Kids these days...

[Sliver]

Originally Posted by Cheese

um well....

• First pron mag was a National Geo with topless africans....then I found Playboy.
• My mom would give me $0.35 to go to the movies. That was enough for a bus ride downtown and back at age 8 (Saskatoon)...a double header movie WITH Cartoons at the the beginning of each movie and a popcorn.
• Same as everyone else...hop on the bike and disappear from the first day of summer until the last.
• My grandparents farm. My cousins and I would disappear much like the kids in the movie "Stand by Me". Great summer days.
• Raiding gardens late at night.
• Hockey in the winter. Sun up until sundown. We'd have to use the big 2 man shovels to scrape the snow off the ice before we could play. Saskatoon snow storms dumped a ton of snow on the ice.
• Building snow forts in the drift that would build up to the eaves of our house. Amazed they never caved in and smothered half the neighborhood kids.
• Candy at the corner store was THREE for a penny! We'd buy the little licorice babies that were called "n!gger babies" or jaw breakers of every kind.
• Albums. I had an amazing collection. Loved reading the jackets when I bought them and the great artwork. 45s before that.
• Watching the old black and white tv my dad got....thought it was amazing until color came out.
• The amazing cabinet stereo my parents bought LOL. 26"TV in the middle with a radio on one side and a multi racked album player on the other.
• 8 tracks. LOL. My collection took up the back seat, Had to slip a matchbook under the tape so it would play properly and not drag.
• The Muscle Cars. Amazed I lived through those days.

I think those days are back. I look outside at my car and my business partner's car and between us we're sitting on 790 horsepower in our two cars.

[Cheese]

Originally Posted by 4X4

What was the style back then? An onion tied to your belt?

LOL...belt? heck no...we used suspenders LOL.

[BurningYears]

Originally Posted by Yasa

It seems like a common thing for pre-internet kids to be first exposed to porn by finding a discarded magazine. I'm not even that old, and the first time I saw it was finding a magazine in the woods, inside a rusted car.

The following all takes place within the time frame from 1990 to 1994 approximatly.

I think I was guilty of exposing half of my elementry to Pron in grade 3, found my dad's stash in the house and decided, yes lets bring a hustler to school. so next thing you know I have probably 20-30 kids at least around me trying to get a look at the thing.

Of course with the attention it was getting it also got the attention of the teachers supervising recess and blam, I think I'm in the most trouble in the world. have the parent-principal meeting. from that point on my dad said use it like a library, just don't bring them to school and return them when I was done haha.

Another thing I remember vividly was the rebirth of pogs and the eventual demise due to gambling of said pogs. just like the marbles before it. The kids with the giant metal slammers would always win but it was incredibly fun.

Wall ball was a good way to pass lunch/recess break. Although outside was fun I seemed to really enjoy rain days/snow days where you got to play in the gym instead.

Lastly I think those of us born in the 80's have a advantage of having half go run around ride your bike play hockey part of your life growing up and part playing video games and computers being introduced. we werent immersed in ipods and such but we started learning about that stuff at a good age too. I really hope kids enjoy getting their first new bike as I did.

[Ozy_Flame]

Originally Posted by pylon

One weird story, we got sent out of Fish Creek Park by the cops, the day they found Charles Ng down there. All these years later, that is a scary thought. We used to cruise run around in the bushes a few hundred feet from the guys hideout down there.

Haven't reviewed the rest of the thread, but wasn't Charles Ng caught shoplifting at the Bay downtown trying to resist arrest? When was he in Fish Creek?

[Finny61]

Originally Posted by dissentowner

We had cool games like Hungry Hippo as well that could break your finger with those big metal mouths. Todays edition of Hungry Hippo has such weak plastic hippo's they break within a few rounds of play.

I'm surprised Hungry Hippos is still in retail, you'd think it would be pulled off the shelves by now for promoting obesity in children or something. I remember playing this game at a friend's house that was a shark that went around the board and you had to haul a$$ or be eaten.

EDIT: It was Shark Attack.

[Hanni]

A friend had a massive collection of lego and we used to build and play for hours. I'm still convinced that lego is great for helping kids creativity.

We would go into the bush for hours and build forts, have sword fights with sticks, we even found a huge stash of sunshine girls once. Running around the neighborhood playing kick the can in the dark until our parents forced us inside. Kick hockey with a tennis ball beside the school using a ball cap as a catcher.

