Things you don't see anymore

[Alvaro Martín Gómez A.]

 

[hbarcat]

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[CapnSev]

The Bears in the Super Bowl.

 

[eutgard]

I miss hoop driving.

 

[lohz]

Christmas Tree "icicles" made out shredded foil lookin' stuff.

 

[lohz]

We usta have "Beer Joints" (I'm from North Carolina), now we have "Sports Bars"

 

[Honk'n_down-low]

Great thread, thanks for the memories!

 

[Lady Kayri]

Fizzies...little wafer like disks, a little smaller than a quarter but thicker. You put them in a glass of water and they would fizz, sort of like Alka Seltzer, and you drank it. A lot of us prefered to stick them in our mouths and suck on them. Probably what eventually got them banned; I'm sure kids swallowed them before all the fizz was gone and the gas didn't do nice things to the tummys...In some ways similar to pop rocks, I guess. At least Pop Rocks occasionally show up in stores, especially the Dollar Stores and similar.

Never went in for 8 track tapes, but I notice it's getting harder to find cassette tapes, too.

Try to find typewriters. Not impossible, but difficult. *Sigh* I can remember how big a deal it was when I finally bought a used IBM Selectric typewriter.

The first TV remote my family owned that wasn't wired to the TV used specific sounds to make the channels change, affect volume, and turn the TV on and off. At the time I had a necklace made of fairly thick chain. To the amusement of my sister and myself, we soon discovered that rattling around that chain evidentally produced the exact same 'chiming' sound that the remote used to turn the TV on and off. Didn't neet the remote, and the first few times we did it, the parental units couldn't figure out what was happening, as the remote was clearly sitting on the coffee table with no one pushing its buttons...

 

[sleepytime]

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[Devils Advocate]

I would have never thought of that thing for the rest of my life had you not posted it. I had it, and completely forgot it ever even existed. Until now.

 

[warwick.hoy]

Speaking of toys vaguely remembered. It's shtick was that the figures had magnets in their feet and that would activate some sort of wind up transformation.

 

[FilterFunk]

Carnation Breakfast Squares (the chocolate ones from the '70s). Nothing tasted quite like those little squares!

Pixie Sticks. Basically, colored sugar in a closed paper straw. The comedian Sinbad called it playground crack!

Candy cigarettes

Cap guns (the ones with the paper cap strips). I loved the sound and smell of them!

 

[arbitrary]

ticker tape parades

 

[jrthebassguy]

Pretty sure we still one of those somewhere in the attic.

 

[rosanne]

No seat belts.
Amazo Instant Pudding
Night Editor candy bars.
Some mentioned Poodle skirts - I had one.
Bubble gum cigars.

 

[Nofretz6]

Also

The original, not the new stuff that tastes like a mouthful of sugar

 

[Atoz]

Related predecessor - Creepy Crawlers maker:

I still have burn scars from these toys.

Man.... the instant I looked at that picture, the "burnt rubber" smell that thing put off popped into my head.

Pretty much any toy with an electrical cord is gone these days.

Here's a childhood favorite: I think this was temporarily reissued a few years back, but it's gone again.

 

[D.M.N.]

Just a few off the top of my 51 year old head...

Polariod cameras


Clothes line

Penny candy (That actually cost a penny.)

You know how hard it is to find film for my Polaroid? TOO D@*N MUCH! I just want instant photos! I use a clothes line while traveling in Asia, and the family uses a drying rack at home.

Anyone else remember the Tootsie Pop wrappers with the Indian that got you a free one?

Schoolhouse Rock

I used to watch Conjunction Junction over and over and over and over. I have Schoolhouse Rock ingrained in my brain. Not that they were on tv when I was growing up. I watched them on VHS.

Kids playing outside ...unsupervised and out of contact with parents for hours on end.
Those flavored sugar packs with the candy vanilla stick you would use to eat the sugar.
Candy cigarettes.
Corgi toy cars.
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Toys that actually need an imagination to play with.
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Common courtesy toward strangers.
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Hacky Sack.

I used to have SO many Corgi's. Loved going to London, going to Hamley's, and looking at all the Corgi's.
You can still buy Candy Cigs at our county fair. Used to buy so many of the packs of Bubble gum Cigs, my parents hated it.
Hacky Sack is HUGE at my school. That's all kids do at breaks: go outside and hack.
Fun Dip: Sugar High in a packet.
As far as kids playing outside, and with toys that need imagination, that's all me and my friends used to do. Build Legos, play with Playmobil, build Cushion, blanket and chair forts, and run around outside. My 4&5 year old brothers still do it a lot too. Just run wild outside, totally unsupervised. We'll check on them every now and then, but they're fine on their own.

Cap guns (the ones with the paper cap strips). I loved the sound and smell of them!

I see your cap gun and raise you a Potato Gun. Oh yeah. I used to run around with both of these. The gunpowder smell is so good.


I was only born in 1992, but there's a lot of stuff I miss.
-The ORGINAL Scooby Doo's. Watched those nearly everyday.
-Saturday Morning Looney Toons. Me and my dad used to get up and watch the classic Looney Toons for HOURS.
-Mail dropboxes on the street

-Big Wheels?

-Dream Cast?

-My first video game console: Nintendo 64. Loved Mario Cart 64 and Super Smash Brothers
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-Goosebumps. Never read them, but remember them EVERYWHERE.
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[jmattbassplaya]

How about the Hardy Boys books? I use to love those hand-me-down books that I got from my brother!

 

[chi-town_mike]

What was the fudge book that we had to read in school?