Things I Used As A Kid that Are No More

[jgln]

Here you go:

Food
- Quisp Cereal
- Quake Cereal
- (much later than childhood) Labatts Blue in the brown returnable 11.5oz stubby bottles with non twist off caps

Toys
- GI Joe with the fuzzy hair (not the Kung Fu grip one either)
- matchbox cars and tons of orange track and those purple connectors
- Corgy toy cars: James Bonds Aston Marton, the orignal Batmobile and Batboat
- VertiBird helicopter toy
- Balsa wood gliders and rubberband propelled wind up planes from the super market

Playing Outside
- kick the can
- hide and go seek
- whiffle ball
- kickball

I had Batman and Robin flat plastic stick on figures for lack of a better description. You would take the body, arms, legs, boots and gloves and put them together to make different actions.

 

[jgln]

Gumby and Pokey.

But I think you might be able to still buy them.

 

[Shooter]

Sounds like a DEC PDP11/780. I still have the cabinet for one in my garage holding my welding equipment.

So, turns out the thing WAS useful, just not as a computer I guess!

 

[JohnnyO]

You can still get the original wiffleball and thin yellow bat in stores. I bought one for $3 a few months back at the supermarket.

 

[IrregularPulse]

Who dad hide n seek, wiggle ball and kickball are not around!? Those games will bridge any generation gap!

 

[ChshreCat]

WTF is wiggle ball? and is Who dad hide n seek different from regular hide n seek?

 

[winterparkmg]

Standing on a steel can and having the "quickest kid on the block" poke the sides in and try not to get fingers stuck.

Pennies on the train track.

Lining plums up across the street and laughing when cars ran over them or slammed on the brakes because they were afraid of running over them.

Real hide and go seek with the entire neighborhood. All yards were open game except for the scary old lady's house.

Scary old lady making and passing out candy apples on halloween (and being allowed to eat them).

*edit* Riding your bike fast and seeing who'd jam their toe in between the front fork and front tire the hardest (read going over the handlebars onto the hood of someone's poor car).

 

[IrregularPulse]

WTF is wiggle ball? and is Who dad hide n seek different from regular hide n seek?

hhaha stupid iPod.

Standing on a steel can and having the "quickest kid on the block" poke the sides in and try not to get fingers stuck.

Pennies on the train track.

Lining plums up across the street and laughing when cars ran over them or slammed on the brakes because they were afraid of running over them.

Real hide and go seek with the entire neighborhood. All yards were open game except for the scary old lady's house.

Scary old lady making and passing out candy apples on halloween (and being allowed to eat them).

*edit* Riding your bike fast and seeing who'd jam their toe in between the front fork and front tire the hardest (read going over the handlebars onto the hood of someone's poor car).

We played neighboorhood hide and seek, butt I live in small town. Our favorite summer game was Night Guns. Basically hide and seek while running around with guns. I don't think that'd fly nowadays.

 

[jgourd]

I remember playing a lot of tetherball as a kid!

 

[BubbaK]

Intellivision! I just recently got my system back up and running.. Its as much fun as I remembered it.

My kids still play manhunt throughout the neighborhood...
We used to play flashlight tag at night.

Mischief night! - We used to have soo much fun the night before Halloween.

 

[jakecpunut]

And.. i still have the receipt for my first pc that we bought..

286/16
1 MEG of ram.. not gig haha
40 MEG hard drive..
3.5 floppy
5.25 floppy
16 pin dot matrix printer
14" monitor

$1,299.99

haha

 

[the_bird]

I remember playing a lot of tetherball as a kid!

We played an absurd amount of tetherball in elementary school. Like, we'd play tag-team tetherball, and make up championship belts like we were professional wrestlers. It's still around, though, I just kicked my nephew's ass (on the same playground) a few months ago.

 

[IrregularPulse]

We played an absurd amount of tetherball in elementary school. Like, we'd play tag-team tetherball, and make up championship belts like we were professional wrestlers. It's still around, though, I just kicked my nephew's ass (on the same playground) a few months ago.

