Nostalgia: What would you bring back?

[Paul_in_Qatar]

Let’s just knock a zero off all the money so a dollar can buy something again.

[Martini_Enfield]

@salinqmind

We DESPERATELY need the Saturday Night Creature Feature back on television, complete with campy, scary host (usually the noontime news anchor in bad makeup, bad accent, and bad vampie costume). And if possible, the Saturday Afternoon Shock Theater as well. “Attack of the Crab Monsters”, “The Giant Behemoth”, “Forbidden Planet”, “Bride of Frankenstein”, and any of the sadly overlooked yet classy Hammer horror films. I know some of these movies make it onto TV, but they just aren’t the same without a local-celebrity hilarious host yukking it up between commercial breaks. (We had this kind of thing when I was young, and Baron Daemone is a GOD in the history of broadcasting here.)!

In a similar vein, I’d like to see more Campy B-movies being made for Matinee or Cheap Tuesday screenings- make the tickets some stupidly low sum of money (AUD$3-$5 or something equally trivial) and have a double feature of movies that are true B-Grade But Fun and everyone can enjoy themselves!

Also, I’d quite like to see newsreels brought back. I think they’re swell.

[EvilTOJ]

Friday night videos. Hell, how about MTV when they played music videos?

The dollar movies, that were actually a dollar!

I don’t know why, but I actually kinda miss the Cold War. I remember during the 80’s it seemed more like a rivalry, not unlike schools from neighboring towns. Plus we could always make fun of the Russians in our movies. Nowadays we can’t mock terrorists because that’s “being insensitive of other cultures” :rolleyes:

Actual Sci-fi movies.

Smoking wherever the hell you wanted.

+1 to arcades. Especially where the games only took ONE quarter! Only the newest and most in demand games took TWO quarters! TWO!

[Ronald_C.Semone]

@athelas

Technology that went out of its way to look mechanical and fancy, what with brassy polish and whatnot. Steampunk is trying to appropriate some of that look to our more understated gadgets, such as this laptop.

Where can I buy a laptop like that?

[PoorYorick]

@Martini_Enfield

Also, I’d quite like to see newsreels brought back. I think they’re swell.

And cartoons. Hell, I want going to a movie to be a big deal again, with uniformed ushers and curtains in front of the screen that opened when the movie began. Maybe it’s selective memory, but going to a weekend movie was an event.

[Freudian_Slit]

Gingerbread boys.

[Freudian_Slit]

@Zsofia

Standards of dress, certainly. Soldiers with their shirts tucked in. Kids playing in the neighborhood.

I’d like the three martini lunch and the Mad Men liquid workday without having to be, because I’m a girl, the one who pours it all. I’d like to pick and choose, but I’d like everybody dressing like Don and Betty Draper, please.

Well, seems guys haven’t changed that much in five decades. But dressing like this? Ew. Kill me now.

[Johnny_L.A]

Hey, my mom used to dress like that! :mad:

[Freudian_Slit]

@Johnny_L.A

Hey, my mom used to dress like that! :mad:

And did you wanna do your mom?

[RTFirefly]

Pinball machines where you got 5 balls, rather than 3, for your nickel/dime/quarter/whatever. When they made that change was when I stopped playing pinball - I’d had enough 5-ball games where 2 of the first 3 balls would drain without ever touching flippers, that I couldn’t see playing pinball anymore if they only gave you 3 balls.

Raise the price, sure. But don’t cut the number of plays.

[RTFirefly]

Hippies, and especially hippie chicks. With the latter wearing peasant blouses with no bras underneath.

[Johnny_L.A]

@Freudian_Slit

And did you wanna do your mom?

Ew! :eek:

(Well, dad wanted to, obviously.)

[Shot_From_Guns]

@jabiru

Eating at the table. Or, more specifically, not eating walking along the street.

Move to Japan. People look at you funny if you eat while walking there.

[Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus]

@purplehorseshoe

Seconding (thirding? fourthing?) the old car styles. So many times when I’m out in my (super-anonymous) Civic, I look at all the other Accords and Civics and Tahoes out there and just think: bleah.

So true! I’ve owned a Nissan Altima for several years and I can’t tell you how many times I’ve walked up to a Honda, Lexus, or even a BMW sedan that happened to be the same color, and almost tried to stick my key in the lock.

[AHunter3]

@Freudian_Slit

And did you wanna do your mom?

::Checks poster name::

::nods wisely::

[Zsofia]

@Freudian_Slit

And did you wanna do your mom?

My boyfriend definitely wants to do Betty Draper.

[Oakminster]

@Spoons

I miss the days of hats also (I have a few I like to wear myself), but I think if we’re to return to those days, we’re going to have to insist on proper hat etiquette. That means no hats are to be worn indoors by gentlemen at any time, no matter where indoors happens to be–school, church, office, pub, bar, club, etc. In other words, no more baseball caps, cowboy hats, Bob and Doug toques, Blues Brothers porkpies, Indiana Jones fedoras etc. worn inside.

I guess I’m old fashioned, but it disturbs me to see so many men wearing hats indoors. To me, a man indoors wearing a hat just doesn’t seem right.

Yup. Legendary Coach Paul “Bear” Bryant would not even wear his trademark hat while coaching the Sugar Bowl, once the game moved to the Superdome. Indoors is indoors, even if it’s a 70,000 seat stadium.

[Freudian_Slit]

I still stand by my ginger bread boys.