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I remember

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joeypost

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When all you needed was your imagination to stay busy for the whole day.

 

When a broom handle and a ball made all of us feel like major league players.

 

Yelling "Car" and moving our hockey nets everytime a car came down the road (which in NY was every 30 seconds).

 

The never ending game of monopoly we would play every summer.

 

Baseball cards in the wheel of our bikes to make that really cool noise.

 

Bicycle generators that kept that 2.5 watt light burning on your bike that when it was engaged made it feel like you were riding uphill pulling your Dad's station wagon.

 

Driving to Florida for vacation. (Hated the drive so much I later moved there).

 

Buying comics for less than cover price.

 

When $1 got you two slices of pizza and a soda.

 

Pong, and my father cursing trying to get it to work.

 

Waiting for the tubes in the back of the TV set to warm up so we could watch our Saturday morning cartoons.

 

When kids were allowed to be kids.

 

H.R. Puffinstuff, Land of The Lost and Sigmund and The Sea Monsters.

 

When cars did not have seat belts.

 

The first time the Concord plane landed at JFK

 

Watching them build The World Trade Center

 

Also remember when I viewed someone 43 with 2 kids as old.

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Darrell F

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Remember, Remember the fifth of November.

 

 

Ah, a John Lennon quote. Great freakin' album with awesome drumming by Ringo. It's hard to believe that whole album was made with 3 people playing...!!!

I think Sterling was referring to this

 

Remember, remember, the 5th of November

The Gunpowder Treason and plot ;

I know of no reason why Gunpowder Treason

Should ever be forgot.

 

Guy Fawkes, Guy Fawkes,

'Twas his intent.

To blow up the King and the Parliament.

Three score barrels of powder below.

Poor old England to overthrow.

By God's providence he was catch'd,

With a dark lantern and burning match

 

Holloa boys, Holloa boys, let the bells ring

Holloa boys, Holloa boys, God save the King!

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MightyBeanComics

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- The 12 inch G.I. Joes with the fuzzy hair

 

- The TRS 80 Color Computer.

 

- Going to school with no air conditioning on hot summer days

 

- Having to go to school on Saturdays due to missed snow days

 

- Thinking the car from Knight Rider would always be cool

 

- Bulletman!

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scottish

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I don't remember too well, but here goes: Not necessarily in this order.

 

Paying .50 for a Saturday matinee (that included cartoons) - that theatre is still standing in my hometown, but in a woeful state of disrepair. frown.gif

 

Six Million Dollar Man

 

Having the biggest crush on Marie Osmond (You couldn't pry me away from the TV on Friday nights at 8pm channel 4 ABC wink.gif

 

Watching the moon landing with my Dad in the basement of our NJ home on a B & W TV.

 

Tape Drives - ugh.

 

Computer games that were just text and then simple pixels, but MAN! they were SO cool! grin.gif

 

Feeling the ENTIRE theatre shake while watching JAWS when the head popped out of the boat. grin.gif

 

Seeing Heavy Metal for the first time and thinking it the COOLEST cartoon ever! (Seconded)

 

Saturday morning cartoons (Superfriends, Hong Kong Phooey, Bugs, Kroft shows, etc) - I can't believe how much BETTER cartoons were back then.

 

Star Blazers

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Karma23

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I remember sitting around an old shed (our 'clubhouse') watching Don Kirschner's Rock Concert and THROWING around a copy of Hulk 181...it was ruined by the end of the night, but we had fun listening to 70s music and doing what kids do with comics cloud9.gif

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Ron_Nasty

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Remember, Remember the fifth of November.

 

 

Ah, a John Lennon quote. Great freakin' album with awesome drumming by Ringo. It's hard to believe that whole album was made with 3 people playing...!!!

 

Don't forget Billy Preston.

 

and no Yoko!

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Rodey

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-Building a HUGE battle scene with my GI Joes vs. Transformers around the dirt pile at my parent's house.

 

-Gem and the Holograms. So what, I watched it along with Joe and Transformers!

 

-Ninjas were really cool and everyone had a make-shift bo staff.

 

-Watching Cheers and Nightcourt with my parents.

 

-Scrappy-do was lame, but we still watched it anyways.

