What Existed When You Were A Kid That No Longer Exists

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My first concert in Springfield Mass Civic Center was Deep Purple, James Montgomery Blues Band and Nazareth.

Tickets were $5.50
 
Mark_Henderson said:
I thought you were referring to Howard Johnsons because I'd read that the last one in the US closed in Lake George last year.

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HOJO's no more: the last Howard Johnson's Restaurant SOLD

The last standing Howard Johnson's
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Also, Ground Rounds are long gone and Fuddruckers (liked putting on my own lettuce/tomatoes, onions, etc.)

And, although the Seaport district in Boston is cool, I miss the seafood restaurants that used to be there - Pier 4, Jimmy's Harborside, the No Name.

And WBCN and WAAF and relevant rock stations that are broadcast on actual radio.
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Oddly coincidental, I actually saw a Ground Round on the way to my short vacation at Lame George two summers ago. I think it was in Rutland, VT.
Looking at Google, it’s now permanently closed, but it wasn’t two years ago. I was shocked!

But yeah, the A&W in Lake George is still going strong! Had a phenomenal root beer float there.
 
THAT Charlie Gordon said:
Nice to be missed, HS.

Unfortunately, If nothing changes I'll probably be done here soon. The ability to read more than a couple paragraphs comes and goes these days, and the loss is accelerating. When I can read, I usually need to point at something a little more mission critical.

Never assume what you rely on today will be there tomorrow, y'all. Hence the change of handle. So maybe my answer to the OP should be "my brain."
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Melissa's mom, a hippie pastors wife once told me, 'Flowers are not for the dead, Flowers are for the living. Flowers give respect and love to those we love and deserve them."

I had never read the story before. The one published in Science Fiction and Fantasy Magaine so many years

ago. I had a subscription, i didnt know what i didnt understand.

Im beginning to now..

Ethical? Hell no. Beneficial to mankind. Yes. But the ends never justify the means.

Funny thing is, this unethical experiment, this that was created from it, benefits everyone, and will burn to the ground a system which made it possible. For the basis of that system represents the worst in humanity.

We are so much better than than.

Flowers are for the living indeed. We most assuredly have lived. More than most.

How did anyone ever doubt?

Roses to you Tim.

Thank you my friend. The one who understood.

I love you.

Read Flowers for Algernon. Everyone.
 
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Hawg73 said:
And if RG and I managed to appear at your door for A Boomer's Life show and tell, what do you think
the attention level of the audience would be?

My guess would be somewhere between polite indifference (forced) and a yawning festival.
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They LOVE old people. Well, many of them. They still repeat the stories about my uncle and his brothers among themselves. My wife's grandmother is one of their favorite people on earth.

My 15 year old said to me a couple days ago: "My whole generation is an embarrassment. I'm going upstairs to invent a time machine so I can take a few cool inventions and go back to...sometime between the late 70s and the early 90s. I'll figure it out." I told him to please clean up some of the litter.
 
THAT Charlie Gordon said:
They LOVE old people. Well, many of them. They still repeat the stories about my uncle and his brothers among themselves. My wife's grandmother is one of their favorite people on earth.

My 15 year old said to me a couple days ago: "My whole generation is an embarrassment. I'm going upstairs to invent a time machine so I can take a few cool inventions and go back to...sometime between the late 70s and the early 90s. I'll figure it out." I told him to please clean up some of the litter.
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You know how I know when a kid is all right? When they don't start scrolling their phones 10 seconds after you start talking to them.

I actually know some cool young folks who get it, many of whom are the Sons and Daughters of close friends and relatives. They are
the ones that give me hope that maybe things will be just fine and I'm just being crotchety. After all, the Beatles didn't fuck us all up
as my parents once theorized.

Sounds like you have your kids on the right track, which I strongly suspected was the case.

I think it's really great that someday soon all the rich people will be able to have their kids' DNA customized so that they'll all
be perfect. Maybe those exceptional kids will make it incredibly uncool to look at a cellphone and start the Great Analog Revolution
and we can all get back to making S'mores and telling ghost stories.

