I had all the space Lego's, too. I ended up selling them all on ebay years ago. If I remember right it was around $800. Not sure it was worth the time it took me to piece together each set from a bucket of Legos. I wish I still had my Star Wars and GI Joe toys but no idea what happened to that stuff.

Trash to treasure! Still upset my bmx bike got stolen outside the comic book store back in the 80s.

I had a ton of 80's space Legos. Great memories getting those sets for Christmas and hours playing with them. I had the same problem, though. Wanted to keep them but didn't know what to do with them. It would be awesome to have room to have them all on display. Did you have any pics of that setup?

That's awesome. Legos have always been expensive. Once in a while I will see a cool new set but don't buy because always expensive. I didn't know Europe had different sets. Afraid to look more into that or I might want to start collecting sets!

My brother had one of those! We grew up in Houston where the Goodyear blimp was based. It made a sound that was very unique. As soon as we heard that sound we dropped whatever we were doing and came bolting out of the house to see it. If I remember right, my dad had a chance to get tickets for us to ride on it but somehow that deal fell through. Too bad.

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That reminds me of a funny story. When my triplets were young, we often played in the backyard. Someone always had to go to the bathroom so it was a pain to round up the other two especially when it was an "I have to go now". I taught my boys to pee outside to make things a little easier. Not much to teach I guess. Just told them to go over in the corner and water a bush. My boys thought that was the greatest thing ever. Not long after, found out they were relieving themselves on the church playground where they went to preschool. We had a little conversation about that lol.

Even outside the school, paper was everywhere. It got so bad my school warned kids that if they found a paper with your name on it there was going to be serious trouble. Made little difference lol. My kids don't seem to have anything like that. Probably because the last day of school varies depending on what finals you take.

No kidding. They tore it down for nothing but the useless Astrodome across the street still sits. Sucks. It would of been nice to take my kids to Astroworld once in a while. Can't do jack with the stupid Astrodome. My first job was at Astroworld in 1988 so good memories.

I would say a lot of what you see in google is basically an ad. You pay to get your website to be one of the first you see in a search. Do not pay, it will still show but be 30 pages back or something where nobody looks. But of course, they clearly control what you see on any search.

That's back when you could just name your company "AAA" to get to the top.

I went to school in Lubbock, TX in the early 90s. It was a dry town back then but alcohol was everywhere. You could still drink in all the many bars and restaurants, just not buy beer at the local store. However, all you had to do was drive 10 minutes to the edge of town to what we called the strip. It was a bunch of liquor stores out in the middle of nowhere lit up like Vegas. Quite the site. Never understood the purpose of dry laws. Looks like they finally went wet in 2009.

Were rock radio station stickers a big thing anywhere else? Us kids went crazy for them in the early 80's but they were everywhere in Houston. Guess bumper stickers in general were more of a thing when you had actual bumpers. Remember one time as a young kid word got out that they were passing out 97 Rock stickers at the seedy arcade near school. We raced down there on our bikes and grabbed as many stickers as we could possibly get. I can still remember the smell of those stickers.

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Very cool! You just don't see stuff like that anymore.

Malls used to be awesome. They had have movie theaters, arcades, toy stores, and all kinds of things. Now it just seems like cheap clothes and shoe stores with a food court full of people you rather avoid.

Parents forced me to take some dancing class in my young teen years. Kind of hated it but not so bad when dancing with cute girl. Wonder if there are still classes like that for kids anymore.

You were living large if you had the big box of crayons with all the colors.

Must of been some law that every grandparent had to have one back then. I got one from my grandparents sitting in a closet somewhere. Thought it was kind of cool, too.

I remember a few big hurricanes ripping through when I was younger. As a kid, I had no worries. I slept through one even though the winds were violently thrashing the house. Only thing on my mind was excitement of missing a day or two of school.

lol yeah. Love the idea that a little tape on your window is somehow going to make things better if trees and lawn chairs are blowing through your house.

Not sure what is worse - tornados or hurricanes. At least with hurricanes you can see them coming. When my kids were little, I was getting ready for work when all of a sudden the wind outside went crazy. I don't think it was even raining/storming but a tornado came over the house. I was just about ready to grab the kids when the winds suddenly stopped. Only damage it did was blow down a fence but still pretty scary.

Wish I kept some of those from middle school. I spent countless hours drawing 80's rock band logos and whatever on those. Good times

Don't remember that one. This is what I remember. Great fun. We strapped a model rocket engine to the one my friend had that didn't end well lol.

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Same here. We had dinner in the middle of Sunday afternoon so hungry at night. We put M&M's in the popcorn and maybe peanuts if feeling a bit crazy. Sat down on the red shag carpet right in front of the tv with the popcorn and soda. Parents of course had to tell you to back up because the tv radiation was going to burn your eyes out. lol

Finding money when you were a kid was pretty awesome. When I was fairly young, we had a neighbor that let us go through their entire garage and collect any loose change my brother and I could find. There was literally coins everywhere in their cluttered garage. After they parked their cars they must of just thrown any loose change they had all over. We couldn't make sense of it but whatever. We both collected a small fortune that day.

Never did paper routes but my brother tried to get rich by recycling. He collecting newspapers and aluminum cans from just about everyone on the street. Actually not sure where it all came from but it was enough to fill a full size van from top to bottom. My dad and him hauled it off one day with the back bumper nearly dragging and got like $5 lol. I don't think it even covered the gas to make the trip to the recycler and back.

Somehow our mother let us crawl around the checkout lanes at the grocery store. We would find a ton of coins under things, between stacked paper bags, and around cash registers. No idea how kids getting into everything around cash registers was not a problem but we did it. But yeah, no way did I let my kids do stuff like that.

I had a fun game of throwing a soda can on the roof of the house and see how long I could keep shooting it to keep it from falling off. Whoever worked on that roof years later must of been wondering why there were hundreds of bb's stuck in the shingles lol.