The Nostalgia Thread

[Amy SF]

I also loved but wasn't very good at the hula hoop. Loved hop scotch and reading Enid Blyton books. I also remember
Cocoa Cola in glass bottles and ice cream sodas.

Almost everything is sold in plastic containers now. It's taken me forever to get used to it, and I'm still not completely used to it. Food just doesn't taste as good when it's packaged in plastic as opposed to glass. I know it's lighter and cheaper, but bleh.

 

[shyvas]

Almost everything is sold in plastic containers now. It's taken me forever to get used to it, and I'm still not completely used to it. Food just doesn't taste as good when it's packaged in plastic as opposed to glass. I know it's lighter and cheaper, but bleh.

Same here.
I don't like plastic but it is so much lighter which is an important element for me when packing my goodies to take back home from the UK.
I often transfer my liquids from plastic into glass containers that I keep. Some fruit juices and cordials are still sold in glass bottles.

 

[thefadedone]

I also loved but wasn't very good at the hula hoop. Loved hop scotch and reading Enid Blyton books. I also remember
Cocoa Cola in glass bottles and ice cream sodas.

Root beer floats.

 

[shyvas]

Root beer floats.[/quote]

We also used to drink Shandy which doesn't seem very popular anymore.

 

[beancounter]

Matchbox cars!

 

[shyvas]

Parma violets.

Spearmint or coconut ice cream lollies bought at the corner shop on a hot summer's day.

 

[beancounter]

Sitting in the back of a station wagon.

 

[Amy SF]

Sitting in the back of a station wagon.

The outward-facing "jump seat" in the back of the station wagon. Before the SUV came along, this was how moms could take several kids to Little League games.

 

[Envy]

 

[thefadedone]

The outward-facing "jump seat" in the back of the station wagon. Before the SUV came along, this was how moms could take several kids to Little League games.

Sitting in the backseat was the best. We would always wave to the cars behind us. It must've been hella distracting to the drivers though.

Playing outside and not coming in until the sun went down.

 

[Spidergrrl]

We also took driving vacations to places like Mesa Verde to see the cliff dwellings and Sequoia National Park to see the giant trees. At Mesa Verde I recall climbing up this tall ladder and entering one of the dwellings. I don't think they let people do that anymore. Something about protecting the cliff dwellings. I also recall driving through a hole cut through the base of one of the giant redwood trees, and cars were pretty wide back then. The idea was to show everyone how big these trees can be. I don't think they do that anymore, either, since it damages the trees.

Oh Amy SF!!!!!!! I did this as well when i was 6 year sold on a trip--my dad was doing a lecture tour of the U.S. on a bus with university students and my mum and I got to go!! he would lecture as we drove along and then we'd stop and see some interesting sights. Every night we'd stay in a hotel. We also did colonial Williamsburg on that trip.

I loved Mesa Verde so much that my first social studies project for the SS Fair was on Mesa Verde!!!!

I was just thinking today that children at my school can use a computer better than i can. I was 22 before i used a computer. I had seen one--but had never used one. My best mate in high school had a comodore 64 and I was so over awed by it I never touched it.

can you recall when you printed from a computer the paper had these little strips with punch holes on the sides that you had to pull off?

 

[Amy SF]

can you recall when you printed from a computer the paper had these little strips with punch holes on the sides that you had to pull off?

We had this type of printer and printer paper where I worked, from 1985 into the early 90's.

 

[Mr Crunchy]

Jarts? Yeah, those were done in by lawsuits, I think.

It's all good fun until someone puts their eye out.

I remember pay phones.

And manual typewriters. I read recently that the last company still manufacturing them, somewhere in India, is going stop making them soon.

I watched the original broadcasts of the first Star Trek series.

Also, Gilligan's Island, Get Smart and Laugh In.

 

[Amy SF]

I bought a couple of Laugh-In tie-in books back in the day. I think I still have them.

I remember standing in a record store with only enough money to buy one album. I had a hard time deciding between a Partridge Family album and the Carly Simon album No Secrets. I finally went with No Secrets, and while I enjoyed that album for most of the decade, where is Carly Simon today? I'll bet the Partridge Family tie-in album is worth more on eBay. *thinks*

 

[das_nut]

Wayne's World is one of those movies with so many cultural references that I doubt it'll age well.

 

[Moll Flanders]

^ I would probably still find that film funny despite that. I saw a bit of a Bill and Ted film a couple of years ago and found it completely annoying though and I remember thinking it was really good at the time.

My Little Pony, Cabbage Patch Kids, Care Bears, Sindy dolls, I had two ballerina ones. I didn't ever have a Tiny Tears doll and I always wanted a Mr Frosty drinks maker too.

 

[beancounter]

We had this type of printer and printer paper where I worked, from 1985 into the early 90's.

Oh, I remember those. the bane of my existence. You have to thread and line them up just right, or the check number would be out of sequence, and then you had to try again...and again.

 

[thefadedone]

^ I would probably still find that film funny despite that. I saw a bit of a Bill and Ted film a couple of years ago and found it completely annoying though and I remember thinking it was really good at the time.

My Little Pony, Cabbage Patch Kids, Care Bears, Sindy dolls, I had two ballerina ones. I didn't ever have a Tiny Tears doll and I always wanted a Mr Frosty drinks maker too.

Me too and an Easy Bake oven.

 

[beancounter]

When gas stations filled your tank, cleaned your windshield and checked your oil.

 

[Calliegirl]

We used to go to the drive ins when I was a kid. My parents would let us sit on the hood to watch, and sometimes set up a blanket in front of the car for us kids to sit on. I'll never know how we didn't get run over sitting on the ground in the dark.

Saturdays were the best. A big bowl of sugar drenched cereal while watching H.R. Pufnstuf, Lidsville, Sigmund and the Sea Monsters and The Smurfs. Then walking down to Tower Records with our allowance to buy the newest singles on 45's, then to Ralph's 5,10,25 cent store to buy a 10 cent Hershey's candy bars and a Tiger Beat magazine. Stopping at Woolworth's if we needed to buy gifts. One last stop to play some pinball at the bowling alley and then back home to listen to our new records and drool over the Tiger Beat centerfolds.

Other things that were fun...

Playing Hide n Seek with all the neighborhood kids and having water balloon fights in the summer. All the neighbors were friendly and nice, so we could chase each other across their lawns or hide on the side of their houses.

Cruising Van Nuys Blvd when we were teens. We didn't have a car, so someone with an El Camino or Truck would usually stop and let us jump in the back for a couple of trips up and down the Blvd.

The movies were always double features, sometimes with a few cartoons thrown in as well. If you really liked the movie you could stay to watch it a second (or third) time, so you could pretty much spend the whole day at the movies for 75 cents.

Does anyone remember those silly plastic things that looked like upside down cups with string attached. You would stand on the plastic things and walk around. Just found them, they were called romper stompers.

Click Clacks were fun despite the bruises.
Lite Brite.
Shrinky Dinks.