- the milkman - going to the mall to get "airbrushed tshirts" with my name on the back - those white "snaps" that you threw on the ground and they mini-exploded - 2 episodes of laverne and shirley, followed by 2 episodes of happy days - wearing fat neon green laces - going to the barber and asking for "short in the front, long in the back"
We used to rent a VCR beta to watch conan, logan's run etc., that was on some special movie party schitt.
That's my shit!!!! peaceful, you're the man for pulling that one out.
Rented VCRS!
god damn...I also kind of remember my parents renting a film-strip from the local library for my 4th or 5th birthday. A film strip kidz. No fuckin lie. And even better than that was "Turn the page when you hear this sound....BONG"
SERIOUSLY.
it cost NZ$20 and you had to leave a $100 deposit, we rented Porkys.
He, yup first films we ever rented my Dad let us choose. We got Porky's, Kentucky Fried Movie and First Blood. Kentucky Fried movie lasted about 2.3 minutes before it got turned off, same for Porky's. We got to watch the whole of Rambo, though, because it had less swearing.
You couldn't eat them with soda, though. That's how "Mikey" died.
classic rumor!
I used to sit up late at night with my ONE deck/ONE speaker ghetto blaster recording the radio hits to cassette, then spend the whole next day rewinding Huey Lewis and Prince songs trying to figure out the lyrics and write them down. (no google) Of course there were always some youthfully naive incorrect translations.
I used to sit up late at night with my ONE deck/ONE speaker ghetto blaster recording the radio hits to cassette, then spend the whole next day rewinding Huey Lewis and Prince songs trying to figure out the lyrics and write them down. (no google) Of course there were always some youthfully naive incorrect translations.
I remember doing this with the theme from "Beat Street"
Michaelangelo's spirit controls your hand
And big co-sign on the girl from Witch Mountain... She was the butters when I was in 4th grade!
Whoa! That was my shit. "Night Flight" was always doing salutes to themes: punk rock, sex in videos, etc. This was back when we only had very basic cable, so Duran Duran's "Girls On Film" was as close as we got to porn. It was about half a step up from watching "The Benny Hill Show."
Other video highlights from that era (when my family still didn't have MTV) included NBC's "Friday Night Videos" (which was woefully behind the times, even then: "Are they really showing Let's Hear It For The Boy? That came out months ago!" and USA Network's RADIO 1990! Because by 1990, you know...videos only.
Several of you have mentioned 8-tracks, but who remembers recording albums onto BLANK 8-tracks? I had a dub of Queen's Greatest Hits on 8-track when I was in 3rd grade. To this day, every time I hear "Killer Queen," I expect to hear ka-CHUNK! two bars into Brian May's guitar solo.
And speaking of recording, how about the days before dual cassette decks (and, for that matter, before SOFT EJECT (ayo!)? I remember setting up a boombox in front of my friend's boombox, hitting record on mine, play on his, and exiting the room very quietly. "Don't go in my brother's room; he's recording."
Here's a dusty memory: ENCYCLOPEDIA SETS. The internets ethered those things, for sure, but my parents had a really old set with its own bookshelf. It had those plastic overlay diagrams for the anatomy section--how cool was that?
And it goes without saying, but the internet has changed everything across the board.
Colecovision...Donkey Kong looked like the real Donkey Kong!!!!! mondblowing
Playing in the Communtiy Center Basketball league, games at 9 and 11AM on Saturday, then McDonalds afterwards
Head Start...their little mascot dude, PM.
Star Wars action figures at the grocery store, if I wasnt a pain in the ass my mom would buy me one..99 cents.
Taking my allowance and buying either Creem, Hit Parader, or Circus.
Cablebox had the slider thingy, 37 channels, MTV was channel 36
Solid Gold
Rondo lemon soda...usually a big cooler full of it waiting after our coach-pitch baseball game.
My first car, a '77 dark green Impala..gas 75 cents a gallon(1987)
Record Bar had the coolest records in the mall, crazy UK import Metal records...those ill Iron Maiden 12" singles with the awesome cover art
all the rocker kids wearing those Def Leppard British Flag T-shirts the night after the concert (1983)
Going to see Metallica open for Ozzy (1986)
having mom drive me and my buddies to the mall on rainy Saturday afternoons and coming home and listening to the AC/DC or Led Zepp or Van Halen LP I bought
middle school dances and getting the nerve up to ask a girl to dance when "Open Arms" was played
a couple more
Saturday mornings at the arcade...$3.00 all you can play 9AM to Noon
Report card day at the arcade....3 tokens for every "A" 2 for every "B", didnt get shit for "C"s
Here's a dusty memory: ENCYCLOPEDIA SETS. The internets ethered those things, for sure, but my parents had a really old set with its own bookshelf. It had those plastic overlay diagrams for the anatomy section--how cool was that?
