If you could bring back something from the past, what would it be??

[KevinKohler]

Playing outside, pre video games/devices.

 

[Chomsky]

The original Ginos pizza rolls. Totinos ruined them.

Haha!

I get this!

 

[Chock Full o Nuts]

Yeah, that was Acapulco Gold, which was probably closely related, but Columbian was a different strain. And it was usually loaded with seeds. Some stems too. Cleaning an oz on a little metal tray using your driver's license for a scraper was almost like a ritual.

I just go back to 90s brick. Buy a quarter; clean stems and seeds; end up with an 8th.. Still shit.

Had to pay hefty for the hydro, etc.

Outside of dispensary these days, what some were charging probably 20 years ago for a bag(oz) of 'put you in your place' stuff around here can be had for a fourth the price now. Or even better!

So I can't complain about quality/price in my time.

 

[Helix]

Make mine a 70 SS Chevelle, with the 375/396 & 4.11's! Blue over black, please!

Very nice. It took me a while to land on the 1967, but that's probably the one for me. Would I go for a 1970? You bet.

 

[dmpi]

I wish we could bring back the world before cell phones.

 

[Chock Full o Nuts]

Make mine a 70 SS Chevelle, with the 375/396 & 4.11's! Blue over black, please!

My dads was a 69, metal flake blue with white stripes. Blamed the trade in on brother, because my mom just couldn’t work the clutch while pregnant with him. Wanted the Monte.

To this day, I like the Chevelle. Think he did too in hindsight.

 

[Logophile]

Remember those lights?? You could play Hendrix and every color would be fluorescent. They used to sell those lights everywhere. I miss the real five and dime stores. I miss camera stores, too. I still have my Nikkormat. Anybody remember when Walmart wasn't named Walmart?? It was named something else but I can't remember what

 

[Chomsky]

Not those rims, but I do like the stance and the wider tires in the back. That's 70s muscle.

Yeah, I don't like the rims either.

My number one muscle car body style is 67-69 Camaro's.

But if you want to put serious power down, you need the coil spring rear of a Chevelle. Those bouncy twisty hoppy Camaro leaf springs were nonsense. Ditto for Nova's (little death traps they were - that's why there's none around!).

My blue-collar union-worker city neighborhood had a ton of '70 era Chevelle's. Why? Because a young husband & father in their early-twenties, working a blue-collar union job, could firstly afford it. But second and just as importantly, he could get it past the wife with it having room for the new kids he had just made with her!

The car could haul the kids and groceries, the wife was happy it wasn't a "sports car" or "race car" like your single buddies had, and you knew with the right RPO boxes checked on the purchase order, along with a set of headers and slicks, you were going to ET at the track as good or better than your single buddies with their Camaros!

"What the wife don't know won't hurt her . . ."

(I knew a lot of guys just like this)

 

[Mr Person]

Wish there was something real;
wish there was something true

 

[Chomsky]

My dads was a 69, metal flake blue with white stripes. Blamed the trade in on brother, because my mom just couldn’t work the clutch while pregnant with him. Wanted the Monte.

To this day, I like the Chevelle. Think he did too in hindsight.

Haha! This fits right-in with my Post #33, above. Where your pops went wrong, was in getting a stick. If he got an auto, he could have checked-off all the fun boxes and mom never would have known!

BTW - If the Monte was a '70 - '72, I believe it was on the Chevelle Chassis. If it was the newer '73's forward, I must admit they were beautiful cars. But, the engines were absolute dogs. The body however, was a work of art.

Check-out post #33, to possibly get some insight into your old man's way of thinking (if he was anything like the guys in my old neighborhood).

 

[craig]

Statesmanship.

 

[Lycanthrope]

Common sense.

Decency.

Cultural respect for intelligence and education.

Sense of community.

A general distrust of/contempt for tyrants and dictators.

Those chewy fruit candies I would walk down to the corner store for (banana flavor was my favorite).

 

[Lycanthrope]

Also? I'd give anything for another round of my grandfather's salt rock strawberry ice cream, and an afternoon to share it with him.

 

[JMR]

Luncheonettes with a soda counter. My mom loved to go shopping on Saturdays, mostly "just looking", but afterwards we'd always stop for either a grilled cheese with a chocolate malt, or a black and white ice cream soda.

 

[Lycanthrope]

Luncheonettes with a soda counter. My mom loved to go shopping on Saturdays, mostly "just looking", but afterwards we'd always stop for either a grilled cheese with a chocolate malt, or a black and white ice cream soda.

What was in a black and white soda?

 

[JMR]

What was in a black and white soda?

It was chocolate syrup and vanilla ice cream. I think there was a white and black soda also, which was vanilla syrup and chocolate ice cream, but not my choice.

 

[Jessie C]

Columbian Gold.

And skunk weed......

 

[venice_ca]

Do you have something you miss or think you miss??

UCLA upsetting USC in football, and all of Westwood was a party.

Live music at the Troubadour, McCabe’s, the Santa Monica Civic, and knowing who the bands and musicians were.

 

[Stealers Wheel]

I was going to say cheaper weed.

Cheaper weed? Did someone mention "Toledo Window Box"?

 

[The Brad Dad]

Shame.

 

[Logophile]

UCLA upsetting USC in football, and all of Westwood was a party.

Live music at the Troubadour, McCabe’s, the Santa Monica Civic, and knowing who the bands and musicians were.

Sounds magical

 

[Chock Full o Nuts]

Haha! This fits right-in with my Post #33, above. Where your pops went wrong, was in getting a stick. If he got an auto, he could have checked-off all the fun boxes and mom never would have known!

BTW - If the Monte was a '70 - '72, I believe it was on the Chevelle Chassis. If it was the newer '73's forward, I must admit they were beautiful cars. But, the engines were absolute dogs. The body however, was a work of art.

Check-out post #33, to possibly get some insight into your old man's way of thinking (if he was anything like the guys in my old neighborhood).

Looked a few years, and I believe a 72(bro was born). But the lines/curves seemed more pronounced-though my childhood neighborhood hill seemed huge! I putted through not long ago. Is but a slope!

It may have well had to do with, as the storiy goes, my mom beat my dads drag location opponent on her run in that stick.

" Well that's it! You can't work that clutch while pregnant!" ....as the story goes...

 

[reinaert]

Neil Peart.

 

[911Sparky]

Common sense.

Decency.

Cultural respect for intelligence and education.

Sense of community.

A general distrust of/contempt for tyrants and dictators.

Those chewy fruit candies I would walk down to the corner store for (banana flavor was my favorite).

Air of the above, and my 1970 Shelby GT 500 Convertible.

 

[btthegreat]

My answer is just too politically incorrect to repeat. If anyone took it seriously, I would get killed here.