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Post by mikef6 on May 9, 2023 5:28:55 GMT
Let's go way back, OK? The '80s & '90s as nostalgia is bullcrap.
Candy cigarettes.
Cap pistols.
45-rpm records
Whitewall tires
Only 3 channels on TV
Black and White Television
Party Lines
Princess phones
Flavored and colored water in wax shaped like bottles
Big downtown movie palaces built in the 1920s or '30s.
Sitting in the movie theater balcony
Neighborhood theaters (mine were Woodlawn, Laurel, and Olmos)
Saturday matinees for kids at neighborhood theaters
Cliffhanger serials
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2023 8:14:06 GMT
Let's go way back, OK? The '80s & '90s as nostalgia is bullcrap. Candy cigarettes. Cap pistols. 45-rpm records Whitewall tires Only 3 channels on TV Black and White Television Party Lines Princess phones Flavored and colored water in wax shaped like bottles Big downtown movie palaces built in the 1920s or '30s. Sitting in the movie theater balcony Neighborhood theaters (mine were Woodlawn, Laurel, and Olmos) Saturday matinees for kids at neighborhood theaters Cliffhanger serials Wind up record players. We got something like this from a jumble sale during the late 60s. |
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2023 8:18:14 GMT
Lets have some REALLY real nostalgia:
-swords
-bathing and washing your clothes in the river
-didnt have to brush your teeth
-the pretty girls were actually pretty and the ugly ones..well..
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Post by yggdrasil on May 9, 2023 8:52:36 GMT
Let's go way back, OK? The '80s & '90s as nostalgia is bullcrap. Candy cigarettes. Cap pistols. 45-rpm records Whitewall tires Only 3 channels on TV Black and White Television Party Lines Princess phones Flavored and colored water in wax shaped like bottles Big downtown movie palaces built in the 1920s or '30s. Sitting in the movie theater balcony Neighborhood theaters (mine were Woodlawn, Laurel, and Olmos) Saturday matinees for kids at neighborhood theaters Cliffhanger serials Wind up record players. We got something like this from a jumble sale during the late 60s. We had a Dansette style one, was handy piling up 45s to play one after another, even if my dear old mum insisted on things like Rolf's "two little boys" and anything by Max Bygraves and Sasha Distell who she fancied. |
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2023 8:57:03 GMT
Lets have some REALLY real nostalgia: -swords -bathing and washing your clothes in the river -didnt have to brush your teeth -the pretty girls were actually pretty and the ugly ones..well.. No, let’s long for the days when men were men, women were women and dinosaurs were stop motion models…  |
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2023 13:24:10 GMT
I am not really a very nostalgic person, its very rare that i feel nostalgia, but on rare occasions i can feel nostalgic.
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Post by Deleted on May 9, 2023 13:43:44 GMT
The local cinema where we used to go for Saturday Morning Pictures was The Coronation in Manor Park, East London. It appears in the animated film Ethel and Ernest (2016) but the scene is set in the 1920s so a bit before my time.  |
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Post by Pippen on May 9, 2023 13:53:21 GMT
Being quiet while the 'rents take long distance calls because they are "important" and the caller is charged by the minute
Asking the phone operator to dial a number
Weather reports, correct time and phone numbers found for FREE
78 RPM records
Cracker Jack Toys and more than a couple of peanuts in the mix
Ebbets Field and the Brookly Dodgers
Steeplechase at Coney Island ... $1 covered a day's worth of rides
Watching the twice weekly fireworks at Coney Island from five miles away
Milk and newspapers delivered to the door even to top floor apartments
Two and sometimes three daily mail deliveries at Christmas
Watching them build the Twin Towers and seeing the changing skyline of NYC
Hand written letters
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Post by Jan El Señor on May 9, 2023 16:12:09 GMT
Most of those things still existed when I was a kid in the 80s  |
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Post by jervistetch on May 9, 2023 16:17:52 GMT
These.  |
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Post by Pippen on May 9, 2023 16:25:24 GMT
New York Ferry (Manhattan / Staten Island ) for 5 cents .... and you could stay aboard and take as many round trips as you wanted.  For another 5 cents there was the Brooklyn to Staten Island ferry ..since eliminated by the Verezanno-Narrows Bridge  |
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Post by persistenceofvision on May 9, 2023 17:52:22 GMT
I may be the only person I know who still sends handwritten letters...
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Post by Pippen on May 9, 2023 18:12:50 GMT
I may be the only person I know who still sends handwritten letters... Written with a fountain pen or a quill ? |
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Post by Carl LaFong on May 9, 2023 18:40:01 GMT
Dog turds that had turned white with age.
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Post by Pippen on May 9, 2023 23:15:48 GMT
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