The spoiled under-30 crowd!!!

[Davidmnc]

The Sears catalog. Damn thing was 2-3" thick. I miss that catalog

How about the Sears Wish Book. I would have every page folded back at Christmas!!!!!! :03:

 

[phragle]

Geez, I also remember having a 20" Huffy that I was always painting or swapping parts from other bikes.
I saved up my money to buy the very first "mountain bike" - 10-speed Murray Baja. Saw in the JCP catalog, and had to have it. $189.00. Not small change back then. My parents told me to keep the Huffy if I was going to go out jumping ramps.
Now, back then, if you could find a piece of flat lumber, and a couple cinder blocks or bricks, you had a ramp. Set that ramp up right in front of a puddle in the mud, and you could jump it!!!
Did this once in a parking lot. We split the 1x6 in half, so we found some masking tape to tape it back together. Got the ramp set to something close to a 50 degree incline. Of course, it was always the challenge to see who was going to be the first one to try it.
I was riding the "Baja" and, against my parents advice to jump only the Huffy, and how stupid this idea of a 50 degree incline was to begin with (and my own lack of judgement) I volunteered to try it first.
I came down right on the front wheel, throwing me off the bike, taking out a taillight on a '76 Monte Carlo with my forehead before hitting the (chromed steel) bumper, and knocking myself out with a concussion.
Woke up under the car with a buddy standing next to me crying because he thought I was dead and he was going to get into trouble.
The front wheel of the bike looked almost like a taco shell.
I had a knot on my noggin' the size of a golf ball.
Spent the afternoon in the ER being questioned about child abuse because I told everyone I fell off the bike (NO, I wasn't jumping the Baja...Honest Mom, I wasn't)...
Wait until your father get's home...

your parents actually took you to the ER, when your arms and legs were all pointing in the right direction?? you hadn't lost 3 pints of blood or had a cut/gash requireing more than 10 stitches to close?? damn you were spoiled!!

whats your BP bouy?? new problem?? any questions you can pm my in privacy if you want.

 

[phragle]

How about the Sears Wish Book. I would have every page folded back at Christmas!!!!!! :03:

oh man, the sears catalogue, the bra and panty ads, an 11 year olds first exposure to porn..... :26:

 

[MacGyver]

oh man, the sears catalogue, the bra and panty ads, an 11 year olds first exposure to porn..... :26:

lmfao!!

 

[fund razor]

The Sears catalog. Damn thing was 2-3" thick. I miss that catalog

Yeah. They had a good/better/best version of everything.

Ya know... I know some people with a huge house that's like 100 years old and it was ordered from the Sears catalog and delivered by early trucks.

 

[MacGyver]

I remember drooling over the go-carts they had in the catalog. But my parents were financially challenged back in those days. I didn't even have a Big Wheel

 

[Davidmnc]

I remember drooling over the go-carts they had in the catalog. But my parents were financially challenged back in those days. I didn't even have a Big Wheel

NO big wheel............you should have called cps!!!!

 

[fund razor]

The younger kids had the green machine.

 

[Davidmnc]

The younger kids had the green machine.

I had a Green Machine! That thing ROCKED!!:03:

 

[DollaBill]

oh man, the sears catalogue, the bra and panty ads, an 11 year olds first exposure to porn..... :26:

Yeah, by the time xmas was over the dam catalog pages were stuck together and I still didn't get one of those dam go-karts.

 

[Davidmnc]

Yeah, by the time xmas was over the dam catalog pages were stuck together and I still didn't get one of those dam go-karts.

Me neither..........SUCKS

 

[fund razor]

I had a Green Machine! That thing ROCKED!!:03:

The beginnings of a G force addiction.

 

[Davidmnc]

The beginnings of a G force addiction.

Ohhh Yea!!!!!!! And chicks dug it too!!! :26:

 

[Mark]

MTV...how about "The Midnight Special"?

Remember when MTV actually showed videos??? The man on the moon and Martha Quihn??

 

[Mark]

Yeah, now I'm 37 and worried as hell about my blood-pressure after a visit to the eye doc yesterday...
Bought a monitor today.
Scaring the hell out of me.

Small world. I'm the same age with the same very high blood pressure problem of late. Going in for another stress test next week. Trying to figure out what is causing chest pains and numbness in limbs, etc. Very worried about a clogged artery. If I go, I just hope it is quick and in my sleep. I've had bad chest pains for years, but I'm not getting any younger. Funny thing, when I lived in Florida, I maybe had chest pains twice over two years. Moved back to Ohio, chest pains came right back!

 

[Mark]

When I was in grade school, our school library had a hundred or so year old coppy of the Sears Catalogue. No joke - their were CHASTITY BELTS for sale!!! They sold everything you could possibly imagine.

 

[inbetween]

Yup, you're right. And would yell all the time "Where the hell is the clicker?!"

Still look for the clicker today :rofl: Dang kids always losing it... I wish they'd go play outside

 

[DollaBill]

I remember walking downtown in the early 50s seeing the 'I like Ike' footprints painted on the sidewalk, buying a box of rock candy, and a vanilla phosphate from the drug store fountain.

Movie on Saturday afternoon, cost 9 cents to get in, nickel each for popcorn, coke, candy, and a penny left for gum ball. Wow what a quarter would buy!

Walking barefoot through hot sticky tar to the swimming pool. We never wore school in the summer so bottom of feet were tough as shoes.

Our bikes were $19.95 specials that we stripped down, rode barefoot and loved when it rained so we could ride in ditch full of water.

We swam in rain flooded river and jumped off the railroad bridge.

TV was black and white and maybe got 3 stations. But we rarely watched it. To busy playing marbles, sandlot ball, climbing trees, flying kites, skiing behind dad's Yellow Jacket boat, and fishing.

Dude, you're old LOL

 

[fund razor]

Kewpies Hamburgs.

Hamburg, fries and shake: 1.00

 

[MOBILEMERCMAN]

Little tavern Burgers in DC. RFK stadium. Washington Senators Baseball.