Showing Your Age

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Here’s a fun little video from the Falcons, seeing if their new rookies could identify items from the 80’s/90’s.

I can still remember being in school at Lake Harbin Elementary in the late 70s and early 80s, and it was a glorious day when you saw the filmstrip cart roll in to your room. If you were a really good kid (or maybe a bad one, whose hands needed to be occupied while in the dark), you got to turn the filmstrip forward as the audio played. *Ding*

And if you’ve never had to insert a pencil into a cassette tape to repair the thing, you just haven’t lived life. I can still remember the glorious days of the fat, multi-colored 8-tracks that were in my dad’s International Scout before it burned up into oblivion one morning on the way to daycare. Meat Loaf’s Bat Out of Hell is the last of those before the cassette tapes took over in the McDonough household…and years of recording mix tapes would ensue thereafter.

What bygone toy, electronic, car, etc., do you miss the most from your childhood?

18 thoughts on “Showing Your Age”

  2. G I Joe. Adventure Team first because they were doing all sorts of cool stuff, then Real American Hero because they taught me every battle is 25% red laser, 25% blue laser and 50% knowing – because knowing is half the battle. It takes all my fiscal discipline not to buy my childhood back.

    • I loved the hell out of some GI Joe. Used to set them up around the room and toss one of those super bounce balls around to both sides to see who was the last man standing. Flash forward 40 years, and I’m in the playroom with my girls playing Barbie. I find a super bounce ball. What ensued became a Dreamhouse Deathmatch that the girls still play to this day. Some things never get old.

  3. My first album purchase was on a trip to Hilton Head from Atlanta as a kid. It must have 1979 or 1980. My parents stopped at the Macon Mall for some reason and they bought me Kiss Dynasty on 8-track. I think my dad let me hear about two songs before saying, “that’s enough of that!” before putting in whatever he and my mom had purchased. I was able to stare at the awesome album cover for the next 3 1/2 hours in the back seat of that gray Cadillac though.

    That was probably Kiss’ worst album at the time…lol. What did I know though. I was only 9 or 10.

    • I have some good memories of 8-tracks even though the format sucked. One of my fondest memories was riding around with my older brother in his truck, shoving that huge Billy Squier tape into the deck and jamming.

    • The biggest casualty of the digitization of music is album art, IMO. I also used to feel ripped off by albums without the lyrics printed.

  5. The insert that would auto drop 45 records so you didn’t have to change records every 3 minutes. It worked at least 75% of the time!

  6. I miss the old school refrigerant in cars that would freeze meat. The crap that saves the sea turtles in cars now takes too long to cool a car off in August. The vented seats help but the ac in the 1972 LTD could be used in Kroger meat locker.

    • Yessir. And man do I miss Great American Hot Dog over in Forest Park. Heaven in a hot dog bun, and great fries and pie, to boot. Nothing like it.

      • Ate food the Hot Dog house many times. Mostly after incineration of controlled substances. Weyman’s was a must have also.

  8. Playing in the ditch behind the Jervis’ house. It was a 40 foot wide, 15 foot deep clay trench where we built forts, had rock fights, shot each other with BB guns, and crashed our bikes into. We were kings.

  9. what about recording your favorite album or making a “mixed” tape for the cassette tape or 8 track!

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