The Old Folks Home

[dmjalund]

1 hour ago, archer said:

I would have let every person in Hong Kong emigrate directly to my basement if that's what it took to keep them from being unwillingly stuck there.

 

hmmm.. exactly how big is your basement?

[Bazza]

 

[Bazza]

iPod 

[Cygnia]

World Class Wrestling

[death tribble]

The Dallas Cowboys at the Superbowl

[Pariah]

On 4/12/2021 at 6:16 AM, tombrown803 said:

Actual arcades. The buisness that you would go into to play video games.

 

We have arcades here in SLC. They typically have an admission fee of ~$5, then have the consoles set up to accept nickels.

 

I spent about a buck playing the Addams Family pinball machine last time we went to one.

[Pariah]

I remember when "generic" was a thing. Low-priced canned corn that had a black and white label that simply read "Corn" with no colors, pictures, etc. That kind of thing.

 

There was a fast food restaurant near where I grew up that took up the concept as well. I think it was called The Original Hamburger Stand. They had a limited menu with low prices (hamburgers for 20 cents, cheeseburgers for 25 cents) and black and white wrappers. 

 

I remember when McDonalds used to serve their sandwiches in polystyrene containers. My nerves still cringe when I think of the sound of two such containers rubbing against one another.

[death tribble]

I can remember a time when there was not a McDonalds in Plymouth. They opened in 1992.

The major supermarket Sainsburys was in Exeter but not in Plymouth, they reached the city in the 80s.

 

But how about a cinema with only one screen

[Ternaugh]

1 hour ago, Pariah said:

I remember when "generic" was a thing. Low-priced canned corn that had a black and white label that simply read "Corn" with no colors, pictures, etc. That kind of thing.

 

There was a fast food restaurant near where I grew up that took up the concept as well. I think it was called The Original Hamburger Stand. They had a limited menu with low prices (hamburgers for 20 cents, cheeseburgers for 25 cents) and black and white wrappers. 

 

I remember when McDonalds used to serve their sandwiches in polystyrene containers. My nerves still cringe when I think of the sound of two such containers rubbing against one another.

 

McDLT was a particular favorite of mine, but it basically required the polystyrene container to work as advertised.

[Pariah]

2 hours ago, death tribble said:

I can remember a time when there was not a McDonalds in Plymouth. They opened in 1992.

 

My hometown had a Subway before we had a McDonalds.

[tkdguy]

Ronald McDonald and the cast of McDonaldland, especially Mayor McCheese and Officer Big Mac. There's also Mac Tonight, but I always thought he was creepy.

[Starlord]

Manson Family

David Berkowitz

Jeffrey Dahmer

Ted Bundy

[Tom Cowan]

Take the negatives down to the store and get a 2nd set of photos for grandma

[Old Man]

Leaded gasoline. 

[Cygnia]

Roller skate keys

[Old Man]

Hats as formal attire. 

[death tribble]

The 70s being remembered as a time of bad fashion rather than anything else.

[Cancer]

The Space Race

[Bazza]

The Cold War...oh wait...

[unclevlad]

6 hours ago, Old Man said:

Hats as formal attire. 

 

Swallowtail coats.  Recognizing that the tux was actually *semi* formal.  Unless you hang out with the thoroughbred crowd, the morning suit.

 

For most...the pocket watch.  Only most...cuz I have 2.  They were hugely important before automated signals took over.  Since there were no signals, train timetables were necessary to keep trains separated.  Poor timekeeping was a factor in crashes that cost lives.  So the railroad standard was developed.  Good railroad pocket watches were made into the 1950's, and many are still available today.  It's a niche market, but it is out there.

Heck...with the exception of parts of the Eastern Seaboard, passenger trains are almost non-existent and I suspect, outside the Eastern Seaboard, that people who've taken an inter-city passenger train would be a VERY TINY minority.

 

And while I'm thinking about it...chronometry competitions.  These were a Very Big Deal, with serious bragging rights on the line;  many of the major brands had dedicated teams work to perfect the accuracy and stability of watches sent to these events, run by astronomies in a few different countries.  Because, again, this is before other methods were developed.  Ships at sea clearly had a critical need for accurate navigation, and relied on purpose-built marine chronometers that were second only to the ship itself in cost.  The accuracy competitions dated back to the mid 1800's, and continued until 1967...when Seiko quartz watches *annihilated* the Geneva trials with their accuracy.

 

But before then, watch advertising used these results quite a bit.

[tkdguy]

7 hours ago, Old Man said:

Hats as formal attire. 

 

I still wear a hat with a suit on occasion.

[L. Marcus]

I wore a hat in my chuunibyou phase. 

[Old Man]

1 hour ago, unclevlad said:

 

For most...the pocket watch.  Only most...cuz I have 2.  They were hugely important before automated signals took over.  Since there were no signals, train timetables were necessary to keep trains separated.  Poor timekeeping was a factor in crashes that cost lives.  So the railroad standard was developed.  Good railroad pocket watches were made into the 1950's, and many are still available today.  It's a niche market, but it is out there.

 

I still have an old Soviet Molnija pocketwatch around here somewhere.  It is about what you would expect a Soviet pocketwatch to be--not terribly accurate but built like a tank.

 

I went about ten years almost without wearing watches at all.  When you work at a computer and you carry a cellphone, you don't need a watch to know what time it is.

[Nekkidcarpenter]

18 hours ago, Pariah said:

I remember when "generic" was a thing. Low-priced canned corn that had a black and white label that simply read "Corn" with no colors, pictures, etc. That kind of thing.

My brothers and I made a little comic where everything was labeled that way. 'Car', 'tree', 'boy', etc.  The winner was 'Rubbers'.

 

[Cygnia]

Hubby got me a very stylish purple fedora this week that I'm going to try to dress up around for. ❤️

 

I still wear an analog wristwatch.  It has Bulbasaur on it.  It was the 1st thing I ever purchased off of eBay.