Things You Remember From When You Were Young!!

530roman · January 2015

Used to eat these things like candy! "Ten million strong, and growing!"

MommysLittleMeatball · January 2015

530roman wrote: »

Used to eat these things like candy! "Ten million strong, and growing!"

Yes!!! And wash it down with

csuhar · January 2015

Can't really think of a picture to represent it: But being in 6th grade when they introduced us to this "instant communication" method called "e-mail". The technology, itself, wasn't terribly new, but the experience does date me as someone who didn't grow up with e-mail or even the internet, which my family didn't connect to until I was in Junior High.

Also:
- Top-load VHS players
- Separate VHS tape re-winders
- Pogo Balls
- "Full House" and other programs on TGIF
- Bob Saget hosting "America's Funniest Home Videos" and Dave Coulier hosting "America's Funniest People".
- Crystal Pepsi
- Getting our first CD player in 1993.
- Seeing a CD changer in the trunk of a rental car circa 1992 and wondering "what the heck is THAT".
- New cars that didn't come with cruise control as a standard feature.
- Watching "Newton's Apple" and "Square One TV"
- Micro Machines
- Super Soakers
- Gak
- Having a Super Soaker 30 and 50.
- Educational computer games like "Alge-Blaster", "Super Solvers: Midnight Rescue", "Super Solvers: Out-Numbered"
- Nickelodeon being a "vacation treat" because we (and lots of people) didn't have cable, and, even then, it wasn't always part of the basic package.
- The differing, but still joyous, sensations of seeing either a film projector or the TV cart (with TV) come into the classroom.

NerdieMcChub · January 2015

Treasure trolls!
I also remember my grandma telling me if I wore shorts, my knees would fall off. I was terrified.

JackKopCh · January 2015

Running home to watch Saved by the bell! :')

seltzermint555 · January 2015

GreenGoddess22 wrote: »

seltzermint wrote: »

New York Seltzer
Barbie & the Rockers
double dutch jump rope
Pogo balls
Cabbage Patch Kid CRAZE
new wave music
Coca-Cola rugby shirts, Esprit, Benetton, Swatch, etc.

Actually I've got a huge Pinterest board of this stuff!

http://www.pinterest.com/03nov/80-s-childhood/

That was a sweet walk down memory lane!! I was born in 78 so I had the privilege of the 80/90's awesomeness. So many things on your board bring back good memories!

Yay! I'm glad you enjoyed it

I was born in Nov '76 so definitely some similarities in our pop culture references I'm sure!!

mustang289 · January 2015

Not nostalgic or iconic...
I spent my early teen years living on a Navy Base. I'm talking 10 yrs - 14 yrs old, in the early 1970's. I would ride my bike just about anywhere, not paying attention to the "restricted area" signs. Some of those places were in wooded areas with gravel roads, maybe with a stream running nearby. Very secluded and beautiful. Occasionally a Shore Patrol pickup truck would find me, ask for my I.D. card and then tell me to go home. Next day I would be right back there.
I remember riding my bike to the old commuter train station and the overpowering smell in the men's room of the fragrances they used to clean and sanitize to cover up the odors. Seeing the vending machine on the wall and wondering what those things were that cost a quarter and 'prevented disease' LOL.