These videos are double edged for someone who lived through the years. On one hand there are good memories and reminders of our youth, on the other hand it makes you realize you are getting old and will never experience those memories again. I guess that's just part of getting older.
I remember Woolworth's soda fountain. They made the best Cokes. A little syrup and carbonated water. And with a grilled cheese sandwich and some chips. Man, that was living.
What I would give to have my father take us to the shoe store just once more. Tom mccann, Stride rite or Kenny's. Hopefully for a fresh set of hush puppies or wallabies for the coming school year.
Some of my family still goes to a shoe store as it's the only way to get shoes that properly fit. The price is a lot higher but so are the quality and fit.
My mom actually worked at the U.S. Shoe Factory that we had in our town, I actually would walk there as a young kid on days we didn’t have to go to school or in the summer and, hang out with mom and her friends and, with my mom’s supervision, I learned to do some the machines she used had used through the yrs, go down to shipping and, help my aunt that worked there and, have a conversation with her and, then, go see my cousins who worked there. My dad’s sister worked there, my cousin on my mom’s side and, her hubby who eventually drove for them. When, I was growing up in the 70s my grandma lived in small town Lawrenceburg, IN and, the next town over in Aurora which actually had a full service shoe store and, usually we would go on a Saturday when, it was time and, I remember going to a full service shoe store was a event and, course the people who ran and owned the store was family friends. Even though my mom could buy shoes through a catalog and, got a discount and, even though we got shoes that way to, we always still loved going to the shoe store. 26:56
Everyone idealizes their childhood as they age. As people contemplate their eventual death and the uncertainty surrounding that event, they yearn for a more understandable environment.
@@dmrr7739 Respectfully, idealize childhood? People contemplating their eventual death? Seriously? This is about nostalgia, not a dissertation on the meaning of life!
The 1990s are the great nostalgic happy years for us born in the early 80s. The time between 10 - 20 years of age is a special time for a human being. There’s actually nothing special about the 1990s objectively speaking, it just in our heads… as the 1960s is for someone born in 1950.
As a kid, it was fun to go out with friends, whether it was to the mall, arcade, roller rink, or bowling alley. They were safe places where you could enjoy leisure activities with other kids your own age. It was sad to see them fade away. After the covid lockdown and forced isolation, I really thought people would VALUE in-person interaction more. Instead, many choose to stay home and only interact online, not even leaving for work or shopping.
Because it’s so unsafe now. We are flooded with undocumented illegals here in the USA. The state of our country is so bad people cannot afford to shop as easily or do things as everything cost so much money.
When he notes that the hula hoop was mentioned by Alvin and the Chipmunks, I immediately found myself singing: I still want a hula hoop. We can hardly stand the wait. Please Christmas don't be late.
Hula Hoops were popular in the 70s, I actually had a bit of trouble with doing them, however, in the 80s and, by then, I was just a young teen and, they made a reappearance and, I got one again and, by then, I could do it like it was nothing! 6:42
In 78 and 79 I sold Kinney shoes at the Beaverton Mall and Washington Square in Oregon. I was 18 and 19. It was cool to wear a suit to work, "Chicks dig it"(LOL!) I had a Farrah poster on my bedroom wall. Who didn't fall in love with Winnie Cooper?.......
The avocado and orange kitchen we had made me want to puke. The crocheted macrame decorations on the wall didn’t help either. But what cheered me up in terms of design was the round Panasonic radio I got for Christmas. Twist it open and you could see the dial to change the station. It looked like a giant yellow donut! Every 12 year olds dream! 😂
I actually bought one online about 15 years ago just to relive those childhood memories. I used it once one night when we had a bunch of friends over and made a snowcone party out of it. It was a good time and we had some laughs about how long it takes to actually use the thing. I never used it again, but I do still have it in a closet.
We had all those machines, how funny is this, there actually was one for just regular Kool- Aid to! My cousins had them and, we had them to, then, a few yrs later there was shrinky dinks and, Ice Bird, your such a nice bird lets have a ice bird treat. My brother got me a ice bird treat maker that Christmas they came out! Then, when, I was also growing up in the 70s and playing with dolls and, my parents got me a couple sets of doll furniture through the yrs and, would wake up Christmas morning and, all them baby dolls would be placed in the furniture, that was so, like magic and, then, when, my dad’s mom, his youngest sister along with her daughter would be staying with us my dad would do the same for her but, on a smaller scale but, he always made sure everyone had a nice Christmas! But, what my dad wasn’t a rich man by all means we were just a average middle class family who lived a average middle class family and,back then, families were actually closer and took care of each other. My dad did a lot for his family on a daily basis and, he always made sure that even when, our grandma wasn’t living with us my dad always made sure she was set for the week with the basics things she needed, mostly her Mountain Dew and,by the time the 70s were over with and, on there way out, I lost my dad who set a great example for all of us and how we should take care of and be there for our families! 30:46
A couple of other things I remember: The day my mom bought me my first pair of bell-bottom pants. Bell bottoms were very popular in the 1960s for both sexes, but that fad disappeared after the 1970s. Lava lamps were all over the place back then too.
The narrator's voice and those old Polaroids remind me of every time I sat on my mom's lap, going through our black family albums with pages and pages of "glued on" pages of Photos from our past and their parents' past. To hear the stories behind each picture, and especially for me, Halloween pictures!, just got me going, and I couldn't get enough. This channel is the best thing I've found to hit those notes for me since my Mom passed and I had gotten too old to sit on her lap anyway, lol. Thank you all!
I was born in 1961 also. I'm 62 and love the memories but also realize I am getting old. I wish I could go back for a day. Times were simpler back then.
Still miss the Drive In and Arcades. We had so much fun stuffing 20 people into a car for Carload Drive In weekenders. Dusk til Dawn movies (4 in 1) was very popular in my city.
I miss faded blue jeans also stone washed jeans of the 80's also wedge healed shoes as well TY for sharing this video. I really enjoyed walking down memory lane 😊❤
My childhood mall opened in 1985 and is still open today and doing well. The mall has 220 stores on one floor including Round 1 Bowling, a food court and AMC Theater,
@@sonhuynh8222 Potomac MIlls Mall in Woodbridge, VA. It was one of the first malls in USA developed by the Mills Corporation and brought one of the first Ikeas to America. The mall is now owned by the Simon Group who acquired all Mills Corporation Malls except Pittsburg Mills
There was a Twilight Zone all about that titled "Kick the Can". You've GOT to see it. For one fellow who was curmudgeonly and doubting, he got left behind. SO very sad!
