...and there was always that one guy or gal who just took it
wa-a-ay beyond and then some and YOU slunk back to your
seat and just watched?
Remember When
Remember When?
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Remember when the really cool kid in class gave you a valentine like this?
Awesome, right? Wonder where that kid is now...
Remember when these first came out? Donut crack...couldn't get
enough of this funky stuff! Now 20lbs later...we aw goin' RAW, as
in the Raw food diet and eating healthy. Can't tell you when was the last
time I had a donut. PERIOD! AND they have too many carbs. Sugar on
top of sugar, turning into sugar, being stored as FAT! A-a-a-u-ugh!
Remember running home after school to see Goosebumps? And you had
the books too. You even bought the dvds...
Remember when there were only 9 planets? Is Pluto still a planet?
Remember when these guys were your favorite heroes? Can you name
them?
Remember when air guitar playing was the rage...eventhough
there are quite a few great African-American males noted for
playing the electric guitar extremely well, such as Hendrix, BB King
and more, but it was mostly white guys who reeaaally got into air
guitar.
Remember when before you learned how to Dougie, the running
man was the party/club dance? 90's dancing
...and there was always that one guy or gal who just took it
wa-a-ay beyond and then some and YOU slunk back to your
seat and just watched?
Remember when Cartoon Network ruled? I sure miss Jonny Bravo,
Courage, the Power Puff Girls, Cow and Chicken.
The snack machine has long been the saboteur of many a diet since high
school...remember when you skipped the hot lunch and started living
out of the snack machine?
Remember when candy ruled your world? Were you the playground
candy pusher...got your red hots, your everlasting gobstoppers over
here...what you got for trade? LOL
Remember when you and your lil crew used to huddle in the back of
the liberry, looking at pictures like this in the National Geographic?
70s Style
Ruff n Stuff n Yo Afro Puffs...
You go girrrl...
80s Style
Remember when these hurr styles and these rappers Kid n Play, Fresh Prince & DJ Jazzy Jeff were in? As well when
Michael Jordan was the man on the court before Kobe and Lebron...
Remember when Wonder Balls were da stuff?! The chocolate ball with a
prize inside. Then there was the choking scare cuz lil kids might accidently
swallow the toy prize inside, so they changed prize to pez-like chalky tasting
candy.
Remember when MJ could pop, lock, robot, spin, you name it!
Remember when Soul Train was the Saturday Morning show
to watch and you couldn't wait for the Soul train line and you
learned new dances!? Who was your fave Soul Train dancer?
Remember when this game was da stuff?! Hungry-hungry hippos...
If your hippo got the most marbles I guess yours was the hungriest.
**
Remember when this poster of Farrah came out? Most of the
guys I went to school with had this hangin' on their walls and
on the inside of their lockers, I even remember when they
ordered them from those fundraisers we used to always have
a couple times a year at school.
Remember this game, Guess Who? You had to guess which one your
opponent was thinking of, prolly more of a girl game, but if my male
cousins were bored they would play too.
Remember the song My future's sooo bright I have to wear shades? The trailer in that video was my dream home, a Windstream Silver Metallic trailer/fifth wheel. Leaving this one with ya...goin' on vacation for a week, up at the lake. Have a Happy Summer!
I know ya'll remember Parappa the Rapper, 1st introduced thru demo disc...
U know how we stop car?
Reblog if you grew up playing Parappa.
Ya'll remember when vans were the in thing to drive? Songs were written about the beloved van-long before the gas guzzling SUVs (sucka)! I still want one of these and the airstream silver metallic trailer...
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Remember when the One Step and the Sun 600 was da stuff for takin' pictures? Especially on field trips or nights out with friends...just point, click, then wave the picture until it air dried and the picture you took slowly appeared. It was like magic...no waiting for the Foto-Mat to develop it.
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Why do boys like these? On rainey days we, girls would run to the back and get these out of the box and make the boys owe us favors if we let them play with the Lincoln Logs...Why? They could build the cabins and stuff, I didn't get it...guess I wasn't going to be a carpenter. LOL
My brother had this car, it was a '72 yellow Chevy Vega, stick shift. It was a cool looking car. I was shocked when I saw this pic and that it made the worst car of AW TIME! I do remember him fixin' stuff on it aw da time...Gotta give him a call. Aaaaand....my cousin had a powder blue pacer!
