@LBowie I am going to bet that they are not around anymore because they now would be considered a “choking hazzard.” Same with marbles - everyone had a bag of marbles when I was young. I never see them anymore - must have been a lot of litigation surrounding these types if toys.
Do a google search for: Rainbow Pop Beads
They are there! Sold by Amazon.
But really…the old ones were pale pastels.
Barrel of Monkeys, Tinker Toys and Lightbrite
@JazzyTXMom I googled it but don’t remember Betsy McCall, but I don’t recall my mom getting the magazine.
Jawbreakers and candy necklaces.
Now, @thumper1, I was gonna post that!
Great stuff, huh?
I loved gimp! We could only buy it in summer at the park where the school district had a morning program with arts and crafts, games, scavenger hunts. Gimp was a penny/yard and lazy daisy was the easiest pattern and square was more difficult.
Gimp reminds me of summer camp. I also remember making spin art, those pot holders out of those fabric loops, basket weaving, and god’s eyes.
Computers…
- Programming with punch cards and mark-sense cards.
- Home computers with 1k, 4k, 16k, 48k bytes of memory.
- 90-140k byte 5.25" floppy disks (which were smaller in physical size than 8" floppy disks).
- 1-5 megabyte hard disks.
- IBM keyboards with a solid feel and click.
- Programmable hand calculators (e.g. HP 41C).
- Old versions of multiuser Unix running on PDP-11 "mini"computers with no more than 4 megabytes of memory.
- ASCII graphics games like Rogue, Star Trek themed games, etc..
- Email addresses that involved specifying a routing through intermediate computers.
- Dot matrix printers.
- The novelty of being able to produce a paper that looked somewhat like a professionally typeset paper with varying fonts, sizes, italics, etc., especially once laser printers became readily available.
Ashtrays in every room in the house, and on every desk at work, and in every car dashboard too.
I used to think collecting early computer memorabilia would be a wise investment. Now I’m certain of it after the many changes in the industry. When I worked for Smith Corona our word processors didn’t accept floppy disks as they used data disks that were a little smaller. That’s like producing a product today that takes an odd size DVD that can’t be used in any laptop or DVD player.
Macrame plant hangers, which seem to be making a bit of a comeback.
Your first apartment. Being classy was having a candle in an empty Mateus bottle on the dining table. Anyone remember Mateus?
I haven’t read the whole thread, so this may have been mentioned, but: your father jumping up every so often to adjust the rabbit ears antenna on the TV, and to fix the vertical and horizontal holds because the picture kept “moving.”
Not something I miss.
We had some sort of ultrasonic remote control for our first color TV. When the dog would jingle its collar, the channel often changed.
Nicknames…Whitey, Oakie, Freckles, Bogie, Burger Bits, Goober, PJ, and mine was either Tony Baloney or Kiss.
Explain that Kiss nickname, @TonyK… 
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I wish I could. Social media rules prevent it though.
Your first apartment.>>>>>
I subscribed to Apartment Living and poured over their articles wishing I could make my place look right. I do not have a decorating gene. Anyway, back then there was a lot of chrome and glass shelves…check…and plants…check. at least I had those shelves. LOL.
Yes, I remember horizontal hold frustrations. I also remember when tv stations would sign off for the night with the Star Spangled Banner.