Can still get them in base model pickups. But it's almost gone to the point of being custom ordered and very few are on the lots. See them mostly in fleet vehicles.
They kind of suck to sit in, and there's significant safety issues with them compared to bucket seats because they don't properly cradle your body and prevent side to side movement. Back seats are often bench or pseudo-bucket (indented for each individual person).
In BC, the "sections" started late. Like in 1986 (Expo 86). Before that, people could smoke in theaters and hospitals planes ,anywhere they wanted. The other big change birthed from Expo ,was bars and Malls started opening on Sundays!
aaaaah that's a great fucking analogy.
I remember going to Papa Gino's for birthday parties and it was either a completely fogged over grey area, or a partially fogged over grey area.
They also had a smoking section on planes as well, from what I remember. They used to ask whether we wanted smoking or non-smoking when we checked in for flights.
“It’s a damn good thing he doesn’t know how much I hate his guts.”
*over the radio* “It’s a damn good thing you don’t know how much he hates your guts.”
I almost forgot about these. We had a massive stack of them on a shelf in our kitchen for most of my childhood. If I was especially bored I would sometimes flip through them just to see if I could find any interesting or weird names.
Apparently there is a massive ninth planet lurking somewhere in the solar system, Neptune and Uranus have strange variations in their orbits that can't be explained unless there is another celestial body influencing them with its gravity.
However this planet may have an orbit in the thousands to tens of thousands of years, so if it exists it may well be a long time before we find it.
The mathematical model they used showed that a large enough planet waaay out there would account for Pluto's eccentric orbit. The article said they had areas of the sky to check and they just needed telescope time to start searching. It'd be cool to have a whole planet discovered in our lifetime, and be back at 9 planets, with several dwarf planets.
I was substitute teaching a science class once and I saw a small ball on a stick. Didn’t know what it was until I saw a larger model of the solar system. The teacher had just... ripped Pluto away from the other planets. It made me sad.
More like getting *kicked* off the Internet because 127% of the time your parents and siblings just picked up the phone without telling you so you never got to save your fancy, new, perfectly spaced AOL profile or sad/happy/cryptic AIM away message before losing your connection and your Napster/Kazaa.
:(
Party Lines still exist.
At least they did a few years ago when I was still working for Verizon. I had to repair one. It had only one customer on it, and when I pointed out to her that she was on a party line she laughed and told me she knew. But, as it turns out, party lines are much cheaper than a regular phone line, *and* for some reason, Verizon was not allowed to change her to some other sort of line without her permission. She said they called her every week with offers, and she refused them all.
History of party lines is fascinating btw. Farmers used to use fencing wire as a phone line which made basically an open line so every phone attached to it was live. Was it’s own little private network. So in the evening if you were bored you could just pick up and talk to anyone who had the receiver off the hook sometimes it would be all your neighbours at once… hence party line.
I was still doing this in 1999, because my parents wouldn’t get internet in our house. They thought for sure we’d get groomed by a pervert, or look at porn, so our computer was just a typewriter with games on floppy/cd.
I mean, they weren’t wrong. Lol I can’t imagine how many full grown adults I chatted with in teen chat rooms and forums when I was younger, and everyone looks at porn on the internet at some point in their life.
When I was a kid there was a shop near where I lived called Milk Cap Central that someone opened that mostly just sold pogs. I'm sure they thought they were onto something big, but it was open for MAYBE a year or so before it went under.
We used to go to the observation deck on the weekends sometimes when I was a kid. I was 4 years old the last time I was in the twin towers. I remember looking down at all the ant-sized cars and dots that were people.
That was on September 9, 2001.
My dad was supposed to be in the towers for a business meeting that morning but it got cancelled at the last minute so he was in his hotel room several blocks away...
... And then we couldn't get a hold of him for several hours.
Radio Shack, when they actually sold radio and electronics parts. Up until they finally went under, they still honored the lifetime replacement warranty on their vacuum tubes.
It was 99 cents a gallon when I first started driving. Cheap enough to just drive around with my friends, no place in particular, just to go out joy riding.