When you pulled the sticks out the marbles would kerplunk (the sound they made) to the bottle. the object was to have the last marbles left in the top. Someone took pick-up sticks to a whole new level.
Remember when you used to pack lunch for school...were you a lunch boxer or a brown bagger?!
School lunch! You either bought a hot lunch in the cafeteria or you were a PACKERRRR!
There were different types for both, the buyer and the packer. Full Pay, Half Pay, Free lunch or you packed yours in a lunchbox or you brown bagged it. The old metal lunchboxes are now collector's items; some of the new plastic ones are simply a plastic box with a decal on it (LAME!). There are the new retro design ones, they are just too shiny and new. What about the rules that went with packing. Rule #1: Always bring something to trade.
Some of your classmates had some really cool lunch boxes like this KISS one, the thermos didn't keep hot liquids very hot though, not like your old fashion thermos.
Remember when these were popular? Mini keyboards/Midi keyboards/ Portable keyboards (there are even midi music websites where you can hear the electronic version of your favorite songs). Casio made a killing off of these. A standard piano has 88 keys (you can't lug that around). Then some genius figured out, hey you only use part of the keyboard most of the time anyway sooooo....let's split up the keyboard give them 19 keys, they won't miss the rest and you know what? It worked! You could 1 finger play 2 finger play or all ten. Anybody who had any musical inclination got this one for Xmas. You played songs like Heart and Soul like from the Movie "Big", Chopsticks and even snippets of classical songs...mini concerts were breakin' out all over the place. You could even add drumbeats and more.
Remember when you visited grandma and saw this sitting on her mantle and you wondered how and why the bird kept moving? No shame, cuz it is my understanding that Albert Einstein, himself couldn't figure out how the bird kept moving. Then grandma would say, " Go play now...leave the bird alone before you break it...LOL"
Remember when the band teacher would tell the class to go pick out a percussion instrument from that cardboard box in front of the music class and you and your classmates would make a mad dash to get the tamborine, the maracas, the castanets, the symbols, etc. anything but the sticks, til that one day when...
Buddy Clark, the new kid from the neighborhood who played in his own garage band, was asked to pick out the instruments first and he picked out the sticks...Saaay Whaat! You watched mesmerized as he made his way back to his seat twirling them like drumsticks and then he did the most amazing thing with them...started clacking them above his head shouting "1-2-3" like the heavy metal drummers and afterwards started drumming the padded metal seat beside him and your perspective of the sticks was forever changed...how's that for thinking outside of the music box?
This song made you appreciate the sand blocks http://popup.lala.com/popup/360569475248513418
The Magic Eight Ball...
I remember this one from the 6th grade, best played in groups, poor man's version of this was the paper origami fortune, where you told your fave color and picked a number then read the fortune on the flap.
Make an Origami Fortune Teller (cootie Catcher) - The best video clips are right here
I knows ya remember BOOMBOXES! Some called 'em ghetto blasters, whatevah trevah! It was a portable stereo on ya shoulda with amazing Bass. Remember songs like 'My Boombox: I can't live w/o my radio... by LL Cool J, King of Rap by Run DMC or Kashmir by Led Zeppelin...?
I know ya'll remember hot wheels car sets...my brother had one of these. Ever get whipped with the orange track? LOL
Remember velvet blacklite posters and incense? Weekly Weeders used to love these posters, most popular were Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix and the Weed, itself.
The Chia Pet
Remember when these first came out? They were like $9.99 so it was in that price range where you was gittin' one. My neighbor, (the one who had 4 kids so they got complete sets and accessories when they got toys) used to get one of these erry Christmas and she loved it; would have it sproutin' on her table as a display piece. One year she got two so shere-wrapped, regifted it and sent it down to our house (but I had seent it a couple of days before ROFL). Now I'm in the city and I'm homesick...I'm into sproutin' and growin' stuff in my urban (herb and..) garden and I think I'm gonna go out and get me one o'deez. Think I'll get one of the Prez.
