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  • Last-12-Exit
    Last-12-Exit Charleston, SC Posts: 8,661
    Longueuil said:

    I miss the time when you could argue about a simple fact for minutes, for the fun of arguing, before someone said "Actually, I think you’re right". Now it’s more like after 30 seconds "Let’s go check Wikipedia" and the discussion is close.

    Good one
  • Amongst the Ani
    Amongst the Ani @Wobbie Posts: 7,790
    I miss my walkman and making cassette tapes for the girls I liked. I miss going to the record store and finding new bands based on the band name, album name and cover art. I miss walking down to the corner liquor store as a kid and stealing peaks at the nudie magazines when the owners weren't looking.
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  • SPEEDY MCCREADY
    SPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 26,942
    edited March 2015
    hmmmmmmm

    Well never fucking mind then!!!!

    hahahaha

    Fuck Youtube!
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  • rr165892
    rr165892 Posts: 5,697
    25 cent Topps Baseball cards.Which would be purchased after riding my Schwinn BMX bike with Mag wheels to the 5 and Dime.We would scrounge glass bottles and turn em in for the money.Big fat RC and Coke bottles got you a quarter.

    How about a big wheel or green machine,a big hill and a replica football helmet for protection.What a blast.come home bloody and Smelly.Good times.

    Kick the can or tag with the kids on the block,until parents would scream 2hours after dark for you to finally come in.

    Late night Angie Dickenson movies that showed full frontal. Wow!!!Hello Police Woman.

    GI Joe and Army men.

    Feeling really old now,but I think we may have been the last generation to enjoy life not plugged in.

    Drab olive green and yellow kitchens/Shag carpet whoohooo....
  • SPEEDY MCCREADY
    SPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 26,942
    rr165892 said:

    25 cent Topps Baseball cards.Which would be purchased after riding my Schwinn BMX bike with Mag wheels to the 5 and Dime.We would scrounge glass bottles and turn em in for the money.Big fat RC and Coke bottles got you a quarter.

    How about a big wheel or green machine,a big hill and a replica football helmet for protection.What a blast.come home bloody and Smelly.Good times.

    Kick the can or tag with the kids on the block,until parents would scream 2hours after dark for you to finally come in.

    Late night Angie Dickenson movies that showed full frontal. Wow!!!Hello Police Woman.

    GI Joe and Army men.

    Feeling really old now,but I think we may have been the last generation to enjoy life not plugged in.

    Drab olive green and yellow kitchens/Shag carpet whoohooo....

    Definitely the last to enjoy life not "plugged" in.
    And thank GOD for that!

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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    We had that olive shag carpet! And underneath were gorgeous original hardwood floors from the 30s, Sheesh.
  • Last-12-Exit
    Last-12-Exit Charleston, SC Posts: 8,661
    WWF wrestling on Saturday mornings. When Rickey the Dragon Steamboat and Brett the Hitman Hart were my two favorite wrestlers.
  • SPEEDY MCCREADY
    SPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 26,942
    Last-12-Exit said:

    WWF wrestling on Saturday mornings. When Rickey the Dragon Steamboat and Brett the Hitman Hart were my two favorite wrestlers.

    Back in the 70's I would watch Dick the Bruiser, The Crusher, Bobby Heenan (when he was a wrestler), Ox Baker, Ernie Ladd, Nick Bonkwinkle, Verne Gagne, etc.

    Saturday and Sunday mornings were the best.
    Mom would be cooking a big breakfast, and later in the day, my dad and I would go bowling.
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  • ldent42
    ldent42 NYC Posts: 7,859
    rr165892 said:


    Kick the can or tag with the kids on the block,until parents would scream 2hours after dark for you to finally come in.

    Manhunt!! And the fire hydrant in the summer!

    In my friends block we used to play football or volleyball in the street. It was a pretty dead block but every now and then a car would come and someone would yell "caaaaaar" and we'd get out the way so the car could pass then resume the game like there'd been zero interruption.

    Chillin in the fire escape and going up to the roof for the 4th of July.

    I'm sad now.


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  • rr165892
    rr165892 Posts: 5,697
    edited March 2015
    ldent42 said:

    rr165892 said:


    Kick the can or tag with the kids on the block,until parents would scream 2hours after dark for you to finally come in.

    Manhunt!! And the fire hydrant in the summer!

    In my friends block we used to play football or volleyball in the street. It was a pretty dead block but every now and then a car would come and someone would yell "caaaaaar" and we'd get out the way so the car could pass then resume the game like there'd been zero interruption.

    Chillin in the fire escape and going up to the roof for the 4th of July.

    I'm sad now.


