BLAST FROM THE PAST - Do You Remember?
 

Once in a while things will pop up in my head from my child hood or in my 20's and I'll just laugh. Just thought this would be fun to post things from the past.

Do you remember..........

GLASS Click Clacks ??? I had a pair of these when I was about 13 years old, we would bring them to school and walk thru the halls with these dangerous toys. They were so much fun, we didn't mind the bruises OR the risk of them shattering and breaking in your face.

WHAT WERE THEY THINKING !!!! LOL

Not sure if mine were glass or not.

I remember romper stompers (I think that's what they're called)

You're all speaking a foreign language! Click clacks? Romper stompers? :?:

:D

Click Clacks:

http://www.wickedvision.co.uk/click-clack.htm

Romper Stompers (I had them too, remember playing w/them and watching Romper Room) lol

http://www.angelfire.com/retro/80sfu...erstompers.jpg

Ahh! I've seen both of those things, though I never had any myself.

NOW I REMEMBER! Didn't you used to put the ring around your finger and you would walk around clackin the damn things....used to drive people crazy!

YES I remember them and i also remember being hit in the face by one!!! ahahahahaha :)

me too! :lol:

My favorite candy back in the 70's was Pop Rocks and Bottle Caps, loved the cola flavor.

Ohhhhhhhh I remember bottle caps! I loved those! And I always was one for those candy cigarettes :smoking:

Anyone remember Weebels? Something about 'Weebels wobble but they won't fall down'

I remember all those! Loved my Click Clacks and Pop Rocks. Remember Wheelo's?

Wheelo's, nope never heard of them. I remember Big Wheels but the wheels weren't in the front or back, they had two big wheels on the side, one by each arm and you used your hands to turn them, I think they were called Crazy Wheels.

I don't remember any of this stuff. :?: Well, except for the candy! I loved Pop Rocks and the candy cigarettes. My mom never thought the candy cigarettes were appropriate, though, so I had to sneak them when I was with friends.

Ahh but do you remember the chocolate cigarettes? they were good but melted by the time you got the wrapper off. Loved the wax bottles w/juice inside and pixi sticks. which all are still around.

Mood Rings

Hoppity Hop

Pet Rock :rofl:

And my Banana Seat bike :D Schwin

Until I started Atkins, I used to go buy giant pixi stixs and down them. Now the thought of all that sugar makes me ill.

Anyone remember Zotz? They were these candies that were a hard candy with some white powder in the middle that fizzed when it got wet. I loved those!

Ok, I am going to trip down memory lane here......

When I was little we had a summer home on Cape Cod and each week when I got my allowance I would take my bike (with training wheels) and ride to the general store (any mother now a days would never let their kid go this far alone :lol: ) and buy penny candy. I remember leaving the store with the little brown bag full of paper dots, liquorice laces, rootbear candy etc. *sigh*

Boy what a quarter could buy you in those days!

Zotz oh yeah, gag !! And I loved them back then too. The best was the candy necklaces or bracelets.

How about the wax lips LOL

I remember going through a couple bracelet phases in elementary school. One was 'gimp' (I think that's what the name of it was). You made gimp bracelets out of long, plastic, flourescent coloured string-thingies. And then we went through a phase of making bracelets with that thicker thread and making knots (like friendship bracelets).

I don't recognize much of the candy you mention though, except the bottle caps and candy cigarettes. The candy I remember is Gobstoppers and Runts (I think that's the name? Gosh, it's hard to remember now) and Nerds. And Chicklets gum. :)

OMG the wax lips! And just like that, the taste is right back in my mouth :lol:

Can't find picture of a Wheelo. You held it in your hand and it had a wheel that had pegs on either side of it, you moved you hand up and down and this wheel would move around this "J" shaped thing.

This will bring back memories:
http://www.timewarptoys.com/

Lekker, Gobstoppers were great, they first made them real big but then made them mini versions and ick, wasn't the same lol.

Jane, the kids still buy paperdots, what a way to make money, little itsy bitsy dot candy on paper. I do remember the paper not really coming off the candy but we ate it anyway.

Bazooka gum is still around as well.

Remember the TV show, The Banana Splits? The Groovy Ghoolies, Captain Cave Man, Zoom, ohh so many..

LOL - Morti! One of my good work buddies has one of those on his desk. I play with it all the time!

I had a Wheelo! Those were fun.

Leenie - I used to love Captain Caveman! As a matter of fact, DH and I still do the 'Captain Cavemaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan' yell from time to time. :lol:

What about Fraggle Rock? Or The Great Space Coaster?

SP I have Fraggle Rock on DVD fo the kids to watch!!

OOOOh I loved my sticker collection, candy cigarettes and Abba Zabba, shoe laces with pictures on them, play with an old CB radio my friends and I would play Dukes Of Hazzard or Bj and the Bear!! Capt Kangaroo and HR Puffinstuff. Turning in bottles at The Sentry market in Lake Oswego we would buy lemonheads Boston Baked Beans and bubble gum records with bands like ABBA on the front!! hahahaha Running around in the summer from house to house (our parents never knew where we were) in beach cover ups made of 2 towels sewn together!!! hahahaha Aawh those were the days my green machine big wheels was the fastest on the block and had a sticker or Luke Skywalker on the front to make it go faster!!

