For the Over 30 Crowd...

[nappyt]

Originally Posted by soul rider

with the same finger pointed at myself...I always wanted one of those pink and white GT Dynos, you know the freestyle kind 1985-1987. I thought that was the baddest bike ever built. I would have never dreamed of the bikes I have now or that are out there. man do I have it good now.

[OMR]

All I had was rocks and sticks to play with ... seriously!

[Red Ryder]

Originally Posted by OTHRIDER

I'm going to be up all night with this..........

- Anyone remember the Helm's bakery man in the cool truck with the pullout bread trays?

The Helms' truck was one of the highlights of the week. I'm hungry just thinking about how good the sweet rolls were.

Originally Posted by silverspot

Does the word 'mimeograph' mean anything to you? If not, you're not as old as I am... I can remember that distinct smell of the blue ink as the teacher ran the copies for the class. Oh to be young and dizzy again....

sooo good...

Originally Posted by OMR

As a matter of fact grasshopper, I was brought up with radio. However, we were the first in our neighborhood to have a black and white 12" RCA TV. Yeah, we had the same antenna that was 35 feet high and you had to turn it with a hand cank to line up the best stations.... which you could bearly make out through all the snow on the TV. There were 5 and all went off the air at 12 midnight. True!

When I was really a small kid, living up in the mountains of Oregon, near Crater Lake, all we had was a radio. I remember my mom always had the Gunsmoke program on at lunch time.

[pitmang1]

80's PSA's were always good.

[sdyeti]

Ditto machine, baby!!

Originally Posted by silverspot

Does the word 'mimeograph' mean anything to you? If not, you're not as old as I am... I can remember that distinct smell of the blue ink as the teacher ran the copies for the class. Oh to be young and dizzy again....

[Fired Yo Momma]

Guys I remember when my Grandpa got the ON TV Box. This was the first "cable" type TV. What ON was movies, and porn broadcasted over the UHF channels. You needed the ON box to unscrammble the UHF signal. All the box was this big switch to turn the thing on, pretty basic.

I remember as a kid if I ate all my food I got to watch a movie on ON TV.

Originally Posted by nappyt

I remember when those GTs came out and I want the team issue one with the GT three piece cranks. I remember asking my dad if he could pay for half and my mom pay for the other half. They thought it was crazy to pay 500 bucks for a bike at that time.

[maxwell]

Too many blows to the head over the years, so my memories aren't what they used to be, but I'll give it a shot.

Drinking coffee at the kitchen table, with my Grandpa when I was 9. He'd make it with a little milk and honey, and man, was it good!

Living is South Texas from the age of 7-12....

We could ride our mini bikes down the main streets to the market.

Buying a couple 100 packs of Black Cat firecrackers, some bottle rockets and a couple of roman candles, with the money we'd get turning in our soda bottles.

Watching Evel Knivel (RIP)http://weirdscifi.ratiosemper.com/evelknievel/bio.html
and trying our hardest to be just like him.

Playing in the Big Ditch (flood channel ) after heavy rains, chasing crawdads & wadding and swimming down to the bay.

Signing up for tackle football in Jr. High, then finding out we were moving back to California.

Back in Cali....

Playing lots of sandlot football, no Pop Warner for me.

Pretty much living on my BMX bike. We'd ride from Imperial Hwy & Curtis And King, in Norwalk, down the riverbed to Seal Beach.

My first eight track was Boston, with Kansas right behind.

And yeah, we'd hit the skating rink on Friday nights, looking for girls.
Man, those Angel Flight pants sure made my a$$ look good.....


But the Levi 501 Straight leg jeans were even better!

How about going to Farrells for ice cream. I owned the Zoo!

And man, I miss the drive in's!

Man, I do feel old now!

[denmother]

Originally Posted by maxwell

And man, I miss the drive in's!

We still have a 3 screen Drive-In in Riverside on Van Buren Blvd right off the 91 Fwy. I think we should have an STR night at the Drive-In!!

Van Buren Drive-in Cinema 3

[kanga]

Originally Posted by TBlazen

....I worked on a TRS-80 in high scool then programmed it for a JUCO, before that it was punch cards to write a S/W program...

skateboarding on a thunderoll skate board with Mark V urethane wheels, very close to the first ones made... then it was road rider wheels....

had a single fin, dual fish, quad and finally a tri-fin...

