Honestly, I see more kids around my age (20 +/-) at parks running around and hanging out than I see actual children.
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Things you don't see anymore
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Honestly, I see more kids around my age (20 +/-) at parks running around and hanging out than I see actual children.
I too live in California and there are still plenty of fireworks available, though they all come from either mexico, nevada, or ohio depending on whyo you get them from.
Someone mentioned the Hardy Boys books. They tried a retread a while back, but they sank without a trace as far as I know. Other series I enjoyed reading as a kid and did my best to find each and every book in the series:
Tom Corbett, Space Cadet. Actually a bit before my time, but copies could be found in the library and in used book stores. I think I found about 3 episodes on VHS tape, but as far as I know never made it to DVD. Not yet, anyway.
The Bobbsey Twins. OK = grade school reading, but...were fun. I don't think they ever tried to update / retread this one, though.
Nancy Drew - again, this one was re-released / retreaded / updated a while back, but sank like a stone because the new stories were pretty darn - umm... unreadable. Try to find the originals, and they do show up in used book stores now and then. Unfortunately the originals show their age really badly, worse than the Hardy Boys.
Tom Swift = again, they tried to retread this one, too, and it didn't get far. Of course, it also suffered from a type of 'power creep' in the series - the authors had to try and outdo each earlier book in inventions. Actually, I think the ones I remember reading were retreads of an earlier version, but done decently; the third iteration just wasn't up to the earlier standards.
Yeah, some of these are in hindsight pretty - juvenile, and not up to the standards of the stuff I'm reading now. But they were decent for what they were, and heck - I enjoyed them when I was in my early teens! I look at what kids have today, and - Twilight? Really? Give me Nancy Drew anyday over Twilight. Gah. Team Jacob? Team Edward? GIve me Team Thomas Raith, Team Angel, or best yet, Team Spike!!!' I'd love to see what any of those three would do to the 'sparkly vampires!"
Tom Corbett, Space Cadet. Actually a bit before my time, but copies could be found in the library and in used book stores. I think I found about 3 episodes on VHS tape, but as far as I know never made it to DVD. Not yet, anyway.
The Bobbsey Twins. OK = grade school reading, but...were fun. I don't think they ever tried to update / retread this one, though.
Nancy Drew - again, this one was re-released / retreaded / updated a while back, but sank like a stone because the new stories were pretty darn - umm... unreadable. Try to find the originals, and they do show up in used book stores now and then. Unfortunately the originals show their age really badly, worse than the Hardy Boys.
Tom Swift = again, they tried to retread this one, too, and it didn't get far. Of course, it also suffered from a type of 'power creep' in the series - the authors had to try and outdo each earlier book in inventions. Actually, I think the ones I remember reading were retreads of an earlier version, but done decently; the third iteration just wasn't up to the earlier standards.
Yeah, some of these are in hindsight pretty - juvenile, and not up to the standards of the stuff I'm reading now. But they were decent for what they were, and heck - I enjoyed them when I was in my early teens! I look at what kids have today, and - Twilight? Really? Give me Nancy Drew anyday over Twilight. Gah. Team Jacob? Team Edward? GIve me Team Thomas Raith, Team Angel, or best yet, Team Spike!!!' I'd love to see what any of those three would do to the 'sparkly vampires!"
Ive got a raging clue!
I still see at least a third of the things listed in this thread on a fairly regular basis. I think it just so happens that a lot of these items are more regularly found in specialty shops. I can walk down Melrose and find 1/3 to 1/2 of these things, though they probably cost a bit more these days.
Yeah pretty much, I can remember when i was a kid there'd be a mess of us there form 6:00am - the street lights.
Sad indeed.
It actually makes me physically sad thinking about it, but that's partially because I'm coming to a crossroads in my life where I'm realizing that I'll no longer have a summer break, and long gone are the days where my friends and I would plan out everything we'd do during the weekends in intense detail so that we could maximize our hours of sunlight.
Nostalgia definitely has a way of getting to a person. But I will say that I'd never trade those memories for anything
The "original" Tom Swifts (Tom Jr and his best friend Bud Barclay) you are thinking of are probably the second generation that spun off of his father's adventures. I remember reading one where his father supposedly invented the system on ship mounted big guns that absorbed the recoil so the ships didn't keel over when they were fired.
Do they still sell the pistols that shot rubber BBs? Or the ones that shot the little flying disks about the size of a nickel?
Anybody else ever go to the Five & Dime? Forget Dollar stores, man. I remember needing an electric motor for a model and buying a kit you had to wind yourself.
Tom Corbet Space Cadet!!! One of my favorite shows, along with the Lone Ranger, and Beenie and Cecil. Of course before we had a TV I listened to shows on the radio.
Goosebumps books were good. I'd buy them, and read them in a week.
All the good Hanna-Barbara cartoons: Scooby Doo, Jetsons, Flintstones, Johnny Quest.
Super Mario Brothers Super Show... it was awful, but I loved it.
All the good Hanna-Barbara cartoons: Scooby Doo, Jetsons, Flintstones, Johnny Quest.
Super Mario Brothers Super Show... it was awful, but I loved it.
I don't remember what they were called,...but they were a short lived toy in the 90's. Like a slot car in 1/24 scale except they were battery powered and not really intended to be replicas of real cars. You could change out the tires on the cars and swap out faster electric motors. The track consisted of a two lane, soft plastic, high walled "chute" and at some point in the circuit there was a crossover where you ran the risk of crashing with your "opponents" car.
Anyone remember these? What where they called?
Also: Toy guns that actually looked like real guns,...except for the orange tip.
Anyone remember these? What where they called?
Also: Toy guns that actually looked like real guns,...except for the orange tip.
I was looking through an old photo album at my mother's and saw this old photo. It was taken in the summer of 1966, a year before I was born. I vaguely remember 10 or 12 foot slides, but this one had to be 20-25 feet tall! Wonder how many kids had to fall off before they took it down to keep from being sued. I love looking at old pictures for things like this. They definately don't make them like they used to!
Anyway, feel free to post any old pics of things you don't see anymore.
Back then they had personal responsibility. Unless the slide was broken, if you fell off you were most likely at fault yourself for screwing around and not using the slide as intented. You would feel stupid for screwing up, not entitled and looking for a scape goat with deep pockets.
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