Your first...

[lovecraft68]

No, not that first, we hear enough about that in all the 'true' stories here and cool story Bro posts. I'm talking about some of your first material things, but with the caveat they were the first that you bought with your own money, not gifted to you.

In other words the first 'blank' you went out and purchased with an allowance, birthday money, money earned from doing chores for neighbors etc..

Here are some of mine

1-First album-Queen: The Game
2-First Car-a 1976 Ford Maverick Grabber I paid $400 for in 1984 beat on but still a good deal on a cool car
3-First movie I bought tickets for-Empire Strikes back paid for me and my older cousin who drove us there
4-First concert-Jethro Tull 1982-tickets were $13 each and it was also my first 'real date' as I only bought tickets because the girl I liked was into them and her father dropped us off and picked us up.
5-First Comic book (cause I'm a nerd) Saga of the Swamp Thing #2 from 1978 at Lanes drug store.
6-First book-Jay Anson's Amityville Horror at Bounano's Drug store in a bargain bin for .50
7 First video game: Activision's Pitfall for Atari 2600
8-One more because this is lit. First adult mag I bought when I was 18 and could go into the infamous "Corner Book Shop" in Olneyville was Bondage Life because yeah, I was already delving into BDSM. In the same vein I also bought a VHS tape that featured porn legend Seka

List these for yourself or add your own.

 

[TheLobster]

I think this is a great place to mention the thread about privacy that has surfaced recently

 

[NotWise]

That was a long time ago. I remember candy and model airplane kits. I would have been about seven.

 

[lovecraft68]

I think this is a great place to mention the thread about privacy that has surfaced recently

Yes, I am giving tons of info away to anyone around my area in the early 80's. Bet the grandkids of the guy who owned Lanes drug store are circling my house as we speak planning a home invasion to get that comic back.

 

[liliput1]

I think this is a great place to mention the thread about privacy that has surfaced recently

What was your first pet's name and what was the first street you lived on? You know, so I can get to know you better.

 

[liliput1]

That was a long time ago. I remember candy and model airplane kits. I would have been about seven.

Without a context that sounds illegal. But maybe that's the vibe here.

 

[lovecraft68]

That was a long time ago. I remember candy and model airplane kits. I would have been about seven.

I think there's an entire generation that built a lot of models for ulterior reasons.

 

[lovecraft68]

I think there's an entire generation that built a lot of models for ulterior reasons.

And then there's the reason you now have to show ID to buy spray paint...

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Some answers from me, close to or possibly even including the truth. People know my rough age already, but if they didn't they will after this;

1 First album- INXS - Kick. OK, I bought Phil Collins - But Seriously... at the same time. I stand by both choices!
2-First Car- the now-spouse's beat-up and much repaired Vauxhall Cavalier, in that shade of early 80s red that faded terribly. The first time I drove it, I nervously went up to third gear and there was an almighty clanking grating sound. He assured me it was just the exhaust falling off again, and walked back to get it. It's amazing how much of a car can be held together with gaffer tape and it still passed its MOT (like a medical for cars once they're 3 years old - they have to pass annually to be allowed on the road).

3-First movie I bought tickets for- Might have been The Fly 2. It was rated 18 but back then 13 year olds could get into 15 and 18 films no problem.

4-First concert- Michaela Petri playing Vivaldi's Four Seasons on recorders. Guns 'n' Roses Get in the Ring tour was just after. Amusingly, they weren't allowed to play Get in the Ring, because it would force 100,000 people living around Wembley to hear too many swear words.

5-First Comic book - Honestly don't think I've bought one since I was reading Pippin and Playhour and using my first pocket money coins. I read my friends' Bunty, Mandy, Judy etc.
6-First book- Probably a tatty Enid Blyton from the village fête. At 18 I was lent Heinlein's Number of the Beast and then bought The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, from the era before he got quite so obsessed with sex and redheads and remembered to put in a coherent plot, but he was the first author I'd read who made it very clear that there were women who were enthusiastic about sex, and men who appreciated such women!

7 First video game: Monsters, for the BBC Micro. Particularly impressive because it came on a disk!
8-One more because this is lit. First adult mag I bought - Would have been on a Soho shopping spree, again with the now-spouse. We were persuaded by a 3 for £20 deal in the Janus bookstore (Janus being a spanking mag and publisher of such stuff), and I picked out a copy of Februs, their corporal punishment mag aimed at women, which basically meant better-looking men than in Janus...

Good luck getting into my bank accounts with that lot.

 

[NotWise]

I think there's an entire generation that built a lot of models for ulterior reasons.

