Remember when.....

[Mandelon]

That Lion Country Safari thread got me thinking about some old memories....what about you?
Remember when Disneyland had tickets?
Remember A&W Root Beer Driveins when they used rollerskates? Or had the Mama, Poppa, and Teen burgers?
Remember the clown at Jack in Box?
When McDonalds had a menu like In-n-Out?
Lakes and rivers, before jetskis? yuk
What else....?

[ROZ]

Remember driving in Cali without bumper to bumper traffic?
I do....Use to take me 15 min to get to the beach....Now I have 15 min worth of lights to go through on Palomar airport road...
Chris "Use to surf during lunch at highschool" ROZ
[ August 28, 2003, 12:15 PM: Message edited by: ROZ ]

[SandbarScot]

Orange County was full of orange groves (and strawberries)
Drive-in movies
Drinking age was 19 in AZ and 18 in Hawaii
Gas was under a buck a gallon
A 21' boat was considered BIG on the river.

[Boozer]

Remember when Atari was the in thing?
Remember when Arbys use to have those block head toys?
Remember when everyone wanted to have a cool van like the A-Team?
Remember when Daisy Duke still looked good in daisy dukes?

[AquaBoogie]

How can you leave out Busch Gardens?

[Mandelon]

Remember when...nose hair was not a problem. :rolleyes:

[Mrs. Bordsmnj]

Mandelon:
Remember when...nose hair was not a problem. :rolleyes: Mandelon, you crack me up. :p :p
Linda

[Mandelon]

Just doing my job, Ma'am. Now move along. Nothing to see here.... :D

[LaveyJet]

Mandelon:
That Lion Country Safari thread got me thinking about some old memories....what about you?
Remember when Disneyland had tickets?
Remember A&W Root Beer Driveins when they used rollerskates? Or had the Mama, Poppa, and Teen burgers?
Remember the clown at Jack in Box?
When McDonalds had a menu like In-n-Out?
Lakes and rivers, before jetskis? yuk
What else....? RD had his first post?

[OGShocker]

Mandelon:
Remember when...nose hair was not a problem. :rolleyes: F**K you! Nose hair and ear hair is all I have left.
Sorry I over reacted. :D

[mickeyfinn]

Remember when:
Safe sex meant you had a padded head board.

[miller19j]

Remember when $20 seemed like a lot of money and $100 was like the Holy Grail! Remember sitting on the living room floor playing with legos and watching chips on Tv. Oh…..Wait the last one was just last week for me. :D

[HAULNZ]

The Roadrapers came in glasses that changed colors. After the Roadrunner closed you got into your boat for a midnight cruise, a full cooler was mandatory, clothes were optional. wink :D Damn, I miss the early 90's
[ August 28, 2003, 01:52 PM: Message edited by: HAULNZ ]

[Mandelon]

gas was 79 cents....

[OGShocker]

Mandelon:
gas was 79 cents.... Remember Gas for $.25 and you got a set of steak knives with 8 gallons or more

[fear the turtle]

Remeber when saturday mornings you watched Tarzan, Abbott & Costello, The week that was in Baseball and the game of the week...........no cartoons.
And as a former smoker, I can remeber still being able to find a pack for $.95.

[Mandelon]

Yeah! The drinking glasses you could get from Shell. Free with a fillup.
How about GULF gas stations?

[OGShocker]

When Atlantic Richfield changed to ARCO and stopped accepting credit cards

[Tom Brown]

I can remember when Rex Marine had a catalog.

[Mandelon]

Man, I am not that old....they never had a catalog...did they?

[Boozer]

When Micheal Jackson was BAD.. Like cool bad.
When Elton John was married to a WOMAN

[Tom Brown]

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[hot_diggity_dog]

When the boards where full of the four B's :D :D
HDD :cool:

[riverracerx]

You either had a flatbottom or a jet.
Engines weren't covered by a hatch.
A wrench and wiggling it would fix your boat.
orange metalflake.
you had to drive the boat (cavitation plates)
Leaded gas.
stepside Chevy's were cool!
Extra cab? What's that?
You camped on your vacation.
You water skiied on your vacation.
An inner tube was just a black inner tube you got at the gas station.
What's a wakeboard?
Orange mirrored Oakley Blades were the thing to have

[Trailer Park Casanova]

The burgers were good at Bob's Big Boy.
The diced ham and cheese salads, the Chicken snatch, the spaggetti chili,,,
Not the slop they serve now at the Bob's on the 10 on the way to the river,,
It used to be good,,

[ROZ]

Trailer Park Casanova:
the Chicken snatch I remember the snatch, but it didn't taste like chicken wink :D

[TOBTEK]

how about foing to fuel station and getting either REGULAR or ETHEL

[502procharger]

remember when none of us looked at porn on the internet, nah me either :D :D :D

[Mrs Sandbar Junkie]

Riding in the back of my dad's old Chevy truck.
Riding in the back of the station wagon facing the cars behind us.
Those were some good times there. :)

[bear down]

I remember when you could get a single scoop of ice cream at Thrifty's for $.15 and double for $.30
Snicker bars for a $.25
$.10 payphones
$.10 stamps
Puddingstone lake with those big Slides that burned your ASS! on the way down.
When a $250 car payment was a lot of money
$3.85 Min. Wage
Pagers!
Lowered Chevy's with Boyds.
and I remember when the BEARS were good!

[Mrs Sandbar Junkie]

Making a pig out of ourselves @ Farrell's.
Going to Tastee Freeze for a hand dipped cone.
Taking a pillow case out trick or treating on Halloween and filling it up more than once.
Playing hide 'n seek and ding dong ditch 'em until the street lights came on.
Man, I'm on a roll. :D

[bear down]

bear down:
I remember when you could get a single scoop of ice cream at Thrifty's for $.15 and double for $.30
Snicker bars for a $.25
$.10 payphones
$.10 stamps
Puddingstone lake with those big Slides that burned your ASS! on the way down.
When a $250 car payment was a lot of money
$3.85 Min. Wage
Pagers!
riding in the back of a truck in CA legally
Lowered Chevy's with Boyds.
and I remember when the BEARS were good!

[Just Tool'n]

Remember that first taste of beer?
And I asked myself, how do people drink this crap all of the time!

[Seadog]

I can remember going to the Rexall and getting a glass (not plastic, foam or paper)of coke or a scoop of ice cream for a nickle. Going to Tastee Freeze for dip cones. Gasoline was only 35 cents a gallon. God, I feel old.

[riverracerx]

How old are we all anyway? I am only 32 and grew up on a 1977 DiMarco T-deck runner bottom with a built 454. Before that we had an all wood 1968 Patterson flattie.
Can't remember NOT being on a boat??

[Mrs Sandbar Junkie]

I'm 33 and I had never been in a boat or to the lake/river until I met my husband, which was 11 years ago.

[Trailer Park Casanova]

Seadog:
I can remember going to the Rexall and getting a glass (not plastic, foam or paper)of coke or a scoop of ice cream for a nickle. Going to Tastee Freeze for dip cones. Gasoline was only 35 cents a gallon. God, I feel old. And the Coke a Cola was different then Steve,, it tasted better and it bit ya when ya sipped it.
Ya can still get that kind of Coke a Cola in San Felipe.

[Aqua Boogie1]

I remember Doggie Dinner........
I remember ac transit was $.25......
:D :cool:

[HighRoller]

I remember the concrete waterslide at Havasu (so do the backs of my legs!!)
I remember driving all the way through the channel in the summer and never seeing another boat.
An inner tube was just a black inner tube you got at the gas station That was when kids had balls.Try getting on a black tube that's about 200 degrees from the sun,flying across the water and having the rubber remove a couple layers of skin before the 7" long valvestem tries to impale you as you fly off at 50mph and get a class A water enema.Nowadays their parents put them in front facing floaties with seats and drive around at 20mph.When we tubed,and I can't verify this,our parents were trying to get even with us for all those sleepless nights.

