 4, 2012, 11:22 AM

geardaddy (14,308 posts)

100. Allan's He's a super nice guy and a complete liberal

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Sat May 5, 2012, 09:11 PM

mysuzuki2 (2,880 posts)

141. ooh ooh, I remember Axel !

did you grow up in Minneapolis in the 1950s?

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Sat May 5, 2012, 10:20 PM

hifiguy (13,029 posts)

142. 1960s, but I got a full dose of Axel.

Nothing ever better!

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Thu May 3, 2012, 06:40 PM

MerryBlooms (2,026 posts)

69. In the front yard before the street lamp came on!

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Thu May 3, 2012, 06:43 PM

Tabasco_Dave (1,155 posts)

70. Black & White portable tv

My parents watched the color TV in the living room and i watched my shows on the portable. Happy Days was like a real 50's show to me because i only saw it in B&W.

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Thu May 3, 2012, 06:49 PM

grntuscarora (502 posts)

71. A Chatty Cathy doll.

Insert a teeny-tiny record, pull the string, and she'd say something. Primitive now, but state-of-the-art at the time

Also, neighborhood pick-up games of kickball, softball, & squirt-gun battles. Always spontaneous, noisy and fun with NO adult supervision.

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Thu May 3, 2012, 07:48 PM

Burma Jones (11,621 posts)

72. Hmmmmm, let's see.........it wasn't all skittles and beer.......

Segregated Schools
Chicken Pox
Awful Air and Water Pollution - I grew up in Gary, Indiana, in the mid 1960s - trust me, it's better than it was.......
Parents smoking
Corporal Punishment

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Thu May 3, 2012, 08:10 PM

Taverner (53,259 posts)

76. Cassette tapes

Vinyl 45s

A sense of purpose

Hand me downs they would wear

Hours of playtime

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Thu May 3, 2012, 08:52 PM

one_voice (10,999 posts)

78. ok..

1. drive-ins

2. 8 track player/tapes

3. dollar movies

4. penny candy

5. records.

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Thu May 3, 2012, 09:19 PM

laundry_queen (4,155 posts)

80. 1. Stationery

to write letters to your friends that had moved away.

2. Pop in glass bottles delivered to your house.

3. Yarn bows (girls who grew up in the 70's know what I'm talking about).

4. baby aspirin - my mom dished them out like candy before the whole Reye's syndrome thing.

5. mercurochrome - every scratch I had got plastered with this stuff

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Thu May 3, 2012, 10:01 PM

snagglepuss (9,093 posts)

82. omg yarn bows! I haven't thought of those for years. I didn't know

that mercurochrome is no longer sold. As for stationary my mom had 2 boxes from Regal Card Catalog, both scented, one apple blossom the other rose - I coveted both.

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Fri May 4, 2012, 11:02 AM

cyberswede (11,271 posts)

96. Yarn bows! LOL

My mom still has a bag of these that we used to wear. I bet my 9 year old daughter would blanche at the sight of them! LOL

Cindy Brady sporting yarn ribbons:

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Thu May 3, 2012, 10:25 PM

fizzgig (17,486 posts)

83. dial up internet

vhs
$.99/gal gas
tape deck
8-bit video game system

*disclaimer, i don't have kids (as the husband commented when he saw this thread)

conversely, i have had a type writer, record player, rotary phone and the ability to run around the neighborhood all day with my friends

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Thu May 3, 2012, 10:41 PM

madamesilverspurs (6,755 posts)

84. 1. Rabbit ears

2. Coffee can keys
3. Castor oil
4. Nylon stockings with seams
5. Five-slot chalk holders for making lines on blackboards

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Thu May 3, 2012, 10:46 PM

The Velveteen Ocelot (34,697 posts)

85. Not being able to go swimming in August because of polio.

Mantoux tests (for tuberculosis) in school.
The Mickey Mouse Club on TV (and knowing all the words to the theme song).
Andy's Gang ("Plunk your magic twanger, Froggy!").
Cool toys in cereal boxes.

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Fri May 4, 2012, 11:12 AM

pipi_k (16,251 posts)

99. Oh lord do I remember

that!!!

My mom always pointed us to images of kids in iron lungs as the result of what would happen from going swimming at the wrong time of year.

Add to that the fact that one of a pair of twins at the end of our street had a mild case of polio and had to wear braces on his legs and walk with those metal pole things.

I was terrified of getting polio and having to spend my life inside a big round barrel with only my head sticking out...

