No, probably from the BBC. The UK has a license fee for TV sets to financially support the BBC. Some people say they don’t have a TV set when they actually do [to avoid paying the tax]. The trucks with the antennas on top were designed to catch these people.
I’ve never seen so many bleeding aerials!
It was spelled that way on the van!
…and so long as you are in a place with reliable internet. Again, ripping music from your own CD to your own device provides the tunes anywhere. Everyone going toward streaming was, to me, a step past optimal.
So does the offline mode for every major music streamer.
How does that work? Is it like YouTube, where you have to tell it to download the stuff you will be listening to?
Not sure if childhood fads work for the OP, but…
Marbles
Yo yo
Bubblegum cards
all had a brief flare of excitement in my junior school life.
My kids are into Pokémon, which I am hoping will lose the surprisingly long allure, because those stupid cards are very expensive. And they just collect, they don’t even play the game!
They’ll be around for a while. If you don’t have access to cable, it’s your only choice really. I had one.
At least two of those three predate you, and had waves of popularity before you were born, unless you are extremely old. So, they don’t really fit the OP’s description.
Fads come and go. I don’t need to be old to have played marbles as a kid.
I would need to be much younger to have gotten into Pickachu cards.
Quoting the OP:
Marbles and yo-yos were there when you were born, and were a young child, but may have been in between surges of popularity.
Trading cards are older than anyone here and have not gone away; it is the individual ones that come and go (unless they remain really popular: baseball cards?)
As far as fads go, I wonder if cinnamon toothpicks count. Obviously toothpicks have existed for a long time, but I never saw a cinnamon infused toothpick before the fad in my school in the 80s, and I don’t think I’ve seen one since.
There is a large mall here in Seattle WA, Alderwood Mall, that is doing very well and is always very busy. I suspect it is all of the anchor stores and satellite restaurants and theater that keep the people sustaining the mall proper itself. The mall concourse almost mainly serves as an indoor path to walk between the various anchor stores, while the concourse stores themselves are constantly in various stages of boom/bust rotation.
There are more than I would have thought:
cinnamon toothpicks - Google Search
At my school they were gone by the late seventies.
Marbles are at least 4,500 years old and definitely don’t count for this thread.
I figure toys and similar fads are not in the spirit of this thread. Otherwise we’d be listing Tickle Me Elmo or Tamagotchis or Space Invaders or something. That’s another thread.
It might be a little different depending on which service you subscribe to but in general yes, you just tap on the download icon for whichever songs, albums, favorites, playlists, etc you want.
Yes, as well as dance crazes like the Macarena.
Interesting things, but for another thread.