When I was a kid

[mommiepoppins]

when I was kid.. we could go door to door selling girl scout cookies
I could get off the bus and go to my friends house with out a note...my friend could ride my bus even if they lived in a different school district.
our first cabel box had letters and numbers with push buttons. ( my mom still has it)
I would put out my parents cigarets when they were not looking .

 

[stahshee]

I got in trouble if I wore black nail polish., my father had a vcr with a remote controll that was attached with a wire,silver spoons was my favorite tv show. We flew Eastern airlines to Walt Disney world

 

[jbmom]

Bob Barker had dark hair

Candy cigarettes were called candy cigarettes, not candy sticks

All kid bikes had banana seats

 

[JunieJay]

When I was a kid, dinasours roamed the earth.





just kidding. Dinasours actually became extinct a couple of years before I was born.

When I was a kid, we partied hardy while doing the bump and hustle to songs on 8-tracks. Watergate and The Happy Hooker were really risque and only talked about in adult company in hushed tones. We sat in our avocado or burnt orange colored living rooms and watched the Vietnam on our huge console TV, our most prized posession that was only bought a few years before. Going out to dinner consisted of maybe Bob's Big Boy or Hot Shoppes, there was really no such thing as fine dining for regular people. Cheech and Chong were crazy popular with their Sister Mary Elephant shtick. Public and private schools, while segregated, were still a very long way from being diverse. It was unusual not only to have a person of another color in your class, but people of another nationality. Neighborhoods were made up of different ethnic groups and people tended to hang out only with their own kind. Girls, if they were lucky, were encouraged to go to college and become a teacher or a social worker -- otherwise they were trained from an early age to find a good man and marry him.

Life was simpler then in some ways, and in others I realize how far we've come. I wouldn't trade my youth or my memories of that period of history, but I wouldn't want it back either.

 

[mommiepoppins]

when I was a kid pin stripe jeans were cool so was jordash(sp)
leg warmers were as cool as fame
my mom used change for the ice cream man
we listend for school closings on 10 10 wins

 

[malibuconlee]

Home movies had no sound and were on an old projector.
The Lone Ranger re-runs was on first thing every morning.
The Smurfs were AWESOME!!!
There was no "Super Size"
We could play outside until the street lights came on.
I could ask to go for a bike ride and be gone for hours and no one would be overly worried because we were with friends.
We walked EVERYWHERE!!!! It was a mile and a half to the public pool. We walked both ways.
School lunch cost 35 cents
We wore bandanas around our legs, just like Punky Brewster.
I was going to marry Ricky Schroeder

 

[MaryAnnDVC]

French fries at McDonalds were 15 cents......

McDonalds had commercials about "getting change back from a dollar!"

When I worked at McDonalds, a burger was 32 cents, cheeseburger 37, fries 20, and small soda 20. We had a dollar allowance per shift to eat.

 

[mommiepoppins]

Home movies had no sound and were on an old projector.
The Lone Ranger re-runs was on first thing every morning.
The Smurfs were AWESOME!!!
There was no "Super Size"
We could play outside until the street lights came on.
I could ask to go for a bike ride and be gone for hours and no one would be overly worried because we were with friends.
We walked EVERYWHERE!!!! It was a mile and a half to the public pool. We walked both ways.
School lunch cost 35 cents
We wore bandanas around our legs, just like Punky Brewster.
I was going to marry Ricky Schroeder

um I was going to marry him and play arcade games and ride the train

 

[Boardwalker]

When I was a kid....
shoes were optional
flashlight tag was as wild as we got
I wanted to marry George, because Paul was too cute, John was too weird and Ringo was scary
Sunday tv was so exciting... Flash Gordon and Roy Rodgers (oh how I wished I was named Dale)
I was too young to understand the man from UNCLE.
The Vietnam War was like a football game, they would give a running tally of the number of men killed.
You had to cover your head in church, but at least they stopped speaking latin.
We got to stay out late if we kicked out the streetlight.
There were apparently no designers at all.
We wore pixie haircuts until the shag came along.
Records were available in 33 45 or 78.
Jeans were something the men who worked for the highway department wore.