[JustMVG]

When cruising meant showing off your car or van , and just having fun, what about the S and H Greenstamps, drive-in movies were all over the place, racing Mulholland drive for pink slips, drive in restaraunts, like bob's, or hody's in North Hollywood, Arthurs in Burbank, cruise nights on Van Nuys Blvd. Whittier Blvd, San Fernando Rd. Those are some of my memories.

[HighRoller]

I remember when the space between Ventura and LA wasn't called the Valley.It was just suburbs.
I remember when the 118 didn't go through.
I remember driving from Thousand Oaks to Harbor City almost any time of the day and getting there in an hour.
I was there for the OAKS Mall grand opening.

[OGShocker]

When In n Out had one store. eek!

[HighRoller]

When Titties were real in California...

[mike37]

When us construction wokers could have a six pack of beer siting on a luber stack (after work) and it was no big deal

[luvmyboat]

collecting bottles to turn in for a nickle....then buying "wax" (bottles with the drink inside, teeth) Mike

[058]

I remember "gas wars" and gas was $.20 a gallon. Lucky Strikes were $.25 a pack....Wolfman Jack on XERB...Cokes were $.10 in a cooler where ya had to lift the lid. Free "air" at the local gas station. 45 rpm records eek! Minium wage was a whole dollar an hour but that buck got ya alot of good stuff. You could "do the town" on $10-15 dollars 'cause drinks were $.50 or $.75 for a "call" drink. Damn, I'm old. I could go on but I'll just get depressed. cry

[mickeyfinn]

An inner tube was just a black inner tube you got at the gas station That was when kids had balls.Try getting on a black tube that's about 200 degrees from the sun,flying across the water and having the rubber remove a couple layers of skin before the 7" long valvestem tries to impale you as you fly off at 50mph and get a class A water enema.Nowadays their parents put them in front facing floaties with seats and drive around at 20mph.When we tubed,and I can't verify this,our parents were trying to get even with us for all those sleepless nights. [/QB][/QUOTE]
I remember those. Great rides. Don't know how it is out west but those are actually illegal to use in Georgia now. Tree huggers claimed petroleum products used in the manufacturing of "real" inner tubes could leach into the water. Sounds like the water toy industry just had a great lobby.

[bigerich]

Kids could play on the streets all day and night, without mom and dad getting scared.

[LAVEYSABRE575]

remember 1.naugles,pup n taco,zodys, white front,treasury,gemco,fed mart, tg&y, big o skate park, concrete wave,shit hows about sanka decaf coffee..just aged myself...derek (36)

[Kilrtoy]

corduroy OP shorts
Lighting bolt shirts
Checkered vans
and parted in the middle / feathered hair
Ok some of you still look like this
[ August 28, 2003, 11:06 PM: Message edited by: Kilrtoy ]

[novaguy]

You forgot Ole's and Builders Emporium

[jus a baker]

when girls in playboy were older than me

[FMluvswater]

neon colored anything was cool :cool:
(Are we back to that yet? Is it retro cool again? Been waiting. :) What can I say? I'm an 80's girl! I happen to like neon colors- they're cheerful and blinding all at once! :D )
****
air boom

[Doug H.]

I love this thread, it makes me feel warm and fuzzy inside :D ... how about these..lake delores waterslide in Barstow...the really long or wide rear view mirror with 4 or 5 little mirrors inside (made look cool)...mood rings...the word fox (she's a fox)...the concrete waterslilde at castaic lake (the bottom lake, north end)... cruising lancaster blvd and chester blvd in Bakersfield... the gas wars, if your car license # ended with an even # you could get gas on an even numbered day and the same for odd #'s odd day... license plates in calif were 6 digits 3 #'s 3 letters (yellow & black, black & yellow, blue & gold) now all white... 8 track players were hot, then followed the cassette, im sure some of you out there still have one... remember hop-n-up your old vega or pinto ? :D

[Rexone]

4 track Muntz "Blue Light"
Racin down Whittier Bl Sat nite before the no cruise sheriffs arrived :D
flying A gas stations
white front & Gemco discount stores
When a 90 mph Hallett flat was King of the river at Parker
When you could fill up your 40 gallon tank without tripping the $50 credit card max.. :mad:
When a hudson sprayer and diesel fuel was quite acceptable and the best weed killer known to man.
When milk came in smooth cold glass bottles once or twice a week on the front porch.
Buildin forts out of lincoln logs
KHJ & KFWB played music in LA
Dr George, the worlds most sidetracked weatherman
Sky King on Saturday mornings
When all paint was oil based and you weren't an outlaw for using it.
When a 409 was the shit and a 427 was just a dream and illusions of a 575 would have landed you in the home for disturbed teenagers.
When you over-reved your cast iron Powerglide and it puked the torque converter oring out on the ground along with about 10 quarts of oil. :D (I was a slow learner and did this twice just to make sure I'd mastered the procedure).
When a big small block was 327 and a 58 Chevy with a 348 was the shit instead of an old tank!
When all engine oil came in cans and all soft drinks came in cool looking glass bottles.
When a bottle opener was required to open all soft drinks (or very strong teeth, yeah I did that too) :o
when 10 speeds and hand brakes on a bike was kinda pushin the extreme
when a ibm selectric typewrighter was the shit instead of in the shit can :(
when computers were the size of a small school bus
when American Mags and Cragar SS's were the wheel of choice on your "new" vehicle eek!
Fuel altereds at Irwindale Raceway and 64 Funny cars at OCIR. And top fuel pushin 6.0's eek!
Harold Jackson (#29 I think) wide receiver for the LA Rams, vs Fred Bilitnikof(sp?) wide receiver for the Oakland Raiders, George Blanda QB, Kicker (saved his share of Raiders games), Kenny Stabler, Roman Gabriel, those were da days, LA football
Dodgers Koufax, Don D, Garvey, Cey, Monday, Yeager, Baker, Sax, Scioscia, Guerrero, Sutton, on and on...
[ August 29, 2003, 03:59 AM: Message edited by: Rexone ]

[Kilrtoy]

Remember when you used to have sex,
THAT WOULD BE BEFORE YOU SAID "I DO"

[HighRoller]

I remember when I bought my chick a mood ring at the Simi swap meet...It was a pretty blue when she got horny...and when she was pissed it made a giant red mark on the side of my face!!!

[Kilrtoy]

When pamela Anderson had real TITS

[Rexone]

Kilrtoy:
corduroy OP shorts
heeeeey now, I still have some of these along with some Levis bell bottoms and hi top keds with the big white circle on the ankle. I'm sending the OP's up to Kim Hanson so they won't go to waste!
Kilrtoy:
and parted in the middle / feathered hair
how bout "de"parted in the middle :D
[ August 29, 2003, 02:51 AM: Message edited by: Rexone ]

[JustMVG]

ordering your vans the way you wanted them,the Boogie bowl skatepark( found my I D card to that place the other day, and yup hair parted in the middle and slightly feathered)in La Crescenta, Reseda Skatepark, Carlsbad Skatepark,Marina Skatepark, right at the end of the Marina Freeway in Marina Del Rey,did alot of skating then, searching for empty pools, Fiberflex skateboards by G and S, Bahne skateboards, Road riders Wheels, Bennett trucks, Cadillac Skateboard Wheels, Surfers vs. Lowriders...... sorry for the Skating references, the thread had me thinking back to my good ole days, gotta find some of the pics. Mike VG

[JustMVG]

The Fox Hunts at OCIR!!! "64 Funny Cars" Be there Be there Be there"!!!! Jet Drags, and Supercross at the Coliseum!!!

