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Remember when:

Coke and Pepsi cost a nickel?

Movie tickets cost a quarter?

We actually ate a meal on Sundays with our family?

You could fill up your car with gas for less then $5?

A new car cost $4000?

If you made $100 a week you were doing really well?

You could actually afford to go attend a major sporting event?

Athletes didn't charge for autographs?

When eggs, butter, pork, red meat were still good for you?



Thanks for letting me drive down memory lane. Does anyone remember any of those things? Or am I just some melancholy old coot?

A melancholy old coot. :D By the time I was born inflation had been picking up very badly for years.

Times have changed, haven't they [*sigh.*] Just think: Today will be the "old days" for the Generation Y-types.

Times have changed, haven't they [*sigh.*] Just think: Today will be the "old days" for the Generation Y-types.

I remember the stir that was abuzz when Jayne Mansfield was walking down the street carrying those bottles of milk in the film "The Girl Can't Help It". Now it seems as if anything goes.

Remember when:


You where young? You shined like the sun....Shine on, you crazy diamond....

You where young? You shined like the sun....Shine on, you crazy diamond....

Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
You were caught in the crossfire of childhood and stardom, blown on the
steel breeze.
Come on you target for faraway laughter, come on you stranger, you legend,
you martyr, and shine!

You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Threatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Well you wore out your welcome with random precision, rode on the
steel breeze.
Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper,
you prisoner, and shine!

BTW on a sidenote, I saw The Pink Floyd when I was in London in 1965. Someone laced my Coke with LSD and that was my first experience. I thought I saw the Lord, but it was my brain playing tricks on me.

Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
You were caught in the crossfire of childhood and stardom, blown on the
steel breeze.
Come on you target for faraway laughter, come on you stranger, you legend,
you martyr, and shine!

You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Threatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Well you wore out your welcome with random precision, rode on the
steel breeze.
Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter, you piper,
you prisoner, and shine!

BTW on a sidenote, I saw The Pink Floyd when I was in London in 1965. Someone laced my Coke with LSD and that was my first experience. I thought I saw the Lord, but it was my brain playing tricks on me.
Sweet :D

Gonna be able to make it for when Roger rejoins the band July 2nd? (Sadly, I won't...)

I remember the stir that was abuzz when Jayne Mansfield was walking down the street carrying those bottles of milk in the film "The Girl Can't Help It". Now it seems as if anything goes.

LOL! Too true. Things will turn around, though; just wait and see. People appreciate and admire mystery---it's why we are so excited to meet new people. With time and patience, we will return to a day when people respected the sensibilities of others, and when sexuality was exciting because it was kept secret between those directly involved. It won't make Life boring or buttermilk; it will make it fun and curious again.

Sweet :D

Gonna be able to make it for when Roger rejoins the band July 2nd? (Sadly, I won't...)

I'm hoping they broadcast it here in sunny California. I'd like to attend but the ministry is short handed and alas my priority is my flock. But yeah, I have always liked The Pink Floyd. For a minister, I guess I'm not quite so square, infact I have been known to go to rock and roll concerts.

how old ARE you?

im 48 and those things are way before my time

I remember when...

5 inch floppy disks were 'high tech'

Soda cans cost a quarter

The SNES was new

The US had a semi-decent President

France was acceptable in most peoples views

The fall of the Soviet Union (Although I didnt care at the time because I had just got a new nintendo.)

Smoking was 'good for you'

People cared for each other on occasion

Cell phones weighed ten pounds and nobody owned one.

Cell phones weighed five pounds, and only buisness people owned one

Cell phones weighed about half a pound, and some people owned one

Cell phones weighed a few onces, and most people owned one

Cell phones weighed almost nothing, and everybody owned one

A 28kbs modem was 'fast'.

Hooray for the 80's generation :P

Remember when:

Coke and Pepsi cost a nickel?

Movie tickets cost a quarter?

We actually ate a meal on Sundays with our family?

You could fill up your car with gas for less then $5?

A new car cost $4000?

If you made $100 a week you were doing really well?

You could actually afford to go attend a major sporting event?

Athletes didn't charge for autographs?

When eggs, butter, pork, red meat were still good for you?



Thanks for letting me drive down memory lane. Does anyone remember any of those things? Or am I just some melancholy old coot?I remember some of it, but I was quite young at the time. I actually got free tickets to an Astros game for being on the honor roll in first grade, something I can't imagine happening to day. And the VW Bug was around two grand brand new if I recall correctly. Gas was about $0.25 a gallon then as well.

