Cranford, NJ
Quoted from OLDPINGUY:3 of My 4 School grade Girlfriends, all Married men named, "Art".
Must be something wrong with #4!
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Grade six or seven we did line dancing. Learned Cadillac Ranch and the bird dance which is helpful at weddings. Couldn't stand it at the time because I hated country music.
Quoted from mooch:I remember using these color Band-Aids with the stars when I was a kid.
I don't remember the ones with stars but sure do remember Band-Aids, that smell takes me back.
A very active topic on here last few days makes me think of this.
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This one even has a price tag from Sav-On drugs on it still.
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Remember when Scotch Tape came in metal cans?
Quoted from DennisDodel:Remember when Scotch Tape came in metal cans?
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Remember the big round can of Ritz crackers?
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Remember when Velveta came in a box ... oh, wait.
When I was a wee lad, we in Wisconsin weren't allowed to purchase yellow colored margarine, just unappetizing white stuff, in order to "protect" dairy farmers and their butter. I think it came with the coloring separate in case you wanted to mix it in. Law was repealed in 1967.
Quoted from DanQverymuch:When I was a wee lad, we in Wisconsin weren't allowed to purchase yellow colored margarine, just unappetizing white stuff, in order to "protect" dairy farmers and their butter. I think it came with the coloring separate in case you wanted to mix it in. Law was repealed in 1967.
Yes, my mother told me about that, but I was too young to remember it myself, as we moved from WI when I was 4.
My actual oldest memory is of being lost in the snow in Madison (I would have been about 3 and a half years old).
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Remember when Velveta came in a box ... oh, wait.
I have about 5 of these old wooden cheese boxes filled with screws, bolts and nails from my grandfather's workshop.
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Quoted from DennisDodel:I have about 5 of these old wooden cheese boxes filled with screws, bolts and nails from my grandfather's workshop.[quoted image]
I don't remember some of the stuff you all have been dragging up but I will tell you that some of the best cheese I ever ate was government cheese usde to feed the poorer people in our society. That stuff was good. Top shelf.
Quoted from TechnicalSteam:Rock'em Sock'Em robots.
I've always thought I could mechanize them for a Pinball machine or topper
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you could add coils to fire off punches, hook them up to the flipper buttons
Quoted from TechnicalSteam:Rock'em Sock'Em robots.
I've always thought I could mechanize them for a Pinball machine or topper
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I used to own a 1950's Woodrail pinball called Knock out and it has a little boxing ring in the center. Do well and one of the boxers goes down. Pretty cool for the 50's.
These cigar cases were built like tanks and made for perfect transport of most if not all my traveling toys.
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Baseball cards, Matchbox cars, Rubber bands, Dice, Super Balls, Matches, Magnifying glass,Bazooka Joes, Army men, Sheriff badges, Fire crackers and even a stolen cigarette or two.
Quoted from Rezdog:I took pride in having the sharpest crayons on the block.
Mine looked more like this.
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You were living large if you had the big box of crayons with all the colors.
Tente?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tente_(toy)
A20BC464-9B23-43BA-9936-E63FD53F6375 (resized).jpegMy Dad had a Roy Rogers and Trigger pocket knife when he was a kid. I have it now and thought it might be worth something, but I see it only brings about $12 on eBay so I'll just keep it. It seems to be one of the first in a series of pocket knives featuring cowboy heroes (Zorro, The Lone Ranger, Annie Oakley, Gene Autry and others). I think there were around 48 knives total in the set (see picture below of 29 of them), but I only have the Roy Rogers knife in the first picture.
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Quoted from Azmodeus:I miss my childhood a little when I see these, but I love the nostalgia. Feels pretty good.
My grandma bodak would buy us a toy every time we went with her, Death Star play set.
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Ah, yes, Micronauts (AKA Microman).
I remember the T.V commercials for those
... and the Marvel Comics:
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Later, some of these toys became Transformers (Notably Soundwave).
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I ordered and received mine. I like it!
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Quoted from pinnyheadhead:I ordered and received mine. I like it!
When you read the Format and availability information:
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Quoted from smalltownguy2:I couldn't resist, I just had to have one, if only to look through it again. There's a lot of cool stuff in here.
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Not sure if you ever found this or someone else replied, but this site has tons of the old catalogs all scanned for viewing.
Quoted from Azmodeus:Magazines In The 70s
The most important magazine in our house when I was a kid was the TV Prevue from the Sunday Chicago Sun-Times newspaper.
My dad had to have this each week or he was miserable.
One of his four essentials.
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I have a collection of antique advertising signs. I found these at antique shows about 25 years ago. Even though they weren’t very expensive, they get lots of comments from guests.
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My dad had to have this each week or he was miserable.
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Ditto in my house. And it had to be the smaller Sun-Times TV guide, not the larger Chicago Tribune version.
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Well, I got older
And lost all my hair
From many years ago.
Will you still need me
Will you still feed me
Now that I am way past 64.
Quoted from Azmodeus:Swat toys. [quoted image]
Weren't those S.W.A.T. action figures a tie in to the short lived TV show from '75-'76?
Quoted from zombywoof:Weren't those S.W.A.T. action figures a tie in to the short lived TV show from '75-'76?
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Yes, and if you look under where it says "S.W.A.T." it' says "1975 Spelling-Goldberg Productions".
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And When I was a kid I had the complete set of Lost in Space cards and most of the Outer Limits and Planet of the Apes ones.
I do owever still have a complete set of the 1977 Space 1999 cards and the 1970's star Trek cards plus Most of the Marvel Comics stickers from that era:
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Quoted from zombywoof:Weren't those S.W.A.T. action figures a tie in to the short lived TV show from '75-'76?
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Yes. The two actors on the left are still living. The 3 on the right are long gone.
Quoted from cottonm4:Yes. The two actors on the left are still living. The 3 on the right are long gone.
I recall at my age, the toys were the pinnacle of the swat experience.
I wanted to like the show, but remember liking happy days and six million dollar man.
And then came the micronauts and Star Wars toys.
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