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Old 01-12-2006, 12:29 PM   #1  
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Default The good old days

since we had started to get into talks about the things we loved as kids, I thought it would be a fun thread to reminisce together about all of the good things we missed or just remember and are glad they are gone.

Some things already mentioned:
The wax candy with the juice in it
penny candy that actually costed a penny
"Ringer washer" washing machines
Drive- in movies
Drive-up restaurants
Candy cigarettes
records, do you even make tapes anymore
the floppy disks that were really floppy
Saturday morning cartoons
soul train
American Bandstand....ok guess i can go on all day
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Old 01-12-2006, 12:37 PM   #2  
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Here's one, the handheld electronic football, baseball and basketball games with only the red slashes on the screen. They reintroduced them as "classics," recently, but they are NOT the same.
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Old 01-12-2006, 12:41 PM   #3  
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Noxzema and other beauty products in real glass jars, instead of plastic.
Sit N Spin - the original
Metal Easy Bake Ovens
Bikes with banana seats and long handlebars
Wooden Clothespins without hinges
Real Tollhouse Cookie Dough
Rotary Telephones
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Old 01-12-2006, 01:12 PM   #4  
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Party lines (trying to make a call would get pretty bad if the other person wouldn't hang up, I was a kid then
Kids being able to go outside or run around with out the scare of them being kidnapped ( I live in CA)
Crusing the strip (did anyone else to that?
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Old 01-12-2006, 01:37 PM   #5  
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Carmen~ the barber shop my DS goes to has a rotary payphone still. One day I dropped him off and his DD was supposed to be there to pick him up, and I gave him $50 to call him when he got there.
Well about 30 minutes later his DD calls and says DS never called him. I go up there and DS is sitting there and says, "the phone is broke, when I press the number nothing happens."

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Old 01-12-2006, 01:42 PM   #6  
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Well I know that Strawberry Shortcake and My little Pony are back - but I was so glad to see they brought them back so I can also enjoy them again with my daughter - I just love them

Cabbage Patch kids too
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Old 01-12-2006, 03:24 PM   #7  
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Daytime game shows - all day long!
Kick the can
playing hide n seek at night with all the neighbor kids
community center dances
riding in the back of a pick up truck
Orange Crush soda in the glass bottles
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Old 01-12-2006, 03:33 PM   #8  
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hey heather i can add to your list how about.....

care bears (the original i still have mine)
Teddy Rexpen (sp?)
Rainbow Bright
Gizzmo (Gremlins)
Pound Puppies

I can remember when I was a kid that while i did watch some TV that I didnt really watch to much at night cause i was always in bed early lol.

How about.....

Renting VCR's from the movie rental place
VCR's that popped up to insert the tape
how about Jellies/Gellies(sp) shoes
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Old 01-12-2006, 04:06 PM   #9  
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OMG - the carebears and jelly shoes - too funny and rainbow brite..I had forgot all about Teddy Ruxpen...hahaha
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how about...
double dutch
dancing to "Thriller"...I about died when I saw that part in the movie 13 going on 30...we actually used to do that in the middle of the street when I was younger, also, we played "Fame." I always got to be the English teacher. I think her name was Ms. Sherwood.
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Britt - do they still have reel-to-reel tapes for movies in school?
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Carmen - I adored the TV show FAME.
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Old 01-12-2006, 04:22 PM   #13  
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Julie im sure they do but i havent seen any in a long time. Or even the film strips we used to watch lol. Everything is on VHS or DVD these days.
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oh, gosh, I'd forgotten the filmstrips! Wasn't there something on a tape or some sort of audio to go with that?
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HAHA yep sure was an audio tape with it and it would ding or something like that to let you know to go to the next slide lol We used to fight over who got to turn the filmstrip wow what memeries that brings up lol
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