Yup! I remember them all and probably some that aren't on there!

Our first color T.V. ( and we only had ONE in the House )

I remember our first T.V. black and white; some years later I remember my grandparent's first color T.V.

Movies were in Technicolor-
the skies were sapphire, the grass was emerald.

& those movies!

Frankie & Annette!
Elvis!
Big Red!
Old Yeller!
& I remember saving those bottle caps.

My father had a friend who owned a bait shop/gas station/corner store (remember *those*?), & he let us raid the soft drink machine for the bottle caps so all three of us could go to the movies every Saturday for 2 or 3 weeks.

Back then, there was no way any child would have been allowed to drink enough soft drinks to get in on his/her own bottle caps!

I remember, and miss those days a lot. I loved the simpler times.

All of the above, plus radio.

Ah yes,,, technicolor. Old Yeller is still a favorite of mine. Frankie and Annette...gag...chick flicks...wretch..hehehe Bottle caps.. I remember that for a while RC Cola had a thing going where you peeled a cork liner from the bottle cap to win another RC Cola. Remember the Frostie Root Beer bottle? Or how about the old 32 oz. GLASS bottle.

I remember everything above but the 32 oz bottle

When I was a lot younger we lived in Houston, my memory is a little fuzzy but , I think it was milk caps and I believe a TV station was wanting you to collect them and possibly win *stuff*, they were called loony bucks?
I stored them in a metal coffee can that you had to open with a key,(think spam, meaning canned meat)lol

Most schools won't even allow some of the above mentioned games because they are too violent
I do remember when my dd's were small hearing reports about cartoons being too violent, it was bugs bunny, popeye, etc
Now look at the truly violent programs

Rick we listened to the Shadow and LOVED it, lol

OH, and remember going "snipe" hunting?????

OMG! Snipe hunting! I truly hadn't thought of that in years! What a flood of memories that one stirs up. How 'bout potatoe sack races? When did you last see a Horned Toad? I thought for awhile they must be extinct.

Oh yes, the "Shadow" was a very cool radio show, as was the "Green Hornet".

When you guys talk about getting your first color TV - I remember that my aunt and uncle lived next door, and they had this plastic that they put on the screen - the top was blue, the bottom was green, but I don't remember the color of the middle part. Voila - the first "color" TV in our neighborhood!

Lin

AC, we didn't have ac and kids today do. It was too hot to stay inside when we were young.
We also had recess. Now they have ADHD drugs. I'm still shocked at the amount of powerful, horrible drugs we give kids today. 8 year olds on 4-5 meds, drugs to put them to sleep, drugs to wake them up, drugs to make them calm. Nothing a good game of tag couldn't accomplish.
TallyHO!

I remember we used to make homemade toys with clothespins, rubber bands, maybe something else. Not a toy gun...we weren't allowed toy guns. I had ADD all my life. I just wish it had been diagnosed when I was a child. Instead, I grew up knowing something was wrong with me and ashamed of being different. Well, I was already different in other ways. My family was old-fashioned, religious and very poor. I was very shy and didn't seem to know how to socialize much. And teasing and being bullied sometimes didn't help. I probably didn't need any drugs, but needed to know why my mind didn't quite work the same ways other kids minds did.

Linda, I am so sorry that you felt that way as a child. I wish all children could have a wonderful childhood

We made toys with clothespins also, lol
Lin, I remember the colored plastic sheet, lol I remember it having blue on the top,red and then green I think

Half pint glass milk bottles with paper tab stoppers at school. A bottle of milk was 2 cents and hot lunch was 15 cents.
Cloak rooms.
Fire escape tubes (those drills were fun).
Classical music education at school. We had to learn to recognize major orchestral compositions and to name the composer.
Square dancing lessons at school.
Punishment was standing at the blackboard with your nose in a circle.
Movies were 15 cents on the military base, popcorn and a lemonade were 10 cents. Mom would give us each a quarter and tell us to, "Behave yourselves. If the usher tells me you were unruly I'm going to spank you all the way home."
Playing pioneer in the woods all day long.
Sleepovers.
Feety pajamas, we called 'em "skiddies" cause we could run down the hall and skid the last 15 feet.
Blowing the fuzz off dandylions and out of milkweed pods.
Laying on our backs in a grassy field with friends and making animals out of the clouds.
Saddle oxfords.
Peddle pushers.
Anklets.
The one-eyed, one-horned, flying purple eater.
Freeze tag.
A&W root beer drive-in and frosty mugs.
Green Stamps.
Travelling in the old station wagon.
Are we there yet? No, you kids just settle down back there.
Easter hats.
Two new dresses for school each fall.
Rick-rack trim to hide the old hemlines on last years dresses.
Jacks.
Hoola-hoops
Pickup stix.
Fizzies. Penny candy.
Rin Tin Tin. Sea Hunt.
Annie Oakley. Roy Rogers.
Howdy Doody. Huckelberry Hound.
Sky King. Little Rascals.
Captain Kangaroo. Amos 'n Andy.
Knock-knock jokes.

Cheryl

"I believe that technology has cheated them out of some of the good times that my generation enjoyed. I believe that more and more children are chubby and out of shape and have a stifled imagination as a direct result of todays electronic driven society." Billy, I agree with you wholeheartedly.

I remember as a child that I was outside all of the time. We played house, checkers, made crafty stuff, and bicycled everywhere. We had big swamp coolers and no AC so summers were hot in the rooms without the swamp coolers but somehow, we didn't feel it.

I have a new grand baby and I worry. Will today's society wring all of the imagination out of her?

Linda, I can identify with you in many ways even though I don't have ADD. In the 4th grade, my mother took a teaching job at a college in a tiny Texas town. I didn't fit in. We moved there from Colorado, and I'd gone to Catholic school and was used to wearing skirts. Everyone in the new town wore jeans. I was highly imaginative, played make-believe a lot, and wrote stories & poems. They didn't. I was made fun of because I was different.

In the 6th grade, in the same tiny town, I can remember another new girl coming from Arizona who was of course "different." They picked on her too, made fun of her, and she cried. Her parents decided "our town" wasn't where they wanted to live, and they moved. Good for them!

However, in the 7th grade (yes, I'm bragging), I was making A's, had some close smart friends, and all of those who picked on me were left behind in the dust to later get pregnant or drink.

Sorry, I went off topic on this off-topic. :-)

I'm going to try and make sure my grand baby has lots of outside time.

We used to spend the entire summer outside, coming in only for meals and the occassional bath mom forced on us. Mostly we just went swimming when we were dirty.

We weren't allowed toy guns but made rubber band guns from clothespins, rubberbands and a board. Hid them from dad. My clothes didn't match the other kids, we moved here from Kansas, I didn't know the social clicks and didn't care, we were poor, dad was a mechanic with 5 kids & mom was a mom. I was the smart one in class which gets you picked on and teased even though the teacher likes you. Always did my homework when it was assigned, wrote my book reports the day they gave us a list to pick from. Never the popular kid but I didn't care, I didn't like the popular kids they were mean and cruel and I would call them on it.
TallyHO!

I think that there should be a "Survivor" for kids....so they can experience real life, and the basics of life.