What do you remember...

[mom2of2]

Underroos!!!! I had Wonder Woman!!!
Gran-animals-I remember my little brother being all proud that he could match his clothes.

 

[SC Minnie]

We used to ride our bikes all over the place. We would be gone all day and be miles away from home-- nobody had a clue where we were.

We didn't have to dial the prefix to the phone number until I was about 10, that was when they did away with party lines too. Kids today couldn't imagine sharing a telephone line with 5 or 6 other households.

The truck we had (60 something Ford) didn't even have seat belts.

Going to the library to do research for a paper.

 

[gr8tpanther]

I remember using an Encylopedia and a dictionary! Now you can just google

I remember sitting on the floor in my bedroom with the radio on, the record and pause buttons pushed on the cassette recorder, ready to tape my favorite song after I had just requested them to play it so I can get it on tape

I remember living on a street where everybody knew everybody else and helped each other at their own free will. Nobody really does that anymore.

PAC-MAN!

 

[lyeag]

I remember S&H green stamps and going down to the store where they redeemed them.

I remember being able to play outside all day without my mother having to worry about where I was.

I remember when Barbie's "cool" home was a townhouse with an elevator, and SuperStar Barbie lived there.

I remember when most of the people I knew only had one car.

I remember when the only hair dryers I knew existed were the bonnet type ones.

I remember our version of the garage door opener. My dad would honk his horn and one of us kids had about 10 seconds to get out there and open it!

 

[Shugardrawers]

OOOOH!! I remembered another! Camping out in the yard all night by ourselves, and we didn't have a fence either. We used to love sleeping outside.

 

[OceanAnnie]

Going to the library to do research for a paper.

Oh my gosh! That is saying a lot! Drive to the library. Look for parking. Having to park blocks away. Pay for parking. Look up all the reference books. Check them out (if they have them). Lug them to your car. Lug them all back when you were done. Forget about checking out reference magazines. You had to stay at the library and do the work there in those uncomfortable seats!

Kids today don't know how good they have it!

 

[FionaLovesShrek]

PeeChee folders
raking your shag carpet

I remember those! Also:

Diaper service.
Drive thru dairy.
Hippies standing on street corners selling flowers.
VW's with painted flowers and peace signs all over them.
Walking to school via a sidewalk next to a four lane highway at age 7, by myself.
Streakers
Ice cream trucks you could hear coming for blocks.
Velvet doll- her hair grew longer.
Being awed by the Carpenters.
David Cassidy
Donnie & Marie.
Mork & Mindy
My Favorite Martian.

 

[SC Minnie]

Another one--

We didn't have AC growing up and would sleep with the windows and the doors wide open! We didn't lock our doors at all until I was in JR HS. Now we make sure all the doors and windows are closed and the alarm set.

Going to the little store down the street with a quarter and getting a bag full of penny candy.

 

[Sandy51]

I remember when summers seemed endless!


Also remember the bookmobile, the produce truck, having ice-cold milk delivered to our elementary classrooms. I remember when everone is elementary school walked home for lunch. There was no school hot lunch. I remember how my crinoline slip made my legs all chapped in the winter from walking to school. I remember when we weren't allowed to wear pants to school. I remember Trading Stamps and the A & P man coming to the house.


Gosh, I'm old!


Sandy

 

[Vijoge]

Flash Gordon

Nickle candy bars

Manual shift cars

6 transistor radios hiding under the pillow so I could listen to Dick Biondi and Larry Lujak

All the stores downtown stayed open til 9 PM on Friday nights

25 cent movies

 

[OceanAnnie]

Oh yeah. We couldn't wear shorts or tank tops to school even on the hottest day. Ofcourse now kids can, but they let school out when it's hot! School was never let out for it being too hot when I was a kid. It was tough cookies for you.

When I was a teen ager I worked at a jeans store. I had to wear a dress and heels every day. I asked the manager why can't we wear the jeans that you sell? Made sense to me. She looked at me like I was from Mars. Now the employees wear jeans and whatnot in all the stores. (Can't tell who's working sometimes. Haha. But it does make good marketing sense!) I was ahead of my time. But it didn't matter. Didn't change anything.

 

[Vijoge]

Wringer washers

Uncle Don's outhouse

The water pump at Grandma's (outside)

Grandma's root cellar

Pickled crabapples

 

[Vijoge]

Wearing a hat AND gloves to church

 

[malibuconlee]

Sunday lunch after church at Grandma's with the whole family.

 

[scoutsmom99]

I remember when the tv set was big enough that it was classified as furniture (BIG wooden consoles).

LOL my grandmother just got a new console TV last summer (I had no idea they were still made!!).

Some of the first things I think of are:
Cigarette Vending Machines
Having Smoking Sections in the Mall
Rabbit Ears
The Card Catalog (do they still have those)
Using Encyclopedias
Keeping the Front Door Unlocked

 

[Syrreal]

Jem (Oh how I loved that TV show)

She's outrageous...truly truly truly outrageous.

I'll add...
Garbage Pail Kids (I had so many of those and thought they were the coolest)
Mask (the cartoon)
Fat Albert
Han Solo shooting 1st

 

[Stacerita]

Actually popping the pop corn on the stove. Jiffy Pop. Now sweetpea just puts it in the mircowave. And heck, you dont even need to know for how long. There is a pre set popcorn button. Perfect corn every time. No more having to shake it over the flame watching the bottom spark a little and then having to cut open the foil and risk steam burns.

 

[Planogirl]

-Coke machines that had the glass bottles where you had to open the little door and pull the bottle out of the slot.
-Leaded gasoline (it smelled so good!)
-Cafes with little juke box things at each table
-Stuckey's
-Huge cars with fins on the back and punch button radios
-Big console things that had a record player, speakers and room to store records
-A porcelain creeping black panther (it seemed like every house had one!)
-Looney Tunes and Lost in Space TV shows
-Formica floors and plastic dinettes in the kitchen
-Water balloon fights

 

[FreshTressa]

Fredrick and Nelson's

Betamax

Playing with a record player

 

[SunFloridaDisney]

typewriters

having a penpal and waiting WEEKS for an answer by snail mail

popcorn you made in a pan on the stove

Tailspins!