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Discussion => The No Wake Zone => WarZone => Topic started by: Ralph Brunt on February 02, 2008, 08:22:39 AM
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THE SPOILED UNDER-30 CROWD!!!
If you are 30 or older you will think this is hilarious!!!!
When I was a kid, adults used to bore me to tears with their tedious diatribes about how hard things were when they were growing up; what with walking twenty-five miles to school every morning ... uphill BOTH ways ---- yadda, yadda, yadda And I remember promising myself that when I grew up, there was no way in hell I was going to lay a bunch of crap like that on kids about how hard I had it and how easy they've got it! But now that... I'm over the ripe old age of thirty, I can't help but look around and notice the youth of today. You've got it so easy! I mean, compared to my childhood, you live in a damn Utopia!
And I hate to say it but you kids today you don't know how good you've got it! I mean, when I was a kid we didn't have The Internet . If we wanted to know something, we had to go to the damn library and look it up ourselves, in the card catalog!!
There was no email!! We had to actually write somebody a letter .with a pen! Then you had to walk all the way across the street and put it in the mailbox and it would take like a week to get there!
There were no MP3's or Napsters! You wanted to steal music, you had to hitchhike to the damn record store and shoplift it yourself! Or you had to wait around all day to tape it off the radio and the DJ'd usually talk over the beginning and @#*% it all up!
We didn't have fancy crap like Call Waiting! If you were on the phone and somebody else called they got a busy signal, that's it! And we didn't have fancy Caller ID Boxes either! When the phone rang, you had no idea who it was! It could be your school, your mom, your boss, your bookie, your drug dealer, a collections agent, you just didn't know!!! You had to pick it up and take your chances, mister!
We didn't have any fancy Sony Playstation video games with high-resolution 3-D graphics! We had the Atari 2600! With games like 'Space Invaders' and 'asteroids'. Your guy was a little square! You actually had to use your imagination!! And there were no multiple levels or screens, it was just one screen forever! And you could never win. The game just kept getting harder and harder and faster and faster until you died! Just like LIFE!
When you went to the movie theater there no such thing as stadium seating! All the seats were the same height! If a tall guy or some old broad with a hat sat in front of you and you couldn't see, you were just screwed!
Sure, we had cable television, but back then that was only like 15 channels and there was no on screen menu and no remote control! You had to use a little book called a TV Guide to find out what was on! You were screwed when it came to channel surfing! You had to get off your ass and walk over to the TV to change the channel and there was no Cartoon Network either! You cou ld only get cartoons on Saturday Morning. Do you hear what I'm saying!?! We had to wait ALL WEEK for cartoons, you spoiled little rat-bastards!
And we didn't have microwaves, if we wanted to heat something up we had to use the stove or go build a frigging fire .. imagine that! If we wanted popcorn, we had to use that stupid Jiffy Pop thing and shake it over the stove forever like an idiot.
That's exactly what I'm talking about! You kids today have got it too easy. You're spoiled. You guys wouldn't have lasted five minutes back in 1980!
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Thats funny ;) I remember 1980 but its a blur.
2sav
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you hit it right on ;D But go back to the 70's O0
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you hit it right on ;D But go back to the 70's O0
Thats even harder to remember.
God im getting old :(
2sav
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Ha Ha ,we had 3 channels 2 crappy 1 OK ,the old man would be outside turning the ANTENNA with mom yellin out commands (more! less!) . Folk bought 1 six pack of Shasta a week , ate soda crackers and cheerios for snacks and used to scrounge returnable soda bottles for spending cash . Got a buck or so a week allowance and if I didn't take out the trash on time he'd kick my a$$ . Yeah I'm a geezer
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:-\ sorry , I was born in Nov '79 . Ya bunch of old farts ........ quite your whining ;D
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Hmm, Im 24, and there was a point when we had a switch to switch between cable and satalite. But I'll tell ya what it just took me 10 times as long to channel surf and come to the conclusion that it was all crap. I now have 1 channel that comes in on my antenna, NBC couldn't ask for more
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aah the seventies===muscle cars for 1000 dollars=the beach=the vans= the mini truck=anyone every here of the truck club called golden coast ltd==street racing at its finest
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anybody remember ON t.v.
