Remembering The Past

[Fawnbuster]

Kid of the 70s... Hot wheels...pop rocks ...whacky stickers... Sizzlers.... Creepy crawlers made in sisters ez bake ovens... Playing board games when it rained ... When it wasnt running around playing war with pop guns ...or smear the queer or bloody murder at dusk ... Most stuff in the day definitely wouldn't be politically correct these days... Mom gave my hot wheels including a mint mongoose and snake to my nephews...

Man i remember all of those. 1 of my sisters got an ezbake oven for Christmas, when they weren't home I would bake me up some snacks and use up her supplies lol. Those wacky stickers also, some with Rat Racer on them, others with bad names for current products like Vomit Comet cleanser. Teaberry gum, bubsdaddy bubble gum in the 18 inch sticks. Cap guns, a whole roll of those red paper caps sounds like a gun going off when you hit it with a sledge hammer, ask my sisters, they about peed there pants when I snuck up behind them and did it, they where in middle school and smoking a cigarette, when they told me "ill tell dad!" My reply was no you won't, I'll tell him you where smoking ?.

I had a heck of a beer can collection from all over the world, dumpster diving for them and returnable bottles was like a treasure hunt!

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[Fawnbuster]

The strap on roller skates with the steel wheels, succkkked. Roller skating on weekends.

Had a sparrow hit our window and knocked it silly so I brought it inside and put it in the Christmas tree to rest...then the cat climbed the tree and went after it, that didn't end well. Climbed up on top of our barn in the summer and was amazed I could see the drive in theater couldn't tell what was playing but it was fun. Always had to be home before dark, when the street lights came on you better be headed home already. Neighborhood moms would take turns watching over the whole group of kids and take care of lunch, just depended on which yard we congregated in.

Burn barrels for trash, cold well water, clothes lines. The K -tel veg-o-matic!

 

[KJRR]

Haven't seen these mentioned yet

I would set them up on and around a fort of Lincoln Logs and Bricks (before lego) and shot them with a cork gun and run a wind up tank through the forts.
Playing with matchbox cars or slot cars, would spend hours setting up the track and racing my friends. Then mom would make me put it away after a week when we moved on to other activities.
You knew a party was happening soon when Charles Chips showed up and dad went to the beverage store for a case of Strohs and a case of Faygo pop. Anyone remember the Faygo song? Think either my parents or my sister still has all the old 45s we had.
Snoopy and the Red Baron was one of them. By the Royal Guardsmen I think.
Spending a Saturday with grandpa, going to the to parts store and stoping by the bar next door, gramps would have a shot and a beer and I'd have a pop and a bag of chips. Grandma would always check to see how many we had when we got back. Then hang out in the garage listening to the Indians ball game while gramps had another beer. I still love hanging out in the garage with the ballgame on, a beer in my hand and just tinkering. Damn, where did summer go.
Lots of good memories in the thread.

 

[AzScorpion]

Some kids in the neighborhood would cut the forks off an old bicycle and attach a few to there bike to try and make a chopper. Well 1 of the boys did it to his but failed to pound them together let alone screw,bolt, weld it. when he saw us using our bikes on a ramp to jump over stuff, he tried it and as soon as he went airborne everything below the handlebars fell off and when he stuck the landing he really stuck it, right into the ground and over the handlebars he went.

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I was telling Annie the other night we use to lay on the ground and have others on their bikes jump over us. There was a large cul de sac with only one house in it and we'd set up a log with an old board on top for a ramp. Get a couple of us to lay on the street and the one on the bike would jump over us. We'd keep adding bodies until someone chickened out and didn't want to be the last one. lol So sometimes now when I see kids doing something dumb I have to think back at all the dumb stuff we did and realize we were just like them.?

 

[Fordup]

And the cats ate the tinsel, that had a festive after effect

The festive effect at our house was our dog pooping out the tinsel. He would be squatting for an hour trying to get that last piece to fall.

 

[Fawnbuster]

It's a darn good thing we didn't have YouTube videos back then, we'd both either be dead or mangled

 

[Nellieg]

The festive effect at our house was our dog pooping out the tinsel. He would be squatting for an hour trying to get that last piece to fall.

We had to pull the tinsel out to help the cat or dog.... Somehow my sisters didn't pull the duty on dirty jobs...but hearing them scream as I chased them with the piece of tinsel....