[Kilrtoy]

Reseda Skatepark
Oh shit, you are the only other person , than myself thats remembers that place.
GOD THAT WAS THE BOMB
ALBA board, Benett trucks and I want to say YO Yo wheels

[JustMVG]

Kilr, i was there the day the place opened, i have a shot of me somewhere, that was taken in the second "bowl" that got printed in Skateboarder Mag. way back when, before they had that ramp you climbed up and got more speed, i remember doing lipslides on the wall next to the entrance where you walked up to the ticket window, ever check out "Ranch Pool" over off of the 118, where UPS has the sorting and loading facility now, right near the Four Stacks and Pinks Hotel, we skated the hell out of that pool, ahh the mid to late 70's, it says fontana on the bottom but i grew up in Burbank and the valley and remember a whole lot of fun stuff
[ August 29, 2003, 03:13 AM: Message edited by: MandMVG ]

[Rod-64]

Nickel bags (pot)
Banana seats on a Columbia bike
The first Huffy MX bike
Big Wheels
Verti Birds
Rockem Sockem Robots
Making every Revell model I could get my hands on.
Those little mattel football games the teachers used to take away from you in school....you know....the one with the little dashes and blips
[ August 29, 2003, 03:24 AM: Message edited by: Rod-64 ]

[JustMVG]

Rod i have the Hockey version of the same game!
The standard size G.I Joe, the footlocker that went with it, the Mercury Space Capsule that GI Joe flew in that had a real working parachute.
Of Course Hot Wheels, and all of the track and the little purple or red connectors. Am i the only one here who got a piece of track instead of the belt when i was bad? That shit stung like hell.

[Rod-64]

Hell yeah....I used to have miles of that track and millions of the red connectors....and the did hurt....first I would twap my sister them my mom thwacked me for hitting my sister. :D

[Rod-64]

Speaking of my sister...I used to really mess up her recipies in her Easy Bake Oven...Ahhh Remember the days. :D

[Rod-64]

Rod-64:
Hell yeah....I used to have miles of that track and millions of the red connectors....and they did hurt....first I would twap my sister then my mom thwacked me for hitting my sister. :D oops...tried to correct a little bad spelling..........remember when.....you couldn't spell? :D
[ August 29, 2003, 05:22 AM: Message edited by: Rod-64 ]

[dcb carrera]

Crusing Van Nuys Blvd. every Wednesday night. Dress codes in high school. Five burgers for a dollar at Hi-Ho burgers in Ventura. Surfing at Stanley Steak house just north of Ventura. Six pack of beer for a 1.25 there wasn't such a thing as 12 and 18 packs. OK I'm done :D

[dcb carrera]

Oh yea. When I had 5 stars eek!

[beached 1]

jus a baker:
when girls in playboy were older than me LOL!
Or when the cop that pulls you over used to call you Son. :)
"You're only makin this hard on yourself Son."
:D

[Blown 472]

Riding around with your parents without seatbelts and having your mom put her arm across you when she had to stop quick.
Trick or treating all night and not worrying about shit.

[Mandelon]

When the movie "On Any Sunday" came out. The amazing wheelies those little kids were doing.
"JAWS" It so sooooo scary... :rolleyes:
Riding the bus to Seal Beach carrying my radio and boogie board...
Before Van Halen was "classic rock".

[beached 1]

Blown 472:
Riding around with your parents without seatbelts and having your mom put her arm across you when she had to stop quick.
Didn't need seat belts back then. Remember how your skin would stick to those Nauga Hide seats.
Shit was like Velcro

[Blown 472]

MandMVG:
Am i the only one here who got a piece of track instead of the belt when i was bad? That shit stung like hell. My mom had a rope handle duct taped to the end of one, on the back of the legs with the rail side, holy shit did that hurt.
Remember when you could discipline your kids without the fear of going to jail.

[OGShocker]

When we did not have to lock the doors and windows.
When "good" guns were legal to own.
When folks knew if they walked into your open house, uninvited they might be looking at a load of rock salt in the fanny!
Before Feinstein helped to close the good riding areas in the desert.

[Jeffery Fry]

Going to havasu, when the only thing there was the chevron station, the airport, london bridge when it was just new (to havasu) Crazy horse was the bad ass place, and the general store to get watermelon now and laters.
before the sandbar, and copper canyon. when there use to be trees in the water at havasu so you could have shade and a defflect of the wind! Whne you could take a bath in the 50cent styrofoam cooler as a kid and even have a plastic boat that you got at thriftys before you came to the lake!. i do remember! How bout when Campbells, Sangers, SKV's where the boat to have, and when 21' was huge!

[Kilrtoy]

When rubbing a little titty when making out was the coolest thing,
Oh shit that still happens.....

[Jeffery Fry]

How bout the Pipeline in upland, and the cool vans. Black and White checks were it! I saw that post on lake dolores, that was cool! its still there but never see it open with all the newer type slides. How about the waterslides up at parker, you can still see the concrete walks up the hill, oh and cant forget wimpys! And Paradise!
How bout Eastland mall in west covina when you could ride your bike threw it! When Mcdonalds was a once a month treat that dad brought home! The hamburgler and Ronald stuft dolls. KFC came in a actual Bucket! Colonel Sanders was actually a real person! The movie theater that had 200 seats and was a actual auditorium and not a multiplex!
being in summer school was fun, going swimming and to the movies, the beach!
Man this can go on for ever. At leaset one thing hasnt changed! The river and going!
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/928DCP_0543.JPG

[Kilrtoy]

MANDMVG,
We used to skate a pipe under the 118 freeway, although it was just the dirt roadway underconstruction. Also at lassen and topanga, there is a little white house at the time was abandon, we used to skate that pool also.
We also used to skate open bowls in the dirt fields in what is now called Porter Ranch.
Who remembers street racing on the 118 freeway at 1 in the morning. The freeway was so new, there was never anyone on it....
And
when punk rock was the oddity , not the norm

[JustMVG]

Kilr, ever skate that school over off of Serrania, right next to the Ventura Fwy?
Remember when KROQ was AM andFM?
We used to go into the Hollywood Hills and search for drainage ditches and bowls, The Toilet bowl was one we found another was off of Skyline drive, skate go cruise Van Nuys BL. and go back and skate. What about spending the night at County line and surfing in the morning and never seeing the Sheriff, going across PCH to get a sandwich at the little shack. When Zuma had a nude beach and noone cared. Beach Bonfires and noone cared, driving on the beach and just getting a warning, four wheeling up at the end of Topanga Cyn. and noone cared.
[ August 29, 2003, 11:15 AM: Message edited by: MandMVG ]

[BobS]

Okay, I have Rexone and MandMGV beat with their OCIR memories.
I remember BEFORE there was OCIR and we went to the drag races at Santa Ana Airport (now known as John Wayne Airport.)
I haven't been back in a while, but Irvine was nothing but miles and miles of orange groves.
Bob

[Kilrtoy]

No never went there,
But I remember KROQ was rock of the eighties, and at that time they did play cool music....

[Kilrtoy]

Wally George show
when David Letterman was new and Funny and on at 1230

[BobS]

I remember there used to be an A&W in Parker that served the biggest order of french fries ever.
We used to go to an irrigation control ditch out in the desert near Parker, where there was this control gate that held back the water and let about a couple of inches of water out from underneath. We used to climb out there and slide off the concrete pad into the ditch and get washed away. Is that still there?

[NorCal Gameshow]

Kilrtoy:
corduroy OP shorts
Lighting bolt shirts
Checkered vans
and parted in the middle / feathered hair
Ok some of you still look like this :D :D :D
don't forget the plastic comb stickin' out the back pocket...

[Tom Foolery]

Green Machines

[NorCal Gameshow]

van nuys blvd, hanging out by supershops....
street races sunday night at straw hat, then going to larwin square.....(can't think why we went from tapo to larwin, it was just another parking lot :confused: ) :D
half pints
pints
quarts
EDIT--> fifths, how could i forget about fifths
working @ simi liquors when liquor stores delivered
when a (good customer) could say "put it on my tab" and you did...
[ August 29, 2003, 11:59 AM: Message edited by: NorCal Gameshow ]

[BADAXE]

Remember friday night MX races on the international track at Indian Dunes.