TG, Oh yeah I remember all those :rofl: how about Sigmond the SeaMonster (Kroft Hour), LOL@ HR Puffnstuff (Jimmy and his darn talkin flute :s: :s: :s: ), but what brings me further back is I used to watch Popeye, Heckle & Jeckle, Tom & Jerry, Bugs Bunny, Grape Ape, Huckleberry Hound, Casper, Atom Ant, Augie Doggy, Flintstones, jetsons, Magilla Gorilla show....... Oy I could go on forever.

What happy times, Saturday Mornings to me was the best time ever. I remember when the Brady Bunch had their cartoon airing saturday mornings, usually they started new ones in September, boy was I anixous and excited for them to start.

Here's the bananna splits : http://members.aol.com/PaulEC1/splits.html


Check this site out, its cool: http://members.aol.com/PaulEC1/HBindex.html

Leenie I can remember fighting with my older sister on Saturday mornings I wanted to watch cartoons and "land of the lost" and she wanted to watch American Bandstand!!! She knew all the names of the dancers they were in her Tiger Beat magazine! hahahahaha

Then at night my other sister would always want to watch "little house on the Prairie" and we wanted to watch Brady Bunch or Happy days.

"GGGRRRaaape AAAppe" LOL

I still have my Banana Splits folder from school! hahahaha

Tiger Beat OMG !!! I remember that magazine :rofl:
I used to cut out all the pictures of the cute guys and tape them to my wall or a scrap book.

I had a scrap book filled with Paul Michael Glaser, Starsky from Starsky & Hutch, boy oh boy did I love him, and John Travolta mmmmmmmm mmmmmm!

I feel deprived! My mom never let me watch cartoons because she thought they were too violent! :( My brother and I finally convinced her to let us watch The Jetsons and The Flintstones, but that was it!

I always loved the Smurfs. One blonde girl surrounded by a bunch of guys falling over themselves to do her bidding? Why wouldn't I love that? ;)

Oh! My mom thought the Smurfs were satanic!

LMAO - really?

Now I just have a funny image in my head of Kathy Bates in Waterboy as your mom going "Smurfs is the devil!" :lol3:

When smurf first came out in the early 80's (I believe) my sister was pregnant and decorated the baby's room w/smurf stuff. I drew posters of them to put on his wall. Well when my Nephew was born guess what he looked like ??? he had the teeny face with the big ears and my sis even bought a smurf hat so he could wear it.

He's 22 now and still has most of them. He doesn't look like a smurf anymore lol.

They were cute !! NOW, my 16 year old nephew loves smurf b/c they lived in "mushroom" houses....... not cause they are cute but b/c "rooms" is a symbol of drugs..... OY KIDS!!!! and get this, he's such a nerd!!!!!! rooms coollll man! oy.

OMG! That's hilarious, Star!! :lol: I never thought of the similarities!

ok, try this one.....Zoom! It was a PBS show. Bunch of weird nicey nice kids trying experiments and stuff. Used to annoy the crap out of me and one of my teachers made us watch it!

We used to have Major Mudd here in Boston and my Dad was in advertising for channel 7 so we used to be able to go into the studio to see the set. I remember being so dissappointed when I saw that his space ship was made out of cardboard and his space chair was an old barber chair with black duct tape on it! I guess that stuff never showed up on a black and white tv!

Zoom is still on! Some of their little experiments are fun!

http://pbskids.org/zoom/

Remember the Electric Company? Or how about 3-2-1 Contact?

I loved the electric company, wow haven't thought of that in a long time.

How about those plastic balloon's you used to blow up with a cocktail straw, okay not a cocktail straw but one of those teeny ones. The plastic was in a tube and you squeezed out enuf to put at the end of the straw. EGADS did it smell bad.

And those little white paper thingy's that you threw on the floor (shaped like a tear) it would explode with a loud bang and scare the crap out of people, gosh they were loud, reminds me of cap guns.

Oh I remember The Electric Company too!!!! And those paper caps and the balloons you blew out of a straw! Those were weird.

OMG - I think those plastic bubble things got me and my brothers high more than once :lol:

Those white things are called Snap Pops, I think. We have some boxes of them at our house. It used to be fun to scare the cat with them on occasion (don't kill me, TG). They don't even phase him now. I've got a bomb-proof kitty!

Remember when Spaghetti-O's was a staple, I used to love that crap.

One song I remember very well when I was about 10 years old was Elton John's Don't Go Breaking My Heart, I remember being on the play ground boppin to his tunes on the radio and thinking he's so weird w/his glasses and hats (now I know why he used to wear those getups lol). But he was and is great.

Do you remember that song by Starsky & Hutch's David Soul (Hutch) Don't Give Up On Us Baby........... OMG !!! HAAAAAAAAAAA.