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Anyone remember any "hot items" they bought at Ocean City when they were a kid? It seemed like every year I went to the beach, there was that one thing EVERYONE had to have. When I was a kid, it was the Glow Stick. Back in the 70's, my sister and I got one every year because it was the only place they ever sold them. We could never find them at home. The last BIG THING I really remember seeing were the laser pointers about 10 years ago.




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My daughter works for a federal drug agency and I bought her a wooden Jamaican looking guy smoking a reefer for on her desk. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I still think it's funny.






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I had the laser pointer,but about 5 years before that I bought this little black box(fits easily in your palm)it has four buttons,each one has a different saying,that I won't mention here. I still have it and it still works,anyone know what I'm talking about...we called it our voice mail.

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One summer when I was a kid the big thing everyone was buying was a stiff leash with a dog collar on the end so you could walk your "invisible dog" on the boardwalk. That must have been about 30 years ago!






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Ahhhh!!!!! I remember that one!!!!!






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How about "Sundeck Shorts"???

It was a guys bathing suit that was tight fitting (it was the 80's remember) came in different colors, with a rainbow stripe  that arked up around the butt  - back in the early 80's it seemed like everone was wearing them....






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I remember one year, it was painter's caps with buttons all over them.  I bought a Michael Jackson painter's cap on the boardwalk (probably to go with my "member's only" jacket).

 

In the 90's, it was the rasta necklaces with the psychadelic beads and t-shirts that looked like Budweiser labels or Corona labels but were really OC ads. 

 

 Oh, and who could forget the Big Pecker shirts.






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One summer it was Buckwheat and Little Rascal t-shirts. 

SurfStyle windbreakers that are still around, but everyone wore them early 90s. 

Grab a Busch or Grab a Heiney beer long sleeve T's, along with Jack Daniels.  This was also the time of cowboy hats with the feather roach clips hangin off.

We always got a shirt with an iron-on and name on back each year I was 7 til 12 or so.

Rock band names on a bandana worn around your neck.

 

 






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Nice ones!!! You guys are jogging my memory a bit. I remember one year that every store front had Mork Rainbow Suspenders and a "Nanu Nanu" T-Shirt.






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Remember these?

 

http://ny-image0.etsy.com/il_fullxfull.83847700.jpg

 

 






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NICE!!!!! That visor even had the lights in it!!