[BADAXE]

Remember some of these motorcycle brands;
Bultaco
CZ
Can Am
Hodaka
Sachs
BSA
How about the famaous "TACO 44" mini bike

[Screaming Pete]

luvmyboat:
collecting bottles to turn in for a nickle....then buying "wax" (bottles with the drink inside, teeth) Mike I used to collect soda bottles when my Dad was Viet Nam in the 60's and when he came home we'd cash them in and go to the local bar "Pary's" with about $30 and eat slim Jims that were about as big as my leg for a .10 ea drink coke and by the old man beer's till we ran out of cash and Mom had to come get us :cool:

[mikev]

this sure is bringing back memorys i grew up out there but move to gerogia in 86. I used to love going to the river in dads jet boat just below parker. i also miss nagules taco night when you could get 6 for 0.99 and in and out "urge" bumper stickers. but atleast i can still listen to KNAC on the internet.

[Kilrtoy]

Naugles
had the best bean and cheese burrito with extra red sauce sour cream and double wrapped torilla, God, Del taco sucks.
I think someone already said this BLUE CHIP STAMPS
The Pop Shop on Sepulveda blvd.
[ August 29, 2003, 01:20 PM: Message edited by: Kilrtoy ]

[Kilrtoy]

When there were no
GANG BANGERS AT THE RIVER :p

[Windy]

Mrs Sandbar Junkie:
Riding in the back of my dad's old Chevy truck.
Those were some good times there. :) Yeah me to...riding in the back of my dads chevy truck was legal when I was a little girl. He had a gun rack for his shotguns in the back window which was legal back then to.
MissHBjet

[mike37]

Riding my bike to manhaten Beach from inglewood carrying my radio and boogie board...
go in the morning and not get home tell dark
all summer

[75_Elim]

Mrs Sandbar Junkie:
Making a pig out of ourselves @ Farrell's.
Going to Tastee Freeze for a hand dipped cone.
Taking a pillow case out trick or treating on Halloween and filling it up more than once.
Playing hide 'n seek and ding dong ditch 'em until the street lights came on.
Man, I'm on a roll. :D Holy Smokes Mrs SBJ, Did you live in my neighborhood?? That was my life! I still have the ribbon from Farrel's that proves "I made a pig of myself" :D :D

[Kilrtoy]

Which farrells did you go to the one on
Van Nuys Blvd
or
Reseda Blvd

[bordsmnj]

safari sam's in HB
going to Dead shows (in IRVINE! no less)
when punk rock wasn't trendy silly crap they over played on KROQ.
mike and kilr, you guys ever do the "Centry21" scam? when people moved we used to make sure they took the water from they're swimming pool with them!
how bout the sant cruz skate boards "rob Roskopp" pro model? w/rat bone 97a's for pool riding-faster then hell.
riding the octd 29 to huntington beach-being a "tower 5" local(later on)
my dad waking me up at 11 pm to do speed runs in his porsche 911 from the 405 to the 55 on the 22garden grove frwy at 130 mph-the whole way.
the aligator farm next to knott's berry farm.
death rock yuk (the dance music kind mid eighties)
wearing vans when i was i kid bought from they're westminster shop for 4 bucks a pair
khaki green vans(id wear 'em still if i could find 'em
Nirvana playing my friends back yard
sublime playing my other friends back yard
sublime pussing out after showing up to play at our"**** our manager 'cuase he evicted us " party.
sublime: we want 250 bucks to play or we'll trash the place.
us: no problem come on down
sneaking in to surf trestles
sneaking in to surf salt creek.
geez rembering what orange county used to be like is enough to make me want to puke and move.

[dcb carrera]

Jungle land in Thousand Oaks.

[Mandelon]

The time before grey chest hair.. :rolleyes:
Marathon candy bars...
Chunky chocolate bars, and the dumb "its thickera" commercial
Where's the Beef?
GI Joe with action grip..

[75_Elim]

Kilrtoy:
Reseda Skatepark
Oh shit, you are the only other person , than myself thats remembers that place.
GOD THAT WAS THE BOMB
ALBA board, Benett trucks and I want to say YO Yo wheels Add me to that list !! I've lived in the valley here since 1968 and have seen all these places come and go.....
When Don "The Snake" Purdome was next to Northridge Cinemas and you could walk right into the shop.
When Skateland was a cool place to hang out.
When Tampaland was 4 x 4 central
When Taco Bell had a HUGE firepit outfront
When Two Guys was the place for everything
When you'd walk to school in your Ocean Pacific shirt, OP Pants and OP shoes, with a wallet filled with joints ready to sell or smoke when you wouldn't dress for GYM.... A ya Good Times!

[JustMVG]

When reseda put the 2 pools in , and yeah Bordsman, i/we did the c-21 scam, sometimes we'd even find places in our neighborhood to "watch" for folks going on extended vacation, drain the pool skate, filled just before they got back , and then trying to explain the water bill, the cracked coping, and the marks on the bottom of the pool, ooops, i didn't say we were the smartest ,just resourceful little shits. I remember streaking Van Nuys Blvd to make it into a van club called the Vandits, had to go from Victory north to Jack in the box on a weds. night, did it on my skateboard made it there in no time flat. Mike VG
What about late night skates at Topanga Plaza ice rink, or Van Nuys Iceland, or Laurel Plaza or Pickwick in Burbank
[ August 29, 2003, 02:11 PM: Message edited by: MandMVG ]

[Kilrtoy]

The Winnetka drive,
got a 6 pack, a 4 pack of coolers and park to the side. Never saw the second movie was always to busy deflowering some young vixen

[Mandelon]

Reruns...
Twilight Zone
Gilligan's Island
Before there was Fox, WPN and cable tv.
What's Happening?
Staying home sick...
Playing Racquetball was the shit.

[Kilrtoy]

When Tampaland was 4 x 4 central
Havent heard that in years, probably 20 to be exact.

[mikev]

did any of you guys ever go down and party at sunken city in san pedro. i grew up in PV we used to go surfing in manhattan and redondo all the time.

[Kilrtoy]

When cable tv had NO COMMERCIALS
what ever happen to that theroy they sold us......

[Doug H.]

I used to skate the Boogie Bowl too :) how about the Big Jim action doll (like G.I. Joe) KLOS and KMET, Pirate radio station out of Catalina Island, the Black Knight skateboard with metal wheels (ouch, rocks straight ahead) boy is this really cool to go back in time :)

[Rod-64]

WHERE'S THE BEEF???
Old Commercial

[Jrocket]

BADAXE:
Remember friday night MX races on the international track at Indian Dunes. Yep! Corona raceway also. :D

[Boatcop]

Cruising from the Hawthorne A&W to the Wich Stand?
And later, cruising Hermosa Ave, hanging at 22nd Street by the green store.
Sneaking into Trestles, and only getting to surf for an hour or so before the Coast Guard and Marines would kick you out?
Dana Point at 8', and only about 8 other people out?
Towels over your heads when going through the immigration check point on I-5, and getting waved through?
Custom surf boards for $25.00?
Grunion hunting?
Submarine races in PV?
Twice pipes?
Laying on the hood of the car watching the planes take off over you on Sepulveda by LAX?
20 cent movies, 10 cent Popcorn and nickel cokes?
The Hermosa Beach "Rat" Show?
Saturday night Surf movies at the Pier Auditorium?
5 Summer Stories premier at the Santa Monica Civic, with "HONK" playing live?
The Beach Boys practicing in a garage down the street? (Sorry, that's a Hawthorne thing.)
"Check the gas and fill up the oil?"
"Reclaimed" oil at the gas station? 15 cents a quart.
Hurache sandles with the tire tread soles.
Hang Ten Shirts?
Not bringing your baggies, so you surf with your boxers on backwards.
It's easy to see how I spent my youth. :D

[Kilrtoy]

When no one listened to FM radio

[Mandelon]

When the Dodgers were actually cool.
Davey Lopes
Steve Garvey
Ron Cey
When the Reds were a serious team???