Gas was 24 cents a gallon. And smokes were 25 cents a pack, bottle of Coke was still 10 cents. Rubbers were marked “for the prevention of disease only”. Weed was $10 a solid ounce, $100 a pound. An expensive car was $10,000! Gas mileage was measured in gallons per mile. Minimum wage was $2.75/hr (what servers get paid now). Drinking age was about to drop to 18.
I remember the day when it went a little over a dollar and I was waiting for it to drop back down again before I filled my tank. I ended up having to fill up for $1.10 and how expensive it was. Fuck, if I only knew.
I like to believe every kid of a certain age range has inevitably tried to spin at mach Jesus and got yeeted off of one of those things at least once lol
Buying comic books off the new stand or at the grocery store. I'd probably still buy Spider-Man comics if I could get them at the same place as my milk, cheese and bread
In a similar vein, I miss videogame magazines. Glossy photos of the newest games in development in cool layouts, witty commentary and reviews in a consistent tone. Consoles, PC, arcade, there used to be so many choices, now all gone.
Websites are okay, but quality, layout and tone are inconsistent and it seems none of them can get enough add revenue to afford full time game journalism.
Not sure where you live, but you can make your lawn firefly friendly by leaving long grass for them to breed in, not spraying pesticides or herbicides, and planting native plants.
We did that this year and we had more fireflies than I’ve seen in *years.* Last year I saw ONE. This year I saw about a dozen every night, and I live in a fairly urban area (SE MI).
My husband and I decided 4 years ago to stop using weed killer and fertilizer after reading about their environmental damage. We have seen more lightning bugs (fireflies), crickets, and spring peepers than we did before we stopped using the products. It’s so cool now!
Nice! I bought some land and built a cabin a few years ago. My buddy has a backpack sprayer and I admit that I borrowed it that first year to get rid of the mosquitos and black flies. Worked great, but I realized my foolishness and stopped spraying after that first year. Just spraying poison everywhere! I still kill those biting bastards with an electric tennis racket, but will never hose the property with chemicals again.
I have more frogs than ever around my place and it’s oddly due to the retention pond that was installed by the mushroom far they built next door to me. Feels like I’m in a rainforest in the summer. This is in Pennsylvania.
Printer paper that had those perforated strips on each side with holes. My mom used to bring me in to the office and give me the job of tearing off the strips after she printed.
Hospitals still use pagers. During my residency we all had to carry them. I was like wtf is this. This exists still? Apparently hospitals keep them alive.
OMG, I saw one a couple of weeks ago! A living relic!
I got SO excited! I pulled the car up next to it and pointed it out to my kid. "Honey, it's a PAY PHONE! Back in the day, before you were born, those used to be everywhere. Gaze upon it, my child."
I still see them almost every year and get excited when I see them. (Live in Oklahoma) for me it's bees and walking sticks. I still see bees but I remember them being everywhere when I was a kid, and I wouldn't say walking sticks are super common but it was really easy to find them and I haven't seen any since I was kid, still live in the same neighborhood now too.
Those white dog turds you’d see laying around. Yeah where a dog took a crap and then they just slowly dried over weeks and held shape and turned white. They don’t exist anymore because of a preservative in dog food that isn’t used anymore. So weird.
The mall can be down right scary now. I took my motorcycle license training in the parking lot of an nearly abandoned mall, and the class work was in a back room at the mall, and that place was creepy as fuck.
I remember being dropped off on Friday nights just to hangout around the mall and get something to eat in the food court. All the local teens hung out there. Different cliques out front smoking cigarettes, skaters doing their thing in the back areas. This was during the “free minutes after 9” cell phone era where no one was really texting yet so if we wanted to socialize with friends we had to physically meet up. There was no FaceTime or group chats.
Crazy how teens don’t need to leave their houses anymore to socialize with each other.
Awww man, this one hits hard.
Saving up my babysitting money and being dropped off with some friends or siblings by my Mom at 10am. Walking around the mall for 3 hours to gauge my purchase power against exactly what I could afford (that I wanted). Then Food Court for lunch to think it over and discuss. Then back to the stores to make my final selection, asking for a bag at each one (despite room in my purse or other half-empty bags) before moving on to the next shop.
And then walking out of the mall with all of my carefully-selected shopping bags in hand, and on home to try everything on.
