Blast from the past! Remember when..

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  • Birdie
    Birdie Posts: 256 Member
    I was in an antique store today with a friend and we saw an old pair of rollerskates that clamp on to your shoe. Only these skates had wheels made of some kind of plastic. I showed them to my friend and said "we had these but our wheels were metal" and she says "these must be a newer model". UGH! Even the antique store has stuff we consider "newer"! I'm getting old.
  • aprilOh9
    aprilOh9 Posts: 9 Member
    Ok...not sure how many people will remember this one, because it was only on for a year. I loved the show Rags to Riches.

    Remember it was based off a made for tv movie? I had that taped on VHS and watched it so many times!
  • EmilyTwist1
    EmilyTwist1 Posts: 206 Member
    I remember when gas cost less than $1 a gallon.
  • tubbs_nomore
    tubbs_nomore Posts: 58
    I remember when your Doctor would offer you a cigarette and pass you the ashtray in his office during your visit!! My Dentist used to have a cigarette hanging out of his mouth while he was working on my teeth, as a young child, and whenever he said anything to me ashes would fall off & land in my mouth that was clamped open....GAWD I hated that man!! I remember Commander Tom & Uncle Bobby shows... clackers....broke a few fingers with those things lol We had a corner store that sold "grab bags" of candy....if you bought the 1cent one...you were VERY popular at school...if you were lucky enough to get a 5 cent bag, you had candy for a week! and good stuff too! TV shows like The Time Tunnel, and Land of the Giants...heck, I could go on all night :happy:
  • DMZ_1
    DMZ_1 Posts: 2,889 Member
    I remember when gas was below $2 a gallon. When gas first hit $2 around me in late 2004/early 2005, I remember really disliking it. Now I wish we could have $2 gas again.

    I remember VHS tapes.

    The NBA on NBC, and also on CBS before that, but I can't remember that as clearly.
  • WickedBean
    WickedBean Posts: 244 Member
    I remember having to use a card catalog to find things at the library.
    I remember having to fill in the paper to take a book from the library - no barcodes or electronic scanners.
    I remember a time before Google
    I remember when EVERYONE had websites and not just a facebook page.
    I remember DOS .
  • Cliffslosinit
    Cliffslosinit Posts: 5,044 Member
    I remember when i was my dad's remote to the tv.
  • Cliffslosinit
    Cliffslosinit Posts: 5,044 Member
    Oh and penny candy was a penny.

    Edit...misspelled a word
  • avir8
    avir8 Posts: 671 Member
    I remember the nintendo cartridges and you had to blow on them to get them to play just right.

    Remeber when you could walk your loved one all the way to the terminal at the airport.

    Remember perms

    Remember when kids had to use their imagination to play a game
  • chlorisaann
    chlorisaann Posts: 366 Member
    Punky Brewster

    Webster

    Different Strokes

    Facts of Life

    Alf

    CHiPs

    Love Boat

    Fantasy Island

    Mork and Mindy

    Land of the Lost

    I think I watched too much TV as a kid...

    Xanadu

    Breakfast Club

    16 Candles

    St. Elmo's Fire

    Did we grow up together?? These are some of my all time faves!!!!
  • DancingNanies
    DancingNanies Posts: 41 Member
    I remember when I felt the excitement of looking through a TV guide in December to see when Rudolph the Red nose Reindeer was gonna air!

    When a song was coming to an end on the radio, waiting by the boombox with your finger on the record button so you didn't miss your new fav song!

    FUN HOUSE!! Best. game show. EVER!
  • kimad
    kimad Posts: 3,010 Member
    I remember:

    - Atari (pre Nintendo)
    - life without cell phones
    - tie die shirts
    - stirup pants
    - perms
    - hair crimpers
    - LOCK UP jeans (yes they locked up)
    - record players (that came with cassette players)
    - making mixed tapes from the radio station
    - when CD's came out
    - when VHS players came with DVD combined
  • kimad
    kimad Posts: 3,010 Member
    When a song was coming to an end on the radio, waiting by the boombox with your finger on the record button so you didn't miss your new fav song!

    YES!!! or hitting the record button quick enough so you got enough song but no radio broadcasters in it talking LOL!!!
  • kimad
    kimad Posts: 3,010 Member
    did anyone ever wear Jelly shoes called Jellies? now they have crocs smh

    Jelly shoes are making a comeback with stir up pants!!
  • kimad
    kimad Posts: 3,010 Member
    Ok...not sure how many people will remember this one, because it was only on for a year. I loved the show Rags to Riches.

    There was a movie called Rags to Riches too, it was good.
    Or all the oldies

    - Family Maters
    - Full House
    - Who's the Boss
    - the one with Suzanne Summers
    - Threes a Company
    - Murder She Wrote
    - Mash

    ahahha
  • kimad
    kimad Posts: 3,010 Member
    Did anyone here own a HYPER COLOR SHIRT???

