What are you old enough to remember?

[+ Charlie]

2 minutes ago, Rudynate said:

Thanks for catching that.  should I edit it, or leave the way it is?

Edit.

[Rudynate]

1 minute ago, Charlie said:

In the mid-1960s, even the early gay rights protesters wore suits and dresses. I remember Frank Kameny, one of the most prolific organizers, insisting that he wouldn't take part if everyone weren't "properly" dressed.

I have seen the photographs.  They look pretty sexy in their business attire.

[+ tassojunior]

4 minutes ago, Charlie said:

I know that he became involved in the Presidential election the following year, but who invited him to the funeral? Senator Goldwater?

There were a thousand invited people in the close-in area past the gates and my parents and I were at the circle area where they got out of their limousines and press were taking photos. He was the only one bold enough to do a photo op with a young child I guess at a funeral. I was too young to know who he was but he was in the news a lot making speeches for Goldwater against Rockefeller for the nomination. The convention was just a few months away and Reagan was Goldwater's main speechmaker. He became famous for those speeches and it propelled him into the governorship. In person he was different than other people. A lot.

[Rudynate]

On 7/11/2023 at 11:21 AM, Unicorn said:

Has Old Timers' Disease taken hold such that you can't remember the title of the string, "What are you old enough to remember?"? While drive-in movies had their day (in the 50s and 60s, I believe), the whole point is that they're a thing of the past. I only went to one in my life, as a child in the 1970s, and that was because I begged my mother to take me, before on of the last ones closed. 

Yep - it was a 50s - 60s thing.  Now and again, my father would load us all in the car to catch a movie at the drive-in.  We absolutely loved it - a real treat.   The last drive-in theater in the Bay area was in Union City and closed, I think, in the early 'oughts.  I used to drive by it every morning on the way to work, telling myself that we needed to go the drive-in.  There's a big shopping mall and a 25-plex there now. 

Edited July 17, 2023 by Rudynate
correction

[+ tassojunior]

17 minutes ago, Rudynate said:

I was scared shitless.  I couldn't understand why nobody else seemed to be. 

I was scared enough it was my first real fuzzy memory as a child who could only write my name and a couple words with help to bury in a bottle. Yet today putting nuclear missiles on Russia's border is no big deal they say and nuclear war is nothing to fear. Like living in a world of Dr. Strangeloves. Makes me cringe after that early trauma of nukes in Cuba. I think most adults then were just too stunned to talk about it. Imminent death stuns. 

[Rudynate]

40 minutes ago, tassojunior said:

I was scared enough it was my first real fuzzy memory as a child who could only write my name and a couple words with help to bury in a bottle. Yet today putting nuclear missiles on Russia's border is no big deal they say and nuclear war is nothing to fear. Like living in a world of Dr. Strangeloves. Makes me cringe after that early trauma of nukes in Cuba. I think most adults then were just too stunned to talk about it. Imminent death stuns. 

In the months following, the Agency for Civil Defense went around and identified buildings that could serve as fallout shelters after a nuclear attack.   They were marked with black-and-yellow signs that indicated the capacity of the shelter and were supposed to be stocked with enough food and water to last for two weeks after the attack.  I haven't seen one of those shelter signs in awhile.   Everybody talked about building fallout shelters in their backyards.  We had one neighbor who actually did it. 

[+ tassojunior]

36 minutes ago, Rudynate said:

In the months following, the Agency for Civil Defense went around and identified buildings that could serve as fallout shelters after a nuclear attack.   They were marked with black-and-yellow signs that indicated the capacity of the shelter and were supposed to be stocked with enough food and water to last for two weeks after the attack.  I haven't seen one of those shelter signs in awhile.   Everybody talked about building fallout shelters in their backyards.  We had one neighbor who actually did it. 

all of a sudden "duck and cover" made zero sense once it was imminent.

I remember for years all the ads for pre-fab fallout shelters to bury in your yard. Debates on whether to shoot your neighbors if they tried to get in too. The feds have a huge one out toward West Virginia for "the government" to go to. I remember on 9/11 the black suv's rushing them over the closed bridges to WV so it's still there. VISA/MC is buried out there too so they can keep working after nuclear war. Ridiculous.  

[Rudynate]

On 7/13/2023 at 5:06 AM, poolboy48220 said:

I was three when that happened, no memory of it.  A friend, a year younger than me, says he remembers it - no details but he remembers everyone being sad.

I was in  6th grade. The principal came on the PA system to announce that the president had been shot, but the box in our classroom was out so we didnt hear it.  We did hear a sudden commotion in the hall outside the classroom.    A girl who had been excused a little early for a doctor appointment or something like that came rushing back in to say that the president had been shot.  The teacher slapped her face for saying such a horrible thing.  When we went back to school the next week, the teacher apologized to her profusely.  

