I'm so old I Remember when:

[sdm111]

 

[Nomadicus]

How about cruising the main drag in a small town on Friday and Saturday nights?
I'm sure that's a thing of the past now.

I remember staying a week in a small town in Kansas when kids drove around the town square for an hour or more at a time. They toot their horn at every stop sign at each other.

 

[troyer]

I'm good with the simple things in life.
Don't need to spend $7 for a cup of coffee that I wouldn't recognize as coffee.

Simple things are a plus. I can't drink commercial coffee as the mold in it causes my shoulder muscles to tighten up, really tighten up, not mildly, but enough to put me out of commision for several hours, hence the attitude.
I also agree the $7 a cup dark drink ain't worth it.

 

[troyer]

My dad used to take us camping down on the river every summer. We'd spend the days fishing and exploring the woods. Those are some of my favorite childhood memories. View attachment 3688357

As a youngster and one that really enjoyed fishing I often wished my Dad would go with us more.
In his later years once we were out of the home he also wished he would have taken the time to enjoy life with us more.

 

[ChicksnMore]

I remember traveling to a lake not to far away and renting a boat and fishing daylight to dark without seeing shore until just before dark.

That's how we spent most of the summer when I was a kid. Wonderful way to grow up. Once in a while we'd go out at night catfish fishing or set traps for crawdads in the river. When we lived in Kentucky we'd set turtle trap lines too. I'm so grateful I grew up with an outdoor loving dad

 

[ChicksnMore]

How about cruising the main drag in a small town on Friday and Saturday nights?
I'm sure that's a thing of the past now.

My town wasn't that small but o cruising Riverside was fun. Always packed. Ya... probably a thing of the past.

 

[Necti]

I remember seeing on TV when JFK was shot. I was 3 years old sitting at a table, making some ceramic dishes that would be fired in a kiln later. I knew by intution at 3 that something really bad was behind that JFK thing (that a potential "Jetsons" like "Great Big Beautiful Tommorrow" future had been robbed), just like I knew that there was no logical sense when I saw the Twin Towers fall on television.

Instead they gave us "Stalled Century", with no significant advances in sciences arts or culture, except for some alien technology called cell phones that we could carry around to track our locations and communications.

 

[NanaK]

Do they still make TVs with a picture in the picture.
I had one at one time. You could change the small picture between 3 different sizes and move it to anywhere on the screen.
Haven't seen one in probably 20 years now.

I don't know. I haven't seen one like that in a long time either.

 

[troyer]

Instead they gave us "Stalled Century", with no significant advances in sciences arts or culture, except for some alien technology called cell phones that we could carry around to track our locations and communications.

I think you're on to something quite significant.

 

[Nomadicus]

I think you're on to something quite significant.

Especially culture..... Sitting on a park bench out of ear shot of everyone else I'd state my case about what I've seen happening in big cities in some states.