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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Jackal1 on June 23, 2006, 01:35:45 PM
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You may have seen this. My daughter sent it to me and I got a kick out of it. Makes a lot of sense...............if you were born before the 80s. :)
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TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1920's,30's 40's, 50's, 60's and 70's!
First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.
They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a can, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
Then after that trauma, our baby cribs were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
Riding in the back of a pick up on a warm day was always a special treat.
We drank water from the garden hose and NOT from a bottle.
We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
We ate cupcakes, white bread and real butter and drank soda pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......
WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
No one was able to reach us all day. And we were O.K.
We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no
lawsuits from these accidents.
We ate worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
We were given BB guns for our 10th birthdays,
made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not put out very many eyes.
We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house
and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!
Little League had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn't had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
This generation has produced some of the best risk-takers, problem solvers and inventors ever!
The past 50 years have been an explosion of innovation and new ideas.
We had freedom, failure, success and responsibility, and we learned
HOW TO
DEAL WITH IT ALL!
And YOU are one of them!
CONGRATULATIONS!
You might want to share this with others who have had the luck to grow up as kids, before the lawyers and the government regulated our lives for our own good.
And while you are at it, forward it to your kids so they will
know how brave their parents were.
Kind of makes you want to run through the house with scissors, doesn't it?!
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< 1975 >
Thanks that post brought back some memories.
I remember being 11 or 12, going to the park in the winter every saturday morning, meeting 20 or so friends, and playing tackle football without equipment for hours and hours. We beat the crap out of eachother.. man that was fun. Playing kill the carrier, finally getting caught, someone yelling "pile-on" and seeing feet, arms, legs, and through the pile, the fat kid building up speed to jump on top.
Playing man-hunt, my street vs the next one over.. Jumping over fences, hiding in backyards, having old ladies yell out there window.. "Hey kid, get outta my yard." Laughing my bellybutton off at the voice she had, and killing the hiding spot.
I live on a street with a steep hill. I remeber having races with my friends from top to bottom on anything with wheels. Skateboards vs modified big-wheels vs modified shopping carts vs modified dolly's.
Then came all the new technology, and everyone became hermits.
I was talking to my dad about it. He said in his day's as a kid, he would have about 100-150 kids playing together. My generation it went down to 15 to 20.
This generation, you hardly see any kids out, and most people don't even know there neighbors name.
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73' was the year of my birth. Star Wars was my childhood. Touch football in the street, block long hide and seek, and "lizard hunting" in the desert made up most of my youth. I even remember being my Grandpa's remote control for the T.V set.
I am grateful for my childhood. Things sure are different now.
-JoLLY
PigsontheWing.org
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I was born in 83 and the playing outside mentality was strong until we all turned 16 or 17, then came the car races and make outs in drive-ins.
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I remember when the bb guns lead to War games ... :D
Those crossman pellet guns friggin hurt ..
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(http://www.palmpaints.com/old_car.jpg)
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We used to find the biggest nastiest weed covered hill in the area and haul an all metal Radio Flyer to the top. We would then don our fake plastic army helmet and ride that sucker as far down the hill as we could before the inevitable wipeout.
We of course kept score based on length of ride and best crash. Stitches earned extra....
I don't recall getting tired walking up that hill either.
(The 70's was a good decade to graduate high school)
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Originally posted by Jackal1
We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
(http://www.silicium.org/images/catalog/consoles/atari/atari2600gp.jpg)
The Atari 2600 was released in 1977. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atari_2600)
That said... we did indeed spend most of our time outside. We had lots of space (http://maps.google.com/?ie=UTF8&ll=37.585781,-120.883974&spn=0.006547,0.009978&t=h&om=1) to play in.
(born in '62)
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Playing '500' in the street. Kickball. Football. Baseball. playing Army with 'real' bb guns. Cowboys 'n Indians... with real bows and arrows. Bikes with playing cards in the spokes. I built a 'stingray' for $16.00 (delivered papers for the money) with a new bananna seat and 'sissybar', a tall gooseneck and added 6 bend pullback handlebars. The birth of the skateboard. The Chopper. Surfing.
What the hell happened?
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71' i remember there was kids tv on wensday after school was out.
That was special :)
I also saw the computer coming from from sinclair,C64and Amiga.
The world has changed rapidly the last 20 years i guess.
Fighter jets that flew really low also that time.
