Good old days

[Rage]

There were no good ole days, only our memories shade them as such.

I remember as many sucky days and things as a kid as I do as an adult.  About the same number of good stuff as well.

The only exception was disco.

That was never good.

*shudder*

At least you remember your childhood. Thanks to a concrete floor & my lack of fear or common sense I don't remember much before age 12. Once in a while suddenly get a flash (a memory) of something that happened. It freaks me out everytime because its like it just happened.

Sorry about the thread hijack.....back to the good old days.......

[Baron Doune]

Funny on the respect thing.  Mr. and Mrs. were the norm, save one.

We had a neighbor up the block that was a real ahole.

Yelled at the kids, sent his dog after us and such.  And no we really were never doing anything wrong other than walking on the sidewalk past his house.

One night it was payback.

Did the "stuff" in the bag thing, firecrackers and such "stuff".  Put it on his porch, lit it and then ran away.  He was suppose to come out and stamp out the fire, getting "stuff" all over his shoes.

He wasn't home.  Burned down half the porch...opps.  Cops were looking for the culprits for weeks.

Of course I only heard about this from others.

To this day I still don't mind if kids take that shortcut through my backyard, and they know it.

[maelstrom0370]

I remember starting a thread like this on the old board 

Let's see....gas was .86/gallon when I started driving and I could fill me '76 Caprice Classic for about $20!
Cigarettes were .75/pack when I started smoking and that was at 7-11
Parachute Pants were IT (for like 5 minutes) and I owned TWO pair.  Trust me on this one, fat kids and Parachute Pants don't mix! 
In my grandmother's neighborhood, there was an 'Uncle' Joe and a 'Gramma' Eunice.  Both passed out arse whoopins AND cookies/candy to the neighborhood kids depending on the circumstances.  Yes, I received my share of both. 
MTV was on 8 hours a day, showed videos, and it was a BIG deal if you actually got it.
Watching scrambled Playboy channel and SWEARING TO GOD YOU JUST SAW SOMETHING!!!!  Oh, and the scrambled boob you swore you caught sight of was just about the coolest thing goin'!
HBO when it was just a switch box on the top of your TV.
Summer days that really did last forever cuz it was safe to run wild.
A school fight meant you and another guy or maybe you, some friends and him and some friends.  Absolutely NO ONE had a gun!! And if you knew someone who knew someone who knew someone who 'said' they had a gun, it was a BIG deal.

[Scevola]

When drama TV was Dragnet, Adam 12, which were based on real stories.
Westerns like High Chapperel, Gunsmoke, Wanted Dead or Alive, Streets of Laredo, Gunsmoke (What girl didn't love Little Joe),
Reality TV was This is Your Life
Laugh In, Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour (Both old and new), Original Saturday Night Live and cast
Variety shows like Flip Wilson, Glenn Campbell, Barbara Mandrell and the Mandrell sisters, Dean Martin show
Love American Style,
Game shows like Beat the Clock, Lets make a deal, The Dating Game.

OMG...I remember all of these shows!!! I thought I was the only one who remembers Beat the Clock.  Everyone I've ever talked to has never heard of it.  I was in the 3rd grade at the time and lived in Port Jervis NY so I always thought it was an East Coast thing.  Soupy Sails (sp?) was a regular.  We would watch that and right afterwards at 7pm the Flintstones would come on.  I remember Romper Room (Have you been a good Doobie?) Gumby, Ultraman, Speed Racer, the Thunderbirds.  And I'm still trying to forget HR Puff n Stuff!!! 

TV dinners in the aluminum tray that HAD to be cooked in the oven.  Mom used to make popcorn in a pot on top of the stove even when Jiffy Pop came out had to be cooked on the stove top.  Having to be in bed by 9pm but using flashlights to flash 'Morse Code' with my friend across the street until midnight (No cell phones in the early 70's)

Woolworths
A&W Drive-In
Burger Chef
Big Mac's used to be wrapped in the paper wrapper with that card board thingy around it.

       

[festmum]

Burger Chef!!  Oh Yeah!

I also remember 45's and 78's (I still have a few 78's).  Watching all the "Elvis" movies over and over and over again.

Frances the Talking Mule movies...
Mrs. Beasly Doll (from Family Affair, you know, Buffy, Jody, and Uncle Bill...can't forget Mr. French!)

[Scevola]

Burger Chef!!  Oh Yeah!

I also remember 45's and 78's (I still have a few 78's).  Watching all the "Elvis" movies over and over and over again.

Frances the Talking Mule movies...
Mrs. Beasly Doll (from Family Affair, you know, Buffy, Jody, and Uncle Bill...can't forget Mr. French!)

OOOOO Family Affair...I forgot about that one!  How bout: Courtship of Eddie's Father, Partridge Family, Mr. Ed and of course the Brady Bunch.  Can't remember if someone already mentioned The Flying Nun.  Once_D came to my rescue the other day when I was trying to figure out the name of the annoying robot on Buck Rogers - Twiki

[Capt Gabriela Fullpepper]

Burger Chef!!  Oh Yeah!

I also remember 45's and 78's (I still have a few 78's).  Watching all the "Elvis" movies over and over and over again.

