What is something from your childhood...

[Cybercowboy]

Originally Posted by VatorMan

Walking 7 miles to school in the snow barefoot-both ways.

Well, it was more like 5 blocks, but yeah.

[Fasglas]

1965

[86RAG]

[Aerovette]

Bush?

Carrying books at school and doing homework on paper from a book.

Learning cursive

Shop class

Mechanical drawings done in pencil

Reel to reel tapes

8mm movies

B&W TV

Mini-bikes

Tree forts

Playing outside

Playing cowboys and indians

Jarts

[04 commemorative]

paper folded maps you got for free at a gas station.....and you ran over a black hose that rang a bell to alert someone you were there to get gas. I used to wear white pants,shirt and a black tie to pump gas at Hess......26.9 cents a gallon

[Iron Chef]

Hard work.

[TripleBlack]

Walking 4 blocks to school alone in 1st thru 3rd grade then coming home and shooting at birds with a BB gun unsupervised.

Pumping 16 cent gas at my dad's service station.

Carrying a pocket knife to school most every day and playing mumbly peg at recess.

Being thankful that our rotary dial phone was not on a party line like many of my friends.

[FasterTraffic]

Originally Posted by chinaski

Eating at a Pizza Hut Restaurant...on a Pac Man Game Table.
Video Game Arcades
Records and Tape Players
Tube Socks with Stripes
Driving a Carbureted car in the winter
The time before craft beer

The Dark Ages...

Originally Posted by chinaski

I still use them daily.

New editions or you hung on to an old one? I don't know - do they still publish them in hard copy?

[VatorMan]

[Ol Timer]

Riding a bicycle behind the city mosquito fogger spraying DDT and pretending we were fighter pilots flying through clouds.

3 digit phone number - no dial. Or we could just tell the operator who we wanted to talk to and they would ring.

Ice delivery.

No fast food franchises -all restaurants were local mom and pop.

Town square.

Saturday morning tv test pattern waiting for Hoppy, Lone Ranger or Sky King.

3 TV channels.

Getting spanked.

[Cybercowboy]

Originally Posted by VatorMan

That looks very familiar. One of my classmates must have had one. I think I remember having a Lost in Space lunch box.

[VatorMan]

Originally Posted by Cybercowboy

That looks very familiar. One of my classmates must have had one. I think I remember having a Lost in Space lunch box.

I could remember going with my Mom to get school supplies. Always got a new binder,pencil holder, and lunch box. In younger days, new Chief tablet.

[OddBall]

I grew up in Fayetteville NC, a basetown for Fort Bragg. Half my family was in the military, the other half were hippies.

I remember seeing rooms full of strange combinations of military fatigues, love beads, Vietnam artifacts that would not even get into the country now; such as ivory and elephant feet and ears. Along with a lot of bamboo junk, little Budda statues, and a bunch of silk. Spent artillery casings made into bongs and other hippie art. Shag carpets, parachutes hanging from the ceilings and 82nd airborne insignia on everything. Zodiac posters and Donovan playing through a pot haze.

Culture clashes from hell. Weird times, weird times indeed.
I had a kick-ass lava lamp though.

[VatorMan]

Speaking of shag carpets-we had shag carpet in our living room. I swear during the winter it could produce enough static electricity to power Dallas for a day. I could still remember the terror when I'd see my dog running across the carpet to jump in my lap.

[bsmith]

Tossing one off to a JC Penney catalog, because even getting your hands on a playboy was impossible.

[markids77]

Station wagons, and riding in the way back.

[Kevin_73]

Originally Posted by Ol' Timer

Getting spanked.

I'm pretty sure that's still available in Las Vegas.

[snide]

Originally Posted by TripleBlack

Being thankful that our rotary dial phone was not on a party line like many of my friends.

Yup, we had a party line when we lived in the country.

Originally Posted by Ol' Timer

3 TV channels.

Getting spanked.

Had 3 channels, and they were mostly "snowy". Yup, got spanked as a kid. My 12 year old could use a good spanking.

[Ol Timer]

Originally Posted by Kevin_73

I'm pretty sure that's still available in Las Vegas.

I'm not gonna ask how you know that!

[Lakota]

In the 50's and early 60's cars had real chrome bumpers . In the rust belt of the country in winter to protect against salt on the roads, people put cosmoline on the chrome bumpers. Cosmoline is a brown waxy substance.