Cold war etc.
good old time :)
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Born in the early 70's
Man that post brought back tons of memories.
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(1975)
Kinda nice to see that even tho we are so far apart the daily life of a kid here and over on your side of the pond is so much alike..only a few things differed. :)
And here we are 30+ years later with many of the same interest... booze, planes and boobies :D
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'59
a cardboard box and a grassy levee in New Orleans in the sixties was all a boy needed back then
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That's an old one but a true one. The only one I didn't experience was that I didn't get a BB gun for my 10th birthday. But we did have catapults which were far more dangerous :( and had an astonishing range!
We fought stone wars with kids from other areas. Huge sprawling battles, highly organised involving scores of kids. It always started the same way, an invasion of territory or a beating dished out to an enemy who strayed across an imaginary line. Prisoners were routinely tortured:O Soon the two armies met on the field of battle and it would go on as long until one side or other retreated or teatime whichever came first! I remember being besieged in a fortified camp which went on until an honourable but humiliating surrender was negotiated. No knives or real injury to anyone, just serious fun. I imagine if it happend nowdays. It would headlines on the TV news!
Like Midnight Target we would find a hill and ride what we called 'Go Karts' down them. Or else built a slide using any material we could find and ride down it on a old car bonnet or hood, just like the one in Weasels photo. Usually I went first. If I survived the others had a go. I had no sense of danger at all!
I fell out of trees or climbed to the very top and poked my head out.
We would take horses from the travellers and ride them bareback round the fields. I was in a gang that was chased by travellers once. They latched onto me and ran me down. Flung me into a car and demanded to know where their horse were. Wouldn't let me go until I showed them where they were. I think that's called kidnapping these days. At the time I knew it was poetic justice :rofl
Things haven't completely changed, kids still go out and play like we did back then. My sisters give their kids plenty of leeway. One sister has two boys, one fell out of a tree, breaking both of his arms. As he lay there stunned, his brother rushed over and callously poked him with a stick saying 'Daniel, are you dead?' We never let him forget that one. :rofl
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'57
tackle football at the school yard
playing 500, over-the-line and other bb games
black and white tv
good guys did good things & bad guys did bad things
Mom was the boss.
hap
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Missed 69 by a few days
All this is so true...
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Good Times
I got my bb gun at 5 and first 22 single shot rifle at 6. Then came the bow at 7. I shot my lil sis in the side and got my arrows broke.
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Quote by Jackal1:
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags
i remember laying down right at the back window (above the back seats) in my dads mercury cougar... waving at the cops... having a good ole time.. ha ha ha....
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Originally posted by Hap
'57
tackle football at the school yard
(or smear the queer.. also called fumble)
playing 500, over-the-line and other bb games.
(or roman candle fights)
black and white tv
(zenith that doubled as furniture.. had a 8 track and turntable in the top).. finally got rid of it in the 90s too.. ha ha
good guys did good things & bad guys did bad things
Mom was the boss.
(aaaahhhh... she is still the boss)
hap
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kids today still do these things for the most part.
its the teenagers and adults that got *****whipped.
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(53)
Riding bicycles for fun and to go different places. Once I went 3/4 accross town to see friends, then got yelled at by Mom who insisted I ride back. It was over 10 miles each way in traffic. Bike lanes hadn't been invented.
Used to ride bikes to go "shooting" with bb guns. Hunting "wild game" (birds) with a daisy.
Dodgeball
4 square
Tackle football with or without flags. It's easier to pull the flag when the ball carrier is on the ground.
Baseball games any time you had more than 10 guys together.
Having "battles" using slingshots and china berries.
Making your own slingshots from branches and old inner tubes. Later making smaller ones using groups of the biggest rubberbands we could find in the store.
Getting milkshakes at the corner drug store.
Hearing sonic booms in town(1959) since the AF hadn't "learned" it wasn't nice.
Playing hide and seek until 11:00 PM in the summer.
Swimming in the street after a rain. Ditches (aroyo) would fill to over 3' then hold the brown water for a couple hours.
Later on at 16 getting an old clunker of a car and learning how to keep it running. Having to replace a clutch plate every 6 weeks.
Swapping out your first engine on your first car.
Learning ALL about the back seat.
Being on the front lines of the sexual revolution in the late 60's early 70's.
How in the hell did we freaking survive it? :lol
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Playing army and going on expeditions up river with lunches(supplies) packed. Carrying sticks that looked like muskets pretending we were Lewis and Clark.
