Children of the 70's and 80's
 

I received another e-mail today reminiscing about growing up in the 70's and 80's. It brought back some great memories and well as some I would rather forget. Would anyone care to share some favorite childhood memories? I'll start us off...

Schoolhouse Rock!!! I bought the entire collection last year.

Scooby Doo and the Superfriends are my favorite cartoons to this day.

Good Times, The Jeffersons, Diff'rent Strokes, Facts of Life, What's Happening, CHPs (yes, I watched it)

Atari

Does anyone remember Batman and Robin before sound effects? "Great scotts Batman!!" The Fat Albert Show? "Hey, hey hey!!" Jackson Five Cartoons, Walter Cronkite with the typewriter noise in the background--"and that's the way it is", jive talk, Pam Grier's movies, Shaft, Wonderwho? Wonderwoman with her red, white and blue suite and gold belt,and as I heard a student of mine say once--a BIG CD? formerly known as albums, 8-track tapes (I still have one), The Red Skelton Show, playing hopscotch with a piece of glass or a rock, the candy lady, the ice cream man, Nowlaters(one word),and those challenging reading books? See Jane Run. Run Jane run. Run, run, run. No wonder we are so smart. The afro pick with the raised fist was out of sight--ya dig. If only I could have kept my fro standing. It always fell in the middle, creating that parted down the middle look. I could go on and on but I won't.
Skee-ya later


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Yeah, Soror! You actually WORE an afro? My mother put one ponytail into a puff or parted it down the middle with 2 puffs, but not the WHOLE head in a fro. After that, we went to the straightening comb. Remember, don't go outside and play...'cause you just got your hair done and it will 'go back' (lol). Anyway... do y'all remember the Superfriends...Wonder twin power...ACTIVATE! Tom and Jerry, Bewitched, Sanford and Son, we called now and laters "kits", why, I do not know... what about the afro pick that had the red and green handles that folded...Did you all wear thousands of combs in your hair so that it would feather back? what about that toy that had the lemon on one end and your foot went through the other and you had to jump over the lemon as it would spin around? Did you all have the sit and spin? what about Captain Kangaroo? and Mr. Green Jeans? How 'bout the Honeycomb kids and the honeycomb hideout? What about the Electric Company? Hey you Guyzzzzzzzz! I guess you can say that TV kept me company! Oh, before I go did you all watch Donnie and Marie? Skee Y'all L8R!

"School house rocky a chip off the block. Its your favorite schoolhouse, schoolhouse rock." Gotta Love It! Do you remeber Silver Spoons! With Carlton from Fresh Prince! Girlfriend, I thought I WAS Wonderwoman. Tie a towel around my neck like a cape and I was her! Remember during Fat Albert when Bill Cosby did "picture pages"? How about Reading Rainbow? The ice cream truck/man used to come down our street like everyday. I haven't seen one of those in years. Pac Man and Frogger. What about pin ball machines? The nostalgia. I'm getting old....

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I hope you don't mind if i throw in my memories... cartoons- Mighty mouse, woody woodpecker, g.i. joe (i was little tom- boyish), toys- my little pony, rainbow bright & friends, strawberry shortcake & friends, munchi chi-chi (that little monkey), the original nintendo with the little robot that worked half the time. Wonder Woman and don't forget Supergirl (i actually had supergirl underwear) shhh! don't tell anyone http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/wink.gif Some of these things make me feel old.

Sisterly!
c&c1913

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***bursts out singing "GOODTIMES!...any time you need a payment...GOODTIMES... any time you need a friend...GOODTIMES, something something something something..." http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif
Hey, I loved that show! Sad to say it, but I even ordered one of those tapes off of the commercial (lol)!

Ok, here are my memories (I was originally from NYC and moved to SC)

* playing marbles in the school yard
* Mary Jane candies
* ooooh, it's so hot out here ---look, somebody opened the fire hydrant, let's go! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/wink.gif
* bell bottoms --- HATED them then, LOVE 'em now!
* Michael Jackson's "Thriller" album -- evrybody who was ANYBODY had it.
* And yes, I loved DeBarge (ok, you can stop laughing now...)


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>>>"Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all."
Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised... Proverbs 31:29-30

I was born in 1978, so my favorite she was Punky Bruster and yes I had the shoes.
I also remember my first Cabbage Patch doll.
Did any one else wear the Kangaroo shoes with the zipper on the side? http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/wink.gif
And oh, if my mother put another bead in my nappy hair, OHHHHH!!! Thank god for relaxers and sew ins!!!