Didn't some nerdy looking white dude used to be on that commercial?
I loved the Benny Hill show but he fucked me up for life.
Remember Quangaroos, the orange flavored cereal with Quake's pet kangaroo on the box??
Big_Stacks"I don't worry about hittin' power, cause I don't give 'em nuttin' to hit." 4,670 Posts
Solid Gold
I was in love with Darcel (the sistah on the show; pre-teen fantasy related). I used to have a poster in my room from the cereal box. Oops, here are some more:
-Pop's light-blue Delta 88 (what a monsta).
-Psychedelic rayon shirts.
-Chocolate eclairs from the Good Humor truck.
-Stay-Soft fro (it's a Black thang).
-Plaid, bell-bottom pants.
-Jumpsuits (my grandmother made me and my brother matching ones; )
-When playgrounds were full of children (before rampant child-molesting).
-Finding piles of porn mags scattered in the woods.
-Beads in household doorways.
-Tan wicker chairs as living room furniture.
-Video Jukebox.
-"The Hitchiker".
-The Mousetrap board game.
-When everyone in the neighborhood knew one another (true community-related).
-Piles of Jet magazines in the barbershop.
-When Jet's "Beauty of the Week" would mesmerize me.
-When Chaka Khan and Jayne Kennedy dominated my fantasies.
-When championship boxing came on "regular" TV (ABC Wide-World of Sports-related).
-When Soul Train didn't suck.
-"Mulligan Stew".
-"Vegetable Soup".
-"Big Blue Marble".
-When watching Saturday morning cartoons was an event.
-"The Hair Bear Bunch".
-Carrying a metal lunchbox to school.
-Reading the "The Dog Next Door" textbook in 2nd grade.
-The California Achievement Test (earned a 99th percentile score in 3rd grade; I still have this report somewhere for some reason).
-Drinking/eating Shasta sodas and mom's chicken sandwiches on trips to my grandparents' houses in the summer.
Hey Lowend dude, or ANYBODY, can please remind me what the hell this is? It's killing me. I'm pretty sure there was one at my house. When you're a kid you just have infinite hours to just hang out and stare at the same stuff and get bored until there's like a memory card inserted into your psyche.
This just sent waves of bizarre thoughts through my head....
Oogie.............Loony Skip Rooney.......Neil Yuck.......Scott Gordon.....The Muhammad Ali doll singing R E S P E C T...........Walikin' In, Walkin' Out.... Bob Dilly......Netto..............Bruce Stringbean......oh man I gotta stop.
This just sent waves of bizarre thoughts through my head....
Oogie.............Loony Skip Rooney.......Neil Yuck.......Scott Gordon.....The Muhammad Ali doll singing R E S P E C T...........Walikin' In, Walkin' Out.... Bob Dilly......Netto..............Bruce Stringbean......oh man I gotta stop.
I was waiting in line for Shakespeare in the Park about 25 years ago, and spotted Looney Skip Rooney and Scott Gordon walking back from a softball game. One of the highlights of my college years...
Me and T-bone destroying the lunchboxes kids left behind in the playground with our stickball bat.
Big_Stacks"I don't worry about hittin' power, cause I don't give 'em nuttin' to hit." 4,670 Posts
Hey,
Here are yet some more memories:
-Mom haircuts (and gettin' clowned at school about 'em).
-Three-stripe, long tube socks.
-Chuck Taylors were yesterday's Jordans.
-"Slip N' Slide" water toy.
-Climbing trees (and spraining my neck when falling out of one).
-God-awful school pictures (and the embarassment they caused in later life when mom pulled them out for girlfriends, friends, wife, etc.).
-Schoolteachers with plain, dark-framed glasses (70's style).
-Crushes on teachers (I loved you Ms. Peterson).
-The "Slinky" toy.
-Mattel action figures (e.g., Big Jim and the accompanying camping truck, Dr. Steel, Torpedo-Fist, etc.).
-"Tonka" trucks (my joints).
-"Stretch Armstrong".
-The "Green Machine".
-"Cox" gas-powered cars, airplanes, etc.
-Fischer-Price toys (airport, telephone, record player, Speak-and-Spell).
-Community swimming pools during summertime (before they were disgusting).
-Leisure suits ("I don't wanna where that, mom!").
-Afro-sheen (Black-related).
-Ring pops.
-Mary Jane candies.
-Pop's "Live at the Apollo" 8-track by The Mighty Clouds of Joy (I saw them at the Kennedy Center in DC as a kid) that got big rotation in the old Delta 88.
-Listening to Gospel radio stations on Sunday morning.
