The Nostalgia Thread

[Calliegirl]

I had a paper bag and shoebox full of these, one day I threw them all out.

 

[Second Summer]

And video games. My sister and I still use our 'system' we invented to beat Bubble Bobble on commodore 64, although now we play it on PS2.
No one else can play that game with either of us because we have a plan!

Such a great game! Same with the music! Sounds like we have an activity for the VV meetup

 

[Amy SF]

Such a great game! Same with the music! Sounds like we have an activity for the VV meetup

I was thinking more like Trivial Pursuit. I've never played any video games.

 

[silva]

Anyone remember Rice Fries? I think made by Ore Ida?
So good, from the 70's! They were fries, but with seasoned rice!
I would think Crystal Pepsi should make a comeback.

I do remember the purple and green ketchup. Yech. Some fast food restaurant had packets of them when my kids were litttle--they wouldn't them. And it stained.

 

[Amy SF]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/18/last-telegram_n_3459595.html

Holy ****! I never knew any of this!

Now I guess I'll have to say I've never sent or received a telegram in my life.

 

[Calliegirl]

Do kids play jacks anymore? I used to love playing and they were easy to take with you when you had to visit boring relatives.

 

[Alice-Bee]

I was thinking more like Trivial Pursuit. I've never played any video games.

No cos we'll only end up arguing over whether its cheese or pie


Its pie...

 

[Alice-Bee]

Such a great game! Same with the music! Sounds like we have an activity for the VV meetup

It is a great game...we completed it 3 times in 25 years...hell yeah.

 

[beancounter]

Do kids play jacks anymore? I used to love playing and they were easy to take with you when you had to visit boring relatives.

Speaking of relatives. For years and years, visiting relatives was about sitting around and talking, but for the first time ever last year, every one was sitting around looking at their cell phone or laptop, and the only sound was the TV.
I think it has a lot to do with the fact that my cousin's children are in their teens and 20's now.

 

[ledboots]

No cos we'll only end up arguing over whether its cheese or pie


Its pie...

I know all the write

 

[Envy]

No cos we'll only end up arguing over whether its cheese or pie


Its pie...

Nah, it's cake.

 

[Alice-Bee]

Cake? What the hell man. Its soooo not cake. Its pie!

 

[beancounter]

How about just regular playing cards. Long before Windows solitaire.

 

[thefadedone]

 

[Amy SF]

I read in the LA Times a few days ago about a woman who goes to fairs and farmers markets and such and types out poetry on demand for whoever is willing to pay her for a poem. They're rather short, and as long as she has a title or an idea or subject, she can bang one out to the customer's satisfaction. She calls it the Poetry Store. What's interesting is that she uses a small portable typewriter. I think people buy poems from her not only for the poetry but to see her use a typewriter. Yes, these things are still around, but it's not like you see one every day any more.

I used to have a portable electric typewriter that my parents bought me back in 1977, but when it got old, the keys stuck a lot and I stopped using it when I got my first computer in 1998. I finally donated it to a thrift store.

I took typing classes in school on a typewriter. I learned medical transcription on a typewriter, although I haven't used a typewriter for medical transcription since 1985. My mother bought her own IBM Selectric, which wasn't exactly cheap back in the day, and used it for decades until she finally decided it was taking up too much space and she wasn't using it anymore anyway, so she gave it away.

Who else has fond typewriter memories?

 

[Amy SF]

It just occurred to me, as I was starting to re-read this thread, that perhaps the reason why my family started using touch-tone phones back when they first appeared is because my father was a major technophile. He loved new technology of all kinds. He was always reading techie magazines and literature, and when he learned about the newfangled phones, he just had to switch our phones to them. But with other families, it was probably like, "Our rotary phones still work well, why should we switch?"

We were also the first family on the block, or perhaps in the entire city, to have a microwave oven. Again, My Father the Technophile was responsible for that.

 

[ledboots]

My dad was the same way. We got a color tv really early on, and a vcr when the only place selling them was Sound Advice. Also a (huge) texas instruments calculator, which my dad was wowed by since he was an engineer with a double math major.

I loved the aqua touch tone princess phone my sis and I shared.

 

[Amy SF]

When my parents remodeled the house back in 1970, my mother insisted on putting a princess phone in the main bathroom next to the toilet, on the wall. It wasn't aqua, but beige. She said it made sense since she'd be dialing from the throne.

 

[Moll Flanders]

There is a thread on another forum I'm on about adverts you like and it made me remember ones from when I was younger. It shows how insidious advertising is that I can recall the songs or the exact words to an advert. I remember there was a craze to buy Push Pops (sweets/candy) 'Push a Push Pop' when I was at school.

We were also the first family on the block, or perhaps in the entire city, to have a microwave oven.

I remember my parents first getting our microwave but then I realised it makes food taste funny (rubbery jacket potatoes ) so I haven't owned one as an adult.

 

[crystal tips]

I remember my parents first getting our microwave but then I realised it makes food taste funny (rubbery jacket potatoes ) so I haven't owned one as an adult.

the first time i saw a microwave was in the pie shop, i didn't believe it would make things hot in 2 minutes so burnt the whole of my mouth off, lesson learned!