The Nostalgia Thread

[thefadedone]

Sledding using whatever you could find besides a sled. We would use cardboard boxes, tops of trash cans, the trash can itself (someone would go inside the trash can and everyone else would push you down the hill).

Real penny candy stores where you could go in with 50 cents and come out with 50 pieces of candy...

I loved playing outside all day and coming home a wreck. Cuts, bruises and leaves/grass/straw sticking out of the dust mop on my head.

Yes to all of these. We even used spare tires as sledding devices. We even made a swing with a spare tire.

We built forts and treehouses.

Went door to door selling candy and other crap for school functions. There was nothing unusual about walking into a stranger's house as a kid. We had no fears of being kidnapped or murdered back then.

Metal swingsets that were so unstable that the higher you swung on the swings the higher the whole thing lifted off the ground! Metal toy cars that got rusty easily.

School playgrounds and park playgrounds that were built on concrete!

 

[Amy SF]

School playgrounds and park playgrounds that were built on concrete!

I'm not really nostalgic over that. *shudder*

I do miss the days of going to the airport and not having the experience of going through security like you're inmates at a prison. Especially when you're just there to meet somebody and not actually flying anywhere yourself.

 

[RabbitLuvr]

School playgrounds and park playgrounds that were built on concrete!

Gravel and/or blacktop!

 

[Amy SF]

R.I.P. Al Fritz.

So, who had a Sting-Ray?

I didn't, but when I was growing up, practically every teenage boy in my neighborhood who was too young to drive had one. It was a real status symbol for these kids.

 

[Forster]

My friend had one, I wanted one... no luck.

 

[beancounter]

Navigating the streets of Boston before GPS's were invented.

 

[Mr Crunchy]

R.I.P. Al Fritz.

So, who had a Sting-Ray?

I didn't, but when I was growing up, practically every teenage boy in my neighborhood who was too young to drive had one. It was a real status symbol for these kids.

Stingray 3-speed with banana seat, sissy bar and chopper handlebars. Got it for my 10th birthday and loved it like a pet.

 

[ledboots]

Stingray 3-speed with banana seat, sissy bar and chopper handlebars. Got it for my 10th birthday and loved it like a pet.

Omg we are separated at birth! Mine was the girl version. Three speed stick shift, glittery banana seat, purple paint and that sissy bar! My godmother (no children of her own) got me that, and I rode it for years. Best gift ever.

 

[Calliegirl]

 

[Snowcone]

Don't remind me.

 

[KLS52]

Hey, I still use those!

 

[Amy SF]

Hey, I still use those!

Me, too.

 

[Forster]

Hey, I still use those!

I still have tapes from back when the kids were little, just nothing to play them on as I threw the players out. I should probably do something with the tapes too, lol.

I pretty much only stream stuff now.

 

[Amy SF]

I still have tapes from back when the kids were little, just nothing to play them on as I threw the players out. I should probably do something with the tapes too, lol.

I pretty much only stream stuff now.

Videotapes with important stuff on them, such as kids' recitals or birthday parties or something similar are family treasures that can be saved. There are companies that will convert tapes to DVD's, and I think also you can buy something to use at home to do that.

 

[Forster]

Videotapes with important stuff on them, such as kids' recitals or birthday parties or something similar are family treasures that can be saved. There are companies that will convert tapes to DVD's, and I think also you can buy something to use at home to do that.

No these are Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and the like, lol. I really need to box them up and bring them to my daughter as she's the one who would kill me if I sold/disposed of them.

 

[Amy SF]

No these are Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and the like, lol. I really need to box them up and bring them to my daughter as she's the one who would kill me if I sold/disposed of them.

But aren't these available on DVD? Wouldn't she prefer the DVDs as they are more convenient to play?

I had a bunch of videotapes of movies and TV shows that I eventually replaced with DVD's. I took them to a used media store in LA to hopefully sell them, and the girl only took 3 or 4 of them. She refused most of them and said they were an outmoded medium and couldn't resell them. I have no idea what else to do with them except throw them out.

I could try donating them to a thrift store, but I'm not sure they would take them, either.

 

[Forster]

But aren't these available on DVD? Wouldn't she prefer the DVDs as they are more convenient to play?

I had a bunch of videotapes of movies and TV shows that I eventually replaced with DVD's. I took them to a used media store in LA to hopefully sell them, and the girl only took 3 or 4 of them. She refused most of them and said they were an outmoded medium and couldn't resell them. I have no idea what else to do with them except throw them out.

I could try donating them to a thrift store, but I'm not sure they would take them, either.

It's not the convenience so much as these were her tapes from childhood... nostalgia thing. Kind of like I still have all of my Matchbox cars/comic book collections from the 70's, lol.

 

[beancounter]

Back when people actually cared about spelling, punctuation and grammar, etc., and weren’t compelled to write their thoughts in 140 characters or less.

 

[thefadedone]

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/things-that-will-make-you-feel-really-old

I feel super old now.

 

[Moll Flanders]

No these are Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast and the like, lol. I really need to box them up and bring them to my daughter as she's the one who would kill me if I sold/disposed of them.

I used to babysit a little 5 year old girl who would always bring The Little Mermaid round to watch. I must have seen it about 100 times. I just realised that she must be in her late twenties now.