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Remember playing outside until dark?
kick the can, dodge ball. hide and go seek

"It's 10:00, Do you know where your children are?"

Returning coke bottles for enough money to go to the movies

3 pieces of gum for a penny

candy cigarettes and "baby" cokes

Swamp coolers

The 5 and dime?

rotary phones

Just a few recollections from childhood...what are some of yours?
 
terriphill said:
Remember playing outside until dark?
kick the can, dodge ball. hide and go seek

"It's 10:00, Do you know where your children are?"

Returning coke bottles for enough money to go to the movies

3 pieces of gum for a penny

candy cigarettes and "baby" cokes

Swamp coolers

The 5 and dime?

rotary phones

Just a few recollections from childhood...what are some of yours?
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My German Shepherd, Begger

Getting stuck up a telephone poll and my parents having to call the Fire Department to get me down

The old 1950-something Nash the lady across the street owned.

Going swimming for a quarter.

Buying candy bars for a nickle

Swimming in Simpson Creek

Almost drowning in Simpson Creek

The night half the neighborhood watched the Beatles on Ed Sullivan (hence beginning my love of Guitars)

Nuns

Getting caught throwing spit-wads in school

Nuns

Getting caught drawing silly pictures in school

Nuns

Getting caught fighting in the boys room

Nuns

(Do you see a pattern here?)

Pez

Candy for a penny

Those little wax soda bottles with colored sugar water

Candy cigarettes

GI Joe

Tootsie Toys

Tonka Toys

45s

Going Trick or Treating by ourselves all over town and no one was worried about us.
 
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]Nuns

Getting caught throwing spit-wads in school

Nuns

Getting caught drawing silly pictures in school

Nuns

Getting caught fighting in the boys room

Nuns

(Do you see a pattern here?)
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Nuns

All I can say is rulers and knuckles.

Nuns

And God didn't help any of the left handed kids either.

Nuns, Nuns and more Nuns...............
 
Brosky said:
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]Nuns

Getting caught throwing spit-wads in school

Nuns

Getting caught drawing silly pictures in school

Nuns

Getting caught fighting in the boys room

Nuns

(Do you see a pattern here?)
Click to expand...

Nuns

All I can say is rulers and knuckles.

Nuns

And God didn't help any of the left handed kids either.

Nuns, Nuns and more Nuns............... [/QUOTE]

Knuckles isn't the worst I remember - something a little further south!
 
nickle nips
pixie stix
sour apple jaw breakers
Pepsi for 3 cents (5 cents cold)
5 cent doughnuts
My 1st 3 speed bike
fishin' in the creek

Look Ma no nuns (just a grandmother who was quick with the razor strop)
 
Basil said:
Brosky said:
<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Quote:]Nuns

Getting caught throwing spit-wads in school

Nuns

Getting caught drawing silly pictures in school

Nuns

Getting caught fighting in the boys room

Nuns

(Do you see a pattern here?)
Click to expand...

Nuns

All I can say is rulers and knuckles.

Nuns

And God didn't help any of the left handed kids either.

Nuns, Nuns and more Nuns...............
Click to expand...

Knuckles isn't the worst I remember - something a little further south! [/QUOTE]

You guys are scarin' me - fixated on nuns and all... :eeek:
 
Basil said:
Knuckles isn't the worst I remember - something a little further south!
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I don't consider myself a knuckle dragger, but you must have short arms. :laugh:
 
Okay, the transatlantic side of memory lane here:

Playing football (soccer) in my best shoes on the school playground, sometimes using a block of wood as the ball. Mom always used to wonder how I wore out my shoes so fast.....

Going down a local hill, on the road, in a soap-box cart that my dad made. He had painted "Fireball XL-5 and a bit" on the side.

Picking up junk coming home from school. (Old radiator grilles, etc)

Action Man (The British GI Joe)

Airfix soldiers (HO/OO gauge) and the massed battles we used to have with them.

Scalextric.

Subbuteo.

Old Mrs Weaver's yard and the crab apples trees. She never used to let us have our ball back, so we used to jump the wall and get it without asking.

England winning the World Cup.
 
Subbuteo....I never got the hang of that.... :smile:
 
The '84 NLCS.

Kickball.

Wieboldt's

My Schwinn Stingray.

Cassingles.

The '89 NLCS.

Friday Night Videos.

Trapper Keepers.

Skinny Ties.

The Atari 2600.

Bomber jackets being cool for those under 50.

County Seat.

My sister's thing for New Kids On The Block.

MTV showing videos.

Calvin and Hobbes being current.

Vans.

Jams.

Arsenio.

Fernando.

Z. Cavaricci.

Neon in shopping malls.

Bueller......Bueller.....
 
