Anybody remember Big Chief writing pads?

[elfwitch]

If you were a kid in the 70's they were standard equipment for elementary school shopping lists. What other stuff from elementary school do you remember getting?

[ulysses]

1. yeah!

Blue Laddie pencils, too.

[GOPisEvil]

2. And "Husky" pencils!

[Ilsa]

The paint on them was

a beautiful blue or red or green. I don't remember if they had the other colors.

[GOPisEvil]

18. Blue, red and green are all I can remember, too.

Did they have yellow too? I can't recall.

[elfwitch]

3. Cigar Boxes for School Supplies Boxes

I remember having a King Edward cigar box for my school supplies. Carboard box with a lid that always fell off before the end of the school year.

[arwalden]

4. John-Boy Walton Used Big Chief Writing Pads

That one in your picture appears to have a bar-code on it. I doubt it's one of the original ones from way back when.

-- Allen

[bif]

5. Mechanical pencils

And the plastic, zip-up pencil cases.

[eleny]

12. I keep my crochet hooks in a zippered pencil case!

Out of nostalgia for them.

[BurtWorm]

6. I remember one year when glycerine erasers became really cool.

You could see through them. And they smelled--and tasted--so good. (They were fun to bite. Maybe I was teething?)

[bif]

7. Nice to see your old avatar back

I think it's cool!

[elfwitch]

9. thanks

TXlib was happy too.

[pagerbear]

8. Anybody have Palmer Method handwriting books?

[mac56]

10. Anybody remember Nifty binders?

It was a clipboard-type binder with a magnetized clasp at the top, in a compartment that also held a pencil. Took lined paper with two holes punched at the top. I dearly loved mine: carried it from first grade through sixth (taking time out for summer vacation, of course). I looked for a picture on Google but couldn't find one.

[elfwitch]

11. no, but I had a Trapper Keeper...

It was big shit in my day.

[GOPisEvil]

13. LOL - you took the words right off my fingertips!

I loved my Trapper Keeper!

[elfwitch]

14. they were da bomb...

Mine was blue and I only had blue or red folders for the inside. The problem is that I am so messy, even the Trapper Keeper couldn't contain my crap.

[GOPisEvil]

15. Even as an adult I'm like that.

I have this cool crap to be all organized and I never am.

[soleft]

16. Plastic bic pens that always explode in your back pocket

my mother had fits

[elfwitch]

17. How about the Papermate Erasable Pens?

Those came out when I was in Jr. High. They were banned quite quickly.

[Rowdyboy]

19. Ignatius Reilly in "Confederacy of Dunces" produced his master work

on Big Chief tablets! I remember them well from 1st and 2nd grade in the early 1960's.

[Neecy]

20. I hate to admit it...

...but my prized possession as a little kid was a Frito Bandito pencil eraser that came free with the purchase of lunch-sized Frito packages. I had a collection going of different colors. Now that I think about it, the Frito Bandito was a pretty racist symbol.

I didn't get it at school, but I remember Shake-a-Puddin' as my favorite after school snack. I still remember their advertising jingle. Weird what you remember.