Do You Remember? 60s-80s

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We've gotta have this one over here. 

 

[RDCanecutter 26239]

[AUinHsv 574]

Underdog came strong on the previous version but here goes...

Tang

TV Dinners with "peel foil from potatoes"

Actually dialing the phone - which was corded into the wall

Happy to get all three networks on the rabbit ears

Riding in cars with no seat belts

Rounding up a bunch of neighborhood kids to play sandlot baseball - no adults needed

legal drinking age - 18 but no one enforced it

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[RDCanecutter 26239]

Sitting on the linoleum floor putting together model airplanes with that styrene plastic glue and then painting them with that enamel paint with thinner that reeked. Mama making you put a piece of newspaper under it all.

[Judge Roybeanbag 11796]

[Reese Bennett 3604]

[South Austin 52037]

[Homercles 10205]

My 4yo has a few of my old matchbox cars strewn in with his new ones...I miss when they were actually metal, those bastards will outlive me

[dcbc 14388]

[cabowabo 4449]

[huge 3788]

They still sell jiffy pop dont they?

[Topper13 3200]

Estes model rockets

Gayla kites

[Topper13 3200]

Mongoose Super goose

 

Or, Blue Max, if you lived on base

[Topper13 3200]

 

[Topper13 3200]

[Topper13 3200]

 

[AUinHsv 574]

PF Flyers

Rat Fink rings

Bazooka bubble gum for a penny

Baseball cards in bike spokes

Chasing the mosquito fogger truck - no idea why no adult didn't stop this. Nothing like a dozen kids on bikes riding in a cloud of insecticide

Sneaking transistor radio into school to listen to World Series

World Series games starting around noon on weekdays

Running your computer program with punched cards

 

[AUinHsv 574]

Going to the car dealer and ordering your car just the way you wanted.  Something like a 1970 Cuda in Lemon Twist Yellow with black bucket seats, brown carpet, power windows, 318 engine with auto transmission, drum brakes and the flower power vinyl top.  Friend had one like this. Today you get one or two option packages - back then you got the ability to make a one off all the time

[Deej 76510]

Still have these, and they still work...

 

[Deej 76510]

 

[Topper13 3200]

3 minutes ago, Deej said:

Still have these, and they still work...

 

Same, as well as a few others. Entex made a rad Defender game, too. Do you remember the Donkey Kong Jr one, that looked like a small arcade game? Crazy to think, these were more sought after than Atari or Intellivision. 

[Deej 76510]

3 minutes ago, Topper13 said:

Same, as well as a few others. Entex made a rad Defender game, too. Do you remember the Donkey Kong Jr one, that looked like a small arcade game? Crazy to think, these were more sought after than Atari or Intellivision. 

Yep. Remember them all. The one I wish I still had was Entex Baseball 3. Had the module attached with a cord so a second player could pitch. We wore that one out. Need to go look on eBay.

[Topper13 3200]

4 minutes ago, Deej said:

Yep. Remember them all. The one I wish I still had was Entex Baseball 3. Had the module attached with a cord so a second player could pitch. We wore that one out. Need to go look on eBay.

Been saving for a Norlin era Les Paul, don't make me hit Ebay for these. Ladyfriend will shit.

[Deej 76510]

When you get that Les Paul, post pics on the Guitar Pron thread ASAP.

[pyrohornIII 4801]

[pyrohornIII 4801]

[Cheeseweasel 26437]

[dcbc 14388]

 

[DaysOff 7821]

57 minutes ago, Cheeseweasel said:

This was by far my favorite toy from childhood.

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^ Loved it.

[NIUHuskies 504]

 

[squanchy 11]

[AUinHsv 574]

Watching for the NBC peacock to tell us the next show was in "living color"

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Setting your windup watch by the top of the hour tone on a clear channel station

[squanchy 11]

[El Moco 45]

16 hours ago, Topper13 said:

 

Your knees would give out before those jeans did.

[El Moco 45]

 

[tx 3 putt 76158]

perfection was a fun game

[mulletpelini 5209]

I was going through some shit one day a while back, and I found 2 of the Johnny West gold bags in the bottom of a box

Did anyone have this Micronaut set?  I've asked people my age about it, no one knows what the fuck I'm talking about.  That set was the poon.

 

[Underdog 28437]

On 3/26/2018 at 7:30 PM, AUinHsv said:

Underdog came strong on the previous version but here goes...

Tang

TV Dinners with "peel foil from potatoes"

Actually dialing the phone - which was corded into the wall

Happy to get all three networks on the rabbit ears

Riding in cars with no seat belts

Rounding up a bunch of neighborhood kids to play sandlot baseball - no adults needed

legal drinking age - 18 but no one enforced it

Appreciate it but everyone that posted in that thread brought it strong, a lot memories in that thread and I’m sure this one wil bring more. 

Edited March 28, 2018 by Underdog

[Deej 76510]

[GhostRider 169]

[dcbc 14388]

[dufus 9]

Party line phone.  Had to ask if it was clear before making a call.  One phone per house and it was connected to the wall with a curly cord.

[Horn_Spanker 524]

20 hours ago, mulletpelini said:

 

 

That looks like the last post on every thread at Shaggy.

[High Plains Drifter 10970]

Riding in the back of the pickup going 60 down the highway while sitting in a lawn chair.

Napping in the back window of the car on long road trips. My sister got to lay on the back seat.

Rock fights. Still have a scar on the back of my head.

I'm lucky to be alive.

[AUinHsv 574]

Changing the oil in the car and the new oil came in cardboard cans that you needed to stab a spout into. Never got a spout that didn't

leak oil on the engine

[South Austin 52037]

I still hanker for a hunk a cheese.

 

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

On 3/26/2018 at 7:37 PM, RDCanecutter said:

Sitting on the linoleum floor putting together model airplanes with that styrene plastic glue and then painting them with that enamel paint with thinner that reeked. Mama making you put a piece of newspaper under it all.

If you were painting them after assembly you were doing it wrong.  Painting parts on the tree was the way...