-The NBA playoffs on CBS with Brent Mustburger and Tommy Heinsohn (with that song "Your the One That I Want" from the "Grease"-OST).
-Kung Fu Theater on Saturday afternoons (e.g., "The Deadly Mantis").
-Bikes with banana seats (and pinning a playing card to the spokes on the back wheel to make it sound like a motor).
-Underoos (I wanted to wear them to school before moms told me that was ridiculous).
Comments
- going to the mall to get "airbrushed tshirts" with my name on the back
- those white "snaps" that you threw on the ground and they mini-exploded
- 2 episodes of laverne and shirley, followed by 2 episodes of happy days
- wearing fat neon green laces
- going to the barber and asking for "short in the front, long in the back"
He, yup first films we ever rented my Dad let us choose. We got Porky's, Kentucky Fried Movie and First Blood. Kentucky Fried movie lasted about 2.3 minutes before it got turned off, same for Porky's. We got to watch the whole of Rambo, though, because it had less swearing.
GOOD cartoons
GOOD video games
classic rumor!
I used to sit up late at night with my ONE deck/ONE speaker ghetto blaster recording the radio hits to cassette, then spend the whole next day rewinding Huey Lewis and Prince songs trying to figure out the lyrics and write them down. (no google) Of course there were always some youthfully naive incorrect translations.
I remember doing this with the theme from "Beat Street"
And big co-sign on the girl from Witch Mountain...
She was the butters when I was in 4th grade!
Whoa! That was my shit. "Night Flight" was always doing salutes to themes: punk rock, sex in videos, etc. This was back when we only had very basic cable, so Duran Duran's "Girls On Film" was as close as we got to porn. It was about half a step up from watching "The Benny Hill Show."
Other video highlights from that era (when my family still didn't have MTV) included NBC's "Friday Night Videos" (which was woefully behind the times, even then: "Are they really showing Let's Hear It For The Boy? That came out months ago!" and USA Network's RADIO 1990! Because by 1990, you know...videos only.
Several of you have mentioned 8-tracks, but who remembers recording albums onto BLANK 8-tracks? I had a dub of Queen's Greatest Hits on 8-track when I was in 3rd grade. To this day, every time I hear "Killer Queen," I expect to hear ka-CHUNK! two bars into Brian May's guitar solo.
And speaking of recording, how about the days before dual cassette decks (and, for that matter, before SOFT EJECT (ayo!)? I remember setting up a boombox in front of my friend's boombox, hitting record on mine, play on his, and exiting the room very quietly. "Don't go in my brother's room; he's recording."
Here's a dusty memory: ENCYCLOPEDIA SETS. The internets ethered those things, for sure, but my parents had a really old set with its own bookshelf. It had those plastic overlay diagrams for the anatomy section--how cool was that?
And it goes without saying, but the internet has changed everything across the board.
Metal skate board wheels
Bonomo Turkish Taffy
Music Explosion(NYC early 70's version of MTV)
Mr. Softee Ice Cream Truck
New 45 releases on sale @ 2 for a $1.00
Woolworths
Lunch at Horn & Hardardts Automat
Wetson's Hamburger Stand
Fizzies
Quisp & Quake
Bosco
Playing in the Communtiy Center Basketball league, games at 9 and 11AM on Saturday, then McDonalds afterwards
Head Start...their little mascot dude, PM.
Star Wars action figures at the grocery store, if I wasnt a pain in the ass my mom would buy me one..99 cents.
Taking my allowance and buying either Creem, Hit Parader, or Circus.
Cablebox had the slider thingy, 37 channels, MTV was channel 36
Solid Gold
Rondo lemon soda...usually a big cooler full of it waiting after our coach-pitch baseball game.
My first car, a '77 dark green Impala..gas 75 cents a gallon(1987)
Record Bar had the coolest records in the mall, crazy UK import Metal records...those ill Iron Maiden 12" singles with the awesome cover art
all the rocker kids wearing those Def Leppard British Flag T-shirts the night after the concert (1983)
Going to see Metallica open for Ozzy (1986)
having mom drive me and my buddies to the mall on rainy Saturday afternoons and coming home and listening to the AC/DC or Led Zepp or Van Halen LP I bought
middle school dances and getting the nerve up to ask a girl to dance when "Open Arms" was played
a couple more
Saturday mornings at the arcade...$3.00 all you can play 9AM to Noon
Report card day at the arcade....3 tokens for every "A" 2 for every "B", didnt get shit for "C"s
I loved the Benny Hill show but he fucked me up for life.
Remember this dude?
No shit!
"Chock another one up for Quisp!"
Remember Quangaroos, the orange flavored cereal with Quake's pet kangaroo on the box??