I wish I could have had the chance to remeber that-I'm a bit too young for a great amount of nostalgia, but I remember the good old days of the first Nintendo, Pong, and Atari...and yes...those heavy, bulky cell phones:D

Remember when:

Coke and Pepsi cost a nickel?

Movie tickets cost a quarter?

We actually ate a meal on Sundays with our family?

You could fill up your car with gas for less then $5?

A new car cost $4000?

If you made $100 a week you were doing really well?

You could actually afford to go attend a major sporting event?

Athletes didn't charge for autographs?

When eggs, butter, pork, red meat were still good for you?



Thanks for letting me drive down memory lane. Does anyone remember any of those things? Or am I just some melancholy old coot?
I remember all of that. Guess that makes me close to your age. :D

I wish I could have had the chance to remeber that-I'm a bit too young for a great amount of nostalgia, but I remember the good old days of the first Nintendo, Pong, and Atari...and yes...those heavy, bulky cell phones:D
LOL! Yeah. I remember "the brick," as they use to call that huge "cell" phone! Heh!

I'd just be happy if corn sugar was removed from the American food network. It'd cut obseity in half at least!
(For those of you keeping score at home, it was introduced into EVERYTHING around 1979...)

BTW on a sidenote, I saw The Pink Floyd when I was in London in 1965. Someone laced my Coke with LSD and that was my first experience. I thought I saw the Lord, but it was my brain playing tricks on me.
All in all, you're just another brick in the wall. :D

remeber when

You could run out and play without your parents worrying (damn media not for getting people glued to the tv but rather making them scared of strangers kinapping their kids.)

There was no anti meat eating groups and such.

McDonalds was still small time company and didnt have big ads

Different flavored soda pops

Ice cream trucks go around commonly

I still have dinner with my family every Sunday, and most week days too. Is my family just weird?

EDIT: And my parents don't worry about me playing outside. And for different flavored sodas, go Shasta. Shasta rocks! It's because I live in the Country, isn't it?

remember when...

5 inch floppy disks were 'high tech'

Soda cans cost a quarter

The SNES was new

The US had a semi-decent President

France was acceptable in most peoples views

The fall of the Soviet Union (Although I didnt care at the time because I had just got a new nintendo.)

Smoking was 'good for you'

People cared for each other on occasion

Cell phones weighed ten pounds and nobody owned one.

Cell phones weighed five pounds, and only buisness people owned one

Cell phones weighed about half a pound, and some people owned one

Cell phones weighed a few onces, and most people owned one

Cell phones weighed almost nothing, and everybody owned one

A 28kbs modem was 'fast'.

Ah, a fellow child of the '80s!
I also remeber ...

Gas going over $1 for the first time

a can of (new) coke cost 60 cents or so.

we thought betamax could be the wave of the future

VCR's weighed more then than TVs do now

bubble skirts and "Members Only" jackets (what were we thinking?)

Jacko looked like an African-American MAN :eek:

the day John Lennon died

watching Challenger blow up on live T.V.

I fondly remember the movies costing a dollar twenty-five, and the city bus fare a quarter each way. If I saved my allowance for two weeks I could go downtown to see a matinee and window-shop.

Edit: I kept a quarter on me in case I needed to make an emergency phone call (that makes it two dollars altogether, I suddenly couldn't remember what I did with the extra 25 cents).

Remember when:

Coke and Pepsi cost a nickel?

Movie tickets cost a quarter?

We actually ate a meal on Sundays with our family?

You could fill up your car with gas for less then $5?

A new car cost $4000?

If you made $100 a week you were doing really well?

You could actually afford to go attend a major sporting event?

Athletes didn't charge for autographs?

When eggs, butter, pork, red meat were still good for you?



Thanks for letting me drive down memory lane. Does anyone remember any of those things? Or am I just some melancholy old coot?

I do remember! And we still eat family dinners every night, not just Sundays. And say Grace.

Birch Beer was bigger than Coke where I grew up. You spoke respectfully to all adults, and you needed to know whether a lady was a Miss or Mrs.

When men actually showed respect to women. Not like all these young delinquent punks today.

Haircuts were 2 bits. Slingshots got me in a lot of trouble.

