Nostalgia Lane

[smokeshadow]

Do you remember when the only way to own a porn video was to order it in 8mm or 16mm film format through the mail? 

 

BTW - does anyone know where I might be able to download a digital copy of this?  I've checked out several online sources (TLA video, Rad video, pornhub, etc.) with no luck. 😭

 

 

[Kawika]

Stan's Donuts was open from 1963 until 2020 in Westwood Village @ Weyburn and Broxton Ave I went there every morning for years when I lived nearby... you never knew who you would run into there... Best donut and coffee to go in the world in my opinion... he recently died. RIP

[rwc]

On 2/27/2024 at 10:06 AM, Kawika said:

I never had these... but luckily I learned diplomacy when I was quite young... a pair similar to this were hanging in the apartment I rented when I was a student... and I was tempted to go to the manager and tell him I would pay anything to get these hideous lamps out of my apartment... as I was thinking about what to say... he knocked on my door and apologized thst he had forgotten to take them down as he had bought them from the previous person who occupied the apartment.

To each their own.  We love our lamp from the 70's.  The only value maybe sentimental, but that's what nostalgia is all about.

[Steve]

[JackFTwist]

15 minutes ago, Steve said:

26 years ago is "old"? 🤯

[smokeshadow]

1 hour ago, Steve said:

I'd wager that most of us here are at least this old 

 

 

[ElfredNox]

21 hours ago, Ludwick said:

For me, it's the "candy man" / child catcher in "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang". Really, that whole film will do a number on a child, but the long-nosed guy luring children with candy to capture them with a net, and enslave them on behalf of Baron Bomburst, was the worst. 

 

 

like that, as horrible as it is, is realistic. creepy old guy trafficking children, reasonable to be fearful of that especially in retrospect as an adult.

as an adult i fear bodies of water. which is rational, to some degree, but that fear can be traced back to this:

this film absolutely destroyed my love of water. i used to love to swim. my dad had a small, tin can of boat that we would tie a tube to and rip around the river. loved that. until i saw lake placid. after that i could not enjoy it. like i tried. the first time after i saw the movie and i got onto the tube is, i think, the closest i ever came to a panic attack. like i wanted to cry, scream, but i just couldn't and i had to endure that ride, terrified the entire time. this film single handedly destroyed my ability to enjoy water at all. i will not even go into a swimming pool if i can't see the bottom.

though, while lake placid took away my love for water it did inspire a love/hate relationship with b-movie, creature features.

[Brucex]

5 hours ago, Steve said:

Much, much older!

[Steve]

[Horace12]

9 minutes ago, Steve said:

Remember 'em well!  They still managed to get America addicted to broadcasts!

[cdadbr]

3 hours ago, Steve said:

The main USA 3 networks, a regional independent station, plus an educational station.  That is one of the larger sets pictured!  Up to 27" B & W was a real treat!

[smokeshadow]

^^and you, as a child, were the remote 

[Ludwick]

5 hours ago, Steve said:

Yep - that was most of my childhood. We were eventually gifted a color TV by a friend of my father.

[Ludwick]

1 hour ago, cdadbr said:

The main USA 3 networks, a regional independent station, plus an educational station.  That is one of the larger sets pictured!  Up to 27" B & W was a real treat!

We could only pull in 2 of the 3 networks (CBS and NBC), plus iffy reception of a UHF PBS station. I don't recall what changed, but in my late teens we could sometimes pull in a UHF ABC station. 

[cdadbr]

2 hours ago, Ludwick said:

We could only pull in 2 of the 3 networks (CBS and NBC), plus iffy reception of a UHF PBS station. I don't recall what changed, but in my late teens we could sometimes pull in a UHF ABC station. 

Christmas 1963, I got a 19" Motorola B&W portable tv on a metal roll-around cart.  Had the internal single antenna.  In the middle 1980s, when "subscription tv" was around, I could carefully tune that old tv into those stations after mid-night, on UHF.  Snowy, but watchable, straight porn.  LOL  Some nights better than others.

[Brucex]

14 hours ago, Steve said:

How about B&W, 405 lines and only two channels - remote what's that? The first television I can remember was a 1956 14" Peto Scott

[ElfredNox]

as a kid there was a tv like this in the "playroom", which was just this room connected to the living room that wasn't really separate but it's where i was supposed to play. we had a sega and later playstation hooked up to it. the snes was hooked up to the tv in my parent's room. i used to spend hours playing sonic on that tv but never managing to get further than the third zone. 

i later had one of these in my room

it was small but was still a heavy tube tv. i say that because it sat on top of my dresser and one day i was trying to open the bottom drawer which stuck and the tv fell on my head. both me and the tv survived without significant injury.

[Steve]

[cdadbr]

13 minutes ago, Steve said:

It's the COLOR!  Not white.  Not black.  Not stainless (real or fake).

[Ludwick]

22 hours ago, Brucex said:

How about B&W, 405 lines and only two channels - remote what's that? The first television I can remember was a 1956 14" Peto Scott

We had something like one of these; probably a Zenith. It ended up in a spare room that had been my eldest brother's. I would watch it when I didn't care for what people were watching in the living room. 

 

 

[Brucex]

Learning road safety in early 1960's Britain with the Tufty Club. Obey the rules or the giant squirrel will get you!

[Kawika]

When I was an undergrad... this was a very popular wine... they also had a very catchy television commercial...

Hey...hey... hey... Mateus Rose

[Horace12]

4 minutes ago, Kawika said:

When I was an undergrad... this was a very popular wine... they also had a very catchy television commercial...

Hey...hey... hey... Mateus Rose

A bottle of their rose was the first alcoholic beverage I ever bought.  I brought it home and drank it with my "girl friend" in my room.  It was very bold and wicked, since both my parents were total teetotalers.  I rather liked the taste, and don't remember getting much of a buzz.  Sweet memory now, though!

[JackFTwist]

2 hours ago, Kawika said:

When I was an undergrad... this was a very popular wine... they also had a very catchy television commercial...

Hey...hey... hey... Mateus Rose

It was also popular to put a candle in the neck of the empty bottle and let the melted wax run down the bottle's sides when you lit the candle.  If you used different colors of candles over time, the result was a fairly decorative-looking item by the standards of the time.  I may still have mine at the bottom of one of many moving boxes that haven't been unpacked in decades.  It's been even longer than that since I last tasted Mateus.

Edited March 3 by JackFTwist

[Kawika]

33 minutes ago, JackFTwist said:

It was also popular to put a candle in the neck of the empty bottle and let the melted wax run down the bottle's sides when you lit the candle.  If you used different colors of candles over time, the result was a fairly decorative-looking album by the standards of the time.  I may still have mine at the bottom of one of many moving boxes that haven't been unpacked in decades.  It's been even longer than that since I last tasted Mateus.

I was thinking about those candles melted on the bottle in different colors too... had a couple on the lanai... mine are lost to time when I moved from Honolulu to London.