Let's all reach back...waaaay back into the earliest years of our childhood and share a memory or two from when we were just wee youngsters, or as far back as you care to remember. It can be anything from a precious toy you had to a special family moment. Let's try to make these positive memories though.
I'll start things off by sharing with you what probably was the very first song I can remember really liking alot as a kiddie...
The Royal Guardsmen - Snoopy vs. The Red Baron (1966):
Of all the random songs to find on youtube, I had to find this one. (It's what gave me the idea for this topic.) Instant nostalgia set in while listening to this and brought me back to a time of being in diapers and barely able to walk or talk; bouncing along to this song in my playpen as it played on the old family record player.
So, anyone else care to share a random memory like this from your youth? I'm sure you all have some nice childhood tales to tell.
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Posted by Logan 5 (Member # 1467) on :
I used to have a picture book about a lonely wizard who painted a picture of himself and brought it to life, but the picture was evil and locked the wizard up and did nasty things. Then it rained and the evil picture washed away. I wish I could remember the name of that book Posted by amaranth (Member # 8882) on :
Ah this is cool i was just thinking last night about a book i used to have called Twinkle i googled it last night and i reconised the 1983 addition straight away and memories came back of the story about a toy hospital lol. I also had a smurf record called smurfing beer which i played all the time!
Posted by P a u l (Member # 1022) on :
I remember a bright light, and then some strange man slapping me on the butt.....
Posted by kevdugp73 (Member # 5978) on :
Funny Paul.....
* I remember when I was young enough to get $1 for allowance and would always run to the general store down the road...it was enough to buy a bottle of pop, bag of chips, and a chocolate bar! For some reason, I have fond memories of the front door of the store....a big solid wood door with a glass pane window, and a bell would ring every time it opened. I can remember the smell of the store and today could probably still walk around the store blind folded without running into anything. It's long since gone, but Don Powell's store was a big part of my childhood.
Posted by bandit (Member # 6296) on :
quote:Originally posted by P a u l: I remember a bright light, and then some strange man slapping me on the butt.....
I have a twin brother.When my mom went to hospital to get our brother.He is one year younger than us btw.Our grandmother was taking care of us for the time being.We both remember this episode very vividly:Time to go to bed and we both had our milk bottles with us.But i wanted chocolate milk,which my twin brother hated.There was a bit mix up,before it was eventually sorted out.I still remember how frustrated i was,not being able to communicate with that huge total stupid strange looking homo sapiens BTW,me and my brother created our own language between us,much to my mothers worries.It was all sorted out in the end i guess.And i still enjoy my chocolate milk to this very day btw.
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Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
i liked going to this supermarket in my hometown that was designed like something out of the seventies, i loved to walk down the spice isle with all those different scents, the bread isle with the aroma of fresh baked bread, the seafood section and looking at the lobsters in the tank, and finally the bakery where the give you free samples of cookies. also the cearal isle seemed to stretch on forever with all kinds of brands, now it seems limited. also i miss the way the seventies style looked.
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
I remember when I was 4 or 5 and my Father's cousin made me three dresses in her sewing class in High School. I can vaguely remember them- one was pale pink, one was pale mint green, but I don't remember the third one. They were beautiful- like you would buy at a department store. I also remember going to this really small grocery store with my Father alot. They ended up building a new one behind the old store in the early 1990's. The old store is now a bar/restaurant. I loved the old store- gazing at the wheels of cheese and waiting for the meat cutter to prepare our order. And sometimes getting some candy from those Brach's candies mix bins.
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
ha! i used to get the brach's too! i sneak a milk maid every now and then, but that was another store
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
another memory that came to me was one where i rode with my parents to some big department store almost an hour away from home, or at least that was what it seemed like, rode in the back of a little white pontiac t -1000, i had a couple of masters of the universe action figures with me in the back seat one of them being Two-Bad, wich i remember loosing him somewhere in there but given how small the car was seems like a crazy notion, later i found him under the front passenger seat, it got dark quick outside which didnt help me when i was looking, and im thinking this was around christmas time, i was really exicted about christmas every year back then and very anxious of it coming up soon, even to the point where i couldnt get to sleep on christmas eve.
Posted by Pyro (Member # 7658) on :
I'm loving all these tidbits of childhood memories! ...anybody got anymore??
