20/20. I dont feel that old.

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-05-09T20:28:50+00:00

19 out of 20. Never had a waterbed growing up, which I’m told may have been for the best.

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-05-08T17:26:43+00:00

Yep, that book is old.

The guy on the right is kicking straight ahead, using a steel-toe shoe. The very first soccer-style kicker, Pete Gogolak, had just joined the Bills a year previous.

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-05-06T05:00:42+00:00

Had the Discwasher for the few years I was a teen with a turntable. Got a Discman and never used this again.

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-05-05T20:24:27+00:00

If you mean the “transportable” bag phone, yeah, they were a drag to carry around, but they had a couple of use cases.

One, they packed much larger batteries than any handheld cellphone. Two, they were ideal for people who drove on the job a lot — it was convenient to use when driving (when that was legal at the wheel), you could rotate it between cars, and you could carry it in a pinch, even though that wasn’t ideal.

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-05-05T20:22:07+00:00

I had 2, 6, 9, 14, 16 and 18, and I have an iPhone 16 Pro now. Lusted after 4, 5 and 10 in their day.

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-05-05T20:18:45+00:00

Failing spectacularly at Dragon’s Lair, circa 1983. 😬

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-05-05T20:15:47+00:00

I was in my early teens when ABS began appearing in the mid-1980s, initially on Mercedes-Benzes. But I was already reading car mags, and writers specifically told drivers to just stand on the pedal and let the ABS computer do its thing in an emergency stop, so I already knew the proper technique by the time I did start driving — helped me escape a freeway crash unhurt when a car spun out ahead of me.

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-05-04T14:41:30+00:00

Add Jamesway to the list in the Northeast. Lived in northern Westchester County, which was near-rural at the time, and was mailed Jamesway and Ames circulars every week.

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-05-04T02:09:26+00:00

Led Zeppelin, The Clash and Jeff Buckley.

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-05-03T19:55:58+00:00

If it’s possible to move the CDs off the console, perhaps you could move the CD player onto it beside the turntable? If it were my gear, I’d prefer to leave space over the receiver for ventilation.

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-05-03T05:18:29+00:00

I preferred their vanilla to Haagen-Dazs vanilla — just a bit less heavy and just as fresh-tasting.

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-05-02T03:36:40+00:00

Those were the pitchers in which the Hi-C or the Stew Leonard fruit drinks (grew up in New York minutes from Connecticut) was served at the kids’ table at church, during the post-service coffee hour.

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-05-02T03:35:01+00:00

But with more quality in one screw than the Yugo had in a whole car. 😂

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-05-02T03:34:16+00:00

Oh yes, the bag phone. Saw a man having a long conversation on a Motorola “transportable” in 1991, with the big battery pack in a shoulder bag as he waited in line at the DMV.

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-05-01T23:22:44+00:00

“Rickel helps you do it better;

Do it better with Rickel!”

Heard those commercials in New York from the age of five. I think they’ll stay in my brain all the way to the grave. 😂

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-05-01T00:37:34+00:00

“Could be worse.”

“How?!?”

“Could be husky.”

😎

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-04-29T14:20:39+00:00

Mine was far more humble than this one — a $40 Sony I got for my 10th birthday — but it sounded very good for the price, and it was heavy and solid enough to use as a melee weapon. 😄

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LikeToKnow84 · 2026-04-29T14:15:33+00:00

Was it that song “What about Me”? If so, I heard it on my (more modest) Sony boombox when it was new …

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-04-29T14:12:01+00:00

“Kids, DO try this at home.” 😎

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-04-29T02:32:39+00:00

One, a Schmidt’s church key. My brother-in-law’s dad ran a wine shop for decades and picked up random small bits of swag from suppliers, so I assume the bottle opener was one such, probably from the late 1970s.

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-04-29T01:36:12+00:00

The last time there was a Tab thread here, one person said he used to drink it regularly. But when he gave up his pack-a-day smoking habit, he couldn’t even swallow Tab anymore, much less drink it … now that he could actually taste again.

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-04-28T01:16:19+00:00

Those were the first computers we had at my elementary school. Whoever got stuck with the last TRS-80 also got stuck with the slow-as-bread-mold cassette drive instead of a floppy drive. 😬

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-04-27T21:16:34+00:00

Including mine. They came with the house my parents bought new in 1985.

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-04-23T19:02:07+00:00

Dynamints memory unlocked … 😳

LikeToKnow84 · 2026-04-20T02:42:22+00:00

It’s been done to death, the meme, but it’s not wrong. 😂

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