# Things you miss . . . **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 19, 2003, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-miss/182861 "2003-06-19T04:39:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![voguevixen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b5ac83/32.png) [@voguevixen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voguevixen)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-miss/182861/61 "2003-06-21T17:11:35Z")
Another from Saturday morning: **The Baseball Bunch: with Johnny Bench** “_You can come too We’re waiting for you We’ve got a HUNCH YOU’LL LOVE THE Baseball Bunch!_” It think it was one of the last things in the morning right before **This Week in Baseball** and all the games started. I loved that show! They showed you how to slide without getting a “strawberry” (bruise) on your thigh, heh. ---
**Author:** ![Jerrybear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/8c91f0/32.png) [@Jerrybear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jerrybear)\ **Post date:** [June 21, 2003, 5:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-miss/182861/62 "2003-06-21T17:35:13Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by PatrickM \* > \*\*The Richfield (Ohio) Coliseum. It was a great place to see a basketball game, even if it was the only NBA arena where as a driver you had to worry about crashing into a deer before getting in the parking lot. It had great sight lines from every seat in the house. \*\* I never went to a basketball game there, but I went to three Grateful Dead shows at Richfield. One on the Fall 1993 tour, and two on the Spring 1994 tour. I really, really miss the guy who was playing lead guitar at those three shows. That chubby dude with the long grey hair, beard and glasses. Jerome John Garcia was his full name, but we all knew him as Jerry. I know I speak for many, many other Deadheads when I say “We miss you, Jerry!” ---
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-miss/182861/63 "2003-06-28T04:27:33Z")
In no particular order: Top 40 AM radio, 1968-1975. The Drake format. WCFL (Chicago). CKLW (Windsor). CHAM (Hamilton, ON). CFTR (Toronto). CHUM (Toronto). Disc jockeys who were genuinely, insanely funny. French fries with gravy. (They don’t know what that is in the US.) My cherry sunburst Les Paul Custom with the brass hardware. Not having to pay bills and income tax. The original Mountain Dew in the green glass bottle (“It’ll tickle yore innards!”). The smell of my grandparents’ house - a mixture of pipe and cigarette smoke, freshly brewed coffee and toast with peanut butter. John Lennon. My mom. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 4:35am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-miss/182861/64 "2003-06-28T04:35:59Z")
Marathon candy bars. ---
**Author:** ![Suse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@Suse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Suse)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-miss/182861/65 "2003-06-28T04:51:21Z")
I’ll second the nomination of CKLW. Also old horror movies. One favorite starred Vincent Price as a failed Shakespearean actor who murdered his critics in ways taken from the plays of Shakespeare. Another touted its “fear flashers” and “horror horns” to warn you when the scary stuff was coming up. My kids will never understand the appeal of Christopher Lee and Vincent Price, and how movies can be scary and not show any blood or gore. Sigh. SCTV. I loved that show! One of our local stations has recently started broadcasting movies after SNL; sometimes my teenager and I watch them together. I just wish they weren’t showing recent movies, but some of the old black and white ones - I may never be able to find a copy of Dead Ringer with Bette Davis or The Bad Seed with Patty McCormick to show her otherwise! ---
**Author:** ![Trafalgar\_Laura](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trafalgar_laura/32/2907_2.png) [@Trafalgar\_Laura](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trafalgar_Laura)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-miss/182861/66 "2003-06-28T05:01:58Z")
I miss the awe and excitement of every space mission. We were so proud and hopeful, then. ---
**Author:** ![shy\_guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a6a055/32.png) [@shy\_guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shy_guy)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-miss/182861/67 "2003-06-28T05:53:02Z")
The 16-bit era of video gaming. Sonic vs. Mario, blood vs. no-blood, Sega CD, Game Gear… Old-school Power Rangers. Fox Kids saturday mornings - starting with Dog City and ending with X-Men. ---
**Author:** ![Mockingbird](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c68b51/32.png) [@Mockingbird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mockingbird)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 6:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-miss/182861/68 "2003-06-28T06:50:28Z")
My nervous system when it completely worked. ---
**Author:** ![SnugTheJoiner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/e8c25b/32.png) [@SnugTheJoiner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SnugTheJoiner)\ **Post date:** [June 28, 2003, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-miss/182861/69 "2003-06-28T07:30:42Z")
SHOCK THEATRE hosted by Roland (John Zacherle). Seeing a cartoon and a newsreel before the movie. Turkish Taffy. REAL Christmas-tree tinsel made of some thinner-than-possible metallic foil, not that plastic crap that they sell nowadays. At Disneyland: Journey to Inner Space, Nature’s Wonderland, The Carousel of Progress, and real, honest-to-God Indians performing traditional dances in Frontierland. Believing that I would really visit the Moon someday. And, even though he’s only been gone for a few months: the Reverend Mr. Fred McFeeley Rogers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-miss/182861.md?page=3)