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Growing up in L.A. during the ’70s and ’80s

This promises to be a never-ending list. Let’s get started. Remember?:

Go Climb a Rock Yosemite Mountaineering School

The Mighty 690 on AM radio
94.7 KMET and Dr. Demento
KIQQ (100.3, pre-Pirate Radio)
93 KHJ and KDAY
The Three Stooges
The Little Rascals
Pippi Longstocking
The Incredible Mr. Limpet
Kung Fu Theater on Channel 9
The pre-Pure Rock 105.5 KNAC (slogan: “The Heart of Rock and Roll”)
Popeye on Channel 5 on Sunday mornings (Tom Slick and Super Chicken)
Twilight Zone Marathon on Thanksgiving and July 4th (also on KTLA Channel 5)
Members Only jackets
Le Tigre, the sellable knock-off to the exceedingly elite Izod “Alligator” shirts
Dolfin Shorts
Leg Warmers
Dittos (hurt me!)
Jordache jeans
Chemin de Fer
Gauchos
Girls with strawberry lip gloss
McDonald’s bracelets to hold your lunch money (fifty cents)
Pete Ellis Dodge commercials (“Long Beach Freeway, Firestone exit, Southgate”)
Carpeteria commercials
Phil n’ Jim’s commercials
National Lumber (Shorty!)
Lake Delores (Lake Dolores)
Cal Worthington and his dog Spot! (And no, you weren’t the only kid who thought it went “pussy cow”)
Jack LaLanne
Smog alerts, which called recess off
Earthquake Drills and “Drop Drills”
Heads Up Seven Up on rainy days at school

The Red Balloon

The Red Balloon
Steal the Bacon
Vans
O.P. shorts
Puka shell necklaces
Unbreakable combs
Switchblade combs
Bolt
Hang Ten
Stubbies
Baja Lopez ponchos
Flojos
Krofft Superstars, the show by Sid and Marty Krofft
POW!, the telephone call-in video game on the Krofft show
Sigmund and the Sea Monsters
The Bugaloos
Lidsville
HR Pufnstuf
Electra Woman and Dyna Girl
The White Shadow
What’s Happening!
S.W.A.T.
CHiPs
Emergency!
Speed Racer on Channel 56 (UHF!)
Wally George on Channel 56
Real People
Bowling for Dollars
The Incredible Hulk
The Love Boat
Fantasy Island
Licorice Pizza
Pup n’ Taco
Sambo’s (renamed to Denny’s for the purpose of political correction)
Disneyland’s Monsanto’s Adventure Thru Inner Space
E tickets, D tickets, C tickets, B tickets, and A tickets

Licorice Pizza

The Marathon Bar
Wax Lips
Candy cigarettes
Fred Rated and the Federated Group
Montgomery Ward (i.e. “Monkey Wards”)
MV3 with Richard Blade
Blue Chip stamp redemption centers
Sears Surplus
Fedco
Gemco
Zody’s
The Treasury
Orbach’s
Kinney’s
Buster Brown
Tom McCann
Farrell’s
Marineland
Skate parks
Top Siders with no socks
Pee-Chee folders
Trapper-Keepers
The denim folder
Pencil fighting
A.Y.S.O.
Shasta soda
Aspen soda (apple flavored)
Fresca
The Nestea plunge
Alba 77
Schwinn Stingrays
Green Machines
G.I. Joes
Army Men
Slime
Speak and Spell
Stop Thief!
Connect Four
Hot Wheels with never enough tongues for the tracks
Eraser Mate
The four colored ball point pen(!!!)
Mattel Football
Rubik’s Cube
Pyraminx
Missing Link
Water Basketball (thumb cramp!)
Sea-Monkeys
V (the series)
Pintos, Gremlins, Datsun B210s, and Volkswagen Squarebacks
Roller Disco
Space Invaders
Asteroids
Asteroids Deluxe (had a shield instead of hyperspace)

Pretty sneaky, sis

Frogger
Seawolf (sucked)
Dragon’s Lair
Centipede
Millipede (with the TNT)
Pengo
Defender
Defender Stargate
Scramble
Galaga
Galaxian
Pac-Man
Super Cobra
Atari 2600
ON TV
SelecTV
Red Devil Fireworks
Cool metal lunchboxes and the lame oddball yellow plastic Snoopy one
Slip n’ Slide
Toss Across (beanbag Tic-Tac-Toe)
Lawn Darts
Stephan! Jack Stephan!
Bandini Mountain
Lolly lolly lolly get your adverbs here (anybody else think it was “f-words here”?)

532 comments… add one
  • Joe Austin September 4, 2007, 9:12 pm

    you forgot… Charlies’ Angeles and of course..The Dukes of Hazzard !!!!!

    Steve Garvey, Ron Cey, Davey Lopes and Bill Russel The best Dodger infield ever!

    Boogie Boards – “Flexi” Skate Boards

    The Six Million Dollar man doll with the special “bionic” eye you could look thru

    The Evil Kneival doll with Motorcycle and ramp

    ELVIRA!!!

  • royman September 4, 2007, 9:53 pm

    where did you dig up all that shit ? cool man

  • andreas September 4, 2007, 10:08 pm

    popeye on ktla5 was hosted by tom hatten, now (or recently) a commentator on KNX 1070.

    lol @ trapper-keepers

  • Rob September 4, 2007, 10:12 pm

    Do you remember “The Invisible Man”. We were about 7 or 8 years old or so, I just remember being so intrigued.

  • Rob September 4, 2007, 10:18 pm

    Oh, ya! “Little House on the prairy” and “Bonanza”. Little Joe was the man.

  • YYZ September 4, 2007, 10:29 pm

    Wallabies, Hush Puppies, Cords, The Surprise Store (for Jeans), Kuala Bear pins, Hang Ten, Talking Football. Talking Baseball. The Joker’s Wild, The Brady Bunch, Wide World of Sports, Mork and Mindy, CDs, KWST (the first hard rock station), KMET upside down billboard campaign, KLOS rainbow stickers at every concert, “Where’s the Beef?” (Wendy’s), the Hamburgular, Pet Rock, The Big Red Machine, The Knack… WOW I could go on longer than you did. Brilliant fun as usual!

