Old School Crazes...

[Reephdweller]

Ron and Fez the other day talked about things that were really popular to do in the old days. Whether it was having your furniture reupholstered, or aluminum siding done to the house. There were things that everyone seemed to be into at once.

I remember back when Tupperware was becoming the rage and all the mothers were having Tupperware parties, and everything in the house was Tupperware.

I also remember for some reason all the kids likes Topps baseball cards, and that Fleer was somehow the crappier of the two. Similar to Marvel and DC comics. Marvel for whatever reason was grittier and cooler to read. DC was for fairies. Even though everyone I knew also watched the old Justice League cartoons and Batman (with Adam West Reruns).

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[serVice]

I also remember for some reason all the kids likes Topps baseball cards, and that Fleer was somehow the crappier of the two.

Do you remember what it was like when Upper Deck came out? Upper Deck was suddenly viewed as something on a par with gold.

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[JustJon]

It was all about the holograms.

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[Reephdweller]

Next to the "tickle me elmo" doll craze, was the Cabbage Patch Kids which probably was the weirdest thing I ever saw. People just tearing other people away from boxes on the shevles to get their grubby greedy little hands on them to bring home to their kids...or worse yet...for themselves.

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[Duke]

yea those things looked fucked up
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[Shecky]

Grabage Pail Kids cards....Actually finding an Arknoid video machine....Skybox cards when they first came out...Pac Man...

[gypsy]

Slap bracelets

[FUNKMAN]

Converse were the coolest, then Keds(or PF Flyers i think?)

i remember my dad taking me to the grocery store and making me get a pair of sneakers from the big metal caged bin where they had about a thousand pair(same kind of bin they would keep the big bouncy balls)... we would call them skippys or skips

got a pair one year with black bottoms, red canvas sides with 3 black stripes. they crushed my 'little kid' ego... then Mom was eventually able to convince him to let us go to the Army and Navy store to get a pair of converse... think they were eleven bucks back then...

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[BoondockSaint]

i remember my dad taking me to the grocery store and making me get a pair of sneakers from the big metal caged bin where they had about a thousand pair(same kind of bin they would keep the big bouncy balls)... we would call them skippys or skips


I feel for ya man. My dad took me to Caldors for sneakers. They were maroon and white and they were called CalPros

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[AFRO]

Slap Bracelets.....ugh, I hated those things. I'm getting upset just think about those awful inventions.

What about Charm necklaces? They were like that ghetto chain and you would hang these little gay chams off of them. I remember having like a little baby bottle, a baseball player, a fire hydrant... Pretty gay thinking back to it now.

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[hyperspace]

lets not forget the Hackey Sack! a device invented to make self concious 15 year olds who reacted badly to smoking weed(every time and did it anyway) just a little more uncomfortable in the crowd.

[calikid]

the ninja turtles kicked ass. then and now

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[jamesdiggy]

I'm just waiting for the day to return when I can tie a fresh bandanna around the thigh of my knee torn jeans.

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[TwiztidRock]

When I was a kid I spen hours trying to figure out my Rubix Cube. That thing sucked. Eventually I just took the stickers off and did it that way.

We also had a Slip and Slide. That thing was great, untill you ripped your leg open on a branch, or peice of glass under the matt.

Slinky was the bomb for a while as well.

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[fiestygal]

HYPO COLOR tee shirts and snap bracelets

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[Lumber]

Click-Clacks...They also killed a few people

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[mdr55]

Color-forms, Presto-Magic, Silly Putty, The Pretzel Pencil, Head-to-Head Electronic sports games, Electric-Buzzing Football and Baseball games, The various water games where you try to get all the rings on the poles (don't remember what it was called), Vet-trex, My Pet Rock, Footballs that used the "Glow sticks" to play in the dark

[more cowbells]

Does anybody remember friendship pins when they used to put little tiny beads on safety pins and give them out to your friends and I think the colors meant something different?

Or how about (help me out on this one, people) those electronic pets that were on keychains that you'd have to feed and put to sleep and such?