I'm an 80's kid here are some more memories:

*PopRocks
*The Big Foot Ice Cream with the bubble gum toe...those were served only on ice cream trucks
*Smurfs
*Care Bears
*Snoorkles
*Doing cheers on the front lawn
*Charm bracelets
*Biker Pants with the stripe on the side & mathing top
*Collecting Garbage Pail Kid
*British Knights (never had a pair)
*Madonna Gloves (lace gloves w/o the fingers)
*Calling someone: a Jive Turkey or a Sucka
*What's Happening and What's Happening Now

That's my trip through membory lane http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

Hey!!! You all forgot my girl!!! You know her.....She-Ra. http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif Oh that's not it. As an 80s child, I remember....
*Dukes of Hazard
*The Smurfs
*The Chipmunks
*He-Man
LOL TickledPink got me thinkin' "temporary layoff!!!" (is that right)
Mizzkes, hey I was wonder woman!!!
Ania, I had the punky shoes too!!!
I don't wanna get too ghetto on yall but... pickles and now laters (nobody ever said NOW AND LATER), or blow pops.
*3's Company
*Charles In Charge
*The Jackson 5 Cartoon
*did anyone say My Little Pony?
AHHHHH Yall got me thinking back now.

Ok everyone sing along: Conjunction, junction what's your function lol

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12....dodododododo (don't act like you don't remember this song)

Remember having to come in the house when the street lights came on?

Do you know Popeye was my reason for eating spinach and I thought I had powers like Wonder Woman?

I never wanted to make the Incredible Hulk angry lol.

Woody Wood Pecker, Rainbow Brite, Mr. Potato Head, Legos, Slinky, Hungry Hungry Hippo, Operation, Snoopy Snowcone machine, and the entire Barbie collection.

1 2 3 Redlight, Mother May I, and Hide and Seek

Chick-o-Sticks, Jolly Ranchers, Johnny Apple Treats..oh and what about the Koolaid and sugar....I think the name was Dip Sticks.

And last but not least because I'm getting pitiful now...everyone sing along as I exit...

My buddy, my buddy, wherever I go, he goes. My buddy, my buddy, I'll teach him everything that I know. My buddy and me like to climb up a tree. My buddy and me are the best friends could be (or something like that). My buddy, my buddy, my buddy and meeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!

I got 2 words : Hula Hoop. Did any body try to make it hola around other body parts other than around the waist i.e. arms, neck, ankles?
*Double dutch - you was the bomb if you could do the "roger rabbit" and "kid in play" in the ropes
*I know ya'll ate pickles with a piece of candy stuck in the middle (peppermint) or dipped in Kool Aid.
*Used Jeans and Cross Colors
*Braids w/ beads hanging on the ends. (I almost took my eye out shaking my head)
*Hand games like "Slide" and "Down Down Baby"
*All the grown folks had the basket weave braids that looked like place mat on their heads
*Tether Ball
*Riding on somebody elses bike handle bars
*The game of Life
* And last but not least: GUMBI (Didn't you hate the block heads?)

The 80's

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***lol @ CuRiOuSiTy*** --- yep. That's it!

I was going to add my 2 cents worth but everyone has taken my memories...

He-man

The Smurfs

does anyone remember USA Cartoon Express? (now those were cartoons)

however no one said this one I think...
Remember Ring Pops and those rainbow covered lollipops.

LOL did we have the life or what?

So, there are no other FAME members out there. Come on now Leroy, Cocoa... I know y'all remember them. Fame, I gonna live forever, I gonna learn how to fly "HIGH",...
Baby remember myyy name... remember remember remember FAME!!!

I also loved Different Strokes, Facts of Life, and That's my moma w/ Clifton Davis.

Mix match soxs to cordinate your outfit, "jelly" shoes, and wearing your hair "wrapped" without coming it out, Salt N Pepa (still my favorite), MC Lyte, Sweet T (RIP), D'Nyce (sooo fine).

Ohhh the memories, thanks Moderator http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/wink.gif.

I forgot this one and please tell me I am not the only one who remembers "Solid Gold", "Gimme A Break", and "Benson."
Anybody remember "JEM"?
Don't act like you don't know what I'm talking about!!! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif

WEBSTER!!

WEBSTER!!

I forgot all about Jem. Why did I watch her every morning before I went to school and on the weekends? I wonder will the children of today have the memories like we have. It was all about innocence back in the day.

I am a child of the 70's and I remember school house rock like it was yesterday. I even learned the preamble to the constitution of the United States. "WE the people.... My favorite cartoons will always be the Jetsons and the Flintstones. I no matter what dirty laundry they air about the Brady Bunch kids, I will always have great memories watching that show. Dont laugh! I really miss Disco music and 80's music.

