I remember Speidel ID bracelets being a popular thing for guys at my high school for a short time in the early 70s. Custom “Gold Tone” bling to impress the ladies!
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TOTALLY forgot about this. They didn't hit my corner of the world until the late 80's. I had one. Turned my wrist green! (then I bought a better one)
Quoted from cottonm4:Bell bottoms and.....jugs.
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EDIT: And Farah Fawcett hair.
The gallon jugs or the pint sized?
Damn you Mooch!
I was saving a credit card slider picture for a later post ....and earlier this week I noticed you beat me to it : )
Then today you beat me again with your Dry Look post!!!
Best I can do is a old Right Guard can : (
Anybody else “reserving” old photos to post later here or am I the only nut that may be enjoying this thread a little bit too much?
A few memories of wrestling when I was younger, many more before them and many more after them.
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Quoted from DanQverymuch:and they still at least pretended it was real.
What
Quoted from DanQverymuch:Fond memories of watching wrestling with my dad way back in the 70s, before it got so goofy and over the top and they still at least pretended it was real. Nevertheless, I could always be sure of him uttering, sometime during the show, "What a crock of shit!"
Way back: Texas Bob Geigel
Quoted from cdnpinbacon:Playing hockey on a pond with my cousins
Me too growing up in Minnesota.
And what would happen when a muskrat tried to sneak across the ice and a bunch of kids with hockey sticks spotted him.
Quoted from Mr68:I was a big Rowdy Roddy Piper fan. Man that guy could make me laugh. Funniest bad guy ever.
He was the best. Macho Man was pretty good too.
Time to do a rewatch of They Live.
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I never knew these had name 
Speaking of the Space Dust sizzling candy, That looks like Pop Rocks with a different name.
Does anyone remember the tiny loaves of bread they used to sell at 6 Flags parks or did they only sell them at Astroworld. We would buy those and stuff them with ham and cheese and warm them to melt the cheese. My God I loved Astroworld. I had such good times there, I actually met my wife there. I am still butthurt that they tore it down because they thought they could sell the land for a billion dollars. Its still a parking lot
Whenever I got constipated as a kid and needed a laxative, my Mom gave me some Fletcher’s Castoria. I loved the taste of that stuff. It had a deep herbal flavor, much like a shot of Jagermeister. But it was a different story if I had the “runs.” She would bring out the bottle of Kaopectate. Remember the original formula of Kaopectate? One of the worst tasting medicines I’ve ever had to take. It was an evil grayish suspension made with Kaolin, a type of clay. So it was basically a watery slurry of mud, and that’s what it tasted like. I would shudder in disgust after swallowing each force-fed spoonful of that nasty stuff.
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I got this wooden Frank Zappa sign at some fair back in the 70s. Didn’t win it though- I remember it was $15. Bigger than it looks here. About 13x16.
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Mine was the football one. But looks like it was in the Sears catalog on 1979
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Reminds me of this stuff from way back when.
Quoted from mooch:Did you have a big wooden toy box as a kid?
Mine was my dad's WWII Navy sea chest. The hardware looked a lot like this, but the box was blue. Sure wish I still had it, but it got put out in the shed and eventually rotted.
Quoted from bssbllr:Mine was the football one. But looks like it was in the Sears catalog on 1979[quoted image]
My late younger brother had that same one!
I was inspired to create many of homebrew foods after seeing Reese’s you got peanut butter in my chocolate ads.
This cookies and cream mod was one of my favorites.
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Least favorite? My Doritos and mayonnaise mix followed closely by my Tang/Milk combo.
Still enjoy mixing my Gatorades!
Quoted from mooch:Ads for Saturday morning cartoons- ABC 1967, CBS 1969, CBS 1976, NBC 1980.
8 years old - Middle of the week in school daydreaming bout sitting in front of my tv for those Saturday morning cartoons.
54 years old - Middle of the week at work daydreaming bout sitting at the bar for a few Saturday night drinks.
Kinda depressing : |
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