I should say that while I don't remember all of those things, I also don't remember 'colored' water fountains and bathrooms, polio, a World War, a Great Depression, measles, the draft, the heyday of the 'backstage musical...,' so...



[I still know about these things, I just don't 'remember' them because I wasn't there...in case...]

Remember when:
nope/

I remember... Actually, I have little memories beyond power rangers. Damn my 90's youth.

I should say that while I don't remember all of those things, I also don't remember 'colored' water fountains and bathrooms, polio, a World War, a Great Depression, measles, the draft, the heyday of the 'backstage musical...,' so...



[I still know about these things, I just don't 'remember' them because I wasn't there...in case...]
So...your sure you werent stoned, drunk, buzzed, hopped, jigged. done, whacked, tripped, or otherwise intoxicated?

As soon as the snow melted, after maple syrup was made, the boys played marbles and the girls played jump rope. They had many songs they would sing to the rhythm of the rope - some sounded pretty.

I remember all of those, but the automobile was cheaper than that and gas was affordable too!

When men actually showed respect to women. Not like all these young delinquent punks today.

Punks aren't all delinquents... just some, besides some people could argue that you're a delinquent :D

Punks aren't all delinquents... just some, besides some people could argue that you're a delinquent :D

You stay out of this :sniper:. Nobody listen to her, she's a witch.

You stay out of this :sniper:. Nobody listen to her, she's a witch.

You know, one of the guys from church called me evil yesterday... :eek:

You know, one of the guys from church called me evil yesterday... :eek:

SOAB! See, delinquent punk with no respect. He ought to be taken into a crowded square and shot.

Ah, a fellow child of the '80s!
I also remeber ...

Gas going over $1 for the first time

a can of (new) coke cost 60 cents or so.

we thought betamax could be the wave of the future

VCR's weighed more then than TVs do now

bubble skirts and "Members Only" jackets (what were we thinking?)

Jacko looked like an African-American MAN :eek:

the day John Lennon died

watching Challenger blow up on live T.V.


January 26th, 1986. I thought the other kids at school were lying, or had it wrong. (Denial isn't a river in Africa!) When I got home, my mom had been crying for hours- later that week, I got suspended for beating the crap out of a kid who made one of the many Challenger jokes. Weird huh?

I remember:

A playmate at school whose daddy was killed in Beirut when they bombed the marine barracks.

A dollar a gallon was extortion-in the Rocky Mountain States!

Comic books cost a quarter
Comic books cost fifty cents.

Star Trek the Motion Picture had "Really good Special effects"

Waiting with my mom and my sister at the door to the Kiva Theatre in Pagosa Springs-to see "The Empire Strikes Back" on opening night.

Seeing Columbia launch for the first time. The fuel-tank was white, and my mom was holding her breath hoping that it would fly.

BB-gun fights wiht my friends. (we're all so lucky we didn't end up minus eyes...)

The L-5 Society.

Trick-or-treating without bodyguards, after dark, until really, really late, and the only thing you worried about, was making sure the stuff wasn't tampered with.

Firefox wasn't a web-browser, it was 'the' movie.

Dungeons and Dragons "Expert Rules" were the latest edition of D&D.

Candy Bars were a quarter when they weren't in the "Sale" bin.

Being unable to understand why the following things were supposed to be 'rad": Cabbage Patch Kids, Pound Puppies, Michael Jackson (scept the 'thriller' video, which a friend of mine taped on his dad's betamax off NBC's "Friday Night Videos".)
VCR's looked like really big tape-recorders, and weighed almost as much as I did (sixty five pounds), you rented one with the movies, and it cost as much to do so, as it did to go see a movie at the theatre, stop off at the Pagosa Lodge for dinner, etc. etc.

Kids weren't afraid to go to the public swimming pool unaccompanied-and parents weren't afraid to let them go.

We could have pocket knives at school, as long as the blade was less than three inches long, and didn't have a locking mechanism to hold it open.

We also were allowed squirt-guns at recess, and they didn't try to feed you dope to calm you down in class-as a grade-schooler.

Being a "Latchkey kid"-I had a key to go into my house after school at age ten, and I could go unsupervised without the State going headhunting on my parents.

"Wolverines!!!" (ratatatatatatat). We wanted to be them.

Disney movies didn't have soundtracks by washed out, aging pop-stars and lame eddie murphy jokes.

Eddy Murphy was funny-he was also too crude for most parents.