  • B-Load September 4, 2007, 10:46 pm

    Black Knight Skateboards (Clay Wheels), then the Tony Alva boards with Bones Trux and Eurathane wheels
    Steve Austin, Oscar Goldman and The Bionic Women
    Rock N Riddim Reggae Sunday Nights on KNAC
    Frasier Smith in the Mornings on KMET
    VAN HALEN I
    Iron Maiden at the Long Beach Arena
    The Plimsouls
    Magic, Kareem, Worthy and Lakers versus Celtics Epic Battles
    The Rams at the Big A

  • jaced.com September 4, 2007, 11:15 pm

    @Joe: Don’t forget Yeager in the Dodger infield and the Six Million Dollar Man’s car battery!

    @YYZ: Have a look at this KLOS rainbow sticker list.

    @andreas: Tom Hatten! Thank you! I was trying to remember this guy’s name. Starting in about 1976, he hosted Popeye and Friends on KTLA Channel 5. From Wikipedia:

    In between cartoons, Hatten — an excellent drawer — would take a “squiggle” submitted by a viewer and work it into a sketch of a popular cartoon character or scene, often from the Popeye show. Hatten’s improvised “squiggle” drawings became one of the show’s most popular and endearing features and helped forged a strong connection between the host and his young audience.

    He also did a show on weekend afternoons called the “Family Film Festival”, of which the already-mentioned Pippi Longstocking and Mr. Limpet were in heavy rotation.

  • Ner September 5, 2007, 9:35 am

    Frazier Smith
    KWest
    TenQ
    KHJ (Machine Gun Kelly)
    Peechee Folders
    Taco Tio
    Roller Derby!!!!

  • thundy September 5, 2007, 9:44 am

    PUP N TACO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

    BRING BACK DOLPHIN SHORTS PLEEEEEZE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • thundy September 5, 2007, 9:45 am

    The White Shadow was DOPE!!!!!

  • andreas September 5, 2007, 8:15 pm

    MAD magazine
    Wacky Packs
    Knight Rider
    Olvera Street
    Tom Bradley

  • pablodiablo September 5, 2007, 9:05 pm

    Did you guys get Welcome Back Kotter? My Favorite Martian, Andy Griffith Show, The Carol Burnett Show, The Lawrence Welk show, Love American Style, Good Times, Sanford and Son, The Courtship of Eddie’s Father, The Lucy Show, Chico and the Man, Siempre en Domingo!, Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom with Marlin Perkins, The Wonderful World of Disney, Love Boat.
    High Times Mag, KISS band bubble gum cards, Stokers skateboard wheels! Those HAWAII ’79 t-shirts, Hang Loose t’s, Pop Rocks in 1975, Miller’s Outpost, Music Plus?, Painter’s pants, Vans slip ons man!, Happy Days, LaVerne and Shirley, The Monkees, The Mod Squad, Room 222, Snidley Whiplash, Wonderama, Petticoat Junction, Green Acres, Gilligan’s Island!

  • Joe Austin September 6, 2007, 10:34 pm

    John Cougar’s Jack and Diane – KISS Meets the Phantom at the Park (filmed at Magic Mountain) – Skateboard the movie – the really cool clear tunnels at Friendship Park (that are now at every fast food joint) – OJ Simpson the “Football Player” (I had a pair of “the Juice” football cleats when I played pop warner) – remember when Wheaties first put athelets on the box? – Did anybody mention E.T. yet? – STAR WARS !! and all the maketing gadgets that came with it

  • jaced.com September 6, 2007, 10:39 pm

    — Pachinko
    — Red Devil Fireworks’ slogan: “Safe and Sane”
    — Ring Pops, Big League Chew, and Sno-Cones
    — Kerbangers. Come December 26th they’d be hanging on every other telephone wire in the neighborhoood
    — “What time is it?” “Half past the monkey’s ass, quarter to his balls!”
    — “Chinese, Japanese, dirty knees…LOOK AT THESE!!!”

  • Myk Now Myk September 7, 2007, 11:02 pm

    Catchit! Shirts
    Vans Off the Wall
    Custom Ordered Vans Off The Wall
    Stairway to Heaven
    The Revolution at MM the world’s first upside down coaster!
    The Collossus
    The Pike at Long Beach, the Rotor, the Mouse Ride, the Fun Zone (where they found a real skeleton on display after 50 years!)
    Riding Bikes on the Strand from Marina Del Rey to Redondo Beach Pier
    Horseshoe Pier
    Dr. Fishbeck – weather
    Slurpee in the ML Baseball Hat
    Cracked Magazine
    JAWS
    Sears Toughskins – for us poor folks
    Shakey’s Pizza Friday Nights
    Kwai Chang Caine – when you can walk the rice paper and leave no trace….
    Three’s Company
    Spork fighting
    Shamrock Skate Rink
    Outdoor Disco Dancing at Magic Mountain summer ’76
    Mongoose Redline Webco BMX and wannabe Huffy Thunder Road
    Big Wheel
    Air/Water propelled pump rockets
    Zebco original spincast fishing poles
    Nicolette Larson gonna take a lotta love,
    McDonalds – Over 10 Million Sold
    Burger King – Have it YOUR WAY!
    Hang Ten Shirts
    SOAP
    Nerf footballs – Dry or sprayin’ wet
    The Partridge Family
    The Flying Nun
    Jeanie/Bewitched
    Borg/McEnroe
    Elvis is Dead. remember where you were? Out Front of my Apartment
    Puch, Pugeot Mopeds
    TwoAllBeefPattiesSpecialSauceLettuceCheesePicklesOnionsOnASeasameSeedBun
    Handball
    tap tap – No Carry Overs, No waterfalls, No Americans, no Babies, no Fakies, no Pop Ups – tap tap – no more taps
    Too Hip wallet cards
    Levis Big Bells
    Angel’s Flights way gay disco pants
    Thom McCann – the Big Shoe Man
    School Field Trips to the Cabrillo Beach Museam and Tide Pools – Abalone shells everywhere
    Hee Haw with Roy Clark
    Slip n Slide
    the Hat that went up in the Air in a water stream and Sprayed water everywhere
    the original Sony Walkman – only played cassettes
    Eight track
    Lite Brite
    Colored Sugar in glass jars from Hawaii
    Barnaby Jones – everywhere he needed a cell phone – by golly there was a phone booth along the side of the road in the Hollywood Hills just waiting for him to use.
    Get Smart – Ninety-Nine
    the Pretenders
    selling Greetings
    ads to sell Grit! – has anyone ever actually seen the Grit! magazine?
    Kal Kan Dog Food
    Ken-al-ration
    the last Elvis Concert – neck sweat rags for the fans!
    Dance Fever
    Superfriends
    Schoolhouse Rock
    Davey and Goliath
    Magic Mountain Spillikin Corners
    Country Bear Jamboree
    OJ Running for Hertz rent a Car through the Airport