Remember the Mood Ring? It was fascinating to see it change colors. If I recall correctly, the first ones you couldn't keep getting wet or the color would turn black and stay that way. Do you recall what the mood colors were and what they meant?
Remember the Rubik's Cube? And, how many hours you spent trying to solve it? This was one of the best toys ever! Kept you fascinated like a video game. Then someone ruined it by coming up with a book on how to solve it, starting the age of using cheat sheets and cheat codes, instead of working the problem out yourself? And then, years later when your kid brought a solved cube to you and you thought you had a genius on your hands, until...you noticed one of the stickers wasn't centered correctly? ROFL...You still had a genius, ya IDIOT!...one who thinks outside of the box and is not encumbered by nebulous rules and regulations! I hope you didn't destroy that!
Remember your first bike? Mine had a tiger striped banana seat with the tall sissy bar on the back, the chopper handle bars and had an aw blued out frame. The frame was a hand me down from my cousin. My Dad tricked it out with new accessories. My cousin Kirk tied a partially inflated balloon on the wheels to get a deep motorcycle rumble sound. Sa-weet!
Remember the neighbor who hooked up stuff like this. Puttin' extensions and crap on the bike. It looked stupid but you admired the twisted genius-like creativity and craftsmanship that went into it. And you took your turns riding it and haulin' stuff in it too. Laughing all the while. You knew that he knew that when he grew up that he was going to be a mechanic and you still don't know what you wanna be when you grow up.
Remember racing thru the house standing on the back of your younger sibling's Big Wheel? Man, these things were built sturdy! The things older sibs do when the parents are away...Remember going down that big hill that lead to a busy street?
Remember going to the movies and 3D glasses? Remember buying a box of Cracker Jacks that had a real prize in it and not just a piece of paper, but a toy?! I'm glad that I saved this whistle. Remember the other ones too, like the shoe, the plastic magnifying glass and tiny toy gun. The tatoos were cool too, the lick and stick ones. What others do you remember? Email me at stephscip@yahoo.com. Let's have a laff. A co-worker recalls the tiny cardboard & plastic pinball game with the silver bb in it.
GUMBY AND POKEY Gumby and friends, his girlfried Goo
Remember Gumby and Pokey? They're a team, right? So why didn't they come in the same pack? When I was growing up production, marketing and stocking rural stores, well supply didn't always meet demand. My dad bought from the Western Auto Store or Montgomery Wards. (As a matter of fact, my brother's first real job was at the Western Auto Store. Western Auto went out of business a several decades ago). Anywho, they overstocked Gumby but not Pokey. (I remember getting a replacement Gumby when the wire that made him bendable broke and started to poke thru his leg) Plus there were six of us kids, soooo... I got Gumby without Pokey. I had to borrow Pokey from my next door neighbor, who always came and got it back at the most inconvenient times. Good thing Raggedy Anne and Andy came sown together. Barbie dated G.I. Joe. also borrowed from the neighbors next door who only had 4 kids. LOL! So now I'm this grown-up kid who found Pokey and can't find the matching Gumby. I do have the Large over-sized pair still in their packaging. Update: Found Gumby and Pokey at Barnes and Noble, put it on my desk at work...(sigh...)
What had happened was...my older brother got a Tonka truck and it was supposed to be indestructable; it being made out of metal and all...(not like today, made out of plastic), sooo...I got my younger sister to drop a digging iron on it, at least to see if the plastic windows would break. Well, the digging iron fell in the wrong direction. It fell up against the aluminum siding on the house and left a big hole in it. Guess whose butt wasn't indestructable? Probably got whipped with an orange hot wheels track...ROFL
My older brother got one of these, one year. Our neighbor got one too. He shot a bird with his; it was a woodpecker. So we teased him and told him that he shot Woody-Wood Pecker and he started to cry. That's right...we made him take the shame.
Remember when your Cool and Hip neighbors got a lightedBlack Santa, I mean, African American Santa Claus and put it in the window? It was like a scene scene out of the movie "A Christmas Story" when dude put that fishnet stocking lamp in the window and had aw da neighbors talkin'?
