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

[kinlaw6450]

I watched the Space Shuttle Challenger explode when I was in 7th grade.

I had a Apple II GS Computer with floppy and cassette drives...and a color dot matrix printer!

Hmmm....

 

[Cindy B]

Billy Crystal was hilarious on Soap


Chevy Chase did a funny Gerald Ford Impersonation


Richard Pryor movies!


Howard Cosell

The Wide World of Sports (the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat.. that poor soul falling down the mountain)


the 1976 Quarter, and it was really cool to get one.

 

[Blondie]

Originally posted by CarolG
We took the polio vaccine orally on a sugar cube (3 doses a few weeks apart). Everyone, adults and children, went to the local schools to get it.

And I still have a smallpox vaccination scar on my left arm. (Hope I don't need a new one, )

I remember those sugar cubes....I can still see my small pox vaccination scar too.

 

[3reds]

shopping downtown (no mall)
having an Edsel
playing with Ginny & Muffy dolls (pre-Barbie)
reading Nancy Drew
watching Peyton Place twice a week
coming home when the streetlights came on
playing all-night Monopoly games (some things never change!)


P.S. And you probably have to be from Ohio to remember staying up on Friday nights to watch Ghoulardi.

 

[roque]

i remember watching the landing on the moon and being VERY upset that Sesame street was being preempted

 

[3reds]

knee socks
penny loafers
Toni home perms
buying milk for 5 cents in the cafeteria
Chef Boy-R-Dee spaghetti
Twilight Zone & The Outer Limits
home ec. and shop class
wrapping your boyfriend's ring in mohair so it would fit your finger
going "parking"
getting busted by the cops while "parking"

 

[Shadeaux]

gina2000 -

I had forgotten about garter belts. My grandmother was still wearing garters 10 years ago!

This reminded me of another kind of belt we girls had to wear. I'm sure some of you know what I'm talking about.

 

[perdidobay]

WOW! I remember those polio sugar cubes too..and I have a smallpox scar too....also I still have my ID bracelet circa the cuban missle crisis era

 

[FergieTCat]

I watched first run episodes of "The Partridge Family" and "The Brady Bunch". In black and white.

 

[Dodie]

My first BRAND NEW car was a 1980 Pinto!

jsmith: The name of the first boy I ever had a crush on is on the Vietnam Memorial. Your comment caused my eyes to tear up. My mother wore a POW bracelet during the Vietnam war for her first high school boyfriend. (He returned okay.)

 

[newmousecateer]

Howdy Doody, Winky Dink and You (used a piece of plastic over the TV screen and used crayons to help Winky).

Oh my gosh Dan, I had the plastic screen cover to help Winky Dink! I used to love that!

 

[ryanpatricksmom]

"See me walk so straight and tall, I won't let my basket fall"
Remember Romper Room with the stupid plastic baskets that we wore on our heads?

 

[FergieTCat]

RyanPatricksMom -- Remember the "Do-bees" and "Don't-Bees"?

 

[Tense]

OMG!!! Romper Room...ha ha almost forgot!I see Johnny and Kathy,Micheal and Annie!!!!I was never watching when he saw me I guess!

 

[Tense]

Oh.... And I sooo wanted a Winky Dink screen!

 

[Laurabearz]

I remeber when Papermate came out with Eraserable pens.....

 

[ryanpatricksmom]

OMG, and the ridiculous fire engine boxes!

And yes, I am most definitely a Do-bee...

 

[linny172]

I had a 8 track player in my car. Still have a bunch of albums, had atari, saw the beetles on ed sullivan.

 

[Dopey Sharon]

Remember Clackers? They were two glass balls, a little smaller that a golf ball, attached to string held together buy a ring. You held the ring and "clacked" the balls. My dad took mine away...it was too dangerous. 3reds...my kids had to come home when the street lights came on! They would get teased by the other kids. You guys are bringing back so many memories! Forgot about getting caught by the cops while we were parking! LOL Thought of another one....my grandmother had a wringer washer. My brother had Lincoln Logs. We used to walk home, from school, for lunch. Wearing those dorky gym uniforms, those one piece things.

 

[Tense]

Clackers!!! I had them... they were dangerous! Remember Footsies... The ring around you ankle with a string and a plastic bell attached and you had to get it going in circles and jump over it!
How about the plastic bubble stuff that never worked ...you put a glob on the end of a straw and 'blow' a plastic bubble(not)!!!

Gum ball machines WERE a penny!

Dairy Barns(drive through to get milk products and bread!) are they around anymore???