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Welcome to # for Saturday, May 21


Hello fellow humans.

I watched a video about the 70s and the era of colour and patterns that were popular in that time, vibrant earth tones, large floral and decorative clothing for all. My teen years were spent in a house with red carpet, a big brick fireplace and wood panelling and I wore paisley hot pants 🙂 Smoking and drinking were everywhere, adults had titles and no swearing! How times have changed. We talk a lot about changing tech but there have been wider changes – no one expects China and cutlery for inflight food service (or even in flight food service in many cases) or gifts from a bank for opening an account.

What is something common from growing up that you just don't see anymore?

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Bob Lai
Bob Lai • diaspora
What is something common from growing up that you just don’t see anymore?
Phone booths.
Rotary-dial phones.
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Karl Auerbach
Karl Auerbach • diaspora
@Bob Lai - Now I understand why I don't see Superman any more.
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Peter Lindelauf
Peter Lindelauf • diaspora
Les neiges d'antan?
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Karl Auerbach
Karl Auerbach • diaspora
"watched a video about the 70s" !! I was very much around and adult during that time. (A good chunk was spent in law school and doing network and operating security research. And I bought my first house.)

And no, I didn't do disco (but I don't hate the music as much as I am supposed to.) And despite the movies I was monogamous for most of that time.

I even had English custom made suits (always amazing soft wool, some tweeds) - I wish they could have been made to expand as much as I did, they were really comfortable and looked really good.
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Joyce Donahue
Joyce Donahue • diaspora
Ah, @Peter Lindelauf - that just sent me right back to the 70's for sure! "Where are the Snowdens of yesteryear?" (Joseph Heller, Catch 22)

Something common from growing up? Sundays with all the stores closed. My family used to go to church, come home and change clothes and then often go out for a Sunday drive or visiting friends.
@Peter Lindelauf
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Jess Nut
Jess Nut • diaspora
Ashtrays in restaurants
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Deb Zaccaro-Rojas
Deb Zaccaro-Rojas • diaspora
Phone books.
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Clara Listensprechen
Clara Listensprechen friendica
Metal click beetles were stamped metal painted to look like a beetle or a cricket and they were toys based on the WWII cricket clicker. Likely went out of production because they could drive parents bonkers.
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Whuffo
Whuffo • diaspora
Bell bottom pants and corduroys. Big cars and cheap gas. Battery A Month cards from Radio Shack. I was married and both of my daughters were born in the '70s
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Deb Zaccaro-Rojas
Deb Zaccaro-Rojas • diaspora
Got my first computer from Radio Shack...Tandy-Radio Shack 80-100 portable...that got me thru the last two years of College and Grad School...still have it somewheres...
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Christoph S
Christoph S • diaspora
Good morning, the ban on smoking in restaurants and pubs and public buildings is a thing that I really welcomed!
I hated it when I got home from a pub and my clothes were smelling.
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Muse
Muse • diaspora
As a kid I LOVED the Sears catalog. I remember one Christmas begging for a sparkly magic wand from the catalog. It had batteries and could light up! I impressed all the other little girls in my ballet class when I brought it.
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Karl Auerbach
Karl Auerbach • diaspora
A class of toy that I miss are those that emitted sparks (in the form of small, very hot, metal dust particles.) I only have a half working walking Godzilla toy that has one of those spark thingies.
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Jodi K
Jodi K • diaspora
@Muse I have one of those! Though it was a gift about 10 years ago.

