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Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 10:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eeyoreslament a private message Print Post    
Spygirl! I had the "Fashion Plates" and I LOVE LOVE LOVED it!

I also had Speak 'n' Spell BEFORE the plastic overlay of buttons (when each button was its own key), AND I had Speak 'n' Math too. I was an only child.

I had Strawberry Shortcake and Blueberry Muffin dolls, and the plastic strawberry gazebo to play in.

I had a bazillion barbies, and the best Christmas ever involved the Barbie bus, but it was more like this really long RV, with no roof.

The games I had were Perfection, Kerplunk!, Game of Life (I guess everyone had this), and I had this weird game called "Bargain Hunter" where you went around and made purchases in stores, but within a budget. I guess it was to teach money stuff?

I played a lot of timeless games like cribbage, chess, and checkers with my mom. Lots of different card games that involved math, like cribbage, rummy for points, gin rummy for points, and other games along that same line. My mom only liked me playing games that kept me thinking.

I had a whole crapload of Lego, and I had a lot of Playmobil too, because McDonald's gave away a lot of playmobil toys in their happy meals. Remember back in the days when the happy meals came in a big plastic spaceship, not just a box, or bag?

I also had Spirograph, but I sucked at it, so I never used it.

Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 10:13 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eeyoreslament a private message Print Post    
As a teen, I HAD to have a Swatch watch, and then I had to have TWO when it was trendy to wear two watches.

I collected EVERY possible Benetton ad and stuck them on my walls.

I had a Swatch Phone, where it was two phones in one if you picked up the base.

I LOVED Joey McIntyre from New Kids On The Block, and I used to dream of moving to Boston to be able to marry him. LOL

On my first day of grade 7 (beginning of high school back where I lived), I wore an acid wash skirt, an acid wash jean jacket, AND an acid wash poor-boy cap to top it all off. LOL

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 10:22 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
Mystery Date was one of my all time favorite games!

Eeyore, my daughter had the Joey doll from NKOTB. She also had a poster of him on her wall. I think she was about 4. LOL He's still a cutie.

Sharinia
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09-07-2002

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 11:09 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sharinia a private message Print Post    
LoL Eeyore! I sucked at spirograph, too

I had a ton of crap listed here.... metal skates, old fashioned sled, cap guns, princess phone, crazy foam, easy bake, etch a sketch, view master (lol!), merlin phone, fashion plates, shrinky dinks, simon, speak & spell, checkers, acid washed denim, benetton sweaters...and i remember green stamps!

also atari, lincoln logs (i lived in il), twister, chutes and ladders, clue, candy land, monopoly, battleship ('you sunk my battleship'), connect four, rubix cube, ziggy dolls


jacks

Wargod
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07-16-2001

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 11:11 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Wargod a private message Print Post    
Some of these toys are back today! Dakota got the fashion plates (though I think it's called something else, but same exact toy) for Christmas this year and last year one of the kids, probably her, got a spirograph. I know we also have an etch a sketch and view master floating around the house somewhere.

Sharinia
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09-07-2002

Saturday, April 19, 2008 - 11:36 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sharinia a private message Print Post    
anyone remember this?

dataman

dataman

Eeyoreslament
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07-20-2003

Sunday, April 20, 2008 - 4:28 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Eeyoreslament a private message Print Post    
I remember wishing I could have a calculator watch!!

I had the Atari 2600 (with woodgrain finish), and the Space Invaders game it came with. Good stuff.

Craven
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05-23-2004

Sunday, April 20, 2008 - 7:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Craven a private message Print Post    
Remember this?
pet rock

Nickovtyme
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07-29-2004

Sunday, April 20, 2008 - 7:19 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Nickovtyme a private message Print Post    
http://youtube.com/watch?v=TSDeoO-j3G0

Those were the days.

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Sunday, April 20, 2008 - 7:26 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
It's so funny to see what younger people reminisce about! All that plastic, lol!

Aluminum soda cans with pull-tabs were introduced in 1963. Before this, cans were made of steel and were punched open with a church key can opener. Although pull-tabs were a great idea, there were some problems associated with them. Pull-tabs left a sharp edge around the opening and sometimes broke off prematurely. They also created a litter problem



We used to use a can opener for our pop cans. They were made out of tin, I believe, and they weren't "crushable" like today's aluminum can. As it says above, in 1963 aluminum cans came to be. They had pull tabs like this:



Naturally, you had to pull the tab part off from the ring after opening the can and wear the ring on your finger! I remember getting little razor-like slices on my fingers after playing with them.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Sunday, April 20, 2008 - 7:29 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    

Snakes and ladders

My fave game as a kid, might explain why I'm so danged apologetic and always quick to say 'sorry' lol.

Sharinia
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09-07-2002

Sunday, April 20, 2008 - 7:39 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Sharinia a private message Print Post    
I loved Sorry! hee hee. Had totally forgotten about that :-)

And yeah, the Atari 2600 was a huge part of my life. I ruled at Space Invaders, and remember the thrill of lasting so long that the score 'flipped' and started at 0 again.

