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12 school supplies every kid in the 1970s wanted
Flash back a few decades to a shaggier, funkier, earth tone-ier time, when John Travolta was king, hair was long, and basketball shorts were really short. Here are a dozen of the most desired items for school kids in the 1970s. What did you have?
1. Trapper Keepers
2. Little Professor calculators
3. Bic Banana Ink Crayons
4. Plastic pencil cases
5. Star Wars lunch boxes
6. Reggie Bars and Whatchamacallits
7. Highlights and Dynamite magazines
8. David Cassidy posters
9. All denim everything — but especially vests
10. Two words: bell bottoms
11. Pop Wheels
12. Cruising wagons and vans
Of course, if you really wanted to cruise to school in style, and you were sixteen, you could do no better than a groovy van with captain's chairs. Cars were the size of boats — they even came with portholes.
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I did not have David Cassidy posters. I had KISS posters.
I finally found my precious old Trapper Keeper on eBay and repurchased it (the "rainbow hearts cascading down a jungle waterfall paradise" design.)
Love bell bottoms & Highlights & plastic pencil cases (kept some of mine, especially the Lisa Frank one...wish I still had one of the ones with the squishy magnetic lids and all the tools that'd pop out of the sides.) Also loved my roller skate sneakers, even though the jerks who ran the elementary school didn't.
Love bell bottoms & Highlights & plastic pencil cases (kept some of mine, especially the Lisa Frank one...wish I still had one of the ones with the squishy magnetic lids and all the tools that'd pop out of the sides.) Also loved my roller skate sneakers, even though the jerks who ran the elementary school didn't.