Quoted from Atari_Daze:LATE 70s, but still the 70s.
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I just had to go check the closet after seeing the pic you posted of the slot car set.
Looking online I’ve found mine was from 1977 but I think my brother and I got it in 1978-79. It has a $45 price tag on it.
I used an online inflation calculator which says that’s approx. $200 today.
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Sure. A lot more toxic too.
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But that's 1981.
Plenty of new wave and power pop was released in the 70s before it gave way to the more synthesized crap in the 1980s. As you so astutely pointed out earlier in this thread. In fact there are probably quite a few 70s songs that didn't become recognized until the 80s
Quoted from mof:"80's music" was WAYYY better in the 70s (new wave, punk, hard rock, etc) before the 80s ruined most of it...
Don't know where this one fits in, but it was a catchy little tune in 1978.
Quoted from girloveswaffles:Remember back in the '70s when toys were a lot more dangerous?[quoted image]
Since they were recalled, I wonder how much you could get for a set of those?
I just took mom to Costco and ran into I guy I've known for years who at one time was a DJ on KROQ who went by the name Mike Raphone. I first met him back in the late 70s and we discussed the music of the time.
He's older than me though, but an ageless wonder who remembers the past but is more interested in today. Wearing shorts and sandals and hates leaf blowers as much as I do. He's kinda a legend around here in certain circles.
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Quoted from Extraballz:A couple things we used to do as a family a lot in the 70’s.
Kinda looks like the 50s to me. lol.
We had a bunch of them around here and went to them all.
The Orange drive in had the swap meet to go to throughout the 70s, selling all kinds of stuff that wasn't just junk. My favorite stand was the guy selling bootleg vinyl of concerts from all over.
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Quoted from o-din:Kinda looks like the 50s to me. lol.
We had a bunch of them around here and went to them all.
The Orange drive had the swap meet to go to throughout the 70s, selling all kinds of stuff that wasn't just junk. My favorite stand was the guy selling bootleg vinyl of concerts from all over.[quoted image]
I worked summers at the Baseline Drive-in in San Bernardino in the 70s. I was there when Jaws opened, there was never anything like it before and probably not since. We filled the theater twice a night for something like 10 days straight. I calculated I saw Jaws about 70 times.
I was in Florida when Jaws was released. I had actually started reading the book before I got there and finished it before I went to see the movie. I found a picture of myself in Florida at my uncle's house with the book in hand, but you don't really need to see that.
I wonder how many here, especially those that want a Jaws pinball machine, read the book before they saw it or actually read the book at all.
After reading the book and seeing the movie, this was more essential 1970s reading.
But none of that ever made me stay out of the water. I've surfed with a school of porpoises and had sharks rub my legs, but now with the great whites making a noticeable presence off our coast and attacking people, I've gotten a little wary.
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But none of that ever made me stay out of the water. I've surfed with a school of porpoises and had sharks rub my legs, but now with the great whites making a noticeable presence off our coast and attacking people, I've gotten a little wary.[quoted image]
After seeing that movie I was terrified of salt water. That didn't keep me from going salt water fishing. But I am not swimming with jellyfish, stingrays, barracuda, sharks and lots of other things that can take smaller bites off me. Almost all salt water fish have teeth and I don't want to be the bait.
Quoted from LTG:Good thing you don't taste good.
LTG : )
Those were mostly sand sharks probing the area. But now it is a whole new ballgame.
It was a surrealistic moment when those porpoises arrived and I was actually on a wave they started riding too. My biggest hope was that one wouldn't run into me. Very similar to what you see in this picture.
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Quoted from LTG:Good thing you don't taste good.
LTG : )
But he does have good taste....
Quoted from Jumping-Box:I still hear my dad yelling at me about changing the channels too fast. But our Sony Trinitron lasted forever.[quoted image]
My dad refused to buy a TV with a remote control... Said that it was a waste of money. So, I was the remote control on command. I became an expert at tuning UHF/VHF and the color adjustments. I knew exactly which way to move the antennas to get the channels tuned in rapidly. No remote required. I don't think you can even buy a TV these days without a remote control.
Quoted from Dent00:My dad refused to buy a TV with a remote control... Said that it was a waste of money. So, I was the remote control on command.
My dad was the opposite. Once it was time for primetime, he'd put on his smoking jacket, get his brandy snifter, and settle into his recliner. The shows he watched, he wanted us out of the room and in bed.
That mid 60s Zenith color set lasted the entire 70s and on into the 80s before it became more or less incompatible with new cable TV.
shopping (resized).jpgQuoted from o-din:My dad was the opposite. Once it was time for primetime, he'd put on his smoking jacket, get his brandy snifter, and settle into his recliner. The shows he watched, he wanted us out of the room and in bed.
