Here’s a thread where we can bring up fairly obscure things that we remember from our youth. I am 64 so I would expect you’d need to be around my age to remember…The Lloyd Thaxton Show. Anyone? It was a dance party type show similar to American Bandstand. I remember seeing it after school, no idea if it was once a week or every day.
Little Rascals?
Didn’t they grow up and become the Young Rascals? LOL.
Relievio…Fractured Flickers…Petal Pushers.
Watching Felix the Cat on TV after school.
Family Affair, Captain Kangaroo and The Gong Show.
Do you remember Space Food Sticks? I’m guessing late 60s during the astronaut craze. I remember favoring the peanut butter ones. That and Tang.
Fizzies that you would drop into water like alka seltzer , that when they completely dissolved made a drink like Kool Aid
Candy cigarettes
They still sell candy cigarettes.
You can still sometimes find them today but candy cigarettes with the red tip (easy pretty crappy), those wax lips, and the little wax bottles with liquid in them. We had some odd “candy” back in the day.
And Earth Shoes, those weird shoes that were higher in the front than the back.
ESSO gas stations.
Garbage Pail Kids trading cards.
Hari Krishna
@TonyK, were they petal pushers, or pedal pushers? I thought they were named pedal pushers because you could ride your bike easier? I obviously could be 100% wrong.
Amd we have them back again, they just call them “cropped”.
You are right @hayden They’re pedal pushers.
Anyone remember paper dresses? You wore them a few times and threw them away. That craze lasted just a month or so at my school.
They had paper bikinis too @TatinG
I remember not wearing helmets or seatbelts. I remember laying in the space behind the back seats below the window as we drove. I remember leaving the house in the morning and maybe not coming back until dinner.
^That had to be after 5 yrs old because I was in a half day kindergarten program. While in K, I left in the morning and remember getting back late one time for afternoon kindergarten. So I was obviously not in my parents yard. And I was obviously suppose to be back for lunch, not dinner. After that, I could go all day. So could all of my friends. it wasn’t as if my parents were lenient or bad…
And although I lived in NYC, my parents house was surrounded by land with ponds and acres of woods. It was Staten Island before the Varenzzano Bridge.
Not suggesting going back. But we did so many things that parents today would totally freak out about. And the truth of the matter we have progressed so far and yet regressed maybe an equal amount. Maybe we are just treading.
Every Christmas season, one of my asshole partners at my old law firm would send around a nostalgic “do you remember” list … It would always have items like “when moms were at home with cookies when children came home from school” and other similar tidbits. Just seeing the title of this thread makes my blood boil with the memory of it!
But anyway … Dittos pants and Sun-In!
And, in the headsmack category, using hitchhiking as a major form of transportation.
Fractured Fairy Tales. Alfred E. Neuman. Scary 1950s comic books. Annette Funicello & Frankie Avalon. Running around the neighborhood for hours with no one worrying about kidnapping or molesting or …