If you are 30 or older...........
- Thread starter DevIouS
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- Baiting Hollow Long Island NY
I doubt they would have lasted two minutes in the fiftees or sixtees.
When I wanted to buy a fish I would go to a place where there was subway gratings with a string, a weight and some bubble gum and lower it down to collect the change people dropped while waiting for the bus. We also would collect bottles to bring them back to the store for the 2 cents deposit. Then I would buy a guppy which was about 10 cents and it would come in a cardboard container like Chinese take out comes in. There was no plastic bags, there was no plastic anything. Everything was metal, rubber or wood. For an allowance, my Mother gave me the string and bubble gum so I could go find coins. We also had gangs. :Starwars:There was only certain neighborhoods we could go to. We played in empty lots with things we built.
When we were 18 we registered for the draft. There was no lottery, if we diden't have a rediculous excuse like we wanted to go to college (whatever that was) we went in the Army,:skull: if we could we got into the Navy or Air Force. Then we went to war and came home two years later (sometimes) There was no phones in the Service to call home and complain. WE got back and worked to buy whatever we wanted.
Daddy (if he was alive :Starwars
was not about to buy us a car, home or anything else, but he may let us work for him.When I meet one of my daughter's friends or boy friends, I am amazed at how little people know how to do. My daughter called my once to ask me how to wash a car. This is a Fordham graduate who graduated at the top of her class. I used to build my cars and never in my life paid anyone to fix my car, boat, house or anything in it.
And that walking to school up hill both ways in the snow was hell. :biglaugh:
Killerdrgn
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- Park Ridge, NJ
Hey guys still have to register for selective service, even though there really isn't any likelyhood of there being a draft.
- Location
- Baiting Hollow Long Island NY
I diden't know you still had to do that.
- Location
- Throggs Neck, BX
Yeah I think they catch you when you go to the DMV to sign up for your first drivers license. If I remember correctly.
- Location
- Ossining, NY
Come on guys - couple of pieces of wood, a milk crate and an old baby carriage (or a stolen one in my case) and a trip to dad's tool box and we were RACING!
GO CARTS BABY, GO CARTS!
Now that was entertainment, imagination and good ol'-fashioned ingenuity.
(on a side note - whoever invented the cotter pin was a genius)
House
GO CARTS BABY, GO CARTS!
Now that was entertainment, imagination and good ol'-fashioned ingenuity.
(on a side note - whoever invented the cotter pin was a genius)
House
BTW, Sat wasn't the only cartoons available, After school toons like GI joe and Transformers were on every day!
Yes I remember when you would go outside for hours and would find that perfect stick that when held right was an M16, or a 45 cal. I remember building a fort out of just about anything you could find. I remember when the TRS-80 was the only computer in the school and typing in basic the little program to make your name scroll the screen. I remember actually having to go to the library and research or when the library was closed go to mom and dads encyclopedia collection from 1953 to get some info for that paper that was due in the morning.
I remember my 2600, and the odyssey system we had before that, I remember lots of things like intellivision, collecovision, and the sega master system. I also remember that Air conditioning was a luxury and central a/c was only for rich people.
I remember when the Cable company expanded the channels above ch 13 with the box and the wired remote! Does anyone remember the top loading vcr's, my jvc with the wired remote still works. So does my atari 2600.
Yes I remember when you would go outside for hours and would find that perfect stick that when held right was an M16, or a 45 cal. I remember building a fort out of just about anything you could find. I remember when the TRS-80 was the only computer in the school and typing in basic the little program to make your name scroll the screen. I remember actually having to go to the library and research or when the library was closed go to mom and dads encyclopedia collection from 1953 to get some info for that paper that was due in the morning.
I remember my 2600, and the odyssey system we had before that, I remember lots of things like intellivision, collecovision, and the sega master system. I also remember that Air conditioning was a luxury and central a/c was only for rich people.
I remember when the Cable company expanded the channels above ch 13 with the box and the wired remote! Does anyone remember the top loading vcr's, my jvc with the wired remote still works. So does my atari 2600.
- Location
- Baiting Hollow Long Island NY
TV was invented the year before I was born
- Location
- Holmdel NJ 07733
My two cents (from the days when pennies were still made out of copper)
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1940's, 50?s, 60's and 70?s!!
P.S. The BIG type is because your eyes are shot at your age.
CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL THE KIDS WHO WERE BORN IN THE 1940's, 50?s, 60's and 70?s!!
- First, we survived being born to mothers who smoked and/or drank while they carried us.
