Remember when?

[144man]

I'll never forget. I was in high school and we always used our basement to "entertain" our girlfriends. One time my Mom was vacuuming down there, went over to the sofa and pull out my brown paper bag of condoms! She did it without even missing a beat and did not say a word. My parents knew everything we were doing all the time ! I didn't know that until years later LOL!!!!

That's because they had eyes at the back of their heads...well, that's what my parents used to tell us.

[marv2]

That's because they had eyes at the back of their heads...well, that's what my parents used to tell us.

Like that episode of the "Dick Van Dyke Show" huh? LOL!!!! Kodiaks LOL!

[arr&bee]

i'll never forget. I was in high school and we always used our basement to "entertain" our girlfriends. One time my mom was vacuuming down there, went over to the sofa and pull out my brown paper bag of condoms! She did it without even missing a beat and did not say a word. My parents knew everything we were doing all the time ! I didn't know that until years later lol!!!!

haaaaa..basement???[rich kid,hehe]my relatives had basements,i had a small living room and mom would pop in about every five minutes just to say[hi,are you two having fun]and we had to smile and say-yes ma'm when i wanted to say..mom i could really have some fun if you'd go to the grocery store for oh say an hour,hehehe...no such luck.

[marv2]

haaaaa..basement???[rich kid,hehe]my relatives had basements,i had a small living room and mom would pop in about every five minutes just to say[hi,are you two having fun]and we had to smile and say-yes ma'm when i wanted to say..mom i could really have some fun if you'd go to the grocery store for oh say an hour,hehehe...no such luck.

LOL! I use to wish my parents would go out of town for the weekend. Every now and then, they did! Boy did we have fun LOL!!!! My father had this unnerving habit of listening in on your phone calls on the upstairs line. I knew he was doing it. One time when I was about 15, I asked him why he did that. He said "Because I can and it is my house!" LOL!

[nativeNY63]

It was like that at our house too until about 1969 when we got a TV for my brother and mine's room. Before that, back in the mid -sixties we did have a second, old television set in the attic where my brother and I would fight over whether to watch Batman or Lost In Space since they came on at the same time. LOL!

Marv, I had the same experience. Black and white tv sat on top of our dresser. We fought like animals. So one day, we crashed up against it and the b & w hit the floor. The channel knob snapped right off! Having no respect for electrical current/conduction, we used a needle nose pliers clamped to the knob stem! Hey! Can't miss Will & Penny. Or Adam West & Burgess Meredith [[Penguin). Silly kids.

[marv2]

Marv, I had the same experience. Black and white tv sat on top of our dresser. We fought like animals. So one day, we crashed up against it and the b & w hit the floor. The channel knob snapped right off! Having no respect for electrical current/conduction, we used a needle nose pliers clamped to the knob stem! Hey! Can't miss Will & Penny. Or Adam West & Burgess Meredith [[Penguin). Silly kids.

Well you guys were more advanced than us. Had that happened to me, my brother or my sister, we would tried to stick it back on with chewing gum! LOL! Chewing gum came in handy for almost everything it seems as a kid. LOL!!!

[nativeNY63]

Or like on the "Newly Wed Game" they would say "making Whoopee!" LOL! They thought were dumb as kids or something.

And what about that " sleeping with" replacing the act? Took me umpteen years to understand that one!!

[nativeNY63]

Parents would always every command: "Because I said so!" or "If you don't want to obey the rules, you can leave!"

[Jerry Oz]

Don't forget the infamous "if Jimmy wanted to jump off a tall building, would you do that too?" when you excused bad behavior by saying you did it because your friend led you into it.

[marv2]

Don't forget the infamous "if Jimmy wanted to jump off a tall building, would you do that too?" when you excused bad behavior by saying you did it because your friend led you into it.

Yep! The I also remember. "I don't care what Mrs. Holmes let Kenny do, you're not going......!" hehehehehehehe!

[marv2]

Was there anything called "Child's or Kid's Rights" when you guys were kids? There was such thing where I grew up. LOL!

[arr&bee]

was there anything called "child's or kid's rights" when you guys were kids? There was such thing where i grew up. Lol!

haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...stop it i'm on the floor,child's rights-haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...yeah we had the [right]to do as we were told and keep our little smart mouths closed,and if we decided that we had the[right]to talk back then they had the right to shut you up,haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...kids rights,marv,you need to be on stage with that one-haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

[marv2]

haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...stop it i'm on the floor,child's rights-haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...yeah we had the [right]to do as we were told and keep our little smart mouths closed,and if we decided that we had the[right]to talk back then they had the right to shut you up,haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa...kids rights,marv,you need to be on stage with that one-haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!

OMG! I was just about to say, we had the right to shut and do what we were told! LOL! Call someone on your parents? You better be calling Ghost Busters, because you will not be able to sit down because your behind would be hurting so bad LOL!