I was in love with Darcel (the sistah on the show; pre-teen fantasy related). I used to have a poster in my room from the cereal box. Oops, here are some more:
-Pop's light-blue Delta 88 (what a monsta).
-Psychedelic rayon shirts.
-Chocolate eclairs from the Good Humor truck.
-Stay-Soft fro (it's a Black thang).
-Plaid, bell-bottom pants.
-Jumpsuits (my grandmother made me and my brother matching ones;
-When playgrounds were full of children (before rampant child-molesting).
-Finding piles of porn mags scattered in the woods.
-Beads in household doorways.
-Tan wicker chairs as living room furniture.
-Video Jukebox.
-"The Hitchiker".
-The Mousetrap board game.
-When everyone in the neighborhood knew one another (true community-related).
-Piles of Jet magazines in the barbershop.
-When Jet's "Beauty of the Week" would mesmerize me.
-When Chaka Khan and Jayne Kennedy dominated my fantasies.
-When championship boxing came on "regular" TV (ABC Wide-World of Sports-related).
-When Soul Train didn't suck.
-"Mulligan Stew".
-"Vegetable Soup".
-"Big Blue Marble".
-When watching Saturday morning cartoons was an event.
-"The Hair Bear Bunch".
-Carrying a metal lunchbox to school.
-Reading the "The Dog Next Door" textbook in 2nd grade.
-The California Achievement Test (earned a 99th percentile score in 3rd grade; I still have this report somewhere for some reason).
-Drinking/eating Shasta sodas and mom's chicken sandwiches on trips to my grandparents' houses in the summer.
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak
For some reason, we got this masterpiece in little old New Zealand, (on one of the two channels)
The solid gold dancers pretty much ruled my preteen years.
Thanks to everyone for taking me down memory lane.
Hey Lowend dude, or ANYBODY, can please remind me what
the hell this is? It's killing me. I'm pretty sure there was
one at my house. When you're a kid you just have infinite hours
to just hang out and stare at the same stuff and get bored until
there's like a memory card inserted into your psyche.
Who IS this monster?
Going to the Y after school
Mad Magazine
Trying to get premium channels on the cable boxes by pressing two buttons at once and turning the tuner knob
This just sent waves of bizarre thoughts through my head....
Oogie.............Loony Skip Rooney.......Neil Yuck.......Scott Gordon.....The Muhammad Ali doll singing R E S P E C T...........Walikin' In, Walkin' Out.... Bob Dilly......Netto..............Bruce Stringbean......oh man I gotta stop.
In my mind garden, I was once successful at doing this.
on some ol
Also, those Pac-Man watches with the little removable joystick.
Me and T-bone destroying the lunchboxes kids left behind in the playground with our stickball bat.
Here are yet some more memories:
-Mom haircuts (and gettin' clowned at school about 'em).
-Three-stripe, long tube socks.
-Chuck Taylors were yesterday's Jordans.
-"Slip N' Slide" water toy.
-Climbing trees (and spraining my neck when falling out of one).
-God-awful school pictures (and the embarassment they caused in later life when mom pulled them out for girlfriends, friends, wife, etc.).
-Schoolteachers with plain, dark-framed glasses (70's style).
-Crushes on teachers (I loved you Ms. Peterson).
-The "Slinky" toy.
-Mattel action figures (e.g., Big Jim and the accompanying camping truck, Dr. Steel, Torpedo-Fist, etc.).
-"Tonka" trucks (my joints).
-"Stretch Armstrong".
-The "Green Machine".
-"Cox" gas-powered cars, airplanes, etc.
-Fischer-Price toys (airport, telephone, record player, Speak-and-Spell).
-Community swimming pools during summertime (before they were disgusting).
-Leisure suits ("I don't wanna where that, mom!").
-Afro-sheen (Black-related).
-Ring pops.
-Mary Jane candies.
-Pop's "Live at the Apollo" 8-track by The Mighty Clouds of Joy (I saw them at the Kennedy Center in DC as a kid) that got big rotation in the old Delta 88.
-Listening to Gospel radio stations on Sunday morning.
-The NBA playoffs on CBS with Brent Mustburger and Tommy Heinsohn (with that song "Your the One That I Want" from the "Grease"-OST).
-Kung Fu Theater on Saturday afternoons (e.g., "The Deadly Mantis").
-Bikes with banana seats (and pinning a playing card to the spokes on the back wheel to make it sound like a motor).
-Underoos (I wanted to wear them to school before moms told me that was ridiculous).
-Sergio Valente, Sassoon, and Jordache jeans.
-Nino Cerrutti slip-on mocassins.
-Buster Brown shoes.
Peace,
Big Stacks from Kakalak