Jumping ramps with bikes, rock fights, makin out with girls older than us.
Ahh the memories!
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Ahh the 60's, I remember 70 - 71'ish on much better as I was just a little nard in the 60's, but even at that my family was always a decade behind the times.
Dad was always behind his newspaper, mom had the silver or red beehive bouffant & chomped gum just like that potato Flo the waitress, there were body counts nightly on the news from Vietnam & everyone was wearing bell bottoms or the even larger version elephant ears. I had rock 'em sock 'em robots, a big wheel & a marlin .22, my sisters smoked pot & dropped lsd running around with flowers in their hair & barefoot.
McDonalds had not yet come to Arkansas, there were no waterbeds or vcr's or microwaves, no walmart only the 5 & dime. Soft drinks were all in nearly indestructable 16 ounce glass bottles that you turned in for a deposit. They took the bottles & washed them & refilled & resold them. We had a Rambler & a Mercury Cyclone with a big block (429 ?) & twin monster four barrels which was our family car :O
God how time flies; I asked one of my co-workers about Charlie the tuna a few years ago & he looked at me like I was insane.
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Remember it all. Well, except for the 70's :)
cars
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1962
The streetlights! I almost forgot about those watchdogs. We always knew when one was burned out and where it was. We'd go play there so we could have an excuse for being late. It never worked, but we always used it anyway.
When I was a kid "Leave it to Beaver" was a reality show because that's exactly what we did and how we acted. We behaved in school, listened to our teacher and said the Pledge of Alegance without freaking out.
Watching Johnny Bench (yes, Johnny Bench NOT Pete Rose) and the Big Red Machine play ball Saturday afternoon on NBC with Curt Goudy and Joe Garagiola was my favorite until we got the worst team in baseball (Washington Senators-II) to move to Texas. Then I went to my 1st Big League game to watch David Clyde pitch for the Texas Rangers. Even tho he only pitched about 5 innings and we got slaughtered, it was awesome!
Evel Knevel was a God. We'd make ramps outa anything we could and see how far we could fly on our bikes. I own several State, National and World's Records and have the X-Rays to prove it.
Our town had a huge forest at one end we called The Ponderosa. Many strategic campaigns were waged in those woods with dirt clods, sticks, BB guns, slingshots roman candles and bottle rockets. I don't recall any deaths or lawsuits.
"The Eagle has landed!", 'nuff said.
After about 1974 the world pretty much became "That 70's Show" and my memories are blurry.
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Originally posted by Hangtime
Playing '500' in the street. Kickball. Football. Baseball. playing Army with 'real' bb guns. Cowboys 'n Indians... with real bows and arrows. Bikes with playing cards in the spokes. I built a 'stingray' for $16.00 (delivered papers for the money) with a new bananna seat and 'sissybar', a tall gooseneck and added 6 bend pullback handlebars. The birth of the skateboard. The Chopper. Surfing.
What the hell happened?
MEMEMEMEMEMEMEMEME!!
Yup yup yup
Done did all them things
And finding blobs of dried mud (dirt bombs) for hand grenades which later escelated to M80s and cherry bombs.
Building model ships and loading them up with fireworks. Taking them down toe the local creek, setting hem afire till the firworks blew the whole thing to smithereens
Plastic army men
Carboard refridgerator boxes made dandy forts.
Cowboys and Indians. I always liked beng the Indian. Sopmething about tieing the local girls up and tor...errrr buring them at the stake
BTW Born 1961
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Hearing Mom call from Blocks away for you to come home.
I swear I could hear my mothers voice at least 4 blocks away Yelling
"Tommmmyyyyyyyyy"
Dinnertime was when the churchbells rang.
Churchbells always range at exactly 6:00
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1965.
yup.
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Tang and space sticks...astronaught food
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Plastic army men
:aok Who here among us does not carry permanent scars from dripping, melting plastic after a heavy , fiery attack? (Usualy came in the form of a giant kitchen match.)
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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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(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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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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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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next someone is gunna try telling us its 'cool to be bald and slow' too.......
:p
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Originally posted by Eagler
'59
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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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
(http://www.nixiebunny.com/famscans/minibike.jpg)
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These were fun too:
(http://www.atving.com/editor/feature/atvhistory/images/80atc185b.jpg)
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Originally posted by Sandman
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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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.
Les
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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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I have a friend that still races slot cars. It's an expensive hobby.
