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Baseball cards you could cut out on the back of Twinkies boxes.

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3 hours ago, HiggyBaby said:

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We had this set, same color even, and I would read that shit for hours.

Ours were white - Mom still has them as a period correct bookcase item... The Huntsville library will take any books from an estate but not these.

2 hours ago, CycleTex87 said:

Do you ever look at the “Sex” section?

I did until the pages got stuck together.

Our World Books were maroon.  I think 1983 edition.

Childcraft was the shit also.

On 4/26/2018 at 2:30 PM, HiggyBaby said:

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We had a set but they were from 1960. Listed Greater Southwest International as the most advanced jet airport in the world.

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Also had a set of these.

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11 hours ago, RPM said:

Also had a set of these.

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I still have the full set of those. They are out at my camp house next to my wife’s full set of Laura Ingalls Wilder books. No shit. 

I remember when classmates would eat this stuff...

 

Classic 1980's movie that was built around promoting a toy that was fairly popular at the time...

 

fucking play-doh, my 3 year old loves that crap

On 4/28/2018 at 10:36 AM, Judge Roybeanbag said:

SST cars were great. 

Agreed!  Totally forgot about these. Had the whole fleet of these junkers. 

Yep on the blue World Book Encyclopedia set, the Twinkies baseball cards, and the aqua GI Joe.  

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Loved seeing this t-shirt show up on-screen in Halt and Catch Fire:

 

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On 4/27/2018 at 4:04 PM, RPM said:

We had a set but they were from 1960. Listed Greater Southwest International as the most advanced jet airport in the world.

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we had that exact set and as a side note, i grew up about two miles from that airport.  when they abandoned it, mexicana left behind an airliner that had been stripped and we used to go climb all over it.  no security at all, used to roam the empty terminals as well. /csb

On 4/27/2018 at 9:43 PM, RPM said:

Also had a set of these.

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I have a partial set of those. I wish I kept my mkm’s 1968-70 era World Book Encyclopedia set, although it would probably just sit there. The page on WWII Navy vessels is wrinkled because I thought a wet piece of paper would make a suitable substitute for tracing paper. 

On 4/28/2018 at 2:59 PM, kopp0e said:

I remember when classmates would eat this stuff...

 

If you press real fucking hard on that because your Play-Doh is too dry, it WILL break and smash your finger. 

^^^^ 

In another year or so I'm going to put together a vintage BMX bike for my 8yo son.  I still have my old Mongoose Supergoose frame, I've heard the new ones are junk but that was a really nice bike back in 1981 or whatever.

On 4/27/2018 at 9:43 PM, RPM said:

Also had a set of these.

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My parents have almost the full set of those, and the Civil War series they published.

 

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We didn't have World Book -- we had Encyclopedia Britannica.  My folks wrestled long and hard with the purchase decision, and then did so -- had to do it on a payment plan over months (years)?  It was a real-deal sacrifice.

I was such a fucking nerd that I'd just pull out a volume and start reading stuff.  But I really loved the "Book of the Year" that you got every year; it covered big events the past year, things that materially changed previous entries, that sort of thing.  I'd read it cover-to-cover.   And now, 35 years later, we get the Economist...and at the end of each year, they have a "look back at the last year" edition.  And yep, I read it...cover to cover.

Sticky-Hand Slingers were in effect what elementary students used in place of texting in the 1980's, to quickly pass notes & get answers to test...

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On 5/4/2018 at 2:46 PM, Brisketexan said:

We didn't have World Book -- we had Encyclopedia Britannica.  My folks wrestled long and hard with the purchase decision, and then did so -- had to do it on a payment plan over months (years)?  It was a real-deal sacrifice.

I was such a fucking nerd that I'd just pull out a volume and start reading stuff.  But I really loved the "Book of the Year" that you got every year; it covered big events the past year, things that materially changed previous entries, that sort of thing.  I'd read it cover-to-cover.   And now, 35 years later, we get the Economist...and at the end of each year, they have a "look back at the last year" edition.  And yep, I read it...cover to cover.

We had both. Had the exact 60's version of the World Book, minus the Childcraft, at least I never saw them, if we had them. I think they bought the World Book set at a garage sale. They bought the Encyclopedia Britannica set on the monthly bill. Think I read all of both sets, which is likely why I was so good at the original Trivial Pursuit, when it first came out. 

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How about cars that only went to 85mph* or made sure you knew where 55 was...

 

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*learned to drive in a’85 Cutlass and realized you could actually bury the needle...

 

On 4/27/2018 at 9:43 PM, RPM said:

Also had a set of these.

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I loved these commercials.  

Also, I can’t be the only one who went straight to the lingerie section when the new Spiegel catalog came in...

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1 hour ago, BurntEyes said:

Diamond backs were SO much better than those shitty Mongoose bikes. However, both were way better than Sigmas...

6th grade bike smack talk not going away.

I was poor and took what I was given.  Actually given to me by a friend who raced BMX and won it as a grand prize in one competition or another.  He had a ton of bikes.

My current road bike is a 14-speed Diamondback that I bought in 1991, after my old POS 10-speed got stolen on campus behind Moore Hill.

3 hours ago, HiggyBaby said:

How about cars that only went to 85mph* or made sure you knew where 55 was...

 

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*learned to drive in a’85 Cutlass and realized you could actually bury the needle...

 

Did you bury it in front or back seat?

1 minute ago, Parliament said:

All you rich kids and your BMX's.  My whip came from a garage sale:

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The mother fucking king !!!

5 hours ago, Parliament said:

All you rich kids and your BMX's.  My whip came from a garage sale:

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All you rich kids and your Schwinns. I had a used Western Flyer that was made from 2 or 3 different bikes.

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