Things you remember from when you were younger?

[Jason X-Mas]

I actually remember us kids having freedom of movement. You could walk all over the place. Just be back by super or it starts to get dark outside. Granted your adventures would never be as cool as something like in Goonies but it was more freedom.


Jason

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

I actually remember us kids having freedom of movement. You could walk all over the place. Just be back by super or it starts to get dark outside. Granted your adventures would never be as cool as something like in Goonies but it was more freedom.

Jason

Haha I've never seen that movie, just the Cyndi Lauper song she did for the movie.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

my parents cleared out part of the basement and there were some lovely toys. Do you remember those things that were a cross between a helicopter and a spinning top? You put a plastic helicopter rotor thingy on an axle protruding from the top of a handle. Inside the handle, a string is wound around the axle. You pull it zippy and the helicopter rotor rotates, takes off and flies around.
edit: omg! They are back at Amazon! helicopter things
and do you remember these ball catching things ? My parents hated them because they were so loud

 

[Doom Shepherd]

That time Thog got eaten by the saber-tooth tiger. That was a good day. Thog always took the shiny rocks for himself.

Also, fun and deadly lawn darts.

 

[Kor]

Rax, a fast food chain specializing in roast beef sandwiches. The mascot was an alligator, and the kid's meal came with a plastic bottle shaped like the alligator character. They were usually green, but I think they may have come in other colors from time to time. Nobody else seems to remember this place at all.

Kor

 

[Santaman]

^^
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rax_Roast_Beef

Still there, only 5 locations remain though.

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

my parents cleared out part of the basement and there were some lovely toys. Do you remember those things that were a cross between a helicopter and a spinning top? You put a plastic helicopter rotor thingy on an axle protruding from the top of a handle. Inside the handle, a string is wound around the axle. You pull it zippy and the helicopter rotor rotates, takes off and flies around.
edit: omg! They are back at Amazon! helicopter things
and do you remember these ball catching things ? My parents hated them because they were so loud

Your links are not working......

I never saw those as a kid but did have a hoberman sphere, that is what got me into science.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoberman_sphere

 

[Silvercrest]

Rax, a fast food chain specializing in roast beef sandwiches. The mascot was an alligator, and the kid's meal came with a plastic bottle shaped like the alligator character. They were usually green, but I think they may have come in other colors from time to time. Nobody else seems to remember this place at all.

Kor

I remember Rax from the 1980s, in the Tacoma / Puyallup region.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I actually remember us kids having freedom of movement. You could walk all over the place. Just be back by super or it starts to get dark outside. Granted your adventures would never be as cool as something like in Goonies but it was more freedom.


Jason

How old are you? Seriously, I remember doing that in the 70's. Going as far away from the house as I wanted, stay out late at night in the summer. Ride the bike to town anytime. We lived in a small-ish suburb of Chicago at the time.

 

[Jason X-Mas]

How old are you? Seriously, I remember doing that in the 70's. Going as far away from the house as I wanted, stay out late at night in the summer. Ride the bike to town anytime. We lived in a small-ish suburb of Chicago at the time.

I am 44. I was a kid in the 80's. People still did it then as well. Basically just don't get into cars with strangers was the one warning you got to stay safe. Also walked to and back from school. Even when it snowed. Yet somehow never when it rained. I actually recall kind of passing out once when I walked in the show and stood to long next to the heater in the school because I wasp pretty frozen. I think they gave me some juice or something then I went to class. Not only that but the school still had a paddle for kids who acted out though at that time I think it was mostly for show and no longer something they used.


Jason

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

Chemistry sets!

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

Chemistry sets!

I remember those! Smelly ass stuff. Also the 100-in-one (among other sizes) sets from Radio Shack.

 

[Mr. Laser Beam]

I had a chemistry set when I was a kid. I had a lot of fun with it.

And while today's "coddle culture" (and, of course, the Fucking Lawyers ) means there's not a chance in hell chemistry sets will ever again be a thing...somehow, we managed to not blow shit up or injure ourselves, didn't we?

 

[Jason X-Mas]

I had mosty GiJoe Transformer, Hot Wheels toys. Also some Go Bots. Had a Bike as well. Had one of those air cars were you pump a pump and then the car takes off on it's own. Plus a tape recorder were I would sometimes record songs off the radio. When I was young I also had Atari and for awhile Nintendo. Also one of those water game things were you try and get the ring on the stick pikey thing. A rubics cube and slinky. A speak and spell. Lincoln Logs and the lights thingy. You see it in that Family Guy episode were Adam Wests spells his name as Adam We. Also a nurf football.


Jason

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

We did model rockets as well and managed not to kill ourselves, or shoot one up our noses.

My brother had a Super-8 camera and did edited movies with all of us.

Also, bike (bicycle) jumping in the "junkyard" at the end of our street. It was at one time a junkyard and very early on it had a couple rusted out old cars in it, but later was just a big abandoned lot. It had a couple large dirt mounds with paths over them, as the area was a shortcut whenever we could make holes in the wooden fence. Again, I made it out alive.

@Jayson1 you're thinking of a Lite-Brite™ with the back-lit colored pegs poked through a piece of black paper.

I also had Lincoln Logs™, Slinkys™ and a Merlin™ when it first came out.

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

I remember those! Smelly ass stuff. Also the 100-in-one (among other sizes) sets from Radio Shack.

Yay someone else remembers those........ Science Fair kits. I loved all those sets and had a few of them from Tandy, which is what Radio Shack was called over here in Australia, and they had solder kits too inn the late 70s early 80s but phased them out rather quickly.. That's where I got that portable radio kit back in 1982. We had other stores like Dick Smith Electronics and I built a Playmaster amp which worked after troubleshooting some shorts on the solder side of the board.

 

[Doom Shepherd]

Rax, a fast food chain specializing in roast beef sandwiches. The mascot was an alligator, and the kid's meal came with a plastic bottle shaped like the alligator character. They were usually green, but I think they may have come in other colors from time to time. Nobody else seems to remember this place at all.

Kor

The Rax BBC was one of the best sandwiches of all time.

 

[Bah Humbug]

Rax, a fast food chain specializing in roast beef sandwiches. The mascot was an alligator, and the kid's meal came with a plastic bottle shaped like the alligator character. They were usually green, but I think they may have come in other colors from time to time. Nobody else seems to remember this place at all.

Kor

I had a Rax near me when I was a kid. I don't really remember the alligator mascot but I think that I remember their roast beef sandwiches being better than Arby's.

 

[Surfin' Santa]

We used to make our own chipmunk records on our reel-to-reel tape recorders by recording at 3-3/4 ips speed and playing back at 7-1/2.

I had an old RCA black-and-white remote-control TV in my bedroom. The remote had been lost years earlier, but I found I could make the channels change by playing with a metal Slinky in front of the set!

 

[Candleicious Ghost]

We used to make our own chipmunk records on our reel-to-reel tape recorders by recording at 3-3/4 ips speed and playing back at 7-1/2.

I had an old RCA black-and-white remote-control TV in my bedroom. The remote had been lost years earlier, but I found I could make the channels change by playing with a metal Slinky in front of the set!

That's pretty neat. I wonder how it worked with the slinky, whether it was the sound of it moving or something, thinking back on that I think it could well be the sound because a lot of those old sets had ultrasonic remotes.