@@johnp139 Yes! We need to, to escape this ever-encroaching horror in which we are all immersed. It's not going to get any better, only worse. The Left and the Right are each eyeing one another's throats!! Any reconciliation is all but impossible at this point.
@@appleforever6664 There will always be exceptions and extremes. However not even close to the obesity epidemic we see today in most Western countries US sadly being worst. In addition, people have lost class, appearance and every second word contains a profanity. Not to mention piercings, rainbow hair and unsightly tattoos. The world was more beautiful in the past and I would be happy to turn back time.
Has everything to do with better food. Now, we have plastic chemicalized GMO fake food that's making us fat. The nutrition is stripped from the land so any food grown has no value.
We can change this folks! It won’t be easy but we have to. I hate to put these types of messages out on a fun post about nostalgia but those of us that grew up prior to the technological age, know how humanity used to be in this great country were blessed to be in. As irritating as it can be. What would this world be like if we took all the money we spend on killing each other & used it to feed the world with actual food that grows out of the ground. Without harmful chemicals & what not? I say this as a damaged Iraq Veteran. War & violence is the last answer. How many generations of traumatized citizens are we going to create before we actually evolve instead of revolve? 🤷♂️ Just how I see it. Any pain that is not transformed, will be transferred. Right now there’s a lot of pain in the world & unfortunately the only cure is Love & Respect. Despite opposing viewpoints. No matter what side people stand on, I think the majority of us can agree, things are not right. Spread some love & help someone out & we can maybe start that kind of movement, instead of tearing everything down. Maybe Im the A-hole as my Drill Sgt would say? Lol
I was born in 1951 and find this Video covers a Multitude of my own personal memories. The difficulty I have looking back on the Past is that my mind just can't seem to comprehend how much time has passed since those days. Great Video!
I soooo wanted one of those calculator watches when I was a kid, but they were too pricey. Luckily Casio still makes them and they are very affordable. Unfortunately I can't see the buttons at this age, but I still like it.
I wear an Apple Watch, but I have one of those Casio watches that I wear like a bracelet. It took me a long time to set it. It’s still on standard time and will be until it dies 😂😂
I saw so much feathered hair on the campus and in the classrooms of my highschool from 1974 to 1977. My highschool English teacher loved his Tab. He would be sipping on a can of it all during class.
Tab was an acquired taste. The only artificial sweetener in the early 1960s was saccharin, and they did a decent job of blending other flavors to hide the saccharin off-taste. At least I thought so, but other folks hated it.
About 17 years ago I met the Hollywood hairdresser who invented the Farrah hairdo in the 1970s. His son, also a hairdresser, was dating someone I knew. I had that style for a couple of years in the late 1970s but I got tired of the high maintenance so I grew it out. Colored toilet paper. I remember seeing paper and tissues in just about every color you could imagine. And then it went away, amidst rumors that the dyes were bad for the environment. This was right around the time that Earth Day was celebrated for the first time. There were also rumors that the dyes could cause irritation of ::ahem:: sensitive areas, and even cancer.
Born in 58 there are 3 things every home had as I was growing up. 1) coffee mug trees. Metallic 'trees' that kept 4 or 6 coffee mugs on the kitchen counter. So convenient. No more opening those annoying cupboard doors for us. No, siree. We had us beige mugs right there on the counter. 2) large wood salad bowl. Every, and I do mean EVERY, home had a large wooden salad bowl, wooden salad utensils for mixing and serving, and 6 little side bowls. It was like fancy dinner for those of us using paper napkins. Klassy. 3) macrame plant holders for your spider plant. What has happened to spider plants? We all had them. We'd talk about the number of shoots and babies. And every plant was suspended in a macrame plant holder. Those good old days that people wax nostalgic for were filled with god-awful fashion, acrylic fabrics and some pretty wacky ideas about status symbols. 🎉🎉🎉
Wood salad bowls were actually not that fancy, I remember my mom had a couple sets of those! I always like the wooden spoons when, baking! Yes, it seemed everyone had mug trees, lots of coffee drinkers, I mostly drank tea but, on rare occasion when, we were kids growing up, if we wanted a cup of coffee our parents allowed it then. It’s Siri! My great aunt and uncle made the macrame plant holders, we actually had neighbors who had a knit shop in our town and, they practically every woman and her daughter or daughters had one of there shawls that went to our church and, they all had one of their purses, that’s when, they took cool whip bowls to make the bottom of the purse the top was knitted with drawl strings to close it! 30:46
I still have a mug tree! I was born in 1955 bean bags shag pile carpets orange or lime green kitchen counter tops stone ware dinner sets hoola hoops (i have one) mary quant cosmetics (english) fish net stockings cork platform shoes bell bottom pants levi s wrangler cord pants dinner parties bistro meals (restaurants) mini skirts brut aftershave tabu and intimate 4711 perfumes
@@r.j.powers381 tk u i forgot about the rake! Also we had dippety doo (pink or green) hair gel 😺 and those large hair dryers in salons and crotchet bikinis ( you had to wear undies underneath) my late mum made some for my girlfriends ❤️ discos bee gees halter tops and tops made of lurex fabrics oh and hot pants!!
@@juttadestiny6810 a little dippety do will do ya. Large clip on hair curlers. Bell bottoms. Men wore suit vests - usually over a white or beige shirt or jackets with fringes.
The gals in the mini-skirt picture are all from my high school, Woodlawn High School in Shreveport, Louisiana. I know them!!! They were our Homecoming Court in 1971 (?). So funny to see this on Recollection Road. How did you come across this picture? It’s straight out of the yearbook.
A friend and I slammed a super ball over and over on the cement floor in a closed garage...it broke in two !! Hit me in the nose....blood gushed !...hurt like Hell ,,! Ahhh...good times....ha..ha...
🛩 U-Control model planes & free flight. Hours & hours of enjoyment. Slot cars & the super large tracks. Go-Kart tracks in so many areas. All this wouldn't be the same today, but I still remember how excited we were ~
I now live near one of the few drive-in theaters still open. But the funny thing is that growing up I didn’t like going to them because of the heat and insects. So, I pass it weekly, but unfortunately no fond memories. 🫤 Just replaced mom’s old blender, with a new old blender that I found at a thrift shop. She loves it. 😊 I’m still a sucker for women with feathered hair. 🥰 Bought a bike, added a banana seat, tall sissy bar, rear slick, speedometer and removed the fenders. My first “hot rod”.
