Bring back the good o' days, Things ..........

[dreamn_Disney]

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[TEminnie]

I love that satin jacket! Oh and shirtless???

Can you believe photobucket had that shot? That was WAY before internet!
(my teen says "OMG--like how were you ever a teenager without the net and cell phones???")

Uh....I dunno about being a teenager--but I don't think I could live without them NOW!

I remember when I needed a ride home from school....I got on a PAY PHONE, clicked the receiver 2 times when mom picked up, and she knew to come and get me! Saved me from having to carry change! (and certainly much cheaper than my teen's cell phone/text bill!)

(and yes, Tracy, she says "like" a lot too! )

 

[Disneyland_Mama]

I remember when I needed a ride home from school....I got on a PAY PHONE, clicked the receiver 2 times when mom picked up, and she knew to come and get me! Saved me from having to carry change! (and certainly much cheaper than my teen's cell phone/text bill!)

I used to call home collect and when the operator asked if my mom would accept the charges, she'd say no and hang up. She knew come get us!

(and yes, Tracy, she says "like" a lot too! )

She must be like uber cool!

 

[Macca1111]

Do you recall the barbie that kissed? You pressed a button on her back

Seriously? When was that? That's awesome!

 

[Macca1111]

Licking the cake bowl and not worrying about getting sick. I would never let my kids lick the bowl now because of the raw eggs, but I never got sick doing it.

Oh, I remember when Mom got concerned about that and stopped us for a few years...it didn't last, since cake batter is so delicious. Really, it's worth the risk of salmonella - that and cookie dough too! Yum!

 

[mrsbert]

Sorry but do some people seriously consider NOT licking the bowl?
Yeah, um I don't understand.

BTW, I GOT TAGGED!!!

 

[trulygoofy]

Also, anyone really into wearing buttons(pins) all over their jackets? I had so many....we used to buy them at Spencers at the mall. They had sayings on them like "I'm not as think as you drunk I am" and stuff like that....I was like 15 and my mom let me wear those things??

I had one that I wore that said "stop staring at my chest" I can't believe I wore that, especially since at the time that button was really the only thing there to look at!

 

[MomWith2Cinderellas]

That was a crazy summer in NY. We also had the blackout in July.

The blackout!! I almost forgot about that....Man, I resented my parents for living on the 7th floor of an apartment building during that balckout! lol

 

[MomWith2Cinderellas]

That is so funny! It was in the Staten island Mall, and if it was your birthday, they banged this big drum and made a lot of noise. When we were pre-teens/teens, it was always fun to tell them it was somebody's birthday in your group (especially when it wasn't) and embarass the heck outta them.

We also went to Jahn's in Brooklyn for ice cream sundaes. And when I was a kid, we always ate at Brennan & Carr. And went to Peter Pan Playland, and Buddy's. Long defunct.

I believe I now have an incredible long term memory, as I am dredging up things I haven't thought about in decades. Too bad I call my daughter by the cat's name on some days.

Anyone mention sea monkeys yet?

Samantha

I remember Jahn's very well! We use to stop in there for smoke fries with gracy on the way to Kings Plaza. Wow! This thread is great. What fond wonderful memories!

 

[patmacd]

I grew up in Manhattan and I remember playing a game called -skelly - we would melt crayons into bottle caps and draw a board with chalk in the playground and you had to flick your bottle cap onto different numbered boxes....... my dh from NJ says he never heard of it - Have any of you ever heard of it/played it?

 

[trulygoofy]

Remember Spuds Mckenzie?

My best friend in HS got me a Spuds shirt with Delta Omicron Gamma (DOG) on it.
Spuds was so cool!

 

[Macca1111]

Oh my god, so many memories here! I finally got thru all of the pages!

I did have Fashion Plates. You could mix up the different flat pieces of plastic with different heads, shirts and pants/skirts to make outfits, put a sheet of paper over them and then rub a crayon over it to make different outfits. There were plaid mini skirts and long skirts and shorts and different shirts.

Yeah, fashion plates! I had the 80's version...I hope they're still hanging around somewhere...I those things!

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Does anyone remember the neon clothes craze. What were we thinking? The skin tight pants with the big baggy shirts and a big belt. I had matching earrings and bangle bracelets to boot. 80's were not known for great clothing trends. Love the music just not the hair or clothes.

This was one of the things I was going to comment on, not only because I made some interesting fashion choices, but because I wanted to mention that 80's fashions made a comeback at the start of last school year - the high schoolers where I taught thought it was terribly fashionable to wear long shirts, black leggings, and legwarmers - not in the bright colors of the 80's but the same shapes. I kept thinking "That was ugly the first time it came around - what are you doing?"

Bozo (Bozo buckets!)

