JCC The Everything Retro Thread

I understand the root beer extract bottles fetch big money on Ebay.

 

I remember playing with these:

 

^ I didn't have the toy, but I built the model

 

I got the Eagle and Hawk models, but not the Moonbase Alpha one.

 

Does anybody else remember building and launching these? Estes_1977_Catalog.pdf (estesrockets.com)

 

I think I had an 80s shuttle one.

 

LOVED those model rockets! The problem around here was there were almost no good places for recovery...meaning there were some decent sized fields that were good for launch, but a little wind and...goodbye rocket once the chute deployed. Extremely demoralizing!

 

"for guys 8, 9, 10 years old" lol. Nope. No girls allowed. They couldn't possibly ride this. It's science.

I had the Knight Rider one with hand brake system

 

The world was a better place when there were Saturday morning cartoons and annual primetime specials previewing said cartoons.



Amazing.

 

@Guidman

 

Once upon a time, insomniacs in NYC could see this on TV, rather than infomercials:

 

I had a C.H.I.P.S. Big Wheel. Still very fond of that. I never had a Green Machine but those are on different level than Big Wheels - meant for older kids.

That probably makes them a harder sell because older kids can ride bikes.

What is this? Was it a nightly high production value history show? No way was this the over night ‘trash’ NYC was putting in TV. I really enjoyed it. Very well done.




Do you remember when TV stations went off air for the night? ‘Station XYZ now concludes its broadcast day.’ Is what they’re usually say on the prerecorded outro.

And when they came back on a lot of them would play something patriotic.

 

There used to be static on TV from like 5am to 6am.

 

I had some stations that were off from 12 to 7 or 2 to 6 even into the 90s.

 

Speaking of retro, I have been loading up on late 70's TV shows. I have Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Love Boat, Charlie's Angels and Three's Company. I get them pretty cheap used. My sister got me Happy Days for my birthday a few years ago.

 

These are DVD box sets?

 

Happy days and Laverne and Shirley are. The others are just single seasons or two.

 

Cool. I meant season sets. I sort of forgot usually the entire series ru could be purchased in a box set.


I think those will become valuable again in the future. (Individual seasons and entire series). With streaming the discs became almost valueless. It’s clear now future streaming content will be limited in ways owning a physical copy won’t be.

Those physical copies will become more rare and then increase in value.

 

I grew up in the 70's, so for me it's nostalgia. In Charlie's Angels, they are in a hospital. There are no computers, the nurses wear hats. it's like a time machine.