Back In The Days . . . . .
 

My parents used to own a station wagon with the back folded up for a seat and you seat looking backward. Oh yeah, there was no seat belt and you want to puke.

Whenever I travelled with the folks on a plane, they asked if we would like to sit in the smoking or non smoking section.

When I wanted to make a mix tape, I had to have two decks, one to play and one to record. Also, if I didn't have the album, I would wait and listen on the radio. When they played it, I recorded it.

Having a discman was cool.

Used to chat using telnet

Had to actually arranged to hang out with friends.

Wasting hundred of dollars playing Mortal Kombat

Actually camping out for concert tickets

And the unsung heroes of toys:
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Anybody remember Captain Power and the Soldier of the Futures?

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Let's date ourselves shall we?

- When Tonka Trucks were unbreakable because they were made out of steel

- Big Wheels and no crash helemt

- Kids in my nieghborhood were judged by how many Star Wars figures you had

- We actually played baseball on a sandlot

- Six million dollar man action figure

- Green plastic army men

- putting a plastic Lil' Hugs bottle on your bike to make it sound like it had a motor.

- "Having to put your foot in" to see who would be 'it' when playing: Hide and Seek, Tag, Freeze tag, Catch one catch all, and hot buttered bean

- Mr. T cartoon on Saturdays

- He man, Voltron, Robotech, GI Joe, Thundercats, Inspector Gadget and Transformers during the week.

Teens

- the first Air Jordans

- 2 tone jeans

- Name buckle belts

- Spandex...ugh

- Nike and Addidas warmup suits

- Starter jackets - coolest ones being Georgetown, Philly Sixers and anything New York.

- Shellhead Addidas (made famous by Run DMC)

- MTV Raps

And Oregon Trail!
My BFF and I used to go roller skating on Fridays, because it was Teen Night and we still used to get home in time for TGIF and Full House.
And You Can't Do That on Television and Hey Dude.Mine was electric blue and I didn't have one until I was already a sophomore in college.

First of all, kids shows/cartoons suck now.

- But speaking of tv... does anyone remember 'Welcome Freshmen', 'My Brother and Me', 'The Secret World of Alex Mack', 'Roundhouse', 'Hey Arnold', 'All That', 'Ahhh, Real Monsters', 'Rocko's Modern Life', 'Clarissa Explains It All', 'The Adventures of Pete and Pete'?? ..I could go on forever...

- slap bracelets

- Pogs

- and one of my favorite fashion trends... stirrup pants!

Agreed. some fo that stuff that comes on now you can't even call 'cartoon' even the adult swim stuff...Superjail? WTF???


Yet another style that not every woman should have worn but many tried.


WHo here wore Cross Colours stuff....LOL!

lol--I have just discovered that you are my age! Awesome list :D

Cross colors! From merry go round!

Anything from X-Entertainment.

I remember when every Chit-Chat thread was about nostalgia.

hehehe

I thought I'd share this though...check out retrojunk.com. They have a bunch of video clips for TV show intros! They've really got just about everything!

waking up Saturday mornings for
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with enough time for
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with some butter & powdered sugar, or maple syrup. grits, bacon/sausage, biscuits & gravy, scrambled eggs, frrrrrrench toast... whatever.

then it's time to go outside, because there was always something to do.

i'll race ya
i dare ya
what's up past that hill/behind that tree/ in that dangerous cave?
let's build a ramp
let's play some ball
does she like me?
lets see a movie tonight. (it's only $4)

i'll see you at school monday. peace in the middle east.

WTF is the internet? wait, what the fuck is "WTF?"

That's how remember it too.

Oooooooooohhh!!

I'm telling your mama you said a dirty word!!!!

Heck yeah. I used to love those shows (not really sure what 'welcome freshman' is though).

And I effin loved Pogs. I still have my container of pogs somewhere in my house!

Back in elementary/middle school there was also those spinning tops that we used to play with. You'd wind the string around top (and around your finger) then you'd throw it to the ground and watch it spin. I never got the hang of it.

I never had Barbies, and I'm glad. I had baby dolls, a big wheel, a NERF football, a NES, and then later a SNES. I could go from girl to tomboy in an instant! lol

ew.

ugh.

...that's all I gotta say about the Smurfs....

Anyone remembering having your childhood shattered when finding out that Scooby Doo and Shaggy were high on weed and because of their high were almost always the first ones to see the ghosts and something had to be in Scooby snacks that they almost always did any and everything to get one, Fred and Daphne were lovers who sometimes included Velma to watch because she was a repressed lesbian and that it was hinted that Freddy may have been bi after all?

You just listed all of my favorites! Hey, you could go back even further...David the Gnome. Mya the Bee. The Lil Bits. Eureeka's Castle. Mmmm, the good ol' days...