Best of luck to you, Sir in your health struggles. Your presence here has always been a treat and if that has to end then many of us will
be very sad. You have always been one of the very best and brightest.
 
Hawg73 said:
You know how I know when a kid is all right? When they don't start scrolling their phones 10 seconds after you start talking to them.

I actually know some cool young folks who get it, many of whom are the Sons and Daughters of close friends and relatives. They are
the ones that give me hope that maybe things will be just fine and I'm just being crotchety. After all, the Beatles didn't fuck us all up
as my parents once theorized.

Sounds like you have your kids on the right track, which I strongly suspected was the case.

I think it's really great that someday soon all the rich people will be able to have their kids' DNA customized so that they'll all
be perfect. Maybe those exceptional kids will make it incredibly uncool to look at a cellphone and start the Great Analog Revolution
and we can all get back to making S'mores and telling ghost stories.

Best of luck to you, Sir in your health struggles. Your presence here has always been a treat and if that has to end then many of us will
be very sad. You have always been one of the very best and brightest.
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A f*ckin men.
 
PatsFan09 said:
Oddly coincidental, I actually saw a Ground Round on the way to my short vacation at Lame George two summers ago. I think it was in Rutland, VT.
Looking at Google, it’s now permanently closed, but it wasn’t two years ago. I was shocked!

But yeah, the A&W in Lake George is still going strong! Had a phenomenal root beer float there.
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There are A&W's here in Michigan.
 
Big/Sky/Fly said:
The squiggly lines on the porn channels...you could see ladies bush sometimes for a few minutes, then the screen turned to LSD madness.
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My weed dealer back in the day was a technician of some sort and he figured out that if you wired a rheostat in there somehow
and spun the dial just so you could clear up the picture and see titties, etc.

No volume, though. You had to imagine the stupid dialog and fake moaning for yourself. :cool:
PumpDee said:
Playboy


Edit: On the way home from hockey with my son and J. Geils Band comes on the radio. Angel is the Centerfold. Take a quick guess what he asked me. :rofl:
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Hmmmm......was as it: did J. Geils ever make any decent music or was this pop drivel as good as it got? ;)


When I was around 12 and just starting to get horny-- one of the rare thrills in my life was finding a moldy playboy out in the woods and
seeing some skin. My heart would pound seeing the forbidden fruit in all it's airbrushed and perfect glory.

Now, of course, any kid of any age can watch German S&M videos or some really sick shit with the click of a button. I can't begin to calculate
what effect, if any, that will have on the future of human sexuality, but I hope I didn't miss out on much by not really knowing anything about sex for
a few years. Maybe if I'd had that same option available I would have become attracted to smokin' hot midget nuns in diapers and the entire course of my
life would have been altered.
 
HSanders said:
@THAT Charlie Gordon
thank goodness you are back! my old ass couldn't remember the "that" preceeding your new name and i was trying to tag you and was worried you changed again when i typed "charlie" and got no suggested completing words. i finally figured it out last night by scrolling through topics looking for your name. i checked your profile to make sure. and now i don't remember what i wanted to tag you on. 😄
#oldpeopleproblems
#mymemoryiswhatexistedthatinowmiss
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TipRoast said:
Free road maps at full-service gas stations.
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Hawg73 said:
I used to smoke way back in the day. I remember being on a flight between Oahu and Maui and there was
hardly anybody on the plane (another thing that doesn't exist) and the attractive flight attendant offered me a free
cocktail if she could bum a smoke. We just sat there puffing away like it was no big thing, because at that
time it wasn't.

It seems like a parallel universe. All of it. Flying is like being on a cattle car now by comparison.

Add enjoyable flights to the list if somebody already didn't.
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During my lengthy stay in Nam I actually made four round trips to/from states.
Prolly 2 pack each way each time. So 16 packs
Guesstimated.
 
BostonTim said:
LDuring my lengthy stay in Nam I actually made four round trips to/from states.
Prolly 2 pack each way each time. So 16 packs
Guesstimated.
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And they were 8 cents a pack, under $1per carton.
The label 1st came out saying that they were hazardous to your health. That use to get mocked over there.
 
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