This is a game I've seen played on a message board site for one of my fave computer games, so I thought we could play it here too :D. I'll start:
I'm so old....
I can remember back when Sci-Fi Channel was called "Sci-Fi" and had ACTUAL science fiction tv shows and movies on it!
I'm so old that a postage stamp today costs more than going to a movie did when I was a kid.
shareI'm so old, I don't remember being born.
shareI didn’t use condoms.
She didn’t want me to.
People actually worked out and did not perform Onanism on their cell phones.
I remember when guys actually CLOSED THEIR FUCKING gym lockers when they left the the gyms, and put the dumbbells and weightplates back where they found them, because that is what gym rats do.
I remember when my dad would take out the 8 mm film projector to watch family movies.
I remember playing arcade games such as a submarine game that weren’t video games but rather were electromechanical.
I remember having a phone party line and when making a long distance call the other party actually sounding like they were far away.
I remember some of my teachers using film projectors with film reels or even slideshows when I was a kid. (Granted, even in the 90s what they used was considered old-fashioned).
I also remember my brother playing Atari games on our tv.
I remember playing "Telephone" with kids in youth group or at school.
I remember searching through the Sears Wishbook to figure out what I wanted to ask Santa for.
shareI remember the actual Sears store at the mall!
shareThose may not be around for much longer.
I remember when you couldn’t watch shit on TV during the Presidential Debates, because all 3 networks pre-empted their regular programming🤬
I remember when the debut of the new TV season coincided with the first day of school, sort of like a reward for returning to durance vile; and every series made its return the same week.
I remember when Alfred Hitchcock mocked the shit out of his sponsors on Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and the sponsors loved it.
I remember when Vaudvillian Pinky Lee had a live on-air heart attack while hosting his Saturday morning kiddie show.
I remember Jackie Gleason drinking booze from a coffee cup while hosting his live variety show.
I remember when drunks were considered funny.
I remember entertainment before the evil "Woke TV" culture destroyed it.
shareSomething that seems to have gone away are lunch counters in five and dime stores. I guess five and dime stores have gone away too. But they used to have lunch counters that served similar food as diners. They have been replaced with food court style restaurants.
shareMy sister's first job in high school was working the lunch counter at Woolworth's.
shareRita was sixteen years... hazel eyes and chestnut hair
She made the Woolworth counter shine
Eddie was a sweet romancer, and a darn good dancer
They'd waltz the aisles of the five and dime
[Chorus:]
They'd sing, "Dance a little closer to me... dance a little closer now
Dance a little closer tonight
Dance a little closer to me... it's closing time
And love's on sale tonight at this five and dime
When I was a kid, Woolworth's and Duckwalls were side by side in the downtown area and just blocks from home. They were favorite places to hang out, just browsing the toy departments of both stores.
shareI didn't know about Duckwalls so I looked it up. Interesting that the two stores were side by side in your town since they were essentially the same, right? I never saw Duckwalls around my area, but it looks like they stuck to smaller towns that were skipped by Walmart, Target, etc.
shareYes, they were actually competitors but back then that wasn't even relevant much less unusual to me but just seemed very advantageous. Maybe you've heard of the Alco discount stores ? They were owned by Duckwalls and came along prior to Walmart but that entire corporation went bankrupt several years ago.
shareI saw that on the Wiki page. I'd heard of them, but again, none near me. But then, I lived most of my life in the suburbs of big cities so not their market, really.
shareWe have the 99¢ store but the vibe just isn't the same as the old five and dime
The one from my childhood was H. L. Green in NYC. You mention electromechanical games, they had a race car one.
I remember the dawn of slot cars.
shareWe had an H. L. Green in Yonkers when I was a kid...good memories!
Candy, Star Wars figures, beach toys...that place was a kiddy goldmine!
Gone for many years now:(
I remember when cars were designed to play cassette tapes and had cigarette lighters in the dashboard.
I also remember when children would read books along with a narrator on a cassette tape player, and a chime played when it was time to turn the page.
I even remember Dot Matrix printers!
My SUV from 1994 stills has a cassette player. However, I recently put a cassette in a different player, a boom-box I only use for the radio lately, and it immediately ate it. I suspect the car might do the same.
shareWe’re all going to be able to remember the time before law required all cars to have breathalyzers, and will not start until you breathe into it; and also retinal scanners and facial recognition, so you can’t make your child take the test for you.
I remember when they discovered fire and created the wheel.
I remember when no one would publicly describe Liberace as a homosexual.
I’m going to disagree with you slightly and say we’ll all remember a time when we had to actually take a driving test. I believe by the time my daughter is old enough to drive, it’ll all be automated.
shareI’m so old I remember yelling “I got it!” When the phone rang
I remember having only 2-3 phones in the house, maybe even less than that, and having to run to catch it before the rings stopped. That, and I remember answering machines, though not the ones with recording tapes. Just the electronic ones built into the phone.
shareI'm equally old ☎️
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