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When I Was a Kid....

Love the new thread Ella!!

WIWAK we would spend the bulk of summer in the lake. Playing marco polo, riding the waves from speed boats and making mud pies. The summer you could prove you can swim across the lake was a rite of passage. We too had to be in when the street lights came on. I rode my bike everywhere. A trip to the corner store, a mile away, for bazooka gum with the little cartoon in it was a daily ritual.

During fall we would rid our yard of leafs by raking them to the street and burning them. (We are no longer allowed to burn in the old neighborhood, but we can at our new house! Yay!)

Winter was spent back at the lake, ice skating or just walking around it.
 
WIWAK I remember growing up watching Dallas with my Grandma and my Mom

WIWAK I remember going on road trips and having to actually talk to my family, play road sign games or sleep to avoid my family instead of having DVD players or iPads/iPods

WIWAK I remember reading a thing called a book with PAGES that you turn

WIWAK I remember VCR's and VCR tapes
 
WIWAK I remember bedtime was the same time Cheers came on, I hid in the hall and listened to that opening song when my parents thought I was in my room.. lol
 
wiwak the only way to see a naked woman was to stay over my friends home and sneak into my friends moms room as she bathed.
 
WIWAK Christmas products didn't appear in the shops til well after Halloween!

Toy advertisements were on tv only in the few weeks before Christmas

The 'nit nurse' made sure schools weren't infested with head lice

No one I knew at school was on a diet/wanted a boob job/fake tan etc etc

Being on benefits was not a lifestyle choice

Oh and you could actually get an appointment to see your own doctor on the day you were ill ....:rolleyes:
 
WIWAK

I played outside, until i was forced inside
Getting filthy was a way of life
PONG was the new video game I had to play
I saw the evolution of the 8-track, to cassette, to cd
I knew all my friends phone numbers by heart
When it rained too hard to play baseball, we played football
Wrestling was real ::snerk::
Trading baseball cards was really a science
We didn't need a holiday for a big family get together
There were several kids "left behind" and it did them for the better
The first cable box had 30 buttons on a box that was hard wired to the tv
When the president spoke to the nation everyone listened because it was on all 3 channels
We welcomed new neighbors with a pie
We showed respect for anyone older than we were
Family meant Love
The ice cream man never was under suspicion - and always showed at 6:00
 
When I was a kid...

I only remember there being one type of milk
Coffee was far less complicated
I was the TV remote control during the ad breaks
“Reality” on TV was on the news or a documentary
 
damoisellefly said:
I remember cutting records off the backs of cereal boxes WIWAK, too!

and...WIWAK we could walk to the Woolworth's 2 miles down the road and buy an Icee for a quarter - and it was considered a safe thing for a little kid to do.

Thank you, Ellafun, for this really fun thread!:)
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Thank you! I'm loving all these stories!!

jre1962 said:
Ha! I was just thinking about that. WIWAK, a ballgame on TV was an event

Hi Ella:rose:

John
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Hi, John! You're looking awesome, as always!!!:kiss:

thesweetsweetness said:
Love the new thread Ella!!
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Thank you, Sweets! It's the damn kids reminding me how old I am!!

amigayorbi said:
Wiwak I was still a horny pecker :D
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Thanks! Glad to know that some things haven't changed...;)
 
WIWAK

TV was 5 channels -- the big 3, an independent, and PBS

I was a TV remote that also retrieved beers

"Pong" just came out

I thought "Afternoon Delight" was just another innocent song like "Puff the Magic Dragon"

Disappearing in the woods basically all summer (checking in for dinner)
 
WIWAK there were REAL toy prizes in the bottom of the Cracker Jack box. (Like cheap-ass plastic rings!)

WIWAK bicycles with banana seats and aper-hanger handlebars were all the rage.

WIWAK our local UHF channels featured some of the coolest Saturday morning programming, which later in life turned into Mystery Science Theater 3000!

WIWAK milk in the school cafeteria was 5 cents. And chocolate wasn't an option!
 
I am also realizing now that WIWAK, people only bought houses they could afford.

We paid for everything in cash.

The term "Living Paycheck to Paycheck" was a way of life.

And if you got a job in a decent company, you were there until you retired.
 
Ellafun said:
WIWAK there were REAL toy prizes in the bottom of the Cracker Jack box. (Like cheap-ass plastic rings!)

WIWAK bicycles with banana seats and aper-hanger handlebars were all the rage.

WIWAK our local UHF channels featured some of the coolest Saturday morning programming, which later in life turned into Mystery Science Theater 3000!

WIWAK milk in the school cafeteria was 5 cents. And chocolate wasn't an option!
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banana seat bicycles with playing cards in the spokes so it sounded like a motorcycle -- no helmets

5 cent milk -- I remember that -- get the ones on the bottom if you could -- still cold

Tonka trucks, legos, toy guns, hot wheels

no such thing as video games
 
Right on...cool thread...
WIWAK my dad made us get up to change the TV channels
WIWAK we required anteneas on the TV to get reception
WIWAK I wore toughskin jeans with patches my ma sewed on the knees
WIWAK phones did not have buttons
WIWAK there wasn't a password for everything...only a secret word from time to time
 
WIWAK milk and bread were delivered to the house twice each week.

WIWAK the television weatherman had his maps on a flip chart.

WIWAK our television screen was round.

WIWA(older)K I used a slide rule in my math and science classes.
 
Holdingaturn said:
Right on...cool thread...
WIWAK my dad made us get up to change the TV channels
WIWAK we required anteneas on the TV to get reception
WIWAK I wore toughskin jeans with patches my ma sewed on the knees
WIWAK phones did not have buttons
WIWAK there wasn't a password for everything...only a secret word from time to time
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Toughskins! I hated those with a passion -- repressed memories......
 
Holdingaturn said:
Right on...cool thread...
WIWAK my dad made us get up to change the TV channels
WIWAK we required anteneas on the TV to get reception
WIWAK I wore toughskin jeans with patches my ma sewed on the knees
WIWAK phones did not have buttons
WIWAK there wasn't a password for everything...only a secret word from time to time
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Thank you!

WIWAK we also had to use a pair of needle-nose pliers to get the sound to come in right on the huge TV console. Same school repair that taught us to bang the top of the TV with our fist to get better reception!!!:D
 
WIWAK,

In addition to milk and bread, a farmer would deliver eggs and potatoes.

We also had a butcher deliver sausage. I think my mom was sweet on him, but I was too young to realize it at the time. :D

Occasionally, we had vegetables delivered. My mom would chat the driver up while my brother and I ate raw green beans from the truck. :rolleyes::eek:

Cable TV was a big deal. Not every township or borough could get it when it first came out.

Food shopping was always done on Friday night, because that's when the old man got paid. Dinner that night usually was lunch meat sandwiches, or mom would make a pizza.

Beer, whether bottled or canned, required a church key.
 
Ellafun said:
Thank you!

WIWAK we also had to use a pair of needle-nose pliers to get the sound to come in right on the huge TV console. Same school repair that taught us to bang the top of the TV with our fist to get better reception!!!:D
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Hahh...We had the same thing when the knobs broke off!!! I am pretty certain that is why needle nose vice grips were invented. We had a set of them on top of our tv too....how about the tin foil on the antenea....or when the antenea broke...a makeshift antenea was make from a coat hanger!!!
 
WIWAK we didn't need a boxed craft kit to be creative.
 
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