The Nostalgia Thread

[Andy_T]

I learned to drive in a Volkswagen Beetle ... the old one, if you still know it.

Come to think of it, my parents likely did the same, some 30 years earlier ...

 

[PTree15]

My brother had a powder-blue Beetle. He used to let me drive it sometimes.

 

[ledboots]

I learned to drive in a Volkswagen Beetle ... the old one, if you still know it.

Come to think of it, my parents likely did the same, some 30 years earlier ...

Love the Bug. I learned to drive in my friend's older brother's Volkswagon Thing. Blast of a car.

 

[Amy SF]

My parents told me never to drive a VW or even be in one because they were unsafe.

I learned how to drive in my mother’s Dodge Dart Swinger. Now that was a really good car.

 

[PTree15]

My sister had a Dart. We used to call it The Tank. I remember she sold it to neighbor, whose daughter learned to drive in it.

 

[Calliegirl]

We would occasionally hang out on Van Nuys Blvd on cruising night. I remember having a lot of fun. In my group of friends, none of us had a car, but one night, someone with a truck pulled over and let us jump in the back so we could cruise up and down the boulevard. The good old days.

I don't remember everyone driving as fast as they are in the video though. I remember everyone driving really slow (cruising), with lots of waving, yelling out to each other, and horns honking. That was a looooooooooooooong time ago though, so my memory may not be entirely accurate.

 

[Amy SF]

And then afterwards you'd all go to Bob's Big Boy for a burger?

You can't imagine how sheltered I was. My parents would have screamed bloody murder if I participated in any of that kind of activity, especially jumping in the back of someone's truck.

 

[Calliegirl]

My parents were divorced and my mom (who we lived with) had to sometimes work at night, so we had no problem going out on those nights. My mom would have had a fit if she knew we had jumped in that truck, or that we were on even on the blvd. My dad probably wouldn't have cared. He was in the entertainment industry and you know how Hollywood was back then, one big party. From what I remember, he was in that mindset of everyone just have fun and party.

We didn't go to Bob's after, but my Dad would take us there to eat sometimes. I even had one of these...

I'm not sure I should be bragging about owning that.

 

[Moll Flanders]

I've no idea why, but I woke up thinking about a TV show that used to be on in the 1970's and 1980's called Alice. It was about a woman who worked as a waitress in a diner.

Alice (TV series) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[ledboots]

Kiss mah grits! Lol how random dreams can be!

 

[Amy SF]

I liked that sitcom.

 

[Moll Flanders]

It's weird the way things pop into your head. I had a song in my head that I thought was from Alice but I realised it was the theme from The Golden Girls. Thank You for Being a Friend...

 

[beancounter]

Speaking of shows from the 70's and 80's involving a car driving down the road at the start of an episode...

 

[Andy_T]

Aaah ... old TV shows ... don't open that particular can of worms....

 

[beancounter]

Aaah ... old TV shows ... don't open that particular can of worms....

Why?

 

[Amy SF]

So The Brady Bunch Movie occasionally airs on TV. I'm watching it right now. It’s something of a good-natured spoof of the TV series. The joke of the movie is how the Bradys are stuck in a 1970s time warp, totally oblivious to the “modern” world that surrounds them. But The Brady Bunch Movie came out 20 years ago, and already some of the aspects of the “modern” world shown in the movie are amusingly outdated, such as video stores, people holding HUGE "brick" mobile phones, and a character saying about Marcia, “She’s harder to get into than a Pearl Jam concert.” Damn, 1995. Those were the good 'ol days, right?

 

[Tom L.]

Speaking of shows from the 70's and 80's involving a car driving down the road at the start of an episode...

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Remember that episode where Louie came running into a room (hospital or bedroom, I forget) and made a flying leap onto a bed? And reverend Jim taking a written driving test... "WWHAAATTTTT.... DDDOOOOEEEESSSS.... AAAA.... YELLLLOOOOWWWW..... LIIIGGHHTTT... MEEEAAAANNNNN?"

 

[Calliegirl]

Favorite Saturday morning show when I was a kid............

H.R. Pufnstuf

HR Pufnstuf, Who's your friend when things get rough

Saturday morning line-up:
H.R. Pufnstuf
Lidsville
Sigmund and the Sea Monsters
The Smurfs
And occasionally The Banana Splits

 

[Amy SF]

I loved Rocky and Bullwinkle, etc.
George of the Jungle
as well as Pufnstuf and Lidsville

 

[Calliegirl]

Scooby Doo