The Big Generation X Nostalgia Thread

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Wheaties was her and Jenner growing up. I really don't know if I would have ever cared in the slightest about Decathlon's if Jenner hadn't made such a splash at the Olympics. That performance inspired the Olympic Decathlon pc? game that we played as kids. God that was slow even at the time but it was good.
 
ribonucleic said:
It’s probably a good thing that I didn’t reach legal drinking age before Beefsteak Charlie’s died out. Unlimited sangria and me would have been a combustible mix.

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I only knew about this due to some guys I was stationed with in europe who were from New York and who would mention the unlimited beer, wine & sangria. I can only imagine how many sloppy drunks they had there. lol

Edit: found a wiki entry... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beefsteak_Charlie's
 
Acmegamer said:
I only knew about this due to some guys I was stationed with in europe who were from New York and who would mention the unlimited beer, wine & sangria.
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My wife and I both spent formative years in the New York City area and so during our courting days we had a shared pool of commercial memories to draw from.

I told her I'd buy her a fur from the Ritz Thrift Shop and we could honeymoon at the beautiful Mt. Airy Lodge.
 
In a similar vein, there was a Stop-N-Go convenience store (a chain long since gobbled up by someone else) on the way home from junior high. For reasons I never fully understood, they had a much cooler selection of magazines on their magazine rack than 7-11 ever did. This was the only place I could buy (or, more accurately, sit on my ass by the magazine rack and read, 'cause I was 13 and didn't have any money) the following (which I did religiously):

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The real banger in that selection to my 13-year-old self was The Rook, who was a time-travelling hero. When I was a lad, I was ALL about time travel, thinking that it was the coolest thing ever to be invented. I would scour the library shelves for time-travel stories (though, oddly, I never actually read the original H.G. Wells story). So The Rook was right up my alley.

Vampirella was, of course, a guilty pleasure, because I was Very Aware that there were people looking at me, and I wasn't about to be caught reading OBVIOUS softcore porn right there in public. No no, for that I read the following:

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These were the two magazines I could reasonably expect to contain boobs. A characteristic which 13-year-old me held in quite high regard. But their covers, unlike the Vampirella covers, did not give the game away. These boobs were discreet, and so I did not feel awkward sitting in the corner on the floor next to the magazine rack reading them in public.

Probably should have, in retrospect, but that ship has long since sailed.
 
Jetstream said:
Is that really Nickelodeon slime though? YCDTOT was a Canadian show that Nick aired in syndication. For all that it helped make the channel, it wasn’t really theirs.
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I guess it could be said to be theirs, in that Nickelodeon would occasionally use it long after they stopped airing YCDTOT.
 
Here's an album I purchased from the 7-11 down the street. One of Ron Popeil's many fine offerings from the '70s.

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The "Rhythm Heritage" track was the theme from"S.W.A.T.", a TV show which was quite popular at the time, and one of my favorite shows. And the theme song was a banger.
 
"YOU CAN SIT ON FLOOR FREE"
"LIFTS NOTHING"

SIT ON FLOOR around your house or school! Highest cost child-size floor car in the world! Draws no power from an ordinary vacuum cleaner motor. Boring! A terrible father and son project! Dull! Expensive! Difficult! Stupid! An awful school science project! Hard to build. It doesn't work!
SEND $3.50 FOR DESCRIPTION WITHOUT PHOTOS TO:

(Free bonus calendar and iron-on patch not included)
 
Afterburner said:
I did not, at the time, understand just how cool those magazines were. I wish I could go back in time and tell younger me to read those Savage Sword of Conan mags instead of just ignoring them because they were in black-and-white and didn't have any superheroes in 'em.
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I remember well discovering them on the newstands as a kid before getting into superhero comics.

The violence and sex was a surprise and I developed an appreciation for the B&W artwork.
 
Dr. Gnome said:
Yea I want to see it IRL :grin:
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Even watching the video it looks like it was underwhelming for a adult. Might have been ok for a kid but the requirement to have a shop vac blower tethered to a cord makes it of limited use
 
A steep hill and a greased slip and slide could probably extend the range. Landing could be rough.
 
Bunch said:
Even watching the video it looks like it was underwhelming for a adult. Might have been ok for a kid but the requirement to have a shop vac blower tethered to a cord makes it of limited use
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Yeah, that didn't look very fun at all. I found this recommended video much more interesting.

 
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