Frances the Talking Mule movies...
Mrs. Beasly Doll (from Family Affair, you know, Buffy, Jody, and Uncle Bill...can't forget Mr. French!)

OOOOO Family Affair...I forgot about that one!  How bout: Courtship of Eddie's Father, Partridge Family, Mr. Ed and of course the Brady Bunch.  Can't remember if someone already mentioned The Flying Nun.  Once_D came to my rescue the other day when I was trying to figure out the name of the annoying robot on Buck Rogers - Twiki

How about That Girl with Marlo Thomas, I Dream of Jeannie, Bewitched.. which Darin was it, Dick Sergeant, or Dick York... Sergeant York?. Kookla Fran and Allie. Science Fiction Theater at least in Colorado.

Yeah when a Whopper was truely a Whopper and it did take both hands to eat it. Scotties drive in. There is still some in Nebraska in Scottsbluff. I was there last year, but didn't eat at it. The A&W in my town closed about 3 years ago. But there is still on 15 minutes south in the small town of Berthoud.

The Beverly Hillbillies. my sister loved that show.

Sissy bars and banana seats on your bikes with those HUGE handle bars. More like what a chopper has these days. Tang was what the Astrounauts drank.

[maelstrom0370]

'Love Boat' and 'Fantasy Island' back to back on Saturday nights!
"De plane, boss, de plane!"
All those Chinese/Japanese imports...Spectreman, Ultraman, Goldar and his transforming rocketship family!
Building 'forts' in my room with every blanket, chair and book I could get my hands on.
Saturday afternoon horror movies.
Knowing cartoons were over for the day when 'Soul Train' came on.
The woods in my old neighborhood (which were actually a group of tress in an area about the size of your average backyard) seeming like a primordeal forest!

[Welsh Wench]

Drive-in movie theatres where you didn't care WHAT was on the screen...

Watching American Graffiti and thinking, 'Wow! A documentary!' Every crowd had a John Milner and a Toad.

Yeah, I loved my teenage years....*sigh*

[fluffy tail]

Burger Chef!!  Oh Yeah!

My first job was at Burger Chef $1.80 an hour. Paid for 2 years of college too.

Yard dart.. yes with metal tips too. (Like backyard chicken without cars)

Dad taught us a game where you drew a circle and threw a pocket knife in the other persons section and you slowly took their section. It only counted if the knife stuck.  Think he called it pegs. But the thought of throwing a pocket knife at someones feet...

[Captain Jack Wolfe]

My first car was a '67 Electra.  What my parents were thinking when they gave a teenage boy a car with a huge bench backseat, I'll never know.

But I'm grateful. 

[maelstrom0370]

Yard dart.. yes with metal tips too. (Like backyard chicken without cars)

OMG! I took one of those things between the toes!!  A friend and I, both with homemade make-shift shields, throwing them back and forth at each other!

Ahh...good times, good times.

[Lady Renee Buchanan]

One of my favorite Sat. morning TV shows was Sky King.  I wanted to be his niece Penny.

My cousin Jimmy and I played a game with a knife.  You stand face to face and draw a line in the middle of you.  Put both feet each side of the line, as close as you can get to it.  One person throws a pocket knife into the dirt.  Where it sticks, the other has to put his foot.  The object is to get the other person's feet to spread so far wide that they fall over.  I was a dancer, so I could do a center split (what we called it, it probably has another name.  It's where your feet went straight out to the side until you were sat in a split).  I always won that, if I was able to make the knife stick into the ground.

We also used to play Combat with his friends.  I was always Vic Morrow.  I was a tomboy back in the day.

I started work in a supermarket for $1.60 an hour when I was 16.  After 3 years of working weekends and summer vacation, I was $600 short from buying a 1972 yellow VW bug.  The first Chiquita.  My parents lent me the money, and I worked in the supermarket and as a waitress, there I made 87 cents an hour plus tips, until I paid them back that summer.  Then I quit the waitress and spent the rest of the summer surfing during the day and working in the supermarket at night.

I filled my gas tank for under $2.50 then.

[festmum]

How could we forget, LOST IN SPACE???  I always wanted to be Penny.

...and Gilligan's Island?  I never missed an episode of either of them!

Gomer Pyle, USMC.
The Big Valley


My first movie in a theatre was "The Green Berets".  Went with my cousin.
My very FIRST movies were at a drive-in theatre in the back of my family's station wagon.  It was a double feature that my DAD chose.  I was scarred for life!  I was only 7 years old.

(The Blood Feast  and Ten Thousand Maniacs)

[Arsinoe Selene]

Okay, I am sooooo not old enough for this, but I don't care.

When Polly Pocket actually fit in your pocket. Her whole world, not just her.

Seeing all my friends almost everyday. I never knew how much that meant to me until I started college last fall. It sucks, but I don't have to see the idiots as much, if at all.

On the same note, living within 10 minutes or less of all your friends. Now they are about 40 minutes away.

Various cartoons that aren't shown anymore/only shown at 2 AM or something stupid like that. (Time Squad, Angry Beavers, Rocko...)

Actually having a social life more than 2-3 days a week, during the school year. In the summer, all is lost. My hobbies are not exactly filled with guys.