@@johnp139There is a difference between right and wrong, John. 💕 We have a conscience for a reason. But selfishness is winning. And people say evil isn’t real! 😂
I miss full service gas stations. They would clean your windshield, pump your gas, check your oil and tires, etc. Those were the good old days, for sure!
I just looked and it seems like the name brand Crocs are that much but most still go for between $15 and $21. Most things are indeed ridiculously priced now days though, I’m not trying to invalidate your point.
Fortunately I never liked those jelly shoes . I remember those girls that wore them,when they took them off their feet were marked up & their feet stunk up the whole room!! Yuk!! They made people's feet sweat horrendously
@gustavsorensen9301 very funny. I did mention anything about a 10 year old. My memories don't have anything to do with their memories. They will have their own memories, I hope. Answer, they will have more memories than a 80 year old when they are 81.
We went to Drive-in movies all through the 80s for $5 a car load night. We even had one near us when I daughter was little in the late 90s and early 00s. We loved going there.
Sid and Marty Krofft shows were popular with us because they always had the same format and it always worked regardless of the premise of the show: Kids running around with little to no adult supervision. It was that simple. And every kid finds that concept appealing.
Gosh I hate those things! In college I would go out with friends and there is nothing worse than feeling like you’re on a ship at sea when you’re drunk. OMG 😆
Does anyone remember chocolate sodas: vanilla icecream, chocolate syrup, pop, Nd whippedcream.??? Around early 60s they were really good at soda fountains! We had the first USA indoor mall, too! So lucky! Edina Minnesota , had Southdale, in 1959. We could actually bike there for a few years. That was great fun. We spent hours there.😊
The Jane Fonda tapes were how I stayed in shape after the birth of my children….in went through every one of them while they were napping. Made me feel better about myself over those difficult years and now that I’m in my sixties and still fit I’m glad I did.
No mention of the Mullett hair style for men. Drive in food places with car hops on roller skates. Tear-Drop lenses in glasses and sunglasses. Walkman portable tape players. Boom boxes. Hip-Hugger jeans for women and men.
There were some of those monthly music and book clubs that had a service that wasn't publicized, but I can't remember what they called it. You could request *not* to receive the automatic shipments. They sent you the monthly offers but only shipped what you ordered. The only stipulation was that you needed to order a minimum number of items per year.
Hate to tell you BUT if you didn't have a bike with a banana seat and chopper style handle bars, it meant you were poor and could not afford a "cool" bike!!
I had this model bike, but it was pieced together from junk parts my grandpa got from the dump. He brought the parts to his house, refinished, painted and oiled the parts. He put the bike together again. It was the envy of the town. The bike was a deep blue that looked like a dark teal in the sun with a sparkle top coat. The banana seat was a blue sparkle seat and the grip handles matched. I had the plastic tassels hanging from the end of the handles. The chopper style handle bar wes a shiny chrome and it was a fast bike with perfect balance. I rode that bike until I got into h.s., because it got too small.
I got my banana seat bike for my 10th Birthday I was actually quite surprised since my Dad was the only source of income at that time.. I was super thrilled because my parents got me my favorite color which was purple & unfortunately had a white seat which got dirty really quick,but I always managed to get very clean.. Of course it also had the purple tassels on the handle bar's.. My most memorable gift as a kid..
I didn't have that style. But I had 2 bikes, a 3 speed English racer and a coaster 26" cruiser with big whitewall balloon tires. And this was in the early to late 60s.
I still order from a milk man, glass bottles, and all ! Remember the toy Footsies? You put it around your ankle, it had a plastic bell attached and you jumped over it as you spun it around with the opposite leg. What great fun. Such simple times.
Ahh, the good times. Riding bikes, no need to lock doors, colorful kitchens/furniture, good cars, respect for teachers/parents/seniors, and console televisions. I'd go back in a second. Life is crap these days. Nothing but stress. So much for all this technology.
Shoe stores haven’t disappeared but service has declined everywhere. I think I miss the trips to the video stores most. It was an outing that also included a stop to pick up snacks. Now you just stream shows and order through Uber eats at home. Boring! People have become so lazy.
I loved Block Buster Video stores. My friend and I would go and get movie VHS tapes or CD's and make a weekend of watching movies, eating popcorn, and drinking pop. Also, loved going to record stores as well. Fun times.🙂
I do love every stock photo of blockbuster video used for articles and RUclips videos when they need a picture of a blockbuster store is the one from my hometown. 😃
@Catnip-uh5pi Yes, Pac Man was and still is a long-lasting game. The higher that you got up in the game, the faster that the things went. It would help your mind to think fast.
I've had a waterbed since the mid '80's. Gone through 5 mattress , all thanks to my cat! And I would never give it up. You can't beat the feeling of a warm bed! I started to put 2 pads on the bed now, and all is good. Just keep up the maintenance for the water.
OMG!! I remember that when he wants to trade in his Casio to stay at the Motel.. Truly one of my favorite all time movies. I laugh so hard everytime I watch that I'm literally close to tears!! John Candy movies always the best family movies... He left us too soon
My grandfather was the molding department head @Goody for many years. His department made many millions of those combs!!! I used to get some really crazy colored ones between color changes.
LOL, Columbia House. I literally mailed them a penny when I was a kid. They were super salty when they found out they'd sent tapes to a minor and couldn't collect. I wore that Level 42 tape out.
I was a teenager in the 60's, enjoying the technological innovations that were changing Life and Civilization as we moved forward. I bought 8-Tacks through Columbia House. The 12 tapes came with an 8-track player that repeated until you turned it off. It was my sneak out of the house device. My parents would hear the music and think that I was there. I loved the 60's, 70's and 80's. If I could do the Way-Back Machine, I would go back to 1965.
Yah. Me ,too! That was my best year!my friend and i sewef bellbottoms as wide at the bottom as Chers and paraded around Minneapolis, and then vot to eat at the Forum: the best cafeteria ever. Pork chops were fifty cents! Got my license aittle later: yeeee-haaaa😅🎉
The two drive-in theaters where I live only recently closed, and both were demolished. One closed in 2013, the other in 2018. Before one closed they played 80s classics like E.T. and Indiana Jones. I made sure to see those movies again at the drive-in!!