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Fri May 4, 2012, 01:02 AM

madmom (9,375 posts)

87. let's see..

headlights on cars had dimmer switch on the floor
45 records with the plastic insert to put on 78 spindle
hairdryers with the plastic hood/ hose coming out the back
having one room in the house hot as blazes (were the coal stove was) the rest of the house freezing
manual wringer washing machines

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Fri May 4, 2012, 01:23 AM

NYC_SKP (48,730 posts)

89. Time, Peace, Clean Air, Lack of Fear, A Future.

eom

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Fri May 4, 2012, 11:39 AM

raccoon (21,259 posts)

102. Lack of fear? Not entirely. Remember fear of nuclear war? nt

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Fri May 4, 2012, 04:09 PM

truedelphi (25,931 posts)

125. I remember. One nun told us in second grade that none of us would live to see our

13th birthday.

Another nun told us we could avert Nuclear War if we prayed a rosary every single day. (Fifty Hail Marys, a bunch of Our Fathers, and the Nicene Creed.)

I was too busy to do that during the day, but at night, I would lie awake praying. (When not listening to the top ten count down on my transistor radio.) If I fell asleep in the middle of the prayers, I was always amazed the next day that the planet was still around.

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Fri May 4, 2012, 02:49 PM

hedgehog (30,378 posts)

119. Not so much the clean air.......

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Fri May 4, 2012, 04:13 PM

The Velveteen Ocelot (34,697 posts)

126. When was that? When I was a kid we had:

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Air raid drills in school - "duck and cover" (i.e., put your head between your legs and kiss your ass goodbye).

Smog. In some places it was bad enough to kill people (12,000 people in London in 1952).

Daily strontium-90 reports from the aboveground nuclear testing out west.

The Cuyahoga River near Cleveland was so polluted it caught on fire in 1952 and 1969.

Love Canal.

Sonic booms.

The Cuban Missile Crisis.

The '50s and '60s were in many respects a much dirtier, scarier time than now.

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Fri May 4, 2012, 10:41 AM

HopeHoops (47,675 posts)

91. German Measles.

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Fri May 4, 2012, 01:04 PM

GoCubsGo (12,978 posts)

113. They first came out with the vaccine when I was in the 3rd grade.

We all got vaccinated at school. They had also just come out with those needle-free guns that shoot the vaccine into you. They were a lot quicker than needles. And, they didn't hurt a bit.

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Fri May 4, 2012, 10:55 AM

Paladin (8,667 posts)

93. Friends And Family Members Stricken With Polio.

The "Good Old Days" are highly overrated......

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Fri May 4, 2012, 12:08 PM

4th law of robotics (6,801 posts)

105. Well maybe not polio, but I could see a lot of those infectious diseases

that we'd largely wiped out making a comeback if the anti-vaccine crowd remains as large as it does.

Maybe kids will get some taste of the old days with regular outbreaks of measles, mumps, whooping cough and so on.

And who knows, polio isn't gone. It could be reintroduced here (although I suspect that would pretty much end the entire movement overnight).

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Fri May 4, 2012, 12:40 PM

La Lioness Priyanka (45,829 posts)

109. so true. that's why i find the anti-vac folk so insanely dangerous. nt

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Fri May 4, 2012, 02:07 PM

4th law of robotics (6,801 posts)

117. Maybe they're just hopelessly nostalgic

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Fri May 4, 2012, 03:43 PM

schmice (248 posts)

122. I remember the Shriners hospitals caring for children with polio.

I also remember Iron Lungs.

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Fri May 4, 2012, 11:29 AM

TrogL (31,263 posts)

101. realistic looking toy guns

Though I will admin the Johnny 7 rifle was a bit beyond state of the art at the time.

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Fri May 4, 2012, 08:07 PM

TheCentepedeShoes (3,522 posts)

130. I had a

black plastic Luger squirt gun

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Fri May 4, 2012, 01:48 PM

SwissTony (1,019 posts)

116. Sports games that lasted for hours

In my case, soccer. The game would start and kids would be called home to eat (no mobile, just your mum shouting "Your dinner's ready") or do something else, to reappear later and often have to play on the "opposing" team since the composition of both teams had changed radically in your absence. But nobody cared.

This was in Scotland in the 50s. I've been back many times and for a long time the piece of ground where I used to play now has a large sign saying "No ball games". Many other spaces have similar signs. I often wonder if this has contributed to Scotland going from a pretty strong soccer nation to one that many Scots are embarrassed about.

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Fri May 4, 2012, 02:22 PM

lastlib (3,739 posts)

118. record player, 8-track tapes, transistor radios.

