Back in my day, we had the following items-------Magic 8 ball, Rubix cube, Lava lamp, black lights

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for our neon posters..You can include any of these and others if you want. Oh, pet rocks, mood rings.wiglets. clothing, make up. Tops paper , chemisty or science kits, haircuts. Thank you ,Floyd for inspiration.

[Walleye]

1. Hula hoops, silly putty, slinky, poodle skirt

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3. I remember all except the poodle skirt. I really liked the silly putty.

[Effete Snob]

19. .

[wishstar]

22. Trolls were indeed a huge fad in my grade school days

More of us had them than Barbies.

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28. I had 4 trollls--two larger ones were the parents and two smaller ones were the kids. I had a carry

case for them. Also made dresses and pants for them.

[lark]

25. I remember poodle skirts!

My dad was the cheapest man alive and he wouldn't allow mom to get us good clothes, especially when we were first going to school. So nothing cool like poodle skirts for us. However, we got really lucky and an aunt sent us a box of clothes from her girls who were a few years older than us. I got a PODDLE SKIRT! I was so freaking happy, I wore it to school the very next day and got all kinds of oohs and ahhs. My sister wore it the next year and was very happy with it too. That was a great skirt, made 4 young girls around the age of 6 very happy.

Extra good part, mom saw how much difference this made in our attitudes about school and started making our dresses. Pants weren't allowed in those days. We got to pick out the styles and material and everyone was happy. It was more fun than shopping and we had unique pretty clothes, not embarassing ones.

[Walleye]

26. Great story, thanks, I certainly remember when girls weren't allowed to wear pants to school

[LeftInTX]

45. My mom tried to make me a Poodle skirt in 1969!

I was like, "H to the No, this isn't the 50s!"
We were moving from CA to WI. "The kids aren't gonna be like CA kids. They will like old fashioned clothes"

Poodle skirt didn't happen

[lark]

47. Oh, that show had long gone by then.

I had my poodle skirt in 1959ish timeframe.

[LeftInTX]

60. Lol....I know!!! My mom!!

Heck, she may have owned a Poodle skirt herself..lol

[BOSSHOG]

2. 1968

Awesome poster of Jimi Hendrix in my dorm room.

Don’t ya just love BACK IN MY DAY?

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5. I never thought I would be asking back in my day questions. Next I will ask--who here says stay off

my grass. What no neon light, Lava lamp?

[Shellback Squid]

4. I miss lawn darts!

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9. So back in your day they had the metal lawn darts? I remember them, but I think they stopped making

when kids got hurt.

[sinkingfeeling]

6. Tinker toys, Cooties, wooden stick horses and cap guns.

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10. Back in my day I had the game Cooties. Did you have Operation? Also, did you e

ever throw the caps in a grill. Had some friends that did this.

[Walleye]

13. We had Cooties it was fun. We used to make our own gunpowder

You could get the ingredients at a drugstore. It was a lot of fun until my cousin burned his eyebrows off. There’s always somebody to screw it up for you

[Walleye]

12. Yes we had all those I couldn't think of them right away

[CrispyQ]

7. Go-go boots. Transistor radios made in Japan.

Little yellow inserts to play our 45s on a spindle.

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14. I remember the yellow inserts. I was afraid to take them out as it was difficult and I was afraid I

was going to break my 45. I used to listen to baseball games and AM rock.

[NotASurfer]

8. Comic strips in the newspaper

I read Steve Canyon and Lil' Abner. Full color on Sunday. And Pogo, with all the detail inked in

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29. The daily paper had black and white cartoons. The Sunday paper had two inserts with colored comics.-

Charlie Brown, Dagwood, Family Circus, etc.

[Deuxcents]

11. I used to live to play jax..I think that's the spelling..

We’d play for hours. We’d trade our 45’s and yeah, the insert that went with them for the record player. In high school, I had long hair and my sister and I would put a towel over our hair to iron it straight.

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15. Do you mean jacks? I have played jacks. And I used to iron my hair.

[Deuxcents]

16. Yes, jacks..bounce a little ball and pick up little metal objects

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17. Yes has the small ball that you bounce and ss how many jacks could collect before the dropped .

I wasn't very good

[Deuxcents]

18. I thought I was, too! I could scoop up all ten as I had a method

All worked out. I used to carry a little bag kinda thing that was felt with draw strings that held my marbles. Cats eyes, Aggies, shooters..big and small. The boys rarely let me play but I felt cool carrying my marbles around..that was right before jr high.

[NBachers]

20. I looked pretty groovy with my braided leather headband.

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30. Fringe jackets. I had a bead loom and would make beaded neck bands and braclets with seed beads

[NBachers]

35. I decided I was going to make leather stuff so I made fringe leather vests, and leather belts.

Everything I made actually sold pretty well, but alas it was not going to be a legitimate lifetime occupation.

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37. I know. When my son was an infant, I used to make sexy Teddy Bears. Sometimes, I would sell out of

them, other times I wouldn't even make the rental space at the craft fair.

[jcgoldie]

21. 4 foot bong?

Maybe that was just me...

[NBachers]

36. I had friends in Midland Michigan, who made one out of bamboo.

[wishstar]

23. Ouiji boards and water buffalo leather sandals and incense sticks

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31. I did the Ouiji board once at a sleep over. The girls freaked out. I do remember the incense sticks-

came in different flavors.

