When I Was a Kid....

[tekgirl]

When I was a kid money was no object. Wha' happen?

 

[Rathskeller]

When I was a kid money was no object. Wha' happen?

Things got expensive,stupid.

 

[Shagly]

WIWAK We had things called records, 78's, 33 and 45's. You played them on a record player. You had to change the number on the arm depending on which record you were playing

My brother had his own record player and your had to weigh down the arm with pennies which were held in place by a rubber band. It was actually made with RUBBER.

We had a black and white TV for years, I think it was the first on the block

We got cable and a colour TV in 1967, first show we watched was Voyage To The Bottom Of The Sea

Without cable we got three TV stations
Two were Vancouver stations and one was Bellingham, WA station which was a CBS affilate

After Cable we got three Seattle stations in the mic then PBS a few years later

I started out with cassettes

 

[thesweetsweetness]

Yeah, I used to twirl it around! Of course, if I really like the tape, I would use the point of the pencil and use it like a spirograph, another long lost toy from WIWAK...

I still have my spirograph set! And wooden tinker toys. Did you know the new tinker toy are plastic!

 

[kornbread]

Oh my; a girl with a spirograph and tinker toys. Sounds like we had similar childhoods. I still have the tinkertoys, too. Lots of sky scrapers were constructed with those things in the living room floor.

 

[Hawkwind2002]

If I Remember That Far Part 2

I was going to say this in my last post, but it was getting long enough already...

WIWAK, even criminals respected expecting mothers. No one tore fetuses from any woman's abdomen. That more than anything shows how bad society is getting today.

The Fonz was the ultimate in cool. Everyone walked around sticking their thumbs up and sayin' "Heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!"
Legos didn't cost an arm and a leg back then either...
And an earlier post reminded me that, those who weren't sayin "heyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy" were trying to imitate Vinnie Barbarino, or Arnold Horshack, or any of the other Sweathogs... "Up your nose widda rubber hose" was the greatest put-down.
Ooo ooo ooo I forgot about Mork and his crazy Orkan greeting... Nanu Nanu...

 

[TexasWild]

WIWAK, I had work hard to try to find or buy a Playboy to JO. With the internet, the teenage boys have it much to easy compared to 30-40 plus years ago.

 

[papadoc19]

WIWAK my friends and I spent hours playing Coleco, then Commodore, then Atari, then Nintendo...

 

[mwmnpa]

Found a spirograph cleaning out my mom's attic. Also, Lego set, Etchasketch, and a host of other toys:

WIWAK, the big event at Christmas was putting up the Lionel train set, complete with a little village, a helicopter car, missile car, exploding box car and ammo dump. It would be on a platform, and the tracks would wind around the tree.

 

[curiousirish]

Found a spirograph cleaning out my mom's attic. Also, Lego set, Etchasketch, and a host of other toys:

WIWAK, the big event at Christmas was putting up the Lionel train set, complete with a little village, a helicopter car, missile car, exploding box car and ammo dump. It would be on a platform, and the tracks would wind around the tree.

Spirograph was the most disappointing toy ever....so boring!

 

[mwmnpa]

Spirograph was the most disappointing toy ever....so boring!

It was OK, but you're right. We noncreative types didn't have much use for it.

 

[curiousirish]

It was OK, but you're right. We noncreative types didn't have much use for it.

I loved creative stuff I just found it boring....never got the etch a sketch either...

 

[Mav Unlimited]

When I was a kid, I was fearless. I wasn't afraid of a lot of things that I am afraid of now. My kid version would want to kick my ass for thinking I'm a wuss.

 

[Ellafun]

Great thread Ella, I have enjoyed reading it all.

WIWAK, the corner gas station was a Humble Station. Same company owned it when the name changed to Esso, then to Enco, and finally to Exxon. (Enco name didn't last long when they discovered it was a naughty word in another language.)

I am thinking I am the senior citizen in here.

Thank you, and I doubt you're the seniorist citizen, but if you are, you rock! I'm curious: what does Enco mean???

WIWAK "the beaver" was a little boy on a popular television show.

LMAO! Arcadia College near me was still called Beaver College, too!

WIWAK girls had cooties, time stood still, fear was a foreign concept and friendship mattered.

WIWAK saturday morning cartoons were something we looked forward to.

We still gots cooties. Just sayin!

When I was a kid money was no object. Wha' happen?

Things got expensive,stupid.

WIWAK, stupid was not a nice word, Rathskeller....it still isn't. Play nice.

Found a spirograph cleaning out my mom's attic. Also, Lego set, Etchasketch, and a host of other toys:

WIWAK, the big event at Christmas was putting up the Lionel train set, complete with a little village, a helicopter car, missile car, exploding box car and ammo dump. It would be on a platform, and the tracks would wind around the tree.

I still have a LiteBright. And train sets and dogs didn't mix well on Christmas morning!!!

 

[llidar]

WIWAK I won a bubble blowing contest. Yeah, that helped me out a lot in my future endeavors.

 

[Ellafun]

WIWAK I won a bubble blowing contest. Yeah, that helped me out a lot in my future endeavors.

Well, around here adding "Blowing Award" to your profile would certainly make you very, very popular!

 

[papadoc19]

WIWAK Chuck E Cheese was my favorite party location...

 

[llidar]

Well, around here adding "Blowing Award" to your profile would certainly make you very, very popular!

I'll have to add that to my resume. Maybe I'll get lucky.

 

[papadoc19]

WIWAK there were people that thought George Michael was straight (even after him jitterbugging)

 

[kornbread]

Ella, to answer your question about Enco, I am referencing a place on the web that states the name Enco was dropped when the company opened foreign markets, and found out that "enco" means "stalled car" in Japanese. Anyway, I still like the thread and it looks like we are all taking a trip down memory lane.

 

[TexasWild]

WIWAK, gas was 25-35 cents a gallon.

 

[kornbread]

WIWAK my first job was in my grandfather's dairy. While the cows were placed in the stalls and the milking machines hooked up, I stood at the south end of the cow with a long handled scoop and scooped up the cow piles that splatted on the dairy floor. I am still referred to as the boy that got his start in the cow-chip industry.

 

[Macdaddy23]

When I was a kid I liked watching Gary Clark catch a football in traffic.

 

[papadoc19]

WIWAK there was no Madden just Techmo bowl....The Raiders were unstoppable...

 

[sweetctgirl]

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