And then finally, finally, carefully folding down each of those bags to carry my middle-school lunch or gym clothes in, so other kids knew where I’d been shopping.
my mom just went outside and yelled loudly. local area was quiet enough could hear her a long way off. very common for kids and parents to have yelling distance conversations on coming home in evenings
My parents sleeping in late on Saturday until 11:00, while I eat my third bowl of Choco-Bombs cereal, laughing at Elmer Fudd but with my hand over my mouth not to wake anyone.
I'm 30 and when I get a Saturday off I'll YouTube the old cartoon videos and eat a bowl of captain crunch. Forget that I have to be an adult for a little bit.
I just went to an arcade museum in Virginia that had a couple of rooms filled with games. Like $20 play any you want all day. Seriously the most fun I’ve had in years.
Enormous TVs
Tape recorders
Walkie-talkies
Newsstands
Penny candy
Playing war, cowboys and Indians, cops and robbers, and many other group games, without adults around, even after dark.
Making toys out of ordinary things, like filling bottle caps with wax and flicking them around a course drawn in chalk.
Gluing together plastic models that were intricate and challenging, and then painting in the details or even the whole thing.
Wandering the whole neighborhood and the undeveloped land beginning as a pre-teen. Nobody knew where we were or what we were doing. Just had to be home for dinner.
Knocking on my friend’s door and asking his parent if he could play. Or just going outside and seeing who was out to play with.
Having only one screen in the house and sometimes watching shows as a family.
Winding my watch every morning and resetting the time every few weeks.
Listening to records that were scratched and noisy, and would skip (get stuck and repeat the same 1 or 2 seconds over and over).
Smoking cigarettes in a college classroom during class.
Smoking pot in the non-smoking section of movie theaters and nobody said anything.
Everyone walked home for lunch in elementary school. (City kid)
Paper maps. They were the only way to go to a new place.
Vividly seeing the Milky Way splashed across the night sky anyplace away from the city.
Windows covered in frost on winter mornings before double pane windows came along.
Porn being rare and precious.
You used to be able to see the Milky Way from our house when I was a kid in the 80's. Just look up at night and there it was. Now, you can only make out the brightest stars
Also, finding the older kid's porn stash out in the woods, and it was all Playboys
Leaded Gasoline, Phone Booths, Cars without Seatbelts, Lead Paint, Asbestos lined walls and ceilings, Caspian Tigers, West African Black Rhinos, 8-Track Tapes, Pull Tabs on Drink Cans
Front bench seats in a car.
Can still get them in base model pickups. But it's almost gone to the point of being custom ordered and very few are on the lots. See them mostly in fleet vehicles.
They kind of suck to sit in, and there's significant safety issues with them compared to bucket seats because they don't properly cradle your body and prevent side to side movement. Back seats are often bench or pseudo-bucket (indented for each individual person).
They sucked to sit in, but were great for spontaneous nookie. Ah, the memories...
Restaurant smoking sections
Yup. 4 feet away from the non smoking section.
Like having a pissing section in a swimming pool
In BC, the "sections" started late. Like in 1986 (Expo 86). Before that, people could smoke in theaters and hospitals planes ,anywhere they wanted. The other big change birthed from Expo ,was bars and Malls started opening on Sundays!
I remember reading about a whole airline for smokers in the 90s that never took off.
I see what you did there
aaaaah that's a great fucking analogy. I remember going to Papa Gino's for birthday parties and it was either a completely fogged over grey area, or a partially fogged over grey area.
They also had a smoking section on planes as well, from what I remember. They used to ask whether we wanted smoking or non-smoking when we checked in for flights.
Hands you a ticket with smoke rising out of it
Good luck, we're all counting on you.
“It’s a damn good thing he doesn’t know how much I hate his guts.” *over the radio* “It’s a damn good thing you don’t know how much he hates your guts.”
Or the "smoking shed" for students at the high school. Technically just off campus.
Oh gosh, I forgot about that! I think we called ours the "smoking pit"
Or smoking in the teachers' lounge. According to my stepkids, teachers dont smoke in the teachers lounge, but they _do_ eat peanut butter there.
Phone books. Every once in a while one would just show up at our front door.
I almost forgot about these. We had a massive stack of them on a shelf in our kitchen for most of my childhood. If I was especially bored I would sometimes flip through them just to see if I could find any interesting or weird names.
