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Post by buttercup on Jul 14, 2004 18:57:05 GMT -5
My memory is sponsored by Ritalin. It makes me incredibly methodical and remember stuff at just about the level of Rainman. My p-doc upped the dose today, since I complained that I can't seem to focus again at work...didn't mention this website and my contributions. Holy Moly.
You guys should have seen me when I had to sue a flooring contractor, the retailer, AND the manufacturer for a seriously botched job in small claims court. I made sure to take Ritalin about 1/2 hr. before court. My mom watched and said "I would have HATED to be one of those guys...they looked so embarrassed by the time you finished." I remembered stuff like you can't believe (or maybe you CAN believe -- teeheehee) and nailed the lids shut on all of them. hee hee I won the case, and the judge assigned financial responsiblity to all 3 of them. Sometimes being ADHD, having access to your memory, as well as having a flair for the dramatic arts comes in handy. ;D ;D ;D
Spirograph!!! I want a Spirograph! Do they still sell them? Lite Brite was cool too.
Know what? We didn't get a color TV until 1976. It was teeny weeny Sony (probably 9") for our motorhome. I STILL HAVE IT! I love that tv and it's still as good as my modern tv.
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Post by Jorgy on Jul 14, 2004 21:47:06 GMT -5
Electric typewriters were wonderful modern conveniences along with electric can openers, cassette tapes, dishwashers, automatic washmachines. We had records and the new wonder... 8 track tapes!!! We also had bikes with banana seats, that was a must and so cool! Hand brakes were the new thing. Hard to believe that my kids don't know what a typewriter or record player is!  |
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Post by aimee30 on Jul 14, 2004 22:33:17 GMT -5
I took DD for an eye doctor visit two years ago for kindergarten. Instead of showing her letters they showed pictures. There was a picture of a corded telephone and she promptly told the DR she had no idea what that was. Makes you feel old.
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Post by rosyred45 on Jul 15, 2004 9:39:43 GMT -5
YUP had a banana seat with the wifty handle bars tha tI can't describe, but I flipped over them a couple times  YUP the stores have a "newer" spirograph and lite bright. We had animal twister, it was my mom's, but anyone else have that? It was like twister, but with a yellow mat and a bunch of animals instead of colored dots. |
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Post by tridlette on Jul 15, 2004 10:30:09 GMT -5
I never got a new bike, the trouble with being the youngest child. But remember when hand me downs were a way of life?
I always wanted a pair of Chino's and an Izod shirt, with the little preppy alligator on it!
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Post by finnmom on Jul 15, 2004 11:35:54 GMT -5
Banana seat for the bike...I have some very thouchy memorie´s of those ;D My cousin had got a new bike with banana seat and I sort a sneaked it from him and wanted to try. My hand´s hardly went to the handle bar´s, not even near to the hand brake´s... add a high hill and me on top of it and you´ll get the picture ;D ;D ;D DOWN, DOWN, DOWN I went and with pretty high speed too, I ended up to a field, my mom running in panic to see if I still breath  |
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Post by sweety on Jul 15, 2004 13:25:19 GMT -5
;D :oI'mm a little older than some but I went to high school and college in the 70's. Remember Seals and Crofts "We May never pass this way again"? Those gawd awful puffy lacy pastel prom dresses?? Big bow ties in guys senior pictures and guys with long hair? Rose thinks men in long hair is just horrible. We had boots called "waffle stompers" big heavy hiking boots with red shoelaces. The shoes had a waffle pattern on the bottom, hence the name. Remember STREAKING!!!! We had 2 streakers my Jr. year. (1974) Guys had big sideburns, skirts were still short and girls had long straight hair parted in the middle. Did your high school have foriegn exchange students? Do they still do that? I had two friends that were exchange students over the summer and we had several exchange students during the year. (needless to say the TV show "That 70's Show" can be pretty accurate.) |
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Post by buttercup on Jul 15, 2004 14:34:14 GMT -5
