And even then, it’s a day-night doubleheader where you have to pay for two admissions.
When I was in junior high school, poncho shirts were the “in” thing, they had long pointed tails and were supposed to be worn out of your pants. But our school required that the shirts be tucked in.
So we “rebelled” by wearing our belts so the buckles were on the side instead of in front.
Bolding mine.
On the contrary, I worked in two different gas stations in the late '80’s/early '90’s that still had a full-service island.
There was actually a Green Stamp redemption center in the nearest ‘big city’ that mom would redeem hers at.
My contribution: The big pile of boxes in the front corner of the grocery store they would use to put your groceries in instead of bags. And they would wrap string around the flaps to keep them up so they could load them full.
I occasionally see S&H Green Stamps slot machines at casinos.
Every year in December, certain movie theaters ran Fantasia!
ETA: Yes, the original unsanitized version, complete with the bare-breasted female centaurs!
Not always. I’ve been to a few Mets single admision double-headers including one earlier this season.
We have a chain here (Bottom Dollar) that still does this. They have no grocery bags. After you take your items from your shopping cart and place them on the belt, they’re scanned and then put in another shopping cart behind the cashier.
What you do with them from that point on is your headache. You either have brought cloth bags, or you load them in cardboard boxes near the door (no string, though). Or, I suppose, put the items in your car individually.
P.S. It’s possible that the Aldi chain does this too. I wouldn’t know though. Once I found out I couldn’t have a shopping cart unless I put a quarter in its slot, and there was no way to get change other than (wait in line and) ask a cashier, my first visit was my last.
Also, being able to put ‘City’ on a piece of mail if it was to be sent locally instead of putting the entire address and zip code.
Many areas in CA now do not supply shopping bags, you bring your own. It’s the Law.
That’s a fond childhood memory of mine. My dad would boost me up and let me find the matching socket for the tube and plug it in. He even kept a collection of old burnt out tubes so that he could leave me at the tube tester to “play” while going and doing the grocery shopping.
Yes, and that’s another thing which kids today wont see- a parent trusting his kid to play with glass tubes, a powerful electrical device, and by himself instead of one 'rent standing within 5" watching for the dread* “Stranger danger!!!”
- and mostly mythical.
Educate an old person. Those kids with the cassette player are not aware that you need headphones to listen to music. How do they listen on their iphones? I don’t have one but I thought that they also used earbud-type headphones that have to be plugged into the phone. Do the kids all just play their music out loud?
They are talking about the actual headphones that came with the Walkman, not earbuds.
Those “Kids React/Teens React/Seniors React” are all heavily edited and partially staged.
I’m guessing that image of modern parenting is also mostly mythical. If anything, kids nowadays probably have less parental supervision then they did when I was a child.
Yes, and?
We used to put “Via Air Mail” on any mail that was supposed to go, uhm, pretty far. I don’t remember what the trigger was, but we did it.
Also, back when we didn’t use 2 letter abbreviations for states. It took me years to write MA instead of Mass. and CT instead of Conn.
Sars? The first outbreak was only 12 years ago.
The private library the wife and I belong to has card catalogs. I love them.
I think some of the Thai stations still do that, but it’s been a while since I checked. Thai TV is horrible.
As for antennas, you still see lots of them in Thailand, but they’re expected to disappear soon. The government is on a big push to modernize TV viewing.
To this day, I still don’t abbreviate states when I write to the US. I just like spelling out the state in full.
And of course airmail was written on onionskin paper to save precious ounces.
It also could be written on the envelope, which would be folded up and sealed.
For regular mail you could just use a postcard if you didn’t care if anybody saw what you wrote. I think they were 2 cents less than regular mail.
And of course, you had to lick stamps.