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| 2448 | Article | mickyarber | Such a fun article! This one brings back so many memories. And you're right, your level of school supply directly affected your social standing. Parents never understood that though. To them a folder was a folder. But not to us kids. A plain green folder was surely no where near as cool as a GI Joe folder. You could be kicked out of your friend circle for that kind of social snafu. Once upon a time, all of my friends had new Trapper Keepers, while I showed up with a baby blue colored knock off. That was a tough few months of that school year. As for the lunch boxes, the metal ones most definitely were superior to their plastic cousins. But at our school, I don't remember what grade, it became cooler to carry your lunch in a paper bag like the high school guys that it did to sport a plastic lunch box like the 1st graders. So many memories associated with this article. You really picked a great topic to write about. Now when I take my kids back to school shopping this weekend, I'll have this article in mind and remember what it's like to have the off brand Trapper Keeper, and try not to let myself be "that" parent. | Aug 03, 2015 |  | |
| 2449 | Article | Vaporman87 | I wonder how socially scorned they would be if we sent them to school with all the coolest stuff... from when WE were in school? They could tell them it's "retro cool" and classified as memorabilia. Hmmm. | Retro School Supplies | Aug 03, 2015 | |
| 2459 | Article | OldSchool80s | Picking out the perfect lunch box was so important in those early years. Then I can remember how much my Trapper Keeper meant to me. I also remember the 4-color pen (that they still make, I think) where you slide down the color that you want to use - black, blue, red, green. | Retro School Supplies | Aug 04, 2015 | |
| 2460 | Article | Vaporman87 | @OldSchool: Oh yeah! I had forgotten all about those pens. Those were so cool back in the day. I had a few of those too. Though the only color that really got much use was black, followed by blue. | Retro School Supplies | Aug 04, 2015 | |
| 2462 | Article | pikachulover | I just bought one of those multi color pens, a Lisa Frank one. It has a really girly design with kittens and ice cream cones. | Retro School Supplies | Aug 04, 2015 | |
| 2463 | Article | Hoju Koolander | @OldSchool80s Good call! I always associated the standard 4 color pens with my older brother who actually carried them in a pocket protector (he was going to college to be an electrical engineer). But I remember at one point owning a huge shiny purple one that had like 10 colors, which was crazy. | Retro School Supplies | Aug 05, 2015 | |
| 246 | Video | Mr Magic | Some of the characters' eyes look weird. They don't look white like they're supposed to. | The Rescuers - Rescue Aid Society theme | Jan 31, 2013 | |
| 2434 | Article | Hoju Koolander | So this was really less of an Indiana Jones clone and more of a live action pre-cursor to Tailspin, huh? Never caught this one during my USA Network watching, but reruns of Just The Ten of Us were hard to beat! | A Look Back at Tales of the Gold Monkey | Aug 01, 2015 | |
| 2440 | Article | mickyarber | Since I missed out on Tailspin, I never made the connection myself. As for dog fights...eh. Some chases and stuff and some small fights. You never got the feeling, at least I didn't, that the show was under budget though. At least not then. Watching it again recently, you can see where a slightly bigger budget could have helped a lot though. It really is a fun series though. Well worth a look if you haven't seen it. And I too was a big fan of Just the Ten of Us. But I watched it in it's original run on ABC when it was part of TGIF! That was always a really fun block of programming too. | A Look Back at Tales of the Gold Monkey | Aug 01, 2015 | |
| 2438 | Article | jkatz | I was going to say this reminds me a lot of Talespin. But I love pulp adventures and this one seems as good as any. Was the show's budget big enough to have dogfights like the ad implies? | A Look Back at Tales of the Gold Monkey | Aug 01, 2015 | |
