Things from the 70's and 80's that no longer exist... and you miss them.

[PenguinWaiters]

the Banana Splits TV show

One banana, two banana, three banana four....
la la laa lalala laa....

Loved that show! I used to watch it right before the Monkees...

 

[FergieTCat]

My waist!

 

[nskjerven]

the feeling that I would live forever
levi 501s, polo shirt and topsiders, yes preppy was in and I was preppy
eating all the ice cream I wanted and never gaining an ounce at my job at Baskin Robbins
sun in for highlighting my "blonde" hair

 

[Princess_Michelle]

...

 

[rparmfamily]

Watching the world premiere of THRILLER!

People actually copying the one-glove thing LOL.

Florescent. The yellow! Deep V-neck cableknit sweaters! Matching socks!
Acid wash!
Candy cigarettes
Going to the candy shop inside the gas station and buying the candy cigarettes, the lipstick candy (we pretended they were bullets LOL) and they were like $.05 a pack.
The Strawberry Shortcake ice cream bars, I swear they tasted better back in the day. The chocolate ones too!
Satin, LOL
ABBA

Saturday morning cartoons--Smurfs and Schoolhouse Rock

Getting to watch a movie once a year when it came on TV, like Gone With the Wind or Wizard of Oz.

My granny and her big red pickup truck and farm.

 

[rparmfamily]

Oh yeah, and my favorite kid's show---You Can't Do That! (on Television)

 

[MickeyCrazedMom]

Does anyone else remember the small records that were gum? You could play the song on the nice dirty record player and then chew it up??!!

 

[barkley]

Does anyone else remember the small records that were gum? You could play the song on the nice dirty record player and then chew it up??!!

i remember those-in fact recently when i was going through some old records recently i found one of the 'album covers' from that gum-it was a replica of the cover from 'meet the knack' (stuffed inside my 'meet the knack' album).



leggs panty hose that came in the big silver egg shaped containers

double (and sometimes triple) features at the movies

def. dr. demento (and those songs-fish heads, dead puppies, i'm looking over my dead dog rover-and the ones that talented 'kid' al yankovich would send him to play )

jello 1-2-3

(this is regional to the san francisco bay area)-kfrc radio with 'dr. donald d. rose', 'marvelous mark' and the rest of the gang. i remember listening to it every morning over the speakers on the school bus going to jr. high and highschool

 

[jenny105]

New Kids on the Block

haven't you heard? they're back and their concert was quite good

Toys, like Mousetrap, that weren't made out of flimsy plastics that break after two uses....

Mousetrap never worked. NEVER.

Does anyone remember this game, I don't know what it was called, but you built bridges and had to get around the board...and if you got an explosion on the dice you had to push down this handle in the middle and one of the four bridges would explode, possibly knocking your guy off? don't really know what made me think of this

I miss Pocket Rockers...and Mall Madness

 

[hulagirl87]

Oh man! I'm going to have to not write a whole long list

Well, I'll start with Saturday morning cartoons. when you could sit down at 7am and watch straight through til noon. it was like an event. you would get your bowl of cereal, plop yourself down and just watch continuous cartoon fun! smurfs, snorks, muppet babies, richie rich and scooby doo. sigh....

Pinwheel on Nickelodeon

Bonkers candy

Candy cigarettes, the ones that you could puff the "smoke" out the end

Strawberry Shortcake cereal

no one ever remembers this when I bring it up, but Fruit Roll Ups used to come in a bunch of different flavors, grape, cherry, but apple was the absolute best!

my Smurfette lunchbox with matching thermos

jelly shoes

trapper keepers

 

[jenny105]

On ABC cartoons, I think it was the 80s, the "After these messages, we'll be right back" claymation promos

 

[Papa Deuce]

Atom Ant

Frankenstien Jr.

The Mighty Heros ( which might have been in the late 60's )....

 

[rparmfamily]

Oh man! I'm going to have to not write a whole long list

Well, I'll start with Saturday morning cartoons. when you could sit down at 7am and watch straight through til noon. it was like an event. you would get your bowl of cereal, plop yourself down and just watch continuous cartoon fun! smurfs, snorks, muppet babies, richie rich and scooby doo. sigh....

Pinwheel on Nickelodeon

Bonkers candy

Candy cigarettes, the ones that you could puff the "smoke" out the end

Strawberry Shortcake cereal

no one ever remembers this when I bring it up, but Fruit Roll Ups used to come in a bunch of different flavors, grape, cherry, but apple was the absolute best!

my Smurfette lunchbox with matching thermos

jelly shoes

trapper keepers

Yes all of those!!

I remember being told Trapper Keepers were expensive LOL.

What about Garbage Pail Kids? I thought they were so gross!! But they are probably nothing compared to the crap kids see now LOL.

And I remember playing some simple computer games on my friend's APPLE computer in 1980 or 1981. We had a commodore 64 I guess at home? I remember playing Summer Olympics in 1988 on one of those old systems, we loved it!!

Before that I remember Ataris and playing pong and then eventually Frogger,etc as games got better. (Not sure if Frogger was Atari or not)

I loved my jelly shoes, even though they gave me horrible blisters LOL.

Anyone else use the curling iron EVERY MORNING to curl their bangs? I did the one row up and one row down thing LOL.

 

[becjlek]

The Tarzan, Lone Ranger adventure hour

 

[2princesscuties]

Hires root beer
fringe boots
big wheel
scratch n sniff stickers
Sat. morning cartoons
Atari
Sour Cream and onion Doritos
SAt. afternoon monster movies
Roy Rogers

 

[Pooh Girl 71]

"Zotz" candy

I saw these in Cracker Barrel the other night! Loved those things!!

 

[goofyshell]

Holly Hobbie, I even had her easy bake oven, it looked like a wood burning stove

Did anyone else always use a big chief tablet and giant red pencil in school?

Big combs in our back pockets to "feather" our hair

That Sat. morning show with the dad, bro and sis who live with the dinosaurs, anyone remember the name?

 

[Papa Deuce]

Holly Hobbie, I even had her easy bake oven, it looked like a wood burning stove

Did anyone else always use a big chief tablet and giant red pencil in school?

Big combs in our back pockets to "feather" our hair

That Sat. morning show with the dad, bro and sis who live with the dinosaurs, anyone remember the name?

Land of the Lost? Not sure, but I think so.

 

[Poohbear123]

I don't remember what they were called, but there was a candy - I want to say in the late 70s or early 80s - that looked like an M&M, but it tasted like mint. The only colors in the package were brown and light green. Instead of having an "M" printed on them like an M&M does, it had a crown. Does anyone remember what it was?

I remember these....I think it was Hershey, not Mars that put those out, they were good!

 

[paigeandmorgansmom]

some of these things that have been listed bring back alot of memories.

These are some of my favorite things i miss...

Saturday morning cartons
sunday afternoon Godzilla movies
Little House on the Praire
Happy days and Laverne and Shirley
Fantasy Island and Love boat

Baby Alive
the Sears and JCPennys christmas catalog
the original Little People toys by Fisher Price ( My kids still play with mine)
riding my bike to school