Without telling your age, what is something from your childhood that kids today wouldn't know about?

[Someluck]

Standing in line for polio vaccine in a sugar cube

 

[bobbiwoz]

Standing in line for polio vaccine in a sugar cube

What a relief that was. Absolutely remember that day!

 

[PrincessShmoo]

plastic pop beads. I found some at a yard sale recently and couldn't believe it!

When I was 10, I got silver pop beads for Christmas (silver-coated plastic). The silver immediately started flaking off (all over everything, much like glitter), so my grandmother suggested that I put the beads in the Christmas decorations to decorate the tree, until such time as all the silver wore off, then I could keep them to wear. Well, here it is some 50+ years later and I'm still putting those chipped silver coated pop beads on my Christmas tree.

 

[Skippy918]

Having to stretch the corded phone into my room to talk to my friends.

 

[China Expat]

Way too much!
8 track tapes
Blockbuster
A bunch of stores and restaurants now gone
rotary phones
tons of toys now deemed too dangerous
Pagers

 

[fly girl]

tons of toys now deemed too dangerous

Oh ... game of Jarts anyone?

 

[Jennasis]

Spin and Marty on the Mickey Mouse Club

Marshmallow Marsh in Fort Wilderness

Way down on the Triple R...yippee yay yippee yo!

 

[goofyernmost]

Woolworth 5 & 10
Shenanigans TV show & board game
Chocks vitamins
Mickey Mouse Club on TV in B&W
1964 New York World's Fair
Arrow Book Club (thru Scholastic Books)
Tang instant breakfast drink

Ah, yes... Annette the love of every pre-adolescent boy in America. Followed by Superman and accompanied with a Fluffernutter sandwich and chocolate milk.

 

[goofyernmost]

I'm starting to feel way out of place. The majority of the items mentioned are for the era that my children grew up in. Way to casually solidify the concept of ancient.

 

[jo-jo]

Standing in line for polio vaccine in a sugar cube

Getting a sugar cube was the first time I had ever seen one. I wanted my mother to get in line again, so I could get another.

 

[Carol_]

Schoolhouse Rock

 

[kathyk2]

Listening to American Top 40 with Casey Kasem. Watching music videos on MTV and VH1

 

[jmenjes]

Magnavox Odyssey2 and KC Munchkin

 

[FigmentSpark]

Schoolhouse Rock

My kids know Schoolhouse Rock because I bought the DVD set when they were small. They watched the whole set several times while driving down to WDW one year.

 

[jo-jo]

Listening to American Top 40 with Casey Kasem. Watching music videos on MTV and VH1

Bandstand (later American Bandstand)......I give it a 82. I liked the beat and it was easy to dance to.

Bandstand started in Phila. There were other shows, I think were local. But I'm curious It if anyone outside of Phila know these shows. One was the Gene London show , Pixanne and the Sally Star show...

 

[shh]

Schoolhouse Rock

Can we please force some of today's politicians to watch these? They'll likely learn a lot. lol

 

[shh]

ooh - someone mentioned Loves Baby Soft which I so remember, but I've got another good one - ladies? How much of this stuff did we slather on? Bubble gum lip gloss!!!

 

[Ladyandthepuppies]

Sitting on the phone book, a poor man’s booster seat

Renting a video once a week at the grocery store

Sitting in the way, way back

 

[BlueStarryHat]

ooh - someone mentioned Loves Baby Soft which I so remember, but I've got another good one - ladies? How much of this stuff did we slather on? Bubble gum lip gloss!!!

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I also had Spearmint Bonne Bell lip gloss and Root Beer.

And Love's Baby Soft? I still occasionally wear it even though I'm middle-aged. It's the only perfume I've ever worn where people have asked me what I'm wearing and where they can get it.

 

[bookgirl]

Made of glass and it wasn't a holdiday unless at least one set exploded.