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> Summer Saturdays at my grandfather's auto repair shop (O.R. Keith's Garage, Roanoke, VA) while Mom and Grandma went shopping;
> Trips to the country with my Dad for target practice;
> The wonderful aromas at Grandma's house at dinnertime (I swear, I can still smell it);
> Playing "army" for countless hours in the woods with my friends (usually Rebels vs. Yankees and the Rebs <span style="text-decoration: underline">always</span> won!);
> Countless baseball, football and basketball practices and games and teams for years and years and years; the immeasurable fun with friends, and the electric <span style="font-style: italic">thrill</span> of team competition;
> The (very) large family reunions as a kid, with tens and tens of cousins (big families back then), uncles, aunts and family friends. And the picnic food, cooked by loving, family hands . . .
> At age 19, buying my first LBC, a lovely, used '70 GT6. Price: $1600. I think I may have slept in it for the first week or so. Absolutely loved that car.
> Trips to the country with my Dad for target practice;
> The wonderful aromas at Grandma's house at dinnertime (I swear, I can still smell it);
> Playing "army" for countless hours in the woods with my friends (usually Rebels vs. Yankees and the Rebs <span style="text-decoration: underline">always</span> won!);
> Countless baseball, football and basketball practices and games and teams for years and years and years; the immeasurable fun with friends, and the electric <span style="font-style: italic">thrill</span> of team competition;
> The (very) large family reunions as a kid, with tens and tens of cousins (big families back then), uncles, aunts and family friends. And the picnic food, cooked by loving, family hands . . .
> At age 19, buying my first LBC, a lovely, used '70 GT6. Price: $1600. I think I may have slept in it for the first week or so. Absolutely loved that car.
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William said:
Ahh, fellow Gen Xer?
Dodgeball, bombardment (dodgeball where you couldn't use the limb that was hit. Lots of kids hopping around on one leg)
Miami Vice white jacket, Wayfarers, loafers without socks
ColecoVision
Merry-Go-Round stores (for the Z. Cavs)
My first compact disc - Rush "Hold Your Fire"
Ghetto Blasters, Boom Boxes
Bugle Boy jeans
Mullets
Dodge Omni GLH
Calvin and Hobbes
Filling up the 68 Impala on my way to school for 62 cents a gallon
Orange Julius
Cindy Crawford, Kathy Ireland, Elle Macpherson, the first SI Swimsuit issue...
Gray_Cat
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<span style="text-decoration: underline">Gas wars </span>- for the uninitiated: have 2 or more gas stations on a corner. One lowers their price to 26 cents per gallon from 27 cents and the other station lowers theirs to 25 cents per gallon.
<span style="text-decoration: underline">Actual service at the gas station</span>. Someone filled up the car, checked the tires & battery and washed the windshield.
Going anywhere at any time without fear.
B&W televisions worked better than color TV's.
Transistor radios.
"Hi Fi" record players.
Japanese products were a joke.
DA haircuts for guys.
Most cars did not have AC.
"Naughahide" (spelling?)
"Rawhide" with Clint Eastwood.
Making a beach and swimming in the canal.
"Glass" glasses.
Roy :thumbsup:
<span style="text-decoration: underline">Actual service at the gas station</span>. Someone filled up the car, checked the tires & battery and washed the windshield.
Going anywhere at any time without fear.
B&W televisions worked better than color TV's.
Transistor radios.
"Hi Fi" record players.
Japanese products were a joke.
DA haircuts for guys.
Most cars did not have AC.
"Naughahide" (spelling?)
"Rawhide" with Clint Eastwood.
Making a beach and swimming in the canal.
"Glass" glasses.
