Little things you miss about 70's/80s culture

[bigdicebuddha]

-Drive In Movies
-Creature Features
-Five and Dimes
-Having to wait for stuff (no instant accessibility).
-Mail In Promotions
-Brick and Mortar Stores
-Cereal Prizes
-Video Rental Places

[HardyGirl]

Yes, I love wood grain. If I had my way, I'd re-do my living room 70s style! (renting from my brother, so that's a big fat NO) And I do have 2 wood grain entertainment centers, (living room, my bedroom) 16 wood grain VHS drawer sets, 1 cassette tape drawer set, and a wood grain Atari 2600 cartridge holder.

And I really miss seeing kids playing outside, and Big Wheels going up and down the block!

[Obibob]

[QUOTE=PNGwynne;1314858]Weekend TV with Big Chuck and Little John on ch. 8 and Super-Host on ch. 43. (Can you dig it, Dwayne? )

I'm sure you must have meant Friday nights with Hoolihan and Big Chuck!! I was never too much of a Little John (Rinaldi) fan myself. Super Host ruled - I never missed Saturday Mad Theater. Can't mention Super Host though without giving a shout out to The Ghoul on channel 61. Actually, I miss UHF channels in general...sigh

Great memories to be sure!

[TrekStar]

Definitely Saturday morning cartoons and after school specials, a happier better simpler time, it's all a joke today.

[tay666]

Cool! Nice to see some wood grain appreciation. I really dig the look of 70s and 80s consumer electronics. Like the big console TVs and Stereos that had everything built in. It's just all really cool looking.

Not just that. Cable boxes, video games, and digital clocks were woodgrain.
Video cameras, thermoses, cassette/VHS holders. Heck, I even remember having some paper cups with woodgrain printed on them.
Cars had woodgrain, inside and out.
Paneling was something everyone wanted to put in their houses.

[Mikey]

Bus stops are something else I miss. Again this is probably the result of going from the suburbs to the country but when I was a kid, the school bus picked you up at a bus stop that was not directly in front of your house.

We used to have one of those giant mailbox looking bus stop shelters with advertising on both sides.

Cold as hell in the winter considering they didn't have fronts.

[Allie Fox]

I don't think it's been mentioned yet but; Baseball cards!

From the mid-70s to the mid-80s, baseball cards were totally important to me and my group of friends. Flipping, trading, team/color poker. . .
for some of us this also expanded into other types of cards including hockey, football, and TV/Movie cards (there is a recent thread dedicated to this).
But it wasn't only the fun of collecting them. Putting a card or cards in the spokes of your bicycle wheel was another great thing about cards.

Although I grew up in the suburbs (on LI) and now live in a very rural south, how about riding your bicycle? In my neighborhood, the bike was the primary form of transportation for all kids. We rode our bikes everywhere. To friends' houses. To the mall. To the movie theater. Just around the neighborhood. My son (age 12) has a few friends who don't even know how to ride a bike. Although they all have four-wheelers.

Bus stops are something else I miss. Again this is probably the result of going from the suburbs to the country but when I was a kid, the school bus picked you up at a bus stop that was not directly in front of your house. These days, where I live now a bus will make five stops on a single street to pick up every kid in front of their house rather than everyone meeting at the corner.

Speaking of wood grain. . .

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This PS4 is so much better for it.

HERE is an eBay auction to dress yours up.

[Mikey]

Little things you miss about 70's/80s culture

The smell of fuel oil exhaust inside a school bus

[tmthor]

1) Saturday morning cartoons
2) afternoon cartoons
3) the toylines were much better

[Werewolf]

I know what you mean about the wood grain. I used to love that faux wood effect on everything.

I also agree about woodgrain. It was everywhere.

Cool! Nice to see some wood grain appreciation. I really dig the look of 70s and 80s consumer electronics. Like the big console TVs and Stereos that had everything built in. It's just all really cool looking.

[tay666]

Weekend TV with Big Chuck and Little John on ch. 8 and Super-Host on ch. 43. (Can you dig it, Dwayne? )

Huge console televisions and TV dinners

Dude!
Grew up on those shows.
And I used to love the rare treat of getting to eat a TV dinner. Back when they were still good, and you could actually get a piece of chicken, not just chicken strips.

I also agree about woodgrain. It was everywhere.

Video games. Real ones, that you put a quarter into.

Cereal prizes.

[PNGwynne]

I also miss these shows!! I always looked forward to watching them!!

Hi Mike! Super-Host made me the fanboy I am today. Such fun.

[Bruce Banner]

Wood grain. I loves it. Everything from TVs, video game consoles, stereos, etc. had wood grain. The XBOX One and PS4 don't need more power, they need wood grain.

I know what you mean about the wood grain. I used to love that faux wood effect on everything.

[HardyGirl]

We had a JJ Newberry's here in Oakland too back in the day.

[Earth 2 Chris]

We somehow had a Newerry's in our podunk town. It was replaced with a Sundry Store. Anyone remember those?

I miss newsstand comics. I still frequent the pharmacy up the street from my childhood home. Every time I go in there I'm saddened by the lack of magazines, and especially comics. The rack is still the same one, but it's almost empty.

Chris