 

-"Luke, I am your father." The REAL Trilogy

 

-Mongoose bikes

 

-Cinemax, Friday After Dark softcore porn. (Like you guys never snuck down in the middle of the night.)

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drice6900

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-Cinemax, Friday After Dark softcore porn. (Like you guys never snuck down in the middle of the night.)

 

Hah! How about watching late night HBO without the descrambler ("I think that is a boob...") 27_laughing.gif

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OldGuy

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This was fun to read today, great thread.

 

- Watching the space shuttle Columbia, take off in my 5th grade class room in 1981

 

- Watching Challenger fall out of the sky five years later

 

- Leaving the house at 8:00 am just about every Saturday morning to ride bikes all day with my friends. I had to be home by the time the street lights came on.

 

- my "big wheel" I got when I was 9, it only lasted a day, but what a great day

 

- the way I felt after my firt kiss in the 5th grade, I've never been able to recreate that feeling in the 30 years sence

 

- when Elvis died thinking "What's the big deal? He's not that great"

 

- the day my bike was stolen from in front of the 7-11, that was the end of the world

 

- getting a new bike the following week and thinking I'd rather have my old one

 

- pong

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Remember, Remember the fifth of November.

 

 

Ah, a John Lennon quote. Great freakin' album with awesome drumming by Ringo. It's hard to believe that whole album was made with 3 people playing...!!!

 

Don't forget Billy Preston.

 

and no Yoko!

 

Vendetta... gossip.gif

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...Changing my 25 cent weekly allowance to 2 dimes and 5 pennies so I could buy 2 comics (from the comic vending machine 893whatthe.gif)

 

 

I bought literally hundreds of comics this way. From the same store that I bought my football, baseball and non-sport cards from(Munsters, Batman, Addams Family, Man From Uncle....) and Aurora Model Kits - Snyders Drug store. The same place that you could get a great chocolate malt with your burger and fries.

 

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Ze-man

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Buying a bag of popcorn from a vending machine at our local pool for 10 cents.

 

A horse stepping on my foot, and not moving.

 

The stupid Blubird logo on our School bus seats, and how much I hated that logo.

 

My next door neighbor coming over and watching the twin towers fall, to this day we speak of it.

 

Wondering why I was never alowed to stay up and watch Sammy Terry.

 

Putting a kids hand in a bowl of water and freaking out when he actually wet his sleeping bag.

 

Playing Ghosts in the Graveyard till it was past dark. And our parents SCREAMING at us to come home.

 

Burning my arm on a black light bulb and then hiding the burn with a sweatband till it got so infected. To this day have the scar on my arm.

 

And I too also loved Creepy Crawly.

 

How I NEVER let the glue dry when making a model.

 

Never ever thinking about how much a comic might be worth someday, I actually folded them over to read them.

 

Banging Caps with a Hammer(since I had no Cap gun) on my driveway till the air was think with gunpowder.

 

Walking into my neighbors house(The Tooleys) and seeing Pong on TV and knowing I was hooked.

 

Losing my keys and Down vest at a Marshell Tucker Concert when I was 15

 

Buying my first comic from Comic Keys, or rather getting the slab back from CGC and seeing it was purple.

 

How I never really cared if it was DC, or Marvel. I was just glad to have the few comics I did.

 

Using a makeup kit with "REAL" vampire blood and creating a gouge in my face that made my mom pass out because she thought it was real.

 

My dad telling me he watched his mom throw out a trunk load of his fathers and older brothers comics in the dumpster after they died in the War.

 

Buying my first Album as a kid, Nazareth, Hair of The Dog.

 

Eating our pet duck "Wally" for Christmas. I was not aware that was what he was meant for.

 

Reading ASM King Size #9 and how it changed what I thought comics were about.

 

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Ze-

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joeypost

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A few more:

 

Pet Rocks

 

Space Food and how cool we thought it was until we realized it was disgusting tasting

 

Making whirlpools in out above the ground pool and one day collapsing the whole pool and flooding the basement

 

Watching some local neighborhood punks ride my bike into Jamaica bay and wading in the freezing water to pull it out

 

Freaking out every time they raised the price of a comic $.05.

 

All in the family

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