Things you remember that no one in the next generation can identify...

[Whatchawatchin]

Since we've been getting all nostalgic, I've started thinking about things that my son has only seen in movies or wouldn't recognize if I held them up before him.

TV dial tuner
UHF/VHF
Original remotes (they actually turned the dial)
Dial telephone (I had to explain what a princess phone was)
Stick pins
Leg Warmers
45 records
Car phones (the installed kind, along with bag phones)
Dickies (the fake turtleneck kind)


These things all seem sooooo old and so long ago that they make me feel ancient. What do you remember from your house/closet that could show up on Antiques Roadshow looking for identification?

[Okoomi]

We probably liked the balloons in a tube because somehow, birthday parties became more fun, and we didn't even know why.

I remember being crammed into the back of a station wagon (no seat belts) where the back seat faced outward - and going on family picnics.

Remember pop rocks? Fizzies? AND - if you are from the Phoenix area - The Wallace and Ladmo Show??? Anyone?

[Janine]

I too remember those ballon things, they still have them around and they still smell really bad!
Poprocks...I remember being dared to take a mouth full of poprocks and a huge sip of soda and no one in the neighbor hood would do it in fear of our stomaches exploding...lol

[Du Hast]

all I know is that there should only be one answer to "who you gonna call?"

[Tammy]

What a great topic. Hello everyone. I was at work today, talking with kids that are graduating now/2008. I graduated in 1988. 20 years makes a huge difference.
Anyway, I was trying to explain to them about 'cassingles'. Or when CD's came in a giant package.
I also found a photo of me recently. I was wearing a jean skirt, a poncho, white knee socks, Dr. Scholls & guachos. Topped off with my feathered hair. I was looking great. I also remember a magnetic Jeans Jeans Jeans belt that I wore with everything. : )

[Okoomi]

Tammy, this is such a fun forum! You are but a youngster 10 years my junior, but you might remember Click Clacks.

I remember hitting the click clacks so hard that it chipped. I also had a toy that most girls my age had (circa 1968) that twirled around one foot, and you jumped over the longer end. The name of that toy escapes me, but I loved that thing.

[Whatchawatchin]

I remember that ankle toy! I had one of those things with what looked like a giant lemon on the end. It had some sort of sand or beads in it and made a hulahoop type of sound. I liked to drove my mom nuts running around with that on my foot all of the time..lol.

[Tammy]

I had that ankle toy as well. I also has these hard plastic cups with long plastic staps through them. You held onto the straps & walked on the cups.
My favorite thing by far was my portable turntable with disco lights. It had a photo of the BeeGees & a mic that was attached. I loved that thing.

[Whatchawatchin]

Romper Stompers! Those were awesome.

[Tammy]

Romper Stompers! Thank you.

[lalondon13]

I'm 26, so I don't know if I'm quite at the age for this, yet. I find that what happens to me is a little bit opposite. Everything I grew up with is becoming 'popular' again..both for kids and to sell to adults my age who are suffering from nostalgia. I'm sure this happens with every generation, but I've only started noticing it in mine within the last few years. Also, in the last couple years I went back to college as an older student and it amuses me how 18-20 year olds think I'm really, really old.

[Whatchawatchin]

Ha! I went back to college at 30 and constantly got mistaken for a professor. People looked at me like they expected me to drop dead from old age any moment.

[AlanTheAntagonizer]

When radio stations start to refer to music you grew up with as "retro" or "flashback" and they only play it on special weekends or holidays, then you know you're old. :-)