Favorite fad from the past?

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[RushIsRot]

1. Davy Crockett everything!

What a hoot in the 50s!

[HarukaTheTrophyWife]

2. Slap bracelets.

Such a handy little weapon.

:rofl:

[TimeChaser]

27. Those were banned at my school

The cheap covering would come off revealing the sharp metal inside

[Oeditpus Rex]

3. The coolest bikes EVarrr

[wildhorses]

15. I had one of those!! girl version

It was purple and had tassles out the end of the handle bars!! It was awesome:bounce:

[Arugula Latte]

22. Banana seats rule!

My mom wouldn't let me have one of those kinds of bikes, though. She'd read that they were more dangerous. :(

[izzybeans]

4. I've just recently started tight-rolling my pants again

[NewWaveChick1981]

5. Wacky Packages.

All the cool kids collected those cards and stickers. The gum sucked, but that wasn't why we bought the stuff! :rofl:

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6. Somehow I never saw those. I do have tons of Garbage Pail Kids.

[NewWaveChick1981]

9. Wacky Packages started in the very early 70s, and I think

the Garbage Pail Kids started after WP ended. :) WP were probably before your time. :P

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11. I collected "Rat Fink" trading cards in the mid-1960s, but sadly I don't

know what happened to them. I think my stepmother threw away almost everything of mine when I went off to college in the late 1970s including my record collection, which had a lot of great original records in near-mint condition (the original Exile on Main Street with the postcards, etc.) So I'm sure my Rat Fink cards went out during that tragedy.

[youthere]

7. Leg warmers with the matching sweater and headband...

Ahh..the eighties.

[YankeyMCC]

8. I had a CB radio

I turned my closet into a 'radio room' built a shelf for the set, put in a little chair and spent many hours 'in the closet'. Yes, yes now I can hear all the jokes ;) sorry it was just preadolescence chatter over the radio waves.

[Fuzz]

31. A lot of the net is like the old CB radio, with text most of the time.

Just with greater range.

:)

[LaraMN]

10. Hypercolor shirts!!11!

:rofl:

[Reverend_Smitty]

23. around 1991, I thought those things were the coolest things EVER!

and no, I never owned one...my parents were too cheap

[Tikki]

12. Flocked foil wallpaper....

...it would look fine in a today's home, also.


Tikki

[NewWaveChick1981]

17. We had dark blue striped foil flocked wallpaper on the

foyer walls in my mom's house when we moved in there in 1975. It came with the house...and it was the first thing Mom got rid of when she started making the house her own. :rofl: It had alternating vertical stripes of dark blue flock and dark blue metallic foil. :yoiks:

[TheBaldyMan]

13. Space dust

[jus_the_facts]

14. Other...Disco Roller Boogie....

...ahh junior high school daze!! :headbang:

[u4ic]

16. Politicians with integrity n/t

[mark414]

18. break dancing was a fad?

maybe for some folks...but for the ones who count, it's always been cool...

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21. In the early 1980s, I saw it everywhere - by pools, at street corners,

wherever kids gathered and there would be an audience, inevitably there was break dancing going on. Then it seemed to die out rather quickly in the mid-1980s. I guess it still goes on, but it's nowhere near as popular as it was for a couple of years around 1982-1984.

[trackfan]

19. klick-klacks

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20. Is that the same as "clackers?"

The two transparent color resin balls attached with a string, and you hold it in the center of the string and move up and down, and the balls clack against each other at the top and bottom?

[trackfan]

25. Yes, that's it.

[johnnie]

24. Streaking? Who the hell voted for that?

Yikes.

Well, I lived across the street from a high school at that time. I was 9-11 when that was happening. Already at that point I dug women, but all that seemed to streak were the high school boys. I saw it almost every day, and never any chicks. x(

It was a pretty funny fad though.


I think I miss some of the clothes from the 70's. Bell Bottoms and Earth Shoes.

[bikebloke]

26. Giant Sweetarts

Those came out when I was in grade school. For a while there was a black market. Kids would buy them for 10 cents, then sell them for a quarter in class.

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30. I loved those giant SweeTarts. And also Zotz.

[bluethruandthru]

28. Anti War protests!

Wouldn't it be great to get Americans - especially college students - as involved as they were in the 60's and early 70's?

[Lautremont]

29. Boogie vans