Born in '69.
Loved the School House Rock...I'm just a bill- yeah I'm only a bill...
I think I have seen every episode of Good Times! Loved the Brady Bunch too (still catch them on Nick at Nite - when I can)
We had a lot of kids in our neighborhood and we used to play "around the block tag" or "around the block hide and seek"
Remember when $.50 bought a whole paper bag full of candy?!!
My favorite boardgame to this day is CLUE!!!!
As a matter of fact I bought it a few months ago and taught my husband to play (he never heard of it and is a little younger than me http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif Does anyone remember Crazy Cow cereal? It turned your milk strawberry or chocolate. What I wouldn't do for a bowl of Crazy Cow!
Forget thriller! Off the Wall was Michael's best work! .....those were the good ole days!
***sigh****

I don't know why I am JUST getting around to reading this post, but I had to piggy back on what Soror Catwoman said.....one of the best parts of my child hood was playing TAG or Hide and Seek on my block. We used to run up and down till we could not breathe and then I had to let the cutest guy catch me
his name was Michael and I was in love...yeah at 10 I was in love http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/rolleyes.gif
But when I look out the window today I see children with radios playing too loud and they are drinking 40's - what's up with that!
Oh well, indeed those were the good ole days.

Does anyone remember the "Electric Company" on PBS with Morgan Freeman or "1-2-3- Contact"?! I loved USA Cartoon Express, too. There was always some lady in the neighborhood selling candy for a penny or a nickel. I would have my little brown bag filled with just a quarter or fifty cents!
Was anyone a New Edition fan?

i just had to add Barbie and the Rockers
...i'm just "tickled pink" by all these memories just takes my back to those fun and innocent days.

You all have my heart beating fast and I am grinning from ear to ear. But, does anyone remember the Sylvers: Hot Line, hot line, I'm calling on the hot line--clap!--clap! Foster Sylvers sure was cute. Remember those long belts we used to wrap around our waist and then loop around the leg, a mood ring, reading the back of a cereal box like it was "World News" as we ate, wearing a swim cap when you knew it wouldn't work, playing thump the knuckles to see who "gave up first", jumping over cracks so you didn't break your mama's back, the SOUL TRAIN line, sitting in church wondering what the words to the hymn the deacon was singing(some of us still do that), saying your EASTER SPEECH, saving soda bottles for the refund, wearing a Brownie uniform(I was kinda cute with those long brown socks on -hehe), the smell of a straighten comb on an open fire, the feel of the heat when mama got a little too close and holding that ear down for dear life. Remember this? "Go get me a switch and you better not come back with a little bitty one either." And remember while you were out there looking for one that you think wouldn't hurt so bad all your friends passed by and knew what you were doing? Life--you gots to love it. And can some of you remember life before cable? Sometimes, there was not much on t.v. then but I guess that hasn't changed much. MMMMMMMMMMM--those were some special days.

I remember saving the soda bottles. There was a brand of soda out then that I can't remember for the life of me that came in grape and orange. Was it Shasta?

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>>>"Many women do noble things, but you surpass them all."
Charm is deceptive and beauty is fleeting, but a woman who fears the Lord is to be praised... Proverbs 31:29-30

Tickled Pink, it was either Shasta or Fanta!

Ok, you guys have brought me out of SM mode on this topic. I have a few additions to the memories list. Did you ever own those rainbow Mork & Mindy suspenders? Did you used to say NaaNoo NaaNoo (I guess that's how you spell it!)? What about those shirts with the ruffles that you used to set off with a bow tie (I hope I wasn't the only one)?

Let's talk about movies and music... Did you used to watch Weird Science over and over? (I swear I knew all the words to that movie!) What about all the Molly Ringwald movies ... like Breakfast Club (you know you still whistle that song every once in a while), Pretty in Pink, Sixteen Candles, etc... And am I the only one who was in love with Sting, Simply Red, the Police, Menudo, New Kids on the Block (Don't front!) etc...

Wait, did you used to "pop pencils" at school? At my school, it was almost seen as an extracurricular sport.

Reading this thread has brought back so much stuff that I had forgotten all about. Thanks!