@Bob Lai I still have a rotary phone in the closet. Even had to use it a few years back when the digital phones all broke. Those old AT&T phones are indestructible.
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John MacLeod
John MacLeod • diaspora
When I was very small, there was still door to door milk delivery... and some of the deliverymen still used horse-drawn wagons.
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Jodi K
Jodi K • diaspora
@John MacLeod I saw that in the early 80s in the UK!
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Nora Qudus
Nora Qudus • diaspora
So many things like all the rest all of the above. Also a sense of no fear when out an about in the city( San Francisco) until later in the 1960s. As a child we lived in a, then, rather isolated suburb and there was the milk man with all milk, butter, and eggs, Then there was the bread man Colonial Bakery with bread and all manner of pastries. Then the Jewel Tea man with dishes (mom like the autumn leaves and we had a whole set) cookies Double chocolate fudge & a sugar wafer cookie.... yum...Fuller Brush man! I still have combs and brushes from that time! Still good too. One lint brush is in active use even today. The farmers market stands down towards Half Moon Bay. There was also a vegetable man who came around once a week...most of the families on my block ( the area was brand new and only about 60 houses were built) had one car so the mothers had no way to go to the store down the hill .....OH and the bookmobile came about 2 times a month so mothers and children could check out books...I am remembering so much with the prompt!
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gregg taylor
gregg taylor • diaspora
Good day, all! Let's see, cars that were "pre-seat belt". Aluminum cans with the "pop top" that fully separated from the can (the one Jimmy Buffet stepped on). "Gold Line" braided climbing rope (thankfully replaced by kernmantle rope). Pee Chees (academic folders for organizing your subjects).
Don Cornelius "it's the SOUL TRAIN!!!". I used to love it when the audience members flashed their groove, dancing out! $0.29/gallon gasoline. $95.00/month rent for a waterfront house on Puget Sound (Salish Sea). Anyways, that's it for now. Several nice days ahead, outside projects beckon gently. Cleaning last year's growth out of the sword ferns gives them a fresh, upright "vase" appearance. Yes, I do "trim & weed" my little section of forest.
Have a good weekend!
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Cass
Cass • diaspora
There was a surprising amount of home delivery services that have been absorbed by online shopping with the original companies not surviving (in still astounded at Sears not making the transition). When we moved to Saskatchewan in the late 90s there was Swanns home delivery of ice cream. There was also a seafood outfit and Electrolux door to door. Maybe with more WFH more of that will come back but it will probably be poorly paid gig work.
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Nora Qudus
Nora Qudus • diaspora
I believe my mom got her Electrolux vacuum from the door to door, we also got Encyclopedias another stuff...
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V. T. Eric Layton
V. T. Eric Layton • diaspora
What is something common from growing up that you just don’t see anymore?
Funny... I was just thinking about this while drinking my morning coffee and looking out the kitchen window that I've looked out of every day of my life since I was tall enough to see over the counter (about 55 years). The view has changed somewhat over the years, but it's still the same view in some ways, particularly in my memories.

To answer the question, though...

Quality


... is the answer. The quality of so many things in our modern world has fallen drastically over the last 50 years. And I mean everything... books, news, appliances, clothing, movies, music, automobiles, computers, phones, and so on. About the only things that have increased in (or remained) quality are firearms, porn, and marijuana.
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Karl Auerbach
Karl Auerbach • diaspora
The world smelled different back in the '70s - especially in places like LA where the smell of gasoline was in the air from smog and hyper rich fuel mixtures on cars.
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Clara Listensprechen
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Definitely with @Christoph S on the ash trays/indoor smoking. Good fucking riddance to that and may it never come back.
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Mark Wollschlager
Mark Wollschlager • diaspora
An Orange fake fur sofa with chrome legs in a 'wood paneled' family room with shag carpeting.
@Clara Listensprechen We use clickers for dog training, still marketed in that segment.
@Karl Auerbach My next door neighbor has an MG A that just reeks of gas when he drives by, far worse than the 68 GTO that used to be the neighborhood smog king.
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Peter Lindelauf
Peter Lindelauf • diaspora
You're sure right about the pot, @V. T. Eric Layton. Our generation managed to get potent sinsemilla into the 20+% THC zone. Only to have some ageing baby boomers who have 'rediscovered' cannabis whinge about the pot being "too strong". Smoke less, wino. It's called self-titration. Like not drinking the whole bottle just because it's open.
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Joseph Teller
Joseph Teller • diaspora
Pretty much gone from the 1970s:

