Remember Wayyyy Back When.......
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Remember Wayyyy Back When.......
Crazydog | Wednesday, February 19, 2003 - 07:50 am     Melfie, we must be around the same age (although like Nanarobin, I can also remember waiting for our big console TV to "warm up"). I remember Dragon's Lair. It was the coolest game, but it was so incredibly hard. The entire arcade would crowd around some guy who was really good and had gotten to parts no one had ever seen before. I also remember Gauntlet, the original version. My brother and two friends of ours spend two hours (and LOTS of quarters) clearing the entire game. And NC-17? I remember when PG-13 came out, because kids were frightened by the beating heart in "Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom". I was in junior high and we thought it was the coolest thing because it meant that films rated R might be rated PG-13. We would go to PG-13 movies hoping for a quick glimpse of boobies! |
Melfie1222 | Wednesday, February 19, 2003 - 07:58 pm     Dragon's Lair... that was it! We didn't have the tv console that was also a piece of furniture, but we did have a stereo like that... like a wooden side table but with speaker openings on each end, and the top lifted up for the radio and record player. Mom set it in the hall outside our bedrooms and let us listen to records before we went to bed. She always tried to suggest calm going to sleep music... but one night when she asked what we wanted to listen to my sister said "Convoy!"... my dad had the soundtrack. Mom wouldn't let us see Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom when it came out because of that beating heart scene. |
Sisalou | Wednesday, February 19, 2003 - 08:58 pm     Playing tether ball. Remember Barbie's friend Midge. Someone stole Midge's head from me and I looked for that head for 2 years. Watching Wierd Theatre on Friday nights. It was scary movies like The Hand. The Cowsills and The Archies. LOL This last one I don't remember doing but my best friend and brothers assure me we did this. Running behing the DDT TRUCKS spraying for mosquitoes. Supposedly we liked to play in the cloud of DDT. (That certainly explains alot!) |
Kristylovesbb | Wednesday, February 19, 2003 - 10:34 pm     I remember when I could get a Pepsi, double-scooped ice-cream cone, and a Herseys candy bar for 25cents, each one cost 7cents and with the penny left I bought a jumbo Johnny-cake cookie. |
Marysafan | Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 05:16 am     Tab top cans and we used to save the tops by bending them and making them into long chains by linking them together. What we planned to do with these long chains is anyone's guess...mostly we used them as bedroom decor! |
Squaredsc | Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 06:28 am     bat-n-ball's. i loved that toy, it was a wooden paddle with a rubber ball attached with a rubber band. oh i could do that for hours. |
Froggiegirl621 | Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 07:18 am     I remember those bat-n-balls too!!! I also remeber what happened to the paddles once the rubber band broke! Whenever I got into trouble, my first thoughts were "Oh no, not the paddle!!!" My mom never actually used it, but the threat kept me out of alot of things!!! |
Twiggyish | Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 01:33 pm     Sisalou, the boys in our neighborhood would ride their bikes behind the pest control sprayer trucks all the time. I can still remember seeing them chase the truck. People just didn't think that spray was dangerous! |
Beagle | Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 04:23 pm     OMG Hippyt, not only did I have a rabbit fur coat, I earned the money for it by babysitting at 25 cents an hour! Thanks for the great laugh I got when the memories came flooding back. |
Goddessatlaw | Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 04:36 pm     Me and my girlfriends psycho-dialing (to the extent possible on a rotary phone) the local radio station to get them to play the Osmonds "Just Like a Yo-Yo" and "One Bad Apple." Picking one Monkee and sticking with him (mine was Peter, since my sister had Davey). Fighting over who was hotter - Donnie or David Cassidy. Squealing over the Tom Jones show with my sisters and Mom ("What's New, Pussycat?") Playing kick-the-can in the street. Getting in trouble for being out-of-range when Dad whistled us in for dinner. Having a choice of going to bed early and missing Batman or taking a spanking for punishment (we took the spanking). Watching the other kids getting to play outside after dark when we'd long been sent to bed. Getting your hair permed so you could part it down the middle and put two little barretts at the temple to hold it back. Mastering shoop-shoop hoola-hooping several at a time. Velvet doll (with the long blond hair that grew). Bunt cakes. Green and orange shag carpeting (yyyeeewww!!!) and rug rakes. Joyous squeals from the girls when we finally got an automatic dishwasher (is there a greater luxury?). Laying on my floor at my grandparents house watching the first moon landing on their black and white console tv. |
Pamy | Thursday, February 20, 2003 - 06:23 pm     Goddess..I still have my Velvet doll! and her big sister Chrissy!!! David Cassidy was better! I always wanted my mom to make my hair look like Marsha Brady TP-ing all the football team player's houses in 1 night! |
Ann | Monday, February 24, 2003 - 08:13 pm     I'm not sure where else to ask this question and since everyone is reminising about old tv shows, etc., maybe one of you could answer this. When we were little we used to watch Walt Disney on Sunday nights and each week it was a different "land". The only ones I can remember are Tommorrow Land, Frontier Land, and Fantasy Land. Does anyone else remember the other two "lands"? By the way, this thread is great.... it has brought back sooooo many memories. |
Sisalou | Monday, February 24, 2003 - 09:26 pm     Twiggy - I still can't believe we did that. I must have blocked it from my memory because it was such an idiotic thing to do. Oh well, fortunately I am no worse for the wear. |
Pamy | Tuesday, February 25, 2003 - 07:26 am     Adventure Land...can't think of the other one |
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