That mid 60s Zenith color set lasted the entire 70s and on into the 80s before it became more or less incompatible with new cable TV.[quoted image]
The old Space Command no batteries required remote. We had fun shaking a ring of keys in the room causing the barrel motor to do the Hustle.....
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Shapes and colors.gifQuoted from MrBally:Since they were recalled, I wonder how much you could get for a set of those?
Hard to say. I've heard it's illegal to sell them even on line. But someone allegedly found a work around: (it's at the very end)
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lawn-darts-sales-ban/
Quoted from Jumping-Box:I still hear my dad yelling at me about changing the channels too fast. But our Sony Trinitron lasted forever.[quoted image]
Once as a kid when I was sick in the 70s I cut a slot in the end of a broom handle, put a small B&W TV on a chair near the foot of my bed, and used that slick “remote” to turn the channels without getting out of bed. That was livin’!
Quoted from girloveswaffles:Hard to say. I've heard it's illegal to sell them even on line. But someone allegedly found a work around: (it's at the very end)
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lawn-darts-sales-ban/
BTW, if you look close at the picture, you'll see that this one on display does not have the metal rod in it. It's just the plastic fins.IMG_0524.jpgIMG_0524A.jpg
... now lets see who knows where this is (or maybe was now).
Quoted from girloveswaffles:Hard to say. I've heard it's illegal to sell them even on line.
I have a set I bought at a flea market about 15 yrs ago. I don't think they've been used in the last 8-10 yrs. lol
Quoted from Darcy:That stuff smelt so bad, and the colours were not as bright as the package showed. The chemical smell stopped me from emptying the tube.
It says right on the package "flammable".
That stuff got you more buzzed than Testors plastic model glue.
Holy S**t! just for laughs I looked on eBay and:
ebay.com link: Vintage Eagle Lawn Darts Game FULL GAME 4 darts 2 rings original box
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Quoted from girloveswaffles:Holy S**t! just for laughs I looked on eBay and:
ebay.com link » Vintage Eagle Lawn Darts Game Full Game 4 Darts 2 Rings Original Box
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Buy it! Bring it on over and we can have some fun with the neighbor's leaf blowers.
Quoted from girloveswaffles:Hard to say. I've heard it's illegal to sell them even on line. But someone allegedly found a work around: (it's at the very end)
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/lawn-darts-sales-ban/
I've gotten several sets just sending out a few emails.
1976 and 1977 were fun years! At thirteen, played outside all day and came home when the street lights turned on. Pony league baseball with the dugout littered with coke pull tops. Most influential movies and music of my life.. Star Wars, Rocky, Smoky and the Bandit, Close Encounters, and the Bad News Bears. And of course... KC and the sunshine band.
Quoted from o-din:Kinda looks like the 50s to me. lol.
We had a bunch of them around here and went to them all.
The Orange drive in had the swap meet to go to throughout the 70s, selling all kinds of stuff that wasn't just junk. My favorite stand was the guy selling bootleg vinyl of concerts from all over.
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I couldn’t find any good pics of the ones I went to in the 70’s and early 80’s. This was my main one close to home.Braintree Twin. Looks like this now.
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Here's the next faze.
Former sight of the Anaheim Drive In.
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... now lets see who knows where this is (or maybe was now).
Love the issue of OMNI. This was a mainstay of the late 70s for me. It’s really shocking how forgotten this magazine is, even among collecting circles.
Quoted from o-din:Welcome to the 1970s, kids.
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Oh yeah. Sizzlers. THE greatest toy ever. The first ever use of nickel cad batteries, I believe. Loved the toy, loved the box art. Everything about it reeks of the 70s. Mattel at its best.
Quoted from albummydavis:Oh yeah. Sizzlers. THE greatest toy ever. The first ever use of nickel cad batteries, I believe. Loved the toy, loved the box art. Everything about it reeks of the 70s. Mattel at its best.
I think Sizzlers officially launched in 1969, but fat track was 1970.
We didn't get anything all year unless we found a way to make money, but come birthday or Christmas it was all about Hot Wheels since day one.
So much orange track that we had it running up and down the hall and all throughout the house once Sizzlers came on the scene.
Quoted from Dent00:This whole conversation makes me want to try to call BR549.
I doubt that works anymore...
I always tell people I don't know that my phone number is 867-5309 and see if they write that down.
It is like a test...
If I ever get a vanity plate it will be BR549
And my wife wants KMG365
Quoted from o-din:Welcome to the 1970s, kids.
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That Sizzlers set was the most expensive thing I ever got as a kid. My uncle gave it to me when he came back from Vietnam.
Whoever had the car that lost the Sizzlers race would have to place their face flush with the kitchen floor while the winner aimed and released all 4 of our Sizzlers cars at his face from around 15 feet away.
I remember going into a Toys R Us in the mid 80s and then it got even worse as my daughter was growing up in the 2000s.
"What happened to all the good toys?"
No wonder they went out of business.
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