Dirt Bikes didn't have springs, or extra gears, and every kid either wanted one, or had one.

We rode bicycles without wearing pads or helmets, and got banged up and scraped without it being a major emergency or a Lawsuit.

Every short-wheelbase four-wheel-drive was called a "Jeep", even Blazers, Scouts, and Broncos. Nobody ever heard of an "SUV", even though there were Suburbans, Wagoneers, and Travelalls on the roads.

Roller Skates. Four wheels, set two in front, two in back.

Skateboards were skinny, kind of flat, torpedo-looking things with roller-skate wheel assemblies, made out of plastic or wood.

You could get a hunting license at ten, and even carry a gun and everything, and you didn't need mom or dad with you..

you could get a fishing license good all year, for every kind of fish available, for eight bucks.

Cutting rich-people's lawns was how you got pocket-money, not how someone older than your dad made his living.

Timex Sinclair!!! I worked for most of a summer to put together enough for mine. It came as a kit, with instructions. by Mail order.

Commodore 64!!!! More powerful than the computers at school, plus it could play games. The pinouts of the joysticks allowed us to use the Atari joysticks instead of the crappy Commodore ones.
64kilobytes was powerful, and I could buy a magazine in the grocery-store that had game-programmes for it-that is, the code, ready to be typed in.

War Games. Another "I wanna be him."

"Modems" existed, but they required a telephone to work, and there was no such thing as the 'internet' unless you worked for a University, or DARPA.

"Disco Destruction!" one day when the radio station played Trapshooting with the refuse and debris of seventies culture at its worst.

"Hard Rock" was the Rolling Stones,or Deep Purple. "Heavy Metal" was Black Sabbath or Iron Maiden. Harder stuff you got from your Sister's college-freshman boyfriend, because you didn't hear it on the radio.

"President Bonzo" political cartoons, bombing Libya in retaliation for Pan-Am.

My mom was blue-faced furious over Tianenmen, so was I.

The Wall coming down, Gorby, and "Trust, but Verify."

Anger at NASA over Challenger. Still angry about it-they ignored the Engineers' recommendations that designed the goddamned boosters and seven people died over it. It also put the Space Programme back decades.


Oh... lots of things.

You know, one of the guys from church called me evil yesterday... :eek:

Funny, in High School, my nickname was "satan". didnt' bother me much.

Nobody listen to her, she's a witch.
She turned me into a newt! :eek:

I remember all of that. Guess that makes me close to your age. :D


Well I just turned 60 in May. ;)

"Members Only" jackets (what were we thinking?)




I'll have you know young man that I still have a black "Members Only" jacket, and get this, a red "Club Leader" Jacket in my closet. :eek:

I remember Coke and Pepsi were a dime, but you had to pay 2 cents deposit

gasoline at 27 cents

a meatball sub was 55 cents

all candy bars were 5 cents

paperbacks were 50 cents

I was 20 the first time I saw a computer. Through a window...

hitchhiking

a bag of pot was $5. We called them nickels.

Vinyl lp's were $3.00

You can probably guess my age...

Remember when:

Coke and Pepsi cost a nickel?

Movie tickets cost a quarter?

We actually ate a meal on Sundays with our family?

You could fill up your car with gas for less then $5?

A new car cost $4000?

If you made $100 a week you were doing really well?

You could actually afford to go attend a major sporting event?

Athletes didn't charge for autographs?

When eggs, butter, pork, red meat were still good for you?



Thanks for letting me drive down memory lane. Does anyone remember any of those things? Or am I just some melancholy old coot?
*sigh* nostalgia ain't what it used to be ;)

I paid $6.50 to see Led Zeppelin...

*sigh* nostalgia ain't what it used to be ;)
Now it's a fetish. The hunger to consume nostalgia has created a need for 'new' nostalgia that is so rampant that the nostalgia fetish channel (Otherwise known as VH-1) has a show that's nostalgic about last week....

Meh, I was born in '88. I didn't get to experience all those 'luxuries'.

January 26th, 1986. I thought the other kids at school were lying, or had it wrong. (Denial isn't a river in Africa!) When I got home, my mom had been crying for hours- later that week, I got suspended for beating the crap out of a kid who made one of the many Challenger jokes. Weird huh?

I remember:

A playmate at school whose daddy was killed in Beirut when they bombed the marine barracks.

A dollar a gallon was extortion-in the Rocky Mountain States!

