remember when?

[dburton07]

Ahhhh the good old days. I still act like a kid, bought Sonic Unleashed for 360 and have Sonic 2 and Sonic and Knuckles downloaded.

What I miss the most was hangin out at my friends house with a few others on the lake for a couple weeks straight. I still remember my dad bringing home his brand new 1993 F150. We still have it too, just a rusted out pile o shit now.

 

[88gt]

i remember teenage mutant ninja turtles, playing with hess trucks that cost only 5 bucks back then, and wearing out the tires on my bicycle until it was dark trying to make the longest skid make with my friends. also making dirt ramps and wooden ramps every chance we got

 

[triumphrider-1]

Black Sheep Squadron and GI Joe (...And knowing is half the battle!)

Those were good shows.

 

[martin]

The good old days? ration books, empty shelves in stores, bombed out buildings etc. and we won the b-----y war. It must have been rough growing up on the sides that lost.

 

[Ronv]

May-be I'm dateing myself but I can rember receiving change from my haircut with smzll fiber coupons and my mom was glad because they were,"meat coupons". How about dipping the cream off the top of the milk for cereal & coffee? Anyone remember the old commodore-64 or the one tandy came out with? When I went skiing I could just step out of my skies,walk in for lunch and your skies would be right where you left them! Yes, those days were GOOD

 

[IlovemybroncII]

I remember watching the first man steping on the moon and walter telling us all about it 3 channels of tv abc nbc cbs when a kid could be a kid and not worry about being kidnaped and raped male or female I remember lost in space gillians island and when gas was 35to 45 cent a gallon untill carter lol I remember going fishing with your buds untill dark I remember when christmas was like old fasion and not some promo for a store I remember the pilot of star trek I remember stratch cooked meals and chured butter at grandmas and watching all the women getting togeter to can the garden I remember being a kid with not a worry in the world aaaa those were the days

 

[Spitfire1975]

Sometimes life feels like it did when you used to play in the sandbox and you had built as much as you could and it was getting boring. Tore it all down just so you could feel the excitement of starting all over on a new adventure.

 

[Legend]

We were sharecroppers. The first house I can remember had a wood floor in the kitchen, but the rest of the house had dirt floors. Of course, no electricity or plumbing. We farmed with horses, Tom, Jerry, and a red one that I don't remember its name. We did have a car, sort of - a 1926 Ford Model-T roadster. Dad and I would sometimes use wire, spools and cardboard to construct toy cars and trucks. I remember doing that evening in the light of a kerosene lamp. Without electricity, there was no refrigeration so we had a cellar that we kept things in that was cooler than above ground.

I was very struck by the Movie "Grapes of Wrath" because not only was the environment so much like mine, many of the characters looked much like people I knew. For instance, Jane Darwell who played Mrs. Joad looked exactly like my grandmother. The other day I was looking at some pictures and realized that one of my daughters now looks exactly like Jane Darwell.

I knew I didn't want to be a farmer, so I put myself through college and became an electronics engineer. I believe that living through some pretty tough times was very educational, helped develop my drive and made me more successful.

It has been very interesting watching technology develop including jet airplanes, television, computers, etc. Many of them really taken for granted now, like electric starters on cars (hand cranking was so bad), generators and then alternators on cars to recharge batteries, sealed beam headlights came and went. The electric lights were certainly better than the carbide and sealed beams were a big improvement. I am in the process of writing a book for my kids, about growing up and living through all these changes.

 

[COPPERHEAD85]

Tonka trucks you could ride in.

 

[stockfornow]

i remember when i started driving and gas was $1.50 a gallon

 

[pocket-rocket]

I remember watching new episodes of Dukes of Hazzard, Knight rider, Airwolf.

I remember Red Sonja, Conahn the Barbarian and Red Dawn.

I used to watch Bob Newhart with my mom (not the Newhart show with carol Burnette)..... I also remember Bruce Willis in Moon lighting....... ooohhh oooohhh and Hunter .... and the Equalizer ...... remember the Mustang from Hunter?... the green 1 before the Fox body?



anybody remember playing Smear the Queer ...... or Kill the carrier? we played full tackle football in the street ..... lots of injuries ....

I remember smear the queer. I also remember new episodes of M.A.S.H, the A-Team, Knight Rider, Close Encounters of the Third Kind and riding my Big-Wheel around the neighborhood all day. I also remember building little cities with sticks, dirt and grass for my cowboys, Indians and Matchbox Cars. I also remember when AIDS first came out, the Challenger exploding and the Cold War... :/ Quite a few years later riding with my mom doing Christmas shopping, Clinton was in office and gas was around $.99/gallon here.

 

[GoodOld85BlueBalls]

I remember standing in line for 15 hours for the premier of Star Wars. Leaving home in the morning to go play with your friends and not returning home till after dark. Your parents never even worried about where you were and parents gave lunch to whomever was at their house and did not even think twice about it. I remember collecting bottles to get the deposit back to buy matchbox cars to play with. I remember GI-Joe with the kung-fu grip and Major Matt Nelson the spaceman. I remember legos you bought in a bag, no sets like today. I remember riding my bike everyplace. I remeber our first computer/word processor, it was called a Kaypro, it would not run unless you had a program on a 5.5" floppy. I remember my computer club at HS having just a terminal with a printer and no screen.