They race on tracks like this (http://www.bmts.com/~ogilvie/trackdesigns.htm).
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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?:)
Les
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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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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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Originally posted by Sandman
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!
Wasnt grandma comming over for me but having to go and stay over my grandparents house over night.
Freaking Lawrence Welk and even worse...
HEE HAW.
God I hated Hee Haw with a bloody passion.
Other shows I hated was two my mother used to watch
Peyton Place
And Dr Killdare
On the up side there was Mon,Tue, Wed etc etc Night at the movies on NBC I think it was
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Hey. anyone remember these things?
ZEROIDS (http://theimaginaryworld.com/zeroid.html)
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
Hey. anyone remember these things?
ZEROIDS (http://theimaginaryworld.com/zeroid.html)
Not at all.
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Lawrence Welk has some cuties on it. That's the only reason codgers watch it. Actually, I wouldn't mind if Hee Haw started back, the reruns at least.:D
Les
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[HEE HAW.
God I hated Hee Haw with a bloody passion.
Other shows I hated was two my mother used to watch
LOL!
You just brought back some repressed memories! He Haw, and Sony & Sher
Fugg, my dad like the former, mom the later. I was screwed twice before I was 5.
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Sorry Mr. Big.
If I hadda been 5, my dad wouldn't have let me watch something like Sonny and Cher. He woulda considered that show seditious. Rowan and Martin's Laugh In was barely tolerated because I was old enough to view it. Dad didn't like that show at all, except for Tiny Tim, who dad mocked. It was funny as all get out when he did that.
Les
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Originally posted by Leslie
Sorry Mr. Big.
If I hadda been 5, my dad wouldn't have let me watch something like Sonny and Cher. He woulda considered that show seditious. Rowan and Martin's Laugh In was barely tolerated because I was old enough to view it. Dad didn't like that show at all, except for Tiny Tim, who dad mocked. It was funny as all get out when he did that.
Les
LOL, now you bring up Laugh In :)
Ah, the memories.
BTW, I just looked up HEE Haw. It's the 3rd longest running TV series in American history, After Wheel of Fortune and some other crap show :)
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70 here. Untill 75, my best friend was an ape. :D (I don't think that would be accepteable with today's higene standards)
Still have most of my 80's LPs.
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Originally posted by 101ABN
Quote by Jackal1:
As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags
i remember laying down right at the back window (above the back seats) in my dads mercury cougar... waving at the cops... having a good ole time.. ha ha ha....
(61) Yeah, did the same thing laid in the back window and look up at the stars.But I think the car was a Delta 88, to long ago,lol
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Lance Link: Secret Agent
The (Uncensored) Bugs Bunny Show - modern cartoons can't begin to compare to it.
Sky King
Roy Rogers
Have Gun Will Travel
Rawhide
Sing Along With Mitch
Chicago
The Eagles
The Beach Boys
The Carpenters
The Who
Three Dog Night
The Everly Brothers
Simon and Garfunkel
Elvis (The 1950s-early 60s version)
Dusty Springfield
Sandra Dee
Frankie Avalon
Annette Funicello
Bobby Darin
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My youth represented:
(http://www.sensesofcinema.com/images/directors/03/27/dazed.jpg)
My world as a youth represented:
(http://img319.imageshack.us/img319/6947/dazedandconfusedver25ka.jpg)
There was nothing like being a kid in Texas in the 70's.
:aok
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Originally posted by Shuckins
AMC Javelins
(http://www.onpoi.net/ah/pics/users/22_1151154981_javelin.jpg)
ROFL
ZAP! Flashback!
I had one of these, very close to this one, although I believe either the camera screwed up the image or this one has been repainted with the color off. The Big Bad Orange Javelin`s orange was much brighter than this.
Ahhhh the memories.
In what is infamously known as " The Sin Palace Standoff" ,around here, I cut a deal with the folks who had the place surrounded, with guns trained, to let the females out before the poo poo came down. I gave the keys to my Javelin to who is now my wife, to take the three chicks out. Later found out that a ..errrrrrrr..... not so confident male who was present, went out hiding by laying down across the back floorboard hump. :)
Would love to be able to tell the story in it`s entireity here, but it would get zapped. :)
(Note: The cops showed up after an hour or so and ruined the fun. :))
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And remember these commercials for....