Roy :thumbsup:
AweMan
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Crew cuts {Hair cut}
Fenders and a Duck tail {hair style}
Butch wax or Palm Aid {holds fenders and duck tail in place}
Brillcream {A little dab `ill do ya} {Hair cream}
Saddle oxfords
Penny loafers
Playing Cowboys and Indians {cowboys always won}
red rover red rover
simon says
BB gun fights {yes real bb`s}
Alley fights {throwing dirt clods and sometimes rock at each other while using trash cans for cover}
Bieng called an Alley picker { Don`t ask} :lol:
Poodle skirts {girls were wearing them}
Doing wheelies on my stingray {bicycle}
Getting ape hangers, baloon tires and a banana seat for my sting ray for xmas
Riding on the back of my buddies Cushman Eagle to Jr High school
Getting my first car { wish I still had it} a 32 ford five window with a 52 merc flathead V8 mallory dual point ign and dual stromberg 97`s offenhauser heads and M.T. headers. {What a bucket of bolts, But had plenty of potential .... sad thing ..... NO MONEY to spend on it!
My first G.F. {the most popular song was "I wanna hold your hand"}
Riding my first real motorcycle {my friends Honda 90 S}{And my other friends Honda 110 s}
Lots lots more and most of what has already been mentioned.
Fenders and a Duck tail {hair style}
Butch wax or Palm Aid {holds fenders and duck tail in place}
Brillcream {A little dab `ill do ya} {Hair cream}
Saddle oxfords
Penny loafers
Playing Cowboys and Indians {cowboys always won}
red rover red rover
simon says
BB gun fights {yes real bb`s}
Alley fights {throwing dirt clods and sometimes rock at each other while using trash cans for cover}
Bieng called an Alley picker { Don`t ask} :lol:
Poodle skirts {girls were wearing them}
Doing wheelies on my stingray {bicycle}
Getting ape hangers, baloon tires and a banana seat for my sting ray for xmas
Riding on the back of my buddies Cushman Eagle to Jr High school
Getting my first car { wish I still had it} a 32 ford five window with a 52 merc flathead V8 mallory dual point ign and dual stromberg 97`s offenhauser heads and M.T. headers. {What a bucket of bolts, But had plenty of potential .... sad thing ..... NO MONEY to spend on it!
My first G.F. {the most popular song was "I wanna hold your hand"}
Riding my first real motorcycle {my friends Honda 90 S}{And my other friends Honda 110 s}
Lots lots more and most of what has already been mentioned.
T
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Kerry? You quit smoking yet??
Do It!! Dude!!
dale
Do It!! Dude!!
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AweMan said:
Yow - poodle skirts. Did THAT ever bring back a memory.
Janna Deering - love of my life (in the fifth grade ...).
To prove that we were "an item", she gave me a piece of her petticoat.
For you youngsters, girls in the 1950s used to wear those starched ruffly petticoats under their dresses to make the dress stick out all around. Janna's petticoat had a piece missing. Or maybe two ... or three ... or ...
Memories ... memories ...
aeronca65t
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Playing ~Conkers~ (Kilkenny)
Sailing a toy boat in ~The Pond~ at Regents Park in London with my Dad.
Also Guy Fawkes day in Regents Park. :shocked:
Seeing my first TV show (with Liberace....maybe that's why I'm not such a big TV fan)
~Meccano Sets~
Seeing " ~The Lady and The Tramp~ " (in London....my Aunt Siobhan worked in the theater so we got in for free)
Riding on the back of my Aunt Lena's bike to the fish-and-chip shop or the bakery (in Kilkenny). We would often go over the bumpy and steep ~River Nore~ bridge which was kind of scary.
The first car ride I can remember (in a Morris Minor).
Watching our local "football" matchs at ~Nowlan Park~ across the street from where we lived on O'Loughlin Rd (Kilkenny)
Going to the McGuinesses shop to get my Aunt Lil 3 cigarettes in Kilkenny (McGuiness was a relative and the mayor too).
Seeing cattle hearded to market on the street we lived on (O'Loughlin Rd Kilkenny).
Sledding in ~Norwood Park~ (near Danforth Ave. in Toronto).
Going to the Cloak Room with one of <span style="font-weight: bold">The Nuns</span> at St. Bridgets to get <span style="text-decoration: underline">The Strap </span>(Toronto)
Walking 10 blocks to school by myself when I was 10 years old (to St Henrys in Bayonne).
Buying my ~First Car~ and driving it around the NJ Pine Barrens.
Our little ~Skiffle band~ when I was in high school.
And of course, all those old ~High School Girlfriends~ who have forgiven me will still talk to me.
