The Spirograph mention in the UK thread made me think of this one:
If the household has any connection to children whatsoever there is a Lite-Brite set somewhere
― Josefa, Sunday, 29 December 2019 18:44 (four years ago) link
two nations separated by mostly but not always completely different household bric-a-brac
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 December 2019 19:15 (four years ago) link
Lite Brite was another item not allowed in my particular house but yeah
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 December 2019 19:16 (four years ago) link
Shrinky Dinks
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 29 December 2019 19:20 (four years ago) link
Bicentennial detritus
Nothing he's got he really needs
― just another country (snoball), Sunday, 29 December 2019 19:58 (four years ago) link
TV Magic Cards
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 December 2019 20:04 (four years ago) link
Props to Marshall Brodein!
― henry s, Sunday, 29 December 2019 20:11 (four years ago) link
Ha, good thing I left his name out of my post, probably would have spelled it wrong
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 December 2019 20:14 (four years ago) link
Underoos that have shrunkSimon SaysConnect FourThat electronic football game with the red LEDs
― calstars, Sunday, 29 December 2019 20:29 (four years ago) link
unprotected sex
― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Sunday, 29 December 2019 20:53 (four years ago) link
Bicentennial detritusmy parents’ marriage innit
― babu frik fan account (mh), Sunday, 29 December 2019 21:06 (four years ago) link
Simon Says
That electronic football game with the red LEDs
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 29 December 2019 21:50 (four years ago) link
TV Guide
― Yeets don't fail me now (Ye Mad Puffin), Sunday, 29 December 2019 21:50 (four years ago) link
speaking of TV, All In the Family and The Mary Tyler Moore Show
― Dan S, Sunday, 29 December 2019 22:01 (four years ago) link
Lite Brite was another item not allowed in my particular house but yeah― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs)
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs)
Do you come from Amish? What was the objection to Lite-Brite?
― Josefa, Sunday, 29 December 2019 22:13 (four years ago) link
No, just Outerborough German-Irish Catholic. Think perhaps somebody was concerned about us swallowing the pieces.
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 December 2019 22:15 (four years ago) link
https://www.twincities.com/2010/01/03/w-va-doctor-expert-at-removing-ingested-items/
Before iPods and Playstations, Lite-Brite toys, which include hundreds of small, multi-colored plastic pegs, caused problems.“Now that we have fancier play toys, we have been seeing less of these,” Nasir said as she pointed toward the Lite-Brite.
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 29 December 2019 22:18 (four years ago) link
we didn’t have a lite brite either. my mom was very resistant when we requested toys with lots of small parts that were going to get lost or scattered!
― babu frik fan account (mh), Sunday, 29 December 2019 22:24 (four years ago) link
Speaking of choking hazards, Battlestar Galactica:http://www.toysyouhad.com/Bstar.htm
The series was a hit, albeit a costly one. Mattel snatched up the rights to a toy line - hoping to match Kenner's Star Wars success. Amazingly, long after the series ended, the toys continued to fly off of the shelves of toy stores everywhere. There were several types of toys released, the most popular and notorious were the missile-launching toys of 1978. Using a similar spring-loaded mechanism of their Shogun Warrior line, Battlestar Galactica's ships fired tiny red missiles that, as it turns out, tend to get launched into the throats of children. On December 31, 1978 a four year old boy in Atlanta aimed a Colonial Viper toy into his mouth and launched one of the projectile missiles, inadvertently choking himself to death. On January 11, Mattel issued a recall order for the Viper and three other vehicles. It also issued a missile mail-in for those who had had already purchased a missile-firing version of the toys. In exchange for the little red missiles, Mattel provided a Hot Wheels toys, "for the loss in play value." Mattel redesigned the vehicle line to have non-firing missiles.The boy's death triggered a national outcry to remove projectiles from all toys. On March 23, the boy's parents sued Mattel. The judge presiding over the case singled out Star Wars space toys as the culprit (which upset Lucas very much.) The controversy had an impact on Kenner's Star Wars' toy line, as it delayed the shipment of its Boba Fett dolls. The action figure -- whose character would star in The Empire Strikes Back sequel -- was part of a mailaway offer on the backs of other Star Wars figurines. Although Boba Fett's original design and promotion included a rocket-firing backpack, this mechanism was removed from its design. No rocket-firing Boba Fett's ever rolled off the line, and only a handful of the unpainted prototypes exist.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Sunday, 29 December 2019 22:28 (four years ago) link
xp I always wondered if Lite-Brite was a fire risk, but we didn't have one either and I've never actually seen one
― Dan S, Sunday, 29 December 2019 22:31 (four years ago) link
“Magnets hold the bowel together, with the layering between them, causing the gut to rupture.”