  • jaced.com September 10, 2007, 9:16 pm

    — Tucking your Levis in your right sock so you don’t get bike chain oil on it. Or get a clip!
    — Chrome-moly, and having your bike frame “dipped in chrome”
    — Glovolium, and putting your baseball glove under Dad’s car tire overnight to break it in.
    — In baseball, stirrups with elastic pulled all the way up to the knees, essentially defeating the purpose.
    — The calculator watch. Because, hey, you never know.
    — Watching the Casio watch turn 11:11:11 on November 11.
    — Reflecting a beam of sunlight from a pocket mirror into the eyes of a kid on the other side of the playground. And to a lesser extent, doing the same thing in class with the Casio watch.
    — The scuba watch.
    — The water proof watch.
    — Velcro watch bands.
    — Hell, anything that had to do with a watch.
    — Wearing your Baja Lopez because it was foggy this morning.
    — Making a siren and a “TV Jammer” in Electric Shop.
    — Girls with crimped hair.
    — Shake n’ Bake
    — Truly Tasteless Jokes
    — Faces of Death
    — Dungeons and Dragons
    — Choose Your Own Adventure books
    — Hey! Kool-Aid!
    — Homemade popsicles in the shape of Donald Duck
    — Wrapping a Fruit Roll-up around your finger at recess so it looked like a scab, and freaking all the girls out with it.
    — SRA (Silent Reading Assignments)
    — Forms from school to order reading books
    — Scantrons
    — Ditto copies that smelled like Elmer’s glue
    — Munch-a-bunch-a-munch-a-buncha Fritos go with lunch.
    — Sick day TV line-up in no particular order: Get Smart, Price is Right, $25k Pyramid, Password Plus, Little House on the Prairie, Bonanza, Emergency, Adam 12, The Twilight Zone, with plenty of Barbizon commercials. (“Wanna be a model, or just look like one? Nobody does it better than Barbizon”) Or how about: “Either helping the doctors with patients, or running the front office! Call now!”
    — Big Jim
    — Red Devil Fireworks bundle packs: The Blockbuster, The Spectacular, The Colossus, The Mighty-Mite.
    — The Deep
    — Magic
    — Cheech and Chong
    — Halloween the movie, and Halloween with pillowcases for candy bags
    — Queen’s “We Will Rock You / The Champions”
    — KISS’ “Love Gun”, and the paper gun from the LP
    — Turning Japanese
    — Mexican Radio: “I wish I was in Tijuana eating barbecued iguana.”
    — My Sharona
    — Neighborhood babysitters whose little brother would bring them foil-wrapped dinner that always smelled better than yours.

  • YYZ September 10, 2007, 9:29 pm

    I forgot to mention Miller’s Outpost and those crazy commercials with the dumb cowboys. Less Filling – Tastes Great – Less Filling – Tastes Great. Trash fights at stadiums. I have to stop thinking about this or I will never get to sleep…

  • andreas September 11, 2007, 8:58 am

    The Reggie Bar!

  • jaced.com September 11, 2007, 9:30 am

    — The Seven-Up guy pimped out in the white duds. “Crisp and clean, with no caffeine. Never had it, never will. Ha ha ha ha….”
    — The whole “Uncola” marketing twist for Seven-Up, including the upside-down schooner glass.
    — Gene Shalit as the Nacho Cheese Doritos guy. He’d bite into a chip and the world would almost fall apart.
    — Mr. Whipple and “Please don’t squeeze the Charmin.”
    — “That’s a spicy meatball.”
    — The Clapper
    — Powdered milk
    — Golden Grahams
    — Gator Gum. “It works!”
    — Taco boats from the snack bar.
    — Astro pops.
    — Fire Stix, Watermelon Stix, and Apple Stix.
    — The Pepsi Challenge
    — Jim Jones
    — The Hillside Strangler
    — Richard Ramirez
    — Ding Dong Ditch
    — Paper Tag
    — Over the Line
    — Smear the Queer
    — TV Tag
    — Ditch ’em
    — Mother May I
    — Duck Duck Goose
    — Sun-In and Summer Blonde
    — Devo
    — Mods, Preps, Surfers, Stoners, Wavers, Metalers, and everybody in between.
    — The Outsiders
    — Buff guys with Body Glove shorts and tshirts cut off at the rib cage, wearing Ray-Bans and a Croakie.
    — Crop tops and tails
    — Superman II
    — Jaws 3D
    — Wargames
    — Smoking cloves. “They make your lungs bleed!”
    — The story about the lady who tried to dry her wet dog in the microwave and it blew up.
    — The story about the kid who washed down Pop Rocks with a Coke and his stomach exploded.
    — Real People. Skip Stephenson, Byron Allen, Sarah Purcell.
    — Manimal.
    — The cutting edge technology of Call Waiting.

