Big Wheel tricycle
― that's not my post, Tuesday, 16 November 2021 23:45 (two years ago) link
Oh yeah. We've covered Lite Brite and the Holly Hobby oven, maybe add Stretch Armstrong?
― weregoats of boston (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 01:06 (two years ago) link
A huge hi fi stereo that was the size of a buffetA buffet
― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 01:11 (two years ago) link
seemed like Love Story was really big for everyone I knew when I was a kid
― Dan S, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 01:16 (two years ago) link
as a topic of conversation
I have been stringing together glass beads over the years and have made two beaded glass curtains!
― Dan S, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 01:27 (two years ago) link
Love Story hadn’t been mentioned yet? Thank you for addressing this glaring omission.In school we often saw the male bonding version of Love Story known as Brian’s Song. And sometimes even the parent-child version, Death Be Not Proud.
― Sterl of the Quarter (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 01:35 (two years ago) link
Have we discussed roller skates? Ice skates?
― weregoats of boston (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 01:39 (two years ago) link
Not sure, don’t think so. How about crappy old school low-tech skateboards?
― Sterl of the Quarter (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 01:40 (two years ago) link
living in a cold weather place, ice skating was a part of growing up for me. my older brother was into skiing but I wasn't that brave and my father and little sister and I went ice skating a lot
― Dan S, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 01:48 (two years ago) link
I do remember Hans Brinker and the Silver Skates, which had some kind of intense moment with a sawbones.
― Sterl of the Quarter (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 01:52 (two years ago) link
Think I preferred The Three Lives of Thomasina myself.
― Sterl of the Quarter (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 01:53 (two years ago) link
j/k I was a fan of both
― Sterl of the Quarter (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 01:55 (two years ago) link
Hans Brinker impressed me as a kid
― Dan S, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 02:02 (two years ago) link
The was also Bang the Drum Slowly in the One’s Dying, the Other Isn’t category.
― Sterl of the Quarter (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 02:36 (two years ago) link
There was
― Sterl of the Quarter (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 02:40 (two years ago) link
Some discussion over here: School Daze! What Did Your Teachers Ruin For You And/Or More Positive Reflections On Required Reading
crappy skateboards have come back with a vengeance. though the peak was probably three years ago or so? way “cooler” than normal skateboards
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 09:08 (two years ago) link
Really? With metals wheels?
― Sterl of the Quarter (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 14:01 (two years ago) link
Metal
i dunno about all that chief
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 14:31 (two years ago) link
https://www.skatedeluxe.com/blog/en/wiki/skateboarding/history-of-skateboarding/
HE 1970SThe only consistent thing is change and so it came to a point where everything changed for skateboarding. Frank Nasworthy’s invention of urethane wheels in 1972 made it possible for skateboarding to come back. Nasworthy started the company Cadillac Wheels and with the new material it was possible to ride smoother, faster and more comfortable. A variety of disciplines such as freestyle, downhill and slalom experienced a real high point. New magazines like the “Skateboarder Magazine” from 1975 were published and new events were launched. In 1976, the first artificially created skate park was inaugurated and new parks emerged with new elements such as vertical ramps and kickers.
― Sterl of the Quarter (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 14:43 (two years ago) link
https://skateboardingmagazine.com/the-evolution-of-skateboard-wheels/
― Sterl of the Quarter (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 14:45 (two years ago) link
yeah i’m not talking about metal wheels i’m talking about “penny boards”, long boards etc
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 15:49 (two years ago) link
also this trend of people riding with their front foot sticking lengthwise along the board and barely bending their knees, like they’re posing for a photo or something
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 17 November 2021 15:51 (two years ago) link
Oh shit my first skateboard was TOTALLY a penny board!! I didn't know that was what they were called. It was a dirty jade green? I think my dad got it out of the community "take" pile at the transfer station, ie someone had thrown it away in about 1988 or so.
