Steve Smith?

I used to play @ Odyssey Foosball Hall on Blue Ridge. Friend and I won 3rd out of 25 teams. We were 14 &12 respectively. Pissed off quite a few adults. I also played at the Tornado Foosball Hall up off of Hillcrest and Red Bridge Rd. I was underage, but with a notarized slip from your parents, they'd let you in to play. some really fantastic players...Fast forward to the early nineties to a rock bar in Denver, and I'm beating the crap out of Jani Lane from Warrant(RIP) with his pregnant, fine as wine wife bobby Brown looking on.


Super fun, still love to play

My dad was a computer science teacher for decades, so we had a computer for as long back as I can remember... with a dot matrix printer and computer games that existed on 5+ floppy disks.

Police Quest was another Sierra game... Wasteland... I remember a really old school baseball game that had some kind of wheel that you had to use to enter a password (the original combat against pirating, physical decoder rings).

I was born in '80 and the one thing I'd say I really missed out on were the concerts of some of the old school 90s bands.... Lollapalooza at Longview Lake in '95 was one of my first concerts ever with Metallica and Soundgarden and several others.

What I'd give to be a few years older and see Metallica touring with GNR in '92 or to see Nirvana live, or Billy Corgan 30 years younger (granted, I've seen Smashing Pumpkins several times now).

mini bikes!
 

MonkeyWard, JC Penney, Sears and a host of others mass produced mini bikes.

I get in an occasional game but I still suck. :#

My Dad bought one from the JC Whitney catalog. Was a kit if I remember right. Had a 5 hp Clinton 4 stroke. We would take it on camping trips. What a blast but I remember always having to replace the clutch. It had a governor on it and was the first thing to go. It would really fly. Oh yeah no helmet wasn't even a thought.

lot of friends had these and the chain guard would never last and the chain ate a bunch of kids jeans and crashed them,.

Who remembers Katz Drug stores? There were many all over the country. Does anyone remember they sold their own beer? Premium Katz beer the Dads would sit on the front porch shoot the breeze and drink Katz. We had a Katz on Armour and Swift in NKC also the cool one near Main and Westport Rd.

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Even though I lived in Kansas and could legally buy 3.2 beer at 18, I got an older family member to buy me bourbon* because..., crap beer. (Or maybe it was to be cool. Or maybe both.)

I drank beer at bars, because that was what they served. Unless used a faked ID to go to a club.

*No longer drink bourbon. Drink rye.

A few random memories from my childhood, which was mostly in the 1970s.

1. My first phone number (family phone) used letters and numbers. It was something like SU5-1549.

2. My parents' pickup had only AM radio as the sound system.

3. Flat tires were not unusual. Tire technology in the modern world must have arisen from a UFO crash.

4. I walked alone to school and back in second grade, and was a latchkey kid by third grade.

5. Car bumpers were apparently designed to maim pedestrians. They were really hard and metal.

6. My first foray into the computer age was a red LED watch that you lit up by pushing a button. It was pretty awesome. I got it in maybe the 8th grade.

7. The first computer I ever saw was an Apple that my school's calculus teacher acquired for class. We had a little afterschool computer club where we learned to program it.

8. My first video game was an offbrand Pong game, but soon after that Space Invaders came available in the local Godfather's Pizza. I invested significant effort into mastering it.

9. My earliest memories of television were Three Stooges reruns and the Red Skelton Show. Then I discovered cartoons.

10. I remember going to see Dolly Parton in concert as a young child, when she was a local second banana to Porter Wagoner. It was at some relatively small theater in Joplin.

And of course every girl they swipe immediately says yes?

I think one of the down sides of the apps is it makes it too weird to flirt with strangers anymore.

And for whatever reason, it seems teenagers/twenty somethings are having less sex than people used to.

My elementary school was only a block and a half away. I'm sure I walked alone to first grade pretty much any weather. I think I even walked to kindergarten in good weather.

they still make Rainier shockingly, see it here in gas stations. I think it's owned by the same company that makes PBR, because it tastes about the same as PBR.

Haven't seen Olympia in many years though.

Pabst owns them and contracts with Miller to brew the beer in California. No PNW ties anymore other than the name.

Hell yes, to it all. Grew up a tyke in the '60s and teen in the '70s. Back in the 60s Westerns ruled TV. Shows about Daniel Boone and Davey Crockett were the best: coon skin caps, long rifles, and Indians who still had a fighting chance.

My brother (I was too young) had a toy long rifle, just like Davey and Daniel. Same size and heft as the real thing, or at least it seemed to be to my 5 or 6 year old self. It used a powder cap to fire a cork ball. I was too young to aim and shoot it, but not too young to not be targeted by my brother.

Nerf wasn't yet a thing. That damn cork ball would raise a welt and leave a bruise. You'd hear a bang, see the smoke, and get stung like a wasp just attacked you. And you didn't go crying to Mommy, or you didn't get to play with the big boys.

I had the Davy Crokett coon skin cap and that rifle too. That cork ball would hurt like a mother ****er. Talk about putting an eye out. Different times.