Still don't lock my door...live out kind- of rural, do have 2 German shepherds & an old pit bull living on my front porch & fenced front yard...best home defense system I have ever had! And, they are the best judges of character...❤ them!
I remember going to the Drive in with my parents in the early 1970's. I thought (and still think) they were awesome. You could lay on the hood of your car, you could remain in your car, you had the privacy and space of your car - so many things to like. The drive in of my youth is now a Flex-N-Gate factory - but there still is one drive in left in my area!
Born in '65 I had a Hulu hoop in the 70's and loved Sid and Marty Croft on Saturdays and loved the first time I got to go into Crossroads Mall in OKC but, Midway Mall in Sherman we'd go there and loved it. Midway Mall was closed to us than Crossroads Mall. Loved Columbia House! Thanks for the memories!
These videos are double edged for someone who lived through the years. On one hand there are good memories and reminders of our youth, on the other hand it makes you realize you are getting old and will never experience those memories again. I guess that's just part of getting older.
makes me realize how these new generations do not know the value of service, in a society. very bad news for us all.
@FredCarpenter-pb6bd amen
#BringBackThe80s
I remember Woolworth's soda fountain. They made the best Cokes. A little syrup and carbonated water. And with a grilled cheese sandwich and some chips. Man, that was living.
Oh, yes! Exactly what I used to order.
@@JF-ym8gmThe ladies behind the counter had uniforms and little hats on.
Sounds delicious
Sounds delicious
Frisch’s done the same thing clear up until the early mid 2000s! 28:28
I miss shoe stores and the good service and sizeing so much.
What I would give to have my father take us to the shoe store just once more.
Tom mccann, Stride rite or Kenny's. Hopefully for a fresh set of hush puppies or wallabies for the coming school year.
@@Offensively-normalWe always went to Kinney Shoes. 😊
Some of my family still goes to a shoe store as it's the only way to get shoes that properly fit. The price is a lot higher but so are the quality and fit.
Kinney stride rite gallenkamp and thom McCann.
My mom actually worked at the U.S. Shoe Factory that we had in our town, I actually would walk there as a young kid on days we didn’t have to go to school or in the summer and, hang out with mom and her friends and, with my mom’s supervision, I learned to do some the machines she used had used through the yrs, go down to shipping and, help my aunt that worked there and, have a conversation with her and, then, go see my cousins who worked there. My dad’s sister worked there, my cousin on my mom’s side and, her hubby who eventually drove for them. When, I was growing up in the 70s my grandma lived in small town Lawrenceburg, IN and, the next town over in Aurora which actually had a full service shoe store and, usually we would go on a Saturday when, it was time and, I remember going to a full service shoe store was a event and, course the people who ran and owned the store was family friends. Even though my mom could buy shoes through a catalog and, got a discount and, even though we got shoes that way to, we always still loved going to the shoe store. 26:56
My eldest sister got a job a Wham-O when I was 11. She would come home with something for the rest of us every now and then. Good times.
That sounds great.
Awesome
That's a name I haven't heard in many years. Remember seeing Ronco and K-tel ads on the TV? Miss those times so much.
58 model here. Those 60s years were great but the 70s fantastic!
I still have my VHS tapes and video player and recorder and yes they all still work
Back then, all clothes were well made with lots of nice details.
And made in the USA
The blue jeans seems to be more durable before than the jeans today
I'm 59 and I remember everything from the 70's this was
awesome and i miss them, Thanks for the Memories.🇺🇲📺🇺🇲
Born in '49 the 60s was my growing up decade and I wish I could turn the clock back and just stay there. Better, simpler times.
Everyone idealizes their childhood as they age. As people contemplate their eventual death and the uncertainty surrounding that event, they yearn for a more understandable environment.
@@dmrr7739 Respectfully, idealize childhood? People contemplating their eventual death? Seriously? This is about nostalgia, not a dissertation on the meaning of life!
I'm an 80s girl- born in early 70s. I agree....much simpler life
The 1990s are the great nostalgic happy years for us born in the early 80s. The time between 10 - 20 years of age is a special time for a human being. There’s actually nothing special about the 1990s objectively speaking, it just in our heads… as the 1960s is for someone born in 1950.
Born in 1961. I remember that life was simpler, people were friendlier and helpful. Take me back to the 60s, 70s or 80s anytime 🤗
You didn’t mention Harvest Gold appliance which were alongside of the avocado
Or the crazy orange, my aunt had a kitchen with orange countertops and yellow flowers .
And the appliance salesman wearing a rust colored leisure suit 😉
And, the copper color!
Mom and dad went with harvest gold.
I remember some people's bathtub's were also avocado, Harvest Gold,even pink & blue that match the bathroom sink!!
As a kid, it was fun to go out with friends, whether it was to the mall, arcade, roller rink, or bowling alley. They were safe places where you could enjoy leisure activities with other kids your own age. It was sad to see them fade away. After the covid lockdown and forced isolation, I really thought people would VALUE in-person interaction more. Instead, many choose to stay home and only interact online, not even leaving for work or shopping.
Because it’s so unsafe now. We are flooded with undocumented illegals here in the USA. The state of our country is so bad people cannot afford to shop as easily or do things as everything cost so much money.
Cable tv made the rich kids stay home instead. Also a/c at home.
When he notes that the hula hoop was mentioned by Alvin and the Chipmunks, I immediately found myself singing:
I still want a hula hoop.
We can hardly stand the wait.
Please Christmas don't be late.
Hula Hoops were popular in the 70s, I actually had a bit of trouble with doing them, however, in the 80s and, by then, I was just a young teen and, they made a reappearance and, I got one again and, by then, I could do it like it was nothing! 6:42
I had that chipmunks album when I was a kid!
Same here. LOL
Same!
I just saw the movie Almost Famous (for the 10,000th time) and at the intro is this song haha.
Seeing the faux wood grain on that blender brings back memories. Everything from the alarm clock to the station wagon had it!
In 78 and 79 I sold Kinney shoes at the Beaverton Mall and Washington Square in Oregon. I was 18 and 19. It was cool to wear a suit to work, "Chicks dig it"(LOL!) I had a Farrah poster on my bedroom wall. Who didn't fall in love with Winnie Cooper?.......
Did you play football at Polk High?
@@BadWolf762 No, but I know where it was.
Green and orange shag carpet and beanbag furniture with beads in the doorways.
Don’t forget orange and brown was mixed together! But, before shag carpet, there was also that flat carpet that easily took nothing to stain it! 30:46
👍👍
Along with swag lamps.