Don't forget:

the Johnny Seven gun

cap guns

conkers

the Beano and the Eagle (Dan Dare)

getting your first look at Page 3

train sets

catapults

the Man from Uncle car, the Batmobile, FAB 1 from Thunderbirds

Thunderbirds. I was always impressed that Brains built the lot, on his own from tractor parts.

the Stylophone

Super balls

Playing football (soccer) with jumpers for goalposts
 
GregW said:
Basil said:
Knuckles isn't the worst I remember - something a little further south!
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I don't consider myself a knuckle dragger, but you must have short arms. :laugh:
Click to expand...

I had to think about that - LOL, you're right! I was picturing the arms being outstretched in preparation for a good knuckle whacking!
 
$.10 gliders
for $.25 you got one with folding wings and a rubber band on a stick that would put that sucker high in the air.
putting a square rigger sail on my bike and sailing down Jax Beach in a nor'easter.
red hots
 
Clutch Cargo,
Johnny Quest
Bugs Bunny
Road Runner
pa pa paa Porky pa paa Pig
Marvin the Martian
My Favorite Martian
Mr Ed
The Munsters
The Andy Griffin show
Sylvester and Tweety
Tom and Jerry
The Three Stooges
The Brady Bunch (Hey, I had a crush on Marsha, what can I say)
Highway Patrol
The Outer Limits (original version)
 
yo-yo's
frisbee
marbles
 
Summer sledding on cardboard boxes

Hanging out at the neighborhood pond until townhouses were built there

Snowball fights at the bus stop. We loaded ours with firecrackers

Climbing the tallest tree in the woods and drinking lemonade above the canopy, just swaying

Dropping false teeth into parked cars at the mall, on purpose
 
10cent kites
5 (&then)10cent Cokes
Sterling Moss Aurora HO racing set
My Grandmother's Simca
My first car '64 Galaxie ($400)
25 cent gasoline
A car that had 100,000 was worn out
Wonderful World of Disney on Sunday Nights
The Ed Sullivan Show
(In high school)-Owning a foreign car was odd
Craig Powerplay 8 track player
Motel 6 was $6
A verbal agreement,or a handshake acceptable
Buying our house for $53,000
No one owned a 4WD that didn't intend on using it
BMWs were bought by enthusiast
Same for driving lights
Malls were new
The Merv Griffen Show
You respected adults - it was always "Mr.,or Mrs".
SCCA Regional Race was $45
A new Fiesta was $5300

- Doug
 
Walking 2 miles to school, summer and winter. (Drudgery).
Walking 2 miles to the school ball field to play baseball. (Fun).
Taping business cards to our bike frames so they would flap on the spokes, (Our motor).
Bread was 12 cents a loaf.
Gas was 25 cents a gallon, 19 cents during the price war.
Pepsi came in a bottle that had paper labels on them. The labels would slide off when you took them out of the ice and water filled cooler.
Pops Root Beer in the fat brown bottles.
Cars were only made in three models,
Standard, Deluxe and business coupe, (No back seat).
School teachers <span style="font-weight: bold">WERE ALLOWED</span> to smack your knuckles, bounce you up and down in your seat and stand you in the corner wearing a dunce cap.
<span style="font-weight: bold">AND</span>, if you went home and complained about what the teacher did, you got it worse from your Dad, Moms in some cases.

Then, a few years later, in high school, I got my 1951 Ford convertible. Gosh I loved that car! Had myself, my buddy and 8, yes 8 girls in it, with the top down, going to a football game in November. Mom wondered how come I was sick for the next week. I never told.
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<span style="font-size: 11pt">Boy it was tough growing up.</span>
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Speed Racer
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
Wizard of Oz
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - with Gene Wilder
The smell of mimeographed copies
Rotary dial phones
Party lines
The milkman and the doctor came to the house
The neighborhood corner store - what's a 7-11?
The neighborhood barber - what's a salon?
Cars were made of steel and chrome
Plastic model cars and airplanes
The Hall of Justice and the Superfriends
Hong Kong Fuey
Tom and Jerry
Scooby Doo
Saturday Morning Cartoons and new ones every fall
Spiderman
Sgt Rock comic books
Richie Rich comic books
78's
Prop powered comercial airlines, THEN turbo props
Things were actually MADE in America
Pittsburgh Steelers 4 time undefeated Super Bowl Champions
Big Boy restaurant's
 
Oi...

Skate keys
10 cent movies
Aunt Selma's outhouse
Not wearing shoes in the summer, ever
Mr. Jack, the ice man, delivering block ice for our ice box
Attic fans
Coal oil lamps
Cloak closets
Ink wells
Hiding under the desk waiting for an atom bomb to drop
Nikita banging his shoe on his desk
The first time..Maria..Club Marabu
 
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