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Fri May 4, 2012, 03:06 PM

treestar (40,421 posts)

120. Deliveries from milkman / milk box on front porch

Deliveries from potato chip truck

Doctors who came to the house

Pharmacies delivering medication to house

Non-chain restaurants with unusual themes - the "Chuck Wagon" in a building shaped like a wagon, for example

Walking to school - entire neighborhood every morning full of kids all walking the same direction and the reverse in the afternoon.

Book bags (backpacks seem better though) and/or plastic things to put around a pile of books to make they easier to carry

45 records

Drive-in movies (at least where I am, there are none now)

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Fri May 4, 2012, 10:10 PM

Lars39 (18,175 posts)

134. I know where 5 drive-ins are here in TN.

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Sat May 5, 2012, 11:43 AM

treestar (40,421 posts)

135. Are they still in business?

That is cool!

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Sat May 5, 2012, 12:29 PM

Lars39 (18,175 posts)

137. Yep. :-)

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Fri May 4, 2012, 08:24 PM

TheCentepedeShoes (3,522 posts)

131. Push button gear shift

Like we had on our '58 Chrysler New Yorker

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Fri May 4, 2012, 08:26 PM

noamnety (18,374 posts)

132. 1. An antenna rotator for the tv

2. stilts
3. a pong game that hooked to the tv
4. a well with a hand pump (we had indoor water, but also an outside hand pump that worked if the power went out)
5. candle dipping supplies - that we used regularly.

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Sat May 5, 2012, 12:48 PM

yellerpup (10,915 posts)

138. Lots of free time.

To play, to create, and explore.

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chrisa (3,365 posts)

143. 1. Cap guns!

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2. VHS videos from the store that said "Be Kind, Rewind" but no one ever did.

3. MS-DOS dungeon crawler games / the Atari / SNES (I was really obsessed with Mario)

4. That easy bake oven, or whatever it was called, and also the one that you made plastic bugs with, but burned yourself all of the time

5. Whiffle balls!

Honorable mention - Super Soakers, Slinkies (sp?), Board Games (including Monopoly, Sorry, Trivial Pursuit), and other games (like that game (?) Crossfire - you know, the one where you shoot the tiny metal balls that totally weren't a choking hazard at all), Legos, and finally, running around outside (which seems to be a past time now for some reason - darn XBox).

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Sun May 6, 2012, 03:57 AM

LASlibinSC (269 posts)

144. Wow...

45's, Bride dolls, alcohol and cigarette commercials, wall mounted bottle openers, trick-or-treeting without adults after dark, Jiffy pop, gogo boots Sunday afternoon rides in the car just for the ride

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Sun May 6, 2012, 04:28 AM

alphafemale (13,246 posts)

145. Record Stores

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That staticy noise and that smell the first time you opened an LP.

The 99 center at KFC Two finger likun gud pieces of chicken roll and coleslaw

Skate rinks

Abandoned 1/2 mile long rail road tunnel

Dropped poo in a real honest to gawd outhouse.

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146. Phone #s with two letter prefixes. BEachwood 4,5,7,8,9 You can call me up and have a date