- They took aspirin, ate blue cheese dressing, tuna from a tin, and didn't get tested for diabetes.
- Then after that trauma, our baby cots were covered with bright colored lead-based paints.
- We had no childproof lids on medicine bottles, doors or cabinets and when we rode our bikes, we had no helmets, not to mention, the risks we took hitchhiking.
- As children, we would ride in cars with no seat belts or air bags.
- Riding in the back of a van - loose - was always great fun.
- We drank water from the garden hosepipe and NOT from a bottle.
- We shared one soft drink with four friends, from one bottle and NO ONE actually died from this.
- We ate cakes, white bread and real butter and drank pop with sugar in it, but we weren't overweight because......WE WERE ALWAYS OUTSIDE PLAYING!!
- We would leave home in the morning and play all day, as long as we were back when the streetlights came on.
- No one was able to reach us all day - and we were O.K.
- We would spend hours building our go-carts out of scraps and then ride down the hill, only to find out we forgot the brakes. After running into the bushes a few times, we learned to solve the problem.
- We did not have Playstations, Nintendo's, X-boxes, no video games at all, no 99 channels on cable, no video tape movies, no surround sound, no cell phones, no text messaging, no personal computers, no Internet or Internet chat rooms..........WE HAD FRIENDS and we went outside and found them!
- We fell out of trees, got cut, broke bones and teeth and there were no lawsuits from these accidents.
- We played with worms and mud pies made from dirt, and the worms did not live in us forever.
- Made up games with sticks and tennis balls and although we were told it would happen, we did not poke out any eyes.
- We rode bikes or walked to a friend's house and knocked on the door or rang the bell, or just yelled for them!
- Local teams had tryouts and not everyone made the team. Those who didn?t had to learn to deal with disappointment. Imagine that!!
- The idea of a parent bailing us out if we broke the law was unheard of. They actually sided with the law!
P.S. The BIG type is because your eyes are shot at your age.
Killerdrgn
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- Park Ridge, NJ
Hey pennies are still copper plated, close enough to still count as being made of copper.
- Location
- Hudson Yards
What a great thread! It's cheered me up. Tom Brokaw doing a retrospective on the year I was born was damn depressing.
I'm smarter than I was in my 20's, better paid than when I was in my 30's, and am interested to see what my 40's will hold...despite the state of the world and the fact that things ache when I wake up in the morning.
I'm smarter than I was in my 20's, better paid than when I was in my 30's, and am interested to see what my 40's will hold...despite the state of the world and the fact that things ache when I wake up in the morning.
- Location
- Baiting Hollow Long Island NY
And we learned how to fight by getting beat up after school by bigger kids, we learned how to take getting beat up because the teachers used to beat us up, then they would call your parents and they would beat you again. No one got sued or died. No one knew a lawyer and you diden't ever need one.
- Location
- NY
ooooohhhhhhh, I forgot one and can't believe nobody mentioned it yet................
Remember the days when television SHUT OFF at I think 2am. The American flag would appear on every channel and they would play the National Anthem.
swimmer
Remember the days when television SHUT OFF at I think 2am. The American flag would appear on every channel and they would play the National Anthem.
swimmer
getting old
russ, jim ,paul, Johnny on the pony brought back memories. surprised no one brought up the fact that when it was 98 degrees in the summer we had no airconditiong(in cars or your home or apt,) just a fan & a firescape to sleep on growing up in the city.
danny
russ, jim ,paul, Johnny on the pony brought back memories. surprised no one brought up the fact that when it was 98 degrees in the summer we had no airconditiong(in cars or your home or apt,) just a fan & a firescape to sleep on growing up in the city.
danny
- Location
- Baiting Hollow Long Island NY
I remember once out on the east end of Long Island when they just invented Air conditioning for cars, but of course we diden't have it and never knew anyone that had it. Anyway I was just a kid driving around with my older cousins on a day when it was about 98 degrees and they wanted to try to pick up these girls on the street, so we had to roll up all the windows on the 55 Oldsmobile and drive by the girls while we smiled and looked cool like we had AC. As soon as we turned the corner we all had to jump out before we got heat stroke.
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- Tobyhanna, PA
Older than 30
Sept 10th, 1974 arrived at Parris Island..it was midnite and I had hair up to my shoulders!! Go bye...hippie! thats right..LOL
Sept 10th, 1974 arrived at Parris Island..it was midnite and I had hair up to my shoulders!! Go bye...hippie! thats right..LOL
- Location
- Throggs Neck, BX
Remember in the 80's when it actually snowed and it wasnt 70 degrees in December or Nintendos Mike Tyson Punch(or was that early 90's).