Remember sending away for sea monkeys? Didn't you think you were going to get something like what was in the ad. When I got mine and put the eggs in the solution, mine looked like nothing more than a group of animated black dots in water. I even took a little plastic magnifying glass that I got from my Cracker Jacks to look at them. Then they looked more like the picture bottom right. Being somewhat of a nerd...I read up on them and found out that they were simply brine shrimp and did not get very big, but were simply food for other fish. If I recall correctly, whales consume a tremendous amount of them. Makes ya think, why would something that big want to eat something that small? Even I prefer Jumbo Shrimp to the smaller variety that you find in Scrimp egg rolls. Some twenty years later, when I got some Betas and went to Elmer's and bought a bag of them for the fish to eat, man did they love those things. They would swim to the edge and bang into the side of the tank when they would see me coming and tear those 'scrimp' up!
Remember Cabbage Patch Kids? They were multi-national. Every kid could find one of his race, nationality and complexion.
My baby sister got a Weeble Wobble, not a set of Weebles. Remember there were six kids and we never got the complete set, no farm, no bus, no playground, no camper. You recall Gumby w/o Pokey...etc. Like Charlie Bucket said in Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, "One is good enough for me!" Dad had learned over the years not to buy those toys that come with partners. So, sis got Big Bird, cuz Bert and Ernie were a team. I stand corrected and let me stop lyin'...these came in a set of six and my baby sis got 3 and my baby bro got 3, he got Grover, Cookie Monster, and Oscar.
Slinky was fun for the first 100 times you had it walk down the long set of steps, until grandma finally said, "I don't mind you children having fun but ya'll gotta move that noise outside, now git!"
Yeah, I have the Michael Jackson view master discs. Also have Charlie Brown and Bible Story ones too.
My youngest brother got this one. We used to spend hours playing h-o-r-s-e or c-o-w or best out of 10, tossing it into a plastic waste basket on top of a dresser.
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OMG! Remember playing this game on your parents TV for hours on end. Your bike started to miss you, as it started rust from being neglected and lack of use.
Remember days and nights and money spent at the ARCADE? I was hooked on Ms. Pac Man and Super Pac Man. Name your fav game.
You know what this is...I still have an atari 2600. Best games: Frogger, Ms. Pac Man, Asteroids, Pitfall, E.T.
Wanna Play An Atari Game? click on http://www.2600online.com/ and you can play these games and more!
Remember your first word processor? Mine was my Sears typewriter. I got one when I was 11. Became the editor of our grade school newspaper. Back in the day grade school went from grades 1-6. Jr. High was 7-9th, then High School the rest of the way. Remember white-out and erasable paper?
Graduated to a Sears electric typewriter.
commodore-64
First home computer, took this baby to the University of Pittsburgh with me. Played games on it mostly. Wasn't allowed to turn in reports on it because I had a crappy printer.
Remember the Snoopy Sno-Cone Machine? My cousins from New York got this. When there are six kids in your immediate family, some memories, you have live vicariously thru relatives.
What can I say? I wasn't artistic, so I spent my time clearing the screen, line by line. It took me hours, but I was able to see the mechanism and how it worked.
Simon is special because my kid who has autism can keep such a long series going on it that it is scary. For me personally, kept me amused for about an hour off and on...longer if played in groups.
Remember roller skating? At first you rented them...Then you bought your own. Good times! These are the good times...Roller Disco was the best! Remember being able to skate backwards, doing that cute turn and shooting the duck?
Remember, Barbie was hip and cool! She had African-American friends, Christie, Brad and Barry Obama...LOL
Soooo... Barbie was friends with the Prez and Michelle before he became the Prez, now that is OUTSTANDING! Thank God, African-American parents stopped naming their children slave names and got the world used to hearing children with Afri-centric names like Malik, Barak, Imani, Eboni, Ali, Kareem...or else noone would have been ready for a president named Barak Hussein Obama
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8-track tape player and 8-track tapes were da stuff! Sound was much better than vinyl. Copy of Stevie Wonder's Talking Book. My cousin Cookie left a copy at our house after one visit. He was the cousin who was MIA for a minute in Viet Nam.
Remember the walkman before the portable cd player? I played my tapes till they got jammed up in the spinners.
