Memories of being a kid - Time flies

xvxCelticWandererxvx

My bedroom walls looked a little like this ....

Dr_Flo

oooooh Top Gun .. I used to LOVE that movie

Linli_Anne

I still remember the episode of Reading Rainbow where Levar Burton took the audience to the Star Trek set, and I was SHOCKED when he assumed post as Geordi LaForge, because I had always thought that person ALWAYS wore those awesome glasses.

laarae

Beimg able to go outside in the morning and when time to come home home would stand on the porch and whistle us in.
Chatty Cathy
Barbie clothes made by my aunt's loving hands
Saturday morning cartoons
The Beatles on Ed Sullivan
JFK assassination
Moon walk
Elvis on Ed Sullivan
Saturday night boxing fights (sit down and be quiet or go outside)
Farm animals (cows, chickens, horses....inside city limits
Pow Wow parade down Pearl Street (before it became a mall)
Micheal Jackson. Bobby Sherman, Davey Jones, David Cassidy, The Archies, Here Come The Brides, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Perry Mason so many memories-good to bring some of them back (up)

Dr_Flo

Dr_Flo

traceytwink

Elastic
Jump rope
Riding my bike (still do that)
Sindy dolls
Trampolining
Space hoppers
Making rose petal perfume

LauraMacNCheese

xvxCelticWandererxvx

avababy05

Who remembers "Dance Party USA" and rushing home from school to call dibs on the one tv in the house to watch it?

I remember that! Kelky Ripa was on it.

avababy05

I'm seriously loving this thread...

Love this!

SakuraRose13

Bomb pops I use to get them from the icecream truck, my little ponies still have some, big wheels, sit and spin ,catching fireflies,and all around just being young and not having a care in the world.

BrainyBurro

Buddhasmiracle

Beimg able to go outside in the morning and when time to come home home would stand on the porch and whistle us in.
Chatty Cathy
Barbie clothes made by my aunt's loving hands
Saturday morning cartoons
The Beatles on Ed Sullivan
JFK assassination
Moon walk
Elvis on Ed Sullivan
Saturday night boxing fights (sit down and be quiet or go outside)
Farm animals (cows, chickens, horses....inside city limits
Pow Wow parade down Pearl Street (before it became a mall)
Micheal Jackson. Bobby Sherman, Davey Jones, David Cassidy, The Archies, Here Come The Brides, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Perry Mason so many memories-good to bring some of them back (up)

Well, except for the farm animals inside city limits and the parade I would add:

Neil Armstrong's walk on the moon
the pinto car explosions and Ralph Nader
Soupy Sales, White Fang and Black Tooth
Captain Kangaroo
Stones concerts for 3.00
Roger Ramjet and his Fighting Eagles
Rocky and Bull Winkle
White go go boots and "birds"
paisley print and carnaby street
Spiro Agnew and "effete snobs."
Watergate
The Assasinations of the Kennedys Martine Luther King and Malcolm X
March on Washington and MLK's I have a Dream speech
Mary Tyler Moore
Star Trek
Out all day during the summer and cutting through other neighbor's yards to get home.
No leash laws for dogs.
pick up games of baseball, cards, bike riding
Baby oil as sun tan lotion
and much much more

hacker1234

Spending Saturday mornings looking for pop bottles with a couple friends along the roadway so we could turn them in for .02 each. A long day could yield enough to buy a pint of ice cream that we would sit around and enjoy.

Buddhasmiracle

How could I forget: WOODSTOCK

ltgarrow

Two words: American Gladiators

TheBaileyHunter

Sister and I leaving the house by 8am and not coming home until it was at least 7pm.
Playing in the gravel pit, selling interesting rocks,
Building an outdoor fort area down by the river,
Building birds nests and putting them up in the trees hoping birds would use them,
Barefoot races across fields and over gravel roads,
Skip-rope contests to see who could do the most,
Climbing...everything including the house,
Selling tours to our friends of our 'haunted basement'
When my cousins would come to visit, selling seats to friends to watch one of them eat worms. We were entrepreneurs.

It was all with my sister though. Every memory as a kid pretty much included her - except busting my arm and the time I cracked my head open.

PepperWorm

OMG, the ice cream truck. I used to always get that tutti fruity/bubblegum flavor thing with two gum balls at the bottom. It lost the flavor after like 2 seconds.

Love this thread.

UrnAsh

90's music and riding bikes