  • Myk Now Myk September 11, 2007, 9:30 am

    the Sentinel – movie
    Dodgeball
    Smear the Queer
    Tag you’re it – no tag backs
    Red Rover Red Rover send Sally Right over
    School Busing
    Cal Worthington and his dog Spot
    Rodney Allen Rippy
    Never Fear Underdog is here!
    Where have all the Flowers gone – long time passing
    Gay mustaches for EVERYONE!
    Ponch Poncherello
    Luke and Laura – GH
    Iridology
    the Family Station Wagon
    Lee Iaccoca and his ‘K’ cars then his Airbagged Minivanz
    Aqua Net – for the High Beehives
    Mom in Curlers with the hairdryer bag attached
    Mom in Curlers running to the store with the Rag on tight keeping everything just so..
    Vomit Green carpet with Orange Drapes
    Tie-Dye shirts – homemade that is no store bought
    Brady Bunch goes to Hawaii – don’t pick up that ancient idol! Taboo
    Brady Bunch goes to the amusement park – will those plans get there in time?
    Phil Packer ‘stache in mouth with popcorn.
    the Roadium when it was a drive -in
    Torrance drive – in
    Del Amo Fashion Center – the world’s largest mall
    center beforer it was centre
    meter before it was metre
    the school system trying to get everyone on board with ‘going metric’
    the Bi-Centenniel Year
    Fire Hydrants painted like Minutemen

  • Myk Now Myk September 11, 2007, 11:33 am

    Radical!
    Thats sooooo RAD
    You’re Lame
    you’re a lamer
    Thats Bad!
    Hey Man!
    Duude
    Skateboard wheels loosening up and wham!, bearings all over the street.
    Annodized Bike Rims
    Tandy Computers
    M.I.S.S. computer at school
    the New Zoo Revue –
    barf ouuut!!!!
    Gag me with a spoon
    Diced Turkey on Thursdays
    Cap Guns with the red paper
    the Coming Ice Age
    when today’s small McDonald’s Coke was a Large
    Deep Fried McDonald’s Apple Pies
    Country Burger – takin’ it waaaay back on Hawhorne Blvd. and Torrance
    the WHOLE street was full of sulphur July 4th @ 8:45 PM
    Nissan was Datsun
    Honda Grand Touring Bikes
    Schwinn Beach Cruisers with pegs and sponge on the handlebars so you can ride around a girl or friend
    the standard women’s styled shirts that would be for men from around the globe ie,,, Cozumel, Mazatlan, Aculpulco.
    Wallabyes
    Kinney Shoes upside Nike knockoff swoosh tenneys….
    The black hard rubber thongs with the blue fabric straps
    Senor Lopez
    Tents with aluminum poles – all canvas even.
    Diawa rods and reels
    Fishin’ off Redondo Beach Pier during a MAC attack.
    Having a Mac attack.
    Digging a hole in the backyard for the doggie doo doo and covering it up.
    Roller Derby – Metal wheeled skates
    Typewriter IBM Selectric
    Feathered Hair with water and your Millers Outpost unbreakable comb.
    just a regular Frisbee
    Radio Shack – free with coupon Flashlights, gray about two feet long gray, red tip.
    GT skateboards
    Black Knight skateboards
    Fibre optic lamps looking like fishing line with lighted tips
    Avacado colored appliances
    White Front
    Standard Paint
    Gulf gas stations
    Arco gas – Noah’s Ark each fill up you get a new animal

  • jaced.com September 11, 2007, 4:08 pm

    — 10-cent phone booths.
    — 976 sex numbers and party lines.
    — Taco Bell’s: Bell Beefer, Enchirito with the foil tray, Taco Bellgrande, Taco Light, and the old school logo with the muchacho chilling under the sombrero. And don’t forget the firepit out front. (What’s happened to Taco Bell, anyway? Let’s be rid of the southwestern double decker chicken fajita chalupa nonsense the kids are getting these days.)
    — Tube socks with the artwork on the shins.
    — Iron-on knee patches.
    — The fuel smell at the loading curb of Los Angeles Airport. (Nope, not called LAX yet.)
    — The original recording on the L.A. Airport PA, with the man and woman. Him: “The white zone is for the immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. No parking.” Repeated verbatim by Her, which had a slightly friendlier tone and and less staccato “loading and unloading of passengers only” part.
    — The infinite superiority boxers held over the utterly lame bunhuggers. (Or, God forbid, Underoos!)
    — Chick-O-Stick

  • Myk Now Myk September 11, 2007, 5:07 pm

    Vest jackets
    members only
    bomber jackets
    goose down jackets
    Local Motion
    Kennington Shirts – monicled logo guy and all
    Irish Spring – a might stronger than I care to be.
    WISK around the collar beats ring around the collar every time
    ALL temp-a-Cheer
    People let me tell you about my best friend, he’s a warm hearted person who loves me till the end
    Buffy and Jody – Mr. French
    Lunch boxes with real thermos
    Z channel
    Player pianos @ Shakeys and Straw Hat Pizzas

    I-ZOD the knock off LeTigre and superknock off the JC Penney Fox
    The Benny Hill show
    “Ice Cream and Candy… and its all free – Children, children come out come out wherever you are” – the Childcatcher CCBB
    Don Kirchner’s Rock Concert
    King Biscuit Flour Hour
    the Gong Show
    wubba wubba wubba
    “One, two, three, four, five, six, seven, eight! Schlemiel! Schlemazl! Hasenpfeffer Incorporated!”
    Hot Lips Houlihan
    the Fonz – did I really need to list it? no
    I found my thrills – Ritchie gonna get some lip
    The Nightstalker – Kolchak
    Steve Austin – A man barely alive, we can rebuild him, better, stronger, faster na na na nah na na na na na na na na na……………..
    This tape will self destruct in 5 seconds…..
    Washington Dee Cee pants all colors for girls, blue and white for the guys.
    Left Bank
    WaffleStompers with Red laces

  • Joe Austin September 11, 2007, 7:16 pm

    the all time classic 70’s catch phrase……pinnochio fart !!!!!!! I know that only Jace and his brothers are laughing at this one. HAHAHA

    the original Honda ATC with the ALL RUBBER wheel/tire combo.
    the Honda XR 75

    tutti frutti gum – the one with the zebra ??
    rain blo gumballs from the ice cream man
    bomb pops from the ice cream man
    big sticks from the ice cream man

    jace – remeber the cross and the switchblade book??

    warriors… come out and playyyy!!

    THE BLUE LAGOON…..what a movie for us young boys….I saw her boobies!

  • gar September 11, 2007, 10:11 pm

    for jace…tttttt…………the plane boss!

  • jaced.com September 11, 2007, 11:52 pm

    @Joe: I do remember the Cross/Switchblade comic. The Mau Maus. And the movie starring Pat Boone and Erik Estrada!