I know ya'll remember these...tube socks yeah boyee! If they were too long, you did a fold under and noone knew until you took your sneaks off. LOL
Ya'll remember these? Saddle shoes, for cheerleading, dance squad, fifties day etc. I hated these shoes. They didn't match much...they just stood out.
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Remember when the really cool kid in class gave you a valentine like this?
Awesome, right? Wonder where that kid is now...
Remember when these first came out? Donut crack...couldn't get
enough of this funky stuff! Now 20lbs later...we aw goin' RAW, as
in the Raw food diet and eating healthy. Can't tell you when was the last
time I had a donut. PERIOD! AND they have too many carbs. Sugar on
top of sugar, turning into sugar, being stored as FAT! A-a-a-u-ugh!
Remember running home after school to see Goosebumps? And you had
the books too. You even bought the dvds...
Remember when there were only 9 planets? Is Pluto still a planet?
Remember when these guys were your favorite heroes? Can you name
them?
Remember when air guitar playing was the rage...eventhough
there are quite a few great African-American males noted for
playing the electric guitar extremely well, such as Hendrix, BB King
and more, but it was mostly white guys who reeaaally got into air
guitar.
Remember when before you learned how to Dougie, the running
man was the party/club dance? 90's dancing
...and there was always that one guy or gal who just took it
wa-a-ay beyond and then some and YOU slunk back to your
seat and just watched?
Remember when Cartoon Network ruled? I sure miss Jonny Bravo,
Courage, the Power Puff Girls, Cow and Chicken.
The snack machine has long been the saboteur of many a diet since high
school...remember when you skipped the hot lunch and started living
out of the snack machine?
Remember when candy ruled your world? Were you the playground
candy pusher...got your red hots, your everlasting gobstoppers over
here...what you got for trade? LOL
Remember when you and your lil crew used to huddle in the back of
the liberry, looking at pictures like this in the National Geographic?
70s Style
Ruff n Stuff n Yo Afro Puffs...
You go girrrl...
80s Style
Remember when these hurr styles and these rappers Kid n Play, Fresh Prince & DJ Jazzy Jeff were in? As well when
Michael Jordan was the man on the court before Kobe and Lebron...
Remember when Wonder Balls were da stuff?! The chocolate ball with a
prize inside. Then there was the choking scare cuz lil kids might accidently
swallow the toy prize inside, so they changed prize to pez-like chalky tasting
candy.
Remember when MJ could pop, lock, robot, spin, you name it!
Remember when Soul Train was the Saturday Morning show
to watch and you couldn't wait for the Soul train line and you
learned new dances!? Who was your fave Soul Train dancer?
Remember when this game was da stuff?! Hungry-hungry hippos...
If your hippo got the most marbles I guess yours was the hungriest.
**Remember when this poster of Farrah came out? Most of the
guys I went to school with had this hangin' on their walls and
on the inside of their lockers, I even remember when they
ordered them from those fundraisers we used to always have
a couple times a year at school.
Remember this game, Guess Who? You had to guess which one your
opponent was thinking of, prolly more of a girl game, but if my male
cousins were bored they would play too.
Remember the song My future's sooo bright I have to wear shades? The trailer in that video was my dream home, a Windstream Silver Metallic trailer/fifth wheel. Leaving this one with ya...goin' on vacation for a week, up at the lake. Have a Happy Summer!
I know ya'll remember Parappa the Rapper, 1st introduced thru demo disc...
U know how we stop car?
Reblog if you grew up playing Parappa.
Ya'll remember when vans were the in thing to drive? Songs were written about the beloved van-long before the gas guzzling SUVs (sucka)! I still want one of these and the airstream silver metallic trailer...
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Remember when the One Step and the Sun 600 was da stuff for takin' pictures? Especially on field trips or nights out with friends...just point, click, then wave the picture until it air dried and the picture you took slowly appeared. It was like magic...no waiting for the Foto-Mat to develop it.
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Why do boys like these? On rainey days we, girls would run to the back and get these out of the box and make the boys owe us favors if we let them play with the Lincoln Logs...Why? They could build the cabins and stuff, I didn't get it...guess I wasn't going to be a carpenter. LOL
My brother had this car, it was a '72 yellow Chevy Vega, stick shift. It was a cool looking car. I was shocked when I saw this pic and that it made the worst car of AW TIME! I do remember him fixin' stuff on it aw da time...Gotta give him a call. Aaaaand....my cousin had a powder blue pacer!
