Lets take a trip down memory lane.

[Lefty71]

Is this still available?

Tang, lol. It says "natural tasting". Natural what? I don't think its' even called Orange flavored. The poor Astronauts had to schill for that crap too.

 

[BeepBeepRR]

C'Mon @Kern Dog we know you REALLY played with one of these.
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Next thing you will see is a new TransGender Barbie.. It will confuse the **** out of kids.. It will come with boobs and a buldge.

 

[JJ383RR]

 

[BeepBeepRR]

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Old Jarts.. Lawn Darts.. How about clackers... Also known as trip your friend bolos.



And the bike that inspired us to scrape our knees and break bones.. I give you....

 

[hanks73340]

Remember these games?

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What is more fun than a :
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I remember these...Lincoln logs too!
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Had all 3 and many more that you posted. Thanks for the trip down memory road.

 

[BeepBeepRR]

Even better...

 

[66383]

Thanks Kern, awesome post!

 

[JB400]

Back before there were warning labels on everything. Good times

 

[Don selleck]

thanks for the memories, forgot about half that stuff. humbling.

 

[PeteBell68]

What kid in the 70s did NOT dream of being this guy?
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I had this Evel was my hero . I am going to buy another .
Just also got Rock em sockem for Christmas last year - it actually made me tear up a toy made me so happy .lol

 

[kidsixpack]

Fun stuff. I remember most of the things listed. I don’t know what happened to my SSP’s. I still have my wacky pack stickers, visible v8, and Charlie’s angels collected cards.
KID

 

[PeteBell68]

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Remember these how did we survive as kids . Everything is made do safe now .

 

[PeteBell68]

Great post , lots of memories with all the toys and stuff .

 

[Dibbons]

How about the metal lunch box ?

Yes, my first lunch box was metal, but the kids at school teased the hell out of me, taunting me because according to them, I had a "girl's" lunch pail. It had a plaid/tartan pattern:

 

[Dibbons]

I used to love this magazine...also CRACKED !

In grade school, one of the nuns caught a classmate with a MAD magazine, then gave us all a lecture how we should never read such trash!

 

[Dibbons]

Fast food....

I remember McDonald's hamburger's selling for 15 cents. When the price rose to 20 cents, they started to advertise "all meat". What they previously added to the 15 cent burgers, God only knows.

 

[wagonman]

Had most of that stuff. What no Lincoln Logs? Found a Gumby at a yard sale and He lived on the Hurst shifter for a long time. One day my buddies Gran Kids saw it and said whats that? Needless to say she is now the owner and loves him. Now on the lookout for Pokey.

 

[Dibbons]

I found a few more...
Adding oil is so much easier since we abandoned these:

At the ranch we spent a lot of time with BB guns. We would fill the empty quart oil cans with water and shoot them full of holes. That only worked with the older oil cans that had metal tops and metal bodies. When the oil cans were manufactured with carton/paper bodies with only metal top/bottom, the BB's would bounce off the softer material and no longer penetrate enough to make holes so the water would no longer leak out. No fun!

 

[Dibbons]

Everyone should remember these!

Those slinkies never worked like on the TV commercials that showed them walking all the way down a staircase from top to bottom. At least for me, they didn't work.

 

[Dibbons]

I never played this. Too "brainy" for a kid!

My first Stratego game board actually had wooden pieces, they were neat. Then the crappy plastic ones took over. I used to beg Dad to play in the evenings (he never asked me to play).

Once I played a grade school classmate who had the game at his house. He kicked my ***. The strategy I had used with Dad did not work with my friend Thomas.

I should have learned to play chess. My brother knows how, but it still confuses me.