Hahaha! Waffle stompers. My parents went through a "natural" stage where they bought the whole family Earth Shoes too. We also lived in Seattle--could you get any more natural than that? My mom and dad would make soy bread and granola every week and we shopped at a co-op for our food. They were WAY ahead of their time. I just tried as hard as I could to go to my friends homes that were into white bread, bologna, cold cereal, and candy and "beg" like crazy!!  I started high school in the late 70s and the prom dress of choice was a Holly Hobbie looking "Gunne Sax" dress. Oh yah...STREAKING. I almost forgot about that. Banana seats (especially the kind with sparkles) and hi-rise handle bars on a Schwinn bike...to die for. I too sneaked my brother's boy's Schwinn bike out of the garage a couple of times and fell onto the bar going full speed. Didn't dare tell anyone, just suffered acute pain. Oh that just freaks me out that kids don't know what a typewriter is...probably an adding machine either. Who would have ever imagined that a standard push button corded phone would ever be considered out of date? I always asked my parents why we couldn't have one...why we always had to have a dial phone. It was just too extravagent. A guy at work said that he is going to install an avacado green phone in his car so that when he is driving he can freak people out with the big green handset and coiled cord. hahaha |
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Post by tridlette on Jul 15, 2004 15:43:43 GMT -5
When I moved into this house, it still had an avocado green rotary dial phone! And bright red shag carpet in the bedroom, and a bronze Eagle over the mantel. Even the kitchen sink was avocado, along with the dishwasher and fridge too. I lasted just 11 days before I took contact paper to the whole kitchen, then went to see the p-doc for anti depressants!
I still laugh every time I hear a commercial telling some to "dial 555-1234"... since NO ONE has a dial on their phones anymore. I doubt kids today could figure out how to make a call on one!
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Post by rosyred45 on Jul 20, 2004 10:21:43 GMT -5
Have you ever tried to call that number? I did but can't remember what happened. |
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Post by buttercup on Jul 20, 2004 11:06:28 GMT -5
slinky? is that from the 70s? "A slinky, a slinky it's such a wonderful toy. A slinky a slinky, it's fun for a girl or a boy."
remember Super Elastic Bubble Plastic?
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Post by rosyred45 on Jul 20, 2004 12:33:37 GMT -5
Is that the stuff in the tubes, tha tyour not allowed to smell or you get a contact high? My kids love that stuff, except when they get it in each others hair |
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Post by camismom on Jul 20, 2004 13:57:47 GMT -5
Sweety, My husband graduated in 82, but the big hair and bow ties with the ruffly thing on the tuxes were still in. You mention "The 70's Show", well my husband is Hyde to a "T". His senior picture looks just like Hyde only the hair is a little darker. He tells me he acted just like Hyde does too. Thank goodness he matured some before I married him. teehee As far as shag carpets and puke green colors, yeah we had them too. If it wasn't the ugly green, it was burnt orange. Both were God awful! I grew up in project apartments we have here, several different ones, yet everyone had what I always referred to as "puke" green walls. Imagine being a teen aged girl trying to match things in your room with that color!  Sweety mentioned prom dresses too. Well ours weren't puffy and lacy, but they were big and long. My junior year was really the last year the big, full, floor length dresses were in. Mine was red and I wore it with a big, uncomfortable, and hard to get around in, hoop skirt! The next year dresses went to tea length or long and slim fitting. Most of the toys you can still get, but in modern versions. I don't know though, a plastic slinky just doesn't slink like the old-fashioned metal ones though! What about pogo-sticks, roller-blades that you fastened to your shoes, and the great hoola-hoops?? I used to play for hours outside my grandparents with those things, that and some other contraption that you would hook to your foot and sling around your ankle while you jumped it with your other foot. Can't remember the name of the thing! ;D And then there was silly-putty. I used to love playing with silly-putty and transferring pics from the comic-strips. |
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Post by buttercup on Jul 20, 2004 14:30:40 GMT -5
Yes, super elastic bubble plastic was the stinky stuff...I was going to say that it just smelled liked like something that would be cancerous.
OMG! I forgot about pogo sticks--I always wanted one. I know I would have gotten hurt on it; my parents probably knew that too. haha
I remember the thing you put around your ankle too, but can't remember the name. It had a plastic lemon at the end.
Hippity Hops - always wanted one.
Romper Stompers!!!! I always wanted some. We tried to use paint cans and would nearly kill ourselves.
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Post by songwriter on Jul 20, 2004 20:11:58 GMT -5
How 'bout cinnamon oil toothpicks???  |
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