bizarre Who Remembers

[ZeroK]

 

[chewbok]

As a child of the 50’s I remember well..

 

[djdeeds]

Back when I was a young teenager I could skip school, jump on a train to the city and have a good ole time playing pinball and arcade machines, maybe go to a movie, gorge on junk food .. all with a pocket full of saved up lunch money from the week before! Now when I go to the supermarket I strangely morph into "grumpy old cunt" and mutter things under my breath at how ridiculous the prices are. I have become KING of the "Well back in MY day" stories.

 

[Dark_Voyeur]

Little more then a month after OK city bombing, and the Circus show otherwise know as the Simpson trial. lol


Paper said May, 1995.

 

[Shatterskull]

Yup I remember when a pack of smokes was less than $5.....Thank you for the flashback!

 

[CunningLinguist]

 

[Shatterskull]

Back when I was a young teenager I could skip school, jump on a train to the city and have a good ole time playing pinball and arcade machines, maybe go to a movie, gorge on junk food .. all with a pocket full of saved up lunch money from the week before! Now when I go to the supermarket I strangely morph into "grumpy old cunt" and mutter things under my breath at how ridiculous the prices are. I have become KING of the "Well back in MY day" stories.

Me too my friend, me too. I used to wonder what my parents were so upset about and I feel the same way now. I want the 90s back!!!

 

[djdeeds]

 

[djdeeds]

Imagine going to the movies these days for three dollars fifty! ( Hi sir , one child ticket for Terminator please ) faaaark good ole days.

 

[Dr Deacon]

A UK example, page from an 1983 Argos catalogue

 

[Sgt.Stupid]

@ZeroK Do you remember this?

 

[Dark_Voyeur]

80s fodder;

 

[Interregnum]

80s and 90s were best

 

[Flatus Tube]

It’s nice they made special detergent for retards in the good old days.

 

[Harumph]

"Space Dogged" / "Feud for Sale" was the Ren and Stimpy Show that aired on that date (May 28, 1995). Phil Hartman narrated "Space Dogged", Episode 75.

List of The Ren & Stimpy Show episodes - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[djdeeds]

@ZeroK Do you remember this?View attachment 903421

you just reminded me I have some vintage Tapes like this!

 

[Sgt.Stupid]

you just reminded me I have some vintage Tapes like this!

 

[Interregnum]

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i never had to buy one because my parents had their own anus sex recorded

 

[djdeeds]

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Aaaah ... you little beauty 😍 this takes me back to the good old days of sneaking into the 'secret' back area through those mysterious Saloon doors and down the magic staircase into perverts lair (I remember never knowing what a glory hole was until I put my eye to one!)

 

[chewbok]

Back when I was a young teenager I could skip school, jump on a train to the city and have a good ole time playing pinball and arcade machines, maybe go to a movie, gorge on junk food .. all with a pocket full of saved up lunch money from the week before! Now when I go to the supermarket I strangely morph into "grumpy old cunt" and mutter things under my breath at how ridiculous the prices are. I have become KING of the "Well back in MY day" stories.

Talk about opening memory lane. I was born in 1959 when Dwight Eisenhower was president and I have lived to see the first man launched in space, the assassination of both John F and Robert Kennedy as well as Dr Martin Luther King. I remember the drills in case of nuclear attack. I remember the first time I saw a calculator and digital watch. I remember Neil Armstrong walking on the moon. I remember having 8 other families on our phone line, then dial phones, then push button.

I remember when everyone smoked and drank, even driving. I remember our first color TV, first microwave. I remember when I had to literally program a computer using Cobal, Fortran and Basic, then type punch cards to run a computer. It took up the entire basement of the college student Union.

I remember DOS, the first portable computer with floppy 320k discs. The first digital phone. First digital camera. Days before seatbelts. $.25 gallon gasoline. Days when the internet was only used by geeks and the US Govt.

I recall all of the American conflicts, big and small. And I’m still kicking. I feel 30 ish but my children, grandchildren and hairline remind me I’m not.

There is so much more, much I have forgotten. I can’t imagine what a person born today will have seen by their 65th birthday.