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Weird and Obscure Things from the 60s and 70s that you remember .

 
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Tuna Twist, TV Guide, Shrinky Dinks
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Yes shrinky dinks! They still have them online but hard to score, soon as you find some theyre gone by the time you order. They was always expensive, but now, wow!
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They eventually exploded into a million fragments and put kids' eyes out.
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I remember in the summer of ‘70, I was a young teen and I got box from my friend full of random stuff. In it, there was this 8-track cartridge.
I had a deck in my room so needless to say, I listened to it quite a few times, almost wore out the tape.

I don’t know what happened to the cartridge, was probably thrown out. I Never thought I would see or hear about it ever again, then a thread here a few days ago mentioned something about them. I stared searching the web and was able to track down and get the name of the one I had.

Even more surprising, I discovered someone uploaded it online in great quality. I still remember that same artwork. It brings back a lot of memories listening to it now in my old age.


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Big Daddy Don Garlits hot rod bubble gum cards. Bat kites. Wham-O toys like the monster bubble maker. Cool Mattel toys with 800 degree ovens and Plasti-goop to make Creepy Crawlers. Marx trains where the transformers would start smoking and catch on fire if you ran them at high speed too long. Lawn Darts, one of the best Darwin toys of the era.
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I remember in the summer of ‘70, I was a young teen and I got box from my friend full of random stuff. In it, there was this 8-track cartridge.
I had a deck in my room so needless to say, I listened to it quite a few times, almost wore out the tape.

I don’t know what happened to the cartridge, was probably thrown out. I Never thought I would see or hear about it ever again, then a thread here a few days ago mentioned something about them. I stared searching the web and was able to track down and get the name of the one I had.

Even more surprising, I discovered someone uploaded it online in great quality. I still remember that same artwork. It brings back a lot of memories listening to it now in my old age.


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Funny thing was people were buying pet rocks. Painted rocks.
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Lol i remember as a little kid we had a milkman. Milk bottles!
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Yup! That was very cool. And we drank loads of milk

at our house...
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Lol i remember as a little kid we had a milkman. Milk bottles!
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Yup! That was very cool. And we drank loads of milk

at our house...
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and a vegetable/fruit truck with scale hanging off the side.
It was pricey and we never bought from him.
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Space food sticks and Tang
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Even as a kid in the mid-late 1960s I sensed that there was something wrong with the then-popular “unisex hairstyle” fad. It was a precursor to the current denial of male and female genders by the brainwashed sheeple.
Anyone else remember the Chicken Delight franchise in NYC during the 1960s?

I remember in the summer of ‘70, I was a young teen and I got box from my friend full of random stuff. In it, there was this 8-track cartridge.
I had a deck in my room so needless to say, I listened to it quite a few times, almost wore out the tape.

I don’t know what happened to the cartridge, was probably thrown out. I Never thought I would see or hear about it ever again, then a thread here a few days ago mentioned something about them. I stared searching the web and was able to track down and get the name of the one I had.

Even more surprising, I discovered someone uploaded it online in great quality. I still remember that same artwork. It brings back a lot of memories listening to it now in my old age.


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Making crank calls in the 70's were great, no repercussions.

That and running along the side of freight trains and jumping on for transportation. A few times were really close, but my homies and I never got caught. We'd run on top the cars and moon intersections.

The 70's were so fun.
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Zero to minuscule numbers of minorities at the malls, major stores, amusement parks and state parks.

60's: I remember 'colored only' drinking fountains, 'colored entrance in back' and ' no coloreds allowed' signs in my town.

the town I grew up in also had railroad tracks right through the center of it. Whites on one side, Blacks and very poor whites on the other side. They did not call them 'Blacks' back then.

Hence the old phrase " you grew up on the wrong side of the tracks."

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Lol i remember as a little kid we had a milkman. Milk bottles!
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I think the milkman makes an appearance in OP’s favorite 8-track!
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I remember in the summer of ‘70, I was a young teen and I got box from my friend full of random stuff. In it, there was this 8-track cartridge.
I had a deck in my room so needless to say, I listened to it quite a few times, almost wore out the tape.

I don’t know what happened to the cartridge, was probably thrown out. I Never thought I would see or hear about it ever again, then a thread here a few days ago mentioned something about them. I stared searching the web and was able to track down and get the name of the one I had.

Even more surprising, I discovered someone uploaded it online in great quality. I still remember that same artwork. It brings back a lot of memories listening to it now in my old age.


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So people were supposed to beat off to that?

No way anyone was getting off to that shut lmao!

It’s completely unsexy and cringe.

So you were just supposed to pop one of these in your Ford Pinto right after work? Lol
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Not gonna lie, it gave me semi
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You also have to remember that back then we didn’t have internet, HD screen, instant access porn, etc... hell, most people didn’t even have film reels or projectors, so no home movies. VHS wasn’t even out. You had to take what you got!

I’m surprised at some of that languages used in that clip. I really thought anal sex was more of a recent fetish, she’s talking about taking it up the ass and they’re rude af to each other lol.
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Drive in movies. Great trash food and great for going out on a date or with friends.
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Had one of these, it was great fun.

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You want obscure?

I was a huge fan of NOT BRAND ECCH comics by Marvel.

They only published 12 issues, starting in 1967. It was a satirical parody comic where they poked fun at their own Marvel superheroes.

I had kept my issues, eventually gave them to my nephew in the 90's after he saw them and thought they were cool.

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More obscure?

Funny Face drinks. Powdered sugar drink mixes in packages, like Kool Aid, started in 1964.

They had cartoon characters like Freckle Face Strawberry, Goofy Grape, Rootin' Tootin' Raspberry, Loudmouth Lime...

TWO OF THE CHARACTERS WERE RACIAL STEREOTYPES AND HAD TO BE CHANGED.



They were CHINESE CHERRY and INJUN ORANGE.

THEY WERE SOON REPLACED WITH CHOO CHOO CHERRY AND JOLLY OLLY ORANGE.

Chinese Cherry was pictured with slant eyes and buck teeth.
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The wall phone (in the kitchen) had a ten-foot long curly wire.
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Having to hold the TV antennae for what seemed forever.
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Sears Christmas Wishbook.

25 cent gas.

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I remember finding random porno mags I the woods when I was growing up


No idea why they were there...but everytime I toad my bike for any distance down a trail there would be porn mags on logs and stuff

I guess kids hid them in the woods
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Smucker's Goofy Grape. Peanut butter and jelly in stripes in the same container.

It sucked, but was so amazing lol

Oh and Stretch Armstrong
And Rock em' Sock 'em Robots
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I remember playing in a Denver city park on fourth of July in 1976, I was six, and it was full of people. Not a smart phone to be seen anywhere.
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This is the year i started really remembering shit, i was 5. Everything was all red white and blue for the bicentennial. I was all about Evel Knievel and Bruce Lee. Carpets were shaggy and green. Everything smelled like pee.
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I remember playing in a Denver city park on fourth of July in 1976, I was six, and it was full of people. Not a smart phone to be seen anywhere.
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This is the year i started really remembering shit, i was 5. Everything was all red white and blue for the bicentennial. I was all about Evel Knievel and Bruce Lee. Carpets were shaggy and green. Everything smelled like pee.
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Yeah, that was '75
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POW bracelets

Schwinn spyder bikes.

Entertainment consoles.
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I remember watching the TV show Mary Hartman Mary Hartman.

It came on at 11:00 pm because it had adult themes, like Mary having sex in a hospital bed with a handsome police officer.
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Space Food Sticks! Those were awesome!!
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