There used to be payphones on practically every corner when I was growing up. Not anymore, they’re practically extinct. And phone calls used to be a dime. And if a miracle happens and you actually find a payphone nowadays it costs at least 50 cents to place a phone call.
Dammit. This schizophrenia manages to screw everything up, doesn’t it? If schizophrenia had its way, fast food joints would start charging you 40 cents just for a straw to drink your milkshake or a soda.
In1987 my step mom had a mobile phone in her car. It was a receiver like you had at home.
She had a lot to do. That’s what I remember.
Whenever I hear anybody tell me I’ “sooooo young still” I have to say there were still those things on every corner (including mailboxes) back when I was growing up.
I feel like at 33 I’m someone who’s at some split between generation x and “the millenials”…I belong to the former more than the latter I feel. I remember the 80’s. I remember rotary phones. I remember the internet being a new thing. I relate more and have even managed relationships with those of former generations and have bonded over music and what not more so than I could have the last girl (21) I vaguely dated.
Now now do they really belong in the same category? I was alive for one of them. 
Speaking of relics from the past, they had Ice Cream trucks like this when I was a boy…
I saw one the other day!!!
When I was 18 I applied for a job to drive one of those. I didn’t get the job.
Painter Pants were all the rage for a while in the early 80’s…
Hear you about ten have been removed the last year alone in my local area. I cut off long distance to save money on my land line and used pay phones when needed. Totally screwed now.
Confused how that’s to do SZ though. That’s all reality and reality sux.
It looks a little like a Gremlin or a Pinto.
It’s been a decade or two or three since I’ve been to a skating rink and roller skated. I hate ice skating. When you fall on ice ( which happened often) it feels like you are falling on cement.
@Dreamscape2. I’m not sure if they still sell those pre-paid phone cards. They used to sell them at stores like CVS, Costco, Target, etc. I used to use those to make long distance calls when I had local call only (no long distance) on my landline for several years. The pre-paid phone card had a 1-800 number you would dial and a pin# you would enter and then you would dial the long distance number. It worked pretty well from what I remember and the cost per minute was pretty reasonable.
■■■■ they had a roller skating rink when I was growing up, it was called happy wheels, I remember skating there but we’d mostly meet up and talk about stupid ■■■■ and dare people to do stuff outside on the lawn. Mid/late 90’s.
I don’ t know, from what I recall, ice and wood floors are both pretty hard when you fall. I say this because I have significant experience falling on my a$$ while rollerskating and ice skating as a kid. The good thing about ice was that it was more slick so you got some forward momentum when falling instead of just downward force.
I googled “physics of falling on your a$$” (WHY? - because I am not just a nerd but also a clumsy nerd)
I had one. We called them, “Pendeltons”.
