Wouldn't Trade My Childhood For Nothing

[nhspike]

Lol!


No, we never had a rake, just got used to the well-worn "trails" in the rug.

[jacksoncsplayer]

The courtship of eddies father and Love American style lol!
oh no, not the dreaded carpet rake!

[Jayster]

2 words
Curb feelers - hahahahahahahaha

[jacksoncsplayer]

[Ben...]

Someone mentioned TV shows. Gotta mention these. (this should give you insight into my warped sense of humor)

The Three Stooges (Curly, Larry, and Moe)
Welcome Back Kotter
All In The Family
The Jeffersons
Mission Impossible
Hart To Hart
The Flying Nun
Hawaii Five-0 (lived for this show)
Johnny Quest
Dick Van Dyke
Andy Griffith
12 0 Clock High
Sonny & Cher
Lucille Ball Show (primo comedy)
The Glen Campbell Show (primo guitar picking)
Looney Tunes
Lost In Space
Room 222
Laugh In
Kung Fu
The Big Valley
Palladin
Bonanza

Looney Tunes is great. Did any of you watch Hogan's Heroes? I really like that show. They have it on a channel that has shows from the 60's, 70's and 80's. I used to watch that channel more than anything else combined.

[SEEGERMANY]

oh no, not the dreaded carpet rake!

Saturday morning was house cleaning day. My mother would scrub the kitchen, change the linens on the beds, do the laundry, and fold the clothes. My dad would scrub the bathrooms and vacuum. I had to dust mop the hardwood floors, sweep the patio, dust the furniture, and RAKE THE FUCKING CARPET!

If I ever have to rake or dig my way out of a situation, you can damn sure bet I have the technique down pat!

[StukaJU87]

Great memories all around. Here are a few off the top of my head.

The Schwinn Stingray. That was the bike to have. I bought my own with my paper route money. $120. That was a lot for a bicycle in the 70's. I wanted the Orange Krate, but could not afford it.

Click Clacks (sp?) That was like a medievel weapon for kids, sorta like a mace.

That Coleco (I think) football game that was just LED dots on a small screen. They had one for hockey too.

The robots that ran on a track sorta like a toy train. King Ding? Can't remember for sure.

The Snake and The Mongoose. Had the funny cars and dragsters.

SSP cars. You know, those cars with the T-handle rip cord. Fast and fun.

A chalk square drawn on the side of the school. That was the strike box for stick ball. All ya needed was a friend, a super pinky, and a broom handle.

The Baja Bug and Army Jeep from Cox as well as the Stuka. Awesome and cool.

Our BMX track (way before BMX) that we made at "the pit" in Rutherford, NJ. Many bumps, bruises and busted bike frames from them escapades.

Them old monster model kits. The ones that we glued together with Ambroid glue. They could be made with glow in the dark features. King Kong, Godzilla, The Creature, Phantom of the Opera, etc.

Lost in Space models by Auroura (sp?) The Cyclopse monster preparing to drop the rock on the Chariot. Assembled with the same Ambroid Glue.

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea.

Creature Feature. My buddies father was "The Creep" (Lou Steele).

Chiller Theater.

Man, I could go on and on....good times.

[nhspike]

SSP cars. You know, those cars with the T-handle rip cord. Fast and fun.

Ambroid glue.

Wow
Talk about taking me back 35 or 40 years instantly!!!

[jacksoncsplayer]

Saturday morning was house cleaning day. My mother would scrub the kitchen, change the linens on the beds, do the laundry, and fold the clothes. My dad would scrub the bathrooms and vacuum. I had to dust mop the hardwood floors, sweep the patio, dust the furniture, and RAKE THE FUCKING CARPET!

If I ever have to rake or dig my way out of a situation, you can damn sure bet I have the technique down pat!

This thread is the best! It makes me wanna hike on the railroad tracks and pickup bottles so I can turn them into candy! Tootsie rolls with the folded ends not the twisted, I just remember how good they tasted after a hard days hike. We actually used to carry canteens, not bottled water

[StukaJU87]

Wow
Talk about taking me back 35 or 40 years instantly!!!

