Post something that proves you're over 30, or....

[olena]

I really can't participate. At 29, I'm right on the border. Kinda got one foot in each camp.

 

[The Mystery Machine]

Welcome to the "Land of the Lost"
HR Pfnstuf
JUMP ROPING for hours on end.
I was at Girl Scout camp the day Nixon resigned. I remember it because everyone was watching the only tv they had in camp.
OH and REAL Rock and Roll with hardcore instruments and singing.
Iran hostages
Jimmy Carter and his peanuts
"Do the Hustle"

 

[Mamu]

Penny Candy when it cost one cent each. Sometimes you got two for a penny that was even better.

 

[Lars624]

My favorite Liddle Kiddle was blueberry scented & came in a locket style necklace I loved to play colorforms & lite brite.
I still have my Sunshine Family & Donny & Marie & Dawn Fashion Dolls. My favorite TV shows were Little House on the Prarie, The Waltons, Eight is Enough, Happy Days & Love Boat.
I remember watching MTV when it was all videos & had the original 4 hosts (VJs) When Thriller came out they wuld schedule times to show the video & my friends & I would all plan to be in front of the TV to watch.
I remember the Christmas specials (Frosty, Grinch Rudolph,Little Drummer Boy etc) being so exciting because you had to see them when they were on TV or you missed them entirely. You couldn't just go rent them or buy them like now.

 

[snoopy]

Oh, speaking of Little House on the Prairie, I remember going into deep mourning when Mary went blind.

Has anyone mentioned Chuck Taylor's yet, or just plain "Chucks"? I always had to wear white, and they had to be high tops.

And Peter's jackets? I think that is what they were called. I remember my brothers having to have one, and then a little later it was Members Only jackets.

 

[3reds]

mohair sweaters
madras shirts
Saturday morning cartoons ("Mighty Mouse")
manual typewriters
carbon paper
Bonanza
wearing "tennis shoes" only for gym class
gym suits
rolling our skirts up at the waistband after we left the house
Betsy Wetsy and Tiny Tears dolls
playing "street games" till dark (Red Light-Green Light, Red Rover)
pogo sticks

 

[Dream]

lOL Snoopy!! "Chucks"!!! HAD to be high tops and HAD to be red!

 

[ebaynut31]

We played and still have Atari! and Colecovision! Do you know what they are?

 

[Ranatra]

I remember where I was and what I was doing the day Kennedy was shot
I remember watching the Beatles appear for the very first time on the Ed Sullivan Show
I remember go go boots (7th grade) and granny dresses (9th grade)
I remember I wasn't really old enough (according to my parents) to go to Woodstock
I remember Martin Luther King being shot, and the riots in our schools, we had armed guards in the hallways

Yes, I'm well over 30.

 

[Mermaid02]

Like someone else said, the cartoons were only on Saturday morning..... so on Sunday morning you had to settle for Marlon Perkins and Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom..... "We'll just stay in the Jeep while Jim wrestles that giant Anaconda"

I still have my Sunshine family someplace.....

 

[Cindy B]

Over 30..

can do that...

Lets see..

I remember watching TV Nixon resigning.
Pol Pot.. sad sad sad

When Mr. Hooper was on Sesame Street.

There were 5 original MTV hosts.. I can name them without thinking JJ Jackson, Mark Goodman, Martha Quinn, Nina Blackwood, Alan Hunter.

Geraldine Ferraro tried to be vice president.

Gas rationing.

Jimmy Carters goofy smile.

The Iran hostages, and every day on the news they would have a graphic, with the countdown on how many days they have been there.

The Equal Rights Amendment movement. I rememeber distinctly my first grade teacher telling us how man get paid more than women, and how unfair it was



8 Track tapes!

There was nothing wrong with the teachers spanking the children.

 

[Blondie]

Originally posted by Cindy B
There were 5 original MTV hosts.. I can name them without thinking JJ Jackson, Mark Goodman, Martha Quinn, Nina Blackwood, Alan Hunter.

I remember when Mark Goodman was a DJ for WMMR!

 

[Cindy B]

Really, Blondie.. my DH swears he remembers that as well, but I don't...

(He will be 40 next month!)

Pierre Robert just celebrated some milestone at WMMR, either 20 or 25 years... there's a billboard about it near the Ben Franklin bridge, Philly side...

 

[snoopy]

Dream you must be a little younger than me (either that or it was a regional thing?) but when I was coming up there were two colors of Chucks - white or black. Red and the other wild colors didn't come out until a few years after I wore them.

Did you also put the different color shoe laces in your Chucks? I always had to have blue and white shoe laces. And people would write the name of their boyfriend on the toe part of the Chuck, I never did this of course because I was anal about my Chucks being as white and clean as possible (heh heh, big surprise there!)

 

[Patrick IL.]

I rememeber CPO...Chief Petty Officer jackets, being very cool for a while.

 

[snoopy]

OMG, yes, Patrick, I loved CPO jackets! DH, who was then BF, had one.

 

[ryanpatricksmom]

My first album was Meet the Beatles. I drove my parent's GranTorino station wagon (school bus orange) in high school.
We had 7 children in our family, and we weren't Catholic. We played Pong non-stop. We first got cable in our neighborhood when I was 25.

I do a pretty good impression of Axl Rose AND Limp Bizkit.

Can you tell that I'm old with kids that are pretty far apart in age?

 

[glo]

How about mood rings, pop rocks...pet rocks.

How about woodie sided station wagons, with no seat belts in the backwards seat...Or when the high beams on the car were on the floor under the clutch.

Leisure suites and polyester...I feel old.

Atari...how about Pac Man and Asteroids!!!

 

[Cricket2]

I still have my "floppy disk notch punch" floating around here somewhere...........

I have a "Welcome back Kotter" lunch box with the quote "Up your nose with a rubber hose" on the side.

 

[CarolG]

I remember when
-- Star Trek was a weekly series
-- Scooby Doo was new!
-- Pong was the coolest game
-- There were no PC's, and calculators weighed a ton
-- We were sent home from school the day JFK was shot
-- I watched Nixon on Laugh-In (You bet your sweet bippy, Here come da judge, Sock it to me, Look that up in your Funk and Wagnalls...)
-- We were allowed to wear slacks (dressy ones, no jeans) my senior year in high school
-- Like Breezy, I used punched cards in my college programming classes, and programs were batched to UGA's mainframe to be run. Turnaround time for output was anywhere from 8 to 36 hours.
-- We tried to find something useful to do with the first IBM PC-XT in our office, because it was so much fun to play with.
-- DH had a Kaypro 4-84 for his home business