Huk, I remember those pull tabs and how painful and what a pain in the ass they could be. Also remember having to open cans of something with those double punches.


Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Sunday, April 20, 2008 - 7:40 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
We always had a television, and as a small child it was black and white, somewhat resembling this one:


My neighbor (darned that snot!) got a color TV sometime around 1966. The first show I saw in color was The Monkees on a Saturday afternoon. Color, in those days, was pretty much just a blend of greens and reds. There wasn't much adjustment to get a good flesh color, but who cared, it was color! We didn't get a color TV until the early 1970's. My Uncle worked for Sylvania, and apparently he swiped parts from there and built them at home and sold them. We had a hot**stolen!**hot television. The police came and confiscated it, but since my parents didn't know that my Uncle had pilfered the parts, we got it back. Bad bad bad Uncle!

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Sunday, April 20, 2008 - 7:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    


I didn't have this ring, but when I was 7 I did save my cereal box tops and got his decoder ring, or whatever the heck it was. I can't remember now.

Mameblanche
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08-24-2002

Sunday, April 20, 2008 - 7:43 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mameblanche a private message Print Post    
Sorry if any of these are repeats, I haven't checked all the other linked commercials here, just some of them, so far. Anyhow, enjoy!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nlv7n-Fpn-M&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2b6qDbVl31s

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbiofcuTZBo&NR=1

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtwh3nQP5Uo&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpwzDO0gD1s&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=krXP_TUZqsk&feature=related
I don't remember this one, but it's one for the books, that's for sure!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eYvOgnabABU&feature=related
Here's another one I don't remember, but it sure caught my attention.

Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Sunday, April 20, 2008 - 7:52 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
This is a TV Guide page from the Columbus Ohio region in 1961 (I'm from New York, but was just looking for a representative TV Guide page). Notice that soap operas (called serials) were mostly 15 minutes in length.

My Grandmother was a nurse, and when she got home from work we watched The Edge of Night and Secret Storm together. She got me hooked, but I have since gone through recovery and don't watch them anymore. I did buy my first VCR so I could tape Ryan's Hope in the late 70's...but I eventually beat the addiction.



Hukdonreality
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09-29-2003

Sunday, April 20, 2008 - 8:12 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Hukdonreality a private message Print Post    
Barn Busters and Big Barneys were the special sandwiches here at the Red Barn restaurant! It's the first fast food place we had in my home town.

Maybe twice a year my mother would take us there. We would each get our own hamburger (none of those big, special sandwiches, poop!), but have to share an order of fries and a milkshake with someone else. Chicken dinners were 69 cents...can you believe? That was some fun to go out to eat!!



Most of the Red Barn restaurants have been torn down, but a few remain intact as they were back in the day. Ours still looks just like this, but now it is a Greek restaurant.

Ophiliasgrandma
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09-04-2001

Sunday, April 20, 2008 - 8:46 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Ophiliasgrandma a private message Print Post    
Oh, my gosh! That Noxema commercial was almost nasty. I'm amazed it got by the censers. And as for Ronald McDonald, whoa, that probably gave nightmares to a whole generations of little kids.

Merrysea
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08-13-2004

Sunday, April 20, 2008 - 5:58 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Merrysea a private message Print Post    
I remember that Noxema commercial!

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Sunday, April 20, 2008 - 6:55 pm   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I used to love Red Barn!

Darrellh
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07-21-2004

Monday, April 21, 2008 - 6:38 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Darrellh a private message Print Post    
The first Tv we got was black and white. It was on a rolling stand. Mom kept it in the hall closet and rolled it out in the evening to watch. Later, when the got a color TV console, they gave me the rolling black and white one. Not to many channels, and to get one, I had to actually hold the rabbit ears while the show played. (Usually LOST IN SPACE and OUTER LIMITS!)

Games...I had a Mr. Potato Head. The larger sized GI Joe. A Beanie and Cecil game. (Still have the Cecil hand puppet that talks). Slinky (the metal one) and spirograph.

Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Monday, April 21, 2008 - 8:09 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I remember when we actually used a real potato for Mr. Potato Head.

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Monday, April 21, 2008 - 8:18 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
Eeyore, we must be close to the same age because everything you said, took me right back.
Things I loved that some of you 80's babies will appreciate:






Mamie316
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07-08-2003

Monday, April 21, 2008 - 8:27 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Mamie316 a private message Print Post    
I remember all those thing from my kids' younger days. My daughter had all the Shera dolls and the castle and my son had all the HeMan toys and Castle Greyskull.

Escapee
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06-15-2004

Monday, April 21, 2008 - 8:33 am   Edit Post Move Post Delete Post View Post Send Escapee a private message Print Post    
The Crystal Castle.

Her boyfriends name was Bo and his horse's name was Arrow. (why do I remember that?) LOL.