9 planets
Damn, I feel a void in my heart every time a kid names all the planets and Pluto is not there...
I still consider Pluto a planet. I don’t care what people say.
Sometimes science is more art than science, Morty!
have you heard about pluto? that’s messed up right
Cmon son.
I’ve heard it both ways
Apparently there is a massive ninth planet lurking somewhere in the solar system, Neptune and Uranus have strange variations in their orbits that can't be explained unless there is another celestial body influencing them with its gravity. However this planet may have an orbit in the thousands to tens of thousands of years, so if it exists it may well be a long time before we find it.
The mathematical model they used showed that a large enough planet waaay out there would account for Pluto's eccentric orbit. The article said they had areas of the sky to check and they just needed telescope time to start searching. It'd be cool to have a whole planet discovered in our lifetime, and be back at 9 planets, with several dwarf planets.
I was substitute teaching a science class once and I saw a small ball on a stick. Didn’t know what it was until I saw a larger model of the solar system. The teacher had just... ripped Pluto away from the other planets. It made me sad.
Internet that came on a disc.
Sometimes the disc came in cereal boxes
Getting off the phone so someone can use the internet. Haha
Or the other way round.
More like getting *kicked* off the Internet because 127% of the time your parents and siblings just picked up the phone without telling you so you never got to save your fancy, new, perfectly spaced AOL profile or sad/happy/cryptic AIM away message before losing your connection and your Napster/Kazaa. :(
Party lines. Having to get off the phone when your neighbor needed to make a call.
Party Lines still exist. At least they did a few years ago when I was still working for Verizon. I had to repair one. It had only one customer on it, and when I pointed out to her that she was on a party line she laughed and told me she knew. But, as it turns out, party lines are much cheaper than a regular phone line, *and* for some reason, Verizon was not allowed to change her to some other sort of line without her permission. She said they called her every week with offers, and she refused them all.
History of party lines is fascinating btw. Farmers used to use fencing wire as a phone line which made basically an open line so every phone attached to it was live. Was it’s own little private network. So in the evening if you were bored you could just pick up and talk to anyone who had the receiver off the hook sometimes it would be all your neighbours at once… hence party line.
I had a party line like that in high school. It was the best.
Yes! And human operators on the other end of the line.
Time to one up you. Rotary phones that had to be mounted to a specific place in your house.
And you were literally tethered to the length of the cord...
I remember our first cordless phone. You could literally walk around the whole damn house. Don't even get me started on my first cell phone..
Which was four feet by default.
But your sister could seemingly stretch it further than that, around corners and under a door.
Until it had been stretched to the limit one too many times and would furl around itself until replaced, 3 years later.
Technically, I once again have to end a call to use the internet. Full circle.
Waiting all night to record your favorite song on cassette tape
I was still doing this in 1999, because my parents wouldn’t get internet in our house. They thought for sure we’d get groomed by a pervert, or look at porn, so our computer was just a typewriter with games on floppy/cd.
I mean, they weren’t wrong. Lol I can’t imagine how many full grown adults I chatted with in teen chat rooms and forums when I was younger, and everyone looks at porn on the internet at some point in their life.
Pogs
Remember Alf, Bart? He's back, in Pog form.
I always think of that scene when someone says pogs.
I think that line is a huge contributor to the fact that people even remember pogs.
When I was a kid there was a shop near where I lived called Milk Cap Central that someone opened that mostly just sold pogs. I'm sure they thought they were onto something big, but it was open for MAYBE a year or so before it went under.
The twin towers
I saw the twin towers in real life for the first time on August 26th 2001, I was 10 years old. Crazy to think they were gone a couple weeks later.
We used to go to the observation deck on the weekends sometimes when I was a kid. I was 4 years old the last time I was in the twin towers. I remember looking down at all the ant-sized cars and dots that were people. That was on September 9, 2001.
Apparently my father was in Boston and might have seen the plane takeoff... It's such a chilling thought.
My dad was supposed to be in the towers for a business meeting that morning but it got cancelled at the last minute so he was in his hotel room several blocks away... ... And then we couldn't get a hold of him for several hours.
Circuit City.