[mike37]

when id be still sleeping sat mornig at this time
WTF am i doing up

[bordsmnj]

the mighty 690 (am)

[Sangster]

Bun Buster skate boards....

[Froggystyle]

My first Steve Caballero skateboard.
"Sun in" for the summer hair.
Swim team all had Speedo brand swimsuits... and the girls somehow made them look good.
Big thick straws you could stick in milk, suck through and end up with chocolate milk.
Knocking out teeth on vert ramps before you could really ride them.
One name... Kevin Staab!
Trying to see the pay porno channels by tuning your manual channel selector on the TV to try to descramble the Playboy channel.
Learning how to program in DOS 2.1 so you could use PC Write to print school reports.
Apple IIc, Mac Jr, etc...
Cut off shirts (muscle shirts) that cut all the way down the side.
Hats with those tails on the back of them to keep your neck from burning.
Painters caps!
Choke chains around your neck with padlocks A-la Sid Viscious.
Black Flag tattoos.
Thermal underwear under your cut off Dickies.
32 hole Air Cushioned Docs.
Putting $2.00 worth of gas in to get home.
Stealing gas out of Dad's boat to go to school. (Electric fuel pumps and AN fittings are cool!)
Painting my first car in the driveway.
Header cut-outs on my 1974 Roadrunner.
Air-Guitar to Dire Straits "Money for Nothing"
Radio Controlled "Clod Hopper" and "Frog" from Tamiya.
Model Rockets.
Laser Tag!
The first paintball game... "Gotcha!". That sucked huge...

[DEEZ NUTTS]

Black cat firecrackers all day in the back yard
Saving up for another cheap set of one piece bicycle cranks cuz they bent so easy
the adrenaline rush from accidentaly setting the yard on fire/putting it out/covering evidence.
sneaking out at night
showing up to the hangout with a chick riding on your handlebars
custom grip tape on your skate
BB gun wars

[LAVEYSABRE575]

frazier smith in the morning (sport snorts)..sanka coffee, lazer hogs for you skaters,sims snakes, german speed bearings,woodflex boards and kryptonics, your local building supply was oles and angels ..derek

[Mandelon]

The Speed Racer cartoon, with the Mach 5 car. That thing was badass!

[mike37]

Mandelon:
The Speed Racer cartoon, with the Mach 5 car. That thing was badass! I never mised speed racer it was the best
wached one recently WTF hapend gess its just not the same when your 37
hey Mandelon what the heck we doing at home we should be at the lake or river

[NorCal Gameshow]

dcb/carrera:
Jungle land in Thousand Oaks. the giraffe
too hipp stickers from klos
no fat chicks club
the mighty met
mtv playing good music
spacin' scott mason on kroq
love line w/ the poor man

[Mandelon]

mike37
hey Mandelon what the heck we doing at home we should be at the lake or river [/QB]Yah, I hear that! Wife doesn't like the wild shit that happens when if kids are along...so we stay home on the big weekends. frown

[Dribble]

The cops would take your pot and let you go.
You could get an illegal smog cert from anyone.
M-80's were not a felony.
You could drive with a gun in the gun rack in your pickup.
BF Goodrich Radial T/A 60's were cool.
There was never a line at the launch ramp.

[Doug H.]

Mandelon, i know you remember these games... :) Pac-man, MS.Pac-man, Frogger, the dirt track race car game where 4 players steer the wheel and bump elbows, Tron, Galaga, the motorcycle you sat on and tillted to turn, im sure im missing some but i'll let someone else rack there brains :D

[Mandelon]

Asteroids!!
I was a top scorer at Galaga. Hanging out at 7/11 playing games.
Those dorky black leather and mesh 1/2 gloves.... :rolleyes: Yep, I had em!
Sweatbands, wristbands, and legwarmers. :D

[Kilrtoy]

MISSILE COMMAND
CENTIPEDE

[summerlove]

PF Flyers!

[Doug H.]

Mandelon, watch what you say about leg warmers and wrist bands around Boozer and RD, THIS COULD GET OUTTA CONTROL. how about good ole shows like sanford and son, the Jeffersons, brady bunch, the partridge family, the flintstones, Gilligans Island, i can't of any more :D

[LAVEYSABRE575]

asteriods

[LAVEYSABRE575]

asteriods

[LAVEYSABRE575]

asteriods

[JustMVG]

Paraquat Kelly
The Fish Report with a Beat
HhhWwwHHaaaaa!!!
Jeff Gonzer
Jim Ladd and his Led Zep mixes
Ahh Yes The MIGHTY MET
And "Shecky Get The Jet, I'm Ouutttaa Heeerrreee"
Frasier Smith
ScotchChester
B. Mitchell Reed, great news guy , has a heart attack on the air. The Beemer RIP.
What about KWST
JJ Jackson playing "Live At 5" concerts every Friday , old Dusty Street gets fired from KROQ goes to KWST and back To KROQ in less than a year, too much partying!
[ August 31, 2003, 04:44 AM: Message edited by: MandMVG ]

[Boatcop]

Ah yes. the Mighty MET. "Little Bit of Heaven 94.7, KMET Tweedle Dee!"
And the best voice on Radio - Mary "Mounds" Turner.
We actually went down there early one morning, stopped in at the Station and met Mary. I had always pictured her as a Sexy blonde. She turned out to be a very mousey (but still sexy in her own way) brunette. Went out to coffee with her.
Sweet girl. :)

[HOSS]

Hurache sandles with the tire tread soles.
A friend of mine still has a pair. Wish someone still made them. They were comfortable and lasted forever.

[HOSS]

Space Invaders (1st video game)
Defender ( That game would still rock rigth now!)
My mom`s Pontiac Bonneville. Had points on the front. Then her Galaxy 500 with manual brakes. Car would surge forward at stoplights.
Big Red skateboard! Only a badass could ride it down hill.
Bannana seats.
BIG WHEEL, Green Machine
English Racer, Speed Racer, Racer X, Chico Stix
Hong Kong Fuey
The precious metal Astrabul (spellcheck)

[NorCal Gameshow]

Boatcop:
Ah yes. the Mighty MET. "Little Bit of Heaven 94.7, KMET Tweedle Dee!"
And the best voice on Radio - Mary "Mounds" Turner.
We actually went down there early one morning, stopped in at the Station and met Mary. I had always pictured her as a Sexy blonde. She turned out to be a very mousey (but still sexy in her own way) brunette. Went out to coffee with her.
Sweet girl. :) was she also known as "the burner" mary turner?
yeah, defender was a great game
[ August 31, 2003, 07:45 AM: Message edited by: NorCal Gameshow ]

[WaterBox]

Man some of you guy's are OLD. wink Do you remember when the zip code only had one didget,and it was called a Zone.? :)

[MagicMtnDan]

http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/images_pop/chopper_05.jpg
http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/images_pop/van_01.jpg
http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/images_70/quickklack.jpg
http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/images_pop/spinvaders.jpg
http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/images_pop/skateboard_01.jpg
http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/images_pop/farrah3_2.jpg
http://www.nostalgiacentral.com/images_80/pacgobble.gif

[HOSS]

Farrah Fawcet! Woulda givin` my right arm to be with her in a love van.

[Trailer Park Casanova]

when I was a kid before the internet the major Las Vegas hotels had store front sales offices on Sunset Blvd.
Each office had a faded star as a greeter, perhaps to get people to come in.
Ceasars Palace had George Raft. He was there almost everyday they were open. You could always go shake his hand, get a cool Key chain or some trinket. He and all the other stars were always nice to us kids.
Down the street from Ceasars Palace was a storefront mini casino called Little Caesars, no connection the Caesars Palace. It was owned by Jack Davis, a bad tempered, former boxer thug that would punch out any customer or employee he felt like. Happened all the time.
It had a self serve bar, 25 cent craps, 50 cent Blackjack.

