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Yay to the Boston Baked Beans, loved those little red morsels when I was a kid.
My wife will surprise me with some now and again.
My wife bought me a case of “Chik o sticks” several years ago for my birthday. Those were great too.
We were watching an episode of Match Game 74 the other day and a contestant had one of those clip on koalas with her for luck. My wife said she thought she remembered that they were available or given out by the ARCO gas stations.
And loved me some Boston Baked Beans.
Some of that doesn’t seem to be all that long ago…
I think they’re trying to find memories for all generations.
The 80’s stuff is childhood memories for me, and it still feels super ancient. Back in the last ice age, birth of Jesus, building the pyramids ancient.
Anything before the internet and cell phones was a different world. I watched Rain Man not too long ago. I don’t think of it as an “oldie” movie, but it’s 35 years old. Lots of Tom Cruise making calls from pay phones.
I’m from the 60s and although that was around the Bronze Age, I’m thankful that a lot of it feels more like yesterday, especially since I’m not suffering dementia. If i were, as I understand it, it would absolutely be yesterday and me and Corn Pop were driving a sleeper team out to Long Beach every other week, before we were hired to help construct the booster engines for the Apollo 5 rocket. 😎
The 40’s calling here and it was better by a country mile; just compare our test scores at Robert E Lee HS in Jacksonville Fla to the scores of the diversity morons they are graduating today. Mr Empty, to bad you didn’t work on the Challenger’s boosters too; maybe adding some asbestos to the O-rings would have been wise?
I’m so old dirt was rocks when I was born! Lol.
Kids today will never know the joy, or the pain, of those days. They will be the less for it.
“Big Serge” @witte_sergei blamed Boomers:
“I’m better because I got to grow up *before* I trashed the place.”
Dude, you think we had a hand in what’s happened? It befell us. If we’re responsible for what the government did then, you’re responsible for what it’s doing now. See how that works? Don’t worry Gen Xers, Millennials & Zoomers – you’ll be blamed for wrecking the place by today’s children.
I think our form of government was incapable of anything but deteriorating to a shithole.
We didn’t have to turn it over to libturds! We’re back to Secession.
That’s only correct ken31 if you understand “the people” of this country haven’t had any say or vote since Dwight D. Eisenhower. He tried to warn us!
I’m literally looking for one of those drink glasses. I found one once at an antique shop but didn’t buy it. I wish I had, because it goes with a photo of me circa 1965 with a glass of Kool Aid.
Gas stations used to give glasses with a fill-up …
Crazy how a picture of that glass put a big grin on my face.
We were playing the game of Life just last Sat with the grands. No phones, computer games, electronics period and they run the neighbourhood freely. They don’t venture far, not like we did but its still a lot compared to whats ‘allowable’ today for most kids.
Sigh….now I can face another week of being bombarded by depressing information. Thanks again Mrs. Admin, hope you are all having a great holiday.
Genesis – Invisible Touch = my first LP. Who knew that “Land of confusion” would be so prophetic, with the rubber-politician-puppet-video?
That was my third Genesis album. First two were Abacab and Genesis. I remember getting home with it and blasting the hell out of it. Then, later that year in 1986 I saw them live for the first time at the Forum in LA. What a fantastic show!
“The Big Chill”. Crappy movie filmed in my Beaufort. The same house was used in “The Great Santini”, which is a great flick written by Pat Conroy.
The current owners have remodeled it (1 Laurens St.) extensively, so it looks nothing like in both. It’s yours for $3.4MM.
I remember it came out when I was in college – I never saw it, but a lot of people I knew thought they could identify with it, and I’m thinking, we’re all in college, we haven’t even begun to live yet or have these kinds of experiences, and they’re acting like they saw part of themselves in it.
That Lynyrd Skynyrd clip from Oakland in 1977 was fascinating. Imagine – Oakland once had white people.
RIP Gary Rossngton, the last of the founders of Lynyrd Skynyrd.
They were from my neighborhood; boy they died young.
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“Smoke up, Johnny!”
Oh white America, how I miss thee.
It’s official . . . I am old.
Thank you Avalon. So many go play outdoors fixed a number of things.
Loved the pic of the Barbie and her clothes! Just like the one I had! My all time favorite(which I still have) is my Tiny tears baby doll!