Hey Ya'll, This release of Choice Cuts, reading these posts, while eating a sandwhich made from lastnights French Dip fixin's minus any barbeque sauce damn it, got me to thinking abot other things besides doing some dishes before we all go out and celebrate Cathy's Birthday tonight(great tie into other things old :)....) As brother Clay pointed out on the Choice Cuts thread, some of the younger crowd will never come close to knowing or understanding some of the things that we once knew, enjoyed, experienced, tasted...... you name it. So, my thought was, to name a few or solicit your ideas of what is now gone that once was, and my never again see the life of retro. First thing(s) that comes to mind for me although I never participated or actually had one was....
A paper route Canvas bag for the route or the metal cart Paperboys shack, where the papers were dropped off at Movie projectors in school,click, click click,..... Rotary phones Phone booths Grandparents vacation slide shows Polaroid cameras,pull apart pictures and flash buls(hot) Ciggarett lighters,lighter fluid, and the clap of them being closed Stretch Armstrong Noah's Ark collector set from Arco Gas Stations (my friend has the complete set with the checklist) Creepy Crawlies candy machine Skittleball Respect (in general)
Clackers....the two acrylic balls (lots of people thought they were made of glass) on the strings with the ring in the middle. You know, the ones that were discontinued because the two balls could shatter if you hit them together hard enough.
Jarts.....not the cheap ones made today with the plastic tips, but the ones back in the day with the metal tips that could do some serious damage.
Mini bikes....not the fancy miniature crotch rockets they put out now.
GI Joe with Kung Fu Grip & Super Joe Adventure Team.....nuff said!!!
Not only the Movie projector, but the Overhead projector too....heh heh.
this is great guys!! I did I did have myself a stretch Armstrong!! I have not thought of that toy in years!!! My Daddy would always have me break it out when he had a gathering of sorts....all the "adults" flipped over it!
I had a purple pair of Clackers and man did they hurt when they didn't "clack" .........
jarts, good thing they outlawed those yard darts, lol!!
now I have to go and think.........damn,....but I will come up with something you guys did not mention yet.......I hope
:o) ---------- "If you've never seen us before, don't be bashful - sing along from start to finish........and dance & feel good.....there's enough shit in the world, let it all out...........Brighter Daaaaays...."
ok, who had one of these??? My brother did!! ha ha
ok, I maaaay be showing my "age", but remember when we thought pong was the BOMB!! kids these days don't know how GOOD they have it.
etch a sketch.......
color forms.........
ok, I am on a toy kick, but remember weebles....hhaa - they wobble but they don't fall down..... ---------- "If you've never seen us before, don't be bashful - sing along from start to finish........and dance & feel good.....there's enough shit in the world, let it all out...........Brighter Daaaaays...."
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imagine today - parents buying their kids candy cigarettes?? yeah....... ---------- "If you've never seen us before, don't be bashful - sing along from start to finish........and dance & feel good.....there's enough shit in the world, let it all out...........Brighter Daaaaays...."
how about having to come home when the street lights came on.........
hell - fondue before it was cool.........
being able to walk home from school....by yourself......with out your parents worrying......
sewing patches on jeans.....
long side burns - my Dad had a gorgeous set he did he did
Tom Jones.....grew up listening to him and Elvis....
using your tape recorder to tape Kasey Kasem's top 40 ..... no I don't have nuttin better to dew on a Friday night, lol!!! ---------- "If you've never seen us before, don't be bashful - sing along from start to finish........and dance & feel good.....there's enough shit in the world, let it all out...........Brighter Daaaaays...."