- Location
- Throggs Neck, BX
ABC's of the 1980's!
A - A is for acid washed jeans. The lighter and whiter they were, the cooler I was!
B - B is for the Berlin Wall coming down in 1989. It was a start for world peace!
C - C is for the Cosby Show on Thursday nights. I remember my Mom popping me a bowl of popcorn and our family sitting down to watch the Huxtables each Thursday night.
D - D is for Def Leppard, who sang about a bottle of sugar "Pour Some Sugar On Me". Growing up, I had no clue what it meant but I knew I liked candy and candy had sugar in it so I figured it had to do with candy or something like it!
E - E is for Exclamation perfume - every pre-teen girl had to have it!
F - F is for French rolling your pants - it wasn't "in" if you couldn't see your socks and shoes clearly!
G - G is for Guys wearing make-up. Something about a guy with eye shadow made every girl want him more!
H - H is for "hair bands". I remember singing along to some of my favorites like Poison, Motley Crue, Warrant, Firehouse, and RATT.
I - I is for the Invention of the Nintendo. Every day afterschool I would have to hurry to get my homework done and room cleaned so I could play another game of Super Mario or Duck Hunt (remember that orange plastic gun!?).
J - J is for Jelly Shoes or as I called them, "jellies". This was before we had Croc's!
K - K is for Knotting one side of your shirt. You could even buy those "fashion rings" that made your knot even fancier and hipper!
L - L is for "Like, Oh My Gosh!" Like, this is how we like talked like back in the '80s, with our like friends, like totally!
M - M is for Michael Jackson. This is pre-transformation and pre-scandal Michael that everyone loved. Who can forget "Thriller" and "Bad"? I remember getting red leather " Michael Jackson" pants for Christmas one year.
N - N is for New Kids on the Block. Every pre-teen and teenage girl had their favorite. Mine was Joey. I had the gigantic button, doll, pillow, pajamas, and "Big Bopper" magazines with this classic " boy band". Oh, and not to mention the CASSETTE of each of their hit albums!
O - O is for the Oopsie Daisy Doll on every 80's kid's Christmas list. She crawled and then fell and then picked herself up again. Wow! I can sing the commercial to this day!
P - P is for Punky Brewster, who was my 80's childhood IDOL! I never missed her show and even watched the re-runs multiple times. I thought I WAS Punky. I had the dark braided pigtails and thought I looked just like her, right down to the skate key necklace she wore.
Q - Q is for the Questron Electronic Game. Remember this? It was the electronic pen that had a red and green light. You bought the Questron question books and used the pen to answer the questions, if you were right the green light would go on, if you were wrong the red one appeared. This was every '80s child afterschool tutor!
R - R is for Reebok's Pump Sneakers. The first $80 pair of gym shoes every kid had to have. I remember mine were all white with a purple and pink pump!
S - S is for Strawberry Shortcake. This was one of my most memorable Halloween costumes of the 1980s. She too was one of my childhood idols. I had the Strawberry Shortcake play phone, sleeping bag and doll.
T - T is for teased hair. The higher your hair was the better. I guess our theory was the higher your hair, the closer you were to heaven! We would rat our bangs as high as we could and then unload a bottle of hairspray until it stuck. What about the Ozone?
U - U is for Underoos! I remember every boy in my class in the 1980s wore Underoos underwear. They would have their favorite superhero on their underwear and it made me wonder why I had to have the ones with the days of the week on them! Didn't they have any Underoos with Strawberry Shortcake!?
V - V is for Valley Girls. Every girl that was around in the 1980s went through their valley girl phase. Talking like a Valley Girl and acting like a total snob was like all you had to do to like be a really rad valley girl at like school. Like, fur shure!
W - W is for "Where's the Beef?" that famous Wendy's commercial slogan of the 1980's. It still sticks in my head 20 years later!
X - X is for Generation X, any child growing up in the 1980's became part of this generation. With the guys in make up, teased hair and strange clothing its no wonder they couldn't come up with a better title than just "X" to name my wild generation.
Y - Y is for Yoohoo Chocolate Drink, my favorite afterschool snack. Who doesn't remember those cool yellow cartons with the blue letters. This was the best chocolate drink around.