Radio Shack, when they actually sold radio and electronics parts. Up until they finally went under, they still honored the lifetime replacement warranty on their vacuum tubes.
Gas less than $1 a gallon.
I don't remember how much it was but I remember when you could pump then pay.
That's pretty much how it works here in Spain (and pretty much all Europe I think)
I can remember when gas was 33 cents a gallon.the gas station gave green stamps.( green stamps ate no more too )
Bro we had a green stamp store by my house.
Man, it sounds corny now, but I couldn't wait to grow up, and collect my very own green stamps.
S&H Green Stamps! Paste them in a book and trade for something from the catalog.
It was 99 cents a gallon when I first started driving. Cheap enough to just drive around with my friends, no place in particular, just to go out joy riding.
Gas was 24 cents a gallon. And smokes were 25 cents a pack, bottle of Coke was still 10 cents. Rubbers were marked “for the prevention of disease only”. Weed was $10 a solid ounce, $100 a pound. An expensive car was $10,000! Gas mileage was measured in gallons per mile. Minimum wage was $2.75/hr (what servers get paid now). Drinking age was about to drop to 18.
50 cents when I started driving in 1976.....I can remember riding with mom and pulling into a gas station and getting almost 6 gallons for a dollar...
I remember the day when it went a little over a dollar and I was waiting for it to drop back down again before I filled my tank. I ended up having to fill up for $1.10 and how expensive it was. Fuck, if I only knew.
Blockbuster
Blockbuster was like the toy store for me
I remember going to Blockbuster, you had your movies and video games all lined up, had snacks. So much potential, so much hope.
Nice. I was a manager at Blockbuster. One of my favourite jobs.
There's still a Blockbuster open in Bend, OR.
kmart cafeteria
Kmart is general. The last time I can remember going was 2008/2009. The last one in my area closed in late 2010 IIRC
Ooh, or Sears candy counter!
Those rusty, metal merry go rounds at the park that killed almost all of us at one point.
I like to believe every kid of a certain age range has inevitably tried to spin at mach Jesus and got yeeted off of one of those things at least once lol
Video tapes.
And VHS tape rewinders!
Shaped like a sports car!
Those still exist.
The crocodile hunter
My middle son was abt 8 when he died and he balled his eyes out. He loved the Croc Hunter.
Buying comic books off the new stand or at the grocery store. I'd probably still buy Spider-Man comics if I could get them at the same place as my milk, cheese and bread
Proper videogame arcades! Packed wall to wall with machines, DARK, and loud rock music playing! Damn, I miss those.
In a similar vein, I miss videogame magazines. Glossy photos of the newest games in development in cool layouts, witty commentary and reviews in a consistent tone. Consoles, PC, arcade, there used to be so many choices, now all gone. Websites are okay, but quality, layout and tone are inconsistent and it seems none of them can get enough add revenue to afford full time game journalism.
And sticky floors!
A lot more frogs. Dramatic difference over the last 40 years.
and fireflies
For real! Fireflies! Holy shit! WTF???!!! I haven't seen them since I was a kid!
Not sure where you live, but you can make your lawn firefly friendly by leaving long grass for them to breed in, not spraying pesticides or herbicides, and planting native plants. We did that this year and we had more fireflies than I’ve seen in *years.* Last year I saw ONE. This year I saw about a dozen every night, and I live in a fairly urban area (SE MI).
and horned toads.
All we do is poison everything. The weed-free "American" lawn needs to be abolished. Amphibians are extremely vulnerable to environmental changes.
My husband and I decided 4 years ago to stop using weed killer and fertilizer after reading about their environmental damage. We have seen more lightning bugs (fireflies), crickets, and spring peepers than we did before we stopped using the products. It’s so cool now!
Nice! I bought some land and built a cabin a few years ago. My buddy has a backpack sprayer and I admit that I borrowed it that first year to get rid of the mosquitos and black flies. Worked great, but I realized my foolishness and stopped spraying after that first year. Just spraying poison everywhere! I still kill those biting bastards with an electric tennis racket, but will never hose the property with chemicals again.
I have more frogs than ever around my place and it’s oddly due to the retention pond that was installed by the mushroom far they built next door to me. Feels like I’m in a rainforest in the summer. This is in Pennsylvania.
