Monstrosity Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 We had a party line with our neighbor for awhile' date=' that was so lame having toshare a phone line My family was to cheap to get one of those systems, we had a Magnavox Odessy2 system! We had a Revco and Lawsons right down the street.And to this day I go out of my way to find Lawsons Chip Dip, it was theeee best, you can still get it at Circle K!My dad was 21 when he had me. Mom made him sell his 442 and KZ1000 (he still talks about that bike to this day) so a good game system was a must he said. Yeah Lawsons Chip dip Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ReconRat Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 argh... I remember...people had radiosand listened to them very carefully for newspeople didn't have tvsand when they did, they didn't get a signaltv antennas on every houseone channeltv broadcasting started at 6am? it was off at nightArmy Big Picture and Victory at Sea for an hour in the morning on SaturdayCaptain Kangaroo and Mr Green Jeans and Tom Terrific and Mighty Mousexray machines in shoe storessoda fountains in drug stores with soda jerkslittle plastic soldiersbrownie camerastransistor radiosteflonfrozen food was something newpeople ironed everythinga big deal was your own baseball bathuge little league and pony league baseball in the Summersyes, we played hardball as kidsa big deal was a 10 speed bicycletrading baseball cardsMickey Mantel Topps card in 1957, a big deal even thenany Yankees card in 1957something new, electric guitarsWalt DisneyElvis PresleyThe BeatlesThe Beach Boys... ancient history...The old guys I worked with at Rockwell, grew up in the Depression.They would say they were lucky to have a rock and a stick to play with. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
buildit Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 Ever clean out an house owned by someone from the 1920's? They saved some interesting stuff because it was considered valuable. News papers were always saved. Pie tins, steel cans and other metal goods got saved because they were in short supply. It puts what we value today into perspective. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWing'R Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 (edited) The NEO peeps might remember this: United Skates of America anyone? Skate-o-saurus?I went to a billion birthday parties there. I remember thinking the rich kids with roller-blades were weird hahahahaFor me it was SkateWorld in Vermilion. Many a all-night-skate How about cordless phones that had METAL antennas? If you knew a geeky kid with a programmable scanner, you could eavesdrop on them!Guilty! Baby monitors were awesome, like bugging your neighbors house! I heard lots of interesting things over baby monitorson my scanner not to mention cordless phones and then later on cell phones (with the aid of a frequency doubler). Edited April 18, 2011 by SWing'R Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jagr Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 For me it was SkateWorld in Vermilion. Many a all-night-skate Did they call you Disco Dave? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SWing'R Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 Did they call you Disco Dave? Dude I shit you not, I had a perm/fro when I was like 12! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevysoldier Posted April 18, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 This is sooo true! Bugs Bunny, Transformers, GI Joe, etc... Saturday mornings were the best!I forget what channel, but when my daughter is watching cartoons, they have the old Mickey Mouse "short" cartoons. The 5 minute ones in between shows. I'm kind of surprised they still air them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad324 Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 The NEO peeps might remember this: United Skates of America anyone? Skate-o-saurus?I went to a billion birthday parties there. I remember thinking the rich kids with roller-blades were weird hahahahaicI sure do remember it! I was only there once or twice (i preferred the ice) but I had some sweet CCM roller blades This is sooo true! Bugs Bunny, Transformers, GI Joe, etc... Saturday mornings were the best!hell yes they were, i still watch them whenever I can find them on cable"Saved by the Bell" killed cartoons. That's a cold hard fact. I'm not so old that we didn't have gaming systems or a billion TV channels available, my parents just refused to pay for them.I didn't own a gaming system until my friend gave me his Xbox after he got an Xbox 360. My brothers bought an original 8 bit Nintendo at a garage sale for $5 when I was in 8th or 9th grade...We got cable in 1998 for the World cup, then canceled it after it was over.I played baseball all day every day in the summer; except on weekends when I would do stuff with my family. I was the TV remote.My brothers and I were the lawn service. We were also the snow-blower.I rode my bike to the convenient store and bought packs of baseball cards and sunflower seeds with my friends.I got in fights in my friends' back yards, and no one got sued; in fact, 3 of those guys were in my wedding. 5 if you count my brothers.must be a brecksville thing, sounds EXACTLY like my childhood Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Coyote Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 I used to know how to write in cursive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chevysoldier Posted April 18, 2011 Author Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 Not everthing was antiibacterial. Heck, if you dropped a piece of food on the ground, you brushed it off and ate it.I used to really enjoy getting mail, now I hate it because it's always bills. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dugan n rita Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 I was raised on a dirt street in Sidney, we didnt always have a car, my mom would take all 4 of us kids to the store pullin a wagon it was 5 blocks, but we didnt complain. it was fun, because behind the store was a grass hill that we would slide down on cardboard boxes, it is the entrance ramp to I75 north, only rich kids had skateboards, and they had steel-wheels. yep lifes been good to us so far. