Are you old enough to remember....

[Willie B]

...San Fernando Drag Strip...

 

[Hammer]

The fuck you talkin' about there junior?.....................I gots those in the dresser drawer right now............still COOL!

CC

 

[cxr]

membersonly jackets

 

[Sun burners]

Lawn Darts.

 

[OCMerrill]

Oh come on, you can play along. Here, I'll start your list for you:

1. Nintendo Wii

He doesn't have a "Where were you when"....just yet.






OK How about Sports Valley on the Strip. The Mexican Restaurant at River Lodge, The Steak House at Echo?

 

[FlatNv]

some great stuff, In high school we always talked about going to Lake Delores... never did we were some broke mofo's:skull

 

[Wheeler]

Northridge quake,school was out for like a month.

La riots

For me it was the Watts riots and Sylmar.

The Pike, POP (Pacific Ocean Park), Marine Land, the Dominator and when the Redondo pier did not have a horseshoe.

 

[PokerRun388]

Nascar direct connect cell phones by nextel.

 

[Tom Brown]

Nascar direct connect cell phones by nextel.

lol! :thumbsup

 

[Mini Kat]

:fsakes:lmao

 

[locogringo]

Rocky and Bullwinkle

 

[CampbellCarl]

Rocky and Bullwinkle

View attachment 244277

Boris and Natasha................................

 

[was thatguy]

 

[TBI]

Anybody old enough to remember when Tom Brown's skin had pigment?

 

[PokerRun388]

 

[Hammer]

Mickey Mouse club

Kids Incorporated

 

[RogerThat99]

When you had Cellular One or Pactel for your cell carrier

Adam 12 the TV Show.

 

[Outdrive1]

When you could smoke anywhere on a plane, not just in the back.

 

[Joker]

Streakers.

 

[Loony Toon]

Wool worths

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The Lunch Counter at Woolworth's and the smell of fresh popped pop corn when you went into the Sears store in Compton.

Taking your steel skates apart to make a scooter or skate board.

Searching the Ivy bed along the hwy for glass bottles. $.02 for the small and $.03 for the big. Cashing them in at the corner store to buy candy, soda or gum.

Slot car tracks.

Wolfman Jack late Friday & Saturday nights on AM Radio.

 

[74HONDO]

HANDSOME HARLEY RACE
BOB GEIGEL
DANNY LITTLE BEAR
ANDRE THE GIANT
THE DEBEASE BROTHERS
WRESTLING WITH BEARS

 

[FlatNv]

Streakers.

reminded me of this LMAO everytime

[video=youtube;QR_53ZPtkiw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=QR_53ZPtkiw[/video]

 

[TBI]

AM transistor radios

 

[Outdrive1]

White wall tires.

 

[Mandelon]

blowjobs.... :grumble:

 

[Mini Kat]

When .25 cents would get you a Gal. of Gas for the lawn mower and a Popsicle.:thumbsup

 

[AZBrummett21]

Mystery Science Theater 3000

Classic Show!!

 

[AZBrummett21]

Macabob's toys on Colorado
Riverside International Raceway
Azusa BMX
JMC BMX - Black Shadow

Taco Lita!!!

 

[rivermobster]

Warren Miller movies at Chick's Sporting Goods
The Frito Bandito

I remember when Warren Miller films first came out, and Warren would stand there and narrate them as they played! I was bummed when he stopped coming, and they turned into regular movies.

My dad had one of these...

 

[rmarion]

.19 gas
speedy mart
2,4,5,7,9,11,13 tv channels

 

[rivermobster]

Flow and Eddie on KROQ.

And the band they were the founding members of.

The Turtles < highlight for answer

 

[Rexone]

Muntz Blue Light 4 track
Azusa Swap Meet
Bottle caps that didn't twist off
Glass Soda Bottles
Cans without pop tabs (can opener only)
Wall Plugs with no Ground
Henry's Drive-in, Pomona
Taco Kitchen, La Verne
Irwindale Raceway (the old one)
Sky King
Chicks Sporting Goods (the original on Citrus uptown)
Bartles and James
Helms Bakery Truck and Helms sign in the front window of your house for him to stop
Tropical and Good Humor Ice cream trucks when they were just on a pickup chassis
The day JFK died
The day John Lennon died
Mimeograph copies at school, loved the smell
Beemans Gum
327 Chevies when they were brand new

 

[Rexone]

Flow and Eddie on KROQ.

And the band they were the founding members of.

The Turtles < highlight for answer

Saw them live at Glendora High Gym. Happy Together was #1 at the time I believe.

 

[Rexone]

membersonly jackets

When these shorts were cool.

