If You're A Gen X'er, These 50 Photos Will Be Sooooo Instantly Recognizable And Truly Take You Back To Your Childhood

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A scroll down representation lane, and, of course, nary seatbelts required.

1. Delicious, delicious Nestle Quik that came successful tin cans, and that you would usage a spoon successful bid to popular disconnected the lid:

2. General Foods Country Time Lemonade, which besides came successful a tin canister, and was astir intolerable to defy eating conscionable connected its own:

3. The sweetener weaponry known arsenic Flintstones Yabba Dabba Dew Punch — the benignant that came successful a instrumentality you had to punch holes successful conscionable to determination out:

4. The Tupperware jugs that near immoderate portion you made successful it with a subtle plasticky odor and taste:

5. Gene Shalit doing movie reviews connected the Today show:

7. Re-runs of cheesy sitcoms similar Gilligan's Island, I Dream of Jeannie, and Get Smart that ran successful the afternoons:

8. Watching TV connected a immense console tv acceptable that astir apt weighed 250 pounds:

9. Drinking h2o from the hose erstwhile playing outside:

10. Playing connected steel-pipe jungle gyms that were not lone a falling oregon head-banging hazard, but besides turned scorching blistery successful the summertime sun:

11. Metal slides that would BURN the backmost of your legs going down them (if you were wearing shorts) connected a blistery summertime day:

12. The reddish drawstring you needed to propulsion successful bid to unfastened a Band-Aid:

13. Riding successful the backmost of a presumption wagon oregon motortruck with nary spot loop oregon seat, conscionable bouncing around:

14. Or having precise questionable car seats/car information for kids, portion your parents drove astir without wearing seatbelts:

15. Having astatine slightest a photograph oregon 2 you took with your household with the household car connected a roadworthy trip:

16. These puzzles that you would entertain yourself with connected roadtrips:

17. Carrying astir a metallic lunchbox each time to schoolhouse — which you could truly wounded idiosyncratic with if you swung it astatine them:

18. Mimeograph machines that near that addicting inky scent connected tests and people assignments your teacher would walk out:

19. Film projectors that would crook your teacher into a part-time projectionist immoderate clip they pulled it out:

20. People magazine, which seemed similar each household you knew had a subscription to:

21. And aged issues of Reader's Digest that your grandparents would person and refused to propulsion out:

22. Your parents' Mr. Coffee instrumentality that looked similar this:

23. Billboards and ads for cigarettes that were everyplace you looked:

24. Kids unintentionally wearing hats, T-shirts, oregon sweatshirts for cigaret oregon brew brands:

25. Photo albums that were lone similar 5 years aged and already had the glue drying up, which made the pictures autumn out:

26. Hallmark Postalettes sets, which you would usage to constitute to your pen pals oregon cousins:

27. Sloppy joes, which was an simple schoolhouse luncheon staple:

28. And frank and beans, which was an oh-so-yummy meal staple:

29. Libbyland TV dinners, which were a themed dainty and made you consciousness similar you were eating a gourmet meal:

30. Hostess Fruit Pies, which were the cleanable after-dinner dessert oregon day snack:

31. Halloween costumes that were virtually integrative smocks with integrative masks that you could hardly spot oregon respire retired of:

32. Or the Halloween rubber masks that you could hardly respire oregon spot retired of, were precise hot, and that powerfully smelled similar caller tires:

33. The Fisher-Price registry that you could walk hours playing with:

34. And the Fisher-Price Little People School House that had the magnetic letters and the chalkboard that folded out:

35. Atari 2600, which instantly made you the astir fashionable kid connected the artifact if you owned one, adjacent if the joystick seemed determined to get stuck close erstwhile you were astir to bushed your precocious score:

36. Simon, which ever started with everyone having amusive and ended with everyone being frustrated and mad:

37. Rubik's Cube, which everyone owned 1 oregon 2 of due to the fact that they were specified a fashionable default day oregon vacation gift:

38. Cable boxes that looked similar this:

39. Going implicit to your friends' homes who had MTV truthful that you could ticker it for hours:

40. Going with your parents to driblet disconnected movie rolls to get developed astatine Fotomat kiosks (which besides sometimes offered VHS movie rentals too):

41. And going with your parents to Kmart:

42. Mechanical horses that were extracurricular each market store:

43. Watching a 5-minute 8mm cartoon successful 1 of these theatre booths for a quarter:

44. Going into offices that looked similar this:

45. McDonald's nutrient that came successful Styrofoam packaging:

46. Not wearing sunscreen and alternatively utilizing suntan lotion to get a tan portion astatine the formation oregon pool:

47. Watching your parents, grandparents, oregon different adults successful your beingness fume aggregate cigarettes portion having a agelong speech connected the phone:

48. Talking connected the telephone successful the room due to the fact that it was the telephone with the longest cord:

49. Riding your motorcycle with your siblings oregon the vicinity crew, nary helmets successful sight, hairsbreadth flying successful the wind, and knowing it was clip to caput location the 2nd the streetlights flickered on:

50. And lastly, the municipality fable that Mikey from the Life cereal commercialized died due to the fact that helium ate Pop Rocks portion drinking a Coca-Cola:

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