Things From Your Childhood That You Remember But No One Else Does.

OP, sounds like the type of thing you'd get out of a vending machine at Cici's.

Mine is barometers. All of my elementary school teachers had barometers in their classrooms, supposedly because the kids acted up whenever the barometric pressure dropped. I took this to heart, and would frequently check the barometers at school. This went on for years.

No one I went through K-12 with that I've mentioned it to since remembers the barometers at all.

I remember my cousin and I (aged about 10) tormenting our mother's sister unmercifully for weeks on end. One of us would use the swing located outside the kitchen window saying the most nasty things whilst the other acted out it out. We also did mock interviews on a tape recorder (me as the interview and my cousin who is female pretending to be our aunty) saying lewd disgusting things. We would them play the tapes in hearing distance of her. Eventually she broke down into tears and my mother came out in the backyard and smacked the shit out of us. Never mind the fact that my mother or my cousins mother didn't even pay any attention to what we were doing - they were both there the whole time. I recently reminded my mother of this but she doesn't remember, though she said if we had done it to her she would have slapped us until we were blue. This aunty that was the victim of two children making fun of her is not bright at her - she can't even read. One of our favourite games was 'And Doris ran up the pole' - it was that game that broke her into tears.

My sister vividly remembered all kinds of incidents from our childhood that neither I nor anyone else had any clue about. At first I thought she had an exceptional memory, but as the stories became more at odds with my own and the recollections of others, the consensus was that she had conflated her thoughts and dreams with her memories.

I don't want to jinx it, but wow does this thread have a fuckton of promise. Only 3 posts in and quite fascinating. More!

I remember a tv show I used to watch in NYC when I was 3, it was called "Magic" and I was really too young to understand any of it, which was true of most shows not geared towards little kids. No one I've asked seems to remember it.

Oh, I should have mentioned it would have been in 1969 0r 1970.

I watched a tv movie when I was a kid in the 70's. In it a woman dates a man who ends up killing somebody and at their engagement party they are having a luau and the meat they are eating from the BBQ is the person the man killed. Does this ring a bell with anyone? Maybe it was some kind of creature feature late at night?

r7 here, this is so silly I should have tried to look it up long ago. I found it:

In Luau, an ambitious literary agent, Auriol Pageant (Kim Novak), lasciviously courts new client Kimo (Michael Petrovich); he shows more interest in her beautiful young daughter Ginny (Mary Tamm). Auriol plans a sumptuous luau for him; when the plans fall through, Kimo's associate Keoki (Leon Lissek) takes over. The luau, as organised by Keoki, is actually a ceremony to assure Kimo's dying mother Malia (Zohra Sehgal) passage to "heaven" by appeasing a Hawaiian god, and a requirement is that he consume the flesh of a virgin: Ginny.

I recall a haunting tv show opening credits/pilot that I cannot find the merest mention of anywhere online, even in specialised forums.

I would have aired sometime between 1995-9 on British terrestrial television sometime during the day. I'm not sure if it was a childrens' programme or not, but if it was it was extremely dark and menacing in tone for that demo. I remember the music of the opening theme stared with organ scare-chords in a 'Do-Mi-So-Ti' crescendo, followed by spoken-vocal runs of a choir in sotto-voce over a chirpy but creepy hammering piano loop. The visuals were of a stormy night with audible thunder and lightning crashing over a rural wasteland (probably in England?), with two strong images bookending this setting; one of rats scurrying over rubble and barbed wire and muddy fields in the dark , and one of the inside of a stone tower which was lined with glowering owls on their perches with huge flashing eyes. Both lots of animals were animatronic puppets or cartoon cell animation, not sure which.

I distinctly remember seeing this sequence more than once on the tiny tv in our home as a child, but no-one my age or older that I've asked has a clue what I'm talking about. My mother, who watched tv with me when I was that little, doesn't remember it either (yet she can recall every plot and character backstory of HOME & AWAY with perfect clarity). I've scoured the archives of the BBC, ITV, Channel 4 and so on but there's nothing fitting. Sometimes I even dream about this weird gothy piece of film and it plays on my mind. Maybe it was part of an art/student/experimental movie compilation on Channel 5 that I accidentally switched to while looking for ART ATTACK, or something?

this...

I really want to see the creepy kids show R9 is tasing about. Sounds interesting,

R1 I remember they were sold in display boxes just like novelty candy is sold now, they were kind of like Kinder eggs and I think around Easter the balls were actually replaced with plastic eggs, They were like Wonder Balls but they came before those.

Really bad 80s WTBS-produced sitcoms like Down to Earth, Safe at Home, and Rocky Road.

I loved them as a kid, but am well aware in my 40s that they were complete shit.

No one else my age seems to have ever heard of them.

Does anyone remember that weird PBS educational show Math Country that starred a young Jason Bateman and that actress who always plays an uptight mom?

Do you remember pussy willow theater?

OP, I vaguely remember what you're describing. I think we got them in our Easter baskets a couple times. I can't remember if the candy was chocolate like a bad imitation M&M or fruity like a Skittle.

[quote]I remember my cousin and [bold]I[/bold]... This aunty that was the victim of two children making fun of her is not bright at her - she can't even read.

