The Olden Days

[Serenity]

What do you miss long ago? when you were a child, as a child growing up, &/or wish for it to come back?

Mine is, at home, after using the restroom (& washing my hands ofcours. lol), when I use the toilet paper, I am always reminded of the old times, when I was younger (shopping with my mom) that I always enjoyed getting a package of toilet paper rolls from the store, because I know that it always had a different animal toy collectibles inside. lol.

Thats what I miss, but I dont think the stores will ever bring back that idea again.

So, what do you miss long ago, when you were younger? inquiring minds would like to know.

Aloha.

[Seeking Penance]

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bazooka gum at the corner store - it was a nickle in my day - now it's .25 - miss reading the comic chingamathing wrap.

can't find the bazooka gum here in hawaii

[Menehune Man]

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"So, what do you miss long ago, when you were younger?"

(from when I was 16-17)I miss meeting up early at Roosevelt High school,
having everyone that wanted too, jump in my '71 Chevy Malibu Convertable, cut out of school and head for Makapu'u Beach! Getting high, body surfing, chasing bikini's and... well, you asked didn't you?

[mel]

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• Low prices
• Less taxes
• Gas for 43 cents a gallon
• Gas for $1.19 a gallon
• Top 40 AM radio with real disk jockeys
• Jukeboxes with records inside them - 45 rpms
• 45 rpm records
• The NBC Peacock which pre-rolled before a color broadcast
• American Top 40 with Casey Kasem
• Hawaii Five-0 on CBS
• Automatic Record Changers
• Kress Store
• The Colored Popcorn at Kress Store
• The Smell in the old Downtown Hilo Kress Store
• The Downtown Hilo Woolworth Store
• The 2 floor Woolworth Store at Ala Moana Center
• When Ala Moana Center was targeted for local shoppers
• 1380 KPOI
• KKUA The Home of the Big 69
• Ronald Reagan
• The Avengers TV show on ABC with Mrs. Emma Peel
• Reel to Reel Tape Recorders
• 35mm SLR film cameras - the manual ones
• 1972 Chevelle
• 1965 Mercury Comet
• Aku on KGMB Radio
• Tom "Dynamite" Dancer
• Gatefold LP Record Sleeves
• The Beatles
• Babylon 5
• Cinerama Theater
• Waikiki Theaters 1, 2, & 3
• Analog TV
• When Cable TV cost only $14.95 for 36 standard channels
• When Cable TV boxes were free of rental fees
• No one with cell phones
• Quadritek 1200 and 2100
• Having only 4 free over the air TV channels
• When AM radio ruled the airwaves
• J.K. on KPUA
• Michael Qseng & Danielle Tucker on KQMQ FM
• Radio Free Hawaii @ 102.7 FM
• Sony Betamax (it was better than VHS!!!)
  

I'm sure there are a ton more out there.

[leashlaws]

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My 64 Avanti with the supercharged engine and top of the line 8 track player!
And the ever present roll of dimes to call home in an emergency!

[Leo Lakio]

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Mel - you are officially The Nostalgia King here. And you ain't that old!

The current holiday season and the nine-plus days of snow on the ground here in Seattle (that I've had to trudge through to work and back home just about every day) made me nostalgic for something seasonal --- when I was in elementary school in Iowa, and during the week or so before school would let out for the winter break, there would be a Christmas tree set up in the lobby; we students would hike through snow early each school day, in order to sit around the tree and sing Christmas carols for about twenty minutes, before classes began.

You won't ever see that in public schools again.

[oggboy]

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Walking in the winter wonderland, goin camping during the Summer days. Good fun cause you can go anywhere, camp anywhere, olden days was da bomb....

[surlygirly]

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Being able to fill up my car for under $10!

Mixed tapes..you know, when you would keep a tape in your stereo and would be hanging out in your room, then you'd hear that song on the radio and you'd fly across the room to hit record and the song would have the first part cut off and have the DJ talking over the end of it.

Colored toliet paper (because Serenity made me think of TP)

Customer service. So tired of being treating like crap at places, like it's a privilege for me to shop at their store instead of the other way around.

Blue Bell's Pistachio Chocolate Truffle ice-cream. Mmm.

Better radio stations that weren't all owned by stupid CLEAR CHANNEL!

[Seeking Penance]

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Mixed tapes..you know, when you would keep a tape in your stereo and would be hanging out in your room, then you'd hear that song on the radio and you'd fly across the room to hit record and the song would have the first part cut off and have the DJ talking over the end of it.

*big smiles* wow!!!!............thanks surlygirly!!!

Colored toliet paper (because Serenity made me think of TP)

colored toilet paper....hhhhhmmmmm *thinks* oh yes!!!! charmin colored toilet paper?