whoa
― Josefa, Sunday, 29 December 2019 22:33 (four years ago) link
nevermind the toys, in the 70s come to think of it many of the clothes on our backs were a toxic, flammable, and choking hazard all rolled into one
― never have i been a blue calm sea (collardio gelatinous), Monday, 30 December 2019 00:30 (four years ago) link
also bell bottoms
― Dan S, Monday, 30 December 2019 00:32 (four years ago) link
my niece spent the summer in Brazil, she tells me that bell bottoms have made a comeback there
― Dan S, Monday, 30 December 2019 00:36 (four years ago) link
Health-tex, which still exists but w/o the hyphen
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 December 2019 00:38 (four years ago) link
xxxxpost Simon was created by Ralph Baer, the creator of the Magnavox Odyssey, considered the father of video games and who Nolan Bushnell & Atari ripped off Long from
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 30 December 2019 01:22 (four years ago) link
Always conflated that game with the Alan Arkin movie of the same name and figured he flew to earth in a UFO the same shape as the game console.
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 30 December 2019 01:31 (four years ago) link
High-waisted jeans are already back; the return of bell bottoms feels inevitable.
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 30 December 2019 02:53 (four years ago) link
We already had the great Jnco scare of the 1990s
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Monday, 30 December 2019 03:42 (four years ago) link
I'm in Chicago and over the last year have seen bell bottom jeans proliferate, though only on women. (I'm a dude but am in fact wearing bell bottoms at this moment, though admittedly I dress more vintage than your average person. Love how they look with heeled ankle boots!)
― blatherskite, Monday, 30 December 2019 23:18 (four years ago) link
do you mean you’re wearing bootcut or full bell bottoms? the latter are definitely more than a little flared
― babu frik fan account (mh), Monday, 30 December 2019 23:21 (four years ago) link
"hot naked swimming in gym class" wait what?
― akm, Monday, 30 December 2019 23:24 (four years ago) link
Full on. I used to have bootcut but figured hell, I already dress like I stumbled out of 1969 anyway, might as well commit.
― blatherskite, Monday, 30 December 2019 23:36 (four years ago) link
A comment on those pants:
Nice quality. Worked great for a Shaggy costume!
― shared unit of analysis (unperson), Monday, 30 December 2019 23:40 (four years ago) link
remember loving bell bottoms, trying to think of something equivalent to them in recent fashion history
― Dan S, Monday, 30 December 2019 23:43 (four years ago) link
"hot naked swimming in gym class" wait what?― akm, Monday, December 30
I was joking about 'hot', but I went from a sheltered catholic grade school to a public high school where our gym teacher made the boys take our swimming classes naked. I was kind of shocked by it at first but got used to it
― Dan S, Monday, 30 December 2019 23:44 (four years ago) link
Colored glassware, especially amber or avocado green.
― blatherskite, Monday, 30 December 2019 23:52 (four years ago) link
still serve cocktails to friends in Russel Wright forest green pinch tumblers
― Dan S, Monday, 30 December 2019 23:57 (four years ago) link
Zodiac posters or wall hangings -- my grandmother had a Capricorn tapestry in the basement. Wouldn't be surprised to see that make a comeback, considering astrology becoming a thing again.
― blatherskite, Monday, 30 December 2019 23:57 (four years ago) link
Chess sets: magnetic, Shakespeare-themed, hand-carved, etc.
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 00:00 (four years ago) link
Black Velvet Art, Elvis or otherwise.
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 00:01 (four years ago) link
macrame owl!
― babu frik fan account (mh), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 00:06 (four years ago) link
our house in the 70s had a lot of stuff from the 50s - modern Danish furniture, Japanese lantern lamps, particle board clothes cabinets in the bedroom my brother and I shared
― Dan S, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 00:07 (four years ago) link
Reel-to-reel tape playerAshtraysPoster of Bo DerekFrisbee
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 03:10 (four years ago) link
Velvet dayglo painting of a panther that looks awesome under blacklight = stoner older brother got to decorate his own room.
See also: Skynyrd poster with Confederate Battle Flag
― Yeets don't fail me now (Ye Mad Puffin), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 03:21 (four years ago) link
a public high school where our gym teacher made the boys take our swimming classes naked
this is absolutely not something that happened in every 70s US school ever
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 03:21 (four years ago) link
Apparently up to 1970 in my school district, boys swam naked.
― santa clause four (suzy), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 03:58 (four years ago) link
― The Soundtrack of Burl Ives (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 31 December 2019 04:19 (four years ago) link
Xpost, the Farah Fawcett poster was ubiquitous.
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 04:51 (four years ago) link