Name Something You Grew Up With That Is Gone & Not Coming Back

[Doc Safari]

I'd have to pick mall video arcades. In high school and the first year or two of college that was THE hangout until we were 21 and could go to bars. I met new friends and chicks there. It was "home base" for us to start our day and figure out what we were going to do. I think the last one in this area closed about 1992 or 1993.

[nimdabew]

Personal accountability.

[Doc Safari]

Personal accountability.

LOL. And Civility if you're going there.

[titsonritz]

Personal accountability.

That ain't no lie.

I was thinking lawn darts.

[Diamondback]

Having two political parties that differed on policy but at least shared love of country.

[Dienekes]

Manners.

[SteyrAUG]

Manners.

Zip code dependent. I'm still in cultural adjustment after a year in Iowa. It's not perfect, there are still dipshits and yahoos, but compared to what I left in Florida it's like living on another planet.

[SteyrAUG]

Good television shows.

Barney Miller
MASH
Miami Vice
Airwolf
Sanford and Son

Just to name a few.

It still exists, it just isn't found on network tv much anymore. IMO AMC's Mad Men was one of the greatest shows in TV history. It was about the most boring subject in US history, advertising...but the characters were so completely developed and the story lines so amazingly compelling that we watched a show about something we at best don't care about at all and at worst absolutely hate.

People think The Soprano's was brilliant tv, but it was about the mafia and they still managed to screw it up after they ran out of material and started just putting up anyone's bullshit idea. Also probably the worst ending for any show...ever. By contrast Mad Men absolutely slam dunked the season finale in a satisfying "unspectacular" way that was just brilliant.

That said, Jonny Quest (1964-65) may be the best kids show in the history of tv and there will never be anything like it ever again. Thankfully with just about everything ever made available on DVD or Netflix I've gone down some great rabbit holes. I have complete box sets of just about every TV show from the 1950s and 1960s.

I honestly don't care what is on ABS, CBS or NBC anymore, I haven't watched those channels in years. My default channel is TCM ever since History Channel went to crap.

Having two political parties that differed on policy but at least shared love of country.

Do you really believe that existed in 1969? That stuff changes with the times, sometimes it's better - sometimes it's worse.

[Diamondback]

Do you really believe that existed in 1969? That stuff changes with the times, sometimes it's better - sometimes it's worse.

I wasn't long into it, but I was born early enough to see the transition where the last Scoop Jackson Democrats either died off or turned GOP, and their former party turned All Sedition/Treason/Fascism All The Time--Zell Miller and Joe Lieberman were the last of that dying breed.

Frankly, the Democrats have been tainted from the very beginning and their roots as the Party of Slavery (which they still very much are).

[arptsprt]

My maternal Grandma and Grandpa. I’m where I am today in my career because of my “Papa.”

They were both a huge part of my upbringing. I was lucky to have them into my mid to late 30s. Not a day goes by that I don’t think of and miss them both.


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