Ah…the good old days! How about the Chrissy doll whose hair you could pull to make it longer? Or “Flatsies, Flatsies they’re flat and that’s that” My all time favorite though would have to be Clackers!! I never lost an eye playing with them🤪 I almost forgot about my very first album…it was “Popcorn” by Hot Buttered Popcorn!! No words in the song, it was just “do da do do do da doot…and the cover had a red & white popcorn box Ike from a cinema

These are definitely still a thing!

I can remember the dial up sound too well. 😢

I was pretty good at skating when I was a teen. Not so good at 60. I don't recommend it.

THIS

I was somewhat disappointed when I came home from school and told my mum I had swum a mile and she didn't believe me! I had and I eventually got the badge to prove it!

I'm almost 50 and I still remember my best friend's phone numbers from childhood.

Boom boxes and transistor radios

Last one exists in Bend, Oregon

Need a banana for scale.

Yes, they do.

Great picture, BP, couldn;'t you find any actual VHS tapes to use?

All about the dispenser. The candy was horrible.

"Is your refrigerator running? Well you better go catch it."

And then computer generated junk calls trained us all to no longer answer the phone.

Do you have Prince Albert in a can?

I had a serious addiction to it starting at around 6-7 because of a show on tv called ‘just kidding’(1991-1994) - I’d wait for my parents to use the bath after bedtime and sneak out for prank calls and run to bed when I heard that loud plug sound 😂 I only stopped maybe around 2013-15. I told mum as an adult and she finds it funny.

Caller id ruined that

I remember a Great Aunt talking about this. Sadly, the ones I got were full of obscene words and only stopped when the idiots making them got their younger relatives involved which got their Mom involved.

Telemarketers are the prank calls now

i recently picked up a "Prince Albert" can

The suit ranks a 10 on the banana scale.

"do you pump Ethyl?" "Better not let her husband find out"

Caller ID ended this

No fingerprints for the database (that didn't yet exist when he made the calls). He was definitely a criminal mastermind. Probably a billionaire by now.

....holding the fingers over the record button, telling everybody in the room to shut up and wait for the DJ to stop talking....

They peaked with the Fire Wheels yoyo

We had all-metal Meccano

We had something similar in the late 60s early 70s. Ours were much more dangerous because they were on rope not rigid rods.

Loved mine

My first boyfriend would call his mom collect when he was traveling. He had a specific fake name he'd use that was code for, "I'm just letting you know I've arrived safely/I'm OK." She'd decline to accept the call so there was no charge. He'd use his real name if he needed to actually talk to her/there was a problem.

oh lmao, i would just spam press the buttons until all the rings were on

Again, not true, my kid and her friends still play with them.

We still have sticker books

I still have my Atari and play it! I just love Tank~

My youngest had one of these growing up. She loved it so much, she even took it on holiday with us. Anyhoo, I was up early and thought I'd check out what all the hubub was about. Was cool, I fed it, played with it etc. All great til I accidently knocked it off the table and it fell 3 floors down...smashed to bits. Still feel like c**p and I apologise every time she brings it up to take the pïss. RIP Blinky.

Nokia

We would throw these straight up in the air and scatter like roaches. Kids always have the best ideas.

8 tracks would allow you to skip to the beginning of a song with a single button push. In some ways making them more advanced than cassette tapes for years and years before manufacturers realized that is a terrific feature.

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