Nostalgia: Things You Had Growing Up

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  • voltz
    voltz Posts: 5,384
    voltz wrote: »
    I had a pet Rock but it got bored and ran away!

    I think my brother had something to do with it's escape!
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  • marvda1
    marvda1 Posts: 4,903
    Tonka dump trucks
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  • voltz
    voltz Posts: 5,384
    edited April 2018
    Had a C64 for a long time...was still living at home then and had to fight to get to use it LOL.

    My Mom love playing a game called Lode runner and she went thru all 100 levels and mastered that game. I know where I got my gaming skills from...As my dad was more like my Pet Rock!
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,041
    marvda1 wrote: »
    Tonka dump trucks

    The metal ones not the plastic ones these days
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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,160
    I loved seeing these things.
    https://youtu.be/GgCL3JenMCs ;)

    And hunting these in the creeks.
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  • aprazer402
    aprazer402 Posts: 3,149
    jeremymarcinko wrote: »
    Potato cannon anyone?
    Some acquaintances, made one a couple of years ago. It shot ONLY bowling balls!
    They got some altitude and went almost 100 yards. Would not want to get hit with one. Cannonballs anyone?
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  • Clipdat
    Clipdat Posts: 12,949
    Anyone else have a Davey Crockett hat?

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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,041
    Freedom! The ability to ride my bike all day long without my parents freaking out where I was every minute. Not just around the block but 30 blocks away.

    We also had a fish bowl filled with sea monkeys.
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  • Hermitism
    Hermitism Posts: 4,271
    Anyone have a rock tumbler/polishing kit?

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  • Jimbo18
    Jimbo18 Posts: 2,336
    Anyone else have one of these? I think I got them two Christmas's in a row.

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  • verb
    verb Posts: 10,176
    I remember Dad and I going to the drug store with a shoebox full of tubes when the TV would go on the fritz!
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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 7,111
    verb wrote: »
    I remember Dad and I going to the drug store with a shoebox full of tubes when the TV would go on the fritz!

    Same here. I can still remember the exact place in the same store where they kept that thing. Watching Dad test those tubes was like watching The Wizard of Oz performing magic. :p
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    verb Posts: 10,176
    Clipdat wrote: »
    Anyone else have a Davey Crockett hat?

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    Ah yes! We used to play Daniel Boone! :smile:
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    Fast forward a bit to Grizzly Adams! :smile:
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  • nooshinjohn
    nooshinjohn Posts: 25,446
    Willow wrote: »
    Freedom! The ability to ride my bike all day long without my parents freaking out where I was every minute. Not just around the block but 30 blocks away.

    We also had a fish bowl filled with sea monkeys.

    I would sometimes ride from Maplewood to Eagan to visit my grandmother. Other times I would go to Forrest Lake or Stillwater. A nice day, my 1982 Schwinn Voyageur 11.8, a destination, and I was all set.
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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,160
    edited April 2018
    I rode a million miles on a 10 speed in my teen years. Never once thinking about a bathroom stop.

    Now, I'm afraid of riding 2 miles from home and having the urge come on fast. :o:s
    Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.
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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 7,111
    Tony M wrote: »
    I rode a million miles on a 10 speed in my teen years. Never once thinking about a bathroom stop.

    Now, I'm afraid of riding 2 miles from home and having the urge come on fast. :o:s

    That almost sounds like a Kris Kristofferson song. :p
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  • verb
    verb Posts: 10,176
    We used to collect beer cans on our many journeys by bike. Back then, cone tops were the most desirable. Chicago loves it's old style! :smile:
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  • verb
    verb Posts: 10,176
    Viking64 wrote: »
    verb wrote: »
    I remember Dad and I going to the drug store with a shoebox full of tubes when the TV would go on the fritz!

    Same here. I can still remember the exact place in the same store where they kept that thing. Watching Dad test those tubes was like watching The Wizard of Oz performing magic. :p

    Tell me about it. Dad was a big Heathkit guy. Built many projects, but this was his pièce de résistance. I had no idea what he was checking, but was mesmerized by the sinusoidal waves, square waves, et al, on the display!
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    Stock picture. :smile:
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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 7,111
    That reminds me of the video for the song "Convoy". There are things (waveform monitors?) next to his CB that having nothing to do with CB's, if I am not mistaken. HAHAHAHA
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  • Viking64
    Viking64 Posts: 7,111
    One time I took my father's Packard to the filling station to buy gas for the lawnmower and I got HI-TEST on my dungarees.
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  • tonyb
    tonyb Posts: 32,981
    Hair.....remember when ?
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  • dkfreebird
    dkfreebird Posts: 1,186
    Here you go,you can relive your youth.
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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    Viking64 wrote: »
    One time I took my father's Packard to the filling station to buy gas for the lawnmower and I got HI-TEST on my dungarees.

    Hope you didn't tip the filling station attendant. ;)
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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,160
    That reminds me. I loved getting these plastic dinosaurs at Sinclair. I must have been 8 years old or less.
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  • verb
    verb Posts: 10,176
    Those are cool! I love the Sinclair memorabilia! Reminds of back in the day at the Field Museum in Chicago, getting the plastic blow molded dinasour collections from the Mold-o-Rama machines! They are still operating today, IIRC.
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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,160
    That was cool! :)
    Most people just listen to music and watch movies. I EXPERIENCE them.
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  • jeremymarcinko
    jeremymarcinko Posts: 3,785
    The Farmall Model H was a big part of my childhood
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    Oh, Listen here mister. We got no way of understandin' this world. But we got as much sense of this bird flyin in the sky. Now there is a lot that bird don't know, but it don't change the fact that the world is happening to him all the same. What I am tryin to say is, is that the course of your life, well its changing, and you don't even see it- Forest Bondurant
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  • Tony M
    Tony M Posts: 11,160
    edited April 2018
    That's cool!

    I never rode one and didn't see hardly any since I grew up in the city.

    When I was about 12, I visited somebody and remember us seeing a tractor, a red one, stuck up to its seat in a soft spot in somebody's yard. We thought, we hope there's another tractor to pull that one out! LOL
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  • verb
    verb Posts: 10,176
    Ann Arbor Michigan, 1976:
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  • Clipdat
    Clipdat Posts: 12,949
    Allis Chalmers here:

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    jeremymarcinko wrote: »
    The Farmall Model H was a big part of my childhood

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