Capn Crunch (http://www.tvparty.com/g2c/capncrunch00.ram)
Creepy Crawlers (http://www.tvparty.com/g2c/creepycrawler00.ram)
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Originally posted by Shuckins
Chevy Barracudas
:rofl Just noticed this. Too much homegrown? :)
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Originally posted by Jackal1
In what is infamously known as " The Sin Palace Standoff" ,around here, I cut a deal with the folks who had the place surrounded, with guns trained, to let the females out before the poo poo came down. I gave the keys to my Javelin to who is now my wife, to take the three chicks out. Later found out that a ..errrrrrrr..... not so confident male who was present, went out hiding by laying down across the back floorboard hump. :)
Would love to be able to tell the story in it`s entireity here, but it would get zapped. :)
(Note: The cops showed up after an hour or so and ruined the fun. :))
Ok.. lemme get this straight.. yer running a potatohouse, owned a javelin, the cops surrounded the the place, you talked 'em into lettin the women go (among them your now wife) and one of the dicks.. err johns slipped out wit da beyatchs..
Ya gotta flesh that one out. It DOES sound like a heluva good show. ;)
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Originally posted by Hangtime
Ok.. lemme get this straight.. yer running a potatohouse, owned a javelin, the cops surrounded the the place, you talked 'em into lettin the women go (among them your now wife) and one of the dicks.. err johns slipped out wit da beyatchs..
Ya gotta flesh that one out. It DOES sound like a heluva good show. ;)
Such an imagination you got there.
No potatohouse. It got it`s name from a sermon preached at the First Baptist Church in this small town , totaly about the place........mine and a couple other Two wheel enthusiats residence. :)
The whole sermon was based on the house being a palace of sin, thus the name.
The gentlemen who had the streets blocked and the house surrounded were not cops as I said. The cops showed up later and ruined the fun. The guy in question.....I suppose.would be in the category of chicken excretement. :)
We knew about the planned visit and were well prepared for a little fun in Happytown. :D
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
And remember these commercials for....
Capn Crunch (http://www.tvparty.com/g2c/capncrunch00.ram)
Creepy Crawlers (http://www.tvparty.com/g2c/creepycrawler00.ram)
Rember "incredible edibles"? Just like creepy crawlers but you could eat them.
Lincoln logs
hot wheels
erector sets
tinker toys
vinyl records
8 track tapes
Cat Stevens
The Doors
Grand Funk RR
Eric Burden & The Animals
The Moody Blues
Oh &.......1961 here too.
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My favorite toy:
Mattel's Hotbirds
(http://www.snowcrest.net/fox/planes.JPG)
Oh yeah, 1967!!
Pretty damn good year for muscle cars!!!!!!!!
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Lots of good stuff then.
Lots of good stuff now.
My buddy, Tootie (no, I don't know why), died of leukemia in the sixties. He might have had a better chance in this century.
Three grounders or a fly: The batter would toss up ball and hit it down the street to the entire neighborhood. You got to bat when you fielded 3 grounders or a fly.
HONK!
Gooss
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Jackal,
Oops.
:o
That Plymouth rocked!
Regards, Shuckins
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Originally posted by DiabloTX
My favorite toy:
Mattel's Hotbirds
(http://www.snowcrest.net/fox/planes.JPG)
AhhhhhhHA!
Thank you!
Couldnt for the life of me remmeber what they were called.
I had all of em
the one in the center was my favorite
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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
AhhhhhhHA!
Thank you!
Couldnt for the life of me remmeber what they were called.
I had all of em
the one in the center was my favorite
That was my fave as well. Had it in that dark garnet metallic red.
Diecast metal, WORKING landing gear, and you could take the engine cover off exposing the engines so you could work on them. Doesn't get any better than that!
Now THOSE were toys!
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Originally posted by BUG_EAF322
71' i remember there was kids tv on wensday after school was out.
That was special :)
72, other side of the fence. We had about 30min of animated cartoons daily, 3-4 TV channels showing crap like "Lenin's University for the Millions". And "Alarm Clock" at 09:30 every Saturday morning for kids. And we studied 6 days a week at school. And we studied at school for 10 years, not 11 or 12. I had a guy in my group in the Uni who was 15 years old. I went to the MSTU at the age 16.
Originally posted by BUG_EAF322
I also saw the computer coming from from sinclair,C64and Amiga.
The world has changed rapidly the last 20 years i guess.
Sinclair brought from abroad by my friend's Father when I was 12, games in black and white - Sinclair had a PAL TV output, and Coviet TVs were SECAM.
