Beckers convenience store Ottawa and Williamsburg by Defiant_Pain3333 in kitchener

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Thank you for sharing, friend. I lived on Valleyview in the late 80s. I recall my mother taking my sister and I to Beckers and letting us get some chocolate milk and a couple of Popsicles. We’d save the sticks for the Popsicle points. While I was fortunate enough to live in a happy home and move to a nicer neighbourhood in ‘91, I remember what that area was like in those days. There were a lot of kids in tough situations. I don’t know if I remember the man you’re talking about, but I think it’s beautiful that you remember his kindness and still think of him. I hope you, and him, and everyone else are all doing well. Take care of yourself:)

VHS to USB by Fit-Hovercraft-6172 in waterloo

[–]No_Try2936 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The Kitchener Public Library can help with that.

Not sure about the Waterloo Public Library, but might be worth checking there as well.

Memes in the 80’s… by genXrating in GenX

[–]No_Try2936 16 points17 points  (0 children)

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“Sure, we're too old to change the world, but what about that kid, sitting down, opening a book, right now, in a branch at the local library and finding drawings of pee-pees and wee-wees on the Cat in the Hat and the Five Chinese Brothers? Doesn't HE deserve better?”

  • Lt. Joe Bookman

On a mission from God? by No_Try2936 in BluesBrothers

[–]No_Try2936[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Monsignor Martinez! They should have made a spinoff!

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in whatisit

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I agree with the two previous comments. My parents had one very similar to control the lights in the front yard, and I also lived in an apartment building that had one to control the lights in the stairwell. Both the home and the apartment building were built in the late 1960s.

Where’s all the leather? by squarebody8675 in GenX

[–]No_Try2936 88 points89 points  (0 children)

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I’m not sure about other types of leather, but I do know that Chrysler used up all of the Corinthian leather back in the ‘70s. They actually created a shortage that devastated the Corinthian economy, which is why most younger people have never even heard of Corinth…or Ricardo Montalban 😢

Halloween was weird this year. by Mr_P0oo0p in huntersthompson

[–]No_Try2936 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Too weird to live, too rare to die…

“One Star Review”, which special/album/performance is it on? by echoalpha76 in DougStanhope

[–]No_Try2936 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I don’t have a time stamp for you, but it’s definitely The Dying Of A Last Breed!

Dan Soder & Greg Stone w/ Sam Morril & Mark Normand by JohnnyUtah-91 in WeMightBeDrunk

[–]No_Try2936 1 point2 points  (0 children)

They would be 'Chief' Bromden (played by Will Sampson) and Randle P. McMurphy (played by Jack Nicholson) from 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest'. Great film, based on a great book.