Whatever happened to...?

Hog1 and dmek25 do you remember Combat, Rat Patrol, Mod Squad, Mission Impossible, Hogans Heros, Addams Family, and Laugh-In?

Remember the treat of going to a drive-in restaurant and when first McDonalds came to the area...and watching the number of hamburgers
sold change!

We had remote TV. Dad would tell me to change the channel. Kept a pair of vice grips on the antenna outside. When windy I'd have to go outside and
turn to the antenna to get better reception.

Dad and I would watch Skins games and if Skins were doing poor (a lot in
those days), dad would have me change chairs on something to help
change Skins luck. No wonder I'm the way I am now! LOL

Now I really feel old...LOL
wasn't rat patrol about some army guys driving around in the desert on jeeps, with big machine guns on the backs of them? and i went thru the remote era, also. i think that's why my knees are bad. all the up downs, changing channels. remember a show called this week in the nfl? showed high lites of all the games, and if i remember correctly, John Facenda was the narrator. it was on saturday morning

The Great Space Coaster......get on board, with the great space coaster.







don't read it, sing it.

Here are some toys I had when I was around 6 or 7.. http://www.liketotally80s.com/images/pogoball-1.jpg



http://www.abledata.com/product_images/images/05A0088.jpg



I only got to use this one like once:



http://blog.kaboodle.com/photos/uncategorized/2007/06/25/snoopy1.jpg



And who can forget:





http://www.jairoboudewyn.com/iconeando/imagenes/garbage.jpg

I'm having too much fun with this... I used to have a bicycle, and I don't know who made it but I cant find a picture to save my life. I think it was either huffy or murray, but it was red and black and had these big white hubcaps covering the spokes... a few other kids had them and I thought it was the coolest thing ever...

also remembrer entertech? They had these commercials "the look, the feel, the sound, so real... entertech" they made waterguns that were battery operated and made electronic gun sounds and they had a feild pack water grenade filler (pictured in the bottom right). We used to fill them with red and blue disappearing ink and play war. Pre-paintball paintball!

http://www.designboom.com/contemporary/waterguns/04.jpg

Evel Knievel Daredevil Stunt Action Set

http://www.themillionsgroup.co.uk/ProductImages/64070.jpg (http://www.themillionsgroup.co.uk/Toy_Shop/Toys/Evel_Knievel/1313_64070_Evel_Knievel:_Daredevil_Stunt_Action_Se t.html)

dmek, yes Rat Patrol was about group of guys in Jeeps with machine guns on top. Thought I had arrived when Hot Wheels came out. Could buy the minature cars, but
still loved building models.

okay,who had a muscle bike when they were a kid with the gearshift mounted on the crossbar? I recently bought a repro schwinn like in the video,it was a single speed I've now turned into a 5 speed with the crossbar mounted gearshift
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also,did anybody have a wheelie bar? very rare and hard to find now,sell for up to a thousand bucks on ebay
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okay,who had a muscle bike when they were a kid with the gearshift mounted on the crossbar? I recently bought a repro schwinn like in the video,it was a single speed I've now turned into a 5 speed with the crossbar mounted gearshift
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also,did anybody have a wheelie bar? very rare and hard to find now,sell for up to a thousand bucks on ebay
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the wheelie bar commercial is hilarious. I had a lady almost cry while screaming at me because my kid didn't have on proper personal protective equipment while riding her bike at the park... like she knew my kid was going to die or something. times have changed, thats for sure...

yeah,thats what I was thinking when i watched it,barefoot in shorts with no helmet,yep,times have changed

Whatever happened to my first crush?

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Hey, Lady did you have him on your lunch box? I remember that the girls had mad crushes on him. I took the 6 million dollar man and Scooby Doo to lunch with me.