― Ima Gardener (in orbit), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 15:53 (two years ago) link
In every 70s US restaurant ever
― Meme for an Imaginary Western (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 July 2022 22:53 (one year ago) link
Pardon the digression but that’s the woman who made an awesome documentary about Boyce and Hart a few years ago which I don’t think has had an official release, due to music clearance issues I assume.
― Josefa, Sunday, 24 July 2022 23:24 (one year ago) link
She is some kind of genius so digression welcomed.
― Meme for an Imaginary Western (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 24 July 2022 23:27 (one year ago) link
Yes. She’d be a celebrity in a just world.
― Josefa, Sunday, 24 July 2022 23:29 (one year ago) link
https://www.shorpy.com/files/no-pest-strip.jpg
― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 26 July 2022 23:02 (one year ago) link
Food Sticks
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Tuesday, 26 July 2022 23:03 (one year ago) link
Koogle!
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 01:01 (one year ago) link
Koogle was my next answer. We had jars of that stuff forever.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Wednesday, 27 July 2022 13:24 (one year ago) link
I'm pretty sure that Koogle was some industrial plastic byproduct created by accident that they added flavors to.
Space Food Sticks too, come to think of it.
― Hideous Lump, Wednesday, 27 July 2022 21:00 (one year ago) link
Shell’s No-Pest Strip.
― Jean Arthur Rank (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 September 2022 03:21 (one year ago) link
didn't know the official brand but yes
― joygoat, Friday, 9 September 2022 18:41 (one year ago) link
I tried to find a picture of those hanging wooden-colored boxes, with holes on each side.. that were supposed to kill bugs.. but no luck
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 9 September 2022 18:42 (one year ago) link
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/0d/62/b6/0d62b606d8f3db955e8945d75e35919c.jpg
there we go
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 9 September 2022 18:51 (one year ago) link
Oh god yes, memories
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 9 September 2022 18:53 (one year ago) link
Always thought the design was supposed to evoke one of the towers of the Golden Gate Bridge. Maybe they couldn't come out and say so lest they offend the good people of Rice-A-Roni.
― Jean Arthur Rank (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 September 2022 19:05 (one year ago) link
I feel like they were browner in real life but it was probably just my grandparent smoking constantly that made them look that way
― joygoat, Friday, 9 September 2022 19:30 (one year ago) link
'Rice-a-Roni, the San Francisco treat!'
Supposed to be Chinatown-meets-North Beach, but the family that started the brand were Armenian, who actually rule California.. it's based on some Armenian pilaf dish
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 9 September 2022 19:32 (one year ago) link
xpost yeah, I remember them sort of danish modern brown
Hamburger Helper
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 9 September 2022 19:34 (one year ago) link
As if hamburger needs any 'help'
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 9 September 2022 19:36 (one year ago) link
My mom used to broil the shit out of hamburgers, so the Helper was a welcome respite.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 9 September 2022 19:45 (one year ago) link
Reminds me now of “Shake n’ Bake…and we helped!”
― Jean Arthur Rank (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 September 2022 19:50 (one year ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-F4Cq7lJFeQ0/UsGdUjblvpI/AAAAAAAAJMs/nE89ZRU5NGI/s1600/DSC_6399.JPG
Okay my parents would never allow this kind of kitsch in the house, but the semi-trashy family across the road had one
They also had a weed box with a Pablo Cruise sticker on it, and Fleetwood Mac albums
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 9 September 2022 20:01 (one year ago) link
Oh hell yeah
https://m.media-amazon.com/images/W/WEBP_402378-T2/images/I/610fZxe-MAL._AC_SX522_.jpg
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 9 September 2022 20:08 (one year ago) link
Wasn't Hamburger Helper making an inflation-era "stretch the family budget" sales pitch? I don't think anyone involved really thought it truly improved upon eating a hamburger.
― Doctor Casino, Friday, 9 September 2022 20:10 (one year ago) link