I was always fascinated by but uneasy about the 1970's Ghost Rider
Damn those stickers look familiar, maybe my sister's 'antiqued' dresser
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 9 September 2022 20:39 (one year ago) link
same with Cyrillic lettering
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 9 September 2022 20:42 (one year ago) link
1970s Ghost Rider was intense: he was the result of a literal deal with Satan. Plus, there was Mike Ploog's art, which was heavily influenced by the work of Berni Wrightson, who has to be the creepiest mainstream comics artist ever.
― immodesty blaise (jimbeaux), Friday, 9 September 2022 20:43 (one year ago) link
*Bernie
I certainly wouldn't have wanted to be Peter Fonda
― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Friday, 9 September 2022 20:58 (one year ago) link
Jeez I would
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 9 September 2022 21:11 (one year ago) link
A kids bed frame with assorted Wacky Packages stickers pasted to the headboard.
oh yeah but i had mine stuck all over my desk.
― that's not my post, Friday, 9 September 2022 22:21 (one year ago) link
My friends also had on their bedroom doors and maybe some other doors as well.
― Jean Arthur Rank (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 9 September 2022 22:25 (one year ago) link
let's see if this works
https://wacky-packages.fandom.com/wiki/Hamburger_Blecher?file=03_Hamburger_Blecher.jpg
― that's not my post, Friday, 9 September 2022 22:26 (one year ago) link
well, this will take you to an image of hamburger belcher: https://wacky-packages.fandom.com/wiki/Hamburger_Blecher?file=03_Hamburger_Blecher.jpg
― that's not my post, Friday, 9 September 2022 22:27 (one year ago) link
sloppy joes
― Tracer Hand, Friday, 9 September 2022 22:47 (one year ago) link
Manwich
― henry s, Friday, 9 September 2022 22:50 (one year ago) link
A stash of unsold Grit newspapers that some gullible kid thought would earn him enough money to buy a spy camera.
― henry s, Friday, 9 September 2022 22:58 (one year ago) link
fuck I tried to sell Grit and sold one to my aunt
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 9 September 2022 23:07 (one year ago) link
Jesus, it still exists: DIY CHIGGER BITE RELIEF
https://www.grit.com/
― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 9 September 2022 23:08 (one year ago) link
Wow many things on this thread are extremely familiar. There's just one mention of the big chunky remote controls, but we had one of these. We actually inherited it when my grandparents were killed in a car accident — before that we just had a little black and white TV, but then they died and we got their color TV with an actual remote control. It confirmed my sense that my grandparents (who lived far away and I rarely saw) lived lives of great luxury.
https://compote.slate.com/images/eacaab7b-bdc7-4097-8bab-74107d1c0707.jpg
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 9 September 2022 23:40 (one year ago) link
NB: YMP was the first to mention Hamburger Helper and Rice-A-Rona upthread, but this is the kind of list thread where multiple entries are fine, especially since they are usually recontextualized.
― Jean Arthur Rank (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 September 2022 00:05 (one year ago) link
Lol at typo
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Friday, 9 September 2022 23:40 (yesterday) link
OMG, these things - I actually had a thrilling rush of sensory memories at that picture. My grandparents had one too.
― longtime caller, first time listener (man alive), Saturday, 10 September 2022 01:36 (one year ago) link
The ka-CHUNK was very satisfying.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Saturday, 10 September 2022 01:51 (one year ago) link
I probably posted something like this upthread, but the original design of the remote (Zenith’s Space Command, specifically) always fascinated me. Tiny hammers hit tiny sound-producing rods!https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zenith_Electronics#Remote_controls
Lead engineer Robert Adler then suggested that ultrasonic sound be used as a trigger mechanism. This was produced in the hand held unit by mechanically struck aluminum rods of carefully constructed dimensions—a receiver in the television responded to the different frequencies this action produced. Enough audible noise was produced by pressing the buttons that consumers began calling remote controls "clickers". The miniaturization of electronics meant that, eventually, the sounds were produced in the remote unit electronically; however, the operating principle remained in use until the 1980s, when it was superseded by the infrared light system.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 10 September 2022 10:50 (one year ago) link
Yes, you mentioned on the second day of this thread’s existence, as a follow-up to your massive console TV post.
― Jean Arthur Rank (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 September 2022 14:43 (one year ago) link
Well that technology background was certainly new! And totally unknown to me.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 10 September 2022 14:55 (one year ago) link
Yes. The new information was very welcome.
― Jean Arthur Rank (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 September 2022 14:55 (one year ago) link
Again, repeat posts are not frowned upon in this thread, they are welcomed. Which in itself is a repeat post.
