Things You Remember From Childhood (That Everyone Else Has Forgotten)

**uffdaphil** · 07-23-16, 09:08

Geezer fifties memories:

First color tv in a store window. About a 6" screen. A big crowd oohing over it.
First tv period. Not enough new kid's programming to fill the time so we got to see all the wonderful cartoons and westerns from the 30-40's.
Baseball cards clothespinned in bike spokes.
Playing marbles for keeps before school.
Listening to scary guys asking " Are you now or have you ever been..."
Coonskin hats.
Building forts and "chugs" (cars w/rope steering) out of scrap lumber.
Going to sleep listening to top 40 via ear bud of Rocket crystal radio.
Great tv western photo cover comics.
Booted out of the house summers after breakfast with a lunch bag and told to not come back til supper.
Match head rockets. And what a paperbag of a couple hundred burned in the basement does.

**jmp45** · 07-23-16, 09:18

Fox mini bikes, Stingrays, Slot Car Racing, Estes rockets, M80s, bb guns, GW Invaders, Water Skiing, Snow Skiing, Leave it to Beaver, Space Angel and Combat! What I don't miss is horrendous sunburns and poison ivy..

Oh yes, match head rockets... did that too.

**JasonB1** · 07-23-16, 09:29

TV sets that were housed in a cabinet that was made to the same quality level of decent wood furniture that took at least 2 men to move around.

**JasonB1** · 07-23-16, 09:35

Originally Posted by sva01

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Mine was a Murray copy. Eventually converted the seat, handle bars, and tires over to BMX stuff.

**sva01** · 07-23-16, 11:24

As a child of the late 70's and the 80's I give you these:

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Velcro shoes, parachute pants, Vision Street Wear, Powell Peralta...

**LowSpeed_HighDrag** · 07-23-16, 11:30

I remember...Pokemon was for children. Everybody suddenly forgot that two weeks ago.

**HKGuns** · 07-23-16, 11:50

It is still for kids.

Lets be clear, this homie ain't doing no damn pokie-mon crap.

**Firefly** · 07-23-16, 13:59

I remember Vision Street Wear. I remember when Tony Hawk was a kid and youbonly knew his name if you read Thrasher

I also remember thise old jams pants. They looked like Venusian camouflage or something you got of a homeless person who slept near a paint drainage pipe. They were hideous but for five minutes in the 80s they were the coolest thing ever.