I use to watch my Dad do Morse code...

Ummm, we hopped our back fence and walked across a field to highschool... (and Jr High for that matter)

I saw pine needles sticking out of the Telephone pole in our front yard...from a violent Hurricane or two...

My Uncle Junior in Baton Rouge grew Tomatoe's and Rabbit's...

Remember Roller rinks and skating backwards....WTF was that ???

Ummmm, I do remember the Tubes on the TV's and how the phamarcy had that platform thingy that I could never quite see over as Dad plugged away...

Just a few...

This is a cool thread, I must stop now !

I had a TRS 80 too.... then I graduated to this amazing little Access 2000 CP/M 35 pound portable machine, 9" amber screen, with a built-in 300 baud modem (rest the handset on top of the acoustic couplers) 80DPI dot matrix printer, and wordstar, not just one, but two 360K 5.25" floppies for storage!




And from that to DOS on an IBM 8088 XT...... Then a PS2.... then it's all a blur of self-built 386 clones....

On the skateboard front, I used to build my own decks out of old water skis in the 70's.... throw on some cadillacs (urethane wheels... don't lose any of the individual ball bearings!) and independent trucks, and you had a dream machine! I wish I still had one or two of those...

Still have an old school Kryptonics vert board with a 8" wide deck (about 1980 or so). I also still have a couple of my old freestyle decks from the 83 - 86 period, where I'd hang out at Venice and skate just about every weekend.... then in '86 I discovered triathlons and mountain bikes...

I raced on the local speed-skating team in the 70's as well... not on ice, on four-wheeled skates on the banked rink.... with the plates moved all the way forward so the wheels were just in front of your toes... (longer extension = longer push). What were we thinking?

Now I just cruise the Bionicon, the sector 9, and the Lenovo running Ubuntu...

[bighit8]

The sears and roebuck catalog. I used to drool over the toy section when I was a kid

[MTBBill]

I'm wondering why OMR has not chimed in about "You Under 40 Whiners".

Ohhh nevermind...

I figured it out....

I missed the obvious......

He is waiting for the "Under 60" folks to take thier shot!

[denmother]

Here's my favorites:

• Colorforms
• Mr. Potato Head (using real potatoes)
• Lincoln Logs
• Erector Set
• Ant Farm
• Wooly Willy
• Whee-lo
• Tinker Toys
• Sea Monkeys

[53-12]

[quote=OTHRIDER;195625]- Anyone remember the Helm's bakery man in the cool truck with the pullout bread trays?

My grandfather drove one of those, and when ever we would go over to my grandparent's house he would make sure to drive by so we could get something. That was so great - a doughnut store that came to you.

[denmother]

Had my 1st one when I was 5 (similar to this one). Gas was .22 cents a gallon and I could ride all day on a quarter!!

Originally Posted by OTHRIDER

- Anyone remember the Helm's bakery man in the cool truck with the pullout bread trays?

My grandfather drove one of those, and when ever we would go over to my grandparent's house he would make sure to drive by so we could get something. That was so great - a doughnut store that came to you.

Cream puffs and chocolate covered cake donuts, yummy!!! This is why I was an overweight adolescent!!

[bighit8]

You have alot of toys Denmother. Can I be you're older son?

[denmother]

Originally Posted by bighit8

You have alot of toys Denmother. Can I be you're older son?

Sorry, alas, no! The reason I can play is because I don't have any children (except Roger).

I had lots of toys when I was a young tike and lived at home. I had a very active father who supported my habits!!!

Nowadays I am limited to Snowboarding/Skiing and MTB only!!!! I did the motorcycle thing in the 60's & 70's then retired. Had a street bike for a while until traffic got to bad. Can only afford my 2 seasonal habits now!

[denmother]

Back in the day (on the B&W TV):

1. Felix the Cat - Who names a cartoon character "Master Cylinder".
2. Captain Kangaroo - Tom Terriffic and his dog Manfred ruled!
3. Batman & Robin (how corney was that show)
4. Dark Shadows (an afternoon soap opera with Vampires)
5. The original Mission Impossible (had to get permission to stay up late on school nights to watch it).
6. Winchell Mahoney