When you pulled the sticks out the marbles would kerplunk (the sound they made) to the bottle. the object was to have the last marbles left in the top. Someone took pick-up sticks to a whole new level.
Remember when you used to pack lunch for school...were you a lunch boxer or a brown bagger?!
School lunch! You either bought a hot lunch in the cafeteria or you were a PACKERRRR!
There were different types for both, the buyer and the packer. Full Pay, Half Pay, Free lunch or you packed yours in a lunchbox or you brown bagged it. The old metal lunchboxes are now collector's items; some of the new plastic ones are simply a plastic box with a decal on it (LAME!). There are the new retro design ones, they are just too shiny and new. What about the rules that went with packing. Rule #1: Always bring something to trade.
Some of your classmates had some really cool lunch boxes like this KISS one, the thermos didn't keep hot liquids very hot though, not like your old fashion thermos.
Remember when these were popular? Mini keyboards/Midi keyboards/ Portable keyboards (there are even midi music websites where you can hear the electronic version of your favorite songs). Casio made a killing off of these. A standard piano has 88 keys (you can't lug that around). Then some genius figured out, hey you only use part of the keyboard most of the time anyway sooooo....let's split up the keyboard give them 19 keys, they won't miss the rest and you know what? It worked! You could 1 finger play 2 finger play or all ten. Anybody who had any musical inclination got this one for Xmas. You played songs like Heart and Soul like from the Movie "Big", Chopsticks and even snippets of classical songs...mini concerts were breakin' out all over the place. You could even add drumbeats and more.
Remember when you visited grandma and saw this sitting on her mantle and you wondered how and why the bird kept moving? No shame, cuz it is my understanding that Albert Einstein, himself couldn't figure out how the bird kept moving. Then grandma would say, " Go play now...leave the bird alone before you break it...LOL"
Remember when the band teacher would tell the class to go pick out a percussion instrument from that cardboard box in front of the music class and you and your classmates would make a mad dash to get the tamborine, the maracas, the castanets, the symbols, etc. anything but the sticks, til that one day when...
Buddy Clark, the new kid from the neighborhood who played in his own garage band, was asked to pick out the instruments first and he picked out the sticks...Saaay Whaat! You watched mesmerized as he made his way back to his seat twirling them like drumsticks and then he did the most amazing thing with them...started clacking them above his head shouting "1-2-3" like the heavy metal drummers and afterwards started drumming the padded metal seat beside him and your perspective of the sticks was forever changed...how's that for thinking outside of the music box?
This song made you appreciate the sand blocks http://popup.lala.com/popup/360569475248513418
The Magic Eight Ball...
I remember this one from the 6th grade, best played in groups, poor man's version of this was the paper origami fortune, where you told your fave color and picked a number then read the fortune on the flap.
Make an Origami Fortune Teller (cootie Catcher) - The best video clips are right here
I knows ya remember BOOMBOXES! Some called 'em ghetto blasters, whatevah trevah! It was a portable stereo on ya shoulda with amazing Bass. Remember songs like 'My Boombox: I can't live w/o my radio... by LL Cool J, King of Rap by Run DMC or Kashmir by Led Zeppelin...?
I know ya'll remember hot wheels car sets...my brother had one of these. Ever get whipped with the orange track? LOL
Remember velvet blacklite posters and incense? Weekly Weeders used to love these posters, most popular were Bob Marley, Jimi Hendrix and the Weed, itself.
The Chia Pet
Remember when these first came out? They were like $9.99 so it was in that price range where you was gittin' one. My neighbor, (the one who had 4 kids so they got complete sets and accessories when they got toys) used to get one of these erry Christmas and she loved it; would have it sproutin' on her table as a display piece. One year she got two so she
Remember the Mood Ring? It was fascinating to see it change colors. If I recall correctly, the first ones you couldn't keep getting wet or the color would turn black and stay that way. Do you recall what the mood colors were and what they meant?
