The Good times

[THAFUZZ]

 

[baddboybill]

Cool.... Ain't it the truth!!!

 

[superlew]

We also lived with some pretty ugly furniture, and didn't throw up.

 

[redbenjoe]

i lived well before stereo and before cassettes

and NOTHING since then --is/was more fun that my BRAUN TG1000 10" deck

 

[Fatdog]

We also lived with some pretty ugly furniture, and didn't throw up.

Tell me about it. I can still remember the horrid couches my family had when I was a kid. Don't even get me started on the green, shag carpet we had in the living room.

 

[bklyn sound]

we played stick ball in the street......stoopball on our front stoops.....we rode our bikes...went to the store for 10 cents we had sundew.. and the biggest problem is where to get money for batterys to keep our boomers going

 

[blu_fuz]

1983 here. Absoloutly did all those things mentioned.


I wish things would go back to those days, but then we honestly would never have met eachother..... bitter sweet

 

[mmcodomino]

Ahhhh...1992's gotta count too

Heck, I still play with an Atari 2600

 

[Ghettoboom767]

I loved the 60's & 70's but the 80's were the best
as I discovered the stereo boomboxes and
I started driving to!!

The 70's were very special as I always rode my
bike everywhere and had my 1970' Craig 2606
laydown Boombox I got in 76' from my brother.
Then there was Red Owl where I started working
in 78'! I guess all those decades were special
for me!!

 

[THAFUZZ]

We also lived with some pretty ugly furniture, and didn't throw up.

My GrandMa had plastic covers on all her sofas and chairs. Really! We had those rain oil lamps with the naked lady in it too. I miss the Atari 2600.

 

[chevyman-uy]

I think the world was not so different, no matter where you lived. if perhaps the difference was in the ease of acquiring certain material things. I do remember that if something was thrown, was that totally impossible to repair.

the TV in my house, was a white& westinghouse, from 1960 b&w, the first TV on my street, I works through the end of the 80.

 

[Lasonic TRC-920]

The late 70's and early 80's for me!

Figuring out what girls were for...

Using blasters to get attention of said girls

riding my bike EVERY WHERE

playing ball in the street

hopping fences in the summer to find a swimming pool at a house where the people were at work.

going to Super-Cade (Arcade) next to 7-11 to play the very first games, Pac Man, Asteroids, Missile Command, Defender, Donkey Kong

Slurpee's Big Gulps, ice cream trucks and 31 Flavors

NEW cassettes from Van Halen, Rush, Triumph, Judas Priest, Iron Maiden, Dio, Rainbow, AC/DC, Motley Crue, Ratt, Quiet Riot ect.

Skate boarding EVERY WHERE!

Slip N Slides

All Good Times! :'-( :hoveround:

 

[MasterBlaster84]

We would leave in the morning on our bikes and nobody would know where we were until we came home for dinner.
Parents would be calling the police and posting on Facebook if kids tried that today.

 

[Lasonic TRC-920]

We would leave in the morning on our bikes and nobody would know where we were until we came home for dinner.
Parents would be calling the police and posting on Facebook if kids tried that today.

No doubt!

 

[BoomboxLover48]

Had an Italian Lambretta 175cc that I inherited from my late father back in 1975. He bought in new in 1967. Riding that scooter was the biggest fun I had in those days.

See some pictures of that model below:

 

[monchito]

i lived well before stereo and before cassettes yes Ira i know u did u had this for stereo

but for us the 80s where the best

 

[THAFUZZ]

We would leave in the morning on our bikes and nobody would know where we were until we came home for dinner.
Parents would be calling the police and posting on Facebook if kids tried that today.

No doubt. Bicycles & Skateboards were our first sense of freedom. Recently, I told my Mom where (and how far away) I would ride my bike to with my buddies. She just shook her head in amazement. Ten to fifteen miles away to a lake to jump off the rocky cliffs into deep water during Summer. Then, hit the 7-11 stores for the best Slurpees on the Planet on the way back.

 

[ledmeter]

1981 here. Didn't get a bike til I was 9 and I LIVED on bmx bikes after that. Used to stay up til the wee small hours taping songs off the radio under my doona so I could listen to it the next day. Was ace at playing Alex Kidd in Miracle World, as we couldn't afford any games at the time! Inherited my uncle's Tamiya Big Bear r/c monster truck loved it to death. It died so many times and now its innards live in an r/c boat I made. Racing vintage pedal cars down BIG hills and over jumps we made into cardboard box piles... I really wish I could revisit those times by request, just once in a while... even remembering mum dressing me by the heater while I tried to eat weet-bix and watch astroboy at the same time...

 

[bklyn sound]

i lived well before stereo and before cassettes yes Ira i know u did u had this for stereo

[ Image ]

but for us the 80s where the best

HEY RAMOM...IM SHURE IRA KNOWS HOW TO OPPERATE THAT VICTROLLER :hoveround: :hoveround:

 

[redbenjoe]

seriously -- THIS was my very first ' boombox '
had a handle --took 4 AAs -

AM radio ONLY !!!

cant even explain how truly happy i was to own it
( still do// still am )