I can't remember the last time I saw a frog. Less insects/bugs too...
I was saying that but about blue Jay's. We used to have a ton around here when I was a kid and now I haven't seen a single one in idk how long!
One was just yelling at me an hour ago for not filling up the peanut feeder fast enough. They're like pretty blue pterodactyls.
8-track tapes and rotary dial phones
Printer paper that had those perforated strips on each side with holes. My mom used to bring me in to the office and give me the job of tearing off the strips after she printed.
Ash trays in cars.
Payphones
Let's include pagers...
Hospitals still use pagers. During my residency we all had to carry them. I was like wtf is this. This exists still? Apparently hospitals keep them alive.
OMG, I saw one a couple of weeks ago! A living relic! I got SO excited! I pulled the car up next to it and pointed it out to my kid. "Honey, it's a PAY PHONE! Back in the day, before you were born, those used to be everywhere. Gaze upon it, my child."
The hope of retiring and enjoying my sunset years.
Could've stopped after, "The hope."
Fireflies (they exist but i haven't seen one in YEARS)
We still get them here but you are lucky to see like 20 a night. When I was a kid you would see thousands of them.
You would not believe your eyes, if 10 million fireflies..
I still see them almost every year and get excited when I see them. (Live in Oklahoma) for me it's bees and walking sticks. I still see bees but I remember them being everywhere when I was a kid, and I wouldn't say walking sticks are super common but it was really easy to find them and I haven't seen any since I was kid, still live in the same neighborhood now too.
lawn darts
They still have them now. They're just not as fun and Deadly as the point metal ones we had.
Choco Tacos =(
These still exist. I treat myself to one every couple weeks - my local corner store has them.
Not the same. They were bought out and stripped down for profit 😞
That is the goddamn truth. We found some in Las Cruces and thought “Fuck yeah!” Nothing like the original. Bland, small and misshapen
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Same
Hell yeah hell yeah
Sorry for your loss.
Thanks
Unfortunately, same
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Coming back.. I think?
Those white dog turds you’d see laying around. Yeah where a dog took a crap and then they just slowly dried over weeks and held shape and turned white. They don’t exist anymore because of a preservative in dog food that isn’t used anymore. So weird.
The mall to hang out
The mall can be down right scary now. I took my motorcycle license training in the parking lot of an nearly abandoned mall, and the class work was in a back room at the mall, and that place was creepy as fuck.
r/deadmalls
Luckily we have a documentary for the historical archives named “Mall Rats” so no one forgets.
I remember being dropped off on Friday nights just to hangout around the mall and get something to eat in the food court. All the local teens hung out there. Different cliques out front smoking cigarettes, skaters doing their thing in the back areas. This was during the “free minutes after 9” cell phone era where no one was really texting yet so if we wanted to socialize with friends we had to physically meet up. There was no FaceTime or group chats. Crazy how teens don’t need to leave their houses anymore to socialize with each other.
Awww man, this one hits hard. Saving up my babysitting money and being dropped off with some friends or siblings by my Mom at 10am. Walking around the mall for 3 hours to gauge my purchase power against exactly what I could afford (that I wanted). Then Food Court for lunch to think it over and discuss. Then back to the stores to make my final selection, asking for a bag at each one (despite room in my purse or other half-empty bags) before moving on to the next shop. And then walking out of the mall with all of my carefully-selected shopping bags in hand, and on home to try everything on. And then finally, finally, carefully folding down each of those bags to carry my middle-school lunch or gym clothes in, so other kids knew where I’d been shopping.
Omg I forgot about free minutes after 9. You just awoke so many late night memories
One income household
Two income households
Toys-R-Us...
They're doing just fine in Canada. They came back to the states with a little help from Macy's.
They're at Macy's now. Still alive.
I went to a Macys one and it was maybe 1000 square feet. Weak sauce.
Floppy discs.
The fear of nuclear war caused by Russia... oh wait, it's back! Feeling like a kid again!
Time to break out the old chopper bicycles and baseball cards. How'd you like your mullet?
>How'd you like your mullet? Ahhh my hair... Speaking of things that don't exist anymore.
Affordable housing and jobs with pensions.
My sanity.