Sailing a toy boat in ~The Pond~ at Regents Park in London with my Dad.
Also Guy Fawkes day in Regents Park. :shocked:
Seeing my first TV show (with Liberace....maybe that's why I'm not such a big TV fan)
~Meccano Sets~
Seeing " ~The Lady and The Tramp~ " (in London....my Aunt Siobhan worked in the theater so we got in for free)
Riding on the back of my Aunt Lena's bike to the fish-and-chip shop or the bakery (in Kilkenny). We would often go over the bumpy and steep ~River Nore~ bridge which was kind of scary.
The first car ride I can remember (in a Morris Minor).
Watching our local "football" matchs at ~Nowlan Park~ across the street from where we lived on O'Loughlin Rd (Kilkenny)
Going to the McGuinesses shop to get my Aunt Lil 3 cigarettes in Kilkenny (McGuiness was a relative and the mayor too).
Seeing cattle hearded to market on the street we lived on (O'Loughlin Rd Kilkenny).
Sledding in ~Norwood Park~ (near Danforth Ave. in Toronto).
Going to the Cloak Room with one of <span style="font-weight: bold">The Nuns</span> at St. Bridgets to get <span style="text-decoration: underline">The Strap </span>(Toronto)
Walking 10 blocks to school by myself when I was 10 years old (to St Henrys in Bayonne).
Buying my ~First Car~ and driving it around the NJ Pine Barrens.
Our little ~Skiffle band~ when I was in high school.
And of course, all those old ~High School Girlfriends~ who have forgiven me will still talk to me.
bugimike
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Gawd, 90% of these posts kindled memories!!! No one ever played with "spud-guns", Jet-X cars, wind-up tanks that shot sparks, Dinky toys, Corgi toys, Matchbox toys?? How about some of the old BBC radio shows...Dan Dare, the Navy Lark...Comic books...Maerklin trains, and ....oh, I'd better stop, this will just go on and on... 
OP
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Erector sets
Lincoln logs
Tonka trucks- the big ones we played with in the sand box that were dump trucks, bucket loaders...and having to Screen the sand in the spring to get the winter leaves and sticks (and other stuff) out of it
Matchbox cars
Banana seats and sissy bars
Creepy Crawlers
rock tumblers
stick ball
fishing for crawdads
collecting tadpoles and letting them turn into little frogs
Playing in the "mudhole" my grandfather dug and filled with water just off the backporch. My grandmother would give us spoons and old pie pans to make "Mudpies" in!
Burning ants with a magnifying glass on hot summer days
RC Cola and Moonpies from Ben Franklin's (Sam Walton's first venture)
Pennies on the railroad tracks
Lincoln logs
Tonka trucks- the big ones we played with in the sand box that were dump trucks, bucket loaders...and having to Screen the sand in the spring to get the winter leaves and sticks (and other stuff) out of it
Matchbox cars
Banana seats and sissy bars
Creepy Crawlers
rock tumblers
stick ball
fishing for crawdads
collecting tadpoles and letting them turn into little frogs
Playing in the "mudhole" my grandfather dug and filled with water just off the backporch. My grandmother would give us spoons and old pie pans to make "Mudpies" in!
Burning ants with a magnifying glass on hot summer days
RC Cola and Moonpies from Ben Franklin's (Sam Walton's first venture)
Pennies on the railroad tracks
weewillie
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bugimike said:Gawd, 90% of these posts kindled memories!!! No one ever played with "spud-guns", Jet-X cars, wind-up tanks that shot sparks, Dinky toys, Corgi toys, Matchbox toys?? How about some of the old BBC radio shows...Dan Dare, the Navy Lark...Comic books...Maerklin trains, and ....oh, I'd better stop, this will just go on and on...
and then there were the pirate radio stations starting with radio luxemborg and then Radio Caroline
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weewillie said:
Wow - pirate radio. I'd forgotten all about that. We had one offshore down in the Gulf of Mexico when I lived in Texas.
If I recall, it played lots of mariachi music, punctuated every 15 minutes by blatant promotion of the sponsor's Goat Hormone Serum - "Absolutely Guaranteed to Rejuvenate ALL your Important Glands!"
eek.
T.
