lets go back to the 60's and 70's; who remembers??

Question

1. the smell of the purple mimeo graph paper b4 xerox?
2. the clickers that nuns used to smack your knuckles with if ya messed up?
3. the roller skate key around your neck on a string
4. playing 'mother may I' with the neighborhood kids
5. RedRover
6. Icecream trucks that delivered soft ice cream cones
7. making chains from chewing gum wrappers
8. diaper pails and safety pins
9. going to the music store to shop for the new release of a 45 record
10. who referred to volkswagons as beetlebugs

Please, add to the list.. and if there are any of you who grew up in the 80's, please add.. I am curios to see how many things are still out there.

Answer 1

I remember actually going outside and playing with my friends. Id like to think of that time period when we used our imaginations to find things to do unlike kids today. Playing Swat in the neighborhood with all the other kids just like the tv show of that time, or slip n slid on a hot summer day or riding our bikes with the big bananna shape seats and the girls loved wareing big winter hats in the middle of summer, they were so cool. there are so many things I remember but I dont want to bore you but that was a great question and it brout back some great memories THANKS.

Answer 2

1. paper bottle caps
2. dodge ball
3. tang when it first came out
4. black and white tv
5. 19 cents a gallon gas
6. 25 cents a pack cigarettes
7. fizzies
8. dreamcycles
9. Smythe Brothers cough drops
10. strike anywhere matches
11. The Lone Ranger
12. Amos and Andy
13. free yardsticks from the hardware store
14. lunch counters in the five and dime store
15. cars with fins

I'm sure there are more.

Answer 3

paper dolls penny candy that costs a penny. colored aluminum cups . eight packs of bottled soda. Slurpee man climbing out of the helicopter at a grand opening of 7-11 stores. block parties where the closed down your street and had a neighborhood bar b ques . click clacks made of glass . neighborhood games with all your neighbors playing kick the can. screeching. pranks played on the sub. at school.

Answer 4

Penny Loafers
Penny candy
In my neighborhood VW's were Doodle Bugs
We made our own skate boards out of old steel roller skates nailed to the bottom of 2 x 4's, no joke.
Pizza was new.

Answer 5

33 cents for a gal. of gas they used to use letters in phone numbers such as PO2-0559
8 and 4 track tapes (that was before cassettes)
in Los Angeles we had the Helm's bakery truck
delivered fresh baked pastry to your home also the milk man delivered ice cold milk in glass bottles to your front door

Answer 6

I graduated from high school in 1984. I'd have to add some things from both the 70s and 80s--

70s: kinky socks (striped socks with toes in them), flare leg pants, tshirts with iron-ons, disco balls at dances, playing red light, green light in the school yard, french braids and pony tails, gaucho pants.

80s: big hair (and I mean big), New Wave music, clothes with polka dots, Hulk Hogan, the "Brat Pack" (Emilio Estevez, Demi Moore, et al), ET, cola wars, Michael Jackson setting his hair on fire during taping of Pepsi commercial, Duran Duran.

Answer 7

None of it. I actually had a tv where you had to get up off your *** to change the channel. I remember no microwaves. I remember no computers, no cell phones. I remember actually having to go outside and play with neighborhood kids in order to entertain ourselves...imagine that!!! I graduated HS in 1985!!!

Answer 8

Listening to Tom Jones"I think I love you, Frank Sanatra, Strangers in the night,Dean martin , Amory" and you used to pay twenty nine cent for gallon of gas.

Answer 9

Being allowed to just go out and play.

Answer 10

milkman with bottles of milk brought to the house
getting gas and they cleaned your windows dressed up
How about people just saying Thank You