I remember when....

[PORKY]

WELL... I remeber when we used to play stickball out in front of our hous , BUT..we were a lil older and the old man next door was half blind so just to f**k with him we didnt have a bat OR a ball .    We'd stand out there and pitch a air ball and hit it with our air bats and hed just sit there and watch us for hours !  we'd make jumping catches and diving catches and "almost "get hit by linedrives    some times our AIRBALL even rolled up on his lawn and we'd apoligize for it . Sometimes when there was only a couple of us we'd play 4square in the street with our airball . I remember the FIRST time momz  came out on the porch and sat down to watch us , she sat there about 10 minutes watching , BEFORE she realized we didnt have a ball , the look on her face was TRULY a Kodac moment her squinting her eyes more n more and doing the ol neck strech to look jus a lil closer . WE screwed with the ol man cuz he CONSTANTLY called the cops on us , i remember the one time they came out about us playing in the street and our "ball" constantly rollin on his lawn . you shouldve been ther when we explained what we'd been doing to the  that showed up he  thought were all  just shook his head and left !

[BaldRob]

We had BB gun fights and bottle rocket fights... and it was fun until someone got shot in the eye (or close to it)...

Can't forget the Commodore 64 or 8 inch floppy drives...

Or how about Fizzies... kind of like Alka Seltzer, but fruit flavored.

M*A*S*H

Archie Bunker

George Jefferson

25 cent comics

50 cent gas (and don't forget the gas shortage/lines)

I also remember when Nixon resigned...

Billy Beer

Generic Beer (remember the white cans that said "BEER"?)

[schro]

We had BB gun fights and bottle rocket fights... and it was fun until someone got shot in the eye (or close to it)...

Can't forget the Commodore 64 or 8 inch floppy drives...

Or how about Fizzies... kind of like Alka Seltzer, but fruit flavored.

M*A*S*H

Archie Bunker

George Jefferson

25 cent comics

50 cent gas (and don't forget the gas shortage/lines)

I also remember when Nixon resigned...

Billy Beer

Generic Beer (remember the white cans that said "BEER"?)

Another GREAT list!!!   

[Timmay]

The white beer cans with the words BEER on it are wayyyy before my time.....or at least I dont remember those...heck i didnt even pick up my first beer until i was 10...lol

[Robmeister]

I also remember when Nixon resigned...

Yep....my 5th-grade teacher would take time out for all of us to listen to the broadcast of the Watergate hearings.  He realized history was being made!

[herronm]

I remember listening over the intercom that day Kennedy was killed (3rd grade).
Neil Armstrong walking on the moon (live).
Watching the Beatles on TV
Seeing Hendrix, Joplin, Cream.... in concert
My first time 

Max

[champ007]

i remember in elementary school....the boys in the class would get 2gether b4 class began & had...PENCIL FIGHTS....remember those infamous battles?!?!  nothing felt better when u won a battle in PENCIL FIGHTS.

WARHAWK

We use to stick the pencils in the ceiling tiles...... the gym was more challengeing to stick them!
Pranks...wow we had many. Best was when they first came out with the green trashcans for the neighborhood. We would take fishing string at night and tie one up and then run across the street and tie the other up. 

Ohhh, I remember a kid in the neighborhood got one of those mopeds that you started with pedals like a bike.... we kinda tore it up jumping dirt hills with it... boy was his parents pissed!

Also.. I told my son about the outdoor ed class I had in highschool and we would go canoeing, to a rope tree obstacle course, and even a rifle range and shoot all types of guns. Its amazing how they have banned all that from schools because of the idiot kids today.........

[Robmeister]

I remember when the latest and greatest in video game technology was Pong.

And the advance setting was a little shorter "paddle"

[Marz]

Also.. I told my son about the outdoor ed class I had in highschool and we would go canoeing, to a rope tree obstacle course, and even a rifle range and shoot all types of guns. Its amazing how they have banned all that from schools because of the idiot kids today.........

Idiot parents behath idiot kids.

Seems like everything requires a safety belt, kneepads, helmet, and all sorts of signatures and prerequisites.

I know many parents and teachers that dont even bother due to the complications and restrictions. Its a shame that kids will miss out on some of the greatest experiences they could ever have because of a few bad apples.

It is really disappointing that they also no longer have archery as a physical ed activity.

[nomad]

Also.. I told my son about the outdoor ed class I had in highschool and we would go canoeing, to a rope tree obstacle course, and even a rifle range and shoot all types of guns. Its amazing how they have banned all that from schools because of the idiot kids today.........

Idiot parents behath idiot kids.

Seems like everything requires a safety belt, kneepads, helmet, and all sorts of signatures and prerequisites.

I know many parents and teachers that dont even bother due to the complications and restrictions. Its a shame that kids will miss out on some of the greatest experiences they could ever have because of a few bad apples.

It is really disappointing that they also no longer have archery as a physical ed activity.

You guys Have hit a bunch of the great memories.

Marz you got it right, looking back it seems we have become a bunch of pansies the way we treat kids now days, and it all of our gemeration that making these stupid rules .

[Timmay]

Remember walking down to the baseball field during the summer nights and getting those Cherryanza Ice creams on a stick.....( yes they were on a wooden stick..i would eat them just to the stick and throw teh rest away) But those were the fun times....every neighborhood had a ballfield and thats where we would hang out.

[Razor X]

Remember walking down to the baseball field during the summer nights and getting those Cherryanza Ice creams on a stick.....( yes they were on a wooden stick..i would eat them just to the stick and throw teh rest away) But those were the fun times....every neighborhood had a ballfield and thats where we would hang out.

Never heard of them.

[Timmay]

Cherryanza's.  They were a vanilla icecream ..sorta long shaped..like a bomb pop....but on the tip of it , had cherry flavored icecream with a marichino cherry in it...then coverd in a hardshell choc.  Damn you talkin about a good icecream treat...those were good.

I also remember..if you needed to tell a friend something..you either  1.  got on your bike and you pedaled across town to their house to tell them or 2..you got on the phone to call them.  None of this....hey hurry up i have to get on the computer to send a message to a friend..............or OMG she isnt even on ..how am i gonna tell her....blah blah blah...get up off ya lazy butt..call her or walk over there...she just lives across the street!

[Razor X]

Cherryanza's.  They were a vanilla icecream ..sorta long shaped..like a bomb pop....but on the tip of it , had cherry flavored icecream with a marichino cherry in it...then coverd in a hardshell choc.  Damn you talkin about a good icecream treat...those were good.

Sounds like they fall into the same category as those Nutty Buddy things the ice cream man used to have -- vanilla ice cream with a chocolate coating and nuts on top, wrapped in what looked like an ice cream cone but was actually a piece of cardboard.   

[wpruitt]

Also.. I told my son about the outdoor ed class I had in highschool and we would go canoeing, to a rope tree obstacle course, and even a rifle range and shoot all types of guns. Its amazing how they have banned all that from schools because of the idiot kids today.........

Idiot parents behath idiot kids.

Seems like everything requires a safety belt, kneepads, helmet, and all sorts of signatures and prerequisites.

I know many parents and teachers that dont even bother due to the complications and restrictions. Its a shame that kids will miss out on some of the greatest experiences they could ever have because of a few bad apples.

It is really disappointing that they also no longer have archery as a physical ed activity.

I remember when parents took responsibility for their kids