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Born in the '70s

Jogging your memory on the pop culture of your youth.

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Slides. Just remember to out them in upside down and backwards!

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Remember filmstrips? And how special you felt when the teacher chose you to turn the knob?

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MTV Sports with Dan Cortese

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Marcy Massura DAN!!!!!!

The Outsiders. Oh, Pony Boy...

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Baby aspirin. I used to climb up to the shelf where my mom kept these and would eat a few at a time.

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Lip balm!

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Rebecca Schorr "Things from Middle Earth" in Fountain Valley, CA used to sell these. Made me smile tonight just seeing this photo!!

Les Nessman, Herb Tarlek, Andy Travis, Dr. Johnny Fever, Venus Flytrap...

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oh yes

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tammy lee purple can for me.....all the way.....

I am still in love with Michael P. Keaton.

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"Survey says..." Family Feud

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Scratch and Sniff pickle stickers.

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Trapper Keeper.

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Macrame. We had macrame holder thing for hanging potted plants (not be confused with pot plants)

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I remember. And I can still find these today.

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OC Family Magazine Ben loves these! I bought them at Target for him.

The banana seat bike with handlebar streamers and a white basket. Every little girls' dream bike, back in the day...

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Laura Wagner Mine wasn't quite so fancy but I rode the thing for years. It was purple. I wonder how many miles I put on the bike!

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Annette Ashbaugh Mine was turquoise with a multi-colored seat. Yep, I just aged 40 years

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Mary Ann Buck I won one very simular to this one! Oh, the miles I put on it---and how sore my bum was getting use to it every spring! I wish I still had it.

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Debbie Robinson I had one !

Every pre-teen girl in the late 70's/early 80's read this book, then passed it around and whispered about it. We also underlined parts of it!

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These made great keychains.

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Waterfull Ring Toss. We all had this, right?

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Chris 'Van Dell' Harding Forgot all about this game. It was the best!

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starspoon sure!!!!!!!!!!!

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Ginny Lott I do remember this. so much fun.

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Debbie Cornelius THIS was like our video games!!! too funny.

"Who wears short shorts? Nair for short shorts."

Hard to believe that that VCR was considered hi-tech back then. Gotta love the analog clock.

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ZIGGY

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Lina Nicklin You loved Ziggy!

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Andrea Memenas I did. Remember I used to draw him all of the time? I think I even had a Ziggy t-shirt.

Remember this tree house?

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Rebecca Hoffler I loved mine. Played for hours & hours with it. lol

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Charlene Harry Ahhh the green acre treehouse, I still have this in my parents loft with my big yellow tea pot

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Delia Melo It's actually called "The Family Tree House" Featuring the "Tree Tots" It was made by Kenner and it was my favorite toy when I was a kid. I actually bought one about 10 years ago and still have the original box. My girls love it as much as I did.

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Shayne Harrington Nichols OMG I had one of these lol

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Michelle Hensley-Peterson This was my favorite toy. I loved this thing!

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All year long you kicked these out of the way to get your bike out of the garage. But they looked awesome in December!

No arms. No legs and the kid with the red hat was PISSED. Gotta love Little People.

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The clear plastic visor. What was the point of wearing this again?

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Marcy Massura Mine had LIGHTS on it. Good lord.

I wanted these. Did you use the toe stop or did you do the t-stop?

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Marcy Massura Had em. And I looked AWESOME. T-STOP!

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Lauren Krisch Woodhull Those skates are AMAZING! I was born in the 80's and I still think they are RAD!

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Tammy Isbell I wanted these so badly. Santa never brought them.

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Tammy Isbell I wanted these so badly. Santa never brought them.

"Monchichi, monchichi. Oh so soft and cuddly..."

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Remember the Kodak Tele-Instamatic with 110 film and the light blue flashbulbs?

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Tammy Isbell Oh yes!

Do you remember Zodys? (original commercial at the link if you are interested ;)

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Charl Lee-Pearce The name sounds familiar. We had Treasury, Gemco and Fedco.

OH yeah. (this post has a video to one of the awesome commercials too btw)

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Born in the 70s and made HUGE mistakes in the 80s.

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Marcy. Born to blog.

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tammy lee awwa....so cute :)

Pull tabs. They made great chains.

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Ben Franklin 5-10. This looks like the one I had in my hometown.

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Marcy Massura I have no idea what that is...but if you loved it so do I ;)

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Andrea Memenas Probably a Midwest chain. Old fashioned drug store.

Woolworth's. I miss the five and dime.

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If you were born in the 70's you HAD to have these in the 80's...sing it with me "You got the look I want to know better..."

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The Monkees. (We just heard Davy Jones has died. RIP, Davy Baby. And don't break my guitar.)

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The prarie look. A fashion fad that should've never been.

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Rebecca Schorr Unfair comment. It was completely appropriate...for the EIGHTEEN '70s!!!

"S-A-T-U-R-D-A-Y NIGHT!" Bay City Rollers. 1976.

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MasterTechMark I wish everyday was like a Saturday night, even a Tuesday Afternoon!

The unknown comic.

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"C'mon knock on our door. We've been waiting for you..."

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OC Family Magazine Oh, your second favorite Suzanne :)

"Believe it or not, I'm walking on air. I never thought I could feel so free-ee-ee!"

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