BLAST from the PAST (did you have them)

[paul.karen]

So im in the bank today.  And i see this little old lady.  She was wearing shoes i haven't seen in well over 20+
years.

Remember LA Gear shoes.  They had the colorful??  fins i quess you would call them on the sides.
(luckily she didn't have the neon green or yellow stretch pants on)


have you seen anything you would consider a blast form the past lately?

[paris]

Were you behind me at the bank today?    

[paul.karen]

 

 

[Jill D.]

I read that "Members Only" jackets are making a comeback.

[kellyt]

I never had LA Gear or Members Only jacket.


I was soooooo excited last Christmas because I found a Rockem Sockem Robots game at Big Lots and I got it for my nephew.  I was a piece of CRAP!  They made it all plastic instead of the sturdy metal (I think the original game was metal, right?  If not, it was still better quality than this piece of junk).  Cheap!  It didn't work one time!  He never got to play it.  I was soooo pizzed!

[paul.karen]

LOL  i had members only jacket.  Pretty comfortable actualy.
Also had the rockem sockems.

Anyone remember or hear of.

Ginip Gonop  It was a game. spelling may be off.

[Chris]

Yes, that Members Only jacket was comfortable in the hey day. My Rockem Sockem was plastic with metal parts.  Another game I remember that took a beating that probably wouldn't make it today is Hungry Hungry Hippos. No marbles, use gumballs...lol  As for toys though, I mostly had car stuff, more than the Hot Wheels and Matchbox cars, which were better back then, they were mostly metal. I remember the cheap toy cars, the stamped out body with plastic wheels popped on that did not rotate very well.

Ohhh, stretch armstrong, but I had the green alien one that I can't think of the name.

[paul.karen]

Ah yes the matchbox cars.
Remember they use to come in matchboxes.  Or a box like a matchbox.

And my favorites were the JI Joes.  The original ones that were like 12" tall.  With the tank and helicopter and many different uniforms.   Toys arnt what they use to be.  maybe cause they arnt made in the USA anymore.

Ps.  New JI Joe movie coming out soon.
wonder if he will join up with Evil Knievel like they use to in my backyard.

[2_DallasCowboys]

Hey!!

Anybody remember Earthshoes???

Or, speaking of shoes, those big super high platform thingees?

No wonder my feet hurt today!! 

Anne

[Chris]

Hey!!

Anybody remember Earthshoes???

Or, speaking of shoes, those big super high platform thingees?

No wonder my feet hurt today!! 

Anne

You mean the ones where you could have a gold  fish in them or the ones where roller skates popped out?

[paul.karen]

Earth shoes?

made of hemp lol.  I would have burned through them .

Parachute pants..  Yeah i was styling back in the day.

[breezysummerday]

I was flipping through tv channels.  I stopped on Home and Garden tv to see what the 'after' room remodel was.
The announcer says:   are you ready to see your 'new living room?
Then, a slight pause, another person says:   We tried our best to get the mid-century look and feel you were asking for
                                                              and I think we accomplished it!

They were talking about the 1960's!!!
The 1960's as being mid-century   

Anyways, I remember using Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific shampoo, and if you were going to wear white socks, you
just shouldn't show up to school at all.

[Chris]

So that's what "Earth Shoes" are, but if you burned them after wearing, wouldn't that be smelly, especially after a long day of walking in the summer 

I had the parachute pants too, the leather like and then there was the nylon whatever type. I'm glad there aren't pictures though, but I do like the skinny tie back then, eaier to tie 

[kitkatz]

Rubik's Cube

[MandaMe1986]

I used to have a lime green and hot pink jump suit.  But no one said Lego's, or Licon (sp) logs I used to love to build stuff.

[monrein]

White go-go boots anyone?  Picture Jamaica, the tropics right.  Now add in me, wearing white vinyl go-go boots sweating in them till my feet were sliding around.  What a very very bad idea...and NO I did not look cool even though I thought I did at the time.   Trends, pshaw...I gave up on them then and there.

[pelagia]

White go-go boots anyone?  Picture Jamaica, the tropics right.  Now add in me, wearing white vinyl go-go boots sweating in them till my feet were sliding around.  What a very very bad idea...and NO I did not look cool even though I thought I did at the time.   Trends, pshaw...I gave up on them then and there.

Yes, white go-go boots!  These boots are made for walking...  I can still picture Nancy Sinatra on TV.  But, now I'm totally shattered Monrein.  If you didn't look cool, I know that I didn't.  Karol, how about you?

I also remember sleeping with orange juice cans in my hair!  That's when straight, straight hair was all the rage, even if you had lovely, naturally wavy hair.  Now I can't even sleep through the night if I am exhausted, so how did I manage to sleep with my head surrounded by cans?

I also had a little blast from the past when I was looking at that photo of Michael Phelps with the bong.  I can almost remember being a teenager in the late 1960s and early 1970s  (just kidding...)

[Jill D.]

I had Earth shoes - they kind of angled at the toe and it seems like your heel at a little lower than the front of your feet...

Gnip Gnop - were those the big marbles on the strings that, when you got them going, would hit off each other and circle back and forth? If so I think they were outlawed when some of those marbles flew off the strings and put someone's eye out...

I babysat for a little boy that had a Stretch Armstrong, and one day he came crying and freaking out because he "killed" Stretch...he had twisted Stretch's arm so much that the pink gel stuff inside was oozing out. It was pretty gross!

Remember Kerplunk, Which Witch, Trouble, Aggravation?

[paris]

Along with the orange juice cans, we ironed our hair. I mean with an iron and ironing board!  We sure knew how to ruin hair 

[jbeany]

I had Kangaroo shoes with the pockets in them.  I remember pants so tightly pegged at the ankles that you had to put your socks on first or you couldn't even pull anklets up high enough.  And don't forget the preppie thing we all did in the 80's, with the sweaters we never actually wore, just draped over out shoulders with the sleeves cuffed together in front.