Then - DEC PDP clones when I was 13 (DVK-1), then - IBM/360 clones, I still have a diploma of a certified ES-EVM (IBM/360-370) operatorthat I got at school at professional education day...
Originally posted by BUG_EAF322
Fighter jets that flew really low also that time.
Cold war etc.
good old time :)
I still remember MiG-21s flying over me... And 21s flying over Krasnodar making barrel rolls over the city at low alt... Nothing else gave such a sence of security as this guys flying beautiful small delta-wing planes over out heads...
Now people report a terrorist attack to militia when they hear a sonic boom :(
Crawling over huge wreck of fort Ino at the Finnish Gulf coast, the fort was blown up in 1918... I thought it was all natural stones, tunnels and other stuff... Titanic construction... I was 5 years old. I remember a Marine training with hover-crafts landing marines on our shore, as a training against a fortified coast, a seargeant with an automat over his back asking me and my friends to stop crying, falling behind his unit....
1981, my Cousin living with us, and my Mother literally kicked us out to the street because we spent all our time reading BOOKS!!!...
Catching tadpoles and tritons in a brook under our windows in Leningrad suburb, keeping them in 3L jars at home.
Watching a water-rat with her son on her back swimming in the same brook. We had a 4x binocular!
Going hiking when we were 10 or 11 years old. I was 11 when I first spent a night at the mountain hotel at 4200m above the sea level on the side of mt. Elbrus...
1980, Western Ukraine, plaing war games throwing green walnuts at each other, and my friend's brother coming searching for me, picking me up to ride at the back seat of his bysicle bringing me home, because my parents were crazy searching for me...
1982, Moscow, playing jumping over tin garage roofs, running away from their owners...
Staying at school until 18:00 with our favourite teacher, Physics, playing checkers and solving tasks he prepared for us, drinking tea... Later he dedicated a Physics school-book he wrote to us...
Caught at the Red Square by a Militia guard because he thought it's inappropriate to ride our bikes there...
Two times a week going to a rifleing training, holding a 2kg load on a stretched hand to qualify for a .22LR Margolin pistol shooting. 1986.
Going across the river to ride our sleigh in the winter, going up to 60km/h I think, coming home with my winter coat torn...
Damn. That was a LIFE.
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Originally posted by Shuckins
Jackal,
Oops.
:o
That Plymouth rocked!
Regards, Shuckins
Yes it did, but..................I never could say Bacaruuuda. :)
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Was Born in 72 didn't have street lights lived 7 miles freom nearest paved road. A summer day didn't pass without almost getting snake bit. A few times almost was turned to OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!''
Yep been bit lived thru it!
But you left out
When our parents diseplened us we didn't call the DHR(If we had theyd called our parents to say good job)
Also Learned to use our brains in school not the newest calculator
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'68'
Saterday morning cartoons....we actually got up early without our mom yelling for us to watch these
After that it was MONSTER AFTERNOOOOOOON and we watched godzilla kick the crap outta witchever ebil monster was mucking up downtown tokyo.
i remember holoween day before we went trick or treating we would collect change for unicef
think i still have my diecast model of a F-4 phantom at my folks house
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I lived a lifetime in the back row a few times. :)
Pretty cool poem I stol.........errrrrr borrowed.
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MEMORIES
~by Elmer Ake~
Are memories the only thing ever meant to last
Can we never forget the long distant past?
Even as the passage oftime dims our eye's
We sit and remember about how time fly's
Yes we can remember a love done's cry's
And in our hearts we know why.
Can we ever forget the drive-in's silver screen
Nights under the stars in an old machine.
A girl we loved sitting by our side
We would hunch down in the seat and try to hide
When the manager walked by outside
Trying to hush up kids that cried.
We watched John Wayne in a western reel
While a little kiss we tried to steal.
Just when you thought your girl give in
And now you know your going to win.
And the people in the next car are watching with a grin.
Then the lights come on for intermission
The refreshment stand is really packed with folks
Filling up with candy popcorn and cokes.
Then the lights go out and people settle down
To watch James Cagney dance like a clown
The kids are quiet they don't make a sound
You don't even know their is any around.
With your arm around your girl a kiss you steal
And maybe even try to get a little feel.
Then the lights come on and horns start to blow
You hang up the speaker it's time to go.
You have just relived a drive-in show
And memories of times people now will never know.