    City living.lol
    I cannot relate to the growing up in that enviorment,but we all kinda had the same activities.No hydrant for us slip and slides,sprinklers and pools.
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  • shetellsherself
    shetellsherself New Jersey Posts: 8,835
    My brother and I used to ride our bikes the couple of miles from our small town out to the country where my grandparents lived on a farm. I miss the freedom of that bike ride. The risky feeling of riding on gravel and then the short distance on the highway. No helmets. Wind in the hair. Dust sticking to our sweat. I miss digging in the garden at grandma's, going out into the remote cornfields to find the hidden patch of sweet corn and all of the mulberry bushes that only she knew existed. I miss her sugar cookies in her cookie jar. (Though my 10yo made a batch yesterday). Mostly I miss raising our food. I need to get at this gardening thing. I miss back when my dad used to work on his project cars in the garage on Sunday. I love the smell of exhaust and motor oil and dust. Throw in some cigarette smoke and I might feel like dad is back.
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  • ldent42
    ldent42 NYC Posts: 7,859
    When I was really little we lived on the 2nd fl but facing the back of the building. My parents used to let the cat out through the fire escape.
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  • The Waiting Trophy Man
    The Waiting Trophy Man Niagara region, Ontario, Canada Posts: 12,158
    edited March 2015
    Hide and go seek in the neighbourhood with the other kids that lived on the street and tag at the school playground. Marbles was the most popular game around grade 3. All the kids went out at recess, lunch and even stayed after school to play marbles in the holes they dug. Some marbles were worth more than others and you couldn't just go buy brand new- you'd get called out. You had to win the ones that had been owned by the best around. I can't remember how good I was. I just remember how fun it was- even just to watch.
    Gettoblasters and cassette tapes. School dances. Trying to talk discreetly to a girl on the phone in the living room with your parents just a few feet away. Walking to the corner store to buy chips and pop. Playing in the woods.
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  • shetellsherself
    shetellsherself New Jersey Posts: 8,835
    The Waiting Trophy Man said:

    Hide and go seek in the neighbourhood with the other kids that lived on the street and tag at the school playground. Marbles was the most popular game around grade 3. All the kids went out at recess, lunch and even stayed after school to play marbles in the holes they dug. Some marbles were worth more than others and you couldn't just go buy brand new- you'd get called out. You had to win the ones that had been owned by the best around. I can't remember how good I was. I just remember how fun it was- even just to watch.
    Gettoblasters and cassette tapes. School dances. Trying to take discreetly to a girl on the phone in the living room with your parents just a few feet away. Walking to the corner store to buy chips and pop. Playing in the woods.

    Haha! Gettoblasters! I forgot that word! Right when I read it Michael Jackson started singing in my head. Thx
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  • The Waiting Trophy Man
    The Waiting Trophy Man Niagara region, Ontario, Canada Posts: 12,158
    When I think of Michael Jackson I think of the Thriller vinyl. I remember listening to The Girl is Mine on my Dad's big stereo headphones and reading the lyrics. There was a drawing of Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney playing tug of war with a girl. That's back when I didn't even know who Paul McCartney was. I also remember being up really early, like 5:30 am when my dad listened to Culture Club on tape cassette before leaving for work. I used to watch him go down the street from the window to catch his work bus. We lived near the woods and I saw a few bears back then. I also remember shooting tennis balls at garage doors with a hockey stick, sometimes with my best friend who was a tomboy 2 doors down. Trick or treating door to door in the cold. Getting scratch and sniff stickers on school assignments from the teacher. Walking home from school.
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  • SPEEDY MCCREADY
    SPEEDY MCCREADY Posts: 26,942
    My sisters and I, while in grade school, walking home from school, for lunch. My dad worked nights, and would always have our lunches ready. Lipton soup, Campbell's soup, hot dogs, fried bologna sandwiches(still my favorite), mac and cheese.

    Kids cant even walk to or from school these days. Sad
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  • SPEEDY MCCREADY
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    While in grade school, after homework was finished, walking to the high school 2 blocks away, and going swimming. They had open swim, indoor pool, for 2 hours a night. After swimming we would go and play basketball in the gym. I did this for years. My parents need not worry what I was up to. I was safe. The neighborhood was safe. I would be back home between 9 and 930pm. Then at 10 you watched the news on television(Every Night), then at 1030 you watched Johnny Carson till mom said it was time for bed.

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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    Oh for fuck's sake...my husband STILL makes those fried bologna sandwiches. Not my thing, but boy does he love them.

    My elementary school was less than a block from our house. Memories of my 8 or 9-year-old self walking home (and knowing my mom was there with a meal or snack) either for lunch or after school - among my favorites.

    And there was rarely a second thought of us, at that age, roaming around our immediate neighborhood. Our neighbors were our friends - parents and kids alike.
  • rr165892
    rr165892 Posts: 5,697
    SPEEDY MCCREADY said:

    While in grade school, after homework was finished, walking to the high school 2 blocks away, and going swimming. They had open swim, indoor pool, for 2 hours a night. After swimming we would go and play basketball in the gym. I did this for years. My parents need not worry what I was up to. I was safe. The neighborhood was safe. I would be back home between 9 and 930pm. Then at 10 you watched the news on television(Every Night), then at 1030 you watched Johnny Carson till mom said it was time for bed.

    Must be central time?
  • ldent42
    ldent42 NYC Posts: 7,859
    What is a fried bologna sandwich? Why doesn't my autocorrect know the word bologna?

    The deli had it on sale a little while ago so I ordered a quarter pound of bologna. The guy looked at me like I'm stupid. He goes "you want baloney?" Gave me flashbacks to the first time I ordered mozzarella sticks as a teen in a diner. Smh.
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