[Jerry Oz]

Black parents gladly give their kids the phone when they threaten to call children's services on them. Most probably have a business card at the ready in case the dummies need the number.

[marv2]

Black parents gladly give their kids the phone when they threaten to call children's services on them. Most probably have a business card at the ready in case the dummies need the number.

My father didn't even have that much patience with that kind of nonsense. I can hear him now. "You better shut up and get up there and go to bed before I get the belt"! LOL!

[nativeNY63]

Yep! The I also remember. "I don't care what Mrs. Holmes let Kenny do, you're not going......!" hehehehehehehe!

And sometimes you got Mom's comeback"....then, go live with [[fill in child/ or parent's name)!"

[marv2]

And sometimes you got Mom's comeback"....then, go live with [[fill in child/ or parent's name)!"

i remember my sister was 7 she tried to run away. She packed a suitcase and everything. My mother met her at the door and open it for her. My sister walked about half block and got scared and came back! LOL!

[arr&bee]

Haaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa..cute,just one look from mom and any thoughts like that quickly vanished...[and so did i before she read my mind,hehehe]!

[nativeNY63]

From Michael Jordan to Kayne West, the lowly tennis shoe is now a cultural icon. With prices ranging from $200 to thousands of dollars!
What happened to Pro Keds, with the little red & blue stripes? Plain white Reebok high-tops? Chuck Taylor's? [[Are making a comeback, but not the same)

[arr&bee]

Or those two dollar tennis we used to get from safeway,way back in the day.

[marv2]

Or those two dollar tennis we used to get from safeway,way back in the day.

My mom would get them at A&P! LOL!!!!!

[Jerry Oz]

Or those two dollar tennis we used to get from safeway,way back in the day.

Yeah, we called them "white boys", "buddies" and "Bobos". You wouldn't want to get caught dead wearing them. Now, I buy them without any thought at all. I've seen kids take most of an afternoon using a toothbrush to literally detail their shoes like they would a Cadillac Eldorado. And don't get me going on the fact that those young fools would gladly go to prison if necessary in order to steal a pair from another kid who worked his butt off to buy them [[or whose parents gave them as a gift). Sneaker culture is a blight on society.

[marv2]

Yeah, we called them "white boys", "buddies" and "Bobos". You wouldn't want to get caught dead wearing them. Now, I buy them without any thought at all. I've seen kids take most of an afternoon using a toothbrush to literally detail their shoes like they would a Cadillac Eldorado. And don't get me going on the fact that those young fools would gladly go to prison if necessary in order to steal a pair from another kid who worked his butt off to buy them [[or whose parents gave them as a gift). Sneaker culture is a blight on society.

It really is an incredibly dumb phenomenon! I still don't get it.

[nativeNY63]

It really is an incredibly dumb phenomenon! I still don't get it.

Sneaker heads.

[nativeNY63]

Yeah, we called them "white boys", "buddies" and "Bobos". You wouldn't want to get caught dead wearing them. Now, I buy them without any thought at all. I've seen kids take most of an afternoon using a toothbrush to literally detail their shoes like they would a Cadillac Eldorado. And don't get me going on the fact that those young fools would gladly go to prison if necessary in order to steal a pair from another kid who worked his butt off to buy them [[or whose parents gave them as a gift). Sneaker culture is a blight on society.

Love that! " Detail their shoes! Good one!

[lakeside]

Remember 'vacation' post cards? Do they even sell them anymore? They sure
seem like a dinosaur in this age. With Iphones, Facebook, Snapchat and all
the rest..I imagine they're just a memory from the past. People post their
travels immediately on social media.

[144man]

Remember 'vacation' post cards? Do they even sell them anymore? They sure
seem like a dinosaur in this age. With Iphones, Facebook, Snapchat and all
the rest..I imagine they're just a memory from the past. People post their
travels immediately on social media.

I've still got a couple I bought in the US in the 90s and never got round to sending.

[Jerry Oz]

I've still got a couple I bought in the US in the 90s and never got round to sending.

I still have the vivid memory of post cards and days old foil wrapped hamburgers from the Howard Johnson's we used to stop at on family trips to Virginia. I used hope we could go a few extra miles until a McDonald's or Burger King would pop up but usually we had to pull over to HoJo for gas, a pee break and to eat those over-priced very suspect protein patties.

[nativeNY63]

And with texting, when was the last time someone wrote a letter? Had a conversation? A face-to-face one, I mean?

There's even a term from those immersed in that "sneaker culture". Their called sneaker heads! Like pot heads. It's apt. These ones are addicted to sneakers! Heard of a case in Cali., where when this guy's brother died, he buried his entire collection, secretly! Because if other sneaker heads knew what was in the collection they would have robbed and killed the surviving brother!!! What?!