Our green shag carpet was six inches deep.i spilled tang in it once.
The avocado and orange kitchen we had made me want to puke.
The crocheted macrame decorations on the wall didn’t help either.
But what cheered me up in terms of design was the round Panasonic radio I got for Christmas.
Twist it open and you could see the dial to change the station.
It looked like a giant yellow donut!
Every 12 year olds dream!
😂
I had the snoopy snow cone machine, I loved that thing!!!
I actually bought one online about 15 years ago just to relive those childhood memories. I used it once one night when we had a bunch of friends over and made a snowcone party out of it.
It was a good time and we had some laughs about how long it takes to actually use the thing. I never used it again, but I do still have it in a closet.
I had one as well 😊
We had all those machines, how funny is this, there actually was one for just regular Kool- Aid to! My cousins had them and, we had them to, then, a few yrs later there was shrinky dinks and, Ice Bird, your such a nice bird lets have a ice bird treat. My brother got me a ice bird treat maker that Christmas they came out! Then, when, I was also growing up in the 70s and playing with dolls and, my parents got me a couple sets of doll furniture through the yrs and, would wake up Christmas morning and, all them baby dolls would be placed in the furniture, that was so, like magic and, then, when, my dad’s mom, his youngest sister along with her daughter would be staying with us my dad would do the same for her but, on a smaller scale but, he always made sure everyone had a nice Christmas! But, what my dad wasn’t a rich man by all means we were just a average middle class family who lived a average middle class family and,back then, families were actually closer and took care of each other. My dad did a lot for his family on a daily basis and, he always made sure that even when, our grandma wasn’t living with us my dad always made sure she was set for the week with the basics things she needed, mostly her Mountain Dew and,by the time the 70s were over with and, on there way out, I lost my dad who set a great example for all of us and how we should take care of and be there for our families! 30:46
I remember getting chunked ice instead of shaved ice. We sucked on the chunks without flavor.
Same here ❤
A couple of other things I remember:
The day my mom bought me my first pair of bell-bottom pants. Bell bottoms were very popular in the 1960s for both sexes, but that fad disappeared after the 1970s.
Lava lamps were all over the place back then too.
Bell-bottoms are back. I've seen them on Gen Z.
They still look nothing like anyone's from the 70's not even close
I thank you for very fond memories!❤
The narrator's voice and those old Polaroids remind me of every time I sat on my mom's lap, going through our black family albums with pages and pages of "glued on" pages of Photos from our past and their parents' past. To hear the stories behind each picture, and especially for me, Halloween pictures!, just got me going, and I couldn't get enough. This channel is the best thing I've found to hit those notes for me since my Mom passed and I had gotten too old to sit on her lap anyway, lol. Thank you all!
Thank you your comment ;sitting on MOMs lap flipping thru family foto albums sigh
This is a wonderful video and it is fun to look back ☮️💟. This is def the best nostalgia channel.
Avocado bathroom fixtures as well.
Born in 1961- I remember most of these. Now I am 62 and still remember the good times.
I’m 62 and also born in 1961. I agree with you about wonderful memories.
I was born in 1961 also. I'm 62 and love the memories but also realize I am getting old. I wish I could go back for a day. Times were simpler back then.
Still miss the Drive In and Arcades. We had so much fun stuffing 20 people into a car for Carload Drive In weekenders. Dusk til Dawn movies (4 in 1) was very popular in my city.
Miss the Arcades most of all. A time that can't be re-created in the modern times.
If you get to Fort Worth Tx, there is a drive-in movie theater.
Check off all the boxes for me. Thanks for helping me remember what I forgot
Wow, who would have thought fall out shelters are making a comeback
Especially in the Midwest in summer? Due to weather. 🌪️
I miss faded blue jeans also stone washed jeans of the 80's also wedge healed shoes as well TY for sharing this video. I really enjoyed walking down memory lane 😊❤
Thrift shops can have you back in this era in a jiffy! 😂
Thanks for sharing great memories
My childhood mall opened in 1985 and is still open today and doing well. The mall has 220 stores on one floor including Round 1 Bowling, a food court and AMC Theater,
What mall is this ?
@@sonhuynh8222 Potomac MIlls Mall in Woodbridge, VA. It was one of the first malls in USA developed by the Mills Corporation and brought one of the first Ikeas to America. The mall is now owned by the Simon Group who acquired all Mills Corporation Malls except Pittsburg Mills
My mall opened in 1981. It's long dead at this point. Sadly. Honestly, I am not sure it ever did that well.
Puente Hills mall?
@@pinkaddiction13 no Potomac Mills Mall in Woodbrige, VA. It was developed by the Mills Corporation and now owned by the Simon Grouo
Malls were also big in the 70s.
We NEED to go back!!!!!!!
There was a Twilight Zone all about that titled "Kick the Can". You've GOT to see it. For one fellow who was curmudgeonly and doubting, he got left behind. SO very sad!
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Yes!
We need to, to escape this ever-encroaching horror in which we are all immersed. It's not going to get any better, only worse. The Left and the Right are each eyeing one another's throats!! Any reconciliation is all but impossible at this point.
Just note how beautiful people were back then.
Slim, nicely dressed, clean.
Not like the rubbish today.
I wish I could turn back time.
Amen to that..!!!!
People were also fat back then. Don’t kid yourself. 😂
@@appleforever6664 There will always be exceptions and extremes. However not even close to the obesity epidemic we see today in most Western countries US sadly being worst.
In addition, people have lost class, appearance and every second word contains a profanity.
Not to mention piercings, rainbow hair and unsightly tattoos.
The world was more beautiful in the past and I would be happy to turn back time.
Has everything to do with better food. Now, we have plastic chemicalized GMO fake food that's making us fat. The nutrition is stripped from the land so any food grown has no value.
@@johanea - People have choices. End of story.
Thank You for the Video (and the memories) 😀
We abandoned faith, pride in country, common decency & common sense too.
I agree with the sentiment. Pop culture and media make it seem ubiquitous, but small town and rural America, decency is still the norm.
AMEN TO THAT
How true!
We can change this folks! It won’t be easy but we have to. I hate to put these types of messages out on a fun post about nostalgia but those of us that grew up prior to the technological age, know how humanity used to be in this great country were blessed to be in. As irritating as it can be.
What would this world be like if we took all the money we spend on killing each other & used it to feed the world with actual food that grows out of the ground. Without harmful chemicals & what not?