Posted by Ronnie (Member # 465) on :
i've said this before, i think...
one of the best memories for me, would be halloween...4th grade. going trick or treating with my 2 best friends...totally hitting up the neighborhood and then came across 3 boys our age, and they somehow tagged along with us, we were all laughing, and running down the street... (my kids wouldn't be doing this today haha). we were having the time of our lives and then when it was time to go back home, they walked us back to my house, and my mom had the car ready to take my friends home, we were all saying bye like it was the end of the world awww haha. we get in the car and the song, "She's A Beauty" by the Tubes was playing.. so that song is forever connected to that night for me. it doesn't fit the anything that happened, but it makes me think of it everytime i hear it,.. it was so much fun!
oh and several years later, in jr. high, i ended up seeing one of the boys at my school, we remembered each other and were like.. "remember halloween night??.." haha we became friends but then he went to a different high school. i thought it was so cool we ran into each other and remembered trick or treating together. Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
i remember this one particular easter morning when i was 8 years old or younger my mom(which at that time i was under the assumption it was none other than the easter bunny himself) set up a scavenger hunt type of thing leaving post-it notes in various locations around the house one note leading to another and eventually to a basket of goodies. i woke up that morning and my mom pointed out the first note and said look what the easter bunny left for ya, and needless to say i was pretty exicted, didnt even change out of pajamas to my regular clothes either, got right out on the trail of this thing, this trail leading me out through the backyard, im still barefoot tromping through the dew looking for the next spot. this particular easter sticks out to me because it was the only one where the easter bunny seemed as big as santa claus, that and it was totally unexpected, untill then i thought the bunny just left cool colored eggs lying around in baskets of plastic grass, i felt kind of special that i got a visit and the effort of putting together this game. this hunt only happend one year but it is always the one that pops into my head when ever i think of easter.
Posted by kevdugp73 (Member # 5978) on :
I remember getting a new bike for my 7th birthday...one of those bikes with the plastic gas tank on it....a cool ride...mine was orange and black. Anyway, I came home from school and my Dad asked me to go into the garage to get him a hammer...I go in, look around, can't find it. Dad sends me back in with specific directions...still can't find it. Anyway, the point is that Dad put the bike right in the middle of the garage...in a spot where I actually had to scootch around it to see if I could find the hammer. For some reason...the image of the bike just didn't register...pretty much had to sit me on the bike before I realized what I just got for my birthday....I remember this like it was yesterday....
Posted by Stitch Groover (Member # 2895) on :
2 words - Flat. Stanley.
Does anyone remember this book?
Posted by cinnamon girl (Member # 9865) on :
gold digger jeans. with a gold bar as a zipper pull i think. no one remembers these jeans. in the commercial it had kids on a playground.
Posted by Stitch Groover (Member # 2895) on :
So no one remembers Flat Stanley? In the books, he was a boy who (I can't remmeber how) ended up as flat as sheet of paper, and was able to slide under doors, go on vacation by posting himself in an envelope etc....
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
my grandma put some cool ranch doritos in a bowl for me but accidentally spilled some kool aid mix on them, the combination made for a unique challenge to the taste buds, i remember that at the same time i was watching 1 2 3..contact, anyway she was a lady who was very adamant about not wasting food so, that was one of the strangest snacks i ever had to finish.
Posted by oneyedwilly (Member # 8730) on :
dang - i love these stories!! great thread Pyro mate, just awsome. I loved snoopy too. Got SO MANY great memories and its hard to pin down just 1 but here goes . . .
. . .February 1984, Burlish Middle School, i was 10 yrs old and smitten with a girl who was smitten with me - Kerry-Ann Walsh was her name. Green eyes, long black hair and pale skin. she was kinda chubby i think and always wore wellies to school. Her friend approached me in the play ground and told me kerry liked me and wanted me to ask her out, out where i have no idea but i spent the rest of the day psyching my self up to ask her out at the PERFECT moment. The school bell rings at the end of the day, i timed my walk to the coat hook area just perfectly to see Kerry at her hook (and on her own) just perfect!! She turned walked past me as i just froze completely, she was now at the exit with about 20 others going out the door, i was going to miss my moment, my chance, after all the psyching, after all the silent practise in my head . . .3 2 1, do it mark do it, just say it. 'Kerry-ann' i yelled. She turns, looks right at me and i say (infront of the whole class) 'WILL you go out with me'? ...and she yells out with every ounce of energy... 'NO WAY'!! LOL ill never ever forget that to the day i die Pyro.
