You know that you're old school if you can....

[Cadet]

Remember when fingerless lace gloves and jelly bracelets were in style . . . in the 80s.

And lots of things that glowed in the dark. Before Day-Glo stuff made an appearance.

 

[sportschick]

And styling your mallbangs around your softball cap.

 

[2muchcoffeeman]

... remember the original Coke. Not New Coke, not Coke Classic. "Old" Coke.

And no, Coke Classic doesn't taste the same.

 

[imjustagirl2]

Hypercolor, benches.

 

[Cadet]

I got soooooo pissed when my dad put my Hypercolor shirt in the dryer...

 

[Lone_Star_Speed]

...remember searching for the "It" Coca Cola cap so you could win all that money!

 

[HejiraHenry]

I can remember the first day we got cable in the house I lived in after finishing college.

This would have been, oh, 1979.

TBS would show the Braves game, then maybe an episode of Andy Griffith and them show the Braves game again.

After that, a wacky deep-of-the-night newscast with Bill Tush.

 

[Corky Ramirez up on 94th St.]

--being all excited when the Sears Wish Book came out, because that's what you used to make your list to Santa Claus.
-- guys wearing turf shoes or baseball shoes to school.
-- the first time your parents paid more than $1 a gallon for gas.

Remember the Spiegel catalog? That one seemed to have more bang for the buck.

Still can recall Jay Stewart announcing the catalog on Let's Make a Deal: Speigel, Chicago, 60609

 

[pallister]

NightTracks on WTBS, before MTV was readily avaialble.

 

[Tom Petty]

when love boat was the opening act for fantasy island on saturday night.

oh ted lange, where have you gone?

 

[Tom Petty]

or when you could smoke pot at a concert and nobody would freak out because 90 percent of those in attendance actually were smoking pot as well.

 

[Huggy]

--being all excited when the Sears Wish Book came out, because that's what you used to make your list to Santa Claus.
-- guys wearing turf shoes or baseball shoes to school.
-- the first time your parents paid more than $1 a gallon for gas.

Remember the Spiegel catalog? That one seemed to have more bang for the buck.

Still can recall Jay Stewart announcing the catalog on Let's Make a Deal: Speigel, Chicago, 60609

Ha, any time I have to enter a zip code on some website (usually a newspaper one) I always use 60609. It's the only US one I remember and it's because of the Spiegel catalogue.

I wonder if you can still buy Z-Brick.