    On that note:

    — Pat Boone
    — Erik Estrada
    — Bubble Yum when it was only one flavor.
    — Strawberry Bubblicious, the first competitor to Bubble Yum, sending BY on a scramble for new flavors. Like grape.
    — Hubba Bubba. Didn’t stick to your face, but tasted like a lightly sweetened inner tube.
    — Water Weenies in the summer, and the practical makeshift alternative of the everyday spray bottle.
    — Wrist Rockets.
    — Tracing your hand and painting it like a Turkey for Thanksgiving.
    — That game the gals played where they would take a piece of construction paper and fold it into the shape of a diamond prism thing. On each of the inner panels would be a message. The diamond would be held with both hands and index fingers, counting out in a “she loves me, she loves me not” sort of fashion. When they’d stop, they’d read the panel that you landed on, and it would be the answer to Life’s problems.
    — Rice-A-Roni. The San Francisco Treat.
    — Noodle Roni. I loved that stuff.
    — Friends who had moms who made sandwiches with, gag me, Miracle Whip.
    — Plastic zipper pouches in your Trapper-Keeper folder to hold your Eraser Mates, and the difficult decision you were faced with in September about whether to go with the red pinstripe or the blue pinstripe.
    — Black Indian Markers.
    — The yellow/red pencil boxes with the plastic roll-back door.
    — Wearing plastic army helmets on rainy days. And then hand painting them camouflage with model airplane paint in the summer.
    — Wrapping your schoolbooks with brown paper grocery bags.
    — The introduction of Cookies n’ Cream.
    — Checkered Quiksilver swim trunks.
    — Mushroom grips.
    — Tuf-Necks.
    — Teri velour anything.
    — Wave shirts.
    — USFL and the Los Angeles Blitz.
    — Marcus Allen.
    — Mary Lou Retton. (We share a birthday.)
    — Off-shoot sitcoms like Just Our Luck and Day By Day.
    — Making nachos in the microwave.
    — Discovering sour cream.
    — Peppermint schnapps. Cinnamon schnapps. Wine coolers.
    — “Going steady”, “Going with somebody”.
    — Making bongs in Ceramics class. Mr. Reeve was always cool with it. 😉

  • Myk Now Myk September 12, 2007, 1:28 am

    Digging in the bottom of your favorite sugary Cereal to find the secret decoder ring to help the Cap’n fing his treasure

    Quisp cereal with the Martian
    Cinnamon Flavored Cap’n Crunch w/ Pirate Jean Lafoot
    the Crunch Berry Beast
    when everything was ” Sugar Frosted Flakes” now its just Frosted or ‘Honey Smacks” instead Sugar Smacks
    When KFC was Kentucky Fried Chicken
    the Pig Trough banana split @ Farrells
    the ZOO filled with plastic animals scattered through the huge bowl of ice cream mixed flavors.
    Doh-Boy pools
    Playing Football with folded paper into the shape of a triangle, field goals flicked through the others goal posts using index and thumb as the goal.
    Tank battle played with a pencil or a pen on a piece of paper – shooting or moving slipping the pen/pencil with a index finger pushing forward.
    playing statuemaker throwing each other in the backyard giving a shape.
    Miming the windows that you push against trying to get out of the glass door.

    sitting in cars with no seatbelts
    riding bikes with no helmets
    skating with no pads
    swimming Marco – po-lo in the back yard
    streaking and streakers
    going to the beach with no sunblock just your Coppertone and Baby Oil
    of course your can of Solarcaine the next day
    Peeling with itching the next couple of days
    Sweatbands and wristbands
    wristbands protect your hand during sockball
    the school drinking fountain featuring the four flavors:
    Coffee Tea SodaPop Pee
    Gum stuck in the drinking fountain as to spray the next unsuspecting drinker
    Sparkletts delivered in Glass Bottles

    Japanese Gardners

    Kids pipes colored red green etc. blow bubbles out of the top like smoke.
    Gum Cigars
    Cigarette Candy blowing dust three or four times looked like smoke

    Burning ants with magnifying glass and catching paper on fire

    shooting coffee cans in the air by putting fircrackers in the end in a pan of water and lighting

  • Myk Now Myk September 12, 2007, 1:38 am

    Playing spin the bottle

    holding hands for one song at the roller rink

    put your left arm in and shake it all about….do the hokey pokey and you turn yourself about.

    we’re ‘going around’
    Mood Rings from 7-11

  • jaced.com September 12, 2007, 6:21 am

    — Mr. Zogg’s Sex Wax. “The best for your stick.”
    — Toy guns.
    — Painter pants.
    — The Jobbers hat with the flaps in back.
    — In baseball, when you lose: “TWO, FOUR, SIX, EIGHT, WHO DO WE APPRECIATE? [OTHER TEAM]!”
    — In baseball, when you win: “UP THE ALLEY, DOWN THE STREET, WHO’S THE HARDEST TEAM TO BEAT? [OTHER TEAM]!!!”
    — Figuring out who’s “It” in Hide n’ Seek or similar games by: “EENY MEENY MINY MOE, CATCH A TIGER BY THE TOE, IF HE HOLLERS LET HIM GO, MY MOTHER SAID THAT YOU’RE THE VERY BEST ONE AND YOU ARE NOT IT.”
    — Or the cooler and more interactive: “ENGINE ENGINE NUMBER NINE GOING DOWN CHICAGO LINE, IF THE TRAIN SHOULD JUMP THE TRACK, DO YOU WANT YOUR MONEY BACK” “Yes.” “Y, E, S SPELLS YES AND YOU ARE NOT IT.” (And btw, who wouldn’t want their dough back on that one?”)