I never got into sniffing the glue. Or spray paint.

 

[AwkwardlySet]

Damn, I totally expected this would be about something else.

My first electric guitar was made in Japan! But no, it wasn't a Yamaha, it was a crappy brand. Still have it though.

The first game I ever played, I believe, was the Popeye arcade game. Olive releases hearts, and Popeye has to collect them, with Brutus chasing him. I can still remember as a little kid how thrilling it felt when I'd grab the spinach, grow muscles, and beat the crap out of Brutus!

The first movie I had seen at the cinema was, I think, American Ninja. I thought Dudikoff was the coolest guy ever.

 

[lovecraft68]

from the era before he got quite so obsessed with sex and redheads and remembered to put in a coherent plot, but he was the first author I'd read who made it very clear that there were women who were enthusiastic about sex, and men who appreciated such women!

Ironic seeing obsession with sex and redheads started me writing-um, wait, I need to change that to one redhead in particular lest this become my last post.

Thank you for answering, the comic book answer is intriguing.

Good point on better male models in that genre.

 

[lovecraft68]

I never got into sniffing the glue. Or spray paint.

Me either, but both were and are a thing.

I only survived an insanely potent case of double pneumonia in my early thirties because of how healthy my lungs were, a huffer wouldn't have stood a chance.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Ironic seeing obsession with sex and redheads started me writing-um, wait, I need to change that to one redhead in particular lest this become my last post.

Thank you for answering, the comic book answer is intriguing.

Good point on better male models in that genre.

I'm really terrible at interpreting the pictures in your typical nerdy comic. I did manage to read and enjoy Sandman, but only thanks to a copy of The Sandman Companion, which would mention things like 'on page 22, panel 1, so-and-so trips over a dead body in the snow' and I'd get the offending page, stare at a white square with some wiggly lines, and still not see the dead body...

Bunty, Judy, Mandy, Nikki etc were aimed at teenage girls and had various comic strip stories, some self-contained, mostly ongoing either forever or some weeks, including some daring exotic adventure, some girl with a superpower, some historical story of an impoverished servant girl, and a few dramas set in modern schools (The Comp, the Four Marys)

I do actually own the first two editions of an artsy erotic mag aimed at women, called Quim, including their very popular Redhead issue. Not that I have any particular interest in redheads, but the particular chaps in the photos are beautiful art. Sadly, it went out of business after less than a year.

 

[lovecraft68]

I'm really terrible at interpreting the pictures in your typical nerdy comic. I did manage to read and enjoy Sandman, but only thanks to a copy of The Sandman Companion, which would mention things like 'on page 22, panel 1, so-and-so trips over a dead body in the snow' and I'd get the offending page, stare at a white square with some wiggly lines, and still not see the dead body...

Bunty, Judy, Mandy, Nikki etc were aimed at teenage girls and had various comic strip stories, some self-contained, mostly ongoing either forever or some weeks, including some daring exotic adventure, some girl with a superpower, some historical story of an impoverished servant girl, and a few dramas set in modern schools (The Comp, the Four Marys)

I do actually own the first two editions of an artsy erotic mag aimed at women, called Quim, including their very popular Redhead issue. Not that I have any particular interest in redheads, but the particular chaps in the photos are beautiful art. Sadly, it went out of business after less than a year.

Back in the later fifties and sixties romance and teen romance comics had a huge market and many of them hold some pretty good value in its niche market. I landed a bunch from Atlas(formerly marvel and would return to marvel) comics in a collection recently and sold them all to one collector at a show.

 

[THBGato]

First album .... Er... "The Simpsons sing the Blues". "Do the Bartman" was getting loads of radio play. I think I was 7. I got it on cassette.

First car. Ford Escort. Cost £130 but then I almost immediately had to pay about the same to replace the windscreen. Drove it for 8 months til it failed it's MOT.

First movie.... No idea.

First concert. That I went to? The Bootleg Beatles aged 7. That I paid for? May have been David Gray just after "White Ladder" came out

First comic book: it would have been an Asterix. I saved up my pocket money as a child to buy them. I still have them all, though most are falling apart.

First video game: I've never bought one.

First book: no idea. Possibly Huckleberry Finn or White Fang. Or maybe a joke book.

First adult mag: I've never bought one.

 

[Kumquatqueen]

Back in the later fifties and sixties romance and teen romance comics had a huge market and many of them hold some pretty good value in its niche market. I landed a bunch from Atlas(formerly marvel and would return to marvel) comics in a collection recently and sold them all to one collector at a show.