I wanted to be on that show so badly! Then, much later on, there was a Bozo bucket game at the arcade I worked at - it was way easy to cheat and dump it in the 6 bucket (highest amount of tickets that could be traded for cheap crap that you really didn't need)

Looms...those pot holder makers with the plastic thing that you wove the polyester loops around to make pot holders. I used to make them for gifts for my grandmothers, my aunts, etc. Funny thing was you couldn't really use them for anything HOT....they melted!

My sister and I made endless potholders with those...she had the big thick ones that you could sort of use, but mine were the real thin neon colored ones that would definetly melt if any sort of heat were applied. Found the loom for that the other day.

I WAS She-ra... for halloween... and my brother was He-man!
Punky Power!
Kids Incorperated (watched Jennifer Love Hewitt way b4 Partyof5)
LOVED Gem and the Holograms!
Rainbow Brite
E.T. (and Reeces Pieces- YUM!)
Rented same two videos w/best friends every weekend- Neverending Story AND Girls Just Wanna Have Fun- over and over again. (um, why did our parents not just us buy these movies???)
Read choose-your-own-adventure books
Sleepover dance contests (had a winner Samantha Foxx routine with neighbor girl- LOL!)
Doubled socks- neon usually- anyone else remember this fad?
Guess Jeans
Electric Youth perfume
Debbie Gibson, Tiffany and New Kids on the Block

I was an 80's child and media had definately taken over by then, as you can see.

Every single one of these...

Nintendo. I got one and I just thought I was IT.

Hypercolor shirts. Celebrating sweat, in multi-colors.

Jelly shoes. Nothing like playing kickball, and losing your shoe.

Playing Four Square.

Yes yes yes. I wanted a hypercolor shirt SO BAD - that was one that my parents didn't give into.

You must be about the same age as me, as I remember EVERYTHING you are talking about.

Do you also remember those things that you put on the side of your shirt? That you would thread your shirt through?

I can't believe no one else has mentioned this yet - I have no idea what they were called, but I had several and HAD to wear them for about a year...

-Glittery Jelly sandals (man those caused blisters)


-Rugrats, Doug, Are You Afraid Of The Dark? (that show SCARED ME!)
-Goosebumps books
-POGS
-Oregon Trail
-Creepy Crawler maker...along with the Dolly maker...the bugs were more fun to make than the dolls

Especially Oregon Trail on the Old Apple 2E! I LOVED that game - never made it to the end, usually died from typhoid or a broken arm or gunshot wound...I loved that you got to make yourself a tombstone after that happened tho! I loved our computer lab - there was a typing game too called PAWS I believe, with a little cat and you got to play games while you learned to type!

Anyone remember the summer when Coke had that contest where money would pop out of the can when you opened it?? I kept hoping I'd get one, no such luck. LOL
Big bangs, spiral perms and scrunchies.

Totally with you on both of those

Ok, I was a senior in high school/freshman in college for this "craze"....but the ugliest hair accessory ever made? Two words: Banana Clips!!

Oh, had those too - they were hideous!

I had twist a bead necklaces...and anyone have charm necklaces (looked like a plastic chain and you could buy all the pastic charms to hang on them)...I had a TON of those things.

Also Kangaroo tennis shoes with the little zipper pocket on the side (I used to put my ice cream money in the pocket) they tried to make a comeback a few years ago.

I owned both, and was glad to see the ebay links. I told Dad there was a reason to keep all my old "junk" around! Of course, I'd never sell my charm necklace, but now I feel validated. I even recognized some of the charms - the tennis racket being the first. In one of the pictures I saw those interlocking hearts too, and I still have those as well - all upstairs in a "junk" drawer, along with my pocket rocker - anyone have one of those? - strawberry shortcake doll, and various other treasures!
Besides other things that have already been mentioned on this thread, I rememeber the Pink Panther cartoons being awesome, and then watching them again a few years ago... not so good now. Besides the ugly fashions already mentioned, the way cool thing at our school in 6th grade (so 1992-1993 I think) was wearing a big baggy sweatshirt in a solid color, and black Umbro (soccer) shorts. I've never played soccer, but I owned several pairs and wore that outfit probably every day. I was a HUGE dork, but didn't realize it at the time... I remember lots of TV shows - I was an 80's child and plugged into the media. I remember Can't Do That on Television, with all of the kids getting slimed and Barf the gross old guy who was in the sketches about the cafeteria. I still remember the theme song from kids incorporated "Kids in-cor-porated! K-I-D-S!" I remember when Punky Brewster taught us the invaluable lesson that if you're playing hide and seek, an old abandoned unplugged refridgerator was NOT a safe place to hide. And lastly, Disney related, there was an exercise show on the Disney channel that featured Mickey Mouse - I would wake up early on the weekends and sneak downstairs so that I could exercise with Mickey! I've always been obsessed! (with the mouse, not so much exercise ) Writing that reminded me of D-TV, which were music videos of "popular" songs of the time set to old Disney animation. I remember one for Stevie Wonder's "My Cherie Amore." For awhile when Vault Disney was going, they were showing those inbetween and I was all kinds of excited! These are great memories! Sorry my post is so long!