― Jean Arthur Rank (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 September 2022 14:56 (one year ago) link
Go placidly amid the noise and the haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence
― Jean Arthur Rank (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 September 2022 15:02 (one year ago) link
Macrame
Macrame mucho
― the floor is guava (Ye Mad Puffin), Saturday, 10 September 2022 15:47 (one year ago) link
Ha.Johnny Mathis albums. Although I think they were borrowed, at least in our house.
― Jean Arthur Rank (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 September 2022 15:54 (one year ago) link
God’s Eyes.
― put a VONC on it (suzy), Saturday, 10 September 2022 16:49 (one year ago) link
Hi suzy, was hoping you would be back to contribute some more.
― Jean Arthur Rank (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 September 2022 16:51 (one year ago) link
I feel like, even if there is some small thing that we may have missed on this thread, we still have all the basic DNA required to clone one of these houses if needed.
― Jean Arthur Rank (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 10 September 2022 18:10 (one year ago) link
That mustard yellow rubbermaid pitcher with the white top that twists. Saw one on an episode of The Americans set in 81 or 82. Must have been a holdover from the 70s...
― that's not my post, Sunday, 18 September 2022 14:26 (one year ago) link
^Good one!
― Ride On Proserpina (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 18 September 2022 14:41 (one year ago) link
Great pick. I actually saw one at a yard sale a couple months ago... Strong Proustian Madeleine moment --- my entire 80s childhood, we drank orange juice (reconstituted from a cardboard tube of frozen concentrate) out of one of those. We had a blue-ish one too, used by my Mom to rinse shampoo from our hair when we were really little.
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 18 September 2022 14:42 (one year ago) link
Tupperware parties and Avon ladies.
― Ride On Proserpina (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 18 September 2022 15:01 (one year ago) link
Fiddle Faddle and/or Screaming Yellow Zonkers
― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 18 September 2022 20:57 (one year ago) link
The coffee table book "Gnomes"
― Hideous Lump, Sunday, 18 September 2022 21:09 (one year ago) link
We had “Gnomes.” But what about B. Kliban books, maybe they were too counter-cultural for every ‘70s home, but we had all of them.
― Josefa, Sunday, 18 September 2022 21:49 (one year ago) link
Oh man we definitely had Rubbermaid pitchers, I think including a yellow one. Also, juice concentrate! I was just thinking about the other day, how it seems to have disappeared. That was all we drank, frozen Minute Maid OJ and lemonade.
Here's an article from Vice about the decline of fro-jay: https://www.vice.com/en/article/4x5nzq/nobody-gives-a-damn-about-frozen-oj-anymore
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 18 September 2022 22:06 (one year ago) link
And B Kliban, wow, this whole thread is like visiting my childhood home. My dad is a big comics/cartoon fan, so we had everything from classic Little Lulu to R. Crumb, including a shelf of Kliban.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Sunday, 18 September 2022 22:14 (one year ago) link
When I was a kid my mom used to take my brother and me with her to visit some adult friends of hers who didn't have any kids, but they did have a gigantic coffee table book that had about 40 years' worth of Dick Tracy anthologized in it and I used to sit there and read entire plotlines that must have taken months to play out a day at a time in the 1930s or whenever.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 18 September 2022 23:10 (one year ago) link
watched Klute again and the brown, rust, yellow, olive and beige car colors of the early 70s look really good in retrospect
― Dan S, Monday, 19 September 2022 00:04 (one year ago) link
I guess by yellow I mean harvest gold
― Dan S, Monday, 19 September 2022 00:07 (one year ago) link
In every early '90s home ever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mi0uz8JD9Aw
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 19 September 2022 00:24 (one year ago) link
In every 70s grandparents' home ever:
Candy that only grandmothers buy. In my case, it's nonpareils in covered glass candy dishes, and Chiclets and Necco Wafers in the purse.
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/2019-12-27_15_44_29_A_packet_of_Christmas_Nonpareils_produced_by_Hollabaugh_Brothers%2C_Incorporated_in_the_Dulles_section_of_Sterling%2C_Loudoun_County%2C_Virginia.jpg/640px-thumbnail.jpg
― Hideous Lump, Monday, 19 September 2022 03:44 (one year ago) link
― assert (matttkkkk), Monday, 19 September 2022 04:10 (one year ago) link
cologne bottle shaped like a green glass car
― Andy the Grasshopper, Monday, 19 September 2022 16:53 (one year ago) link
Stored in the attic or basement, let's not forget tents with metal poles! A joy to set up and take down for backyard slumber parties.
― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Monday, 19 September 2022 16:58 (one year ago) link
Slip ‘n’ Slide
― put a VONC on it (suzy), Monday, 19 September 2022 18:33 (one year ago) link
In every early '90s home ever:If I’m not mistaken, one of the ingredients is petroleum. Just plain petroleum. Ingredient list reads something like, “water, high fructose corn syrup, orange flavoring, petroleum, xanthan gum…”
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 19 September 2022 19:11 (one year ago) link