  • Myk Now Myk September 13, 2007, 12:02 am

    Jimmy Carter – just a peanut farmer from plains GA..
    Gas Lines with 40 cars in front of yours..
    Odd and Even days getting gas..
    Bicentenniel everything sales, festivals Red – white @ blue banners and flags all year culminating on July 4th
    That cool 1776 – 1976 Bicentennial Quarter you got stashed somewhere
    Bullock’s
    Robinson’s
    the May Co.
    the South Bay Galleria – when it was an outdoor shopping area South Bay Plaza
    Hibachi BBQs in front of apartments
    Christine Lund – Eyewitness News
    The FORCE is Jesus
    flip on the TV @ 5:35AM and Do Jumping Jacks with Jack LaLanne
    the Indian Background when no programming on TV
    Vegivitavagavugi Vitavitavegamin
    Marshall, Will and Holly on a routine expedition
    Slestak good times
    Bananas sold with NFL team logo stickers at the Grocery store
    Look – Abba Zabba – 25 cents
    You actually used an ‘E’ ticket to go the Pirates of the Carribean E ticket ride

  • jaced.com September 13, 2007, 7:35 am

    — Ethyl gas.
    — Grandpa’s soft plastic spare change holder.
    — The cutting-edge newness of Velcro.
    — The quasi-dartboard with the flannel target and Velcro-covered ping pong balls.
    — Wood golf clubs that were actually wood.
    — Baseball bat donuts when you’re on deck.
    — Vince Ferragamo.
    — Steve Sax.
    — Howard’s. Better prices, better credit terms, better service!
    — Who shot J.R.?
    — All the nighttime shows other parents would watch when you slept over your buddy’s house: Dallas, Dynasty, Falcon Crest, Hart to Hart, MASH, Taxi, Ironside, Baretta, Streets of San Francisco
    — The way the theme song for The Young and the Restless got really depressing as the summer came to an end
    — A brain, an athlete, a princess, a basket case, and a criminal.
    — $5.50 movie tickets.
    — Alpine Village batting cages.
    — Tempest, Berzerk and Evil Otto, table video games in Mexican cantinas.
    — Sugar Ray Leonard vs. Thomas “Hit Man” Hearns.
    — Ginsu knife commercials. Cutting through a sneaker. How much would you pay? But wait, there’s more! We’ll also throw in…
    — Shoe Goo
    — 7-Eleven before the Big Gulp.
    — Vent combs.
    — Fold-out fine comb brush combination.
    — Cannonballs, Corkscrews, Belly Flops, and Watermelons.
    — Friends bragging about being double-jointed.
    — The kid on the playground who would flip his eyelids inside-out.
    — TCR: Total Control Racing.
    — Legos, Lincoln Logs, Tinker Toys, Pick Up Sticks, Erector Sets, Microscope sets.
    — Glow-in-the-dark monster teeth.
    — Sanka.
    — OXY PADS. “The Big Dipper. The Little Dipper. THE NOOORTH STAARR…”
    — I believe in Crystal Lite, ‘cuz I believe in me…
    — Magnum P.I.
    — The Griswolds.
    — “I FOUND IT” bumper stickers
    — CONNECT FOUR. “Where? I don’t…” “Here. Diagonally.” “Pretty sneaky, sis.”
    — AquaFresh commercials. “What’s this, a space age toothpaste?” “Mom’s gonna get me, huh?”
    — OPERATION. “It’s my turn to operate.” “Take out his funny bone for one hundred dollars.” BUZZZZ!!! “Butterfinger!” Mom: “Can I play?”
    — SIZZLEAN. “Move over, bacon! Now comes something meeeeatier!”
    — BURGER KING. “Eeeat a pita!” “A what?” “Eeeata pita?” “Pita? He’s a nice guy.”
    — Getting your height measured at BK, and getting a cardboard crown. And wearing it.
    — Der Weinerschnitzel before dropping the Der
    — Duncan yo-yos: The Imperial and the Butterfly
    — Pitfall. “Get the challis!”
    — Walkie Talkies
    — Socker Boppers
    — Hoppity Hops
    — Cheryl Tiegs
    — Sheryl Ladd
    — Linda Ronstadt
    — Linda Carter. (Did it get better than that? Ouch.)
    — Skyrockets in flight, afternoon delight…
    — Joe Jackson’s “Steppin’ Out”
    — Bare-butting down the pool slide for extra speed.
    — Weber’s Bread Bakery outlets.
    — Cat’s Cradle
    — ABC’s Movie for a Saturday Evening
    — Friendship Bracelets
    — Nard Guards
    — Dudes who had bricks of firecrackers under there bed. For dealing.

  • Myk Now Myk September 13, 2007, 7:32 pm

    Sunday Nights – The Wonderful World of Disney

    ABC’s Wide World of Sports – Spanning the globe to bring you the constant variety of sport! The thrill of victory…and the agony of defeat! ( As the Ski jumper flies off the side of jump) The human drama of athletic competition! This is ABC’s Wide World of Sports!

    Bruce Jenner!
    Bruce Jenner for 7 years on the Wheaties Box
    Mark Spitz
    Leon! Spinks – the James ‘Buster’ Douglas of his day.
    Toiletpapering trees
    Drinking water out of the garden hose
    water balloon fights
    squirt guns that only held 4 oz. of water

    Driving on the freeway seeing the car in front of you with the a toddler standing on the front seat with left arm hugging the driver

    bike riding deserted El Camino College on the weekends

    Nixon and McGovern Mugs from Shakeys

  • Myk Now Myk September 13, 2007, 10:00 pm

    Crazy glue with the guy hanging from the girder with his helmet glued to it.
    the Ploaroid Land Camera
    Kodak Instamatic with the flash cube
    Mimeograph machine at school the purple ink copies.
    The table guitar for singing “On Top of Old Smokey all covered with snow”
    Creature From the Black Lagoon
    the Blue Lagoon
    Gilliagan’s Island lagoon with the mannequins getting blown to bits as a decoy
    Witchiepoo
    Uncle Arthur from Bewitched “Oh Saaa-a-aammm”
    Best Darren – Dick York, Dick Sargeant sucked
    Samantha and Jeanie both had raven haired mean ‘cousin twins’
    the Blue Jinn getting sucked up into a Hoover vacuum
    Mr. Rogers – meow meow kitty meow meow meow in the land of make believe
    Knotts Berry Farm train robbery
    Wild chickens running free in the parking lot for Knott’s
    the incredible Mr. Limpid
    the LAND of the GIANTS – huge telephone included
    Sorry Charlie only good tasting tuna gets to be star kissed
    Mr. Mom – 240, 241 whatever it takes, you’re doing it wrong, you gave a baby CHILI?!!
    Alondra Park when you could play on the island in the middle of the lake.