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aah the seventies===muscle cars for 1000 dollars=the beach=the vans= the mini truck=anyone every here of the truck club called golden coast ltd==street racing at its finest
Just squirtin your makin me all nostagic and stuff ,Drags down town ,cheap herb, no rules, no smog restictions,surf ,rock n roll no pollution control etc .... the advent years of the california JET boat !!
you guys wouldn't believe ,Saturday nites in downtown SLO , 56'belair,64' SS 409 Impala 4 spd door slammer or the 63' split window Corvette, oh now ya got me goin ....
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aah the seventies===muscle cars for 1000 dollars=the beach=the vans= the mini truck=anyone every here of the truck club called golden coast ltd==street racing at its finest
Just squirtin your makin me all nostagic and stuff ,Drags down town ,cheap herb, no rules, no smog restictions,surf ,rock n roll no polution etc .... the advent years of the california JET boat !!
Ahhh, the good old days !! ;D Midnight street races = work on it all week, beat the sh## out of it on Friday night, work on it all week again. ::) Good times. [attachimg=1]
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Thought of some more laugh in ,cheach n chong , Cheap gas ,cheap beer, no roll bar boats with fat sacks....
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anybody remember ON t.v.
I remember before we got cable in Riverside you had to choose between ON or Select TV for movies at home.
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Thanks Ralph. I started middle school in 1980 and I can definately relate to all of the points made.
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how about orange county street racers=nabisco=that stuff would put the show PINKS to shame=and of coarse whitter blvd=went to jail for crusing the blvd=was only 17 and it was past 10 pm curfew
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I started street racing in Riverside 1956 even raced Colton CA drag strip opps Colton air strip fast ford loved them hemis and the old Babbette slingers(chev) for you young ones no hood no door handles bad car radios but lots of party's lots of car clubs 25cent gas cheater slicks on the street no smog shit just fast cars and fast times started second child hood 1976-1977 street racing with my 2 boy"s started them on north main no more BMX after that 1956 ford Pu 460 built sons had to white 67 mustangs GT 390 3=2 4 speeds still have state of shock pro street now, I use tell the Chev boys before we would race it was 312 stickers on 460 rockers worst night racing hood blue up on 56 at 100+ couldn't see where Chev was at behind me wife has glass all over her and******** you know what felt like Ace Venter trying to roll down wind and stick head out window to see where the shit I was. must have been 300 cars out there that night even some on trailers back out next week end to race.
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I was a little after that time but...
We had fun on North Main, Palmyrita, Duffrin, Santa Ana and a couple time right down Magnolia (just asking for a ticket).
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thanks for makin me feel old again you bunch of bastar*s ;D
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I miss the street races! >:D
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worst night racing hood blue up on 56 at 100+ couldn't see where Chev was at behind me wife has glass all over her and******** you know what felt like Ace Venter trying to roll down wind and stick head out window to see where the shit I was. must have been 300 cars out there that night even some on trailers back out next week end to race.
That brings back memerys. ::) One night raceing my old 57 plymouth, the bedspread/seatcover came loose at about 90 and wraped around my head ::), Good thing that car always stoped straight. Big sticky tires and a spool are for safety. ;D Yea, it was ugly, but FAST, and the rust made it lighter. :o
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I was born in '70 and remember staying up until midnight 1 day a week to get videos. My 1st street race was an 80 something Buick Estate Wagon that I had rebuilt the stock 350 in. Then I up graded to a '72 Mustang Mach I O0 My 1st video game was pong. A Commodore 64 was the Sh*t. It had a whole 64K of internal memory and until the floppy disk drive came out I used a tape player that took about 30 mins to load one of those square people games ;)
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thats young 10 years ago to be street racing ;D And builting motor cool O0
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My tranplanted LB buddy dragged me down there to surf Long Beach Cherry ave and check out the southbay in the late 60s then took me to Tweedy blvd (sp)in Belflower? at nite to see the Cruise/Street drag race spectacle and Big Willie (brothehood of street racers) Super Bee ,OMG I had no idea (small town kid then) (google big willie and the brotherhood...)
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BTW my first car was a 54 Merc coupe ,second was a 56' Chevy Belair "hardtop"(no posts) 301 sbc ,3 speed w/hurst shifter,4:56 gears very quick stop lite to stop lite ;D after that its a blur Rhonda and I lost track of cars owned at 58+ several years ago ...
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My tranplanted LB buddy dragged me down there to surf Long Beach Cherry ave and check out the southbay in the late 60s then took me to Tweedy blvd (sp) at nite to see the Cruise/Street drag race spectacle and Big Willie (brothehood of street racers) Super Bee ,OMG I had no idea (small town kid then) (google big willie and the brotherhood...)
