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Offline Shuckins

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« Reply #30 on: June 23, 2006, 10:44:07 PM »
Firecrackers...roman candles..cherry bombs.

Riding bicycles at near fifty miles an hour down a hill.

Joe Namath

Dick Butkus

Gale Sayers

Mean Joe Green

Alex Karras

The first Ford Mustangs...sigh

Chevy Barracudas

Dodge Chargers

AMC Javelins

Chevy Novas

Volkswagen Beetles...sigh

Rowan and Martin's Laugh-In

The Adams Family

The Munsters

I Dream of Jeannie

Gunsmoke

Bonanza

Get Smart

The Magnificent Seven

True Grit

The Rebel

The Rifleman

Cheyenne

The Big Valley
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Offline asilvia

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« Reply #31 on: June 23, 2006, 11:12:47 PM »
(1968)

Wow good post...I miss ding dong ditch...love watching the people freak out. Good times with many friends just running around outside.
I get my kids outside now but in this very strange and demented world we live in these days I am afraid to have my kids outside for long periods of times without me being right there in eye sight range.
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Offline xrtoronto

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« Reply #32 on: June 23, 2006, 11:35:18 PM »
I Love Lucy

Topper

Ed Sullivan

Car 54

Lost in Space

Three Stooges

Foster Hewitt and Hockey Night in Canada

Honeymooners

Green Acres

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25 cent balsa wood airplanes

sneaking onto the golf coarse afer hours to hang out

assassination of JFK

throwing snowballs at cars

free ice skating every friday and saturday nights

the 1966 Olds Toronado

Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band

summers at the cottage

tons of Christmas decorations

but nothing was better than being a kid and being allowed to hang out with the older kids
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Offline Sandman

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« Reply #33 on: June 23, 2006, 11:36:40 PM »
Don't forget the parts that sucked.

Grandma coming over and usurping the television so she could watch the Lawrence Welk show.

Gawd how we hated that. We were missing Gilligan gawdamnit!
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« Reply #34 on: June 23, 2006, 11:39:40 PM »
next someone is gunna try telling us its 'cool to be bald and slow' too.......





















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Offline Goth

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« Reply #35 on: June 23, 2006, 11:40:54 PM »
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a cardboard box and a grassy levee in New Orleans in the sixties was all a boy needed back then


5 years younger than you Eagler, but probably on the same levee's...Old Bucktown here, and yes it was a good time.
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« Reply #36 on: June 23, 2006, 11:49:38 PM »
I almost forgot minibike tag. "It" rode the minibike and tried to rundown someone to "tag". Sometimes ya just got too close by accident.:t
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« Reply #37 on: June 23, 2006, 11:57:25 PM »
These were fun too:

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« Reply #38 on: June 24, 2006, 12:01:05 AM »
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Don't forget the parts that sucked.

Grandma coming over and usurping the television so she could watch the Lawrence Welk show.


oh ya:

being forced to stay in our rooms till at least 6 am on Christmas morning.

church on Sunday

10:00 Sunday my mom liked to watch Marcus Welby:rolleyes:   (that conflicted with Hawaii V-0)

Sunday visits to spend an afternoon with the most boring people in the world

"Be home by 10pm"

somebody lets a real smelly one go...and you always get blamed

colds, flu, mumps, measles

starting the family car at age 4 with your grandmother in the back seat, and falling onto the accelerator and the car lurching over a small sappling and into a hedge and the beginning of the phrase, "that child is trying to kill me!"
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Offline Leslie

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« Reply #39 on: June 24, 2006, 12:27:09 AM »
Daniel Boone

Riders of the Storm - The Doors

Plastic models of Old Ironsides

Charles Dickens

007

Playboy Club

T.H.E. Cat

77 Sunset Strip

Hot Rods to Hell

Perry Mason

Highway Patrol

The Naked City

The Big Show ( every afternoon 3:00 mostly sci-fi)

Wrist Rockets

Candy cigarettes and bubble gum cigars

Marbles (steelies were the coolest)

Rat Fink rings

The school white elephant sale (they really had a white elephant ceramic piece I wanted to buy but was too expensive)


Super balls

Silly Putty

Chemistry sets  (The Big Lab, I think it was called.)

Three Dog Night

Santana

American Sportsman

Sand dunes at Gulf Shores, and a couple wharves that were on the Gulf side and had restaurants on them.  Gulf Hacienda was one I remember from late 60s or early 70s.
 






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Offline Maverick

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« Reply #40 on: June 24, 2006, 12:33:01 AM »
Don't forget the outbreak of slotcars. There used to be places that did noting but "rent" time on a large scale slot car track and host regular races. I remember haveing a "Ratfink" slotcar complete with the "ratfink" driver sticking our of the drivers compartment.
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« Reply #41 on: June 24, 2006, 12:37:55 AM »
I have a friend that still races slot cars. It's an expensive hobby.

They race on tracks like this.
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« Reply #42 on: June 24, 2006, 12:50:22 AM »
Now that is way cool.:D   Yes I remember the slot car tracks but mostly went there for birthday parties.  They oughta bring those back, they were great, and with modern tech, who knows?:)





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Offline Mr Big

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« Reply #43 on: June 24, 2006, 12:53:57 AM »
Didn't read it all, but here's some of my memories ( off topic, I know), born 1964. Just stuff that pops into my mind without even thinking....

Hot Wheels

Big Wheels
 
Getting ripped off by ordering crap from the back of comic books:
  * hot air balloon ( billed as rideable by people, ended up to be an 8 foot tissue paper mess , 7 foot frankenstien ( was a poster), etc...

Rocky and Bullwinkle show

LA Smog alerts and staying home from school because of them.

Big arse earth quakes

Slot cars ( I LOVED these) AFX slot cars....

"Bat" kites

M-80's, M-100's

SST cars

"KISS" bubblegum cards (lol)

Estes model Rockets ( Atlas, Stilleto)

"Mongoose" bmx bike :)

Honda Cr-50 (?) mini bike

Honda Xr 75 mini bike

model cars and vans ( vans being the "in" thing")

Micronauts

Cox string controlled airplanes

Super Ball

Crazy ball

Smash 'em up sst cars

Wired remote control dinosaurs, with red eyes.

Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots ( these where big fun)

Pong table tennis

Kung Fu tv series ( watched it religeously, with an iced tea usually)

Mod Squad tv series

Those stupid battey operated helocopter, attached to a wire. ( I think someone will now the name)

......ahh.....many more I'm sure. It's fun to look back.
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« Reply #44 on: June 24, 2006, 12:55:18 AM »
Leslie, you'd be amazed at how technical it is. All the guys he raced with were 40+ and had the time and money to spend.
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