I posted some of this on the earlier thread, but was having so much fun, I reorganized it and added a bunch of stuff.
1 cent Bazooka Joe, 5 cent baseball cards,10 cent ice cream off the truck,12 cent Marvel Comics, 19 cent kites, 29 cent Little Golden Books, 49 cent vinyl singles, and Rawlings baseballs for a buck.
Being too young for the Beatles on Ed Sullivan, but old enough to watch the cartoon on Saturday Morning.
"PF Flyers... they make you run faster and jump higher."
Captain Satellite on channel 2, and Hocus Pocus on channel 11.
Walking to school unsupervised when you were 5.
Trick or Treating unsupervised when you were 6.
Having to freeze like a statue at Simonds Elementary when recess was over. Coudn't move untile the yard duty teacher blew her whistle. This was to prevent us from getting hurt "running back to class." Really.
6 1/2 oz. Cokes in glass bottles.
Space Ghost, back when he was King of the Universe... We used to make Space Ghost "power bands" out of punched out McDonald's cups. (Remember 18 cent French Fries?)
Rock 'em Sock 'em Robots, Creepy Crawlers, GI Joe, 007 Toy guns, Hot Wheels, Duncan Yo-Yos, and Nerf Balls.
Fleagle, Bingo, Drooper, and Snorky.
Ginger in her evening gown, Mary Ann in her short shorts, Jeannie in her bottle, Catwoman in her catsuit, and... Yvonne Craig as Batgirl!
Agent 99... LOVE Barbara Feldon's voice.
Love American Style.
Laugh-In.
Star Trek, Lost in Space, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Time Tunnel, Wild Wild West, Man from U.N.C.L.E., GIRL from U.N.C.L.E.!
Dark Shadows... Oooooo.
Kick the Can, all summer long.
Smeer the Queer, all winter long.
Mad Magazine.
Wacky Packs.
Five birthdays a year at Farrell's. (Free ice cream!)
Double Session at Bret Harte Jr. High.
Skipping out of class and not freezing... The Day it Snowed.
A triple feature with "Tidal Wave" (Japanese disaster flick with Lorne Greene spliced in), "Bug (giant, fire starting, telepathic cockroaches from the center of the Earth), And "Devil's Rain" (Ernest Borginine, William Shatner, and Doug McClure in a molten Satanic thriller... with Anton LaVey as technical advisor). We could run in and out between flicks to the last standing Golden Arches in San Jose... And it's still there, at Curtner and Almaden.
Remember the McDonald's 20th Anniversary celebration in 1975, when hamburgers were 15 cents for the weekend? I must have eaten 20.
Jack in the Box, when they blew up the Clown.
Dine and Dash at the local Sambo's (and you thought the NAACP put them out of biz?)
Creature Feature, with Bob Wilkins.
Which is not to be confused with 5 finger discount candy bars.
Oooo is right! We had a babysitter during the summer and we would watch this show with her every afternoon. One time our TV was broke and we had to go over to her house and watch it.
At one point, the babysitters mother started pointing at my little brother and making clucking noises at her daughter.
There my brother sat picking his nose and wiping the boogers on the arm of their chair.
A memory that will stay with me always...
Duncan Spin-tops
Kung Fu
Gun Smoke