CP/M computing
Build Your Own Computer Kits (Heathkit, Tandy)
Fortran
Cobol
Practically Ever Retailer that existed in that era (Sears, JC Penny, Radio Shack, Kmart, Toys R Us, Kings, Zayres, Cronins, Chess King, Woolworth's, Burlington Coat Factory, K-Mart, Kinkos, A&P etc.)
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Karl Auerbach
Karl Auerbach • diaspora
@Joseph Teller - On the other hand there are things that were nearly absent from the '70s but are now getting common:

Sea otters
California condors
Decent coffee
Hats (I have to push hats at every opportunity, they need to come back into our daily dress and fashion vernacular.)
@Joseph Teller
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Will
Will • diaspora
Lot of good and bad nostalgia. Cars - siphoning leaded gas by mouth with a rubber hose, lol. Hitchhiking cross country for fun. And way back, "this is the operator, number please". Tin foil on TV rabbit ears and having to cross the room to change the TV channel. Carnation evaporated milk in a can on breakfast cereal. Civil defense air raid towers. My old science teacher and his wooden paddle for keeping us rowdies in line.
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Mark Wollschlager
Mark Wollschlager • diaspora
@Peter Lindelauf Sure, but why does it have to smell so much More. A flex? If they can cultivate for stronger weed, they should be able to select for less skunk too.
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V. T. Eric Layton
V. T. Eric Layton • diaspora
@Peter Lindelauf said,
Smoke less, wino. It’s called self-titration. Like not drinking the whole bottle just because it’s open.
Exactly. Back in the day, when my cousin was the neighborhood dealer, he had access to, as legend back then had it, pot grown on a government facility. This is the mid-70s I'm talking about. That weed was extraordinary. To this day, folks in this neighborhood remember the "KW" (killer weed). It really was two-toke shit.

Even then, though, we smoke it like there was no tomorrow. This modern weed is often quite amazing in its potential to get you high. I literally will only take two tokes and put the damned thing out. A little pin-J lasts me a couple weeks. Wish I could have done that back in the 70s. I would have had a lot more $$$.

As fare as drinking goes... well, I can do about 4 doubles (bourbon) and I'm pretty much done for the evening. I don't need to drink the whole bottle, which is a good thing. 😀

Oh, and @Mark Wollschlager... YEESH! Modern pot really does stink horrendously. I guess they selectively bred out that wonderful mellow pot smell from the 60s and 70s. 🙁
NOTE: THE ABOVE WAS STRICTLY AN EXERCISE IN THEORETICAL CONCEPTS WITH REGARDS TO CANNABIS AND ETHANOL CONSUMPTION, USE, AND ABUSE. NOTHING STATED BY ANY OF THE PARTIES ABOVE SHOULD BE CONSIDERED ANYTHING OTHER THAN RESEARCH AND STUDY.
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Will
Will • diaspora
I think the skunk smell is more from Indica varieties (humorously called "in de couch" for its couch lock sedative properties.) Sativa smells better, but you can still smell even the tiniest amount of smoke two neighbor houses away, though it dissipates quickly. Note, here in the west it's pretty common, no legal disclaimers needed.
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V. T. Eric Layton
V. T. Eric Layton • diaspora
It's legal (medically) in Florida. Small amounts for personal (non-medical) usage are pretty much ignored by law enforcement here. We've been trying to get a "recreational usage" amendment on the Florida Constitution for a few years now. Unfortunately, the Republican-controlled Legislature has blown that attempt away a few times already. One day it'll happen, though. There's too much support for it to fail too many more times.
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Clara Listensprechen
Clara Listensprechen friendica
There are those who abused mind/mood altering substances and there are those of us who didn't, which is why there was such a huge backlash subsequent to those who attempted to make those things mainstream and fashionable. I'm not an Oklahoma native but "Okie From Muscogee" is still my anthem. A mind is a terrible thing to blow.
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Don Little
Don Little • diaspora
All of the above. I was going to say Woolworths but @Joseph Teller beat me to it.
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Will
Will • diaspora
@Mark Wollschlager You aren't from the west coast i take it. Here, you go in a pot shop and there are 20 or 30 varieties lined up on the shelf to select from. Cultivation and cross breeding is an obsessive business. Many more pot shops than gas stations or grocery stores. My big concern when they legalized it was the risk of youngsters using it, it's definitely not something you want kids messing with because it messes with the motivational systems in the body and who knows what else. The chemistry is very close to key natural neuro-chemicals in the body, cannabinoids or something like that.
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su ann lim
su ann lim • diaspora
This postthread is a trip down memory lane! I don't have much to add.