    Metal Three Story Rocketship shaped caged structures in Parks you could climb all the way to the top inside.
    Bike riding the LA storm drain systems in the summertime, finding anything you can imagine in there.
    Foursquare
    One Bounce
    Tetherball – no catchies, no ropies

    Boys go to Mars to get more Candy Bars
    Girls go to Jupiter to get more stupider

    Girls having cooties
    Getting your World’s Finest candy order in – cool!

    Counting Volkswagons game as the family does a road trip.

    Pitcher’s got an arm like a washing machine
    hey batter batter batter
    Hippity Hop – Hippity Horse
    Tire swing on a tree
    treehouse
    Whittle Away – carving game for kids
    the Osmonds
    Bing Crosby Christmas specials
    Rankin Bass Christmas specials Little drummer boy, rudolph RNR, Heat Miser Mr. Freeze, abominable snowman – Santa’s helper – I want to be a dentist
    the Waltons
    yellow rubber rain coats and black rubber rainboots over your shoes
    Benji
    Lassie
    F Troop
    Roots – Kizzie Reynolds/Moore Massey Mo’, Chicken George, Kunta Kinte
    Bean Bag Chairs
    spinning records backwards to hear the hidden nessages
    Practicing fish casting in your backyard with a weight on the end
    the BeeGees with little brother Andy Gibb
    Mrs. Filberts colored bowled margarine
    Butter – Its Parkay…..
    Stubbing your toe and ripping off the nail running barefooot outside -owwww
    Sav-on drugstores – Sav-on drugstores – SAV-ON!
    5 cent single ice cream cone at Thrifty Drugstore 10 cents double 15 cents triple

  • jaced.com September 14, 2007, 12:03 am

    — Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific
    — Joe Isuzu
    — Hungry Hungry Hippos
    — I wanna…pop…I wanna…Shasta…I wanna taste pizazz…
    — I’m a Pepper, you’re a Pepper (with the guy from American Werewolf in London)
    — Aames Home Loan and the goofy guy in the commercials
    — Superballs
    — Silly Putty
    — Super Elastic Bubble Plastic
    — Mr. Bubble
    — Water Wiggle
    — Tidy Bowl Man
    — Jolly Green Giant
    — Brawny
    — Firefox remote control car
    — Wacky Packages
    — Yogurt Push-ups
    — Frogurt
    — NEW BEGINNINGS rehabilitation center. Guy on porch: “My name is Bob. I guess you could say I had everything. I had a good job. A good house. I had a wonderful wife and two great kids. I also had a cocaine habit. First, it cost me my job. Then, it cost me my house. And before I knew it, it cost me my family….”
    — Irish Spring
    — Before you dress, Caress.
    — Susie Chapstick
    — Prell
    — Head shampoo
    — Chewels
    — Cinnamon toothpicks
    — Balsa wood planes
    — Freshen-Up
    — Roommate air freshener
    — PSA Airlines
    — Tang
    — Hi C
    — Hawaiian Punch
    — Yuban
    — Taster’s Choice
    — Bubble gum smelling erasers
    — Blistex
    — Big soft Sweet-Tarts, two to a pack.
    — Dip Stix

  • Myk Now Myk September 14, 2007, 11:46 pm

    Banana bubble gum shaped like a small banana
    EF Hutton – total silence , when EF Hutton talks people listen
    Smith Barney – they make money the old fashioned way, they EARN it.
    the Schlitz malt liquor Bull crashing through wherever you are, when you pop open a Schlitz
    Merril Lynch Bull commercials
    PanAm Airlines
    Western Airlines the oo-nnly way to fly…(think Thurston Howell III saying it)
    Quantas never crashed, Quantas never crashed
    Hughes Airwest – nicknamed Hughes Airworst (bright yellow planes)
    PSA – You’ll like our smile U
    Airplanes used to smell like Ozium when you first got on board
    Braniff Airlines
    TWA
    Eastern Airlines
    Lockheed – L-1011
    Fire-Brewed Strohs Beer
    Olympia “It’s the Oly”
    “Coors is contaminated with Piss”
    “Have a headache? Take two Tylenol capsules, it will be the last headache you EVER have!”
    Lik-A-Stix
    Lik -M-Aid
    Wacky Wafers
    Bottle Caps
    Everlasting Gobstoppers
    Necco Wafers
    Farrell’s Candy Shoppee
    Hot Wheels Orange Track connected with “maroon tongues”
    recharge your electric Hotwheels with the Gas Pump by pressing on the top for 1 minute

    McDonnell Douglas DC-10
    Bomb Pops
    Bigstick
    Strawberry Sparkle Bar
    Orange/Pineapple/Raspberry – Push Ups
    Trix Rabbit – all round cereal frosted colored balls
    Baseball Card Packs that had a fat flat piece of gum you would mostly throw in the trash.
    Red Laces – licorice
    Combing your hair with Beer as a hair product
    MOM’s half gallon of Dippity -Doo clear pink
    Fresca when it had sugar
    I’d like to buy the world a Coke……
    Take the Pepsi Challenge
    Pepsi Light with Lemon
    Making ashtrays in Kindergarten fire em in the ‘kill’
    Orange Crush
    RC Cola
    Coke
    Pepsi – all in 16 oz. glass bottles
    glass bottle dispensers in every gas station 8 oz.
    Golden Griddle syrup in the squeeze bottle
    Bosco sauce
    Gallon Glass bottles of Coke – non returnable
    6 oz. cans of 7UP

  • Myk Now Myk September 15, 2007, 3:25 am

    Gallon Glass Jugs of Shasta with the finger hole near the end.

    Grocery StorePlain No-Frills No Pictures Packaging Craze as in:

    Ralphs Plain Wrap – Royal Blue Band w/ white field
    Vons – Slim Price

    Safeway Scotch Buy – The jingle, with a Scottish accent, “Scotch Buy. It ain’t fancy…but it sure is good!”
    Lucky Supermarket Plain White Field Black Bold letter product name
    Alpha Beta – Tell A Friend

    Foods Co.
    Boy’s Market
    Market Basket
    Beach’s

    Celeste Pizza – Mama Celeste – “Apodanza”

  • jaced.com September 17, 2007, 10:41 am

    @Myk: Let’s not forget Alpha Beta’s “Alphie” mascot, as well as the spokesman Alan Hamel!

