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Sea Monkeys, Mood Rings, Men on the Moon, Black Lights and Hippies...
southendmd:
I really wanted a Gremlin when I was a kid:
Penthesilea:
--- Quote from: ifyoucantfixit on January 17, 2008, 09:12:22 am ---
PET ROCKS !!!!!
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OMG. The Ur-Tamagotchi :laugh:. I've never heard of them, I just looked it up in wikipedia.
I think they never found their way across the Atlantic.
I was born in 1968, so I don't remember the 60, but the 70ies:
- the only Elvis I remember is fat Elvis and dead Elvis
- Raleigh Chopper bicycles (in Germany, they were called Bonanza bikes, like the TV series, and they had banana saddles)
- macrame (oh, what a nightmare)
- ABBA
- Bonanza (the TV series)
- The Waltons (I had such a crush on John-Boy - but who hadn't? ;D)
- Little House on the Prairie (major crush on Laura, and later I was a sucker for the actress's sister, who played Darlene Connor on Rosanne)
- Deutsche Schlager and the ZDF Hitparade (most horrible kind of music ever)
- DISCO
- matching clothes for couples: horrible. What made it worse was the fact my father refused it, so I had to wear matching clothes with my mother :P. I hated it more than I can say... :P :P :P
- bell-bottom trousers (in the worst case with an added border when they I had outgrown them)
- life without a telephone
- three (yes, three!) channels on TV. And programme started only in the afternoon (around 5pm) and ended around midnight. The other time there was only a TV test pattern on.
Clyde-B:
Leisure suits and Nehru jackets.
Go-Go boots
Polyester
"Get a haircut!!!"
dot-matrix:
Bean Bag Chairs
Lava Lamps
Beads instead of curtains or doors
Shag Carpet
Avocado green or Harvest gold appliances
Incense burners
Ouija Boards
Still having 'air raid' drills in school
Kool Pops, Jiffy Pop, Scooter Pies, Bubble Up, Moon Pies
Funny Face Drinks
Screamin Yellow Zonkers
Getting a sugar cube with the "new" Polio vaccine in school
Vicks Vapo rub
Friends being quarantined with German Measles or Mumps ( I had both!)
Muzak
Granny Glasses
The appearance of the first smiley face "have a nice day" and "shit happens"
Platform Shoes for men
Slogan Buttons... "Make Love not War" "Snoopy for President" "Keep on Truckin" " Peace, Love and Flower Power"
troll dolls
southendmd:
Wacky packages
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