I remember some crazy sissy bars. The one here is just a standard bar.
I thought The Jetsons, but now we have she/him, and EV's that don't work, and politicians and elitist, who want to shut down farms.
I was always big into sci-fi, but never in my wildest dreams would I have ever imagines the world we live in today. Apparently aside from 1984 and Brave New World, neither did the sci-fi writers.
I’m wondering when Fahrenheit 451 stops being fiction.
I remember some crazy sissy bars. The one here is just a standard bar.
Television Rabbit Ears Antenna!
Oh,MY!
Born and raised in Kalifornia, when it was Reagan Country and spelled California. During the third game of the 1989 baseball World Series, at 5:04pm, my brother and I were in his furnished basement. The game was at Candlestick Park, south of San Francisco. We were standing up, but not moving around. The TV rabbit ears antenna started moving. I looked over to my brother, he was not moving. I said “let’s get over to the door jam.” I was holding on to the frame of the doorway. The Earth moved some more, and then the big wave, big energy came. The doorway, the house jumped out of my grip. Growing up in California, smaller quakes and aftershocks were no big deal. Four.0 on the scale was not frightening.
The epicenter, and therefore name, of the 1989 quake is Loma Prieta, in the mountains outside of Santa Cruz, California. The energy spread out and damaged all the way to San Francisco and Oakland.
I will never forget the creep Peter Jennings hurrying to San Francisco. He exited his limousine and proceeded to ‘report’ in front of a fire. He had picked a fallen building where the gas main was still open, and the fire would burn until the main was shut off. Another Drive-By Media creep.
Leisure suits.
Bartles & James wine coolers. (80s ?)
Stucky’s on the interstate.
CB radio clubs
48 cents per gallon gas
Big cars from the 60s still ran and made of steel ( owned a 65 Pontiac Catalina coupe)
1.85 minimum wage
Very large malls
Good movies and non disco music
Saying the Pledge every day in school AFTER a Bible reading
Etc
Tattoos were mostly on old men. Mostly sailors or excins.
Noone wore their pajamas in public.
Only potheads Sat around smoking pot all day.
Gas was 40-60 cents a gallon.
You could buy ..what is now considered classic cars for a few hundred dollars..maybe a grand.
Kids used the F word much less.
Music was performed by four people who played guitars and a drum. ..not computer generated crap.
Playing cowboys & indians with Crossman BB guns (2 pump max).
An article for the idle mind. I clicked on the link and most of the OTHER articles linked-to and promoted heaviliy with teasers and [click here] are mostly what I’d call “Boomer Hater” stuff - a bunch of “Get off my lawn!” stuff.
Does anyone else remember Puffa Puffa Rice?
After seeing 2001 I seriously thought by the year 2000 we really would be more advanced than we were, especially as to space travel nd using the moon as a base for things.
I figured the Lions would have been in a Super Bowl by now...
mmmmm, ditto smell...
And to think whoever wrote this crap has the audacity to say we are more enlighteded today is also absurd and laughable. Having a military with trannies, millions of illegals streaming across our southern border, and kids eating soap pods - yeah, that is very enlightening.
Hitchhiking was decidedly out by the 70s. We definitely didn’t do it - too dangerous. My dad said he did and it was common for him as a kid but that was the 40s.
As I have explained to my boys, the early 70’s were the 60’s having a last gasp and the late 70’s were a preview of the 80’s.
If you remove the disco, 1978 was a great year for music.