I had a Big Wheel back in 1971. Was only 8 years old. I totally loved that thing. Low to the ground, and couldn't flip it over that easily. Went a lotta places with it. Sure miss those days.
@TimeMachineOfficial
5 ай бұрын
Very cool!
@steelwhisperer
5 ай бұрын
I hadn't thought of Shrinky Dinks in decades. Thank you.
@TimeMachineOfficial
5 ай бұрын
Any time!
@user-neo71665
5 ай бұрын
I was born in 1980 and this all was popular when i was a kid.
@myanu0072
5 ай бұрын
Thanks for all the old memories. More people have to find out about your channel. Come on that was our hippie years We are now in our 60's and 70'' & their are million of us. Your channel would explode if you could some how let more old timers know about you A millions subs is what you should be getting. Find out how to let them know about this nostalgic channel.... ALOHA
@TimeMachineOfficial
5 ай бұрын
Thanks a lot!
@ScootrRichards
5 ай бұрын
How your family put dinner on the table with just one pound d of beef...it's called *vegetables*. It's also how we kept the toilet from clogging.
@dangreene3895
5 ай бұрын
I still use Hamburger Helper , its not very good, but its quick and easy
@larako7958
5 ай бұрын
school house rock was the best
@BushcraftingBogan
5 ай бұрын
Mattel's Electronic Football was the nemesis of school teachers at my school. So many had to be picked up by parents after being confiscated. 😂 I loved that game. To me it symbolized 1977 and 1978.
@TimeMachineOfficial
5 ай бұрын
Lovely!
@user-qc7nn2yr6k
5 ай бұрын
Holy flashback Batman! It's like i'd just seen part of my youth flash before my eyes.
@TimeMachineOfficial
5 ай бұрын
Anytime! :D
@robertbroughton1443
5 ай бұрын
Polyester leisure suits, especially the "PLAID" ones, were aka the Herb Tarlek suits. If you're not familiar with Herb Tarlek, Google WKRP in Cincinnati.
@pam8962
5 ай бұрын
Yep and white wide belts
@robertbroughton1443
5 ай бұрын
@@pam8962 Thanks Pam, at least I'm not the only one who remembers WKRP in Cincinnati. But do you remember the 2 radio stations market, that the series was based on?
@pam8962
5 ай бұрын
@robertbroughton1443 yes my dad worked for WKRC in the 70s lol
@pam8962
5 ай бұрын
WKRQ also maybe 🤔
@robertbroughton1443
5 ай бұрын
@@pam8962 Wow another Cincinnatian here, from Price Hill (priceless hillbillies), but to give you a little shock, it was about 2 stations in Dallas Texas. Boy do I remember the back, and forth between WKRQ, and WEBN. Those were absolutely hilarious, and as everyone at the time thought, it was based on KRQ, and EBN. Why High Wilson chose Cincinnati for the show is a mystery.
@jasoneverett
5 ай бұрын
"Hey there fellow 70's kids" said the AI robot.
@johnnymcneal5914
5 ай бұрын
I've seen those mood rings but I've never bought one I didn't realize it was so cheap if you were to buy them today they probably charge you about 25-30 dollars
@johnnymcneal5914
5 ай бұрын
I remember Hamburger Helper hamburger wasn't that expensive it only costed about 59 cents a pound
@jchapman8248
5 ай бұрын
Had a mood ring. It seemed to always show the same color despite my actual mood. We had hamburger helper on occasion but we preferred the frozen Banquet fried chicken. I was too old for a Big Wheel but the younger neighborhood boys had them. School House Rock taught me about conjunctions and government (I'm just a bill). I do when remember that Brady Bunch TV Special starred a fake Jan, like we wouldn't notice. I guess Eve Plumb wasn't able to (or refused to) join the others for the show?
@birdsfan3705
5 ай бұрын
Thanks now I want Hamburger Helper.