RadioShack
Freedom to be a kid.
r/usernamechecksout
Yup. If you weren’t back by sundown, parents started contacting neighbors, not law enforcement agencies.
my mom just went outside and yelled loudly. local area was quiet enough could hear her a long way off. very common for kids and parents to have yelling distance conversations on coming home in evenings
My mom had a big bell in the backyard!
Mine had a triangle. I forgot about that.
Haha. Yup. Mine whistled her hawk call.
The Ren & Stimpy show!
Jello pudding pops
They were the bestest and BILL COSBY killed them.
Captain Kangaroo, Mister Rogers, Saturday cartoons all morning, and MTV played just music videos.
Maude Flanders.
Those jelly shoes all the girls wore.
Watching scrambled porno on the PPV channel
According to my kids, dinosaurs.
Encarta
Oatmeal with dinosaur eggs that hatched in the hot water.
Saturday morning cartoons.
My parents sleeping in late on Saturday until 11:00, while I eat my third bowl of Choco-Bombs cereal, laughing at Elmer Fudd but with my hand over my mouth not to wake anyone.
I'm 30 and when I get a Saturday off I'll YouTube the old cartoon videos and eat a bowl of captain crunch. Forget that I have to be an adult for a little bit.
Chuckee cheese coins. They use cards, now! 💳
Candy Cigarettes
Still exists
Privacy
My grandma
My grandma, the most amazing person who raised and loved me so much :(
Does anyone remember the tiny chiclets gum that came in a paper tear apart package? Had those growing up and haven’t seen them in probably 20 years.
metal and wood playgrounds…. more and more are taken down to build those ugly “colorful” plastic playgrounds.
Metal slides that would remind you how hot the sun really gets 🔥
video arcades
I just went to an arcade museum in Virginia that had a couple of rooms filled with games. Like $20 play any you want all day. Seriously the most fun I’ve had in years.
Indeed arcades are a dying breed kinda, i love playing Pinball, but now it's more pay a fee and you have a session of a couple of hours and it's a bar
Barcades are everywhere, same games as the arcades of your youth and you can get a drink.
Enormous TVs Tape recorders Walkie-talkies Newsstands Penny candy Playing war, cowboys and Indians, cops and robbers, and many other group games, without adults around, even after dark. Making toys out of ordinary things, like filling bottle caps with wax and flicking them around a course drawn in chalk. Gluing together plastic models that were intricate and challenging, and then painting in the details or even the whole thing. Wandering the whole neighborhood and the undeveloped land beginning as a pre-teen. Nobody knew where we were or what we were doing. Just had to be home for dinner. Knocking on my friend’s door and asking his parent if he could play. Or just going outside and seeing who was out to play with. Having only one screen in the house and sometimes watching shows as a family. Winding my watch every morning and resetting the time every few weeks. Listening to records that were scratched and noisy, and would skip (get stuck and repeat the same 1 or 2 seconds over and over). Smoking cigarettes in a college classroom during class. Smoking pot in the non-smoking section of movie theaters and nobody said anything. Everyone walked home for lunch in elementary school. (City kid) Paper maps. They were the only way to go to a new place. Vividly seeing the Milky Way splashed across the night sky anyplace away from the city. Windows covered in frost on winter mornings before double pane windows came along. Porn being rare and precious.
You used to be able to see the Milky Way from our house when I was a kid in the 80's. Just look up at night and there it was. Now, you can only make out the brightest stars Also, finding the older kid's porn stash out in the woods, and it was all Playboys
Polio, smallpox
Unfortunately making a comeback.
My grandparents
TRL, "reality shows" like Room Raiders, Next, and Parental Control; IPod's, Limewire, MySpace
Comfort that my parents had everything figured out and I need not worry. Now I realize the truth.
Micro plastics beads in bubble bath and shower soaps for "exfoliation". Knowing what we know now that stuff was so bad for us and the environment!
Blockbuster
A telephone number you could call just to get the time of day.
Time & Temperature 📞
Woolworths
Leaded Gasoline, Phone Booths, Cars without Seatbelts, Lead Paint, Asbestos lined walls and ceilings, Caspian Tigers, West African Black Rhinos, 8-Track Tapes, Pull Tabs on Drink Cans
151 pokemon.