@Karl Auerbach I'm with you re: hats. I really hope my favourite hat artisan will be at next week's local fair again. This annual May Fair was cancelled these past pandemic years so it's going to be fantastic to have it back again.
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Mark Wollschlager
Mark Wollschlager • diaspora
@Will Yes, East Coast, but I am no stranger to the concept. I understand the "Art & Science" and competitive nature of a money soaked business. While I have never grown for anyone but me ( decades ago ), I know a couple of west coast folks who grew for medicinal markets a few years back. They pretty much gave that up due to the laws in their states after legalization and the way the business pivoted. Way more money and rules.
Humans want to get screwed up and will do that regardless of laws.
Even if cannabis products are regulated like other pharmacy drugs, which since any fool can grow is sort of a dumb idea, they will still be desired.
I'm not in favor of "Drugs For Everyone!" Adults, sure.
I don't want to smoke drugs, smoking a bad for you. I don't care for the absolute reek of the current 'product' any more than a tobacco cigar ( or teenager doused in Ax or 'adult' in cologne ). It intrudes into my personal space.
I think the evils otherwise are overhyped.
But I also think that substance use should be reserved for times when you can afford to be less in control. Not work, school, caring for others, driving.
If there was a way to enforce that.....well it hasn't worked well in the past.
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V. T. Eric Layton
V. T. Eric Layton • diaspora
@Mark Wollschlager said,
I also think that substance use should be reserved for times when you can afford to be less in control. Not work, school, caring for others, driving.
YES, YES, and YES again!
If there was a way to enforce that…well it hasn’t worked well in the past.
Hasn't worked will for alcohol usage, either. 🙁

However, this is when personal responsibility comes in. Most of you here know that I have the occasional drink of bourbon or a toke or two of pot, but I do it in my OWN home (or that of friends/relatives) and NOT while out in public or driving a vehicle, or at work, etc.

Oh, when I was a young man, I did all those bad things. I survived. I didn't kill anyone, either. This good thing was NOT... REPEATING, NOT because I was smart. It was PURELY because I was lucky. Many aren't that lucky.

As an adult, I take my responsibilities seriously. Sadly, that's not the case with many adults. It's Saturday night. I'm sure there are thousands running around this country as I type this bouncing for bar to bar to bar driving the whole time. Late this evening a percentage of those idiots will kill themselves or innocent folks on the road home.
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Shelenn Ayres
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Savings & Loans accounts earning over 4% interest on savings accounts.
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Muse
Muse • diaspora
@Shelenn Ayres I must be ancient because I remember 5% and 7% interest accounts.
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Mark Wollschlager
Mark Wollschlager • diaspora
For a short time in 1985 I was a temp at a savings & loan.
We were going over paper documents of CD's and comparing them to computer records.
The CD's were coming up for maturity and the S&L was eager to get rid of them.
The interest rate was 12%.
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Paul Ferguson
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V. T. Eric Layton
V. T. Eric Layton • diaspora
What a pleasant shade of green you are, Slim. 😀
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V. T. Eric Layton
V. T. Eric Layton • diaspora
Oh, my... I remember those savings interest rates... and the little "passbook" you were given to keep track of your hoard. The very first savings account I had paid 7.5%. That was back in oh... 1970, maybe?
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Jodi K
Jodi K • diaspora
I had a CD that paid 17% circa 1982.
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