I got my foot caught in the railing jumping off the deck one time and broke my wrist. Took a good hour before my dad was convinced we should go to the hospital, but only happened after dinner.

I was a kid in the later 80's/early 90's, fortunate enough to have the freedom of childhood but young enough that we got our first computer when I was about 10, still remember those giant 5" floppy disc's.

[JiriHrdina]

"Wall Ball" - I'm assuming that's the game where you throw the ball against a wall and if you drop it - you have to go up to the wall and bend over while your friends throw the ball at you?

Every community/schools seems to have this game but it has a different name whereever you go.

In Beddington we called it "Bum's up".

My wife's school called it "Booty".

[Coach]

Yeah I've heard "Wall Ball" and "Red A$$"

[shootsscores]

Couple that I remember

Wasn't ever that much of a computer buff but like someone said before I remember the huge floppy disks used in those old small green screen'd computers (I'm guessing macintosh?). Going for an hour or so to play oregon trail and that trucking across Canada game.

Making a rep hockey team meant that you got to ride a bus to different cities across Alberta, and you got to stay in your own hotel room with 3 other buddies. Felt like a real pro hah. Great memories of different tourny's and roadies.

And nicky nicky nine doors, anybody else call it that? Ringing a bell and running to find a hiding place, watching the confused person looking around for who it was. Got chased around the neighbourhood a few times when you rang the wrong guys bell hah.

[Flacker]

Originally Posted by JiriHrdina

"Wall Ball" - I'm assuming that's the game where you throw the ball against a wall and if you drop it - you have to go up to the wall and bend over while your friends throw the ball at you?

Every community/schools seems to have this game but it has a different name whereever you go.

In Beddington we called it "Bum's up".

My wife's school called it "Booty".

We called this "Murder Ball", much cooler than those girly names.

[Superflyer]

Well I grew up on a farm in NS and did lots of dumb things. I would go running through the back woods all the time hunting for snakes and such and there were a few ponds that we would hunt for frogs in to feed to the snakes. We never got to see one eat a frog though but it was fun to try.

I remember riding on the wheel well of the tractors as my dad drove them around. This was fun in the fields because they were bumpy and I fell off a few times. I remember falling off once and rolling back to see the fully loaded hay wagon about 5 feet away about to get me. I rolled out of the way just in time. My dad stops the tractor and says "That was close eh? Next time you'll hold on better won't you?"

When I was 8 or 9 I was then old enough to drive the tractor so that was fun as well. I was slow and steady while others were around but as soon as I was by myself I would spin donuts and just let er rip in the fields.

Another time a friend of mine and I got the idea that we should go to Moncton for fun but we could not find a ride so we told our parents that we were staying the night at the others place and got on our bikes and rode there. Looking at google maps that is about 70KM. We rode all the way there then hung out at the mall for a couple hours and got bored so we biked home. We got back into town around midnight and since we both told our parents we were staying at the others house overnight we could not go home. We got the idea to take a tent that was in his shed and set it up in the woods for the night.

Back on the farm I remmeber other things like running through the hay mounds and swinging from a rope swing into the big piles of hay. One time we were running though the second level of the barn where we stored some hay. There were chutes in the floor that we would throw the hay through to the bottom level. Anyways my brothers and I were running through there and all off a sudden my brother disappeared. I go to where I saw him last and see him on the cement floor of the first level screaming in pain. He wound up breaking his collar bone. This actually happened to both my brothers on separate times, not me though.

There are other stories as well but this is all I can type for now.

[pylon]

Originally Posted by Ozy_Flame

Haven't reviewed the rest of the thread, but wasn't Charles Ng caught shoplifting at the Bay downtown trying to resist arrest? When was he in Fish Creek?

Yeah, he was arrested downtown, but the cops were going through his stuff in the park from what I can remember. I was 11 at the time so it is a luttle fuzzy, but there was cops everywhere down there.

edit: this is all I can really find on it

http://articles.latimes.com/1998/nov/17/local/me-43685

[Cheese]

adding more....

for toys we would make our own bow and arrows. Wed find a good branch with good bend and then make the arrows by sharpening the end with our pocket knives. Didnt seem to bother us that the arrows could have gouged an eye out.