Have some of each. :thumbsup :thumbsup

 

[harlanorrin]

GILETTE FRI. NIGHT FIGHTS ON RADIO
FIELD BOX SCOOTERS
LOG CABIN SYRUP CANS
GILMORE/CARROL/CULVER SPEEDWAYS
CIRCLE RACE HYDROS W/6 CYL CHEV-FORDS
SMUDGE POTS
FILM
18c GAS
DIRT ROAD BETWEEN COMPTON-BELLFLOWER
FILM
4 TRACK PLAYERS
SANTA ANA DRAGS
LIONS DRAGS OPENING
SPARK PLUG SAND BLASTERS
GRINDING CRANKSHAFT- IN BLOCK- IN CAR

HARLAN ORRIN

 

[ONE-A-DAY]

How old you are.

 

[92562]

KiQQ
KMET
The real KLSX
And of course KROQ.

 

[Joker]

Thread of the year, very cool Brown!

 

[72Hondo]

Over the Line, baseball game we use to always play at local schools when we were allowed to play at a school.
Out of the house after breakfast, back home when the street lights came on.
Riding our bikes EVERY WHERE!
Stink Finger wasn't stinky.
Hiding in Webb Canyon sucking down Meister Brau or Schlitz.
$10.00 was plenty of allowance, $3.50-12pack, $1.99 Boones Farm for the lil ho, $1.25 In-N-Out burger for the lil ho usually gauranteed some action, LOL!

Save On's drugs
Light bright
Betamax
Laserdisc
29 cent hamburgers and 39 cent cheese burgers (limit 20)
Switch box for the TV
When remotes for the TV were called "clickers"
Get Smart
Dragnet
MASH
Saved by the bell
Family Matters
Deep throat
As a kid you could actually go up to the cockpit and meet the pilots during flight
When it was called a cockpit
You could actually buy chips, candy bars, and sodas in school.
Thing's were actually made in the USA.

 

[shueman]

KiQQ
KMET
The real KLSX
And of course KROQ.

f
Listening to Firesign Theater live on KPFK in the wee hours of the morning
Driving up on Glendora Mtn Road at night so we could listen KNAC out of Long Beach

 

[callbob]

Phoenix peeps. Who remembers Wallace and Ladmo Show? Classic stuff there. Lots of thinly veiled adult humor for a kids show.
comic books with ads for cool shit like x ray glasses
when a new 4 wheel drive pickup could be had for less than 10K
the old plank road through the sand dunes between Yuma and El Centro before people burned it for firewood
Driving into Phoenix from Blythe on 2 lanes

 

[Guest]

Laugh in

The Ed Sullivan show

The first few years I played Pop Warner Football..the helmets were made of leather....

scratch & sniff centerfold

 

[shueman]

When Needles Marina was Jellystone Park
Going to Ski-Land and buying the annual membership
Testing hulls for Glasspar in the Back Bay @Newport
Going to Powell when it was still filling up

 

[PokerRun388]

Listening to Kenny Rodgers on I-40 from Barstow to Needles.

 

[Rexone]

[video=youtube;bgRnVhbfIKQ]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgRnVhbfIKQ[/video]

 

[was thatguy]

Was anybody else there?

I made all 3 days....at least thats what I remember...

Me and a buddy flew down from Anchorage. I was 22 YO.
3 days of CA debauchery, had a hotel in Ontario, and a personal shuttle to the front gate each morning.
We were in a group of 12 that won the trip on a radio station in Anchorage.
It was sensory overload for us trailer park Alaska albinos. We had never seen such women and mayhem!!

 

[jayboat]

Got one of these sitting on my desk, my dad was an occasional photographer back when he was in the Navy.
The boxes of slides all have dates of '59-'61, so it's a bit older than a lot of the inmates in here.

I keep something besides film in it these days. :champagne:

 

[footer]

Using a hammer and nails to build a house.
When the only food at a gas station was in a vending machine.
When McDonald's didn't open until lunch.
Cartoons on Saturday morning.
The auto shop teacher smoking during class.
Cartoons before movies.
Waterskiing behind tiller steering.
Water ski belts.
Sears and JCPenny sold motorcycles.
Harley and Indian sold dirt bikes.
The edges on skis were held on with screws.
Most mechanics were greasers.
Being encouraged to ride our bikes to school, on a county highway.
Before Extreme
Motorcycle freestyle meant jumping a line of busses.
Square dancing at weddings.
Hard shoes.
Not being allowed to wear jeans everywhere.
Drafting machines and pencil lead of different hardness.
General stores.
All watches had hands.
Check-out clerks could do math in their head and count change.
Record stores.
50, 65, and 80cc fully titled enduros with lights and blinkers.
Only cops and bikers rode Harleys.
Harley dealerships had dirty, oily floors.
Vending machines with glass bottles.
There was about 50 different brands of snowmobiles.
World War One veterans marching in the Fourth of July Parade.

Awesome thread. Thanks, Brown.

 

[Joker]

reminded me of this LMAO everytime

[video=youtube;QR_53ZPtkiw]http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=QR_53ZPtkiw[/video]

Now that was funny.

 

[KENDOG689]

A slide projector on the wall at home.