I say this as a damaged Iraq Veteran. War & violence is the last answer. How many generations of traumatized citizens are we going to create before we actually evolve instead of revolve? 🤷♂️ Just how I see it.
Any pain that is not transformed, will be transferred. Right now there’s a lot of pain in the world & unfortunately the only cure is Love & Respect. Despite opposing viewpoints. No matter what side people stand on, I think the majority of us can agree, things are not right. Spread some love & help someone out & we can maybe start that kind of movement, instead of tearing everything down. Maybe Im the A-hole as my Drill Sgt would say? Lol
Thank you
I was born in 1951 and find this Video covers a Multitude of my own personal memories. The difficulty I have looking back on the Past is that my mind just can't seem to comprehend how much time has passed since those days. Great Video!
I soooo wanted one of those calculator watches when I was a kid, but they were too pricey. Luckily Casio still makes them and they are very affordable. Unfortunately I can't see the buttons at this age, but I still like it.
I wear an Apple Watch, but I have one of those Casio watches that I wear like a bracelet. It took me a long time to set it. It’s still on standard time and will be until it dies 😂😂
I saw so much feathered hair on the campus and in the classrooms of my highschool from 1974 to 1977.
My highschool English teacher loved his Tab. He would be sipping on a can of it all during class.
Tab was an acquired taste. The only artificial sweetener in the early 1960s was saccharin, and they did a decent job of blending other flavors to hide the saccharin off-taste. At least I thought so, but other folks hated it.
Yes. I happened to like TaB also. I loved the little 8 oz pink cans--short & stubby cans. And you're right about how many people hated it.
I started drinking Tab when I was knee high lol 🙂
@laureencriss8220 in the east coast they still sell Tab in Stop And Shop supermarkets....and Fresca too
@@Catnip-uh5pi Wow! I thought it was discontinued. How fun!
About 17 years ago I met the Hollywood hairdresser who invented the Farrah hairdo in the 1970s. His son, also a hairdresser, was dating someone I knew. I had that style for a couple of years in the late 1970s but I got tired of the high maintenance so I grew it out.
Colored toilet paper. I remember seeing paper and tissues in just about every color you could imagine. And then it went away, amidst rumors that the dyes were bad for the environment. This was right around the time that Earth Day was celebrated for the first time. There were also rumors that the dyes could cause irritation of ::ahem:: sensitive areas, and even cancer.
When I was in college in the late 80’s my Mom had pink toilet paper and I thought it was so FANCY! 😂
I used to match the toilet paper to my towels. I miss that.
Don't forget moral values, honesty, integrity, etc.
Born in 58 there are 3 things every home had as I was growing up.
1) coffee mug trees. Metallic 'trees' that kept 4 or 6 coffee mugs on the kitchen counter. So convenient. No more opening those annoying cupboard doors for us. No, siree. We had us beige mugs right there on the counter.
2) large wood salad bowl. Every, and I do mean EVERY, home had a large wooden salad bowl, wooden salad utensils for mixing and serving, and 6 little side bowls. It was like fancy dinner for those of us using paper napkins. Klassy.
3) macrame plant holders for your spider plant. What has happened to spider plants? We all had them. We'd talk about the number of shoots and babies. And every plant was suspended in a macrame plant holder.
Those good old days that people wax nostalgic for were filled with god-awful fashion, acrylic fabrics and some pretty wacky ideas about status symbols. 🎉🎉🎉
Wood salad bowls were actually not that fancy, I remember my mom had a couple sets of those! I always like the wooden spoons when, baking! Yes, it seemed everyone had mug trees, lots of coffee drinkers, I mostly drank tea but, on rare occasion when, we were kids growing up, if we wanted a cup of coffee our parents allowed it then. It’s Siri! My great aunt and uncle made the macrame plant holders, we actually had neighbors who had a knit shop in our town and, they practically every woman and her daughter or daughters had one of there shawls that went to our church and, they all had one of their purses, that’s when, they took cool whip bowls to make the bottom of the purse the top was knitted with drawl strings to close it! 30:46
I still have a mug tree! I was born in 1955 bean bags shag pile carpets orange or lime green kitchen counter tops stone ware dinner sets hoola hoops (i have one) mary quant cosmetics (english) fish net stockings cork platform shoes bell bottom pants levi s wrangler cord pants dinner parties bistro meals (restaurants) mini skirts brut aftershave tabu and intimate 4711 perfumes
@@juttadestiny6810 in Canada it was Mary Kate Cosmetics or Avon. And every shag carpet came with a little plastic rake
@@r.j.powers381 tk u i forgot about the rake! Also we had dippety doo (pink or green) hair gel 😺 and those large hair dryers in salons and crotchet bikinis ( you had to wear undies underneath) my late mum made some for my girlfriends ❤️ discos bee gees halter tops and tops made of lurex fabrics oh and hot pants!!
@@juttadestiny6810 a little dippety do will do ya. Large clip on hair curlers. Bell bottoms. Men wore suit vests - usually over a white or beige shirt or jackets with fringes.
Speaking of Tiki culture, does anybody remember a juice drink called Polynesian Punch? It came in a can, like HI-C and had colorful labels
100%!
I LOVED that stuff!
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@@Lauren-i8iI think it was Hawaiian Punch with a straw hat wear cartoon character named Punchy, who hit people saying, “You need a Hawaiian Punch!”
I remember saddle shoes and poodle skirts.
That's style was definitely in the 50's
I think they need to make more afterschool special type movies. We remember those even if the acting wasn’t always great.
The gals in the mini-skirt picture are all from my high school, Woodlawn High School in Shreveport, Louisiana. I know them!!! They were our Homecoming Court in 1971 (?). So funny to see this on Recollection Road. How did you come across this picture? It’s straight out of the yearbook.
That's so nice! 😊
My Woodlawn was in BTR.
@@lelandgaunt9985 is that Baton Rouge? Is Woodlawn a common name in Louisiana?
@@laureencriss8220
Shreveport
That’s very cool!
6:35 I remember the milk man well, he looks just like me!
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My brother was a milk man until his employer went out of business.
So many good memories
I see one thing in these videos we are missing today, "One-on-one human contact."
Super balls,clackers,lawn darts haha I survived....
OMG!! Clackers were definitely really big at recess & lunch time when I was in 5th Grade.. They were my favorite,I loved the noise they made
Don’t forget the rusted out playgrounds that had mile high slides that torched your legs in the summer!