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gixxer_joe08 Posted April 18, 2011 Report Share Posted April 18, 2011 I use to know how to spell words like great and because. Not gr8 and cuz. I think texting has made me stupid. Remember when only kids went trick-or-treat? And when pagers were cool you would send number codes for the other person to figure out, kinda like morse code Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drew95gt Posted April 19, 2011 Report Share Posted April 19, 2011 Born in '78 and I agree that we grew up in a good time. I also remember going out on my BMX bike in the morning and not coming home until the street lights came on(except for family dinner where we all sat down at the same time and ate)...and my parents were never worried about me being kidnapped or killed. I remember rotary phones, VHF/UHF B&W TV's, REAL cartoons, watching the Dukes of Hazzard, playing football and baseball at the empty lot down the street, going down to the creek and fishing all day, getting together with my buddies and having competitions with our Red Ryder BB Guns, sneaking out at night and playing flashlight tag with all the neighborhood kids until the wee hours of the morning...ahh good times. I remember when gas and cigarettes were both less than a buck too, makes me feel old. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RSVDon Posted April 19, 2011 Report Share Posted April 19, 2011 I thought you were 30 somethingHaha negative Ghostrider. I'm like the marshmallow in a bag of chocolate chips (non-racist usage) at Aprilia meets due to my age. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gen3flygirl Posted April 19, 2011 Report Share Posted April 19, 2011 Haha negative Ghostrider. I'm like the marshmallow in a bag of chocolate chips (non-racist usage) at Aprilia meets due to my age. sorry the only mental image I am getting right now is you as the marshmallow man trying to destroy new york with a guy named Egon trying to destroy you with his stream Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RSVDon Posted April 19, 2011 Report Share Posted April 19, 2011 (edited) sorry the only mental image I am getting right now is you as the marshmallow man trying to destroy new york with a guy named Egon trying to destroy you with his streamSorry, I'm not a pr0n star. Especially not gay porn, my butthole is too sensitive for that. Edited April 19, 2011 by RSVDon Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gen3flygirl Posted April 19, 2011 Report Share Posted April 19, 2011 i had such high hopes for your future career Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Gump Posted April 19, 2011 Report Share Posted April 19, 2011 No remote for the TV and had to use the VHF dial to get PBS to see Cosmos or Marty Stouffer Wild America lot.I'm 74 born..Marty Stouffer Wild America was the best, Dukes, Smurfs, Mash this thread does bring back a ton of memories. Tv together after the family dinner was a treat. We could shoot .22's in a backyard at pop cans in a neighborhood and no one freaked out. Building forts, riding bikes all day, hanging out by the crick. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scottb Posted April 19, 2011 Report Share Posted April 19, 2011 If your Saturday afternoon include the words from the TV " Mutual of Omaha presents..." you were a kid in the 70's. This was a TV show linda like National Geographic channel. Remember the Mr. Quaterback football launcher? Pretty much a heavy spring loaded catapult that would launch a football. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
max power Posted April 19, 2011 Report Share Posted April 19, 2011 Ever clean out an house owned by someone from the 1920's? They saved some interesting stuff because it was considered valuable. News papers were always saved. Pie tins, steel cans and other metal goods got saved because they were in short supply. It puts what we value today into perspective.When I bought my house (1930 vintage) the basement was full of every peanut butter (and other glass) jar the original owner had ever used.Dude I shit you not' date=' I had a perm/fro when I was like 12![/quote']I find that totally believable. Coke came in a glass bottle and had sugar in it instead of that nasty corn syrup. We had Big Wheels before bikes and they eventually broke at the neck.The Electric Co. came on right after Sesame Street.If you were lucky you had one of those little lawn mower engine mini-bikes, if you were extremely lucky, you had a Yamaha 80. I was pretty lucky and had a Honda Z50. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jporter12 Posted April 19, 2011 Report Share Posted April 19, 2011 When I was 16, I worked at a grocery store. My job was "customer service". I bagged (in paper bags), and carried out groceries for the customers, and loaded them into their cars. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jporter12 Posted April 19, 2011 Report Share Posted April 19, 2011 I also remember tearing apart anything and everything I could get my hands on. My bicycles (multiple cheap BMX, 10 speed, etc.) lawnmowers, electronics, you name it, I would try to figure out how it worked! MOST of the time, I got it put back together and working as it should, and sometimes better than before!Anymore, stuff just gets thrown away and replaced. My lawnboy mower is from the mid 80's, and the thing fires up on the first or second pull of the cord, every time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad324 Posted April 19, 2011 Report Share Posted April 19, 2011 My lawnboy mower is from the mid 80's, and the thing fires up on the first or second pull of the ponytail, every time.thats what your wife said.....ZING Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bad324 Posted April 19, 2011 Report Share Posted April 19, 2011 My lawnboy is from the mid 80's, and the thing fires up on the first or second pull of the ponytail, every time.thats what your wife said.....ZING Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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