[Rod-64]

Damn Hoss...you took 2 of mine..Hong Kong Phooey and Defender.........Defender, bar none, was THE best game ever...I have it now on Play Station but it's not the same...You need the original joystick configuration to get the super high scores. If I had all the quarters back I put into that game when I was in high school, I could buy 10 boats. :D Smart bombs and hyperspace....what memories... :)
[ August 31, 2003, 09:57 AM: Message edited by: Rod-64 ]

[The Boat Guy]

How about the FLEXY (sp). Was big thing in the 60's

[The Boat Guy]

The "SUPER BALL"

[The Boat Guy]

Schwinn Stingray bicycles.

[Mandelon]

Slinkies
Hula Hoops
Frisbees
When they were new.... :rolleyes:

[Mandelon]

Here it is.....................
Rockem Sockem Robots!!! :D
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00005BY8V.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

[The Boat Guy]

"CREEPY CRAWLERS"
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B00000JW2G.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpg

[The Boat Guy]

How many times did you burn your fingers on one of these.
http://store3.yimg.com/I/playthingspastllc_1752_4396738
[ August 31, 2003, 10:35 AM: Message edited by: The Boat Guy ]

[Mandelon]

When your mom would iron patches over the holes inside the knees of your jeans.....

[Mandelon]

Hell, remember when you had a 28" waist.. :D :D

[HOSS]

Yeah! Now its 38! :D

[HOSS]

Rock `em Sock `em Robots. I remember them. Air Hockey tables. And that stupid vibrating football game. Lincoln Logs, Battleship, Remember those Lemon Twists that spun on your ankle. Seeing what the **** lived through the microwave. Spitballs in class. Rotary phones and B&W TV with about 5 channels.
Damn I`m gettin` old. Life has come a long way.
XR 75 `s, then the YZ 80!
Cars were cool in primer, and no interior, 50`s out back (unless you were lucky enough to get Pro Trac 40`s), chrome motor and California turbos, Thrush or glasspacks. Smitty`s were like drain pipe.
[ August 31, 2003, 10:48 AM: Message edited by: HOSS ]

[jus a baker]

http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/683chia-bunny.jpg

[LAVEYSABRE575]

schwinn (ORANGE CRATE BIKES), STRETCH ARM STRONG HAD TO CUT MINE OPEN TO SEE WHAT WAS INSIDE,

[little rowe boat]

Cruising whittier blvd looking for a street race,Hank aarons #715 homerun,All the hot women wearing skin tight dittos,filling up my honda 50 for 25 cents and the La. dodgers and the Cincinati reds battling it out for the national league penant year after year. :cool:

[Jrocket]

Roller Derby's

[MRS FLYIN VEE]

pupin taco
pony town
skates you had to where your own shoes with
weeble wobbles
walabee shoes
gee your hair smells terrific shampoo
race car sets with the 5-6" cars
the color fuscia was in on boats

[FMluvswater]

Tab Cola
****
brass shifter

[MRS FLYIN VEE]

car seats that just had 2 metal bars that hung over the seat. no seat belts

[HOSS]

Yeah and rub rails were all aluminum.
Cragar rims where about it.
Riviera boats, the BIG THREE was all there was in automotive industry.
Mr. Clean was always on tv.
Silly Rabbit, Trix are for Kids.
Count Chocula, Boo Berry, and some pink shit.
CoCo Puffs
Raisin Bran
Remeber WHITE GAS? Burned in a Coleman. Get it at the pump.
My late friends T-37 could smoke our other friend`s Stage 1. My El Co hauled ass because of the fact I lost the war on rust so it was lighter.

[JustMVG]

Slot Cars, the big ones and places you could go to race them, pistol grip trigger controllers.

[AZKC]

Water pumpers and 185S ATC's
http://www.***boat.com/image_center/data/500/57sandrail-med.jpg
:cool:

[Krazy K]

I remember when I could waterski on the river on a regular summer weekend!!!
Keith

[Krazy K]

Here's one!!
Remember when Badenoch's was a gas dock with a waterslide???
Huh?? Huh??
(Got wiped out in the famous Flood of '83)
That is when they went to being a restaurant/bar.

[roostwear]

Blown T buckets, big block Mustangs, 18' Rogers BB jet... Oh, never mind, that's today! :D

[JustMVG]

Remember when.... riverside had a raceway, Nascar, the Mickey Thompson Off Road Grand Prix, the sand Drags off of the back straight, Indy Cars, Cart, SCCA..... The IMSA GTP cars going side by side into turn 9 at over 200 mph.
Formula 5000 at Long Beach and being able to sit right on the wall and almost touch the cars as they went by because there was no fence to keep you out.

[The Boat Guy]

How about "Silly Putty" & the Yo-Yo

[NorCal Gameshow]

A&W drive in....
ordering into the speaker, having the girl come out with a loaded tray and hang it on your window
driving to the valley (half hour) to go to mcdonalds or bob's big boy....

[STGP]

Speedway races at Irwindale & Sprint cars at Ascot-I can still smell the Castrol

[STGP]

Oh ya and the best of all-the Indy 500 on closed circut tv at the movie theater

[betty boop]

Grease
Fantasy Island
The Love Boat
the first time you had sex
lieing about your age
rollerskating not rollerblading
10 speed bikes
getting your drivers license

[Rod-64]

S&H Greens stamps
When Rolling Stone magazine looked like a newspaper?

[manson]

HOSS:
Yeah and rub rails were all aluminum.
Cragar rims where about it.
Riviera boats, the BIG THREE was all there was in automotive industry.
Mr. Clean was always on tv.
Silly Rabbit, Trix are for Kids.
Count Chocula, Boo Berry, and some pink shit.
CoCo Puffs
Raisin Bran
Remeber WHITE GAS? Burned in a Coleman. Get it at the pump.
My late friends T-37 could smoke our other friend`s Stage 1. My El Co hauled ass because of the fact I lost the war on rust so it was lighter. The pink shit is Franken Berry!
[ August 31, 2003, 10:24 PM: Message edited by: manson ]

[manson]

NorCal Gameshow:
A&W drive in....
ordering into the speaker, having the girl come out with a loaded tray and hang it on your window
driving to the valley (half hour) to go to mcdonalds or bob's big boy.... We still have an A&W Drive In and they still do that!

[Trailer Park Casanova]

STGP:
Speedway races at Irwindale & Sprint cars at Ascot-I can still smell the Castrol Jesus the memories of ASCOT.
I remember the motorcycle races.
Some guy named Preston showed up one night and kicked but with a new brand of Motorcycle no one ever heard of; a HONDA!

[Sangster]

Raleigh Coupons & Blue Chip Stamps...Mayor Art from the Popeye Show.... :D

[Sangster]

Walt Disney's "Wonderful World of Disney" every Sunday evening..Then it was changed to Monday's when Walt's brother took over...... :confused:

[Trailer Park Casanova]

Beamans and Blackjack gum.
ABBA ZABBA candy when it had a pic of what looked like a frightened Jesse Jackass in curlers on it.
Earl Scheib paint job for $29.95
A deluxe ticket book to Disneyland was $1.65 and the employees were real American adults.
An In & Out Double Double was twice the size it is now, and was 60 cents.
Kidnappers were executed, life in prison for murderers didn't mean parole in 12 years,,
Dick Clark wore suits that fit him like a Russian diplomat
TV reporters that asked dumb questions were fired
Kool Aid was 5 cents

[Trailer Park Casanova]

Sam Riddle on 9th St West.
The Thaxton Show.
Swats from coach Elway that made every molecule in your body light up.
Ovaltine
Oscar Meyer Sandwitch spread
Laura Scudders potato chips (with the bitter dark chips)
The Avanti
DUI's were $29, no report to your insurance co.
Parking tickets a buck.

[Kilrtoy]

TCP
I /WE need to meet you
You have more memories and Knowledge than GOD
Call the date and we will be there...
How does thursday at Chuys sound.