[Guest]

1 hour ago, tassojunior said:

...I remember for years all the ads for pre-fab fallout shelters to bury in your yard. Debates on whether to shoot your neighbors if they tried to get in too. The feds have a huge one out toward West Virginia for "the government" to go to...

There may be a different one now, and it may be in WV, but the original one from the 50s has been decommissioned, since reporters figured out its location in the early 90s. It wasn't very discreet; it was housed under a huge luxury hotel. Given its busy location and the number of people working on the project, it's amazing this secret was kept for as long as it was. I've been there twice for medical conferences, and one can, for a fee, take tours of the former bunker, with its Senate and House of Representatives. Apparently, each legislative room had somewhat more desks than the actual number of Senators and Representatives, so as to be less obvious. 😉 There's probably now a newer facility, hopefully in a more discreet location. Whether it's also in WV or not, I don't know.

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[+ tassojunior]

5 minutes ago, Unicorn said:

 

Congress is 99% useless in a "strong executive" government like ours and what power they had they've mostly delegated to the executive branch anyway. They're mostly there for show and to get bribes now (and they bicker over those bribes vehemently.) But having a show of a legislature is important to the government. Obviously what we never hear about is the nuke-proof executive command center. I remember on 9/11 how W was rushed to somewhere mountain west (while I had to walk home from my fed job so important people could be driven). But what really matters evidently is that VISA/MC is safe buried somewhere out past Ashburn, Virginia (though I've heard they want a new bunker). Can't let borrowers get out of their credit card debt for a silly thing like a nuclear war. That one takes the cake. 

[+ sync]

I ponder the scenario after the parched earth is declared once again habitable and the once rich and powerful realize there is no "working class" to do their biddings.

[Rod Hagen]

I remember calling the operator just to ask for the exact time.  Did anyone say that one yet?

[Act25]

58 minutes ago, Rod Hagen said:

I remember calling the operator just to ask for the exact time.  Did anyone say that one yet?

I'm remembering a special number you could call and an automated voice would give you the time.  

[mike carey]

2 minutes ago, Act25 said:

I'm remembering a special number you could call and an automated voice would give you the time.  

'At the third stroke it will be 12.26 and 30 seconds.'

[Guest]

50 minutes ago, Act25 said:

I'm remembering a special number you could call and an automated voice would give you the time.  

It used to be POPCORN in the SF Bay Area. But I can't imagine calling an operator to ask for the time... 

[+ azdr0710]

Safe link

.. https://youtu.be/raF8xDgWkI0

Edited July 18, 2023 by azdr0710

[BSR]

Kansas City circa 1980, a super-divey neighborhood actually had a drive-in movie theater that showed porn flicks.  When I went with a couple of friends, all of us 16yo, the ticket guy gave us a look but didn't bother to ask for ID.  Ugh, they showed the worst porn ever made, but at least I can check "porn drive-in" off my bucket list (not that it was actually on my bucket list).

[mike carey]

13 minutes ago, BSR said:

Kansas City circa 1980, a super-divey neighborhood actually had a drive-in movie theater that showed porn flicks.  When I went with a couple of friends, all of us 16yo, the ticket guy gave us a look but didn't bother to ask for ID.  Ugh, they showed the worst porn ever made, but at least I can check "porn drive-in" off my bucket list (not that it was actually on my bucket list).

More like that's something I'll never have to do again!

[+ azdr0710]

 

"You'll always find operators ready to help whenever you need them."

 

Edited July 29, 2023 by azdr0710

[Luv2play]

22 hours ago, BSR said:

Kansas City circa 1980, a super-divey neighborhood actually had a drive-in movie theater that showed porn flicks.  When I went with a couple of friends, all of us 16yo, the ticket guy gave us a look but didn't bother to ask for ID.  Ugh, they showed the worst porn ever made, but at least I can check "porn drive-in" off my bucket list (not that it was actually on my bucket list).

Perhaps it was Russ Meyers and his straight porno flics. I only saw one or two thinking I would see some hot guys fucking broads but it was this middle aged bald guy with a lousy flabby physique fucking broads with big tits.  What a turnoff.

[+ sync]

 Alas, alas!

 

[muscmtl]

Pozzing

[ICTJOCK]

How much my mother enjoyed  "The Waltons"  and "Dallas"  two nights in a row

How a remote worked as a little kid  (and my uncle explaining it was a new feature).  I don't really remember a TV without a remote,  however.

A specific election  (but since politics was banned here,  I'll just say the comments from my parents in dismay).

My first Ralph Lauren polo shirt as a kid  (now a closet full)

[+ bashful]

On 7/18/2023 at 11:58 AM, Unicorn said:

It used to be POPCORN in the SF Bay Area. But I can't imagine calling an operator to ask for the time... 

In Detroit, I remember dialing WEATHER for the weather forecast.

Also remember we had a party line.

Edited August 13, 2023 by bashful