Remember when?

[slobake]

I miss Stevie Ray Vaughan.

 

[Funky Ghost]

I don't mean to sound too contrarian, but book and record stores still exist. Even in my little slice of southeastern NC we have a few independent book and/or record stores. I love record stores (much to my wife's chagrin) so I would definitely miss them if they went away.

I miss how much easier it was to find folks of similar musical mind as it was back in college. Made it easier to get a band together, made it easier to geek out about records, etc.

True enough, although they are also few and far between. That is more to do with print in general. In my particular instance it was an establishment that was the event.

The thrill of seeing my bands CD in our local Tower Records was pretty fab too.

 

[Funky Ghost]

I don't miss being drunk and/or loaded all the time. I think. I remember going to the San Francisco Fourth of July fireworks show and it seemed like everyone was getting wasted. Went back a few years later when I was sober and noticed that a lot of people were just there enjoying the fireworks show. Don't know if things changed but I suspect it was my point of view that changed.

Seems they were kinda like Nostradamus. Tik Tok . . . .

 

[friskinator]

I miss:

Going to the movies before mobile phones. Also miss 35mm projection as the standard.

Live music before mobile phones

Being in the "here and now" without a phone to distract me

Lounging at a bookstore and reading magazines on a lazy afternoon

I don't miss:

Getting lost without GPS and asking for directions

Shopping in person

Talking on the phone as my main form of communication

Buying physical media

 

[IamGroot]

I loved record stores!

It's great to be able to easily make your own playlists with digital files, but I sure miss browsing in record stores. It was a pretty nice place to meet girls, too!

For meeting places, WalMart late on Saturday night has replaced record stores if you are over 60.

 

[DirtDog]

I miss the video game arcade and pinball machines.

I mean, I can play a video game at home sitting in my La-Z-Boy with my wireless controller, watching my large 4K screen and listening in 5.1.

But I miss that damned arcade, the feeling of having a pocket full of quarters and a free afternoon for playing Galaga, Pac-Man, Donkey Kong and Joust.

 

[slobake]

For meeting places, WalMart late on Saturday night has replaced record stores if you are over 60.

 

[roccobass]

1. I miss phone calls. I'm old school that way. Sure text and IM are convenient ways to communicate, but it's more personal verbally.

2. Pinball machines at my local Stop and Robs back when you could actually hang out there. In the pre AM/PM days. But nowadays the only people who hang out there now are the panhandlers.

3. It seemed like there was more pride in one's neighborhood back in the day. I mean, just keeping your lawn mowed or picking up trash around your neighborhood.

 

[gln1955]

For meeting places, WalMart late on Saturday night has replaced record stores if you are over 60.

I think I've seen your picture on the Interwebs somewhere.

 

[IamGroot]

 

[fdeck]

Things I miss:

Bicycles that a regular person could maintain with household tools.

Affordable, decent lumber.

100 Watts was a lot.

Things I don't miss:

Carburetor cars during the winter.

Rust holes after 1 year.

Photographic film

 

[definenredefine]

True enough, although they are also few and far between. That is more to do with print in general. In my particular instance it was an establishment that was the event.

The thrill of seeing my bands CD in our local Tower Records was pretty fab too.

That may be with book stores but vinyl has been pretty consistently a "thing" for the last couple of decades, at least among the indie/underground/punk crowd. It is harder to find stuff at shops these days, so I do find myself ordering direct from the bands in a lot of cases. And certainly there don't seem to be chain music stores anymore. But I'm okay with that - there are so many good indie record stores that I don't really want the larger stores to come back. Besides, there's still Amoeba in Cali...

 

[definenredefine]

Come to Tulsa. We have local music stores, book stores, record shops, the works.

Kids in our neighborhood still play together in the public spaces.

Sometimes when I think living in Oklahoma sucks, I think about the above. It's really pretty good.

My wife had a contract at St Francis in Tulsa. We both thought the downtown was really lovely and there were some great restaurants there. I didn't end up seeing much of the city with her, but she had a nice time before she left.

 

[hbarcat]

I miss waiting in line for concert tickets.

People would typically start arriving at the ticket outlet around 7pm the night before they went on sale at 10am.

Everybody would bring sleeping bags and lay them out on the sidewalk to hold their place in line. Of course, there was always lots of booze and drugs and people doing crazy stuff at 3 o clock in the morning because they're intoxicated.

 

[FilterFunk]

3. It seemed like there was more pride in one's neighborhood back in the day. I mean, just keeping your lawn mowed or picking up trash around your neighborhood.

^THIS!!!

I'll never understand how people can live on properties that look like vacant lots. I'd be utterly embarrassed to invite anyone to my house if my yard looked like that.

It doesn't take a ton of effort to keep one's property, or one's neighborhood, looking decent.

 

[Richland123]

I don't miss trying to write the lyrics of songs by hand while listening to a vinyl record or cassette tape over and over. Usually, some of the words were wrong because they were hard to understand.

Now, the lyrics for most songs are online. Even though there are still wrong words sometimes, it sure beats the old way.

 

[dwm74]

I don't miss trying to write the lyrics of songs by hand while listening to a vinyl record or cassette tape over and over. Usually, some of the words were wrong because they were hard to understand.

Now, the lyrics for most songs are online. Even though there are still wrong words sometimes, it sure beats the old way.

Ditto for tablature online. I admit I've never been the most proficient at figuring out songs by ear, and 'close enough' was my credo for many years. Having tab sites has really helped save a lot of time. Although a sizable portion of tab is wrong or inexact, it at least gets me headed in the right direction.

 

[yodedude2]

"\Groucho on the economy (from Animal Crackers):

Roscoe W. Chandler (Louis Sorin): The nickel today is not what it used to be ten years ago.
Captain Spaulding (Groucho): Well, I'll go further than that. I'll get off at the depot. The nickel today is not what it was fifteen years ago. Do you know what this country needs today?
Chandler: What?
Spaudling: A seven cent nickel. Yes siree, we've been using the five-cent nickel in this country since 1492. Now that's pretty near 100 years daylight saving. Now why not give the seven cent nickel a chance? If that works out, next year we can have an eight cent nickel. Think what that would mean? You could go to a newsstand, buy a three cent newspaper, and get the same nickel back again. One nickel carefully used would last a family a life-time.

yet another marxism [paraphrased]: why, when i came to this town, i didn't even have a nickel in my pocket. but just look at me now! now i've got a nickel in my pocket.

 

[yodedude2]

Come to Tulsa. We have local music stores, book stores, record shops, the works. ... It's really pretty good.

my daughter lived near downtown tulsa for about ten years. great place to vacation. fascinating city. coming to terms with its past as well.

san antonio also has the bookstores, record shops, etc. and is also a fun place to vacation.

 

[friskinator]

I miss waiting in line for concert tickets.

People would typically start arriving at the ticket outlet around 7pm the night before they went on sale at 10am.

Everybody would bring sleeping bags and lay them out on the sidewalk to hold their place in line. Of course, there was always lots of booze and drugs and people doing crazy stuff at 3 o clock in the morning because they're intoxicated.

Also just remembered waiting in line for a new record to come out. There were even midnight releases for the bigger acts (Metallica, GnR, etc.). Kids, ask your parents!