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This is a pretty good place to start. Wooden ramps, trash cans, jump suits, moms unphased at the prospect of broken limbs, just out there jumping shit.
When I was in Jr public school my parent both worked and we would just go home on lunch to our empty house. (unheard of in this day and age) I remember when I was about 9 or 10 my brother and I would go into the field behind our backyard (railroad tracks ran behind our backyard) and light fires. Then we would stomp them out.
This is the shit we did and our parents had no clue.
Our instructions in the evening were to come in when the streetlights came on.
My friends parents smoked. In the house. I would go to his house and come home reeking of cigarette smoke. People would smoke in restaurants. I remember my Dad bringing home donuts and they would taste like smoke.
We had a black and white TV until about 1982-ish.
We had a converter box that looked like this…
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Until I saw that video at some point, I never really connected doing that stuff with Evil Knieval, but I guess that was our inspiration at the time.
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Atari
Commodore 64
Epyx Games
Summer Games/II/Winter Games/World Games you get the gist
The Amiga
Toothpick skateboards. The progression to wide boards
Bones Brigade
The Search for Animal Chin
“…Don’t worry bout a thing, he’s not a cannibal…”
MTV
Buying individual candys at the local deli and taking them home in a white paper bag
The A Team
Macgyver
The Love Boat
Cannonball Run
Police Academy
Eurythmics
Dumpster diving for Playboy mags
When you could play all the rough games at school recess
The 80’s truly were the best!
She’s perfect.
This.
Holy crap, same guy?
Yep. He was also Al Bundy’s neighbor.
I remember it was either kindergarten or first grade. Kids were lined up playing red rover. And a couple of the kids figured out that if you swung your hands up just as they got there you could uppercut the kid running at the line and just knock them on their ass. That only lasted a day or so. But man those are some mean little kids.
Latch Key Kids. Child care was just leave your 3rd grade kids alone until you decide to come home. That’s the whole plan.