Man, to many things to quote. Good thread!

Any of you guys remember the Evil Knievel motorcycle toy? It had the rip cord you'd pull and then set the bike down?

I remember my mom and dad had the window air conditioner and us kids had fans in our rooms. Sneak over to their room and the door was almost always locked! Hmm, wonder what they were doin'?

How 'bout putting the playing cards in the spokes of your bike? Thought you were on a real motorcycle!! That was so cool!!!!

I remember when remote cars first came out. My Dad bought me a Ferrari for Christmas. They would turn left and right and that's it. Didn't think life could get much better than that.

 

hulk hogan slammin andre the giant

 

Saturday morning was "Creature Double Feature", with Godzilla and mouths that moved differently from the words......
I remember being at "Nana's", and the grown-ups watching Lawrence Welk, which was followed by the Disney
"movie-of-the-week" (which all seemed to star a young Kurt Russell)
Later in yrs...
Dad drove a Pinto that he bitched about.
Mom had a Dodge Dart
(1st car I ever drove, when I lied and told her "yeah they've taken us out on the street in Drivers Ed", when in reality I had never driven before. I'll never forget that nervous ride!)
Bro 1 had a '66 Econoline 3 in the tree, and a 71 Mach 1.
Bro 2 had moms hand-me-down 67 Plymouth Belvedere.
I had a 66 GTO.

We watched All In The Family, MASH, Taxi, Happy Days, Lavern and Shirley
Got sick on Shlitz beer.
Peppermint Schnapps could fool moms "why are you late test", telling her it's the gum.
I've got to go listen to Kid Rocks' "All Summer Long" now.......
That song (although 1984 & Cape Cod) is sooooo true....

 

the A team with that sweet van. man they could get it done.

 

lolol

 

Havin an antenna on the chimney so we could watch tv.

 

having to get up and turn the the *** on the tv to change the channel.

 

Computers didn't have hard drives! Just a tape drive and if you were lucky, a 5 1/4" floppy drive and it took FOREVER to load anything!

Oh ya, the Vic 20 "computer" that hooked up to your TV!

 

The only thing I can recall that was actually better in the old days, was me.


I'm getting old.

 

You'll pass me pretty soon!

 

That's scary.

 

 

micro machines
hotwheels/matchbox (when i played not collected)
Legos (technics, before they did all the space and robot stuff)
Nintendo, then SNES, then N64
then I got into girls and its been downhill since then

 

Remember when presidents where hero's? We haven't had a hero in awhile. I miss ole Ronnie

 

Some have been said already :

erector set
my 1st chemistry set
legos
hot wheels (hot wheels were fords and matchboxes were chevys, even when I was a kid my dad taught me right. LOL)
atari 2600 - as a pre-teen
honda 3 wheelers (185s and 200x)
1st car was a 67' stang conv. w/ 289
cartoons only on sat. morn
disney movie on sun. night
some tv shows : all in the family, happy days, hee haw (now I know why my dad watched it.)
we still have a drive-in (We try to make it at least 2 or 3 times a season)