[FMluvswater]

Vic 20 computer games (Omega Race 2000?)
Commodore 64
VTR's before they became VCR's
****
upper shift

[Oldsquirt]

Sangster:
...Mayor Art from the Popeye Show.... :D Actually it was the "Mayor Art Show". My dad worked at KRON-TV (Channel 4 in San Francisco) and every summer as kids(mid 60's) our whole neighborhood got to be on the show. Afterwards you walked past huge drums of candy and just scooped up all you could....

[gettinby]

I remember those half-size soda cans. I wish they still had those for my kids. Who could ever forget crazy pants.(you know, the baggy pants with the wild print)

[gettinby]

remember buying something at BEST and waiting for it to come off of the conveyor

[bordsmnj]

the end cafe(hb)
pioneer chicken
hong kong fuey(i'm steeling it back!)
bj and the bear
mini trucks with the ass end all jacked up in the air
schwinn stingrays
" Mantarays
" Heavy Duty (killer for paper route)
and then the beach cruiser with foot pegs and "grab-on" grips
how about when Oakley made grips?/
oakleys,oakley2's,oakley3's

[Jeff Fry]

How bout going riding @ Claude Ostiens, or The Honda Kick and go! When Mike Mack had a ski Shop at windmill! When parker strip flooded in the 80's
The canadian coke cans with the little tab pushed in first and then the bigger tab second!
When magic mountian built the reveloution, and when they filmed phantom of the park!
Riding the Hydroslide. The ole Wood Grain "Cut and Jump" Ski
Bowling For Dollars w/ Chick Hearn!
when PINBALL Machines lined the arcade and bowling alley 10-12 machines and only 3 video games if that, Pong, space invaders and asteroids!
Being the only one on the block with Mattel Intelevision, playing football all night long and baseball!
13" TV lol
The convertable Corvair

[JustMVG]

How about late night monster movies on KHJ (nowKCAL)channel 9 with Seymour, waaay before Elvira.
The Million Dollar Movie
The Late Show, Movie and right after that it was The Late Late Show.

[HCS]

I remember when I use to hit the levee road and check out the beavers.
You guys no what? I still do check out the beavers. :D
Somethings never change.......

[Rod-64]

Shag carpeting
JOX sneakers
Volkswagon Rabbits.. yuk
Captain Kangaroo
Bay City Rollers

[Rod-64]

Roller Derby

[Jeff Fry]

The Sega Center and the Octogon tokens! The West Covina Fashion Plaza and the Corndog on a stick place!
Hawaii 5-0! Magnum PI, 77 Sunset Strip! Man From Uncle, Please dont eat the Daisys, the Shaggy DA
and Herbie! movie that inspired me to be a VW Finatic.
My 64 Powderblue VW Squreback, slammed, Kleber 135's in front and the 155's in the rear, a 1835cc and Cookie Cutters The Rompin Wagon crusing Newport and Lido ilse and Malibu Grand Prix and Showboat @ Punte Hills!

[Rod-64]

The Banana Splits!!!! :D http://mediaservice.photoisland.com/auction/Sep/2003915420929691234370.jpg

[Kilrtoy]

When life had no worries
And dad worry t-shirts that said
MUSTACHE RIDES 5 CENTS.

[Jeff Fry]

Bionic man Lee majors thermoes metal lunch box!
when you had to keep your own score bowling, cleaning league sheets and getting free games!
Thundershift 500 (Hot Wheels) On TV and Select!
When you saw your first porno! lol
[ September 01, 2003, 12:29 AM: Message edited by: Jeff Fry ]

[LAVEYSABRE575]

the bugaloos,space nuts lets not forget marshall ,will and holly in the land of the lost oh ya slestack and chacka.....

[Rod-64]

My favorite toy of all time as a kid 1971 original Verti-Bird.........If you have one in mint condition with box it's worth 700 bucks!! http://mediaservice.photoisland.com/auction/Sep/2003915230549339670304.jpg

[Rod-64]

Who remembers Dixie on Emergency? :D

[Rod-64]

Rod-64:
My favorite toy of all time as a kid 1971 original Verti-Bird.........If you have one in mint condition with box it's worth 700 bucks!! http://mediaservice.photoisland.com/auction/Sep/2003915230549339670304.jpg Where could you get one now??

[Jeff Fry]

When movies were on film and being the one to control the projector at school!
that movie with the guy at the insane ward, rips off a lawnmower, hoists it up to his room, and ads it to his wheel chair, runs over the 2 mean nurses as he flies out the doors where a group has gathered for a church service and he drives up the hill on a city road with the 2 nurses chasing after him?

[Rod-64]

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Jeff Fry:
[QB] When movies were on film and being the one to control the projector at school!
Hee-Haa!!!! those noisy bastards never worked...and they chewed up the film half the time which sucked cuz that's were you got a good nap in. :D

[Rod-64]

Oh...here you go.....how about mimeograph machines....with the handle and drum and blue ink???? When the teacher would give out hand-outs, everyone would start smelling them. :D

[Jeff Fry]

LOL or you would get it stuck and melt it and couldnt get the smell out of your nose for a hour lol

[Kilrtoy]

Oh I remembebr DIXIE, I was hard but didnt know why
how about mimeograph machines
They still use those at schools

[Jeff Fry]

i remeber going into the office and you could hear that machine going and spinn off 50 copies, i remember falling asleep in the office to that sound!
[ September 01, 2003, 01:41 AM: Message edited by: Jeff Fry ]

[HOSS]

MOPED
Miller ponies
Skylab (mixed drinks)
Skylab Fallout ( badass mixed drink)
Lady Finger firecrackers
Pinto (with 302)
Vegas & Monzas with 350`s (shoehorned Pontiac 400 in one)
Powerglides
3/4 race cams
returnable soda bottles
Bomb Iran song
Johnson & Johnson Baby shampoo

[Mandelon]

Rod-64:
My favorite toy of all time as a kid 1971 original Verti-Bird.........If you have one in mint condition with box it's worth 700 bucks!! http://mediaservice.photoisland.com/auction/Sep/2003915230549339670304.jpg OMG! I had one of those... Do they make them anymore. That thing was the BEST! Probably too dangerous now... :(
Playing with a train set.
Army men.

[Sangster]

Remember these.... (http://www.slingshots.net/preview/whamobrochure.htm)

[OutCole'd]

Racing BMX at the Youth Center in Van Nuys.
The words Bitchen & Rad.

[Mandelon]

The back page of comic books.
They had Sea monkeys and X-ray vision glasses. :D

[OutCole'd]

ON TV Before Cable.

[bordsmnj]

bmx racing the orange Ymca, and at "harbor"(san pedro),irvine, coal canyon,liberty park in westminster.bmx was totaly rad :D
when snowboards first started showing up at local resorts during the neon age? :rolleyes:

[Jetboatguru]

Did anyone ever put a playing card in your bike spokes with a clothes line pin?

[STGP]

Nesbits orange 16oz. and a big bag of cheetos for 36 cents at the liquor store and the guy at the liquor store that sold it to you knew all the kids in the neighborhood.
Heres an old one SUPERCAR with Dr. Beeker
When a Bultaco 125 Sherpa S was the fastest and best looking 125 on the planet earth. (it's still the best looking)

[Sangster]

STGP:
Nesbits orange 16oz. and a big bag of cheetos for 36 cents at the liquor store and the guy at the liquor store that sold it to you knew all the kids in the neighborhood.
Heres an old one SUPERCAR with Dr. Beeker
When a Bultaco 125 Sherpa S was the fastest and best looking 125 on the planet earth. (it's still the best looking) Owned Two 360 Bultaco Bandito's (flat trackers) back in 1970.. :D :D ....But never put cards in the spokes w/clothes pins.... :confused: :confused: :confused:
[ September 01, 2003, 11:49 AM: Message edited by: Sangster ]

[The Boat Guy]

Carnegie Cycle Park, Holister,Ca......... :D

[The Boat Guy]

Just did a search. It's still there. Check it out here. (http://www.ohv.parks.ca.gov/default.asp?page_id=1172)

[MRS FLYIN VEE]

parachute pants
what was a condom
local phone book had 1/2 of what is in it now
dolphin shorts with red and white stripes
bus rides to the beach were .25
white lipstick

[Mandelon]

Porn mags where girls had those HUGE bushes... :D :D :D

[mike37]

Mandelon:
Rod-64:
My favorite toy of all time as a kid 1971 original Verti-Bird.........If you have one in mint condition with box it's worth 700 bucks!! http://mediaservice.photoisland.com/auction/Sep/2003915230549339670304.jpg OMG! I had one of those... Do they make them anymore. That thing was the BEST! Probably too dangerous now... :(
Playing with a train set.
Army men. man I had the one on the boat that thing was so much fun straffing the army men with it

[CALIFORNIA PERFORMANCE]

WHEN PEOPLE WAVED AT YOU AT THE RIVER :D AND NOW argue I STILL LOVE IT THOUGH :D

[Rod-64]

How about Lawn Jarts????? We used to be human targets and play chicken with them. Now they don't sell them no more......too bad they were fun. A kid needs a little danger....the world's getting too sanitized. :D

[I_C_E_Y]

Mandelon:
Remember when Disneyland had tickets?
E ticket ride anyone?

