When I was young (early 90's) I remember things from my childhood that seemed commonplace such as smoking/nonsmoking...

When I was young (early 90's) I remember things from my childhood that seemed commonplace such as smoking/nonsmoking sections in restaurants, ash trays in barber shop chairs, 1 hour photo booths in the parking lots of strip malls. Can any old fags share some more absurd examples of changes in society, or whether it was the political or social atmosphere that was responsible for changing shit lke this?

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>ashtrays in barber shops

I'm 32. I remember being a small kid and being told not to play in the ashtrays in the mall.

why were you trying to play with cigarette butts?

they're fun

Nicotine is vitamin B3

pay phones, video arcades, "flavored" cigarettes.

There used to be factories everywhere. Now there's just coffee shops and tapas restaurants.

Watch Candyman. Smoking in University

Watch Monster Squad. Kids cuss, smoke and even call people fags.

Cigarette vending machines.

When I was a kid, women wanted to get married and have kids. As a teen, the girls would write their name with their boyfriends last name on notebooks, like they where married,

Until 2000 my high school only ever had a token nigger of two,

Jews and their pawns ruined it all

Wierdly enough i never saw cig vending machines when i was a kid. Only when i started going to bars did i still see that shit. health class had told me that shit was illegal.

Ashtrays in public like that were little sandboxes in stands. Maybe a butt or two, they were kept pretty clean at all times. At least that's what I remember, maybe I was a little dirtball.

the anti smoking war waged by the liberal faggots took its toll

I'm 25 and I was explaining to the kids at work how a rotary phone works.
They didn't understand how it knew what number you were dialing.

Pic related, these were everywhere.

this, there's a frenchie that makes anti smoking threads every now and then, fucking jewish shills

oooooohhhhh ffuuuuccck, that brings back memories

>cig machines
>rotary phones

Can't remember if 80's or 90's, but
>milk machines
>phone booths
>notes from parents to buy beer worked

>notes from parents to buy beer worked
>phone booths
>rotary phones

I agree with these, but what the fuck was a milk machine?

We had to unplug our computer at home when we were done with it so hackers couldn't access it from this new thing called the internet.

I remember when there were only two genders.

I have the best verison of starwars

1968 here. I remember when pic related was the shit

We had to unplug our computer at home because dad said it drained too much power even when turned off.

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This is strangely soothing

Biker Mice From Mars. Based Limburger.

My grandma had rotary. We did for a while. Everyone also had a phone in the house with a 10 to 16 foot cord. And caller ID for EVERY NUMBER, not just my saved ones. I also remember the answering machine.

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I remember being a kid and my parents letting me play in the street. Ride my bike around town. And walk home from school all by myself. Now there's too many colored people and pedos

I remember when porn was hard to get. You had to steal it from your dad, or someone else's dad, and even then it was normally lame shit like playboy, if you were lucky, hustler or something.

Once you were 18, you had to go to the porn store to get your shit, or else you could buy it in a convenience store, but you'd get weird looks.

Wew, I remember fucking with these when my dad would take me to the bar. These and sticker machines at the old, local bowling alley.

i used payphones a few times as a kid

I remember cruising strips when I was in high school. Good paint factory jobs were plentiful and you didn't have to walk on pc egg shells. You could smoke dan near anywhere. Cost of needs were a lot less. Didn't have social engineering then and we never had to lock our doors.

>Only two genders
>Only gay or straight
>Sharing photos albums was reserved only for close friends and family
>Knocking on every door on the street to invite the neighbourhood kids out for a game of street cricket
>Reverse charge calls from payphones was revolutionary
>Candy cigarettes
>Biscuits that portrayed black people

I know right? That is until someone yells at you to get off the internet because they're on the phone.

I remember when everyone used landlines so when you wanted to call up a qt from school, you'd try to coordinate the time with her in advance, but when you call, inevitably her dad picks up and you have to fumble around for an excuse because you already used the science project excuse a couple weeks earlier.

26 here.


I have vague memories of being in the car with my parents, and seeing the shimmering billowing tape of a broken cassette on the side of the road from time to time.

Kind of miss it for some reason.

Didnt have stupid security gates and random searches at work. Didnt have auto correct either.

I fucking miss those green tea / citrus flavoured camels... fuggg

Fuck I can remember going to the pediatrician the only one in a town of 23,000 and the waiting room packed and him snubbing out his cigarette while we were walking into the exam room.
>btw the waiting room was a cloud

Kids didn't have to ride in booster seats until the age of 12. Heck, we used to be able to ride in the beds of pick up trucks.

