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Those were the good ole' days!!
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Where you could just lite one up at a ballgame!! LOL
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Stingray
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Stingray
Posts: 8,843 ✭✭✭
Stingray
Posts: 8,843 ✭✭✭
Stingray
Posts: 8,843 ✭✭✭
Where you could just lite one up at a ballgame!! LOL
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Or driving the race car!
It's amazing how many Topps cards show a player not being successful. Fergosi has obviously fouled it off. The Clemente card looks like he's taking a strike. Pat Corrales is laid out, etc.
My little league coach would smoke in our dugout. By accident he burned my hand with his cig. When I told my parents they said be more careful around his cigarette! Those were the days!
No access to images of the cards, but aren't there several cards with cigarette adds in the background, cartoon, etc. Thinking Randy Johnson, Nolan Ryan...
The amount of change in a lifetime is scary!
Remember when if you didn't get to the bank on Friday, you just had no money til Monday?
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The grocery store down the street would cash my dad's paycheck.
Phone numbers started with 2 letters
TA4-3381
Our phone # had two letters followed by four numbers. It was a party line. I pick up the phone to make a call and I hear the neighbors having a conversation. I remember being on the phone and I hear the neighbor asking me to end my call so they can make one. But, no, I didn't have to crank it up.
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Ralph
You actually had to get off of the couch to change the channel, and the choices on the knob were only numbered 2 through 13.
Soda pop came in glass bottles, all kids rode bicycles for transportation (without helmets), and bubble gum companies actually included gum with their bubble gum cards.
Had to turn the knob on car radio to be able to tune in a radio station
Actually get out of your car to get food at McDonalds!! The horror of it all!
You wore a hip pack for your CD player, which also had space for a travel album with the various favorite CDs that you could then easily change out on a whim, just to listen to one song, before easily changing again to the next CD.
Movie premieres on network tv were a big thing (or event
) : Planet of the Apes, Earthquake, etc. 
Family piled in the car headed to Bantam Chef for Banana Splits, Sundaes, etc.
Riding in the back of the Chevy Silverado on the interstate was a right of passage into adulthood
Lynda Carter was Wonder Woman.
In my case, the 70's are loved and missed
The good ole days for me Kirk?
When I could bend over without getting dizzy.
No zip codes.
In every age, ‘the good old days’ were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time. For every age has consisted of crisis that seemed intolerable to the people who lived through them. -- Brooks Atkinson
Whatever does not kill you makes you stronger, right? Negative emotions prepare you for the realities of life; they are more useful for long-term survival than positive emotions.
So, should it not be that negative emotions scar you deeper, you will remember them better in the future? It might seem as if the FAB is a counter-intuitive finding.
However, negative emotions only “make you stronger” because of the FAB. Challenges and difficulties do scar us, but with time, you will not remember them as negative anymore.
Just as with my first month in India, we reinterpret negative experiences as transformative moments. In this way, instead of keeping the memory of the real negative event as it was, we make our story a narrative of success achieved through suffering.
One of the main reasons why this happens is because maintaining an intense negative emotion simply places unnecessary burdens on our brains, hearts and general health.
Winner!! I feel ya
You're making a good but slightly incorrect point. I had good times in the past. I will again in the future. But I know what phenomenon you are describing: that idea that we tend to sugarcoat most of our memories. I agree; most of us do this. Most of us, though, on some level and in our own way, pine for our youth. Even if we didn't have it that great, we were unburdened by what we didn't yet know and delighted by what may come next.
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I like.
For me, it's our dreams that keep us alive and our good memories provide a sense of nostalgia - why many of us enjoy collecting things.
It's a way to hold onto those memories.