Customer service. So tired of being treating like crap at places, like it's a privilege for me to shop at their store instead of the other way around.

completely agree with you surlygirly!!!

[SusieMisajon]

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The smell of lavendar soap and the icy cold water of the only tap for the sink in my German Oma's bathroom. There was also a hot water heater next to the tub that had to have a wood fire started in it to heat the water.

[Walkoff Balk]

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Phones that work when the electricity goes off.

[Serenity]

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How about when you were allowd to streek naked & not get introuble for it (NO, I ddn't do it, but wished I could have [then] but was too chicken to do it.lol.).

But..

Hey, it could happen!!.

[mel]

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Mixed tapes..you know, when you would keep a tape in your stereo and would be hanging out in your room, then you'd hear that song on the radio and you'd fly across the room to hit record and the song would have the first part cut off and have the DJ talking over the end of it.

At the peak of my mixed tape making/ownership, I had more than a thousand cassettes and about 45 to 50 mixes on reel to reel tape. Today I have about 300 cassette mixes that I don't want to give up.

I used to trade tape mixes with my friends on the mainland... radio station stuff like KROQ.

And I used to tape a lot of songs off the radio when I was young and did not have enough money to buy records. Mind you taping from AM radio and not FM during the glory days of AM top 40 radio. Sadly most all of my old tapes from the late 60s and early 70s are gone now.

Later on I'd tape a lot of my record albums and 45s into different mixes... and of course we used to borrow records from friends and make tapes off of them. I liked mix tapes.

Better radio stations that weren't all owned by stupid CLEAR CHANNEL!

Yep, before 1997 most radio stations were independently owned, small businesses. Now its mostly Clear Channel, Cox, Infinity, CBS radio and a slew of other conglomerates.

A few more added to my list of olden-days stuff:

• Typewriters, no computers
• Typing your research paper on a typewriter
• Re-typing the research paper after professor made changes!
• Manual Typewriters with black and red ribbons
• Manual adding machines with paper tape and the big handle you cranked
• 8-track tapes: I hated them because they broke often
• Cassette Tapes - loved them: see mix tapes above
• Rotary Dial Telephones
• Fireball XL-5
• Thunderbirds Are Go!
• Captain Scarlett & the Mysterons
• Speed Racer
• Astro Boy
• Princess Knight
• Checkers & Pogo
• Captain Honolulu
• Lucky Luck
• Granny Goose radio show on KGMB 590 AM
• Ron Jacobs & Keala Kai on KKUA 69
• The K-Poi Action 20 Countdown on 1380 AM
• The KPUA / Woolworths' (Hilo) Top 21 Countdown Show with J.K.
• KDEO Country Radio 940 AM
• Atari Pong
• Nintendo 8-bit game console
• Space Invaders
• Galaxian
• Pac-Man
• Crystal Quest
• Donkey Kong
• Island Music, Island Hearts on KGMB TV
• Cecilio & Kapono's 3 Columbia albums
• Kalapana with Mackey Feary in it
• Kalapana village before the lava covered it up
• K.K. Store in Honokaa
• Hamakua Fountain in Honokaa
• Dairy Queen of Honokaa - my dad was part owner at one time
• Mamo Theater in Hilo
• Tow Inn Chinese Restaurant in Hilo
• The automated band thingy for the jukebox at Tow Inn Chinese Restaurant
• Penny Parking Meters in Hilo
• The old Hilo Airport with fish ponds
• Hawaiian Airlines Convair 340 & 640 jet prop airplanes
• Hawaiian Airlines 4 engine DC-6 airliners
• Kamuela airport to Honolulu airport Hawaiian Airlines flights
• The first Hawaiian Airlines DC-9 "fanjets"
• The old Hawaiian Airlines HAL bird logos
• Red & White Hawaiian Airlines airplane livery
• airplane chewing gum
• Aloha Airlines F-27 Propjet airliners
• Aloha Airlines Vickers Viscount 4 engine jet prop planes
• Aloha Airlines BAC-111 twinjets
• Aloha Airlines Boeing 737 "Funbirds"
• Aloha Airlines
• Discovery Airlines
• Mid Pacific Air
• Mahalo Airlines
• Royal Hawaiian Airlines
• $19 Mid Pacific Air Coupon books
• Flight coupon books from Hawaiian and Aloha Airlines

[oggboy]

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Thanks Mel, ALOHA AIRLINES dc-3, ALOHA AIRLINES VISCOUNT, ALOHA AIRLINES F-27, ALOHA AIRLINES bac-111, ALOHA AIRLINES BOEING 737`S, ALOHA AIRLINES FLYING FOR OVER 60 YEARS....... NOT FUN FOR ME

[tutusue]

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Going to Wil Wright's Ice Cream Parlor in Newport Beach, CA for a big scoop of Jamocha Almond Fudge ice cream. Yummm...