Z - Z is for Zelda the popular 1980s Nintendo character. The Legend of Zelda had its own game and even its own cereal. Move over Super Mario Brothers, Zelda is moving in!
A - A is for acid washed jeans. The lighter and whiter they were, the cooler I was!
B - B is for the Berlin Wall coming down in 1989. It was a start for world peace!
C - C is for the Cosby Show on Thursday nights. I remember my Mom popping me a bowl of popcorn and our family sitting down to watch the Huxtables each Thursday night.
D - D is for Def Leppard, who sang about a bottle of sugar "Pour Some Sugar On Me". Growing up, I had no clue what it meant but I knew I liked candy and candy had sugar in it so I figured it had to do with candy or something like it!
E - E is for Exclamation perfume - every pre-teen girl had to have it!
F - F is for French rolling your pants - it wasn't "in" if you couldn't see your socks and shoes clearly!
G - G is for Guys wearing make-up. Something about a guy with eye shadow made every girl want him more!
H - H is for "hair bands". I remember singing along to some of my favorites like Poison, Motley Crue, Warrant, Firehouse, and RATT.
I - I is for the Invention of the Nintendo. Every day afterschool I would have to hurry to get my homework done and room cleaned so I could play another game of Super Mario or Duck Hunt (remember that orange plastic gun!?).
J - J is for Jelly Shoes or as I called them, "jellies". This was before we had Croc's!
K - K is for Knotting one side of your shirt. You could even buy those "fashion rings" that made your knot even fancier and hipper!
L - L is for "Like, Oh My Gosh!" Like, this is how we like talked like back in the '80s, with our like friends, like totally!
M - M is for Michael Jackson. This is pre-transformation and pre-scandal Michael that everyone loved. Who can forget "Thriller" and "Bad"? I remember getting red leather " Michael Jackson" pants for Christmas one year.
N - N is for New Kids on the Block. Every pre-teen and teenage girl had their favorite. Mine was Joey. I had the gigantic button, doll, pillow, pajamas, and "Big Bopper" magazines with this classic " boy band". Oh, and not to mention the CASSETTE of each of their hit albums!
O - O is for the Oopsie Daisy Doll on every 80's kid's Christmas list. She crawled and then fell and then picked herself up again. Wow! I can sing the commercial to this day!
P - P is for Punky Brewster, who was my 80's childhood IDOL! I never missed her show and even watched the re-runs multiple times. I thought I WAS Punky. I had the dark braided pigtails and thought I looked just like her, right down to the skate key necklace she wore.
Q - Q is for the Questron Electronic Game. Remember this? It was the electronic pen that had a red and green light. You bought the Questron question books and used the pen to answer the questions, if you were right the green light would go on, if you were wrong the red one appeared. This was every '80s child afterschool tutor!
R - R is for Reebok's Pump Sneakers. The first $80 pair of gym shoes every kid had to have. I remember mine were all white with a purple and pink pump!
S - S is for Strawberry Shortcake. This was one of my most memorable Halloween costumes of the 1980s. She too was one of my childhood idols. I had the Strawberry Shortcake play phone, sleeping bag and doll.
T - T is for teased hair. The higher your hair was the better. I guess our theory was the higher your hair, the closer you were to heaven! We would rat our bangs as high as we could and then unload a bottle of hairspray until it stuck. What about the Ozone?
U - U is for Underoos! I remember every boy in my class in the 1980s wore Underoos underwear. They would have their favorite superhero on their underwear and it made me wonder why I had to have the ones with the days of the week on them! Didn't they have any Underoos with Strawberry Shortcake!?
V - V is for Valley Girls. Every girl that was around in the 1980s went through their valley girl phase. Talking like a Valley Girl and acting like a total snob was like all you had to do to like be a really rad valley girl at like school. Like, fur shure!
W - W is for "Where's the Beef?" that famous Wendy's commercial slogan of the 1980's. It still sticks in my head 20 years later!
X - X is for Generation X, any child growing up in the 1980's became part of this generation. With the guys in make up, teased hair and strange clothing its no wonder they couldn't come up with a better title than just "X" to name my wild generation.
Y - Y is for Yoohoo Chocolate Drink, my favorite afterschool snack. Who doesn't remember those cool yellow cartons with the blue letters. This was the best chocolate drink around.
Z - Z is for Zelda the popular 1980s Nintendo character. The Legend of Zelda had its own game and even its own cereal. Move over Super Mario Brothers, Zelda is moving in!
- Location
- Throggs Neck, BX
FYI, I didnt not make the above list, just something I found.
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