Not being a PC little bitch
Not being a PC little bitch
Kids experimenting with hallucinogenics in order to experience "enlightenment"
Anti-drug movies schools made you watch which depicted those kids having a bad trip
Pc was never old fashionedand macs have fallen out of popularity over recent years
Gas station mini-thins with legit epinephrine
Weekly faxed top time sheets
Running on gravel train track beds during the decade or so between when the tracks were taken up and their later conversion to paved biking/ stroller/ hobby jogger viaducts
Majority of teenagers working
Housing prices primarily based on value
Not knowing what gluten was
Knowing more about my friends and teammates than celebrities
White/Neon pink Nike Eldoret spikes
Highschool track meets on cinders
Highly talented high school distance runners running 3 or 4 events at county, conference, and state meets to score points for their team.
Plus-
Old guys smoking pipes at high school track meets.
I remember when the Millrose Games and 4 or 5 other meets were held at Madison Square Garden on 8th Ave between 49th and 50th Street. We would get there early look at the stuff in the Davega Sporting goods store, get two Nedicks hot dogs with an orange drink and eat them while looking at the hats in the window of the store across the arcade. After the meet we would stop at Dempsey's Bar on 50th street to grab a beer and wait till the crowds thinned so we could get a seat on the crosstown bus for the first leg of the trip home.
WHERE'S THE BEEF
crete wrote:
WHERE'S THE BEEF
That's a good one. I remember that commercial.
Another was the Doublemint Gum commercial, with the twins doing all kinds of fun, summer-y stuff while chomping on wrigley's. Didn't it go "double-fresh, double-good, double-mint gum?"
Double your pleasure
Double your fun
It's the right one
The Doublemint gum
Double your pleasure
Double your fun
It's the right one
The Doublemint gum
Refreshen your life mint
It's the right mint
The Doublemint gum, gum
Double your pleasure
With Doublemint Doublemint gum
an early twins commercial
winky dink- got my ass womped for using crayolas directly on the screen of our brand new TV
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VdjFw31u1Cg
One of my first encounters with Passive-aggressive
Parents passive about buying me a Winky Kit
Wiseassed kid aggressively scribbling Craola burnt umber on TV screen
slick greasy hair makes the girls wet their panties
RememberIt wrote:
Women wore thongs
1939 technology
Privacy.
Just wow... wrote:
Back in the 70's, When board games were king:
Monopoly
Risk
Diplomacy
Masterpiece
etc.
Rock-em Sock-em Robots
Labyrinth game
Those little electric race cars on the two-slot click-together black tracks
Rock fights against the kids on the other side of the brook
Secret forts in the woods made by shoveling out dirt and covering with branches and leaves
Collections: coins, semi-precious gems, baseball cards
Wacky-packages! Oh, man was I into those. I'd stick them all over my room furniture.
Risk, that will always be great.
Fred Gwynne wrote:
I remember when only sailors, bikers or really crazy people had tattoos.
and strippers/prostitutes.
Come to think of it, nothing has changed.
When every McDonalds had a MultuMixerlike like this and made their shakes for each order
http://www.incimages.com/uploaded_files/image/1940x900/getty_52630916_970637970450069_85468.jpg
The first McDonalds in NYC opened in December of 1971 in Forest Hills Queens NY. The first in Manhattan opened in 1972
Much later than most would guess,
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Lots of great stuff on here. One thing I haven't seen mentioned is calling a phone number to get the exact time - this was back when you had to set your watch every once in a while. You could call another number (I think it was 50 cents a call which was a lot and I knew I couldn't call too much or my parents would get upset) to get sports scores. They updated it about every 5 minutes with all the games that night. This is was if you could not wait until the morning or if the game you were watching was not going to finish until too late in the evening to make the cut off for the next day's newspaper.
Top American runners competing in world xc