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This thread is pretty cool! Here are some of the more "pessimistic" things I remember from growing up. Being a kid of the 80's I remember finding some lawn darts in one of my cousins sheds. My dad wouldn't let us play with them. I also remember that nasty bastard also known as "The Smoking Section" of Shoneys. Steel shot became law for hunting waterfowl. The drinking age in Louisiana was raised from 18 to 21. One of my favorites was those plastic Halloween 1 piece costumes that were guaranteed to melt you your body whenever they caught on fire from candles or cigarettes.
My sister in law still has a working rotary phone in her kitchen .
W1nds0rF0x
Snap, Crackle, Pop.
Yes, when I first got online with my Commodore 64 there were fees to join the bbs and then long distance TelCo fees. Then there was PC-Link, AKA AOL and you only had so much time per month. If you went over they dinged you like todays cell phones going over on text messages. And just think, when I was the age you are now the fastest car you could buy for the money was a V6 Buick, so was the fastest car LOL and the V8 Mustang LX was number two followed by the Fbody.
W1nds0rF0x
Snap, Crackle, Pop.
I have one very similar to that.
I have three working rotary phones, one was my great grandmothers and one is red that we got when we moved into my great grandmothers house.
Cajun_Chuck
Premium Certified Cajun
Running / driving bicycles behind fog truck. - I do remember the mosquito trucks and kids riding behind them. Hehe.
Along with a whole other slew of things listed above!
Along with a whole other slew of things listed above!
I remember getting under my desk in school for practice in case of a nuclear bomb attack. For real.
When remote control TVs first came out--the remote was just a "clicker" that would make the channel go up, and maybe the volume. And you could rattle keys and make the channel change.
When remote control TVs first came out--the remote was just a "clicker" that would make the channel go up, and maybe the volume. And you could rattle keys and make the channel change.
LA_Huntsman
Call of Booty
payphone is nowhere to be found when you need one
Wolfgang1952
LOCAL Fla. Par, Cha. Pres
I remember if you wear bad in school you got sent to the Principal’s Office and the Princeable would ask you to pick your punishment, either a cane, or a paddle, or a strap, or a belt, but you wear going to get one of them on the BUT. And then when you got home from school you got get again from your Dad.
I remember Rabbit hunting in Prosper Field / the Cabbage Patch just off of Parish Rd in Chalmette. Ya I’m one of those Chalmations. When I got out of the Navy in 75 I went on the St Bernard Sheriff’s Office till I moved in 86.
Remember all the good old times we had at the Pontchartrain Beach riding the Zepher
Going down to the local bar room to get your neighbor his six pack of DIXIE. And that was on a bicycle.
Like someone said real M80’s, hell we used to make our own.
Have lawnmower raises. Hell with taking the blade off, that would have been to much work.
Things we used to do we would all be in JAIL now for.
I remember Rabbit hunting in Prosper Field / the Cabbage Patch just off of Parish Rd in Chalmette. Ya I’m one of those Chalmations. When I got out of the Navy in 75 I went on the St Bernard Sheriff’s Office till I moved in 86.
Remember all the good old times we had at the Pontchartrain Beach riding the Zepher
Going down to the local bar room to get your neighbor his six pack of DIXIE. And that was on a bicycle.
Like someone said real M80’s, hell we used to make our own.
Have lawnmower raises. Hell with taking the blade off, that would have been to much work.
Things we used to do we would all be in JAIL now for.
slinkyonrampage
Noob
I remember the days when 9mm was $3 a box.
irishredhead
Well-Known Member
im only 20 
so i dont have as many stories. lol. but i do remember going to my dads when i was little, and every morning he would open all the windows in the house and blast the oldies. tv's weren't aloud on until right before bed. riding bikes on the levee with him all the way to the ferry, and then the french quarter just to get some beignets and tip the street performers. im blessed enough that when i go to visit him his habits havent changed 
and bike rides are still a frequent thing. he just has to stretch alot beforehand.
so i dont have as many stories. lol. but i do remember going to my dads when i was little, and every morning he would open all the windows in the house and blast the oldies. tv's weren't aloud on until right before bed. riding bikes on the levee with him all the way to the ferry, and then the french quarter just to get some beignets and tip the street performers. im blessed enough that when i go to visit him his habits havent changed and bike rides are still a frequent thing. he just has to stretch alot beforehand.
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Having to dial a phone, Sears selling guns, getting up to change the channel on the TV and there were only 5. When K and B sold vacuum tubes. Getting a dollar from my aunt to go get her a pack of cigarettes and no one giving it a second thought. The dumps off 1088 north of the lake that every one used as a shooting range. Top Value stamps.
-No one freaked out if grandpa let you sit in his lap and steer the Olds Delta 88.
-Car seats for kids that had metal tube frames that stuck down between the seat/back and a roller coaster type padded bar that folded down in front to hold you in.
-Fold up rumble seats in the back of Ford station wagons, or lying in sleeping bags in the back on long road trips without the slightest care of a cop giving mom or dad a ticket.
-Plastic skateboards.
-Adjustable roller skates that strapped on over your shoes, and had metal wheels.
-Bringing toy/water guns to school for recess and no one stroking out over it.
-Walking the neighborhood as a fourth grader with a pellet rifle and a 4" Buck 110 in a sheath on your belt, and no one stroking out over it.
-My aunt in Lacombe living in a log cabin, not a modern house made to look like a log cabin.
-My uncle in Lacombe having an outhouse.
-Eight foot satelite TV dishes.
-Canned drinks had pull tabs, bottled drinks didn't have twist tops, and fancy kitchens had a thingamajig on the wall that looked like a bloated pencil sharpener but was used to crush ice.
-Pushing in large protruding buttons to change radio stations in a car.
-All kinds of weird shaped, brightly colored transistor radios and 8-track players.
-Record players that closed up like a suitcase to be taken with you.
-Car seats for kids that had metal tube frames that stuck down between the seat/back and a roller coaster type padded bar that folded down in front to hold you in.
-Fold up rumble seats in the back of Ford station wagons, or lying in sleeping bags in the back on long road trips without the slightest care of a cop giving mom or dad a ticket.
-Plastic skateboards.
-Adjustable roller skates that strapped on over your shoes, and had metal wheels.
-Bringing toy/water guns to school for recess and no one stroking out over it.
-Walking the neighborhood as a fourth grader with a pellet rifle and a 4" Buck 110 in a sheath on your belt, and no one stroking out over it.
-My aunt in Lacombe living in a log cabin, not a modern house made to look like a log cabin.
-My uncle in Lacombe having an outhouse.
-Eight foot satelite TV dishes.
-Canned drinks had pull tabs, bottled drinks didn't have twist tops, and fancy kitchens had a thingamajig on the wall that looked like a bloated pencil sharpener but was used to crush ice.
-Pushing in large protruding buttons to change radio stations in a car.
-All kinds of weird shaped, brightly colored transistor radios and 8-track players.
-Record players that closed up like a suitcase to be taken with you.
Lotta St. Bernard folk in this thread. I won't dare use that "other" word.
I don't really have too many stories, as I'm young. I can remember there being way more ruins to the De La Ronde house. Like multiple pieces being two stories tall.
I know my uncle used to go back in the woods in Chalmette and find cannon and musket balls. My mom likes to tell stories of being able to lay on Judge Perez Drive because it ended near where she grew up.
I don't really have too many stories, as I'm young. I can remember there being way more ruins to the De La Ronde house. Like multiple pieces being two stories tall.
I know my uncle used to go back in the woods in Chalmette and find cannon and musket balls. My mom likes to tell stories of being able to lay on Judge Perez Drive because it ended near where she grew up.