Remember the Rubik's Cube? And, how many hours you spent trying to solve it? This was one of the best toys ever! Kept you fascinated like a video game. Then someone ruined it by coming up with a book on how to solve it, starting the age of using cheat sheets and cheat codes, instead of working the problem out yourself? And then, years later when your kid brought a solved cube to you and you thought you had a genius on your hands, until...you noticed one of the stickers wasn't centered correctly? ROFL...You still had a genius, ya IDIOT!...one who thinks outside of the box and is not encumbered by nebulous rules and regulations! I hope you didn't destroy that!
Remember your first bike? Mine had a tiger striped banana seat with the tall sissy bar on the back, the chopper handle bars and had an aw blued out frame. The frame was a hand me down from my cousin. My Dad tricked it out with new accessories. My cousin Kirk tied a partially inflated balloon on the wheels to get a deep motorcycle rumble sound. Sa-weet!
Remember the neighbor who hooked up stuff like this. Puttin' extensions and crap on the bike. It looked stupid but you admired the twisted genius-like creativity and craftsmanship that went into it. And you took your turns riding it and haulin' stuff in it too. Laughing all the while. You knew that he knew that when he grew up that he was going to be a mechanic and you still don't know what you wanna be when you grow up.
Remember racing thru the house standing on the back of your younger sibling's Big Wheel? Man, these things were built sturdy! The things older sibs do when the parents are away...Remember going down that big hill that lead to a busy street?
Remember going to the movies and 3D glasses? Remember buying a box of Cracker Jacks that had a real prize in it and not just a piece of paper, but a toy?! I'm glad that I saved this whistle. Remember the other ones too, like the shoe, the plastic magnifying glass and tiny toy gun. The tatoos were cool too, the lick and stick ones. What others do you remember? Email me at stephscip@yahoo.com. Let's have a laff. A co-worker recalls the tiny cardboard & plastic pinball game with the silver bb in it.
GUMBY AND POKEY Gumby and friends, his girlfried Goo
Remember Gumby and Pokey? They're a team, right? So why didn't they come in the same pack? When I was growing up production, marketing and stocking rural stores, well supply didn't always meet demand. My dad bought from the Western Auto Store or Montgomery Wards. (As a matter of fact, my brother's first real job was at the Western Auto Store. Western Auto went out of business a several decades ago). Anywho, they overstocked Gumby but not Pokey. (I remember getting a replacement Gumby when the wire that made him bendable broke and started to poke thru his leg) Plus there were six of us kids, soooo... I got Gumby without Pokey. I had to borrow Pokey from my next door neighbor, who always came and got it back at the most inconvenient times. Good thing Raggedy Anne and Andy came sown together. Barbie dated G.I. Joe. also borrowed from the neighbors next door who only had 4 kids. LOL! So now I'm this grown-up kid who found Pokey and can't find the matching Gumby. I do have the Large over-sized pair still in their packaging. Update: Found Gumby and Pokey at Barnes and Noble, put it on my desk at work...(sigh...)
What had happened was...my older brother got a Tonka truck and it was supposed to be indestructable; it being made out of metal and all...(not like today, made out of plastic), sooo...I got my younger sister to drop a digging iron on it, at least to see if the plastic windows would break. Well, the digging iron fell in the wrong direction. It fell up against the aluminum siding on the house and left a big hole in it. Guess whose butt wasn't indestructable? Probably got whipped with an orange hot wheels track...ROFL
My older brother got one of these, one year. Our neighbor got one too. He shot a bird with his; it was a woodpecker. So we teased him and told him that he shot Woody-Wood Pecker and he started to cry. That's right...we made him take the shame.
Remember when your Cool and Hip neighbors got a lighted
Remember sending away for sea monkeys? Didn't you think you were going to get something like what was in the ad. When I got mine and put the eggs in the solution, mine looked like nothing more than a group of animated black dots in water. I even took a little plastic magnifying glass that I got from my Cracker Jacks to look at them. Then they looked more like the picture bottom right. Being somewhat of a nerd...I read up on them and found out that they were simply brine shrimp and did not get very big, but were simply food for other fish. If I recall correctly, whales consume a tremendous amount of them. Makes ya think, why would something that big want to eat something that small? Even I prefer Jumbo Shrimp to the smaller variety that you find in Scrimp egg rolls. Some twenty years later, when I got some Betas and went to Elmer's and bought a bag of them for the fish to eat, man did they love those things. They would swim to the edge and bang into the side of the tank when they would see me coming and tear those 'scrimp' up!
