You Might Be A Bit "old School" If...

[JustBe]

15 miles uphill both ways eh Britt? ;)

 

[Britt.f7]

Yes, through deep snow. :p

 

[SweetPeaandSunBird]

Banana Bikes!

I think I'm remembering this correctly...wasn't "banana" a reference to the shape of the seat?

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Pinball machines!!!!! (When the only joysticks you used were your fingers to the side buttons and the quarter deposit slot.)

 

[JustBe]

Yup! My Dad changed the handlebars and seat on my old bike for my 7th birthday. It had a banana seat, sissy bar and chopper handlebars with colorful plastic ribbons in the handle grips. I felt like the coolest kid on the block!

 

[SweetPeaandSunBird]

It had a banana seat, sissy bar and chopper handlebars with colorful plastic ribbons in the handle grips. I felt like the coolest kid on the block!

Yippee! Mine was a Huffy Cactus Flower (probably marketed to those living in the Southwest, I guess). It was neon orange with hot pink flowers!!!!

 

[NarcSis]

You might be old school if you remember 8 track tapes, 8 track players and the uber cool, 8 track player for the car!!!

 

[Sandstone]

If you remember when your family had no TV

If you remember the first supermarket in town being opened by one of the PG Tips chimps ( Brits only?)

If you remember sixpences, threepenny bits, half crowns...

 

[The Albatross]

If you remember "Green Stamps" and had to sit and paste them into books for your mother... thousands of them.

If you remember ice cream was 5 cents a scoop.

If you remember the coolest radio stations were on "FM" and you had to put up with static unless you wanted to listen only at certain times of the day.

If you wore Buster Browns, Penny Loafers, and Keds.

If you remember Yipe Stripe gum

If you collected returnable bottles and took them to a liquor store to buy penny candy that was really a penny and sometimes even 2 for a penny.

 

[JustBe]

...if when the tooth fairy left you a whole dime it was a fortune!

 

[piratelady]

Having one computer in your school that operated on DOS.

Our school had this game called Oregon Trail! Oh it was the best. I can't imagine kids these days would enjoy it quite as much as I did. Ahhh....the good ol' days :D

 

[piratelady]

If the first video game you ever played was Atari's Pong...

I was so excited when we got an Atari and a bunch of games! There was one game, Othello, we never could figure out how to play it, but we tried! We were the coolest kids in the neighborhood...until our neighbor-friends got a Nintendo, then it was all about Mario Brothers.

 

[JustBe]

I miss the original super Mario game. The new games are too real for me!

Also, I remember when the only video game was Pong and it was SO COOL!

:DWe were posting the same thing at the same time!