I vaguely remember Down to Earth. Something about an alien coming to live with a family right? I wasted many hours of my childhood parked in front of the tv, watching old cartoons and reruns like Brady Bunch, as well as whatever sitcoms were popular like the Cosby Show, Family Ties, Golden Girls, etc. Now I could care less about tv shows and Netflix shows.

I remember a filmstrip they used to show us in elementary school in the 70s on Valentine's Day called "Happy Valentine, Miss Balentine" (not sure of the spelling.) I'm almost positive it was a filmstrip with audio and not an actual movie. The cartoon stills were reminiscent of Amelia Bedelia. The story was something involving a single teacher and her students helping her find love on Valentine's Day. There was an earworm children's chorus theme song which is probably why it's stuck with me all this time. (Happy Valentine, Miss Balentine! Happy Valentine to you!...) But I've googled the title with no luck and no one I've ever mentioned it to knows what I'm talking about.

R16 If I'm remembering correctly they were filled with that kind of cheap hard but powdery candy and it was shaped almost like rounded pills.

The movie and book called Eric, based on the true story of Eric Lund. He was diagnosed with leukemia in 1970 when he was a teenager and died 4 years later.

This is from the mid-60s, I was about 8 or 9. I remember walking into the living room where the TV was on, and there was a scene playing of a man and woman dancing in an elegant nightclub or restaurant, sort of like a Fred Astaire movie. It seemed to be high up in a skyscraper, with large windows all around. They were the only people in the place, and they danced between the tables, and then across the tabletops. The dance progressed in intensity, the dancers spinning around the room, until their final leap from a table — and out a window. The end.

I’ve searched the web to find this scene, or any clue as to what it’s from, to no avail.

Maybe a parody of a Fred Astaire movie from a comedy?

It didn’t seem funny to me at the time R23, pretty horrifying actually, like a Twilight Zone or something.

Stax Cereal, it was a pretty good tasting cereal but their advertising campaign killed it. They advertised it as a cereal you could stack, no mother is going to buy a cereal that the kids are going to stack all over the table.

Donald Duck in Mathemagic Land, a film the teachers showed each year. I don't know how they coordinated it, but somehow we saw it each year, toward the end of the year, like a treat, no matter which grade we were in.

Showed math in the everyday world and history-Pythagoras, etc.--including tips for using math when playing pool. I loved the shit out of this, and I've never met anyone whose school had it as a tradition like my did.

Classroom valentines. I sent nice Hallmark cards to the little boys I liked and cheap boxed ones to the ugly disgusting boys.

When I was very, [italic]very [/italic]young, I went to some kind of kiddy day-care center for a few weeks in an older residential neighborhood. Years later, I asked my mom about why I'd had to go there and she had no idea what I was talking about. I described the house in full detail and also told her about the woman who ran the center. Unfortunately, I didn't remember her name. Still no recollection from my mom.

Segue to some 30 years after the fact. My partner and I take mom out to breakfast one Sunday and decide to go to an advertised estate sale in a part of town I never have occasion to visit. As we get closer to our destination, I see a particular house in the middle of the block and immediately whip the car over to the curb.

"THAT'S THE HOUSE!" I said. "That's where I went to preschool!"

Recognition finally clicked in for my mom. "You know, you're right," she said. "But how could you possibly remember that? You had only just turned two."

I dunno, but I felt vindicated. Turns out that that particular day-care center was too far from our house, so we found one that was closer to home. Never underestimate what a child can or cannot remember.

there was a fun little book about stuff from childhood; mostly 70s stuff.

Those puzzle ball things that were sold in vending machines back in the '90s.

[quote]I remember my cousin and I (aged about 10) tormenting our mother's sister

Oh, dear!

Mimeograph machines.

[quote]Things From Your Childhood That You Remember But No One Else Does.

That time I was in the basement and a spider bit me on the leg.

Also R30 those tiny working Zippo like lighters from vending machines in the 70s/80s, a great prize for a child.

R32, you think no one remembers mimeograph machines?

Sixlets candy and Better Cheddars

I remember my brother and I had Pogs and Hit Clip. I also remember my sister having those a Disney pencil & eraser holder with a bunch of compartments.

Oh, dear!

Correction: I remember my brother and I had Pogs and Hit Clips. I also remember my sister having a Disney pencil & eraser holder with a bunch of compartments.

this movie- i finally found it. i always remembered the pizza cutter moving by itself

"Dodo The Kid From Outer Space!

Damn, I didn't remember at all that until I read it and the second I did I started singing the theme song! Wow.

I think it was a TV movie... the boyfriend from the tv show That Girl (Ted Bessell) played a sculptor who kills girls and puts them inside statues he makes. The movie would be pre 1973.

Does anyone remember this? I’d love to see it again.

Do you remember "Vegetable Soup" and "Big Blue Marble" on PBS? I loved their theme songs.

“That big blue marble, in spaaaaace”

Big Blue Marble theme (only part I remember) I loved seeing where other kids lived all over the world.

A poem/song we used to recite in English class.

The line that was repeated over and over was "You seem to be a most accomplished man/So tell us some more, Mr. Urian."

No one has ever heard of this goddamn thing and I can't find it on Google.

r41, the Ted Bessell psycho sculptor movie is 1973’s “Scream, Pretty Peggy.”