What has disappeared since you were a kid

[alfablue]

Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

Arcades... "REAL" video games in said arcades(Pac Man-Dig Dug-Donkey Kong)...

As opposed to real ARCADE games. videos were later developments- very late 70's.

PinBall games were the thing.

It's why the song is called "pin-ball wizard" and not pac man wizard.....

 

[thebrain]

Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

Chuckles are still around.

We have them often in the vending machine at my work.

 

[Hopkinja]

Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

Related: $1/gallon of gas.

Unrelated: How the villians have changed in movies. Growing up it was almost always Russians. Maybe the occasional Libyan (thanks, Back To The Future!), but it was rare. Nowadays, it's almost always Arabs of (name your country) and the occasional Russian.

I remember when the Soviet Union fell there were plenty of articles which said all the spy novels were going to need a new villiain, since we wouldn't have the Soviets to kick around any more. Then 9/11 happened and we had plenty of villains again.

And once we get tired of villainizing the Arabs, it'll be corporations (anyone remember the original Rollerball?)

 

[Old Pio]

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I'll gladly take the black ones off your hands.

Yeah, and the cherry ones too. I saw on line that Wal Mart carries Chuckles, packed in one pound plastic tubs, not the traditional white paper trays. I may work up the energy to head over there and check it out. Chuckles also used to make spice drops, which I never much cared for.

 

[Old Pio]

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:raises hand:


Old Pio= in regard to accommodations for the religious exemptions- the attitude of the company that refused is majority. I am unaware of anyone who has the ability to achieve getting Sunday off. In fact it would be considered a strike against you by the employer. I have seen this as an issue for nurses, retail workers. No one is going to be able to change every week. Not possible around here. Like I said, if you work retail you miss church a lot.

Yeah. Some businesses are worse than others in that regard. Retail's right up there. I've had more than 35 years in radio and you don't go into that business demanding or even expecting holidays and weekends off. Generally, as you work yourself up, you get holidays and weekends off, but not always and not everytime. The rule of thumb is married people get Christmas off while the single types get New Year's off. Seems to work. I'm sympathetic to folks who want to go to church on Sundays, I am, but how can we provide that accomodation while denying different accomodations to others? And IMO, the law is a bad (an inappropriate) way to resolve these matters.

 

[Old Pio]

Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

On a distantly related matter: anybody else remember the long lines at the gas pumps and stations out of gas during the energy crisis in the late 70's? I was a kid but I vaguely remember you could only get gas on certain days (based on your license plate # IIRC).

Funny, that never affected me. I was serving my first tour of duty in Phoenix at the time. And the station where I worked was downtown, about a block away from a big car wash. And they never went to odds/evens or another other kind of rationing. Just get your car washed and get your gas.

 

[MissThundercat]

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Polaroid instant cameras.

 

[bostonewe]

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Common courtesy and respect for one another.

 

[UNH GH]

Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

On a distantly related matter: anybody else remember the long lines at the gas pumps and stations out of gas during the energy crisis in the late 70's? I was a kid but I vaguely remember you could only get gas on certain days (based on your license plate # IIRC).

My dad talks about that sometimes. He had out of state plates, so he could fill up whenever he wanted.

 

[UML]

Common courtesy and respect for one another.

Yeah like knocking. Whenever I need to take a dump at school these people almost rip the door off the hinges trying to get into the stall or they look through the crack to see if someone is in there.

 

[UML]

Loved Bonkers!

I also loved Chuckles... I think they are still around somewhere. Oh, and only the yellow and green Chuckles. The black chuckles were gross.

The only thing I regret was never trying the chocolate Bonkers. I also loved the commercials that had the fruit fall on the old people when they chewed a Bonkers.

 

[Handyman]

Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

The only thing I regret was never trying the chocolate Bonkers. I also loved the commercials that had the fruit fall on the old people when they chewed a Bonkers.

Holy crap I remember those commercials they were awesome!

Another thing that disappeared, going out to eat being a big deal. I remember being a kid and looking forward to going to Rocky Rococo on Fridays in St. Louis Park with my dad and his siblings. Now a days you can go out every night of the week and it just seems lame.

That reminds me, I miss RR being in more than just Brooklyn Park

 

[leswp1]

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Eating meals as a family every night.
No sporting activities on Sundays.
No girls sporting teams (you did dance)
Kids drinking milk for dinner instead of coke, mountain dew etc.
Kids didn't drink coffee until they were in college.

 

[MinnesotaNorthStar]

Another thing that disappeared, going out to eat being a big deal. I remember being a kid and looking forward to going to Rocky Rococo on Fridays in St. Louis Park with my dad and his siblings. Now a days you can go out every night of the week and it just seems lame.

That reminds me, I miss RR being in more than just Brooklyn Park

We'd go to that RR every other Sunday. My favorite place to eat when I was a kid.

 

[The Rube]

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Is the Sears (or other retailer) Christmas Catalog still around? That was considered a true holiday as a kid. Inch-thick book of nothing but presents for the most part?! Amazing.

 

[Old Pio]

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Is the Sears (or other retailer) Christmas Catalog still around? That was considered a true holiday as a kid. Inch-thick book of nothing but presents for the most part?! Amazing.

In my case in was the Marshall Field's toy catalogue. But the same deal. The parental units would turn the thing over to me. I'd circle about 50 toys, then recieve maybe four or five on the Big Day. But you knew Christmas was right around the corner when that thing arrived.

And even past the time I believed in Santa, you had to go to the State Street Field's store, have lunch in the Walnut Room, admire the 5 story Christmas tree and wonder at the best Santa set up ever (even if you weren't waiting in line), then take a peek at the toys you'd circled in the catalogue (just a little market research).

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

Polaroid instant cameras.

Camera film. Period.

Eating meals as a family every night.

My parents insisted on this. If, by some accident, I have kids someday, I hope to do the same.

 

[leswp1]

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Camera film. Period.



My parents insisted on this. If, by some accident, I have kids someday, I hope to do the same.

We eat breakfast together every day and dinner is at the table most nights. We say grace too- short but there is one. Lil's friends think this is weird.

 

[goldy_331]

Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

Eating meals as a family every night.

We do this about 5 nights out of 7. My wife makes a big effort to do it.

 

[bigblue_dl]

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We didn't eat meals together too much when I was growing up. I never ate breakfast, and if I did, by the time I was getting ready for school my dad was already out doing chores. Lunch never worked out, in the summer/weekends we would usually pack lunches and just eat in the tractor at noon, sometimes I'd get to either my house or the grandparents house for a hot lunch, but it was never all of us there. Dinner was the same during summer/weekends, we worked until dark, so we'd eat while working or wait unitl 10:00 when work was done to eat, by that time mom had already eaten. Holidays/Birthdays/Special occasions were the times when the family ate together.