Posted by oneyedwilly (Member # 8730) on :
quote:Originally posted by The Good Package: my grandma put some cool ranch doritos in a bowl for me but accidentally spilled some kool aid mix on them, the combination made for a unique challenge to the taste buds, i remember that at the same time i was watching 1 2 3..contact, anyway she was a lady who was very adamant about not wasting food so, that was one of the strangest snacks i ever had to finish.
LOL 1 2 3 contact, i loved that show!!!
Posted by oneyedwilly (Member # 8730) on :
quote:Originally posted by kevdugp73: I remember getting a new bike for my 7th birthday...one of those bikes with the plastic gas tank on it....a cool ride...mine was orange and black. Anyway, I came home from school and my Dad asked me to go into the garage to get him a hammer...I go in, look around, can't find it. Dad sends me back in with specific directions...still can't find it. Anyway, the point is that Dad put the bike right in the middle of the garage...in a spot where I actually had to scootch around it to see if I could find the hammer. For some reason...the image of the bike just didn't register...pretty much had to sit me on the bike before I realized what I just got for my birthday....I remember this like it was yesterday....
great story, i always wanted one of those bikes but ended up with a releigh, then a bmx. Those gas tank bikes looked awsome.
Posted by Dexter Motley Morgan (Member # 3598) on :
I remember watching Space Coaster with that dam annoying Goriddle Gorilla. Man would I like to have re-watched it with some kush back in the college days.
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
I recall watching Oh! Heavenly Dog on television as a child drinking soft drink besides eating biscuits dipped in it at a friend's house.
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Posted by kevdugp73 (Member # 5978) on :
I have Oh Heavenly Dog on DVD....and my Mom makes awsome biscuits.....I'm gonna re-create this memory soon Cassie....I'll let you know how it feels!
Posted by Colt 45 (Member # 4940) on :
I watched a show called 'Hotel Balderdash' Google it if u dont believe me.
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
anyone else remember those animated santa claus statues, i dont know if they were motion activated or if you just pressed the button for them to move, but i remember seeing them at K-Mart, i thought they were really neat, and when i went to the store i would walk down that isle where they would have them on display, and they really went with alot of detail in making a christmas display, even built a scale model snowy village, everytime i go there i could not wait until the day of christmas, it could not get here soon enough in my opinion. I think the following year they then had the halloween animated statues, frankenstein, wolfman, dracula, which to this day i still think they are great, i would have like to bought the wolfman one, but seeing those in late september that year got me really psyched for halloween, and i always had ideas of covering the whole town in one night, and wondered how the heck do those people on the makeup packaging are able to apply that stuff so well to their own faces where they actually look like dracula or a zombie. but every year i go to those department store displays and get really psyched about the oncoming hollidays
Posted by Pyro (Member # 7658) on :
Yeah, I remember those GP. Still actually have a couple of the Halloween ones in storage. Pretty sure they still work too. Just haven't been able to use them for the past couple Halloweens.
Still enjoying reading all these stories. Let's hear some more...
Posted by gotta go back (Member # 9818) on :
Great topic! They were thick but only about 3-4 inches square. Does anybody remember those BIG LITTLE BOOKS? I enjoyed many of them as a youngster. Popeye was the bomb in my eyes but also had others like Bugs Bunny, Road Runner. They stayed on my headboard for many years and got tons of use. Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
i remember getting tootsie pops, and always checking the wrapper for a indian shooting a bow at a star, the reason why, was there was talk all around the school that if you found one these wrappers it was good for a free pop with purchase of another at the local candy shop, came across alot of wrappers that didnt have the indian, got to the point where i started to doubt the existance of the indian, then i finally found one, on a blue raspberry pop, my favorite flavor at the time to boot. took it to the store, told the guy im here to claim the free one, he said sorry kid we dont do that, someone told you wrong. i ended up buying one anyway slightly annoyed but i walked away thinking the whole thing was funny
i still look for the indian, even to this day
Posted by The Good Package (Member # 9492) on :
actually it was grape, i got confused by the color of the wrapper, grape was blue for some reason, i liked all the flavors anyway.
Posted by Lovers with Cassie (Member # 7794) on :
quote:Originally posted by Stitch Groover: So no one remembers Flat Stanley? In the books, he was a boy who (I can't remmeber how) ended up as flat as sheet of paper, and was able to slide under doors, go on vacation by posting himself in an envelope etc....
According to Wikipedia, Stitch, he was flattened in his sleep when the big bulletin board given to him and his younger brother Arthur by their father to display pictures as well as posters fell on him from the wall where it was hung over his bed.
