# the best things in life are old school **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [March 6, 2013, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-things-in-life-are-old-school/652168 "2013-03-06T06:49:37Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 9:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-things-in-life-are-old-school/652168/81 "2013-04-25T09:23:27Z")
> [@handsomeharry](#): > > Women wearing white gloves and hats to church. Really, **handsomeharry**? I’m curious to know how this was better, unless that’s all they wore. ---
**Author:** ![Locrian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/locrian/32/14146_2.png) [@Locrian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Locrian)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 9:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-things-in-life-are-old-school/652168/82 "2013-04-25T09:49:24Z")
Coming home from school, jumping on my bike, building forts in the woods with my friends, and not needing to be protected by a parent from kidnappers. A REAL Pizza Hut (the kind with servers). Sony Walkmen. ---
**Author:** ![monstro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ba9def/32.png) [@monstro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/monstro)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 11:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-things-in-life-are-old-school/652168/83 "2013-04-25T11:40:46Z")
Recording songs on the radio on a tape cassette. Everyone roller skating in the street during the summer. And you knew a song was the shiznit when it was a good “roller skating” song. Doing the 5-4-3-2-1 countdown at the beginning of movie reels in school. Film strips. _BEEP!_ Calories didn’t exist because there were no nutrition labels. ---
**Author:** ![Si\_Amigo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/si_amigo/32/2877_2.png) [@Si\_Amigo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Si_Amigo)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 12:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-things-in-life-are-old-school/652168/84 "2013-04-25T12:41:46Z")
Porn, French post card style and early Playboy. Women with pubic hair and no extreme closeups of genitalia. And none of this instant gratification anything goes internet crap. ---
**Author:** ![Obnoxious\_Hood\_Ornament](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3be4f8/32.png) [@Obnoxious\_Hood\_Ornament](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Obnoxious_Hood_Ornament)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 1:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-things-in-life-are-old-school/652168/85 "2013-04-25T13:02:19Z")
> [@](#): > > Porn, French post card style and early Playboy. Women with pubic hair and no extreme closeups of genitalia. And none of this instant gratification anything goes internet crap. Ah, but you never forget your first _goatse._ 😃 ---
**Author:** ![KRC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/45deac/32.png) [@KRC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KRC)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-things-in-life-are-old-school/652168/86 "2013-04-25T21:42:07Z")
Laughing because there was a porno theater on **Main Street.** And then really laughing when you sister got caught trying to sneak into it. ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-things-in-life-are-old-school/652168/87 "2013-04-25T22:46:17Z")
> [@Si\_Amigo](#): > > Porn, French post card style and early Playboy. Women with pubic hair and no extreme closeups of genitalia. And none of this instant gratification anything goes internet crap. Agreed, but with gay porn. I love the muscle worship stuff like Atheletic Model Guild, and the ridiculous excuses they came up with in the films for the models to get naked (when they bothered with excuses at all). Other than the nudity they’re not explicit at all, _at most_ theres some kissing or implied hanky panky behind a piece something. Even in the 70s when things started going hardcore pornos still had plots which could be entertaining on their own. I do find the lack of condom use in vintage porn to be really unsettling though. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-things-in-life-are-old-school/652168/88 "2013-04-25T22:56:53Z")
hmm…mending? sewing on a button, blindstitching a hemline? Replacing a button on a shirt, picking one from a bottle of ‘saved’ buttons? a charcoal grill to cook on. I know there are Weber smokers, but I mean the $30 Mecco cheapie. Everyone around here has a gas grill, I haven’t sniffed any burning charcoal except ours in years. Ladies sleeveless woven cotton shirts, not gauze, not rayon, not polyester, not knit. (Surprisingly hard to find. As are (according to an angry relative) ‘old lady’ slacks with a covered elastic waistband like they used to sell in Sears and Penneys.) Waiting for the ice cream truck? ---
**Author:** ![BMalion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e274bd/32.png) [@BMalion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BMalion)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2013, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-things-in-life-are-old-school/652168/89 "2013-04-25T23:48:24Z")
Having your first job, at 13 years old, as a paperboy. ---
**Author:** ![Hermitian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hermitian/32/470_2.png) [@Hermitian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hermitian)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2013, 4:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-things-in-life-are-old-school/652168/90 "2013-04-26T16:06:34Z")
> [@lieu](#): > > Banks offering gifts for opening a savings account. Savings accounts that gave you interest. ---
**Author:** ![6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/6/e19adc/32.png) [@6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/6ImpossibleThingsB4Breakfast)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2013, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-things-in-life-are-old-school/652168/91 "2013-04-27T02:24:18Z")
Dinner parties, and progressive dinner parties Cheap lamb shanks because they weren’t trendy Anything that involved the building excitement of anticipation Reciprocal company loyalty; you liked the company you worked for, and they strived to keep you there ---
**Author:** ![panaccione](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/94ad74/32.png) [@panaccione](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panaccione)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2013, 7:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-things-in-life-are-old-school/652168/92 "2013-04-27T07:03:58Z")
No cellphones. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2013, 4:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-things-in-life-are-old-school/652168/93 "2013-04-27T16:15:26Z")
Old schools. (Those rectangular brick buildings with wide stairways and windows and chalkboards.) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-best-things-in-life-are-old-school/652168.md?page=4)