    YUP!!! did you have lock up jeans?
  • Laura_Suzie
    Laura_Suzie Posts: 1,288 Member
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  • Karleyyy
    Karleyyy Posts: 857
    I REMEMBER POGS.
  • virichi08
    virichi08 Posts: 465 Member
    hmmm, i remember when i wanted lyrics to a song i wud use the cassette tape and rewind the song over and over to hear the words.
    I remember the tape in cassettes coming undone
    i remember gel pens
    i remember when beepers were around..

    AND I REMEMBER WHEN GAS WAS UNDER A DOLLAR =(


    Remember using a pencil to wind the cassette tapes back up? :smile:

    oh yea!!!! lol
  • mccbabe1
    mccbabe1 Posts: 737 Member
    I remember buying fake candy ciggarettes from the ice cream truck as a kid lol.

    bump!! i totaly remember those... my fav were the gum ones! lol
  • navstone
    navstone Posts: 30
    Penny candy, bread 6/$1.00 at the grocery store, gas for 49 a gallon, beta tapes, atari was the bomb, etc LOL:laugh:
  • auntiebabs
    auntiebabs Posts: 1,754 Member
    hmmm, i remember when i wanted lyrics to a song i wud use the cassette tape and rewind the song over and over to hear the words.
    I remember the tape in cassettes coming undone
    i remember gel pens
    i remember when beepers were around..

    AND I REMEMBER WHEN GAS WAS UNDER A DOLLAR =(

    I remember when gas was under a QUARTER and you got free drinking glasses to boot!
    (or free steak knives or salad bowls)
  • CampKelly
    CampKelly Posts: 172 Member
    I remember After School Specials....Richard Dawson kissing all the girls....and no one at my school was allergic to peanut butter or carried an epi pen. Good times!
  • giggles7706
    giggles7706 Posts: 1,491 Member
    I remember Lisa Frank trapper keepers.

    Seriously this is a thing. I teach middle school, and today one of my 8th graders was talking about how it's a cool thing to buy "vintage" Lisa Frank trapper keepers on eBay. It's like retro cool. You know, those good ol' "retro" 1990's!

    I feel old and I'm 27...

    *puts dentures in cup*

    :laugh: OMG. I loved Lisa Frank trapper keepers! I remember begging my mom for one every school year. :D
  • NZhellkat
    NZhellkat Posts: 355 Member
    In New Zealand I remember when;
    milk and bread was home delivered.
    the first KFC opened in Christchurch.
    principals could give you the strap.
    Saturday shopping first happened.
    The first mall was built.
    The overnight ferry from Christchurch to Wellington.
    the train from Christchurch to Lyttleton
    And more recently, I remember when Christchurch did not look like a war zone. :brokenheart:
  • Themuseinme
    Themuseinme Posts: 224 Member
    movies costing 35 cents on a saturday afternoon.
    Gasoline costing 36 cents a gallon!!!!!
    the night the beatles were on ed sullivan show
    black and white tvs
  • HiKaren
    HiKaren Posts: 1,306 Member
    I used to watch American Bandstand... And Soul Train....And The Midnight Special TV series. Donnie And Marie for the first 5 minutes the ice skaters would come out and skate, to start the show. Remember that? Also can't ever forget to mention The Sonny And Cher Show. :smile:
  • CassieReannan
    CassieReannan Posts: 1,479 Member
    I remember when you had to actually go to school and learn, not text/facebook/tweet. When buying a dollars worth of lollies down at the store ment 5 bags full! I rember fuel prices being as low as 30 cents a litre. I remember when you had to record a show and music on tapes and when DVD players came out at around $300 or so. Those were the days.
  • musicstardust67
    musicstardust67 Posts: 299 Member
    Let's see.....


    Old school commercials for things like: cereal like corn pops, hot pockets, tv dinners, kids toys in happy meals...holiday commercials, gushers lol, eggo waffles and toaster strudels lol


    I remember thinking it was the best thing ever to have a car phone

    When call waiting became very popular

    of course all the nick shows


    when my neighborhood used to engage everyone

    treehouses

    this one video store in my town that used to give out free popcorn when you rented vhs tapes!

    discovery zone....good times

    walkmens, cassette tapes, taping things on vhs tapes


    playing a home alone video game as well as playing one of the original mario games

    skip it!

    tamagachi's

    damn furbies lol

    when you could still smoke practically anywhere
  • jerbear1962
    jerbear1962 Posts: 1,157 Member
    I can remember when:
    Gas was 35 cents
    you had only 3 channels of TV
    you could spend 40 bucks at grocery store and bring home 6 or 7 brown bags full.

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