I trust that that answers your question.
Posted by Stitch Groover (Member # 2895) on :
Mate your a legend!
Posted by LISA LISA (Member # 1780) on :
This is like my favorite thing ....talking about my favorite memories of my childhood. I talk about it all the time with my family ....and my brother and I remember all the cool toys we had, and what Christmas was like. I talk about how when I was a kid...we were never bored. Even like now, in the winter- we would be outside shoveling snow- making money...we went snow mobiling, we would make forts in the snow, and go sled riding and snow tubing and went rollerskating on the weekends, and bowling...we stayed in and played board games and did puzzles...we were not stuck on the internet (because it didn't come along yet to remove our brains)- people had hobbies....I remember taking ceramic classes, and my mom made macrame and we were always busy. I use to be a candy striper and I was a camp counselor. I loved the summers...we played outside and made cabins in the woods...we played flag football and freeze tag, and slept outside in the yard in our sleeping bags. We knew everyone in our town, I knew all my neighbors. I have great memories of all the cool TV shows back then. Staying up on Friday nights to watch Friday Night Videos, and cruising around town. We had Slumber Parties all the time. Toys were fun...I loved my Creepy Crawler machine and making Shrinky Dinks and playing with my Lite Brite and Color Forms...and watching Saturday morning TV shows....when cartoons were funny like Hong Kong Phooey and Fat Albert and The Pink Panther ...I think kids today don't even get a childhood. I would go back in a heart beat. My parents were in a CB Club, and we talked on CBs instead of Cell Phones. People socialized. We had Game nights and card game nights and went to dances. I miss it.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
i think it was either xmas 1979 or 80 i got one these fun talking educational 2 xl robots which came with a cassette full of random questions,jokes and numerous other little things.
anyone else ever have one of these?
Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
warrior. I have never seen one of those. love looking at the vintage stuff.
Posted by Crash (Member # 7484) on :
I, too, have never seen one of these. This robot is incredible. I think that he'd be a hit even today. I'm totally with you guys that some of these vintage things are terrific. I know that my family absolutely loves the old NES game "Zombies Ate My Neighbors." It just goes to show you that even if it doesn't have a gagillion-bit graphics and a super-computer CPU, something that is creative and imaginative is timeless.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
this was another cool little toy i reckon would sell by the truckload if on the market today!
well i don't think they still sell them.
Posted by Pittsburghgirl (Member # 7514) on :
I have one! Hubby picked it up at an auction awhile back!
Posted by Pyro (Member # 7658) on :
I think I had one of those as a kiddie. Also had a few other electronic gadgets like it too.
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
i hope neither of you were intoxicated while driving it Posted by Pyro (Member # 7658) on :
Memory is a little hazy...maybe we were..lol
Here's another one of the electronic racing do-hickies I remember having as well..
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
https://youtu.be/fpPtMBScVII - i can't remember this one pyro but it looks a lot more tricky with that mini steering wheel!
Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
I used to have a "Zoidzilla" as a kid. One of these:
It had been "lost" many years ago, and I'd totally forgotten it had even existed.
A few months ago, I visited the Natural History Museum, and amongst all the Dinosaur replicas, I noticed a small glass cabinet, and in that cabinet, was the following:
Memories came flooding back!
Posted by the young warrior (Member # 9554) on :
quote:Originally posted by J2ME: I used to have a "Zoidzilla" as a kid. One of these:
It had been "lost" many years ago, and I'd totally forgotten it had even existed.
A few months ago, I visited the Natural History Museum, and amongst all the Dinosaur replicas, I noticed a small glass cabinet, and in that cabinet, was the following:
Memories came flooding back!
" You sure they didn't steal your one" Posted by TerdNthePoolGGB (Member # 9818) on :
quote:Originally posted by Pyro: Memory is a little hazy...maybe we were..lol
Here's another one of the electronic racing do-hickies I remember having as well..
Pyro...I forgot about those. That was a great game!
Posted by J2ME (Member # 5728) on :
quote:Originally posted by the young warrior: " You sure they didn't steal your one"
I think I need to have a word with my parents. Posted by Pyro (Member # 7658) on :
Yeah it was a fun little gadget . I'd post more pics of other old school do-hickies I had as a kid. But I can save the time and just say google Tomy handheld toys from the 70's and 80's. Many of my little gadget toys were from that company.
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