The campground my Inlaws stay at has one across from their camping spot. I love playing that crap!

 

[the_bird]

We used to get into fights about whether you could basically "palm" the ball (catch it in your hand, or catch the string between your thumb and the index finger), or whether it had to be a closed-fisted hit.

 

[ChshreCat]

I remember playing tether ball one day as a kid and I hauled way back to hit the ball for the kill shot just as the other kid lunged across the line for it and grabbed it and I ended up punching him square in the face. Knocked him flat. I made sure to send the ball around for the win before running over to see if he was ok.

And on the subject of old computers... see if anyone can identify what's in the background of this pick of SWMBO and our dog:

 

[jgln]

And.. i still have the receipt for my first pc that we bought..

286/16
1 MEG of ram.. not gig haha
40 MEG hard drive..
3.5 floppy
5.25 floppy
16 pin dot matrix printer
14" monitor

$1,299.99

haha

I used to be a bench tech at a factory that built business computers and I worked on Intel 8080 processors.

 

[IrregularPulse]

And on the subject of old computers... see if anyone can identify what's in the background of this pick of SWMBO and our dog:

Gay Test. Do you see a computer in this picture? Yes? Bad news

 

[cercueil]

Here you go:

- whiffle ball

Did you put a folding chair behind the batter and if it hit it that was a strike? What about losing balls over peoples houses or they would get stuck in the gutter?

 

[jgln]

In grade school we would play a game called "*****". Anyone else play this? May have called it some other name, back then we didn't even think it could mean something else like it might be taken to today.

There was also half ball (form of stick ball?) but we always played with the whole ball. Broom stick and a tennis ball.

 

[winterparkmg]

Gay Test. Do you see a computer in this picture? Yes? Bad news

Boogah boogah boogah boogah, who's a good girl???

 

[jgourd]

Colecovision!

 

[bob1852]

Colecovision!

The smurf game and the Inspector Gadget games were the best!

 

[VApatriot]

Did you put a folding chair behind the batter and if it hit it that was a strike? What about losing balls over peoples houses or they would get stuck in the gutter?

Folding chairs? No, nobody had any folding chars, we were lucky enough to have the skinny yellow bat and the ball with the holes in it...

 

[Hang Glider]

In them days we was glad to have the price of a cup o' tea.


Aye, a cup o' cold tea.


Without milk or sugar.


Or tea.


In a cracked cup, an' all.


Oh, we never used to have a cup. We used to have to drink out of a rolled up newspaper.


The best we could manage was to suck on a piece of damp cloth.

 

[dozer217]

The smell of leaded gas.

Playing until the street lights came on, then going in getting a flashlight and going back out.

Plastic runners on the carpet and covers on the furniture.

Shag carpet.

Riding my bicycle everywhere if I wanted to go anywhere.

Never wearing a seat belt.

Being legal to have an open container as long as you weren't over the limit.

Friday nigh fish fry's at the Elks Lodge.

Gas lines, odd/even in the 70's.

ON TV.

 

[user 19629]

Riding you're bike behind the mosquito truck, through the billowing cloud of DDT

 

[user 574]

Climbing trees & making tree forts
.35 pack of cigs being sold to me at 10 for the "parents"
Porn in a magazine (stashed in tree fort)
Lisa Kohl - 1st chick (hot) in 4th or 5th grade with ****s who let us touch em (see tree fort)
Playing with knifes, arrows, bb guns, wrist rockets was normal fun
A big cardboard box
Snow forts
digging a hole in a field, fill it with water, cover it and lure the unexpected
Taking 3 hrs to get home from school was not an issue
Ding, dong ditch would not freak the sh!t out of the homeowner
Make-shift raft building and find a swamp to ride it on pushing with a stick (WI, no gators)
Fat kid was an anomoly in school (see all of above)

 

[KayaBrew]

Rubbers.

Haven't used them in years!

 

[ChshreCat]

Rubbers.

Haven't used them in years!

The greatest advantage to being a married man!

 

[iaefebs]

A big cardboard box

I can still smell the cardboard.... rolling inside them like a tank .....