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Asked 4 years ago
by rmlatino475  United States |
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[1 point] 4 years ago by deleted user ReplyDA haircuts, pink and black, penny loafers, fender skirts, half moons on the headlights, lowered rear ends of cars, twin pipes, purple dome lights, drag races just outside of town, smoking, firecracker fights between cars, and on and on and on.
Pea shooters, carpet guns, stick ball, hop scotch, tag, camping out in the backyard, Boones Farm, day glo, 45RPMs, 33 1/3 LPs, 8 track tapes, hula hoops, frisbees, super balls, doo wop in the boys room, huge fins on cars, car door locks you could open with a coat hanger, AM radios powered with 9 volt batteries, vacuum tube radios with eerie orange lights inside them, hanging clothes out to dry in the sun every day, inkwells in your desk at school, your school desk bolted to the floor, air raid drills, geez, there are sooooo many!!!
Heck, you couldn't have an air raid drill in todays schools, the mommies would complain about it!
What? Hmmmn, maybe the part where they bend over and kiss their ass goodbye.... ;)
Ya think?
That was the joke of the time.
Born 1940?
Later than that! They had air raid drills into the Sixties!
Try the fifties. :)
Do you know the diff. betwn a peahsooter and a beanshooter Chip? and how'bout spud and Red Ryder BB guns? Snap Jack shoes? Man nostalgia flash back!
How about Drake's Devil Dogs, Bonomo's Turkish Taffy, Bit o' Honey bars, and baseball cards with a big stick of gum.
Beeman Clove and BlackJack gum,
Oh yeah, when a kid it wa just Devil Dogs, favorit with us kids, and didn't even like cake, then not to may years pack saw Drakes Devil Dogs, but they were flatter and smaller, was wondering if some one bought them out. Bit-O-Honey was cool, would let it melt in my mouth until the nuts popped out.
I was a Devil Dog addict. They were only a nickel in those days and I passed a deli on the way to school every morning and I always stopped off to buy one.
They still have Bit-O-Honey bars.
I didn't know. It's been years since I've been to a real candystore.
Miss them all, contracted diabetes since then, although wasn't much of a sugar eater even them. Rhubarb pie was my favorite. Back then you ate what you caught or picked.
Nope, I always bought a box of split peas. :-)
Spud guns? I saw a PDF on the Internet that told how to make a spud gun. In fact I think I have it here somewhere. Haven't made one yet.
They were hot for a while, thnk our mom's crushed the market on them, bean shooter was a sling shot, didn't know that when dad told me so here we go trying to blow navy beans out of a peashooter. The ones that made it out the end, after vibrating the tube. :)))
I was just researching pea shooters to see when they first became popular, and guess what, ...this poll popped up in my search. Well, so far I found a reference back to 1857 which said they were thinking about abolishing them. I guess that would mean they were probably around even before 1857. And we know too that they didn't have any success banning them. Funny though, in the 70's and 80's I never heard any talk of abolishing them, but they must have done it very quietly. I haven't seen one in years.
Wow! 269 days, chip what is your real name ripvanwinkle! I haven't been on this site in a long time. Like it but got wrapped up with other endeavors. So what did you come up with?
We called moons the hubcaps and eyelid the on the headlights.
A rose by any othr name.
Mini skirts. White boots. Pop art.
Mags, you didn't!
I sure did ! I grew up with a 7in B/W TV !!
And that was the family TV? Or were you one of those spoiled rich kids that had your own? :)
OMG it was a hand me down, from grandparents and for the ENTIRE FAMILY.My dad and his brothers bought the thing for them, when they moved we got it. Our first TV.
Um. So much for the "rich girl" theory. `Just a poor slob like most of us in those days. `Bet you didn't even have air conditioning!!! Well, Mags, neither did I. :)
And the boys used to love it when classroom desks were arranged in a circle (or hollow square). ;o)
clean decent tv.....great movies with a moral, without the language and violence....
Cowboys and Indians!!! Oh, wait, that's not P.C.
Sorry, ...I meant Cowboys and Native Americans!!!
But they weren't violent `cause we all knew that was just ketchup. :-)
Dragnet. Howdy Doody. Gunsmoke. SKY KING !!
Hi Ho, Silver, away!!!
Programs were decent, the TV looked like a snow storm! :)))
Well, just about defined those born in the forties.
I guess there wasn't a lot of difference.
Bell bottom pants, double breasted suits and wide paisley ties. ;o)
Platform Shoes
Darn near everything that was mentioned and then a thousand more.
Getting my driver's license and caravaning from one fast food joint (McDonald's or A&W's), to another, with 25-35 other cars in a convoy(some of them mom & pop cars that they let the kids use on Friday and Saturday nights [irritating the heck out of the local cops]). Flat-top haircuts, white buck shoes, Nehru pullovers, the thousand and one toys etc (including mood rings and pet rocks), and on and on and on. The kids today want every new fad (most of them electronic [like cell phones]), that comes along ... in my day, the fads were simpler and MUCH cheaper (not like today).
The fact remains, overall things are NOT all that much different ... kids want the latest and greatest and they want to be a member of the "IN" crowd - and to do that, they want the newest fad (whatever it is) ... including tattoos and body piercing.
I can remember it .... but I don't care to. The 80's was a very odd decade.
Clogs (platforms for kids). Ponchos. Farrah Fawcett hairstyles. Elastics (a game). The Bay City Rollers. Long skirts.
OK, all you young whippersnappers: How many remember the Lucky Strike Hit Parade with Gizell McKenzie (TV), etc. Inner Sanctum (radio), Silvertone TV sets, The Shadow (on the Radio), X minus 10, Fibber McGee and Molly (radio), Schwinn Black Panther bicycle, The Lone Ranger (radio and TV), getting to second base with your girlfriend, swimming at Cold Springs (private lake), etc. etc.