I miss the '80s

[frienduff thaylorde]

3 minutes ago, Yowm said:

I was hoping no one would have quoted my post. I deleted after looking down at the bottom of the main page and seen it. But oh no, frienduff thaylorde had to go and quote me. LOL

Its all gone now yowm.    PRAISE THE LORD .   

[missmuffet]

1 hour ago, frienduff thaylorde said:

Are you saying that he is really ninety five years old .   That man would remember world war two.     He should be able to see history repeating

i talked to some old , old ones.    and i still to this day remember what this lady told me.   She said it with horror in her eyes,

she too said History is repeating ,  and that what they did to the jews , would be repeated , only it wont be mainly jews.

Them old timers are dying out .   and history is being changed .  they lying to this generation .    ITS BEING REPEATED only my , 

its world wide , one monster of a tribulation is coming .  IT REALLY IS.  but no fear   , this life is but a vapor .  if i die or live through it ,  THE LORD has me .

Thus whether i live or die i am the Lords.  BUT IT IS COMING . 

Quasar was in WW2. I think he said he flew over the pacific and fought the Japanese.

[HisFirst]

6 minutes ago, missmuffet said:

Quasar was in WW2. I think he said he flew over the pacific and fought the Japanese.

That's fascinating MM!

[HisFirst]

1 hour ago, frienduff thaylorde said:

who is the youngster on this post .    Tell me its not me.  

You may just be the baby on this thread 

[Neighbor]

6 hours ago, OneLight said:

Me too ... life was so much easier and people actually talked to each other!  TV was much easier to watch, families did things together, we used our imaginations to have fun, playing outside was expected between meals, you knew it was time to come in when the streetlight came on, Walt Disney was a good TV show, and so much more. 

Memories of the 60's and the 70's bring me nightmares as the world began to head into the dump really fast.  I did not have a relationship with God then and I experienced life in the world to its fullest.  Yup, nightmares!

Hmm, the fifties; Greater Boston area; gang fights, national guard called out, fixed bayonets, curfew at sunset. No intermixing of faiths or even denominations of Christianity, nor of the human races, nor of nationalities, censorship of books news and tv and radio, riots, suppression of civil rights, even lynchings, police rousts, polio epidemics, rampant TB, measles, quarantines, duck and cover drills, Kruschev.

Simplier? Better? Was extremely difficult for me.

Why even the brick school house was a fire bomb waiting to burn, with it's wood floors  and stairwells cleaned each day  by  the janitor using a solution of kerosine and wax mixed into  sawdust. In shop classes we played with lead type in print shop then went into metal shop and smelted aluminum, as the exposed asbestos wrapped steam heat pipes gurgled overhead.

[Guest shiloh357]

22 hours ago, HisFirst said:

I went to the movies tonight and the movie was set in the '80s which were my teen years. Everything from the fashion (bad I know  ) to the music in the movie made me really miss that decade . I got kinda melancholy!

Should we as Christians long for times past?

I mess the 80s, as well.   I even miss the early 90s.  

[HisFirst]

Just now, shiloh357 said:

I mess the 80s, as well.   I even miss the early 90s.  

Yes, I miss the '80s

[Guest shiloh357]

30 minutes ago, HisFirst said:

Yes, I miss the '80s

I miss so much of the social "culture"  in my neck of the woods that we enjoyed in the 80s, which were my teen years, as well.

We hung out at the mall food court, and the mall arcade called, "Aladdin's Castle."   Movies were $3. 50.  We had a great time just walking around the mall and making fun of some of the trendy clothing they were selling.

After hanging out at the mall, or seeing a movie we would go to "Andy's Frozen Custard"  which is kind of like a ice cream shop, but it didn't have inside seating.   You walked up to the window and got your order and then everyone would go back to their cars and sit on the hood of their cars and eat their frozen custard and we all just hung out there in the parking lot.  No one caused any trouble there, that I can remember.  It was just fun. Andy's was just a great place to hang out.

 The mall has changed and does not really lend itself to being a teen hangout anymore.  I went to the food court the other day and everyone was on their phones and not much socializing going on.  People used to talk to each other face to face, and now everything is done on the phones.

And when people DO finally get together, they ignore each other while they text on their phones!

[Justin Adams]

We would file two by two crocodile fashion down to the C of E church in the village for the Sunday service. I was on occasion allowed to accompany my RC friend to his church. Service was in Latin. No clue as to what was said but it was a break from the otherwise compulsory crocodile.

On Saturdays we were free to walk to the village cinema. Six pence it cost for a movie. One penny could buy sweets.

Definitely different back then. I had my first taste of the US by seeing The Alamo in the school theater.

My aunt, a Welsh farmer, had a generator. At tea time in the holidays I would watch Bonanza. Wonderful culture shock. We had one TV channel back then. My other uncle (farmer) did not have electricity, so eating in the large kitchen by the light of a hurricane lamp was normal for us then. The Rayburn was kept stoked with wood to keep us warm and heat the water. The other rooms were ice-cold in the winter and not much warmer in the summer.

[Heleadethme]

46 minutes ago, Justin Adams said:

We would file two by two crocodile fashion down to the C of E church in the village for the Sunday service. I was on occasion allowed to accompany my RC friend to his church. Service was in Latin. No clue as to what was said but it was a break from the otherwise compulsory crocodile.

On Saturdays we were free to walk to the village cinema. Six pence it cost for a movie. One penny could buy sweets.

Definitely different back then. I had my first taste of the US by seeing The Alamo in the school theater.

My aunt, a Welsh farmer, had a generator. At tea time in the holidays I would watch Bonanza. Wonderful culture shock. We had one TV channel back then. My other uncle (farmer) did not have electricity, so eating in the large kitchen by the light of a hurricane lamp was normal for us then. The Rayburn was kept stoked with wood to keep us warm and heat the water. The other rooms were ice-cold in the winter and not much warmer in the summer.

Ah when life was at least a little simpler......people in general had less, but I think overall they were happier, unless that is just an illusion.  I remember watching Bonanza....can still hear the theme music in my mind.  My 'Ma and Pa' grew up in England, so I heard about the lack of central heating and also food rationing and air raid sirens during the war.