    — Thrifty’s before it was Rite Aid.
    — Lucky’s. Lady Lee.
    — Breakdancing on cardboard to Herbie Hancock’s “Rockit”.
    — Happy Birthday, Donald Duck! “Happy Birthday, it’s Donald’s birthday, Happy, Happy, Birthday to you! Hey Donald Happy Birthday…”
    — The three talking deer heads on the wall at Country Bear Jamboree.
    — Happy birthday to you, you live in a zoo, you smell like a monkey, and you look like one too…
    — …and many more, on Channel 4…
    — There’s a place in France where the naked ladies dance, there’s a hole in the wall where the boys can see it all, but the men don’t care, they just… chew their underwear???
    — Butter, Parkay!
    — It’s Imperial Margarine! Dut-dudda-daaa!
    — Ludwig Vistalites.
    — Cheese n’ Crackers with the red plastic spread stick.
    — You’ll know it is time to turn the page when you year the chimes ring, like this… BLINNGG…
    — Putting an Ace of Spades in your spokes.
    — Bunnyhopping a curb.
    — Half bunnyhopping a curb and dragging your back tire on the lip.
    — Forts.
    — Shimi Shimi Coco Bop.
    — Def Leppard’s Pyromania and the Union Jack muscle shirts.
    — Watching TV at your buddy’s house and then the screen goes all snowy because his sister is using the hair dryer.

  • Myk Now Myk September 17, 2007, 11:14 am

    Billy Beer
    Donna Summer
    Bee Gees
    Vinnie Barbarino
    Horseshack
    Warriors – NY Yankees gang with Baseball bats
    Solent Green
    Making paper napkin poppers, by wetting paper towels by folding into a square ripping a small hole in the top square and blowing, till it fills up with air then slapping it with your other hand “POP!” then throw it away by sticking it to the bathroom ceiling

    Trying to blow up the schools toilets with cherry bombs – hearing rumors that so and so did it.
    Putting smoke bombs in cars tailpipes and lighting them.
    Smoke bombs in pay phone booths coin return close booth door.

    Riding bikes after trash pick up kicking over the cans down.

    Bunny hops while kicking the back tire to the side.

  • Myk Now Myk September 18, 2007, 1:07 pm

    Hitching a tow ride on the back of the neighborhood Ice Cream truck’s bumper on your skateboard.
    Building a skateboard to do 180s
    tic tacs – both the breath mints and skateboard movement
    Dynamints
    Certs with Retsyn
    Ho Hos and Ding Dongs turning the used aluminnum into coins when done.
    Eating a three musketers first eating the outside chocolate then pure whipped nougat for last.
    Twinkies and Chocodiles

  • Myk Now Myk September 18, 2007, 1:18 pm

    Building a skateboard ramp to do 180s

  • jaced.com September 18, 2007, 1:50 pm

    — Rigging a makeshift cannon with a tall Penn can, tennis balls, and some lighter fluid.
    — Staying away from apples on Halloween, because, hey, you heard the razor blade story.
    — Big Jim
    — MAD Magazine.
    — Heckyll and Jeckyll
    — Rollo
    — The yellow “Baby On Board” signs in car windows, and all its offshoots.
    — I (heart) (fill in the blank) pin buttons.
    — Snakebites and Indian Burns! (Rubbing somebody’s forearm with both hands in reverse-torque twisting fashion.)
    — Melvins, Murphys, and Swirlies.
    — Zingers, Suzy-Qs, and Hostess Fruit Pies.
    — Claymation Christmas Specials. Frosty, Rudolph, The Little Drummer Boy, et al.
    — Lame Brach’s hard candy on Halloween.
    — Hard coffee candy.
    — Selling candy bars to raise money for your baseball team’s banquet.
    — Bobby saving Greg from Sam’s freezer.
    — Tetherball.
    — Mirrored sunglasses (Polarized!) with the rubber gripping behind-the-ear arms and the leather sides to eliminate sun creep.
    — Swimming all day and getting totally smogged. Can’t breathe.
    — Playing Toothpicks in the pool.

  • Myk Now Myk September 20, 2007, 11:07 am

    Never heard it called smogged before…
    Huffing and wheezing….until you get back in tha pool!

  • Myk Now Myk September 20, 2007, 11:08 am

    Smog so thick you can’t see downtown from Del Amo

  • Myk Now Myk September 20, 2007, 11:31 am

    AMC
    Gremlin
    Pacer

    Throwing and hanging your old used Vans on the telephone pole line

    Throw the click- clacks on the telphone lines
    Metal slinky
    Metal tangled up so bad you throw it away slinky..

    Fishing for bluegill with your neon orange/yellow bobber thinking how much more ‘needo’ it was than those red/white bobbers.

    scratching your name in cement with friends in 1977.
    seeing your name in the cement after forgetting in 2003. way cool
    finding out in 2006 that they replaced that block of cement with you getting pic- no so cool

  • Myk Now Myk September 20, 2007, 11:33 am

    edit
    without getting a pic – not so cool

  • jaced.com September 24, 2007, 7:49 am

    — ZOOM

  • Ner September 28, 2007, 10:19 am

    Pong

  • jaced.com September 30, 2007, 9:27 pm

    — Dual tape decks for high-speed dubbing
    — Dolby B d Dolby C Noise Reduction
    — Maxell Chro2 tapes
    — Super tweeters and subwoofers
    — Bazookas in the trunk
    — Crossovers
    — Alphasonik equalizers in the glove compartment
    — Kenwood and Alpine pull-outs
    — Jetsound

  • Myk Now Myk October 2, 2007, 10:02 am

    Having the Big Toe area of your Vans Off the Wall worn through to make a hold in the top of the shoe.

    Top 4 personal Favorite Vans shoes?

    1) My custom ordered all Yellow/Gold color Vans off the Walls with the Blue Boat Deck Bottoms with the white pinstrip and white padding around the ankle area.

    2) My All Tan Suede Van off the Wall

    3) My All Brown Van Dorens

    4) My first pair the Royal Blue saddle with the Navy toe and ankle ends.

    All White slip-ons with the would be the 5th if I would post it but I’m not

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