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5 things you had as a kid, but your kids did not have (Original post)	SoCalDem	May 2012	OP
1. The milkman	trof	May 2012	#1
ArmorAll'd rear bench seats	NightWatcher	May 2012	#2
hahahah	pipi_k	May 2012	#7
Did the "way back" seat face backwards?	Archae	May 2012	#67
It did!!!	pipi_k	May 2012	#94
Almost certainly a Ford Country Squire.	hifiguy	May 2012	#112
You're probably	pipi_k	May 2012	#128
You know about the freeper and the Country Squire, right?	jmowreader	May 2012	#147
We never had a station wagon but I remember sleeping on the ledge between	A Simple Game	May 2012	#64
I was just thinking about how we did that too. Pjs and a pillow on the ledge between the back	SammyWinstonJack	May 2012	#129
childhood	BillStein	May 2012	#3
.	GeorgeGist	May 2012	#4
yikes	SoCalDem	May 2012	#9
OK...	pipi_k	May 2012	#5
Banana bike seats (with the accompanying tall handle bars), rotary dial phones,	riderinthestorm	May 2012	#6
1. Married Parents	YankeyMCC	May 2012	#8
I remember	guitar man	May 2012	#10
We still have a rotary dial phone	cyberswede	May 2012	#41
Wow	guitar man	May 2012	#47
Awesome!	cyberswede	May 2012	#60
But the coolest thing by far....	guitar man	May 2012	#65
My Aunt lived in a ranch style bungelow and there was a little nook in the	snagglepuss	May 2012	#73
The standard ring tone on an IPhone	pink-o	May 2012	#139
Same here; it's a powder blue Princess Phone.	Sequoia	May 2012	#140
Mine have pogo sticks.	HopeHoops	May 2012	#11
Ford Falcon with milk crates for back seats...	JCMach1	May 2012	#12
First car I bought was a 66 Ford Falcon	SCantiGOP	May 2012	#53
I drove to Woodstock with my friends in a Ford Falcon wagon	kwassa	May 2012	#74
It sounds like you were really there.	truedelphi	May 2012	#123
1. Mumps, 2. Measles. (I don't have kids, but thought I'd chime in on this.)	raccoon	May 2012	#13
The "children's table" at dinners with family and friends	LibDemAlways	May 2012	#14
Yeah no tv remotes. Of course there were just a handful of channels so no need to	snagglepuss	May 2012	#75
Having to repeatedly turn the tv dial manually caused it to fail quickly so that	LibDemAlways	May 2012	#77
That is a riot. I had no idea anyone else had to situate the dial between two numbers.	snagglepuss	May 2012	#81
It had to have been a common problem. Those were also the days when	LibDemAlways	May 2012	#86
My Dad's first career was as a TV repairman.	Archae	May 2012	#106
Reminded me of another thing	treestar	May 2012	#121
Interestingly, I was a child of the 80s and lived in SE Asia	RFKHumphreyObama	May 2012	#133
And if sleepless at night - nothing to do but read a book!	treestar	May 2012	#136
1. Curb feelers on cars	geardaddy	May 2012	#15
Bub's Daddy!	cyberswede	May 2012	#36
I hated Green Apple.	geardaddy	May 2012	#38
When I was a kid, hockey players didn't wear helmets.	GoCubsGo	May 2012	#49
I played in the mid-70s	geardaddy	May 2012	#50
Most of the pros were wearing them by the 1970s, too.	GoCubsGo	May 2012	#56
I remember goalies without masks.	geardaddy	May 2012	#59
Gump Worsley	hifiguy	May 2012	#114
Bingo!	geardaddy	May 2012	#115
And as a kid, I don't remember baseball players all	truedelphi	May 2012	#124
Coffee percolators	geardaddy	May 2012	#52
At my grandmother's house	laundry_queen	May 2012	#79
And the Canadian hockey players had no teeth	siligut	May 2012	#66
Yep!	geardaddy	May 2012	#92
Yeah my kids say I sound old	benld74	May 2012	#16
We had UHF channels (14-82) also. PBS and a couple of independent stations.	madinmaryland	May 2012	#24
...	Arugula Latte	May 2012	#17
Don't know if anyone	pipi_k	May 2012	#18
That sounds cool. I don't remember those -- I was a 70s kid.	Arugula Latte	May 2012	#19
Wow! That's a blast from the past. Another...	GoCubsGo	May 2012	#57
oh that brings back memories!!!!	nadine_mn	May 2012	#108
I had one of those but it looked a little more like this:	Gidney N Cloyd	May 2012	#39
I had one that looked like this:	GoCubsGo	May 2012	#58
Pretty damn boss as well!	Arugula Latte	May 2012	#103
Hey, it was free.	GoCubsGo	May 2012	#107
One Was Shaped Like A Rocket	grilled onions	May 2012	#61
I always wanted one of those!	geardaddy	May 2012	#22
It was pretty "boss" if I do say so myself!	Arugula Latte	May 2012	#26
OMG I had one of those!!!	Myrina	May 2012	#35
Had the same thing. Called a 'Toot a Loop'	Populist_Prole	May 2012	#88
Another thing we played with (didn't own, though) ...	Arugula Latte	May 2012	#104
I thought of another couple.	geardaddy	May 2012	#20
Isn't it amazing to think we only had 4 flash pics on there! And a roll of 24 pics was awesome.	MatthewStLouis	May 2012	#33