[NorCal Gameshow]

Rod-64:
Who remembers Dixie on Emergency? :D how 'bout D5WTKO ????oh yeah, STAT!!!
we were all paramedics if we could say that :D

[NorCal Gameshow]

mood rings...
moon shoes...

[JustMVG]

NorCal Gameshow:
Rod-64:
Who remembers Dixie on Emergency? :D how 'bout D5WTKO ????oh yeah, STAT!!!
we were all paramedics if we could say that :D "With A Lactate Ringer" STAT!!!
The Doctor on that show was Bobby Troup an old time band leader he used to perform at a little restaurant in Toluca Lake on weekends.
Mike VG

[Froggystyle]

How about those "film-strips" in school. The ones where there was a big reel and a tape you played that would beep when you had to switch the slide on the film.
Or the dorks that ran them. Audio/Video geeks. (Yeah, I ran it every now and then...so what!!! wink )
How about the BS assemblys we had in Junior high with the three slide projectors and a film projector that were all choreographed for some feel good spirit junk. That was the deal back then boy... They would sucker you into selling a pile of magazines so you could catch a free afternoon off watching these dumb assemblies insead of going to class.
As I recall, we used the "dark time" in the auditoriums for trying to make out with chicks. Tough sell though. That was what the bleachers were for.

[Froggystyle]

Even better, how about the serious ass kickings that went on after school in the empty lot next door? Getting "called out" and sweating it for hours... That sucked. To all you parents... make sure you teach them to get the first punch in!!! That was definitely paramount to success.
It was that way in the SEAL teams too. Violence of action, overwhelming firepower, and an exit strategy will win every time.

[MagicMtnDan]

http://www.minibikekits.com/image2/lil%20frame%20mini%20bike.gif
http://www.qualityrecreation.com/images/superball.jpg
http://webby.umeedu.maine.edu/coehd/sixties/monkees.jpg
http://www.melaman2.com/tvshows/logos/dallas.jpg
http://www.delaurenti.net/images/am113.jpg
http://www.melaman2.com/tvshows/logos/dating-game.jpg
http://www.toyadz.com/toyadz/daisy/66sharpshooter.jpg

[STGP]

Those cool water rockets, they were red and clear plastic, came with two rockets and a hand pump. Filled them with water and let em fly. As I remember they went about a hundred feet in the air.

[Sangster]

They went quite a ways Horizonally too....if you missed your intended target.... :D :D

[Jeffery Fry]

Hot Wheels Sizzlers! T G& Y Luckys, Alpha Beta,
The country squire! lol Cars with v-8's and rearwheel drive!

[roostwear]

STGP:
Those cool water rockets, they were red and clear plastic, came with two rockets and a hand pump. Filled them with water and let em fly. As I remember they went about a hundred feet in the air. They're still around. I saw them at Fry's Friday night! $2.99 each, but they are sold single now. I was damn close to buying a few, but I know my boys too well........

[Sangster]

Push button Transmissions...Chevy Impala w/AM radio & a Reverb switch..... eek!

[STGP]

Yeah you made the right call, damn I miss the dangerous toys!

[Sangster]

Mad Magazine.....and believing it was the way of life..... :cool: :cool: :cool: :cool:
http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0823016846.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg

[STGP]

Sangster-you are right it was a way of life, I have a collection the earliest is 1966, they are starting to fall apart. Does anyone know how to preserve them?

[eaglemtnlaketx]

Izod pullovers
"Ocean Pacific" shorts
Parachute pants
Sly Fox "Lets go all the way" in the top 40
$3.25 Minimum wage
Revell and Cypress Gardens waterskis'
Baby Blue TransAm's
Great car stereos had twin 6x9's and that was it.
Hickeys

[Mandelon]

Remember when Britney Spears actually WAS "that innocent"???? :D
Remember when Jordy was a post *****.... :D

[Jeffery Fry]

When they use to deliver milk and dairy products to your door, and when 6am was really early. When you ate dinner as a family! and it was still light outside! When we use to have Stage 1,2,3 smog alerts in school! The Airhorn / Airraid sieren allerts every 3 friday of the month. Pronto Market (Trader Joes) When your parents were still married! walking to school @ age 10 and not even thinking about something happening to your kid! When you couldnt go into toys r us without a parent if you were under 16!

[TahitiSteve]

Surprised nobody seems to have mentioned this one
http://www.alltel.net/~williamandnancy/SKI_BELT_SMALL_BLUE.JPG
Ski Belts

[Rod-64]

It's Wednesday.....Prince Spaghetti Day.
Old Commercial

[roostwear]

The Helm's Bakery truck. That beige/brown Ford panel with the wood pullout shelves and fresh donuts and bread. Yummmm.

[Backtanner]

Wimpy's hamburgers in H.B. for their strawberry/bananna smoothies.
Buying beer under age at Ascot.
Hiding in the trunk going to the drive-in to save cash.
[ September 05, 2003, 07:42 AM: Message edited by: Backtanner ]

[Floatin']

Light Blue Cords and Wallabie Shoes
Boss Man Skateboards
Schwinn Sting-ray with Moto-X Handlebars
Watching Wonder-Rama
Playing with LightBrite

[Jim Hall]

Man, I got tears in my eyes reading all these threads! Boat Cop really hit a nerve with me, I grew up in Redondo Beach and surfed the same locations. Trestles was always interesting, having the Marines park their jeeps on shore and wait for you to come in and how about LaJolla. I thaought I was in heaven 6' tubes slight offshore it didn't get any better! I used to race moto cross at Ascot on Wed, Lions dragstrip on Fri.and then do a hare and hound on Sun. How about fuel altereds and "wild Willie Borsch" drove one with one hand all sideway's. We actually started the skateboard craze we would bolt on shoe skates to the bottom of a piece of 1x and ride them ti'll the wheels wore out.
How about wood water ski's still have mine and use it, an old Feather-Glide.
We used to drag our boards to the beach behind our Sting-Ray bike's with little wheels attached.

[THOR]

Backtanner:
Wimpy's hamburgers in H.B. for their strawberry/bananna smoothies.
Buying beer under age at Ascot.
Hiding in the trunk going to the drive-in to save cash. Wimpy's was the shit. The best fries ever. Greasiest, saltiest. MMMMMMMMMMM

[THOR]

Froggystyle:
Even better, how about the serious ass kickings that went on after school in the empty lot next door? Getting "called out" and sweating it for hours... That sucked. To all you parents... make sure you teach them to get the first punch in!!! That was definitely paramount to success.
It was that way in the SEAL teams too. Violence of action, overwhelming firepower, and an exit strategy will win every time. An all time classic was "3 O'Clock High"
Anyone remember that movie? Still watch it when it comes on.

[Rod-64]

SUPER ELASTIC BUBBLE PLASTIC!