I still have one!

Still in his little crate with the shredded wood bedding.

And Twiggy!

Yardley soap, black eyeliner, all things Carnaby Street!

I still have my troll doll from then. How she’s survived all the moves I don’t know.

At least I think that's what they were called - they looked like tiny little Barbie dolls.....

Kinda broke my heart.... LOL

Puka Shell necklaces

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Mood rings, Nehru jackets and love beads, to name a few.

Yes, I did occasionally burn myself. But then there was the time I dropped a brightly colored centipede in my older sister's milk When she drank down to where it became visible, she fired the glass across the kitchen, narrowly missing my mother.

Totally worth it.

1. Clackers
2. Wacky Packages
3. Duncan Yo Yo's
4. Plastic Skateboards.
5. Any Toy from the company "Wham-o"
6. The Drinking Bird.
7. Lava Lamps

for sharing your memories.

Right off the bat, I can remember Hostage Mud-filled Cupcakes, Liptorn Soup and Bent (beyond repair) cigarettes.

never went in a line like the video.

It became a challenge to clack them hard enough to break the balls.

We called them click clacks.

I remember a lot of fads from that time, my formative years.
My first thought was the pet rock, which I remember from my teenage years.

Then there's the fashion fads.
Hair parted in the middle, and then the shag haircut, then punk.
I remember bell bottoms, hip huggers mini skirts, wide lapels, platform shoes.
And jeans with many patches that I sewed on as they got holes!
Now of course they sell jeans with distressed holes and no patches.

at school.

I loved it, but it gave me a headache!

I think it was an inverted appliance box with a LOT of orange yarn hanging down, all around it.

not sure I remember how to make them though.

Probably a video out there somewhere on how to do it.

white leisure suit. had one. frisbie the flyin disck

I had a set of leisure suits that my mother sewed for me.

I mainly wanted some cuz the6 looked like big marbles, but mom said no.

Which was the inspiration for naming the AFL NFL World Championship Game the Super Bowl.

Going back to the regular ball just wasn't as much fun after playing with the Superball

They came in 3 sizes and everybody had them. I remember going to Woolworths with Mom to get mine.

For some reason, it wasn't cool to have a loop on the back of your shirt in school. The loop was there so you could hang it up in a locker. If you had one, most likely someone would rip it off while you're walking down the hall. I never remembered anyone's shirt being torn so the loop must have been stitched in a manner that it would tear easily. Kids used to see who could collect the most loops in a day.

ripped the whole back of my shirt when she tugged on mine in the hallway between class.

FRIED MARBLES! I'd take cat's eye marbles, put them in a cast iron skillet and turn on the heat until the glass developed cracks inside. Then glue them onto cheap necklace fasteners with airplane glue, put them on chain and wear as a necklace. ROFL!


Whoops! Forgot the ice cube part!



(That's when they'd crack.)

forming a rainbow, then decorated with fuzzy tufts, googly eyes, and a golf-tee beak. A pop-art glass bird to decorate the window sill with.

n/t

your insides will explode!

there was also a Ben Casey bracelet which I still have; the blouse/top kicked the bucket long ago

at my high school, there was an occurring fad amongst the boys to bleach their hair nearly white. ( one guy only bleached a stripe down the center of the top of his head, and left it longer than the rest of his hair. His nickname was "Skunk" after that)

Bleeding Madras cotton shirts, worn with jeans and WeeJuns (without socks)

Mohair sweaters

Keds with longer, squared toes

Humongeously teased hair

Our neighbor managed a small local plastics company and hired some of us teens (14 or older) to work at his company packaging and labeling the Clackers...

and many, many fads listed above.

I remember a Pet Rock on display and reading the owner's guide for it at a department store. I was first to bring a yo-yo to schools. Tie Dying a tee-shirt was taught in art class.

I remember my mom buying me two pair at Montgomery Wards (aka, Monkey Wards). I got a green striped pair and a blue striped pair....I was so cool...In my own mind anyway...

Burned myself dozens of times getting them off the cookie sheet.

three color shag carpets that was put into new houses in the early 1970's, along with the big flowered wall paper accents in the kitchen. Our carpet was shades of green, a neighbor had shades of orange, and I think another neighbors was shades of cream. People started recarpeting as soon as a kid spilled something on it, or threw big parties hoping someone would spill something on it so they could replace it asap!

Collector cards, the size of baseball cards, that depicted a Martian
invasion of Earth, these were the inspiration for the movie "When Mars Attacks".
There were about 50 cards in the collection.

There was also a set of cards about the Civil War.

She had a whole bunch.

Wiz Imp

Back when streaking was popular, the skydiving team she was on "The Stardusters" actually did a streaking jump. Of course they had their parachutes and helmets and boots, but otherwise.... They did have a camera man (camera attached to helmet) who exited the plane last. Mom said that he must have had quite a view from there.

Boy has skydiving equipment changed since then! Nowadays they have these lightweight 'wing' parachutes (mom had the old fashioned type back in the 60s) You have so much more control over the landing, they don't even require heavy boots any more.

A packed parachute these days is about the size that the reserve parachute's used to be.

A related story: Reserve parachutes used to have to be packed by a professional once a year, and one year after getting hers packed, mom sewed a patch to it. She didn't find out until the next year that she had SEWN IT CLOSED! She was jumping without a reserve every weekend for close to a year.

I could use the wig, come to think of it ...

I owned a pair of cheap knockoffs from Thom McCan’s. Was wearing them when I met my wife. She still makes fun of me for it.

Guess I'll have to face the fact that I had most all of these 60s and 70s items, and I liked them too...ha ha!

I went on a senior trip to Italy in the early 1970s and thought I was hot stuff buying a pair of genuine Italian 6" platform shoes in Rome. I was going to be cutting edge in my little town in northern lower Michigan. I was until I tried to cross the street in town and almost broke my ankle on those damned things. They rapidly turned into a useless souvenir.

We looked like Mutt and Jeff so naturally the relationship was doomed. I vowed to never again date anybody over a foot taller than me.

"What's the magic word?"

Please

and very pale lipstick.
London Fog

and something called Bottle Caps (I think that's what they were called). You dropped one in a glass of water and it would fizz. My favorite tasted like rootbeer, but iirc, they were also flavored grape orange and cream soda. Soda stream without the machine, lol.

Edited to add: Ah, just found that they were called Fizzies, not Bottle Caps.