 

[Debbie]

I remember when I needed a ride home from school....I got on a PAY PHONE, clicked the receiver 2 times when mom picked up, and she knew to come and get me!

You got a ride home? No suburban malls when I was young. . . just downtown. I was riding the bus at 7 years old downtown to the YMCA. I'd wait-in the dark, in the cold- for Dad at a prearranged time. So, it was the bus when I went shopping as a teen, too.

No second car, and when we did get it, it wasn't for driving me to school. THAT I walked to, choosing to walk through the woods, jumping the creek, rather than using the (brand new) foot bridge that would have taken an extra...what...7 minutes? I remember being firmly stuck in the spring creek mud, water at the top of my boots. Luckily my cousin came along and pulled me out. . . or I'd still be there

Taking my two sisters (8 and 6...I was 14) to see Jungle Book and With Six You Get Eggroll. I fainted outside the theatre, and we were taken into the (air conditioned!!) theatre, for me to recover. Kids got free popcorn and a drink , and we got in free.

Rubber boots that went over your shoes, and, since we wore short socks, rubbed your legs raw. I hated those things!

Snowpants over dresses----all bunched up.

Skating on the outside ponds, and tobogganing on any old hill you could find. Nowadays, there doesn't seem to be the snow for the kids to toboggan very often.

Riding in the back of a pickup truck, and deliberately hitting the bumps.

Our yearly vacation with a HUMUNGOUS bag of Kraft caramels. Ymmmmm.

 

[samanthacatangel]

Also, anyone really into wearing buttons(pins) all over their jackets? I had so many....we used to buy them at Spencers at the mall. They had sayings on them like "I'm not as think as you drunk I am" and stuff like that....I was like 15 and my mom let me wear those things??

My Mom let me wear those too... I had that one! I also had "If all else fails lower your standards." OMG, if my DD ever wore that I would BURN it! What a terrible message!!

And I also had the "phone signal" with my mom- reverse charges and she declined the call, and then she knew to pick me up!

Anyone remember, before call waiting, the days of emergency breakthroughs?

Samantha

 

[MomofCKJ]

Yea! I remember that! Now I'm thinkin' about Shawn's hair... Wonder if he still has any???

Me too!
And Rick Springfield!
"I wish that I had Jesse's girl..."

...can't comment on too many TV shows cause we got 2 channels when the wind was blowin' the right way....

(CBS and NBC)

Speaking of Rick Springfield he is still alive, well and rockin'! I just saw him in May and I have seen him about 5 other times in the last 4 years. He puts on an AMAZING show! I saw him in the 80s when I was a kid but the man puts on a better show now and is so full of energy and dare I say hot for an almost 60 year old!!! Love Rick Springfield! The CD he released in 2004, called S/D/A/A, is one of the best CDs ever in my humble opinion, check it out!

Allyson

 

[hallie615]

Yea! I remember that! Now I'm thinkin' about Shawn's hair... Wonder if he still has any???

Me too!
And Rick Springfield!
"I wish that I had Jesse's girl..."

The original loves of my life. I remember kissing Shawn Cassidy everynight before I went to sleep.My favorite song was Doo Run Run. Now if I could just find a Ricky Schroder poster

 

[tcarr5]

remember when ho-ho's came wrapped in foil? they tasted so much better then how about the trading cards that came in the wonder bread?

some more old favorites shows were: all in the family, leave it to beaver, father knows best, kung fu, hawaii five-0, the adams family.

 

[Praying Colonel]

Our family grew up without A/C. It was a very big deal when we got a single-room window air conditioner when I was 9. The door to that room stayed closed, however, and the rest of the house was just open windows and fans.

We're re-living that right now; our A/C went out Saturday. DW is home this morning trying to find someone to come out and restore order to our universe. At 11:00 p.m. last night it was 89 degrees in our bedroom. And the thing about fans is, no matter how many fans you've got blowing, it's still blowing 89-degree air.

It didn't seem as hot when I was growing up without A/C. Guess I've gone soft.

 

[eh24fan]

Me too!
And Rick Springfield!
"I wish that I had Jesse's girl..."

(CBS and NBC)

I LOVED That song when I was little. One of my ABSOLUTE favorite songs was "Angel in the Centerfold" LOl I was just a little thing when I liked that one...only I thought theyw ere saying "Angel in a cinnamon roll" LMAO

 

[marcyinPA]

Oh yeah! One in traditional rainbow colors and one in really fugly 80's gold/orange brown. Had the bedsheets too- the ones with the rainbows on the sides and the pillows made the arches.

I had the sheets too! I forgot about those! I also had the comforter, drapes....eh, I was obsessed....