Blasts from the Past

[RedGlitter]

Remember....

Beer and soda tabs that you actually had to peel off?

Pop machines where you'd open the door, brace your foot against the machine and grab the bottleneck and pull, hoping it wouldn't break off?

Cigarette machines in restaurants with all the pretty buttons?

Salvo Tablets laundry detergent?

Transistor radios?

The key on the Spam can?

Body on Tap shampoo?

Those red cellophane "Chinese Fortune Telling Fish" that would move in your hand like "magic?"

Firecracker "worms" you'd light on the 4th of July and they'd burn a black circle into your sidewalk?

Being the paper monitor?

KC & The Sunshine Band?

When pop came in tall glass bottles and how much better it tasted in glass?

Your turn....

[cherandbuster]

Abba?

Paul Revere and the Raiders?

Culottes?

Bell bottoms?

The Dodge Charger?

The Mary Tyler Moore Show? (My all-time favorite :-4 )

All in the Family?

EXCELLENT THREAD, RED!

[sunny104]

RedGlitter;575708 wrote: Remember....

Beer and soda tabs that you actually had to peel off?

Pop machines where you'd open the door, brace your foot against the machine and grab the bottleneck and pull, hoping it wouldn't break off?

Cigarette machines in restaurants with all the pretty buttons?

Salvo Tablets laundry detergent?

Transistor radios?

The key on the Spam can?

Body on Tap shampoo?

Those red cellophane "Chinese Fortune Telling Fish" that would move in your hand like "magic?"

Firecracker "worms" you'd light on the 4th of July and they'd burn a black circle into your sidewalk?

Being the paper monitor?

KC & The Sunshine Band?

When pop came in tall glass bottles and how much better it tasted in glass?

Your turn....


OMGoodness! that brought back some memories!

[minks]

Marbles

Fuzzy Wuzzy Soap

Troll Dolls

Barbie before her legs bent

8 track tapes

45 records and that annoying little disk you had to put into the center so you could play it on the LP spool

jump rope

playing kick the can

the game 7 up that you played in the classroom when it was to cold out for recess

Rubber boots that slipped over your shoes (or is this a canadian thang>)

the strap

the invention of Margarin (my mother tried to pass it off as butter to my dad and I remember him having a fit and tossing it against the kitchen wall) ahahahaha

[OzBoy]

Getting 50 cents off your Mum and coming home with bags and bags of every lolly and sweet in the shop window and still havng a whole 1 or 2 cents change for the next trip to the corner store - oh those were the days!!!!!

Crikey I'm making myself feel old man! Stop it stop it now :p

[Carl44]

RedGlitter;575708 wrote: Remember....



Beer and soda tabs that you actually had to peel off?



Pop machines where you'd open the door, brace your foot against the machine and grab the bottleneck and pull, hoping it wouldn't break off?



Cigarette machines in restaurants with all the pretty buttons?



Salvo Tablets laundry detergent?



Transistor radios?



The key on the Spam can?



Body on Tap shampoo?



Those red cellophane "Chinese Fortune Telling Fish" that would move in your hand like "magic?"



Firecracker "worms" you'd light on the 4th of July and they'd burn a black circle into your sidewalk?



Being the paper monitor?



KC & The Sunshine Band?



When pop came in tall glass bottles and how much better it tasted in glass?



Your turn....




no cant recall any of them ,i'm either to young or my memory has gone :wah:

[minks]

jimbo;575818 wrote: no cant recall any of them ,i'm either to young or my memory has gone :wah:


I vote the latter.

[YZGI]

Candy cigarettes. Hey lets get em started young.

[sunny104]

YZGI;575826 wrote: Candy cigarettes. Hey lets get em started young.


so that's why I started smoking..........:-5

:wah:

[minks]

YZGI;575826 wrote: Candy cigarettes. Hey lets get em started young.


yeah those do not have the red tips on the ends anymore nor can you blow on them and make it look like smoke.. sheesh where is the fun in that.

[RedGlitter]

minks;575810 wrote:

45 records and that annoying little disk you had to put into the center so you could play it on the LP spool




Hey Minks! That thing's called a dingbat! I've always wanted to tell someone what that thing was. Thanks!

[Carl44]

minks;575819 wrote: I vote the latter.ok remembered most of them er minksy you still wearing that red top

[minks]

RedGlitter;575849 wrote: Hey Minks! That thing's called a dingbat! I've always wanted to tell someone what that thing was. Thanks!


oiy you are kidding that is what that thing is called hmmmm I have been called a dingbat before great I am now a useless piece of plastic... I feel so .... unnecessary :-1

[RedGlitter]

Aww....don't worry little fuzzy one, you are most certainly not unnecessary!!

[YZGI]

sunny104;575829 wrote: so that's why I started smoking..........:-5



:D
Do you think in Iraq they have candy bombs for the little ones?:D

[RedGlitter]

YZGI;575855 wrote: Do you think in Iraq they have candy bombs for the little ones?


:wah: :-3 :wah:

[WonderWendy3]

candy cigarettes reminded me of bottle caps and the wax bottle juicy things...

I remember going to the drug store and having a whole dollar to spend and walking away with enough candy for 2-3 days!! (well a normal kid, I ate in one setting...of course!!):D :p

[minks]

jimbo;575851 wrote: ok remembered most of them er minksy you still wearing that red top


Jimbo I have not idea what you are speaking of

[Bryn Mawr]

Penny in the slot toilets

Button A and B on public telephones (and pushing button B hoping the last person had forgotten his change)

Scratchins from the chippy

Conductors on busses (and Inspectors to check up on them)

Telegrams for urgent messages (not that I ever had any)

Short trousers for school.

[Tater Tazz]

Oh man, I would say I only know about 5% of these things.

I do remeber the dodge charger, I had one, it was an antique.

All I can think of is pop rocks.

[SuzyB]

Telex machine

Penny sweets

Puff ball skirts

The hair fringe flick ( had to be able to move as one in the wind )

Red telephone boxes