The rare few that survived in good condition! I wasn't reading anything until the late 70s, and certainly all the mags and comics I read as a teenager were passed round at least a dozen people until they weren't even fit for chip paper - unless the owner had carefully cut out the posters of their favourite heartthrob, which again would destroy the value of the comic!

Though my dad has a collection of near-mint comics, early 2000AD, the Eagle, etc. I might suggest he consider selling them before the cohort of interested collectors dies off, next time he frets about potential nursing home fees... I've never been allowed to read them!

 

[BeechLeaf]

First book? Well, perhaps some Ladybird thing, perhaps something in cloth. I was too young to remember it, anyway.

First video game? I'm not sure I've ever had a video game. Not sure what counts. I play mahjong now when I'm bored, but it's not mine, it's just something on the Internet.

How can you be so precise in these memories? First comic? Might have been Uncle Scrooge, might have been Superman... we're talking young child.

Never had a car.

Oh, and my bank account number is 07436... ah. Ah, no, you're not getting me that easily. I'm not telling you my cat's maiden name is Simmons, either.

 

[lovecraft68]

First book? Well, perhaps some Ladybird thing, perhaps something in cloth. I was too young to remember it, anyway.

First video game? I'm not sure I've ever had a video game. Not sure what counts. I play mahjong now when I'm bored, but it's not mine, it's just something on the Internet.

How can you be so precise in these memories? First comic? Might have been Uncle Scrooge, might have been Superman... we're talking young child.

Never had a car.

Oh, and my bank account number is 07436... ah. Ah, no, you're not getting me that easily. I'm not telling you my cat's maiden name is Simmons, either.

I have an insane memory....for all things pretty much useless.

Also, I am a savant with numbers and will now fill in the rest of your bank account number based on established patterns and the magic of numerology.

Your bank is about to contact you regarding that very large purchase of comics and foot fetish videos.

 

[lovecraft68]

The rare few that survived in good condition! I wasn't reading anything until the late 70s, and certainly all the mags and comics I read as a teenager were passed round at least a dozen people until they weren't even fit for chip paper - unless the owner had carefully cut out the posters of their favourite heartthrob, which again would destroy the value of the comic!

Though my dad has a collection of near-mint comics, early 2000AD, the Eagle, etc. I might suggest he consider selling them before the cohort of interested collectors dies off, next time he frets about potential nursing home fees... I've never been allowed to read them!

True, romance and horror comics tend to be tough to find in good condition, especially horror because kids had to hide the precode stuff from their parents.

 

[SoCalAshley]

Oh, and my bank account number is 07436... ah. Ah, no, you're not getting me that easily. I'm not telling you my cat's maiden name is Simmons, either.

And I'm guessing your password is not 123456

 

[XerXesXu]

First movies. Aged 8/9. A High Noon and African Queen double-header. My grandfather took me as a treat. After High Noon, I realised that I was attracted to disreputable girls with black hair.

First porn mag. ‘Lyceennes d’Afriq Nord.’ I swapped my collection of glamour mags at a swap-shop. The proprietor let me choose from under-the-shelf material in the back office. I was a schoolboy so raunchy schoolgirls, in and out of uniform, appealed to me. There was a lot of sodomie and my girlfriend hypothesised that black girls’ buttocks evolved to facilitate this practice.

First concert. The Beatles. My girlfriend said she’d let me fuck her if I took her to see the Beatles. She was a good catholic girl and the bargain was sealed in her next safe period, using a condom. Belt and braces.

First motorbike. BSA A10 Golden Flash, second hand. It cost hundreds of GBP. They now change hands for GBP 4,500

 

[NuclearFairy]

I bought my first easy bake oven when I was 20. Other than that, I can't remember any of my first purchases very clearly. But I had a lot of fun with that oven. Made many neat little treats with it for several years.

 

[SimonDoom]

I wasn't really a comic book reader, but I remember buying Heavy Metal magazine in the 70s, and it had semi-porn comics like DEN. Back in the day you had to be sneakier and more enterprising to find erotic material under the parents' noses.

I'm not sure, but I think the first record I bought was The Beatles 1967-70, and I think the first book I bought was Tolkien's Return of the King. My parents had the first two books but I had to buy the third to complete the trilogy.

I'm not 100% sure of this, either, but I think the first concert I went to featured Boston as the lead act.

 

[WCSGarland]

My first R rated movie... A Boy And His Dog with Don Johnson... what a hoot. It was supposed to be an apocalyptic state in 2024, heh... and the scene where they milk his sperm... hilariously insane.