'Remember when' or 'these kids today' nostalgia thread for old fogies like me

[willzpapa]

Does anyone remember the Lum & Abner radio show, or the Shadow ???

 

[FlyWheel]

But mama, they too it away.

 

[FlyWheel]

When I went to get a new Ford Ranger to replace my old one* I went through the whole car lot but they didn't have what I wanted. That is until the last model of their last order of the last year the Ranger was to be sold in the US, arrived on a flat bed.**

It had everything I wanted:
Extended cab,
Manual transmission,
Split bench seat,
Windows that you turned a crank to lower
And the button that locked the door was a mechanical one just over my left shoulder.

And yes, I actually held out for these! I must confess though, I did replace the AM-FM [mechanical!] push button radio for one with a CD player.

*(20 years, 310,000 miles and still running fine, original everything.)
**(I named it Kemo~Sabe for that reason. )

 

[SunHwaKwon]

But mama, they too it away.

I know it was bad for you, but I really miss the smell of the dark room.

 

[Chickassan]

Lol, yep they probably heard it in China. I was having a disgruntled geezer moment. I hate watching the news needing to know something like road conditions and having to sit through idiots having a "dance party".Half our news anchors are pregnant, real pregnant and the other half can barely walk but they are going to have a dance party? Pardon me, two dance parties morning and afternoon. It's just not right,and I don't like it.

I heard that eye roll clear over here!

 

[21hens-incharge]

Our news is shameless product plugs by the anchors mixed in between very very openly opinionated interpretations of what may or may not have ever been a real story.

Pardon my eye roll.

 

[Mace Gill]

Someday ....

Many years from now ...

When folks are feeling sentimental, they'll start waxing poetic about the 'good old days' and talk about how great it was to talk nostalgia on BYC

 

[User395221]

they'll start waxing poetic about the 'good old days' and talk about how great it was to talk nostalgia on BYC

They'll be going, "oh, remember personal computers? Can you imagine having to sit down and TYPE!"

Have you seen those creepy Google do-dads that turn on the lights and "do stuff" (including spying on everything you do)?

 

[21hens-incharge]

Why I remember back when tonka trucks were made o metal and drinking from the garden hose was not poisonous.

Back when kids went outside for the whole day!

Ah those were good times.

 

[Mace Gill]

Why I remember back when tonka trucks were made o metal and drinking from the garden hose was not poisonous.

Back when kids went outside for the whole day!

Ah those were good times.

They're rare these days ... especially in NJ. When we spot 'em, we refer to them as 'free range children'