Comic books cost a quarter
Comic books cost fifty cents.

Star Trek the Motion Picture had "Really good Special effects"

Waiting with my mom and my sister at the door to the Kiva Theatre in Pagosa Springs-to see "The Empire Strikes Back" on opening night.

Seeing Columbia launch for the first time. The fuel-tank was white, and my mom was holding her breath hoping that it would fly.

BB-gun fights wiht my friends. (we're all so lucky we didn't end up minus eyes...)

The L-5 Society.

Trick-or-treating without bodyguards, after dark, until really, really late, and the only thing you worried about, was making sure the stuff wasn't tampered with.

Firefox wasn't a web-browser, it was 'the' movie.

Dungeons and Dragons "Expert Rules" were the latest edition of D&D.

Candy Bars were a quarter when they weren't in the "Sale" bin.

Being unable to understand why the following things were supposed to be 'rad": Cabbage Patch Kids, Pound Puppies, Michael Jackson (scept the 'thriller' video, which a friend of mine taped on his dad's betamax off NBC's "Friday Night Videos".)
VCR's looked like really big tape-recorders, and weighed almost as much as I did (sixty five pounds), you rented one with the movies, and it cost as much to do so, as it did to go see a movie at the theatre, stop off at the Pagosa Lodge for dinner, etc. etc.

Kids weren't afraid to go to the public swimming pool unaccompanied-and parents weren't afraid to let them go.

We could have pocket knives at school, as long as the blade was less than three inches long, and didn't have a locking mechanism to hold it open.

We also were allowed squirt-guns at recess, and they didn't try to feed you dope to calm you down in class-as a grade-schooler.

Being a "Latchkey kid"-I had a key to go into my house after school at age ten, and I could go unsupervised without the State going headhunting on my parents.

"Wolverines!!!" (ratatatatatatat). We wanted to be them.

Disney movies didn't have soundtracks by washed out, aging pop-stars and lame eddie murphy jokes.

Eddy Murphy was funny-he was also too crude for most parents.

Dirt Bikes didn't have springs, or extra gears, and every kid either wanted one, or had one.

We rode bicycles without wearing pads or helmets, and got banged up and scraped without it being a major emergency or a Lawsuit.

Every short-wheelbase four-wheel-drive was called a "Jeep", even Blazers, Scouts, and Broncos. Nobody ever heard of an "SUV", even though there were Suburbans, Wagoneers, and Travelalls on the roads.

Roller Skates. Four wheels, set two in front, two in back.

Skateboards were skinny, kind of flat, torpedo-looking things with roller-skate wheel assemblies, made out of plastic or wood.

You could get a hunting license at ten, and even carry a gun and everything, and you didn't need mom or dad with you..

you could get a fishing license good all year, for every kind of fish available, for eight bucks.

Cutting rich-people's lawns was how you got pocket-money, not how someone older than your dad made his living.

Timex Sinclair!!! I worked for most of a summer to put together enough for mine. It came as a kit, with instructions. by Mail order.

Commodore 64!!!! More powerful than the computers at school, plus it could play games. The pinouts of the joysticks allowed us to use the Atari joysticks instead of the crappy Commodore ones.
64kilobytes was powerful, and I could buy a magazine in the grocery-store that had game-programmes for it-that is, the code, ready to be typed in.

War Games. Another "I wanna be him."

"Modems" existed, but they required a telephone to work, and there was no such thing as the 'internet' unless you worked for a University, or DARPA.

"Disco Destruction!" one day when the radio station played Trapshooting with the refuse and debris of seventies culture at its worst.

"Hard Rock" was the Rolling Stones,or Deep Purple. "Heavy Metal" was Black Sabbath or Iron Maiden. Harder stuff you got from your Sister's college-freshman boyfriend, because you didn't hear it on the radio.

"President Bonzo" political cartoons, bombing Libya in retaliation for Pan-Am.

My mom was blue-faced furious over Tianenmen, so was I.

The Wall coming down, Gorby, and "Trust, but Verify."

Anger at NASA over Challenger. Still angry about it-they ignored the Engineers' recommendations that designed the goddamned boosters and seven people died over it. It also put the Space Programme back decades.


Oh... lots of things.


Yeah, if we werent so militant over little issues like these who know where we will be now speaking of which


The word gun or any violence related word isnt censored

Michel Jackson does look a real person yes that is what I missed.