re: OT nostalgia thread - what do you remember growing up that's not common anymore?

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- Playing tackle games like British Bulldog and tackle football at recess at school.

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We called it smear the queer

These were slightly before my time, but I still played them

AOL Instant Messenger
The dial up tone

TV dinners in aluminum foil pans
Schwinn Bikes
TG&Y stores
'Waiting' to get news on something
Gas station attendants
Returnable bottles
Cartoons before movies
'Emergency Break-Through' on a phone call

Jacking off to VHS and magazine porn

Wandering around in the woods for hours.

Standing and reciting the pledge of allegiance every morning in school
Fighting and only getting suspended, not expelled or arrested
Being able to go to an arcade/shoot pool and not worry about getting shot
Just being outside all day..playing sports, riding dirtbikes, creating fun
Having an actual job(cash), doing labor, before I was 12
Three channels on the tv
Rotary dial phones
Answering machines with mini cassette tapes
Pagers that would relay a voice message to the carrier
Movie lines waiting to see the big films

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Sets of Encyclopedia Britanica or World Book in peoples houses.

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Reminds me of last month at Meteor Crater in Arizona. My first trip there.

I paid for our tickets and the woman asked "so where did you hear about us?"

I replied "World Book Encyclopedia, 1978, age 7!"

Big wheels and green machines
weeble wobbles
getting spanked in public
chinese freeze tag
Plaid polyester pants
bowl haircuts

Riding bicycles in the grass for safety instead of being a dickhead and riding it in the street like an entitled poor

people Not having cell phones

spending time outdoors. the woods and a BB gun were the best toy a boy could have growing up.