These were the other games I played with...

Rock em Sock em robots


GI Joe



Hot Wheels...


Tonka Trucks...


007 Gear...man I loved this one!

and hours of playing with the yo-yo

[burn_this_city]

It was called hot ass. Shesh.

[Nammer403]

[Mightyfire89]

I grew up in SE Calgary during the 70s and 80s.

Fall and winter it was street hockey from the end of school until around 9:00 pm (or if you got so cold you just couldn't play anymore-that didn't happen very often though). Spring and summer it was full on tackle football with no equipment-vicious stuff, many many minor injuries, but no whining or medical attention.

Of course getting on the bike, meeting with some friends and being gone all day was a regular thing. Some times we'd bike down to stanley park (Calgary) and hang out by the pool and stare at the girls in bikinis.

The marble craze was a lot of fun and just like Jiri said there was a guy in our school who had a few king cob steelies, he was the marble king for a while. It got so ridiculous that he brought this giant industrial ball bearing, we're talking about 4 inches in diameter, and if you played against him you had to hit him 15 times or something absurd like that. No one ever beat him and shortly after that the marble thing just sort of faded away. That giant ball bearing was like jumping the shark, I guess.

I also remember yo-yos being a bit of a fad before the marbles. There were the Coke and Sprite yo-yos and few other types I can't recall.

Building model cars and then going in the back alley and setting up car accident scenes and lighting them on fire with whatever combustible I could find in the garage.

"Rumbles" against students from the Catholic school which was a few blocks away from our school. They never really amounted to much but it was a big deal to us.

Taking the train down to the Stampede grounds to go to Stampede Wrestling was always a blast. Seeing the Harts, Dynamite kid, Davey Boy Smith, Bad News Allen, Mike Shaw, Kerry Brown, The Great Gama etc etc.

The older guys hanging out near our school with their muscle cars doing burn-outs.

Hanging out at the local arcade, spending every quarter I could possibly find on pinball.

Ah, memories.

[Yasa]

Ah yes. Summer time was always full of water fights with various models of Super-Soakers (which we used to drink out of occassionaly...always had that funny taste too), dirt clod wars, fake gun fights and street hockey.

We had a huge construction site behind my house that the developers defaulted on so it was just a bunch of dirt mounds and excavation. Used to play a lot in there. We'd always go barefoot too because my mom didn't want me to get my shoes dirty so at one point I was running and caught some half-buried barbed wire and sliced my foot open. Continued to play for a few hours then went home and realized how bad it was. Had it cleaned out and bandaged, was good to go the next day.

That was in the mid-90's. Seems like if that were to happen now, there'd be a news report about tetanus and instilling fear that barbed wire could jump out at any moment and rape you. Oh well. Dino damage!

[JiriHrdina]

[QUOTE=Jimmy Krack Korn;3238617

"Rumbles" against students from the Catholic school which was a few blocks away from our school. They never really amounted to much but it was a big deal to us.
[/QUOTE]

HA HA. Same with us. Our nemesis were those #######s from "St. Bede". It was all talk of course. We would make a lot of noise about going over to St. Bede to show them what for - and then nothing would ever happen.

Still - those St. Bede students were #######s. If ever anyone deserved a beating it was them.

[Locke]

Originally Posted by JiriHrdina

HA HA. Same with us. Our nemesis were those #######s from "St. Bede". It was all talk of course. We would make a lot of noise about going over to St. Bede to show them what for - and then nothing would ever happen.

Still - those St. Bede students were #######s. If ever anyone deserved a beating it was them.

I was the opposite, we were at the Catholic School and we wanted to beat the crap out of the dirtbags at Fairview.

Then someone brought a bat to school and beat someone with it at the Subway.

[Phanuthier]

Originally Posted by JiriHrdina

"Wall Ball" - I'm assuming that's the game where you throw the ball against a wall and if you drop it - you have to go up to the wall and bend over while your friends throw the ball at you?

Every community/schools seems to have this game but it has a different name whereever you go.

In Beddington we called it "Bum's up".

My wife's school called it "Booty".

In Dalhousie it was "walls up bums up" for us

Im still living the life many here say is extinct so I don't think its extinct. I was never into video games or into tv though.