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[WernherVonTrapp]

I just saw Billy Mays maybe a week or two ago on TV, during some pitch-man competition. He didn't look too good. If I remember correctly (and obviously, I don't), it was either him or his competitor who was (supposedly) battling cancer. Too bad, all around.

[Kaleun1961]

My bedroom wall as a teenager was plastered with Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd posters, with two exceptions: Farrah Fawcett and the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders.

[WernherVonTrapp]

My bedroom wall as a teenager was plastered with Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd posters, with two exceptions: Farrah Fawcett and the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders.

Now you're bringing back some memories. My wall were covered with Pink Floyd, Yes and Bad Company posters. As far as women, I had Farrah Fawcett, Cheryl Ladd, and that evil queen from Battlestar Galactica. BTW, remember the blacklight posters?

[tuddley3]

Originally posted by Kaleun1961:
My bedroom wall as a teenager was plastered with Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd posters, with two exceptions: Farrah Fawcett and the Dallas Cowboys cheerleaders.

I thought you were going to say Billy Mays.

[klcarroll]

I thought you were going to say Billy Mays.

Now THERE'S a mental image I didn't need!!!!!

klcarroll

[MWolfe1963]

The black light posters....man, were getting old, with the strobe lights and beads hanging from the ceiling.

[MWolfe1963]

What was funny, I found my Rockem Sockem Robots in my Mom's house. My parents lived there long before I was still born and the attic is packed full of boxes of stuff when I was a kid. Gonna have to go through all of that stuff one day..


Anybody remember those, got to be fairly old.

[tuddley3]

Originally posted by MWolfe1963:
Anybody remember those, got to be fairly old.

Oh God yes, I used to have that.

Lets see what I can pull from my memory :

Stretch Armstrong
Evil Kenevil w/motorcycle(wind-up motor)
Stompers
Silly puddy and slime
Merlin
Intelevision
Mighty-mo's
G.I. Joe

Just to name a few. This should be a thread of it's own.

MWolfe, as soon as you dig through your stuff, be sure to share your findings with us. Sounds like it will be a stroll down Memory Lane.

[WernherVonTrapp]

How about the hula hoop, clackers, spring bottom shoes, PF Fliers, Slinky, and that freakin' roped 'bell on a hoop' (forgot what it's called) that you'd slip over one ankle while hopping over it with the other. Then there were Gumby & Pokey action bendables. Heck, when I was very young, my dad bought me this large, battery operated, plastic submarine that would bob up and down, as if it were on the ocean, via an oblong wheel underneath. It had to be almost 3 feet long and 8 inches wide. If you pushed a button on front of the sub, spring loaded plastic torpedoes would shoot out. There were small plastic sailors that used to snap into various places on deck. I had a battleship just like it too. Spring loaded shells would shoot from the rifle turrets. That had to be 67 or 68.

[M0ttie]

Anyone remember the ultimate weapon - a real socko special - the 'Johnny Seven?.
Seven weapons in one, my younger brother and I turned the living room into a war zone XMas morning when we opened ours...........