Nostalgia just ain’t what it used to be

[Off_base]

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll look them up.

+1 on Mammoth wvh. Fabulous music if you're a rock fan seeking new/vintage music? Wolfie has a great voice too!

 

[Off_base]

+1 on Mammoth wvh. Fabulous music if you're a rock fan seeking new/vintage music? Wolfie has a great voice too!

And forgot to mention, Wolfie plays all the instruments and sings all the lead vocals and harmonies on his recordings. An absolute genius.

 

[DeMont]

Is LA the only place where people refer to their freeways with "the"?

I remember taking the 405. And the 10. And the 5. And the 101.

I'm not there anymore. No more "the's."

@SimonDoom,
In the U.K. we had "The" A1, to "The" B12 go North twenty miles and get of on "The" B15... I remember that.
In Australia we had, Take Polly Farmer to Wellington, jump off and get onto Roe then get onto the Joondalup expressway.
Now, here in Illi-noise we have, Get on 6, follow it to 175, turn left onto I80 and follow it to... to... someplace...

No wonder I'm so confused. Why do roads in Illi-noise have three names? One is the I74, which is also named (noun) and then turns into something else (according to the GPS)

Helllllllllp...!!!
Respectfully going nuts,
D.

 

[nice90sguy]

I loved smoking in planes, on the subway, and at the back or top deck of buses.

When I first travelled to the US in 1980, I sat at the back of a bus in LA, and lit up a camel. None of the passengers said anything; after all I could have had a gun. The bus driver stopped the bus, walked all the way back to me and said, "No smoking on the bus, unless it's weed, in which case, no Bogarting". True story. That was the moment I knew the US would be my new home.

 

[LexxRuthless]

I think a common nostalgic complaint for people my age has been, "Man. You remember when they used to play music on MTV?" A few years ago, I saw a documentary titled "I was an MTV VJ." That was a nice little trip down nostalgia lane. What really surprised me was that I never realized just how quickly it all happened. I was aware that the network struggled to get viewers early on, because MTV was on cable and cable television was still in its infancy.
Within 2 years, it took off. MTV was suddenly HUGE and extremely influential. Less than 5 years later, they were firing all the original VJs, and new executives were promoting more and more "reality TV" shows. It had felt to me like MTV had been a big cultural influence for a longer period than it actually was.
There were so many musical acts from around the world that I never would have heard, living in central Texas, if not for MTV.

 

[LexxRuthless]

Here's a flipside -- something none of us miss: Long distance phone charges. I remember vividly that a couple who hosted an early Bulletin Board System for a bunch of us got a whopping $3000 long distance bill one month in 1995.
A couple years later, I was watching a talk show and a futurist (it might have been David Brin, but I'm not sure) predicted that the rise in cell phones would lead to those long-distance charges completely disappearing. I thought, "Well, there's no way the phone companies are going to let that happen." One of those cases where I was happy to be wrong.