Oh yeah...and I was at Express in NYC last spring and they had a big display of stirrup pants. I absolutely DEMANDED that those not come back in style. :mad:

Hater!:)

See...i will be nice and not ruin The Smurfs for you suffice to say watch "Robot Chicken"

Robot Chicken?:confused:

**evil grin**

I will send you some goodies when I get home...

go to adultswim.com

All this talk of 'toons and you aren't down with Robot Chicken?


Siiiiiigh

Youngins these days.

Is this Robot Chicken?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSPn3wr6tMM

OMG you did not just mention Eureeka's Castle? Shooot, that brings back so many memories. Then there was Allegra's Window and Gulla Gulla Island.

also other shows not yet mentioned....
--Doug
--Are you afraid of the Dark?
--Kenan & Kel
--Angry Beavers
--Rugrats
--Wild Thornberrys
--Angela Anaconda
--Cousin Skeeter
--Brace Face
--Rocket Power
--What would you do?
--Double Dare
--The Torkelsons (this show was the reason for me always wanting a window seat)
--Smart Guy
--Sister, Sister
--Full House
--Barney (cause at one point, we all liked Barney, even if don't admit it)
--Adventures in Wonderland
--Tale Spin
--Goof Troop
--Pinky & the Brain
--KABLAM!
--Figure it out, Guts, Legends of the Hidden Temple
--Salute your Shorts
--Hey Dude

ME TOO!!!!!!! :D I used to sit in my window and try to talk to the moon after watching this, but I couldn't always see the moon from my window so I gave up after a few nights. :o Ever notice how all the kids had double names? Dorothy Jane, Ruth Ann, Mary Sue, Chuckie Lee...I always loved Chuckie Lee because he was "Minkus" from Boy Meets World (another classic).

Does anyone remember ‘Welcome Freshmen’?? It was on briefly in the early 90s, but it was awesome.

And I know what you're talking about with the spinning tops. I never could get the hang of it, either.



David the Gnome! I mention this to people and they look at me like I’m crazy. Swift the fox was my favorite. :)

And Robot Chicken IS pretty sweet.

OMG, yes!! When I was 9, my mom & dad were finally gonna buy a house and they were down to 2---the one we currently live in, and the one that I wanted. In the house I wanted, my room would have been
1. on the second floor,
2. Facing the moon,
3. it had a window seat,
4. the window opened up like it did on the Torkelsons.

OMG I wanted that house sooooo bad, but it had water damage. Instead we got this crappy house (which by the way had water damage as well, it just wasn't evident like in the other house).

lol--has anyone seen Smurfette?:D

Yes! Back before they had the blue balls (hehe) ... They ruined the cereal by adding those.

Oh, and don’t forget 'Home Improvement'... and every girl being obsessed with JTT!

Yes and here ya go
Robot Chicken Smurf


and

Scooby Doo

One more take

I totally sprained my ankle after falling off a PogoBall. Awesome.

Ah, back in the day.......

I watched Thundercats, Voltron, He-Man, She-Ra, Inspector Gadget, You Can't Do That On Television, and Double Dare. I wasn't allowed to watch TV until my homework was done (and my babysitter would rat on me if I did), and there was no way I could do all my homework between 3:15 (when I got home) and 4 (when Voltron came on). So I snuck into my dad's office and watched on his old TV set, which was hooked up to the house's antenna (remember those?). After the show, I finished my homework.

There were sooo many ads for sugary cereals. I remember all the hype over the introduction of purple horseshoes in Lucky Charms. But my parents would never let me have the sugary stuff. I got cornflakes. :(

When I was in elementary school, break-dancing was all the rage.

My friends and I had Garbage Pail Kids cards. I think I still have some of mine somewhere. Maybe I should eBay them.

And then there were the Cabbage Patch Kids. The company that made them had a store in NYC called "Babyland on Fifth" where you could watch the dolls being "born" in a "cabbage patch".

I owned many pairs of stirrup pants, and I actually looked good in them. (Sadly, this is no longer true.)

They don't make em like they used to. I used to play with those things in my yard everyday, and they stayed out there, for like three years....I still have those rusty old things.

To quote Joe Diffie: "I got my first truck when I was three, drove a hundred thousand miles, on my knees."

I was all about PBS back in the day.... The Chronicles of Narnia, Degrassi Junior High, Anne of Green Gables, Getting to Know Me, and Powerhouse.


Awwwwwww POWERHOUSE is coming throuuuugh, POWERHOUSE think of what you could do!

When Sea Monkeys were the thing even though they would end up dieing on you.

Or when you would try to out shine your friends playing with Skip It

I remember going outside in my Power Wheels and driving around the neighborhood too

OMG RetroJunk has quotes from the shows!

Who knows what quote this is from?

The tropics are hot!