And for the fellas the pocket electronic games like football and baseball and all sorts of sports and popular video games, ECT.

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[Ralphy Ramone]

then Mom was eventually able to convince him to let us go to the Army and Navy store to get a pair of converse... think they were eleven bucks back then...


You're right Funkman.They were 11 bucks.You must have come from a rich family.I had to go to the"liquidator" store to get my irregular "Cons/Chucks" for six dollars.

The next big craze was....Adidas.White uppers with three black stripes.About $16.00 if I remember correctly.Alas;poor Ralphy,was only afforded the Bradlees knock-offs for much,much less.

Ironically;now over 35 years later,I can afford any sneaker or athletic shoe I wish....and I only own a pair of low black Cons.

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[Evilpete]

Pogs
Tamaguchi
British Knight sneakers
AIDS awarness


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[high fly]

Slam books.

Flower stickers on cars.

Mini bikes (the motorized contraptions with the small wheels)

Plaid pants.

Striped flared pants.

White belts on guys.

Saddle oxfords.





Walking down the street holding a transistor radio up to your ear.


That paper fortune teller thingy you'd put on four fingers and manipulate.


"Pick a color"


"pick a number"


"pick another number"


"Open the flap".....





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[Mike Teacher]

That paper fortune teller thingy you'd put in four fingers and manipulate.


Hey that's my friend dont talk about her like that!

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[hatetreehighway]

donkey- aka chinese handball......

[high fly]

Putting a dime in each penny loafer.One for the soda machine and one for a phone call.

Walking around the corner and seeing every guy with his back against the wall.
Anyone without his back against the wall got punched in the nuts.

Tabletop PaperFootball.

Tabletop Soccer (played with three coins).

Basketball (with a spinning quarter you'd trap between your thumbs).

Lunchtime, waiting for your friend to put his bag lunch on the table so you could pound it with your fist.

Pencil fights.

Knuckles.

Pulling the "fairy loop" on the back of someone's shirt.

Slapboxing.

Staredown.

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[hyperspace]

Donkey Kong
Cabage Patch Kids
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Capezio's

[earthseawitch]

I remember pogo sticks (could never balance myself on them to save my life) and hula hoops (couldn't use them as a child, pretty good at using them now).

My favorite was the frisbee...made a better plate for outdoor picnics than a throw toy!!!

[MrPink]

we had homemade tie-dye shirts, ninja turtles, bicycles that looked like motorcycles, and my favorite..... slap bracelets! you can take off the sleeves on em and cut yer friends!

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[FUNKMAN]

not sure if anyone else played bottlecaps but we had a bottlecap board carved into the street on the corner of 8th and Jersey Ave in Jersey City... i think some of my older brothers friends put it there

you had a column of boxes on the left that were numbered 1,3,5,7,9... a column of boxes on the right 2,4,6,8,10 and in the center you had 3 boxes, one was 11, one was 12, and 13 sat in the center with little areas attached to it that i believe if you got your bottlecap outside of the 13 and in these areas you had to start over...

but you started at 1 which was the lower left box and 2 was the top right box. you'd shoot or flick your bottlecap from one box to the other and whoever made it to 13 first won... if someone shot and was near your bottlecap and it was your turn you could shoot at his bottlecap and try and knock it across the street...

everyone had a different strategy with their bottlecap... some used a cap off the gatorade bottle and filled it with melted crayons, gum, or melted wax, some used the cap off a whiskey bottle and filled it as well. Some would use the glass ring off of the top of the oldtime coke bottle. If you scraped it across the concrete sidewalk just right you could get the top glass ring to break off just right.

The glass ring would glide real nice and it was easier to get in the boxes which were probably 14in by 14in, maybe 12in by 12in but if someone had a gatorade cap filled and had a chance to slam you away from the board it normally broke the glass ring and sometimes we had to wait for someone to search the garbage cans in the park across the street to find another coke bottle...

they eventually paved the street and we lost our board...

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