God I miss arcades....

Dodgeball was awesome, everybody chanted "faggot..faggot" at Christian Laettner, tv preachers bonering over GRIDS, God's divine anti-gay wrath. The worst thing you could be called was a pinko, wrestling was real if if Hulk didn't beat the Iron Sheik America would surely fall. Could shoot each other in the streets with BB guns. Pinball everywhere. Arabs were all right as long as they weren't Iranian and you'd never worry about one cutting off your head. The only guy who dressed like a lady was Robin Williams and only for a laugh. There were men women and fags. Only two genders. No nonsensical bullshit terms like cis or fluid. If somebody got offended about something the universal response was fuck off, pussy.

$28 doctor office visits with no insurance. Medical insurance was optional and maybe $40 a month for a 90/10 family plan

Yugioh cards were the shit back when I was in primary school.

Booster seats?? Fuck I rode in a Dodge Dart to California with my 2 brothers. I slept in the back window. Younger brother slept on the seat. And youngest on moms lap. Granted 1979.

I remember when we switched from Pokemon to Yugioh cards in elementary school. Happened sometime over the summer and it sucked because I had just built a strong Pokemon deck. Yugioh, however, was more fun to play.

Nice, have the same set in my room

I never rode in a booster seat. EVER.

i didn't know they were a book set

Please be sincere. That's too cute.

anyone remember a party line? one phone line for multiple houses, each house had a unique ring like 2 long and a short... we had one at our cottage in the 80's

oh and TVs without remotes, you had to get up and turn the dial, rewinding the rental VCR tapes, the ghetto blaster tape decks that ran on like 8 D batteries...

the gas caps under the fold-down licence plates on early 80's GMs... hell even when you had 2 keys for one car, one for the doors and one for the ignition

fuck I'm old lol

Nicotinic acid is different from Nicotine.

i had a pager that got the world news and sports scores scrolling across it all the time , and everybody thought i was a rich fag but i had a job washing dishes at restaurant after school

A year or two into his first term Obama signed legislation allowing the FDA to ban flavored cigarettes, or something like that. This included clove cigarettes, which aren't always flavored. Some of them just have cloves in them. The clove cigarette was supposedly invented as a remedy for the inventor's breathing problems and lung pain. Probably not good medicine, but it stands that the cloves themselves are not habit forming and don't cause cancer. At their best, clove cigarettes are only 60% tobacco, making them slightly less dangerous, and too harsh for most people to chain smoke. When they were finally outlawed I found it easy to quit smoking.

Meanwhile, an exception was made for menthol cigarettes, which are every bit as deadly as ordinary cigarettes and every bit as addictive. In the US they are the favorite cigarette of blacks. Go figure.

We had realistic looking toy guns in the 1980s and we played with them in the street. Big ol' submachine guns and what have you, all black and maybe a little silver or grey, no orange tip or anything. Some of them had a mechanism that spun some kind of noisemaker inside when you pulled the trigger, others had a battery powered speaker. My friends and I would run around his suburban neighborhood play fighting, and this was when we were 13-15 years old.

What's up fellow agenigger

I remember (barely) when teachers had a room in the school they could smoke in.

I remember when making plans was complicated because everyone had to be at home to receive a call, and group outings required planning for rendezvous points and time tables.

It actually kind of amazes me to think about how different a social life was. How much more planned it was before cellphones and pocket computers. A huge portion of my social interactions are made in the moment. Planning a big dinner outing can be as simple as firing out a group text and waiting 10 minutes for responses. Back in the day that would have required individually calling each person, having a conversation, and leaving messages (lol with a person on a pad and fucking paper) and getting calls back. It would take fucking hours potentially. Now it takes minutes. Fucking weird

>You will never know the feeling of staying in waiting for an important phone call.

Kids used to use these to record songs off of the radio, because music was a rare commodity which cost more than you could realistically afford.

man, we had cap guns. there was the revolver type with little explosive caps on a plastic wheel and a paper-strip type. it was pretty fun but the bad guys NEVER went down.
*BANG
>I got you!
no you didn't!
>yes i did!
*fistfight begins

>Cigarette vending machines.

I still see these in bars.

You just described my parents house with the party line.

Who else remember having to literally tune in to stations?

13-15 is a little old to be playing Army
should have given that up at 11

that sounds like the 1970s
we got the plastic wheel caps for the revolvers from Woolworths

>Watch Monster Squad. Kids cuss, smoke and even call people fags.

To be fair kids still cuss and call people fags, and some of them will still smoke when they can get their hands on them.

