Childhood Memories

[Scotty-G]

This brings back some childhood memories  :)

LiteBrite

[Wildcat]

It brings back memories of spending time with my daughter.  Was not around in my youth.

[La Quinta]

Gee Cat...you are a youngin'!! How about colourforms? Ot the busy buzz buzz pen...?

[Wildcat]

Huh?  ???  That must of been after my time as well.  :P ;D

[Ontrack]

I do remember the annoying LiteBrite TV commercial, but I don't recall the ones LQ was talking about. It must have been around the time when I was pouring lighter fluid on my GI Joes and setting them on fire. And trying to think of something to tell my mom about why my eyebrows suddenly vanished. ::)

[mcanik]

I wasn't allowed to have a GI joe. Parents wouldn't let me play with dolls. They were afraid I may turn funny.
I snuck played with a GI joe and space capsule set tho. Don't tell anyone.

[Scotty-G]

My Dad remembers when we would create images together.  Now he can do that also with my kids  ;D

[West Coast Kansan]

Wow I AM OLD,  ;D

[NePaSmoKer]

Hey

pull my finger   :o game  ;D

nepas

[La Quinta]

ok...so I'm old too...but what about Rockem' Sockum' Robots?

[Wildcat]

ok...so I'm old too...but what about Rockem' Sockum' Robots?

I think you are fairly young.  ;)  Although I was in elementary school, I was around when my folks still had the old Ice Box and the Ice Truck delivered blocks of ice door to door, milk was delivered door to door, color television was being invented, but nobody had one, and the military was experimenting with jet aircraft.  ;D

[Smoked]

Yep-- I remember Lite Brite (my sister had it) and Rock Em/Sock Em Robots (neighbor kid had it)--

but I agree with nepas-- one of the most fun games for a group of boys to play was always "Pull My Finger"... ha!  ;D

[Tiny Tim]

This thread reminds me of this song:

Saw Star Wars at least eight times
Had the Pac-Man pattern memorized
And I've seen the stuff they put inside
Stretch Armstrong (yeah)
I was Roger Staubach in my backyard
Had a shoebox full of baseball cards
And a couple of Evil Knievel scars 
On my right arm
I was a kid when Elvis died
And my momma cried

It was nineteen seventy somethin'
And the world that I grew up in
Farrah Fawcett hairdo days
Bell bottoms and eight track tapes
Lookin' back now I can see me
Oh man, did I look cheesy
But I wouldn't trade those days for nothin'
Oh it was nineteen seventy-somethin'

It was the dawning of a new decade
We got our first microwave
Dad broke down and
Finally shaved them old sideburns off
I took the stickers off of my Rubik's Cube
Watched MTV all afternoon
My first love was Daisy Duke 
And them cut-off jeans.

Space Shuttle fell out of the sky
And the whole world cried

It was nineteen eighty-somethin'
And the world that I grew up in
Skatin' rinks and black Trans-Ams
Big hair and parachute pants
And lookin' back now I can see me
Oh man, did I look cheesy
I wouldn't trade those days for nothin'
Oh it was nineteen eighty-somethin'.

Now I've got a mortgage and an SUV
But all this responsibility
Makes me wish
Sometimes

That it was nineteen eighty-something
And the world that I grew up in
Skatin' rinks and black Trans-Ams
Big hair and parachute pants
And lookin' back now I can see me
Oh man, did I look cheesy
I wouldn't trade those days for nothin'
Oh it was nineteen eighty-something
Nineteen seventy-something
Oh, it was nineteen  somethin'.


Pretty much my life right there, although I never saw "Star Wars" and don't know who Stretch Armstrong was.  Oh yeah, and the rubiks cube....I pried that sucker apart instead of takin' the stickers off. :D

[NePaSmoKer]

ok...so I'm old too...but what about Rockem' Sockum' Robots?

LQ

I still have mt rockem and all my gi joes toys

nepas

[FLBentRider]

Battling tops, bing-bang-boing, going to the "Arcade", playing pinball machines that were 100% mechanical.