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big willie was one cool dude, did some shady things and i think it was his demise. that being said terminal island was the only place to be as far as i'm concerned. he used to walk around with a 12 guage and take bets under the timing tower, used to call it little las vegas.
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Funny sh*t ;D Geez Ralph your memory amazes me Cool
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Thats all good shit! As much as I love muscle cars and hotrods...In my high school days were in the late 80's...5.0's, Iroc's and Grand nationals were the shitznit! >:D Along with a mullett like Plesh had ;D Anybody else have an HBO antenna? :D
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I also raced at 'The Terminal",Brotherhood Raceway...what ever. I was bumpy and narrow even in the rental racers opps I mean rental cars!!! >:D O0 I was a cool place and the races for "hotdogs" were plentiful. Talked to a jet car guy in Denver and he said it was on a good pass out there if he didn't get a MPH... The wheels where air born over the last mph beem!!!! :o
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i used to go to the steetraces all the time in the oc / riverside / sfvalley every week...
tuesday night @ in the valley on glen oaks blvd
wendsday night @ carls jr, in anaheim over by camalot
friday night @ the valley on glen oaks blvd
saturday nights in riverside @ truckstop off the 10frwy or edawanta blvd
sunday nights in fullerton on imperial blvd...
never made it to the compton races (too white for that)
good times......ran my bug a few times against a few 5.0 stangs....those were my favoriate to eat up, those drivers would get so pissed...lol
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Ha Ha ,we had 3 channels 2 crappy 1 OK ,the old man would be outside turning the ANTENNA with mom yellin out commands (more! less!) . Folk bought 1 six pack of Shasta a week , ate soda crackers and cheerios for snacks and used to scrounge returnable soda bottles for spending cash . Got a buck or so a week allowance and if I didn't take out the trash on time he'd kick my a$$ . Yeah I'm a geezer
As a member of the under 30 crowd... I didn't have the internet until 7th grade. No computer, not even cable. We didn't have a TV until I was 12, apparently my mom didn't believe in TV. My mom's idea of a treat was sliced apples (my mom is a chef). Never had soda unless I was at a friends house. Now they've got everything. My computer prohibition led me to a job as an IT administrator at the 8th largest Aerospace Manufacturer in the U.S. where a computer is in my life second to second. I'm 21 and was raised old school.
My grandfather owned a print shop in the valley and restored cars on the side. My first ride in a muscle car was his tubbed '56 Bel-air with a 427 he had pulled out of a corvette. I still am trying to get that car thrown in my name on his will.
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does anyone remember fullerton road? or the old 84 lumber off lambert in brea, before it became a church??... I too remember carls jr and camelot!!
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Yep!!! I'd come out to see the family, March Meet,then CHRR and swing by. My cousins were in hs/jr high. Family is in Yorba linda. OMG I still still remeber the hotties! ::)
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Taking OUT the trash???? How about burning the trash in the backyard incinerator?....Twice a week or as needed. Yes, this was in LA, Cal.........Garbage went in a pail that was picked up by the GARBAGE truck once a week........Anyone remember S&H Green stamps?............Then Blue Chip stamps?....Gas was 29.9 for good stuff............And the car A/C was a swamp cooler in the passenger window that you put water in.........How about "Curb Feelers"? All the cars had them, never see them anymore, but you never see whitewalls anymore either. (even the Mickey Mouse whitewalls you could put over the blackwalls to make them white).........Spinner hubcaps, long before even "chrome wheels" were available.........AND you can't leave out the mid west popular red wheels on just about anything that rolled....Under 30 you say, how about under 50..........Oh and VERY, VERY few homes had FM radios, and no cars had them........Black and white TV for the basic broadcast TV stations, Spade Coley , Lawerence Welk, Cliffy Stone, Dick "leather britches" Lane......The "Fabulias 52" movies.........on Saturday nights. Damn, how did we ever survive?...........MP
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ray, your taking us waaaaay back. but yes i remember blue chip stamps. Mom used to save them for me and i would go and pick out a toy. yes we were poor
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When I was a kid I was saving blue chip stamps trying to get a canoe.
What the Hell would I have done with a canoe?
I've still never been in a canoe :screwy:
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When I was a kid I was saving blue chip stamps trying to get a canoe.
What the Hell would I have done with a canoe?
I've still never been in a canoe :screwy:
put a big block in it. what else :screwy: