I'm so old I Remember when:

[pertnear09]

View attachment 3695298This is the only place I ever heard that used.

Yep

 

[jxp]

I remember when Mikhail Baryshnikov defected to Canada and then later became a US citizen.

 

[jxp]

I remember "the Canadian Caper", and will forever be grateful to our neighbors to the north for that one.

 

[jxp]

I remember the massacre at the 1972 Olympics in Munich.

I remember the 1996 bombing at the Olympics in Atlanta.

 

[Ursuline Chick]

Was it the Maytag Repair Man?

My BIL used to be the Maytag Repair Man. Now he works for someone else. He always stops by when he is in the neighborhood. It's always nice to see him.

 

[Ursuline Chick]

Yes, I posted that here somewhere. We did it. It was a blast. This was a small town back then. Not considered a small town now. We reached the over 40,000 mark.

We had the lake front, with a long street along the lake. You could fish, BBQ, people showed off their cars, brought out kegs of beer, (and other intoxicates), large, loud speakers, we cut up and danced in the streets until dawn.
Then people started crossing the levee and swimming naked in the rich people's swimming pools, and that was the end of that. All of a sudden there was an 8pm curfew on the lake front. it was sad, we had such a great time back then.

 

[Ursuline Chick]

I remember cruising the mall. A few of us getting dropped off at the mall for about 6:30 and getting picked up at 9 when they closed on Friday and Saturday night before we had licenses. After getting driver's licenses we graduated to the talked about cruising a stretch of street in the middle of a neighboring city. One end we turned around in a burger King parking lot and the other end a schwegmanns grocery store parking lot. Stopping at a couple parking lots on each side to chill and let the bass flow. Back then the cops couldn't care less. Try hanging out in a parking lot now at 10 at night you're guaranteed to get run off by the cops.

May I ask what part of town you were cruising? Schwegmanns was all over the city. I did my grocery shopping there, as did my mother and Grandma. The one on Chef Hwy had a bar where you could get a hot dog and a beer to consume while you shopped.

 

[Ursuline Chick]

They were certainly beautiful but finding them in the vacuum bag or static clinging to your pantleg months later was never much fun.

Nor was finding them hanging out of the cat's behind.

 

[jxp]

I remember when I was young enough to dance to Free Bird all the way through without being winded. Also Rapper's Delight by the Sugar Hill Gang but never to the Made in Japan version of Deep Purple's Space Truckin. That 20 minutes was specifically for chillin'.

 

[sdm111]

May I ask what part of town you were cruising? Schwegmanns was all over the city. I did my grocery shopping there, as did my mother and Grandma. The one on Chef Hwy had a bar where you could get a hot dog and a beer to consume while you shopped.

Gause Blvd in slidell.
It's now a sportsman's warehouse. I do remember making groceries there. I especially remember the fishing section. My dad and I used to go fishing all the time.