re: Old Bastards Question: What do U Miss most from the 70s 80s 90s or think kids will miss

ICEE’S, Skateboards, Seeing a scrambled boob on channel 99, culdesac baseball, walking to the gas station and loading up a full paper bag’s worth of gum and candy for a dollar or two out of the bins, topps baseball cards on release day, clunky uncomfortable swing sets, the music… all of it, Not being able to afford Z-Cavaricci jeans, Overalls w/ one strap down, slap bracelets, The stank arse brown roller skates with rubber stoppers on skate night, Gold Mine arcade at malls, Wendy’s with the newsprint tables, Wendy’s mega bar, Clash of the Champions wrestling on Sundays since we couldn’t afford PPVs, hypercolor tshirts, lining up at Turtle’s Records for printed out concert tickets from ticketmaster, finally getting Reebok pumps only to realize they were two sizes too short but squeezing in them bc mom spent a good bit on them with the instant pump worn around the neck, Dale Murphy and my braves making me sad year after year that moved into my 90’s Braves making me sad year after year outside on 1995, being at Olympic park in July 1996 trading pins to put on my aforementioned 1995 Braves hat the moment the bomb went off and the ensuing crowd rush when Mack Jack and the Heart Attack was on stage.
I remember the 80’s and 90’s vividly and now understand why as people get older they.. we.. get more nostalgic
Afterwards came war and chaos and it hasn’t stopped.
Embracing that I’m becoming an old bastard per your thread title. This has been my therapy ted talk .

From the 50s.

My mother would give my older brother $5 on Saturday morning.

We'd walk to town, get a haircut. Then to two walk-in theaters, see a total of four shows.

Head home, stop off at a drug store, buy some baseball cards and my brother would give my mother the remaining $2.

All of this. ALL OF THIS!!!

Both of my kids are in college. Despite the fact they have had smart phones since high school, I have never tracked them. I have done my best to give them the autonomy and privacy I had in the 80s - when my parents had no fricking clue where I was or what I was doing, but (for good of for ill) trusted me to do the right thing. Maybe that's naive in this day and age, but they're smart and good kids and I trust them.

Guitar solos.

I bet I owned 2 dozen rebel flags at one point.

Ole Miss owned a 100 yard by 30 or whatever it was rebel flag in the 70s. They used to spread it across the entire field before game etc.

Frank and a bunch of us tried to find it and buy it for years. I think it was in a warehouse in holly springs or somewhere like that. Probably a good think we never could find it

I miss Dixie most of all.

Ocean Springs used to have the biggest cruising strip in the South along front beach. It was awesome but they shut it down by junior year. It was about 2 miles but took about 45 minutes to cruise. I met girls from New Orleans, Hattiesburg to Jackson and pensacola there. it was awesome.

We would drive to New Orleans to get drunk sometimes. (80 miles)

I had some buddies that took a Boston whaler from Ocean Springs to the flora bama along the intercoastal and get wasted until it closed and come back. It had to take 4-5 hours each way.

When the trumpets and drums would start the crescendo I always got chills and it reminded me of my dad and grandfather and so many other memories. God dammit now I have to go listen to it

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There are some professors who want to get rid of the name, "Ole Miss." Obviously, that's going to be a major battle that will take decades to wage.

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I’m afraid that won’t take decades

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If a young man is allowed to...kill people

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You're a sick frick.