Are you Gen X? Want to do a little time travelling?

Anyone else remember this commercial?

 

I remember those. Mostly I remember when they were finished we would fill them with water, tape the lid, and play army pretending they were grenades...then we discovered these..

 

I don’t remember the commercial but our fam sure did play the game a lot.

 

Thanks for sharing the video RCBS For some of those images the emotions came back to me like it was the first time I saw them. My friend down the road lived with his grandmother and they had cable. Which we didn't. We still lived on a dirt road. Anyway, she got wrestlemania for us. When Hogan slammed the Giant we went crazy!
As for BMX, that's some of my best childhood memories. I was in the huffy crowd. I wanted a Haro or GT World Tour so bad, but my parents couldn't afford it. I did get the Stu Thompson Huffy for Christmas. Road the hell out that thing.
All my friends had cheaper bikes, except my buddy who lived with his grandmother, he had a Mongoose.

When they finally paved our road it was like a new world opened up. The only time we had traffic was the mailman and people coming home from work. Our homemade ramps were on the road and left just enough room for cars to get by.

The best was kids about 4 miles away built a track in the woods. After we found out about it and would go there all the time, and be there all day. I swear that place was magical. There was just a handful of us who would go there. The kids who built it had parents with deeper pockets than mine. They had nice bikes but they were older than us and only be there once in a while. Everyone got along. There was a small creek and a rope swing over it. It was probably a good 10-15' drop if you fell off the rope. Was kind of scary to do.
I watched RAD a thousand times and also cut out pics from BMX Plus magazine, to put on the wall. As a kid, your bike was your lifeline to having fun in the summer. The worse was when it was broke or you blew a tire on saturday afternoon. Stores were closed Sunday, so you had to wait until mom or dad came home after work on Monday to go get one. 2 days without a bike .

And Eddie Fiola is right on, we did go 10 - 20 miles away. Leave in the morning and be gone all day. If we were lucky, a friend's parent may made us a hotdog for lunch. But if not, a drink of water from the creek or garden hose would suit. I also would listen to my dubbed tape of Jam on It on the boombox that needed 12 D batteries, while trying to do tricks,

 

Wasn't there waterguns called Entertech or something along those lines that looked like military guns and used batteries to make them "automatic." My friends and I had some of them.

 

Found an old pic of of my bike. For a while I swapped forks and handlebars with one friend who had a Dyno.


Best friend had a Skyway for a while.

 

So most bikes don't have fenders anymore, I guess the brown stripe up your back is just part of the fun on a wet muddy day?
Maybe my age is showing...cause we sure liked to go muddin with the dirt bikes and 3 wheelers back in the day!

 

Bump.

 

I never had any good ones.

I'll raise you a Talk-To-Me from Fisher Price.



They had books with 'records' embedded in the pages. Put the player on the 'record' and it will recite the words. Kids today think they have all the tech. Pssh. The analog era was no slouch at all.

 

These bad boys were built to last. Mine had more head on collisions than I can remember. Full force into walls and kept on truckin

 

We used to sit in them and roll down the hill up the road, some stitches may have been involved…

 

I bet my dad has some stashed in his garage or shed.

 

LOL, those also came in matching kid size. I don't know how many times a Summer I carried 4 of them down to the beach at the end of the street.

 

I think I still hold the record for the number of them I collapsed back in my younger fitter days.

 

I may just be able to produce one of these. Will have to look.