Things Kids of Today Wouldn't Recognize

You may have to wait awhile as the frontman is back in rehab. Life on the road, I guess...

 

Hot wheels plastic track. lots of fun!
and great for straightening up children that didn't listen...

 

Definitely remember the old Hot Wheels Stinger...That will teach you not to talk back!

Don't remember the holes in the track and connectors though!

 

It was a mode of transportation for Santa at Christmas time?

 

I learned to line fly on a plastic plane.

All parts were readily available at the local Hobby Shop. I probably bought enough parts to build three planes. After we learned to fly we started to build kit planes. They weren't as forgiving when you crashed them.

Anyone have one of these?

We went through gallons of fuel and had a black ring around my dad's drive way. Wore out many tires.​

 

Yes, but going around in circles got old pretty quick. Estes rockets were more fun. We had a large field for planes, parachutes and crashes. Field was a gravel pit so crashes were pretty much life ending. Rock beats balsa and glue.
Remote control of today is much more fun. Kids (all ages) got it made.

 

Bet they thought..........................................

 

Sure did. We had a large hobby shop close to home. Out back they had a round cable track for cars, same set up on a pond for the boats and 3 fields for cable and RC flying. During the winter, my father came up with the smart idea of cabling the prop car around a steel post in the basement of our house. I will tell you that a prop car running on a 10' circle was a quite a sight, although rapid to say the least, to be seen.

 

We always used that phrase. I’m 40, at least for several more weeks. My 13 year old son would know what it means also.


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Who remembers Greasy Kids Stuff? It was an actual product.

 

Remember the rockets. A few of the neighborhood kids were into them. They were mostly older and put on a show for a couple of cents admission. I had maybe one. If I remember they were a little expensive for my allowance plus I was already spending my allowance on planes and fuel.
I was wanting the Big Bertha. The write up in the Estes catalog said "Slow realistic take off." Never got one.

 

i dont remember the holes either but i do remember the connectors but mine were a purple color

 

I made one of these for my son back when he was just a toddler. Yes, I did everything myself.

 

I saw them on the tour with Guns N Roses in 92 when James couldnt play guitar because of the pyro burns he got. Metallica was awesome, then a loooooong delay before GNR came out and SUCKED. Then I saw Metallica again about 6 years later in Boston.

 

Initially called "Occupation Unknown", What's My Line? was one of the most popular and longest running game shows in entertainment history running on television from 1950 until 1967.

 

I remember making a lot of noise up and down my street with a bike siren.

 

Another noise maker on a bike was baseball cards or playing cards mounted on the spokes.