Things You Miss

[DroppingPlates]

mostly all the cars that i destroyed down thru the years...esp these 2...

The second one must be a pussy puller

[The Ugly]

Book stores (soon enough) Don't Miss - LOVE my Kindle. Books are cheaper without overhead and I can get a book in about 10 seconds

Newspapers (ditto) - Don't miss - iPad is better and can get most of the info from a newspaper in real time

Why do you hate paper, sir?

Disneyland's Country Bear Jamboree - Country bear jamoree sucks.

Have you no soul, Mr. Potter?

And most of all: drive-in theaters  Don't miss. We have a few by us and they're disgusting.

Context for me. High school, double features, cars/freedom, girls, beers, food, double features, even a chess set for dudes without dates. Best of times.

[Pet shop boys]

Cool stuff that's now obsolete:

CDs
DVDs and Blockbuster
Book stores (soon enough)
Newspapers (ditto)
Hang Ten shirts
Pete's Wicked Ale
Original Hot Stuff
Lasorda's Dodgers
Great running backs
Showtime Lakers
$2.00 blackjack tables
Miller's Outpost
Tower Records
Original Mtv
Bruce Lee's pre-MMA mystique
Disneyland's Inner Space and Country Bear Jamboree
Marineland (Palos Verdes, CA)
KNAC (L.A. metal radio)
80s Sunset Strip (ground \m/ \m/ zero)
Abba-Zaba bars
Cold War excitement
Funny Letterman

And most of all: drive-in theaters

Great list ...however vinyl that was long gone before the cassette and  CD is now back and pricey !


WooSSHHH  PAPER GODS (available now on vinyl)

[Thin Lizzy]

Being seen as a sexual entity by women in their 20s.

[wes]

The thrill of the chase when chasing down new pussy.

[SquidVicious]

Cybergenics
Hot Stuff
Ultimate Orange
250mg Sostenon preloads from Mexico
2.5mg Anavar tabs
Fanny Packs
Franco Santoriello
Troy Zuccolutto
WBF
IFBB Pros training in their daisy dukes
Marina Pacific Hotel on Venice Beach
Barbarian Bros training at Golds in their flannels and timberlands
Anabolic Reference Guide
Dibencozide
Yohimbe Bark tablets
Hairy bushes on chicks

[dr.chimps]

Jarts

Fucking A Right!  Put one of those through a neighbour's garage roof. Came straight down on it. Good times. 

[wes]

I`m gonna` go way back:

Rotary phones.......the heavy one  that would split a guys skull.

Phone booths

Vinyl records with cool covers and even cooler liner notes

Comic books,before they fucked them up.

Hanging out with my boys from the gym in the toughest club around...........brawls everywhere,but nobody came near us.

Getting young pussy 

Saturday morning cartoon shows.......whatever happened to Bugs and Porky/Daffy?

Cheap grindhouse movies where you could see a Bruce Lee flick,followed by Shaft,followed by The Angry Red Planet all for less than a buck with fucking cartoons during intermission............ .every week downtown.

Drive in movies

Working in strip joints.......I got beau coup pussy plus lots of cash from dancers who basically kept me high and gave me cash,etc. etc.

Being broke when I left the house and coming back with a pocket full of money,pussy,and a ride even though I had no car.

Training with my cousins when we moved to Port St. Lucie Florida.........finally got sober and started competing again.


Todays technology is not for me........strictly old school.

Being able to keep your doors unlocked at night without fear of repercussions,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,and I lived in the ghetto.

There`s a lot more good stuff but I could go on for days.

[FitnessFrenzy]

Working in strip joints.......I got beau coup pussy plus lots of cash from dancers who basically kept me high and gave me cash,etc. etc.

what is beau coup pussy?

[wes]

what is beau coup pussy?

A lot of pussy.................a whole lot. 

[YngiweRhoads]

When kids had respect for adults and authority.

[The Ugly]

Cybergenics
Hot Stuff
Ultimate Orange
250mg Sostenon preloads from Mexico
2.5mg Anavar tabs
Fanny Packs
Franco Santoriello
Troy Zuccolutto
WBF
IFBB Pros training in their daisy dukes
Marina Pacific Hotel on Venice Beach
Barbarian Bros training at Golds in their flannels and timberlands
Anabolic Reference Guide
Dibencozide
Yohimbe Bark tablets

Ahh. Youth, innocence, Americana. Good times.

[DroppingPlates]

When kids had respect for adults and authority.

You must be 70-something at least..

[BIG AL MCKECHNIE]

When I was a kid in the 60's and 70's we used to have white dog shit on the pavements here in the UK.
I have no idea why but assume it was something they ate which is now banned.

Was this a common thing in other countries?

[The Ugly]

You must be 70-something at least..

We were 70s/80s kids (47 now), and we still did then. Most did, anyway.

[The Ugly]

When I was a kid in the 60's and 70's we used to have white dog shit on the pavements here in the UK.
I have no idea why but assume it was something they ate which is now banned.

Was this a common thing in other countries?

Yes, but no one really wants to discuss dogshit in a nostalgia thread, ya know.

[DroppingPlates]

We were 70s/80s kids (47 now), and we still did then. Most did, anyway.

More than these days, that's for sure, but there was a growing anti-authority attitude going on that started in the late sixties with hippies, punkers, rockers, beatniks, etc.

[Primemuscle]

When I was a kid in the 60's and 70's we used to have white dog shit on the pavements here in the UK.
I have no idea why but assume it was something they ate which is now banned.

Was this a common thing in other countries?

You miss this?

[deadz]

A lot and not a lot at the same time.

[BIG AL MCKECHNIE]

You miss this?

If I ever see a white dog shit on the pavement again I will instantly be transported back to 1972.
The days of watching the Banana Splits and HR Puffinstuff on a Saturday morning.

[The Scott]

My naiveté or rather, my youth.  If I could go back I wouldn't change a single thing.


I would change a lot of things. But only if it was for the better. 

[The Ugly]

My naiveté or rather, my youth.  If I could go back I wouldn't change a single thing.


I would change a lot of things. But only if it was for the better.  

So list what you wouldn't change, bud. We're remembering here, and we're interested.

[TuHolmes]

I hesitate to say I'd change anything myself.

I mean, I could say I'd change the marriage, but the marriage gave me my kids, which is cool. That's really my only regret. The rest has been a good adventure.

[King Shizzo]

The original Garbage Pail Kids trading cards

Buying pickled sausages from the jar at the gas stations

Having those childhood friends that you eventually grow apart from

Taking long car rides with the family

Being genuinely oblivious to the horrible world around me

56k, loading porn pics

Sharing bunk beds with my little brother (stopped last week)

My dad hitting me pop flies to practice for little league.

[wes]

Going back even further:

penny candy
comic books
playing outside (no kids do this today    )
Aurora HO scale slot car racing
putting model cars together
45 RPM vinyl records
getting about 30 channels long before cable was ever thought about with quality TV shows/movies
Universal monster flicks
Anything Cagney
staying up late on weekends to watch said monster flicks then being scared shitless
getting a bunch of kids to go bike riding..........we acted like we were Brando 
Hot Wheels cars/tracks
Sting Ray bicycles
the ice cream man
surviving Catholic school until they threw me out