Lite Brite
Atari
Colecco Vision ( sp? )
Pong with the "rollers" for a controller
Stub necked beer bottles
"5 Star" Whiskey where there was a plastic star with a 5 in the middle that you could take off the bottles. ( Now that I think about it, I had a sh**load of those things. I was only 10! )
Hair bands that sang about partying and getin' some

 

We used to ride around town on our bikes with our pellet guns across the handlebars. Try doing that today!!! Also remember when Coke was in the glass bottle? Something about those recycled glass bottles made it taste soooo much better! And then as kids we would go around and find bottles to take back to the grocery store and get a whole nickle a piece for them! Then you could afford to buy a candy bar or something!

 

Dukes Of Hazzards
Dukes Of Hazzards Happy Meals
Mc Donalds Collectable Plates
Ronald, Grimice, Hamburgler and the Fry Guys
He-Man
Thundercats
The hot wheels you could crash and they had plastic sides that would roll over to look like damage
Bigfoot
WWF
WWF Morning Cartoon
Hanna Barbera Cartoons
Spped Racer
Danger Mouse
Moongoose & GT bikes...(I had a fukin bannana seat huffy)
Light-brite
Garbage Pail Kids
Garfield
Marmaduke
Heathcliff
Ghostbusters
Back To The Future
Karate Kid
Muscles
Pin Wheel
You Cant Do That On Television
and on and on and on and on.......

 

Remember when, again for the old timers, you went to a soda fountain to get a cherry coke. The would put in the cherry syrup and add coke syrup and soda. The real cherry coke.

 

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The next model year cars came out in Sept....not throughout the year.
Getting the first microwave (and mom telling us we'd glow in the dark if we stood in front of it)

CHiPs
The first space shuttle going up...and landing
Reagan getting shot
You could sleep with windows open
Drive-in movies
Schoolhouse Rock
Teachers/Principals could spank you
Mom and/or Dad would give you a worse spanking when you got home
Cell phones that were permanently mounted in the car
Charlie's Angels
Betamax movies
Pole Position
Green Machines
Captain Kangaroo
Having to specify 'unleaded' gas
Full service gas stations
8-track tape players
8mm home movies -- no audio!

 

What was A/C back then right? And if you bought a car, you had the choice of air or automatic for free.
Poseable G.I. JOEs with trucks and such.
Tom and jerry at 3:30 followed by Star Trek at 4 pm

Like it was said, VHF/UHF with kung foo theater showing on ch 26 on saturday.

 

Comic books, with ads in the back for a box of 500 army men for only 99 cents but all you could do was dream.

5 cent candy bars.

Soda bottles redeamable for $.03

baseball cards in the bicycle spokes held by clothespins.
Mom never missed a clothespin because she had a sack of them.
Running between the long lines of clothes hanging in the backyard.
Every house built came with clothesline poles.

Every family had one car, one tv and one phone with a rotary dial.

And the Moon was still made of cheese because nobody had proven otherwise.

 

AM radio only, TV had NBC, CBS and later ABC you had to get up off your azz and change channels ,re-tune and maybe turn the antenna to get a decent picture. Did get to watch Superman,Roy Roger's the Cisco Kid and even Amos and Andy! Still had Desoto's, Kaiser's and Edsels roaming the highway's and if you were lucky your folk's had one with air conditioning. Bike's were Schwinn or AMF Roadmaster's if you were lucky. Daisy pump's were the BB gun of choice. Small transistor radio's came out in the early 60's and I was lucky to get a 7 transistor Admiral for my 8th grade graduation. Used to listen to the New Orleans rock and roll from the early 60's. Also picked up the Houston Colt 45 baseball games at night. A few year's later I was caught up in the muscle car era and was lucky enough to get to buy a new 1966 Pontiac GTO with the 389 tri-power engine. Did a lot of crusing on the street's of New Orleans (Bourbon Street) included and made more than my share of trips to the drive-ins. Yeah the good old days, no cell phones, computers etc! Ha Ha

 

Pic taken around 1968.

 

cragars!

 

Ok so I am 34, and I remember getting a VCR with a wired remote!! Pure hottness untill we got..... A MIRCOWAVE!!!! Voodoo cooking machine. No nan (grandma) you can't put forks in there!!! Hahahah

 

Crawling through the milk chute when the door was locked.
Chasing the milk truck begging for a chip of ice on a hot summer day.
Getting clothes off the line because it started to rain.

Taking a swig of Dad's PBR when it was made with the original formula.
Eating McDonald's fries before they changed the grease they're fried in.

The man at the gas station asking my Dad if he could check the oil while filled the tank with gas.

 

American gladiators followed by Parker Lewis cant loose

 

Mullets and muscles. A classic combo