Things you increasingly don't see anymore

[justdrew]

heh, here in Portland, we've got three video arcades I can think of, and little record stores still open and exist somehow. Just noticed a new one yesterday.

[ninakat]

Uh, Rigorous Intuition discussion board, pre-Sept. 25, 2012. (Not that I miss it -- just having to get used to the new and improved RI)

On edit: My bad.... didn't know there are 9 (NINE!) board looks to choose from. I've tried them all now, and call me boring but I still like Getaway Darkblue the best (6 years of familiarity tends to trump change).

[82_28]

We gotz arcades here too. But they aren't like they used to be. You know what I'm saying.

A: kids aren't allowed as alcohol must invariably be sold

B: growing up, things were different for us as far as going to some arcade in a mall -- that shit was formative back then!

C: as a kid you always knew you had a place to go when your parents or whoever "had to" go to the mall for something -- they'd just let you hang out there and then come back and say "time to go".

D: that doesn't happen anymore in any real capacity. Children are given "play dates" and they no longer make decisions for themselves.

E: it used to be just the way it was -- you'd go to 7-11 and meet up with friends -- now friends are nowhere to be found. We gathered around video games as perhaps a hearth or fire was in other generations.

F: arcades are retro and not cutting edge entertainment to kids anymore -- which is fine -- however, one of those things you don't see anymore as it was.

[justdrew]

yeah, the whole Barcade thing... here the one that let's kids in: http://www.wunderlandgames.com/
they've got two locations, tho only one has the cheesy cinema in it

but yeah, even that, not the same.

[compared2what?]

Sounds cheezy, but going to McDonald's was a real treat once.

Only one rung below a holiday with gifts, when I was little. There was nothing on the menu except hamburgers, cheeseburgers, shakes, and fries, IIRC.

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On what feels to me like a related note, the Sear's catalog was a flat-out photo tour of PARADISE, as far as I was concerned. I lived for that thing, even though I took it for granted that I couldn't have anything in it.

For some reason, I felt similarly about the Castle cake...



...in Betty Crocker's Cookbook for Boys and Girls. But I don't know why. Presumably, making it would have been within the bounds of possibility if I'd thought it was.

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I don't know, though. In my heart, I still really feel that it can't be done, tbh.

[Forgetting2]

Not exactly, but phones with no answering machine or voicemail. Counting the number of rings before deciding someone wasn't home and hanging up. People used to just drop by for a visit sometimes and it was acceptable to do so.

[Iamwhomiam]

hoop skirts and crinoline

[Asta]

Cafeterias

Full service gas stations that don't cohabit with a convenience store

Five and Dime stores (although The Dollar Tree might be the new S. W. Woolworth minus the soda fountain)

On that thought, soda fountains in drug stores

School notebook binders that were covered with denim that you could draw on.

Perfumes that aren't named after celebrities

Book satchels versus back packs for school text books and homework

School summer break that was a real summer break

Text books that don't cost more than a car payment.

Silly Putty (but I think that my brain is totally made up of that stuff sometimes).

Toys that didn't invoke violence but inspired creating. Remember Mr. Machine?

Revell kits that had more than just planes and ships, i.e. animals. Not just for boys. Girls could paste together a bird and paint it, too. And feel proud.

Those cool little bubbly Christmas tree lights.

Manual typewriters which I have and I don't know where to get the ink ribbon.

Simple sewing machines. Oh, let's just say, sewing. No one sews anymore. We just throw it out and buy a replacement.

Done now. Getting depressed.

[compared2what?]

Revell kits that had more than just planes and ships, i.e. animals. Not just for boys. Girls could paste together a bird and paint it, too. And feel proud

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The guy who founded Revell now makes utopian and/or dystopian claims for a living. (Jacques Fresco, of Zeitgeist Addendum and The Venus Project.)

Off topic, but how often does one get the chance to remark on such things? Increasingly, you just don't see those too often anymore.

[Hammer of Los]

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The guy who founded Revell now makes utopian and/or dystopian claims for a living. (Jacques Fresco, of Zeitgeist Addendum and The Venus Project.)

Yer kiddin' me?

I used to like the Aurora Prehistoric Creatures!

They were poseable, fer chrissakes!

And anatomically accurate!

Snap fix!

No need fer glue!

Colour molded!

No need for paint!

And they came with dioramas!

Phew.

I'm gettin' all over excited now.

Anyway.

Iamwhomiam, you are definitely showing your age.

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[justdrew]

[stoneonstone]

Summer nights spangled with lightning bugs. Driving thru a corn field full of bats. The sussurations of cicadas, crickets, grasshoppers and amphibians that once made up the summer night symphony. The long migratory trails of birds, thousands of birds long, going to winter shelter.

So much gone or growing dimmer in my lifetime.

These things...even turtles crossing...and a biblical plague of frogs on the roads after every rain are still very much part of life (like it was when I was a kid 40 odd years ago) here in Prince Edward County, Ontario.

Sounds like one of the few places left...though we are under the airspace of Trenton RCAF base...

[DrEvil]

Lawn darts
Sane people
Dead Presidents
Mail order Uranium
Good hashish

[H_C_E]

Midgets beating each other in the park.

[82_28]

The great American naturalist Aldo Leopold once wrote that he was glad he would not be young in a future without wilderness. Indeed, he may not have been thrilled to know the sonic environment he enjoyed each day is gone; the sound of highways now mingles with birdsong, which itself has changed with the redistribution of species. But he took such detailed and copious field notes that we can recreate that environment, hearing the sounds of nature as Leopold himself would have.

http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2 ... bird-calls

Click to hear what it MIGHT have been like only now DIGITALLY recreated and also read the article. It's way up this thread's alley.