Remember when...

mndsm wrote:

Woody wrote:

neon4891 wrote:

Banned on eBay!

Seriously? Though I don't know a single person that didn't own a set of those (myself included) that didn't change the game from "lawn darts" to "throw it as high in the air as humanly possible and then run or else get impaled by a rusty spike with a plastic feather array attached"

Yup, seriously. In fact, I think they were one of the first things banned, aside from firearms.

Woody wrote:

mndsm wrote:

Woody wrote:

neon4891 wrote:

Banned on eBay!

Seriously? Though I don't know a single person that didn't own a set of those (myself included) that didn't change the game from "lawn darts" to "throw it as high in the air as humanly possible and then run or else get impaled by a rusty spike with a plastic feather array attached"

Yup, seriously. In fact, I think they were one of the first things banned, aside from firearms.

That is the same game we used to play with a bow and practice arrows. Shoot it straight up.The last guy to run away was the winner. Yes. We were berkeleying idiots.

Giant Purple Snorklewacker wrote:

Woody wrote:

mndsm wrote:

Woody wrote:

neon4891 wrote:

Banned on eBay!

Seriously? Though I don't know a single person that didn't own a set of those (myself included) that didn't change the game from "lawn darts" to "throw it as high in the air as humanly possible and then run or else get impaled by a rusty spike with a plastic feather array attached"

Yup, seriously. In fact, I think they were one of the first things banned, aside from firearms.

That is the same game we used to play with a bow and practice arrows. Shoot it straight up.The last guy to run away was the winner. Yes. We were berkeleying idiots.

But- we all lived. I figure the slow ones get picked off, natural selection style.

I remember when I could fill up my car for $3.00.

Soft drinks were 10 cents. Drink and sweet roll was 21 cents.

The movies were less than $1.

First X rated movie shown in town was Midnight Cowboy.

We rode our bikes anywhere and everywhere. I had the first 10 speed in town and paid for it myself. That jewel cost me $100 in 1967.

I got an allowance of $1 a week and had to earn it.

There were some "funny men" in town we needed to stay away from.

The colored waiting rooms at the doctors office had an entrance at the back of the building. I do not remember white only water fountains. I do not remember white only signs in the Kress lunch counter, but strangely noticed no blacks ever ate there. I vividly remember the whites only sign at the bowling alley in Orangeburg that was the impetus of the great disturbance on the late 1960s.

An uncle of mine made a colored man get up and give his seat near the front of the bus to my brother who was traveling on bus alone when he was pretty young. This was in the early 60s. This uncle later ran for public office, but was not elected.

I learned to drive in a 1950 Plymouth with three on the tree.

We refused to buy that crap Gulfcrest gas (28 cents a gallon). We bought the Gulftane (34 cents). We could not afford the Good Gulf ( 38 cents).

The TV took several minutes for the tubes to warm up. There was NO cable. TV was one channel that was clear, one came in fair and oen was poor.

Steaks and chicken both tasted better than they do today.

I have no idea how I survived my childhood.

I remember we were my dad's TV remote control.

I was in middle school when forced busing started and then when I went to junior high I was bused WAY out in the country to a school which had been historically all black. We are talking a 40 mile trip one way, when there was a perfectly good junior high about eight miles away.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desegregation_busing_in_the_United_States

Hell, I had grown up with black kids who lived just down the road from us, we played together all the time. I didn't really understand what all the fuss was about. I do know the kids at that school considered it all theirs and were PISSED about the white kids being there. That's not being racist, that's just how it was. It took about a year and a half for everyone to get comfortable with it.

So no all was NOT sweetness and light.

But we did have those Nik-L-Nip wax sodas!