OMG, creepy crawlers (I think it was crawlers, not crawlies)…they were a CPSC nightmare (the original ones), they had this heat source that set the plastic you poured in the molds, and it was hot, you touch the unit or the plastic before it cooled and you got burned…and thus to my friends and I were cool, what was a burn or two?
Anyone remember strat-o-matic baseball?
a big one was all the places people smoked, that today would seem downright ick factor…that hit home how normal smoking indoors was back in the day, when I went to Europe a number of years ago and was totally taken aback by how common smoking was.
Then, of course, we had the old style tv dinners (do they still make them, in the foil trays?)…I can only imagine what was in them. Given that my mom was an excellent cook and there would be no reason for them, I had my first one when I was like a teenager, my parents weren’t home, and i made one for myself…and wondered why I did it lol.
Space food sticks were in the 70’s. I used to babysit for a house that had them so would eat them there. They also had Tang and Spam. We had none of those.
You got scooters, @slipjig?! We had no scooters! I feel cheated! guess my school was too cheap. It was a good workout, in retrospect.
I remember that huge rope that hung from the ceiling of the gym that we had to try to climb. I sucked at that. Plus I’m afraid of heights.
And the Presidential Fitness Test and awards. I suck at throwing so the softball throw would always do me in.
We always had field day during the last week of elementary school and would compete in things like the wheelbarrow race and the 3 legged race and we’d use old neckties for the 3 legged race to tie our legs together.
Yes, @doschicos - is that what they were called “cootie catchers?” I wanted to mention them but could not find the words to describe them that made any sense. They were made out of loose leaf paper right?
I was never a big fan of climbing the ropes. A classmate fell from the top where the rope was tied straight down and tore up the skin of his inner thighs. I learned a lesson out on the track during one gym period…ALWAYS wear a jock strap during gym class just in case something might be exposed. The girls got quite a show that day from a boy sprinting so hard his jewels popped out.
@HarvestMoon1 We used whatever paper we had around which was usually loose leaf notebook paper but I remember we really liked graph paper in 4th grade for some reason.
I was one of the few girls who could make it up the climbing rope to the ceiling of the gym. Since there was some upcoming remodeling, we were allowed to sign our name on the ceiling of the gym in marker.
Speaking of markers, what was your favorite smell of the scented markers? I really liked the blue raspberry.
Remember car phones back in the 1980s before cell phones?. For some reason my H had one from 1987. We found it cleaning out the garage. The thing is huge!
My dad would not let me watch those 60’s dance shows with the dancers in the cages wearing short shorts and go go boots. It made him so angry they would put that on TV. Inappropriate.
Shindig and Hullabaloo. Had to Google them.