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Hell this is like crack, or so they tell me. You guys are going to be the downfall of me, but what the hell. Speaking of old things, besides myselfl, my '66 Ford Galaxie 500XL, a few old toys out in the garage,some old tools, albums and whatever else. I got the chance to take some old toys once owned by the guy I mentioned earlier, who has the Noah's Ark set, over to a friend of my brother's, who is a collector of old toys, games, soakies(soap bottles), bikes, and other cool stuff. The old toys that I was going to give to Max, that came from Mike, to me after Mike went through his grandmother's stuff after she passed, and who he was raised by, I had told Mike not to through this stuff away, I'll find a home for it. So, I talked with my brother Keith, who worked with Max(electricians they are)at Microsoft, and Keith hd told me that most likely, Max would take the stuff. So, after holding onto this stuff for a year or so, a couple of weekends ago, I keith, to get Max'x number. Keith warned me, that if I made my downstairs, to Max's cave, I might be there for a couple of hours. Hell again, Cathy and I took the Galaxie for a drive, stopped by Max's after calling him, and got the royal tour ! you guys would not believe the stuff he had,....board games from every tv show imaginable, Skittleball games, Schwinns, his 69 Camaro RS SS, big block car, he has owned since he was 16, some vinly, hell it was like a frickin' time machine. Only thing better would have been if Marcia Brady was there serving up some Makers !
and just cuz I can, I want to share a photo of Sawyer and I on a Fall walk today, I say share, cuz times they go by so DAMN fast that we have to grasp a hold of what memeories we want to keep because in NO TIME he will be sharing his memories of nintendo DS as an ancient relic with his grandkids..........
Love your life, it is the ONLY one you have..........
:o) ---------- "If you've never seen us before, don't be bashful - sing along from start to finish........and dance & feel good.....there's enough shit in the world, let it all out...........Brighter Daaaaays...."
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Marshal, Will, and Holly - on a routine expedition.......name that tune!!
Starsky and Hutch.....heck, Huggie Bear!!
OJ used to be cool!!
TUBE SOCKS!!!!!
---------- "If you've never seen us before, don't be bashful - sing along from start to finish........and dance & feel good.....there's enough shit in the world, let it all out...........Brighter Daaaaays...."
school house rock ruled and they should make that a required course, lol!
Charlie's Angels........good lord how could I forget....I grew up with 2 sisters, Eva (the younger sis) was Sabrina (Kate Jackson)......Krissy (the older sis) was Jill (Farrah) and I was Kelly (Jaclyn Smith) ...........we had a ball...........thanks for helping dig up those memories!! ---------- "If you've never seen us before, don't be bashful - sing along from start to finish........and dance & feel good.....there's enough shit in the world, let it all out...........Brighter Daaaaays...."
I'm just a bill, just a lonely ole bill, sittin here on Capitol hill........lol ---------- "If you've never seen us before, don't be bashful - sing along from start to finish........and dance & feel good.....there's enough shit in the world, let it all out...........Brighter Daaaaays...."
---------- "If you've never seen us before, don't be bashful - sing along from start to finish........and dance & feel good.....there's enough shit in the world, let it all out...........Brighter Daaaaays...."
Baretta Gilligan's Island (we got the box set) Get Smart (Don Adams did the Skittleball thing, game/pool table with the pendulum ball) Partridge Family Good Times ( Kid Dynomite!!!) F-Troop The Rifleman Lassie I Dream of Genie (and still do) Farrah Fawcett's poster
Talking GI Joe w/ life like hair(and if you unscrewed his back, to see what made him talk, he soon became GI Hunchback)
metal lunchboxes w/glass lined thermos, that sounded like an Etcha Sketch when broken. Going to the Hydro races, and being left alone with your brother and buddies to roam the pits, collet stickers and buttons....all day long. sony transistor tucked under your pillow at night to listen to AM radio/rock n roll Like the man said, Clankers...which we just saw an artsy fartsy store in Ballard, selling some old crap at new prices, and there was a dozen or so, sets of balls w/ broken strings sticking out of them, on this table,pretending to be art, and after a minute, we said hey..........those are them frickin' Clankers !
my parents showing 8mm film about me being a baby not even having a answering machine no remote control for the Tv vinyls MTv still plaayin music videos instead of videogames, computer, texting, etc, we had no choice but to play outside all day watching reruns of loveboat when albums and there covers where exciting and a must have, not just a download
---------- "Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music." -Nietzsche
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