For sure, right? How about Wonderama with Bob Mcallister? I was on that show twice as a kid. They gave us those cool SSP's in our gift bags when we left the show.

[SEEGERMANY]

Someone mentioned early, there was no such thing as "back talk." If you cherished your teeth, you said yes sir, no sir, yes ma'am, no ma'am. The word "why" could also get you into a world of shit! "Cuttin your eyes" was another serious offense. I can remember several times getting my marbles scrambled!

Young people today would consider this kind of stuff child abuse. It was far from it. I'm not saying that abuse didn't take place, but the discipline we received as kids was more important than anything I learned in 16 years of school. No, I didn't repeat 8th grade four times!

[Newc]

Speaking of TV shows:

http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/bigfoot-wildboy/200068

How about egg fights?
Dodgeball, where if you didn't dodge the big red underinflated ball, you got hit, and that meant you were out!

And yeah, there was no pressure to have sex back then. Today, 3 out of 4 teenage girls has VD. Wow, there's your future, kid - a lifetime of Valtrex and the embarrassment that you're a whore.

Remember when crazy people were locked in an insane asylum, not given their own TV show or granted special rights so they can live next door to you?

Child molesters that weren't locked up in the insane asylum generally only molested their own kids or relatives, and weren't a threat to the general neighborhood populace.

How about WALKING 5 miles to the nearest convenience store? No bike? No car? No skateboard? Hoof it!

Who remembers being able to buy smokes for your parents? My mom used to send me to the store for smokes from the time I was 10 till about 15. No ID, just my word of honor (which actually meant something back then) that I was buying them for my mother.

Soft drinks in glass bottles - those were the days. I can't drink a Coke out of a plastic bottle - not even a 2-liter. Cans today suck as well. If it ain't in glass, gimme something else.

People actually avoided the sluts in the neighborhood. Today they hunt them down like crack dealers (which I guess they are )

And yeah, I remember being the remote

Rabbit ears! Sometimes you had to stand there holding them so the signal would clear up. Soon as you let go, there goes the signal

Listening to a ball game on the radio because it wasn't available to a TV station.

You either did good in school or you didn't, there were no handouts. Handouts were given to the mentally defective. Today you get an A just for showing up.

You could actually get into a music program at school that was just as good as the sports program. Today, it's all about sports. The local high schools rave about their athletic programs, but the only place to learn music is at Church, and they're the only ones who haven't changed in 30 years.

[SEEGERMANY]

"Listening to a ball game on the radio because it wasn't available to a TV station."

My grandfather was a farmer and for the most part, pretty poor. He never owned a TV, but he did have his radio right next to his chair. The funny thing is that he was damned near deaf as a door knob. As a young man, he worked in a saw mill and those fuckers knew nothing about ear protection.

Anyway, as a kid, I'd go spend a few weeks during squirrel season with my pap-paw. I can remember being a mile or so down in the Toro Hills bottoms, leaned up against a tree, watching a big old fox squirrel, all the while I could hear ever freaking word coming from that radio!

[Axewielder]

BB gun fights....check.
Egg fights....check.

You guys ever have a "moss fight"? In upstate NY we had tons of this thick moss that grew everywhere. One guy would be on "cutting detail", slicing out 4x4 squares and making an arsenal pile. Another guy would be on "throwing detail", and hurling those lumps of shit at the enemy. If you were lucky, they flew harmlessly past. However, take a chunk of moss straight to the fuggin face...UGH! You'll be digging chunks of dirt out of your hair, eyes, nose, and mouth for an hour.

[joelayres]

Remember "The Look" - no need for the parents to even open their mouth - The Look was all it took - and it worked! Next step after the look was "just wait till your Father gets home" - you knew you had a date with the belt then. And we didn't even THINK about calling the cops on our parents, let alone say it.