[GPV]

24. Rainbow-striped toe socks worn with satin jogging shorts. Weeble wobble treehouse. Fashion plates.

Star Wars. Welcome Back Kotter. Real Scooby Doo.

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32. Yes, remember them, but never wore the satin jogging pants.

[moonscape]

27. Penny loafers

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33. I had a pair, It was a pain getting the penny in. Had to get a shiny new penny for the shoes.

[moonscape]

34. The cool ones were when they

lifted up at the toe when broken in. My feet never did that but my sister’s did. She wore a size smaller, but I would cram my feet into them just to see how cool they looked. I still remember my friends whose feet broke in their loafers to be cool and those not to liucky.

Ah, the early teens!

[tblue37]

38. Fuscia muumuus with white go-go boots and pale pink or white lipstick.

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39. ------------

stuff people wore. Any peace beads??

[ProfessorGAC]

40. I Still Have A Lava Lamp

As many here probably already suspect, I had a chemistry set. A big one.
Seems that at 11 or 12, my life's direction was already being set!

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54. I figured you had one,,,,

[ProfessorGAC]

57. Christmas Gift From My Wife

5 or 6 years ago, I think.
It's blue water with the yellow blob of wax.
It's the 16" size.
It fits with the weirdness of the room.
13 guitars on the walls, 2 amps, a piano, recording gear, and a curio filled with laboratory glassware, the big TV & surround sound. Oh, and a lava lamp!

[Niagara]

41. Back in my day we had...

1. Vinyl records, VHS tapes and cassette tapes. I'll never forget how to fix the cassette tape using a pencil.


2. Vacuum sweepers with a disposable bag instead a canister that is dumped out into the trash can.


3. Pay telephone booths, where Clark Kent changed into Superman.


4. Non-smoking and smoking sections at a dine-in restaurant.


5. Corduroy pants. Also adding panty hose or stockings.


6. A Commodore 64.


7. MTV. I mean they use to play music videos on MTV. Also, we had some sort of cable converter box that had 3 different band settings for the TV. I got into trouble once because my mom was recording something on VHS, I switched the box band to watch MTV and whatever she recorded didn't record.


8. Bath tissue came in pastel colors of yellow, pink, blue and green.


9. Saturday morning cartoons.


10. Encyclopedia's. We had several nice sets at home and if someone wanted to know something, we had to look it up. There wasn't internet available to look it up.

[LeftInTX]

46. Man I hate all the vacuum cleaners now!

[Niagara]

52. I've been debating on purchasing an upright bagged Sanitaire vacuum sweeper.

I'm not sure if that vacuum would be a good fit for me.

[LeftInTX]

59. I had an Oreck. Loved it.

Then got a new one that was crap. I do have three Oreck cannisters that I've collected over the years.

I just got new flooring and the only carpet will be an 8 by 10 area rug in the living room.

Hubby bought a Ryobi shop vac. Been using that. No bags, but it picks up good and is light. I have a little dirt devil upright for the carpet.

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48. Yes, I remember all of these. The colored TP was gross. Remember when you hooked the computer to the

phone?

[Niagara]

53. Dial-up! Yes, I remember dial-up internet.

Then when someone was trying to call, they couldn't get through.

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55. Right.

[Volaris]

61. Napster took FOREVER. now I have 5g cellular and a YouTube audio ripper lol.

[consider_this]

42. Clackers, anyone?

At least I think that's what they were called. 2 hard golf ball sized plastic balls each suspended from a ~15" string, both strings joined where you hold the thing. You get a movement going where they clack together loudly repeatedly. I remember them getting banned from school for safety reasons. They were in bright tranlucent gem-like looking colors.

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49. I remember them. I think that they were banned everywhere because kids were hurting themselves and

others. I had clackers and they were as you described --translucent gem balls.

[yellowdogintexas]

43. Back in the day...... we had

1. Lincoln logs made of wood
2. Tinker Toys also wood
3. Erector sets - lots of metal for injuring yourself
4. Chemistry sets with the potential for injury
5. Toy stoves that actually worked. (I had one and cooked scrambled egg on it)
6. Wood burning kits good for a bad burn if you were not careful
7. Those plastic bubbles you blew up on a straw. It was some sort of goo in a tube that you put on the end of the straw and then blew into it. It reeked of chemicals and we loved them
8. Cap guns (are those still around)?
9 Smoking sections did not exist
10 Kookla, Fran and Ollie & Rootie Kazootie
11. Real Five & Dime stores
12. Original Nancy Drew books. I still have a few
13. Girls could not wear pants to school, unless it was very cold. Then we could wear them under our dresses
14. Drugstores with soda fountains and lunch counters.
15. Creeks to wade or swim in. Out in the country you make do with what you've got. It was 15 miles to the nearest swimming pool

There have to be more, since I grew up in the 50s & 60s but this is what I came up with on short notice
None of these things exist anymore

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50. I remember these and Tonka trucks.

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44. Clacker balls!

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51. I remember them. You had to be careful when you slowed down as they would go every which way.

[consider_this]

56. Thingmaker!!! with...

Creepy Crawlers - (most awesome!)
Creeple People - (fun, but nothing beats the crawlers)

and the most disgusting:
Incredible Edibles - (YUK!)

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58. I liked the creepy crawlers--the final result would be a soft plastic bug.