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    What Things do you Miss?

    What things from your childhood or years ago do you miss today ?


    For me:
    - Blockbuster Videos.... sure on Demand/Netflix is great, but there was something about going there to see what movies are coming and being able to hold movie boxes to read. Not to mention the numerous games rented from there. And course the cheap sales
    - Bourbon Street West Edmonton Mall: It was unique and odd. The Statues the lighting, and for some reason the smell.
    - Affordable tickets for concerts / camping out / lining up to get first crack at tickets
    - Remember Consumer Distributors and their massive catalog that came out just before christmas? Oh the circling of stuff I wanted. LoL. Also having to drive to their store/warehouse just off baseline road by capilano. Remember my trip there with my mom to pick up the game "Mortal Kombat"
    - Muchmusic playing music.. oh the hours I watched as a kid. Sidenote Electric Circus on Friday was a blast to watch lol
    - Arcades.
    - Photo Albums
    - Simplicity of life... Not meaning because I was a kid with zero responsibility.. but how it wasn't the woke/cancel culture its morphed into now.
    - All my Masters of the Universe and GI Joes - knowing what they can go for now - still upset they where given to my mother's friends child after I grew out of them.

    - Going to clubs - The Joint, Barry T's where the main ones.

    - and of course, since this is an Edmonton Eskimo/Elks forum. I miss the Grass

    #2
    Bourbon Street is gone? Has it been that long since I've been to West Ed?

    I agree with all of the items you mentioned (though I never got into GI Joes).

    Along with your music memories. Record release day. Trying to find a way to get to the music store as early as possible on the Tuesday to pick up that great new record/cassette/CD as soon as it was possible as you usually only knew 1 or 2 songs at that point unless there was a radio show premiering it the week before (which is also something I miss).

    Or listening to the radio for hours on end to record that newly released song by one of your favorite artists or that new song you like by a new artist so that you can listen to it over and over again until you could get the record.
    Last edited by bone; 09-20-2024, 03:51 PM.

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      #3
      Originally posted by bone View Post
      Bourbon Street is gone? Has it been that long since I've been to West Ed?

      I agree with all of the items you mentioned (though I never got into GI Joes).

      Along with your music memories. Record release day. Trying to find a way to get to the music store as early as possible on the Tuesday to pick up that great new record/cassette/CD as soon as it was possible as you usually only knew 1 or 2 songs at that point unless there was a radio show premiering it the week before (which is also something I miss).

      Or listening to the radio for hours on end to record that newly released song by one of your favorite artists or that new song you like by a new artist so that you can listen to it over and over again until you could get the record.
      Bourbon Street has been gone a looooong time. Now it's just a normal part of the mall with shops upstairs.

      Yas on the Music.

      Recording on the Radio... waiting for hours for the song to play ( or request to come through ) then realizing you dont have a blank tape so you use the tape on a cassette tape trick to re-record on it.

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        #4
        I miss how slow the pace felt as opposed to today. You would call your friends house and if you didn't get a busy signal, you had to hope they were home or that whoever you left the message with, would actually tell them. Now, it seems, everyone is expecting you to respond within minutes.

        I also miss the blockbuster experience, you would hope that the movie you wanted was in and if it wasn't you had to find something else to watch and then reserve it for next time

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          #5
          The fact that wanna be tough guys didn't have a keyboard to hide behind if they wanted to say ****.
          In Rod we trust

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