I loved those cameras.	geardaddy	May 2012	#40
and the Flip Flash!	cyberswede	May 2012	#42
Yes!	geardaddy	May 2012	#44
Yes!	pipi_k	May 2012	#97
"It's more than a camera, it's almost alive, only nineteen dollars and ninety-five"	Gidney N Cloyd	May 2012	#127
Open space.	Baitball Blogger	May 2012	#21
A healthy respect for machines with moving parts	gratuitous	May 2012	#23
1. A mother	Bruce Wayne	May 2012	#25
Lawn darts.	Archae	May 2012	#27
My brother had the "Thingmaker"	geardaddy	May 2012	#28
Okay	Broken_Hero	May 2012	#29
Atari, Big Wheel, Sit n Spin,Typewriter, and records. n/t	RiffRandell	May 2012	#30
I so badly wanted a Big Wheel and a Sit n Spin.	geardaddy	May 2012	#45
My son got a big wheel for Xmas one year.	RebelOne	May 2012	#55
There's a company that makes adult-version Green Machines	SoCalDem	May 2012	#62
Holy crikey.	geardaddy	May 2012	#90
a few links to try	SoCalDem	May 2012	#110
Thanks!	geardaddy	May 2012	#111
more stuff	JustABozoOnThisBus	May 2012	#31
I'd replace 4 with Saturday Morning cartoons; now they can be 24/7.	MatthewStLouis	May 2012	#32
Free time & the ability to go exploring alone or w/other kids ...	Myrina	May 2012	#34
Let's see if I can come up with 5 without hints from others	wysimdnwyg	May 2012	#37
Afternoon TV	WhoIsNumberNone	May 2012	#43
That's my childhood, baby!	geardaddy	May 2012	#51
1. Learning to drive on back roads and your neighbors smiled and waved	MerryBlooms	May 2012	#46
I learned to drive on I-35	SoCalDem	May 2012	#63
Beaut!	MerryBlooms	May 2012	#68
Wow.. these lists really take me back	solara	May 2012	#48
Quality food products that were locally made,	hifiguy	May 2012	#54
I'm too young to have watched Axel	geardaddy	May 2012	#95
I remember Clancy the Cop and Willie Ketchum like it was yesterday	hifiguy	May 2012	#98
Allan's He's a super nice guy and a complete liberal	geardaddy	May 2012	#100
ooh ooh, I remember Axel !	mysuzuki2	May 2012	#141
1960s, but I got a full dose of Axel.	hifiguy	May 2012	#142
In the front yard before the street lamp came on!	MerryBlooms	May 2012	#69
Black & White portable tv	Tabasco_Dave	May 2012	#70
A Chatty Cathy doll.	grntuscarora	May 2012	#71
Hmmmmm, let's see.........it wasn't all skittles and beer.......	Burma Jones	May 2012	#72
Cassette tapes	Taverner	May 2012	#76
ok..	one_voice	May 2012	#78
1. Stationery	laundry_queen	May 2012	#80
omg yarn bows! I haven't thought of those for years. I didn't know	snagglepuss	May 2012	#82
Yarn bows! LOL	cyberswede	May 2012	#96
dial up internet	fizzgig	May 2012	#83
1. Rabbit ears	madamesilverspurs	May 2012	#84
Not being able to go swimming in August because of polio.	The Velveteen Ocelot	May 2012	#85
Oh lord do I remember	pipi_k	May 2012	#99
let's see..	madmom	May 2012	#87
Time, Peace, Clean Air, Lack of Fear, A Future.	NYC_SKP	May 2012	#89
Lack of fear? Not entirely. Remember fear of nuclear war? nt	raccoon	May 2012	#102
I remember. One nun told us in second grade that none of us would live to see our	truedelphi	May 2012	#125
Not so much the clean air.......	hedgehog	May 2012	#119
When was that? When I was a kid we had:	The Velveteen Ocelot	May 2012	#126
German Measles.	HopeHoops	May 2012	#91
They first came out with the vaccine when I was in the 3rd grade.	GoCubsGo	May 2012	#113
Friends And Family Members Stricken With Polio.	Paladin	May 2012	#93
Well maybe not polio, but I could see a lot of those infectious diseases	4th law of robotics	May 2012	#105
so true. that's why i find the anti-vac folk so insanely dangerous. nt	La Lioness Priyanka	May 2012	#109
Maybe they're just hopelessly nostalgic	4th law of robotics	May 2012	#117
I remember the Shriners hospitals caring for children with polio.	schmice	May 2012	#122
realistic looking toy guns	TrogL	May 2012	#101
I had a	TheCentepedeShoes	May 2012	#130
Sports games that lasted for hours	SwissTony	May 2012	#116
record player, 8-track tapes, transistor radios.	lastlib	May 2012	#118
Deliveries from milkman / milk box on front porch	treestar	May 2012	#120
I know where 5 drive-ins are here in TN.	Lars39	May 2012	#134
Are they still in business?	treestar	May 2012	#135
Yep. :-)	Lars39	May 2012	#137
Push button gear shift	TheCentepedeShoes	May 2012	#131
1. An antenna rotator for the tv	noamnety	May 2012	#132
Lots of free time.	yellerpup	May 2012	#138
1. Cap guns!	chrisa	May 2012	#143
Wow...	LASlibinSC	May 2012	#144
Record Stores	alphafemale	May 2012	#145
Phone #s with two letter prefixes. BEachwood 4,5,7,8,9 You can call me up and have a date	OffWithTheirHeads	May 2012	#146