A friend and I slammed a super ball over and over on the cement floor in a closed garage...it broke in two !! Hit me in the nose....blood gushed !...hurt like Hell ,,! Ahhh...good times....ha..ha...
🛩 U-Control model planes & free flight. Hours & hours of enjoyment. Slot cars & the super large tracks. Go-Kart tracks in so many areas. All this wouldn't be the same today, but I still remember how excited we were ~
My youth
I now live near one of the few drive-in theaters still open. But the funny thing is that growing up I didn’t like going to them because of the heat and insects. So, I pass it weekly, but unfortunately no fond memories. 🫤
Just replaced mom’s old blender, with a new old blender that I found at a thrift shop. She loves it. 😊
I’m still a sucker for women with feathered hair. 🥰
Bought a bike, added a banana seat, tall sissy bar, rear slick, speedometer and removed the fenders. My first “hot rod”.
Are you in Minnesota? My small home toen in MN still has a operating drive in theater. ☮️💟☮️💟
Later Jane Fonda had a .pt of hop issues/surgeries because of those high impact exercising.
Something else we've abandoned recently is a moral compass.
Or morals have changed as they should.
@@johnp139 Morals? America still has morals?????
@@johnp139There is a difference between right and wrong, John. 💕
We have a conscience for a reason.
But selfishness is winning.
And people say evil isn’t real! 😂
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Yeah yeah so says everybody old during every new generation lol
I miss full service gas stations. They would clean your windshield, pump your gas, check your oil and tires, etc. Those were the good old days, for sure!
Good memories, but left out leisure suits, and hip-hugger bell-bottom pants!
The hip hugger bell Bottom were definitely my favorite I had a bright yellow & dark purple one's
They can't exactly stay all day and list every single thing.
The jellies shoes I bought in 1978 for five bucks now cost 69 bucks on Amazon.🤯🤯🤯🤯
I just looked and it seems like the name brand Crocs are that much but most still go for between $15 and $21. Most things are indeed ridiculously priced now days though, I’m not trying to invalidate your point.
Fortunately I never liked those jelly shoes . I remember those girls that wore them,when they took them off their feet were marked up & their feet stunk up the whole room!! Yuk!! They made people's feet sweat horrendously
Tab DID NOT come in different flavors! It was cola• If you wanted a different flavor you bought lemon lime Fresca! We had no other choices!
My kids, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren don't seem to have the memories that we did.
Exactly, how in the world is a 10 year old going to have more memories than an 80 year old??? I would really love to know
@gustavsorensen9301 very funny. I did mention anything about a 10 year old. My memories don't have anything to do with their memories. They will have their own memories, I hope. Answer, they will have more memories than a 80 year old when they are 81.
Don't worry, they will remember playing on their cellphones 24/7/365.
@@PeterRabbitWhatsup you are probably right.
@@PeterRabbitWhatsup Someone asked what would Jimi Hendrix say if he were alive today?
Answer, "Put down that phone and dance!"
We went to Drive-in movies all through the 80s for $5 a car load night. We even had one near us when I daughter was little in the late 90s and early 00s. We loved going there.
It was a good video, thank you
Sid and Marty Krofft shows were popular with us because they always had the same format and it always worked regardless of the premise of the show: Kids running around with little to no adult supervision. It was that simple. And every kid finds that concept appealing.
I always thought that they were STUPID!
@@johnp139 I've always thought the name John is STUPID!
My 80 year old mother n law still loves her water bed
Gosh I hate those things!
In college I would go out with friends and there is nothing worse than feeling like you’re on a ship at sea when you’re drunk.
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@@Lauren-i8i or being 9 months pregnant trying to roll out from the bed. That’s when I bought a mattress
Breezy Hill Drive-In. I remember going as a little boy. A hamburger with pickles and the speaker hanging off the car window.
And a chocolate malt..❤
I would die happy if I could taste a soda fountain Cherry Coke again.
Ohhh mannnn....I agree!!
Not quite the same thing, but we do have them in the fountain soda pop machines at some restaurants here in Canada
Sonic Drive In and Swigs still have them!
@@patkuykendall-weeks2617Waffle House has them, too.
Does anyone remember chocolate sodas: vanilla icecream, chocolate syrup, pop, Nd whippedcream.??? Around early 60s they were really good at soda fountains! We had the first USA indoor mall, too! So lucky! Edina Minnesota , had Southdale, in 1959. We could actually bike there for a few years. That was great fun. We spent hours there.😊
The Jane Fonda tapes were how I stayed in shape after the birth of my children….in went through every one of them while they were napping. Made me feel better about myself over those difficult years and now that I’m in my sixties and still fit I’m glad I did.
Many of us Vietnam veterans despise Jane Fonda because of her visits to the North Vietnamese.
@@glennso47my husband was in Vietnam in 1969. He despises her. She is such a low life. Thank you for your service.
You didn't mention MAD magazine!! That was iconic and I loved it!
Soda fountains & 5& 10's are a sad loss! Although if you are Lucky you can go to an old school dinner & get the same feeling , drinks & food😂❤
No mention of the Mullett hair style for men. Drive in food places with car hops on roller skates. Tear-Drop lenses in glasses and sunglasses. Walkman portable tape players. Boom boxes. Hip-Hugger jeans for women and men.
My walkman still works fine.
Wrong decade for the mullet. Car hops on skates were in general the 50's.
IF YOU'D TRADE ALL OF THE CRAP THEY HAVE NOW TO GO BACK GIMME A 👍
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There were some of those monthly music and book clubs that had a service that wasn't publicized, but I can't remember what they called it. You could request *not* to receive the automatic shipments. They sent you the monthly offers but only shipped what you ordered. The only stipulation was that you needed to order a minimum number of items per year.
Hate to tell you BUT if you didn't have a bike with a banana seat and chopper style handle bars, it meant you were poor and could not afford a "cool" bike!!
My bike was the Huffy, cheater slick 3. It was orange and black.
I had this model bike, but it was pieced together from junk parts my grandpa got from the dump.
He brought the parts to his house, refinished, painted and oiled the parts. He put the bike together again. It was the envy of the town.
The bike was a deep blue that looked like a dark teal in the sun with a sparkle top coat. The banana seat was a blue sparkle seat and the grip handles matched. I had the plastic tassels hanging from the end of the handles.
The chopper style handle bar wes a shiny chrome and it was a fast bike with perfect balance.