 

[Fordup]

Some kids in the neighborhood would cut the forks off an old bicycle and attach a few to there bike to try and make a chopper. Well 1 of the boys did it to his but failed to pound them together let alone screw,bolt, weld it. when he saw us using our bikes on a ramp to jump over stuff, he tried it and as soon as he went airborne everything below the handlebars fell off and when he stuck the landing he really stuck it, right into the ground and over the handlebars he went.

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I did that and sent a friend to the ER. He wanted to be the first to try it and the lower fork split. He went over the handle bars and laid there crying. His mom wasn't happy about the broken collar bone as a result. Lesson learned and reinforced the second try with hose clamps and rubber hose on the next try that was successful.

 

[Fordup]

It's a darn good thing we didn't have YouTube videos back then, we'd both either be dead or mangled

No, we were tough and had bactine to fix all the cuts and scraps.

 

[Fawnbuster]

Haven't seen these mentioned yet

I would set them up on and around a fort of Lincoln Logs and Bricks (before lego) and shot them with a cork gun and run a wind up tank through the forts.
Playing with matchbox cars or slot cars, would spend hours setting up the track and racing my friends. Then mom would make me put it away after a week when we moved on to other activities.
You knew a party was happening soon when Charles Chips showed up and dad went to the beverage store for a case of Strohs and a case of Faygo pop. Anyone remember the Faygo song? Think either my parents or my sister still has all the old 45s we had.
Snoopy and the Red Baron was one of them. By the Royal Guardsmen I think.
Spending a Saturday with grandpa, going to the to parts store and stoping by the bar next door, gramps would have a shot and a beer and I'd have a pop and a bag of chips. Grandma would always check to see how many we had when we got back. Then hang out in the garage listening to the Indians ball game while gramps had another beer. I still love hanging out in the garage with the ballgame on, a beer in my hand and just tinkering. Damn, where did summer go.
Lots of good memories in the thread.

My buddies family Used to get Charles chips, a great way to protect them from being crushed. In the summer time I'd always carry a quarter or two for the weekly visit from Mr Softy the ice cream truck.

One summer I brought in an egg pod on a stick and put it In a jar to see what hatched, we went camping and returned to baby praying mantis' all over the house lol, I guess the air holes I punched in the lid where too big. We would also make bug nets out of an old pillow case and coat hanger and stick and run thru the weeds collecting bugs to put in a jar with moth balls and make a science project.

 

[AzScorpion]

No, we were tough and had bactine to fix all the cuts and scraps.

My mom used iodine and mercurochrome. I can't remember now but one of them use to sting really bad and I'd dread seeing her take those bottles out of the medicine cabinet.

 

[Fawnbuster]

When I started 3rd grade or so Mom went back to work, the last thing she would say to all 5 of us was, "watch your brother and keep him out of trouble" over the course of the next hour all 4 girls would drift off to their friends and leave me alone, I'd either have a friend over to play or go to there homes, about an hour before mom gets home all the girls came back and mom thought they watched me all day. She didn't know until I was in my 30s and the look she gave my sisters was priceless. I even went thru my 1st tornado alone, I saw it coming ran to the basement, it lifted up over our house and neighborhood and continued east. I grabbed mom's camera and snapped a pic of the funnel cloud. At dinner we talked about our day and when I said I saw a tornado they said ya right. A few weeks later she had the film developed and saw the funnel cloud and gasped ?. My sister's caught hell. It was a pop up storm, no forecasted bad weather, no sirens, just a hot humid day with the right conditions. Wasn't even on the news because it only damaged a few trees.

 

[Fordup]

My mom used iodine and mercurochrome. I can't remember now but one of them use to sting really bad and I'd dread seeing her take those bottles out of the medicine cabinet.

My mom switched to Bactine because it didn't make us cry. Worst was we had gravel roads and if you fell on one playing gravel pieces and hot tar had to be scraped out.

 

[BS67]

My mom switched to Bactine because it didn't make us cry.

Mom would use Mecurichrome........burned like fire! Then she quit using it and told us it'd feel better when it stopped hurting!

 

[Doc]

I went to the catholic school and the nuns made us sell Christmas Cards. My dad was a drunk and he used to take me to the bar with him. When it came to the cards, I would go to those bars without my dad and sell all my Christmas cards all out on the first day.
Btw, pinballs we’re a nickel then

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