 

[MickeyMickey]

Jelly bracelets, rubix cube, chinese jumprope, jelly shoes, rolled up jeans, and were all the rage!

Michael Jackson's Thriller, Tiffany and Debbie Gibson were my musical favorites!

 

[Jeanny]

Hold the pickles, hold the lettuce, specials orders don't upset us.

Banana seats
3 speed bikes
Riding double (on the handlebars)
Red Rover, Red Rover,
Tree houses/Club houses
We used to go for a walk in the woods and "get lost" for hours
We'd walk to the bus stop at the end of our street, not at the end of our driveway alone without Parents.

 

[Tink's Pixieduster]

Well, lets see;

Stores were all closed on Sunday.

Bread and milk were delivered to your home by guys in cool uniforms and cooler trucks.

The paper was delivered by a neighbor boy riding a bike.

Party line phones were common, and phone number prefixes began with two letters and one number, and the letters had a meaning.

McDonald's was a new restaurant and hamburgers cost a nickel.

An ice cream cone at the High's dairy store cost a nickel.

There was a riveting rivalry between Dr. Kildare and Ben Casey (when I was a little older).

There were no zip codes.

Cars were made of steel, not aluminum and plastic.

There was no such thing as a frost-free freezer, color television, pop-top can, or push button phone.

In the Sunday comics, Dick Tracey's 2-way wrist communicator was pretty cool but we would never see anything like it in our lifetime.

S&H green stamps were given out by stores and redeemed for gifts.

Our elementary schools had savings bond programs where you could purchase a special stamp for a dime each week, and when a savings book was filled with stamps you turned it in to the bank for a savings bond.

Yep, I'm officially older than dirt......

 

[malibuconlee]

My sister is only 6.5 years younger than me. We heard a Blondie song come on and I told her I used to have this in a 45. She asked what that was!!!

My first stereo I got when I was 5. It was a turntable with an 8track. I had a "Dumb Ditties" albulm and a Chipmunks 8-track tape.

 

[luvwinnie]

Conjunction Junction, what's your function?

 

[DisneyfeverTN]

I remember riding in the bed of a truck with a bunch of friends

playing outside all day until it got dark; walking over a mile to school

Collecting bottles to turn in for the deposit to buy candy

playing jacks & tether ball at recess

Dark Shadows after school, then The Brady Bunch, Partridge Family, Mickey Mouse Club, & Gilligan's Island

Watching our console TV with a built-in record player

When I was very little, school lunches were 20 cents a day and milk was 6 cents, you could buy 10 candy bars for a dollar & gum was a penny.

I remember being able to leave school early because my dad just got home from the Vietnam war

 

[minniebeth]

Conjunction Junction, what's your function?

Oh, I'm just a bill, yeah on Capital Hill...

...I watched H.R. Puffinstuff and Sigmund and the Seamonsters

I was from the NY area and watched "Wonderama" to this day, when I exercise I can hear the song "Exercise, exercise, come on everybody do your exercise"!

In Jr. High, we wore Gloria Vanderbilt jeans and had a LeSac purse.
We played Charlie's Angels and fought over who was going to be Farrah Fawcett...no one wanted to be Sabrina.

 

[DisneyCP2002]

So many of these bring back memories. Let's see for me it would be:

Saturday morning cartoons
Cool lunchboxes
Cabbage Patch kids
Catching fireflies at night
Riding bikes to get to friends houses

 

[Jeanny]

Lost in Space, (I wanted to be like Penny Robinson)
Batman & Robin
Hawaii 5-0
The FBI Starring Efrem Zimbalist, Jr
The last episode of The Fugitive, Richard Kimball finally caught the one arm man!!

 

[Boardwalker]

Hookin up words and phrases and clauses. Why?

 

[mommiepoppins]

how about ZOOM? or waking up at 6am before sat cartoons to watch Captin Canagroo?
ok ok the magic garden.. I loved that show when I was in Kindergarten..
or press your luck. ..big bucks no wammys
Romper room and the magic mirror