Remember Cabbage Patch Kids? They were multi-national. Every kid could find one of his race, nationality and complexion.
My baby sister got a Weeble Wobble, not a set of Weebles. Remember there were six kids and we never got the complete set, no farm, no bus, no playground, no camper. You recall Gumby w/o Pokey...etc. Like Charlie Bucket said in Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, "One is good enough for me!" Dad had learned over the years not to buy those toys that come with partners. So, sis got Big Bird, cuz Bert and Ernie were a team. I stand corrected and let me stop lyin'...these came in a set of six and my baby sis got 3 and my baby bro got 3, he got Grover, Cookie Monster, and Oscar.
Slinky was fun for the first 100 times you had it walk down the long set of steps, until grandma finally said, "I don't mind you children having fun but ya'll gotta move that noise outside, now git!"
Yeah, I have the Michael Jackson view master discs. Also have Charlie Brown and Bible Story ones too.
My youngest brother got this one. We used to spend hours playing h-o-r-s-e or c-o-w or best out of 10, tossing it into a plastic waste basket on top of a dresser.
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OMG! Remember playing this game on your parents TV for hours on end. Your bike started to miss you, as it started rust from being neglected and lack of use.
Remember days and nights and money spent at the ARCADE? I was hooked on Ms. Pac Man and Super Pac Man. Name your fav game.
You know what this is...I still have an atari 2600. Best games: Frogger, Ms. Pac Man, Asteroids, Pitfall, E.T.
Wanna Play An Atari Game? click on http://www.2600online.com/ and you can play these games and more!
Remember your first word processor? Mine was my Sears typewriter. I got one when I was 11. Became the editor of our grade school newspaper. Back in the day grade school went from grades 1-6. Jr. High was 7-9th, then High School the rest of the way. Remember white-out and erasable paper?
Graduated to a Sears electric typewriter.
commodore-64
First home computer, took this baby to the University of Pittsburgh with me. Played games on it mostly. Wasn't allowed to turn in reports on it because I had a crappy printer.
Remember the Snoopy Sno-Cone Machine? My cousins from New York got this. When there are six kids in your immediate family, some memories, you have live vicariously thru relatives.
What can I say? I wasn't artistic, so I spent my time clearing the screen, line by line. It took me hours, but I was able to see the mechanism and how it worked.
Simon is special because my kid who has autism can keep such a long series going on it that it is scary. For me personally, kept me amused for about an hour off and on...longer if played in groups.
Remember roller skating? At first you rented them...Then you bought your own. Good times! These are the good times...Roller Disco was the best! Remember being able to skate backwards, doing that cute turn and shooting the duck?
Remember, Barbie was hip and cool! She had African-American friends, Christie, Brad and Barry Obama...LOL
Soooo... Barbie was friends with the Prez and Michelle before he became the Prez, now that is OUTSTANDING! Thank God, African-American parents stopped naming their children slave names and got the world used to hearing children with Afri-centric names like Malik, Barak, Imani, Eboni, Ali, Kareem...or else noone would have been ready for a president named Barak Hussein Obama ==========**
8-track tape player and 8-track tapes were da stuff! Sound was much better than vinyl. Copy of Stevie Wonder's Talking Book. My cousin Cookie left a copy at our house after one visit. He was the cousin who was MIA for a minute in Viet Nam.
Remember the walkman before the portable cd player? I played my tapes till they got jammed up in the spinners.
I know ya'll remember these...tube socks yeah boyee! If they were too long, you did a fold under and noone knew until you took your sneaks off. LOL
Ya'll remember these? Saddle shoes, for cheerleading, dance squad, fifties day etc. I hated these shoes. They didn't match much...they just stood out.
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toys this year
Posted by stephscip at 6/5/2008 6:43 PM 
Categories: vintage toys, collectables, retro toys, novelties, collectibles, lunch boxes
Categories: vintage toys, collectables, retro toys, novelties, collectibles, lunch boxes
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