I rode that bike until I got into h.s., because it got too small.
I got my banana seat bike for my 10th Birthday I was actually quite surprised since my Dad was the only source of income at that time.. I was super thrilled because my parents got me my favorite color which was purple & unfortunately had a white seat which got dirty really quick,but I always managed to get very clean.. Of course it also had the purple tassels on the handle bar's.. My most memorable gift as a kid..
I didn't have that style. But I had 2 bikes, a 3 speed English racer and a coaster 26" cruiser with big whitewall balloon tires. And this was in the early to late 60s.
I was never cool and I never had money, but I turned out just fine! 🤪
I still order from a milk man, glass bottles, and all ! Remember the toy Footsies? You put it around your ankle, it had a plastic bell attached and you jumped over it as you spun it around with the opposite leg. What great fun. Such simple times.
Aqua Net made a great flame thrower in thoses days. I'm 68 now.
Worked great! 😂😅
Still does 😂
Ahh, the good times. Riding bikes, no need to lock doors, colorful kitchens/furniture, good cars, respect for teachers/parents/seniors, and console televisions. I'd go back in a second. Life is crap these days. Nothing but stress. So much for all this technology.
Bring back the min-skirt! Missing is TV dinner trays, shag carpets, tap dancing, and variety shows.
Also pogo sticks and stilts, flower power and love beads.
OMG - I was terrible at it but nothing was so fun as having tap shoes on a beautiful, shiny hardwood floor!
Shoe stores haven’t disappeared but service has declined everywhere. I think I miss the trips to the video stores most. It was an outing that also included a stop to pick up snacks. Now you just stream shows and order through Uber eats at home. Boring! People have become so lazy.
Now you have shoes that you don’t even have to put on by hand. Just slip on.
I loved Block Buster Video stores. My friend and I would go and get movie VHS tapes or CD's and make a weekend of watching movies, eating popcorn, and drinking pop. Also, loved going to record stores as well. Fun times.🙂
I do love every stock photo of blockbuster video used for articles and RUclips videos when they need a picture of a blockbuster store is the one from my hometown. 😃
I want a Trans Am. I wish they still made them.
Surely there is a market for Trans Ams somewhere. 👍
I bet you could find one if you put your mind to it.
Thank you very much for this video,,,,❤❤👍👍❤❤👌👌❤❤
Grocery delivery is still the way to go.
Remember just about all of this save one or two items. Those certainly were better times. Feel sorry for the youngsters who didn't get to live them.
Omg! I was begging my dad I wanted a casio calculator watch for xmas, but he knew i wanted to use it for my math test at school. 😂
the furniture is Mid century Modern. My home is Mid Century Modern. im sitting on a chair now. its fashionable again and expensive
Cartoon watching on Sat morn was huge for me at least in the 70's. Hercules, Mr Magoo. Anyone remember Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch?
I had a gameroom in the 1980's. I enjoyed watching the youth playing the games. I even got hooked on some of them.
Pac Man was the best. I would get a roll of quarters from my paycheck every week and spend that $10.00 on it
@Catnip-uh5pi Yes, Pac Man was and still is a long-lasting game. The higher that you got up in the game, the faster that the things went. It would help your mind to think fast.
I've had a waterbed since the mid '80's. Gone through 5 mattress , all thanks to my cat! And I would never give it up. You can't beat the feeling of a warm bed! I started to put 2 pads on the bed now, and all is good. Just keep up the maintenance for the water.
"Casio" Reminds me of John Candy in "Planes Trains and Automobiles!" 😂😅
OMG!! I remember that when he wants to trade in his Casio to stay at the Motel.. Truly one of my favorite all time movies. I laugh so hard everytime I watch that I'm literally close to tears!! John Candy movies always the best family movies... He left us too soon
@@jcbulldog533 Too true!
My grandfather was the molding department head @Goody for many years. His department made many millions of those combs!!! I used to get some really crazy colored ones between color changes.
Chubby Checker is still touring.....and still twisting.
Compared to today's standards Chubby Checker was slim, right ?
LOL, Columbia House. I literally mailed them a penny when I was a kid. They were super salty when they found out they'd sent tapes to a minor and couldn't collect. I wore that Level 42 tape out.
I was a teenager in the 60's, enjoying the technological innovations that were changing Life and Civilization as we moved forward. I bought 8-Tacks through Columbia House. The 12 tapes came with an 8-track player that repeated until you turned it off. It was my sneak out of the house device. My parents would hear the music and think that I was there. I loved the 60's, 70's and 80's. If I could do the Way-Back Machine, I would go back to 1965.
Yah. Me ,too! That was my best year!my friend and i sewef bellbottoms as wide at the bottom as Chers and paraded around Minneapolis, and then vot to eat at the Forum: the best cafeteria ever. Pork chops were fifty cents! Got my license aittle later: yeeee-haaaa😅🎉
I remember going on vacation with mom and dad and sleeping in the back glass where the speakers are now.
The two drive-in theaters where I live only recently closed, and both were demolished. One closed in 2013, the other in 2018. Before one closed they played 80s classics like E.T. and Indiana Jones. I made sure to see those movies again at the drive-in!!
Still don't lock my door...live out kind- of rural, do have 2 German shepherds & an old pit bull living on my front porch & fenced front yard...best home defense system I have ever had! And, they are the best judges of character...❤ them!
I remember going to the Drive in with my parents in the early 1970's. I thought (and still think) they were awesome. You could lay on the hood of your car, you could remain in your car, you had the privacy and space of your car - so many things to like. The drive in of my youth is now a Flex-N-Gate factory - but there still is one drive in left in my area!
In the 1980s and beyond people gathered at the mall just to see who could steal the most. Its why so many malls are out of business today.
my father called bucket seats "birth control seats." 😅
Child of the great 80s! We could never explain how awesome it was in so many ways. Sad it's decades in the past now.
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Talk about a trip down memory lane, this was!! I was born in 1961 and pretty much remember everything on here.
Born in '65 I had a Hulu hoop in the 70's and loved Sid and Marty Croft on Saturdays and loved the first time I got to go into Crossroads Mall in OKC but, Midway Mall in Sherman we'd go there and loved it. Midway Mall was closed to us than Crossroads Mall. Loved Columbia House! Thanks for the memories!
Was the Jiffy Pop Popcorn in an aluminum pan with a handle that you cook on the stove top mentioned? How about TV dinners in aluminum platters?