@TimeMachineOfficial
5 ай бұрын
😃
@johnnymcneal5914
5 ай бұрын
I remember Atari it took me almost a year to to save up for it it was $99.99
@johnnymcneal5914
5 ай бұрын
I should have saw that coming since Toys R Us were practically giving them away when they were selling them for as little as three or four dollars each for each game
@davidhuffman4036
5 ай бұрын
these were 80s mostly
@richardcgs2001
5 ай бұрын
My and your 1970's memories don't align very well. I don't remember Shrinky Dinks, Aspen Soda, Stretch Armstrong and Schoolhouse Rock. I do remember the Slinky, not Slinky Dinks. I do remember the Mood Ring; never owned one and cannot remember anyone who did. I thought mood rings were ridiculous. Mother never bought Hamburger Helper; thought that was a culinary atrocity - what today would be designated a processed food. I wouldn't even eat "real" meat burgers and I recall being frequently threatened by my father, as a technique of coercion, with forced marriage to a girl whose father owned a McDonald's franchise. (I never even tried fast food till my late 20s and that was on an interstate roadtrip at a Wendy's.) Brady Bunch I remember but never watched a single episode. Detested the whole premise of that show. Liked Saturday morning cartoons like Scooby Doo and later the classic sitcoms like "All in the Family," "The MTM Show," the Old Bob Newhart with Suzanne Pleshette on Saturday nights from 8-830pm, 9-930pm and 930-10pm, respectively. Even liked the variety show of Carol Burnett when Harvey Korman teamed up with Tim Conway from 10-11pm on Saturdays. Also liked the 70's sitcoms of the "The Odd Couple" and "Sanford & Son." Also enjoyed the occasional PBS feature like "I Claudius" airing on Channel 13 in New York. Remember the weekly TV-guide; you might well have planned your week around indicated shows and films, to which you were alerted by it? Atari I never owned, never played. I played chess, which was popularized in the face-off of Bobby Fisher against Boris Spassky. In addition, all kinds of board games were highly popular among adults as well as children with many Milton Bradley titles and others in play (although, as I became older, I shifted to wargaming). Instead of riding Big Wheels, we built and raced "Go Carts" as well as conventional tricycles and, later, bicycles. In New York city (Bay Ridge - Brooklyn), we would have block parties and on July 4, we would explode easily bought (illegally) fireworks of all sorts with so much debris littering the streets by July 5 that the gutters runneth over. Virtually no one I knew wore "leisure suits;" I remember that my tenth grade English teacher did and we used to poke endless fun at him for that behind his back. As for clothing items, I remember vividly teenage girls and young women wearing "hot pants!" (That at least was a great fad for us males to behold.) Of course, a tour down memory lane of the 1970s would be incomplete without recalling the music in vogue in that decade; by the mid-70s that conjures up the disco vibes of John Travolta sauntering down Brooklyn streets in sync with the BeeGees song "Staying Alive." (Also I recall the popularity of bell-bottom jeans, which, to this day, I am not enamored of.) From barely tolerable to atrocious disco reaching a nadir with the punishingly inane song Funky Town and, yet more ghastly, the wholly abysmal group "The Village People" with such detestable hits as "WMCA" and "In the Navy." Who, among those who experienced the 1970s, can forget that deplorable detritus? In elementary.school in the public school system, boys dressed in dress shirts with ties and in trousers and dress shoes (jeans and sneakers wear prohibited) on Fridays, girls in dresses and dress shoes, gathering in "Assembly," reciting the national.anthem and singing "My Country T'is of Thee." We were then harangued by the Principal Mr McGreevy; we called him Mr. McGroovy, which recalls the bygone argot of that era))
@TimeMachineOfficial
5 ай бұрын
This is not a comment, this is a book! Thank you, Richard for sharing these remarkable memories! Wish you all the best!
@grepora
5 ай бұрын
@@TimeMachineOfficial It is not a comment, but a wall of words. I sometimes write long messages, but I break it into sections so it doesn't seem overwhelming.
@TimeMachineOfficial
5 ай бұрын
@@grepora anyway, this is the first time I see someone writing such pleasant and long comment, appreciated!
@NickSBailey
5 ай бұрын
the voice sounds too sombre lol the 70s wasn't depressing
@GTSN38
5 ай бұрын
I haven't seen a big wheel in well over 30 years, are you sure they still sell those pieces of garbage ?
@TimeMachineOfficial
5 ай бұрын
The brand was acquired last time by Schylling Inc. in 2021, but i’m not sure those are still available for purchase
@Mr08dyna
5 ай бұрын
If people actually thought the big wheels were a safer version than a bicycle, they never took a plastic toy over a ramp or a natural dip to ramp😂
@thisissodamnstupid
5 ай бұрын
Grew up in NH, had a Stretch Armstrong. Right up until the day I left it in the car overnight and it froze. The next day, he wasnt Stretch Armstrong when pulled, he just pulled apart and this sticky, permanent in your shag carpet, red ooze all came out. Loved that toy.
@gj8683
5 ай бұрын
I had the pleasure of working in a toy department during the Christmas season when Stretch hit the shelves. Of course, the unattended kids just wrecked the place every day. Found Stretch removed from his box and stretched past his limit, red ooze spilled all over the place.
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