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I remember pizza and the bus/subway being $1. And their prices went in tandem.
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Being a Torah Temimah boy, I remember on Friday’s Taking the 18th Avenue bus to the old Mendelsohn’s pizza. For $1.00 we got a slice and a small soda. You could also hear Mr. Mendelsohn’s daughter call out from the back, on the top of her lungs, “TATTY, ICH MACH DE FALAFEL BALLS!”
Lets not forget dirty, graffiti covered subways, squegee men everywhere, a Times Squzre so dangerous you couldn’t walk there in the day time,homeless sleeping in Penn Station, rampant crime,
Remember the Challenger disaster?
Anyone remember dialing a local phone number WITHOUT an area code? When we just dialed 123-4567? Much simpler! And how we had to get used to dialing the area code with every call when that started.
Cant forget the mayor who did little during his term except have potholes filled in. (thats actually beginning of the 90’s… as was the dialing of the area code)
Ah, nostalgia isn’t as good as it used to be. How about a thread about growing up in the ’50s?
The 70s? Who wants to remember disco and bell bottoms? 🙂
The dialing the area code requirement only came about in the 2000’s for NYC, about 5 years ago.
I remember when they changed the subway fare from 10 cents to 12 cents. I was comming home from school and I didn’t have the extra two pennies. I used the dime to call my mother and she came and got me.
But calls were only a nickel when the subway was a dime. 🙂
Yeah, I got change.
50s
nuclear war drills in school, the girls lined up against the wall of lockers, the boys lined up next to the girls, so when the bomb hit, the boys bodies would protect the girls.
YW Moderator-20: YES!
Wow this post is bringing back such memories.
Remember when Koch’s first name was Mayor?
>> the mujhadeen who drove out the soviets were a
>> mishmash of many afghan tribes
I have read that many consider the Pashtuns to be the Lost Tribes of Israel. In many respects their fate in 1980s was similar to the fate of the Jews in 1940s.
In the 1980’s Actually 1982:- Margaret Thatcher A’H taught the Argentinians once & for all, that the Falklands are British. What a proud day for the British.
The 1980’s Actually 1981:- We had the Zechus of being Mekayem Birkas haChamo.
The early 1980’s:- Israel had the best Prime Minister it has ever had:- The Late Menachem Begin ZT’L.
1. the 718 area code for Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island began in 1982,
2. I don’t believe the subway fare was ever 12 cents. It went from 10 to 15 and has always gone up in multiples of 5. A 12 cent fare would have created a nightmare for the token clerk in having to make change in pennies
My husband likes to tease me that he is sooo much older because he was an 80s baby and I was a 90s baby. (It’s really only about a three year difference)
Duck Hunt
Before the web, Craigslist and AOL PenPals there was Village Voice Personals
The miracle on ice.
and of course when you had to use the really slow blackberry smartphon… WHAT! THAAT WAS THIS CENTURY?!
Being able to phone scam people without worrying about caller ID.
Being able to dial a number by quickly pressing and releasing the hang-up button.
Wearing glasses that were almost as big as your face
Wearing brown (for men)
Not having any good candy/chocolate to choose from
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