Things that give your age away…

Oh the fashion:

JELLIES!!!

I had glittery pink ones

Mark Fairchild said:

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But, you did win UIL for Extraneous Speech. We in the family always knew that you would "ACE' that.

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Oh yes I thrive in speaking....never lacked in the talking arts!!!

missinAggieland said:

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Things that give your age away…

Oh the fashion:

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Oh Lord those used to melt to my feet during hot summers. But we loved them.

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If you grew up when playgrounds were made of solid steel and were built on a mix of grass and concrete....this is for you!

aggiewilliford said:

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If you grew up when playgrounds were made of solid steel and were built on a mix of grass and concrete....this is for you!

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That plinker grid of steel haunts me. I hit my chin and bit through my tongue - 4 years old. I just can't.

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My elementary school had two playgrounds. One brand new one with a plastic slide, but the other one was still the burning metal slide. We also had the metal balance beams and pull-up bars that everyone learned to do flips on.

Instead of the plinko tower we had the hexagon version. And if anyone else was from Amarillo, do they remember climbing on the wooden pirate ship or climbing up inside tower at the park by southwest and bell?

The park my grand parents took us to had a metal firetruck for climbing and this metal half circle see-saw like thing that they ended up having to chain down after too many kids flipped it.

Yep we had a wooden pirate ship in midland, and I got giant splinters in my hand every time I climbed it. I also had several leg burns from the metal slide of doom.

We had the metal slide that was 200 degrees, monkey bars and parallel bars like a dip bar height that we would have races on

You would swing legs over one side, run to other side and repeat until one person tagged the other.

That usually happened when someone banged the **** out of their knee and stopped.

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If you are old enough to remember these...

My mom made us do stamp duty. We had to take rows of these and fill up the books so we could get something from the stamp gift catalog.

True Story:
One time I got the bright idea to take a whole page of stamps and use a sponge to activate the glue and do a full page at a time, so I could go outside and play. Well the glue doesn't stick as well when you do too many stamps at a time, so a couple of pages of stamps ended up falling out. Needless to say my mother was none too happy with my so called "short cut method" of stamping.
When they moved a couple of years ago I found some old S&H Stamp books still in their antique icebox where we kept them. Those were the days. And I know my mom will read this later....I LOVE YOU MOM, AND STILL SORRY ABOUT THOSE LOST STAMPS.

Howdy, as the Dad in the Picture, must confirm this to be a true story!!!

Sea Pony 07 said:

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… and this metal half circle see-saw like thing that they ended up having to chain down after too many kids flipped it.

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I thought that was the goal???

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If you remember the days when your school desk was an impenetrable fortress, than this is for you!

greg.w.h said:

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Sea Pony 07 said:

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… and this metal half circle see-saw like thing that they ended up having to chain down after too many kids flipped it.

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I thought that was the goal???

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Oh it was definitely the goal!

aggiewilliford said:

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Day 194
If you are old enough to remember these...

My mom made us do stamp duty. We had to take rows of these and fill up the books so we could get something from the stamp gift catalog.

True Story:
One time I got the bright idea to take a whole page of stamps and use a sponge to activate the glue and do a full page at a time, so I could go outside and play. Well the glue doesn't stick as well when you do too many stamps at a time, so a couple of pages of stamps ended up falling out. Needless to say my mother was none too happy with my so called "short cut method" of stamping.
When they moved a couple of years ago I found some old S&H Stamp books still in their antique icebox where we kept them. Those were the days. And I know my mom will read this later....I LOVE YOU MOM, AND STILL SORRY ABOUT THOSE LOST STAMPS.

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I recall the mid-1970s, when my Dad got a Citizens Band (CB) radio to use while we were driving in our family car. We mostly drove across Texas to visit family and used the CB to avoid getting speeding citations from law enforcement, which on the CB was known as "a Smokey the Bear handing out Green Stamps."

After the National Maximum Speed Limit was lowered to 55 by the U.S. Congress in 1974 in response to the 1973 Oil Crisis, the CB radio alert and warning of "double nickel time" meant there was a car with "bubble gum machines" (360-degree rotating strobe lights atop a police car) in the area "handing out Green Stamps," so you had better slow down to avoid being pulled over and issued a speeding citation.

Items that give your age away…

Saturday morning cartoons were awesome and included these wonderful "shorts." You know you're singing along!