18+ burger

Oddly enough I was at a park in Queens a few weeks ago, and my kid's friend runs up to me and shows me what she found somewhere in the dirt: one of those six-shooter capgun speedloaders, the plastic wheel you described. When she asked if it was from a toy gun I had to shush her, and make sure she knew not to talk about that shit in school.

What was even more strange is I only just barely knew these kids' mom, but for some reason she trusted me to watch them while she went to buy them a snack. She doesn't even know my last name.

Look, Aliens came out when we were 13, alright? Fuck you, we're going to play guns all the way through high school.

I should have been more specific. We never see this in movies now.

Yeah man I was just thinking about this. The pre-internet obsession with collecting music and how expensive it was. A new CD cost as much or more in the 90s as now, but the money was worth substantially more. Like the equipment if paying the equivevlint of 30+ dollars for a CD on a school kid budget.


I also remember my highschool football coach literally beating the shit out of some kids and no one saying anything, and no parents being upset. I don't mean he beat them up with football techniques. I mean like pummeled in a drunken rage while 50 people watched for getting suspended from athletics.

>nostalgia bonus
Riding around in the back of a pickup truck

I remember car seats for kids up to like age 5, but after that we just sat in the back with the seat belt. Now kids have to be in those shits until they are like 12. For real?

The answering machines with the little mini-tape cassette.

That board game where you set up these cubes on an elevated board and put a little figurine in the middle. You would take turns hitting the blocks with a hammer until someone made them all collapse, losing. Something about an eskimo?

Those educational games on the Apple (the ones in 1992-1993, not the fat floppy disc ones) where you would run a mouse through a maze answering reading questions, or shoot at fish underwater and shit answering math questions. Those games had me go from special ed to top of my class in like 3 months back in 2nd and 3rd grade. It was like they turned on a switch for me, before that I could barely get through a toddler's picture book or any simple math, then I was suddenly reading at a 6th grade level and flying through math problems. I got addicted to computers after that.

Yeah but they used to be in family restaurants, malls, and airports

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I found a huge stash of black and white bondage fetish mags in my negbors storage shed way back in the day, I started down the path to deviancy at a veey young age for the time

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Life really was this comfy and people this open and friendly in the 80s... except the inner city, which whites had abandoned.

When cars were still made with ashtrays in them and had electric lighters. I also remember car phones were something that was cool to me

Born in 1974.
I remember when there were no stores that were open 24 hours. And most places were closed on Sundays.

Good times.

No you don't. Even the first VHS sets were enhanced from the original cut.

I remember my mother dropping cigarette butts on the floor of Kroger while we were shopping. Yes I am white trash.

these are the best, han shoots first and the music is perfect.

Don't break the ice

I'm 30 and I remember this shit too. My mom just walking through the mall smoking like a fucking train.

>you will never be a guardian angel fighting street punks in 1980's NYC subways

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Christmas decorations didn't go up until after Thanksgiving back then. Now they go up in September.

Finding porn in the woods is true oldfaggory

Beepers and those public phones.

Basically everything is fundamentally the same, just enhanced audio and some visual. George only really started raping them after 1997.
>t. I have the '95, '97, and '00 Remasters

Aww shiiiiit, I used to autistically play that by myself for hours as a kid.

Doesn't every boy of that time period have a 'found porn in the woods' story? I swear they were being seeded it was so universal.

This sound provokes a pavlovian arousal response in my mind as it is indelibly linked to sneaking downstairs after everyone went to sleep and looking online for galleries of Japanese "artbook" photography as the girls were my age.

the only bad part was skipping the interview each time.

Not really, I simply rewind my tapes to just after the interviews end.

Found mine in a dumpster once, two largeass stacks...it was like i hit the fucking lottery

Well, we still have smoking/non-smoking areas in restaurants (despite its forbidden, lol), bubble gum selling automats.

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how?

>Riding around in the back of a pickup truck
Nice.

>tfw am 25 and can remember my neighbor offering me a lift in his pickup bed when I was walking home from school in freshman year

No fucking cellphones and people staring like retards at them constantly. Also no social media to fuck things up.

Still have the original CD's to that one. Same with Warzone 2100

I found mine in an empty lot next to a police station, of all places.

my mom wasnt allowed to wear shorts in public because it was considered to risque

I remember the era before the shape of every aluminum can every where changed. I remember having to dial through cable channels using the set top box. I remember rotary phones and the sega channel. I remember when wood panel electronics all switched over to grey, black boxes. I was working at a blockbuster during the VHS to DVD transition.

I am 35