[Jerry Oz]

Kids sometimes text while sitting next to each other. It's unnerving to see two kids sitting down while giggling and trading glances without saying a word. Makes you want to smack them on the side of the head to see if they text "ouch" to each other.

[marv2]

Kids sometimes text while sitting next to each other. It's unnerving to see two kids sitting down while giggling and trading glances without saying a word. Makes you want to smack them on the side of the head to see if they text "ouch" to each other.

That is so true! LOL!!!!

[marv2]

I remember always seeing these gigantic, yellow billboards for "Stuckey's" when we'd travel by car South. We never saw one but they were some sort of restaurant.

[nativeNY63]

And "Bob's Big Boy", "Jack-in-the-box", "Burger Chef", "Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips", "LongJohn Silver's."

[marv2]

And "Bob's Big Boy", "Jack-in-the-box", "Burger Chef", "Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips", "LongJohn Silver's."

I hated Roy Rodgers or Rogers along the Pennsylvania Turnpike. They had the absolute worst food of all back in the 80s!

[marv2]

And "Bob's Big Boy", "Jack-in-the-box", "Burger Chef", "Arthur Treacher's Fish & Chips", "LongJohn Silver's."

"Jack in the Box" was about as low quaiity as "Checkers" aka "Rallys" when I was in college. The Big Boy franchise in Michigan was Elias Brothers and Shoney's Big Boy and in Toledo, it was Frischs Big Boy. I liked their burgers.

[arr&bee]

I love-long john silver's.

[marv2]

I love-long john silver's.

Long John Silvers is good. I took my mom there earlier this year. I also remember Arthur Treachers' Fish and Chips mostly in the 70s. They closed some of their restaurants and it's been years since I've seen one.

[marv2]

Nothing on Earth is better than a Detroit Coney Island though.........LOL! Best darn chili dog there ever was!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coney_...#Detroit_style

[Jerry Oz]

Rally's bought out the old Snapp's burger joints and the food went downhill from day one. I don't eat meat anymore but Snapp's burgers were the only ones that tasted like beef to me. And Arthur Treacher's used to be the funk. I remember them serving their food on newspapers, which would gross the crap out of my wife but was part of the allure back then. None of the modern fish 'n chips restaurants compares, although we have a local bar [[Old Bag Of Nails) that comes close.

[arr&bee]

My daughter told me that there are still[churches]chicken shacks still around.

[Jerry Oz]

There's a Church's about three miles from the folks' place. Another about five miles from where I live. Before I stopped eating meat, I had already written off Church's when I bought an 8 piece [[which is normally legs and thighs) and paid three dollars to upgrade it to mixed light and dark meat and they gave me one wing and one breast for the extra three dollars. Not extra pieces, mind you. They switched a thigh for a wing and a leg for a breast. Why wouldn't they give me four light and four dark? I can't stand places where the employees are tone deaf to customer service.

[arr&bee]

But grady's still survives,amazing!!

[Jerry Oz]

We used to have a chicken restaurant in central Ohio called Sister's Chicken and Biscuits. That was the only thing that beat out KFC back then and the first restaurants to sell biscuits in our area. Also, Golden Bird which was cooked with a ton of garlic in the seasoning. Now, Popeye's seems to be as popular as KFC since the Colonel costs too much and has notoriously poor quality. Glad I gave it up.

[arr&bee]

Popeye's is da joint,in my estimation kfc is a distant third heck as far as i'm concerned-golden skillet is ahead of them...legend has it that church's chicken got started when an overflow of grease from grady's kitchen ran over and a new chicken spot was hatched!

[Jerry Oz]

That's probably true. I heard that a bunch of deacons ate at Grady's one Easter Sunday and later they began to sweat and it had so much grease in the sweat that they used it to cook the chicken. That accounts for all of the salt in the seasoning.

[nativeNY63]

And the ol high school go-to, White Castle. Steamed burgers on a square bun. Or as we called it in the Boogie Down - murder burgers!

[marv2]

And the ol high school go-to, White Castle. Steamed burgers on a square bun. Or as we called it in the Boogie Down - murder burgers!

How many nights I've been out in the city drinking and partying and wake up lying face down in a plate of White Castles in Huntington, NY! LOL! OMG! Oh and the one in Brentwood, LI.

[Jerry Oz]

The term "sliders" originally referred to White Castle hamburgers. And it was not a term of endearment. I'm happy because they sell Impossible Meat sliders now. Waiting for Burger King to drop its Impossible Whopper here in a month or so.

Remember when "meat" came from an animal?

[arr&bee]

Some eateries still use meat today...from whatever is laying on the road!!

[marv2]

Some eateries still use meat today...from whatever is laying on the road!!

Ever notice that there aren't many stray dogs and cats running around some neighborhoods? hehehehehehehe!