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...oh yeah and I forgot spending Saturday's watching "Creature Feature" and "Thing Theater"
...did anyone else follow the dance contest on American Bandstand...and vote every week for the couple you wanted to win?

what about freeze tag, "it", view finders, jacks, dodge ball, four square, hop skotch, Josie and the ***** cats, Archie, Charlie's Angels, dixie cups (someone's mother sold them during the summer), pants with the elastic at the ankles, velcro tennis shoes,British Knights, your mother would use vaseline on your legs and face instead of lotion... bikes with the plastic strings coming out of the handle bars...S And H green stamps. You would save the stamps to complete books to win prizes

huh the smurfs "how much longer papa smurf" he he, http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif strawberry short cake cartoon, the littles "we are the littles" What's Happening , The Facts of Life, 227 http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif Clap your hands if you used to break dance on some cardboard, http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif clap your hands if you used to wear fat laces http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif clap your hands if you used to bump RunDMC and Whodini http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif "friends, how many of us have them, friends, before we go any further lets be friends, friends is a word we use everyday, but most of the time in the wrong way, you can look it up again and again but the dictionary doesn't know the meaning of friends, now if you ask me why i couldn't be much help cause a friends someone you got to define for yourself" *adjusts pink Kanjo*

I'm having flashbacks! Wow!

CuRiOuSiTy:

"Gem is truly outrageous, truly, truly, truly outrageous. Ooooooooooooh, Gem! Gem the music's contagious, outrageous! Gem is my name, no one else is the same. GEM IS MY NAME!"

Did any body else "Rock the Boat"? What about Miss Mary Mack,Mack,Mack all dressed in black, black black....."? Oh, and remember the hand game to "That's the way, uh huh, uh huh, I like it, uh huh, uh huh"? And "Down, down baby, down, down the rollercoaster. Sweet, sweet, baby I'll never let you go. Chimmy, chimmy coco pop, chimmy chimmy POW! Chimmy, chimmy coco pop, chimmy chimmy POW!"

Let me stop......I'm getting out of control! http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/biggrin.gif

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Sincerity, Loyalty, Unity

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I really wish I could see just one more episode of Electric Company or 3,2,1 Contact. I loved those shows!! Remember the BloodHound Gang??????

Does anyone remember "Dance Fever"?

"Kids, Incorporated"

The real "Saved By the Bell"

"Dallas", "Dynasty", "Falcon Crest", "Knots Landing"

The Mickey Mouse Club

"In Living Color"

Arsenio Hall Show

The Cosby Show

Game Shows: "Tic Tac Doe", "Family Fewd" "$25,000 Pyramaid", "The Gong Show"

The first daytime black soap opera, "Generations"





[This message has been edited by AKAtude (edited June 13, 2000).]

Remember.........

T.V. Shows:
*Facts of Life
*Mr. Wizard's World
*You Can't Do That On Television
*The Bozo Show
*The Incredible Hulk
*Bionic Woman
*The Six Million Dollar Man

Toys:
*Teddy Ruxpin
*Glow Worm
*Easy Bake Ovens
*Snoopy Snow Cone Machines
*Kid Sister (female version of "My Buddy")

Cartoons:
*Captain Cave Man & The Teen Angels
*Care Bears
*Shirt Tales

Clothing:
*Double Belts
*Michael Jackson "Thriller" Jackets
*Fat Shoe Laces
*Gloria Vanderbilt Jeans
*Pony Tennis Shoes
*Nikes (the ones Forrest Gump had)
*Coca-Cola Clothing
*Jellies
*Panama Jack Shirts
*Izod
*Under-Roos

Games:
*Sorry
*Hungry, Hungry Hippo
*Operation
*Battleship
*Sit & Spin

Don't forget about E.T., candy necklaces & bracelets, metal lunch boxes, and Peaches & Herb braids (the ones with beads).

Sorry, this was so long : ).


[This message has been edited by CrimsonAmbitions (edited June 13, 2000).]

I got one word:


S I K E ! ! !

Remember doing:
The wop, the german smurf, the bump, the four corners, the ET, the snake, the rock, remember wearing: all those flourescent colors from head to toe, remember wearing lace gloves like Madonna and Jody Watley, remember those big hoop earrings? Remember 45's and the Raggedy Ann and Andy 45 record player? What about Lite Brites and Echo-SKetches (sp)? Remember Dance Fever and Puttin; on the Hits? Remember Friday night Videos? Remember when cassesttes were put in cars instead of 8tracks? Remember when remote control TVs came out? Remember Beta VCRs? Remember tying your shirt in the front so your belly button would show?

Remember,SORORS, back in the day when you always wanted to be an AKA? And it was only a dream!

Speaking of toys....Cabbage Patch Dolls!!!!

I know I said I was done, but Soror AKA2D'91 just made me remember something else. Do you remember when the first remote controls were actually attached to the TV or VCR by a cord? Now what was the point of that?

I still have my cabbage batch doll. I named her Tiffany (after me http://www.greekchat.com/forums/ubb/smile.gif ).