That location you mentioned. Was it in Hacienda Heights? Gale/Hacienda Blvd?
The BTTF 1 parking lot is on Colima Ave in the Rowland Heights area, but I think technically it was in Puente Hills because it was the PH Mall. I think it was close to where the cities connected. I know RH was part of it because you start seeing a lot of Korean writing on stores/signs around that area, it's an ethnic enclave city. I used to have to drive an hour from the IE to Norwalk and would just take Colima for a long stretch of the journey to sidestep the F'd 10 traffic.
Rowland Heights is where a lot of Chinese from Alhambra/El Monte would move to after they made a little money. Colima is long strip of Asian markets/shops along the area you're describing. It's been like 20 years since I've been in that area so I imagine it's gotten even more Asian. _________________ KOBE
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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2022 6:40 pm Post subject:
jonnybravo wrote:
Can't believe no one mentioned no internet.
Kind of hard to mention no internet on an internet message board when you have no internet. _________________ “We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” ― Elie Wiesel
I'm not a parent but do y'all let your kids just go to their friends and hang out afterschool? We grew up like that but all my siblings are all borderline helicopter parents. "Play date"? Wha?!
I don't think kids now have as much freedom as when we were young and we have our reasons.
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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2022 6:59 pm Post subject:
jonnybravo wrote:
I'm not a parent but do y'all let your kids just go to their friends and hang out afterschool? We grew up like that but all my siblings are all borderline helicopter parents. "Play date"? Wha?!
What our parents allowed in the '70's and '80's would garner CPS calls these days. _________________ You thought God was an architect, now you know
He’s something like a pipe bomb ready to blow
And everything you built that’s all for show
goes up in flames
In 24 frames
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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2022 7:02 pm Post subject:
lakersken80 wrote:
jonnybravo wrote:
I'm not a parent but do y'all let your kids just go to their friends and hang out afterschool? We grew up like that but all my siblings are all borderline helicopter parents. "Play date"? Wha?!
I don't think kids now have as much freedom as when we were young and we have our reasons.
Definitely different worlds all around. _________________ You thought God was an architect, now you know
He’s something like a pipe bomb ready to blow
And everything you built that’s all for show
goes up in flames
In 24 frames
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Posted: Sun Jun 05, 2022 7:11 pm Post subject:
jonnybravo wrote:
^^^ Be honest Lanny, you rocked a mullet didnt'cha?
Not if he was going to Dead concerts. _________________ You thought God was an architect, now you know
He’s something like a pipe bomb ready to blow
And everything you built that’s all for show
goes up in flames
In 24 frames
While there wasn’t the internet as we know it today, there were dial-up online services like CompuServe and Prodigy. As teens, we dialed into BBS’s all over the country and there weren’t enough lawns to be mowed to settle the long distance bills. Life at 1200 baud, ftw.
Dial-up BBS’s running WWIV, PCBoard, Wildcat, MajorBBS
Commodore 64
IBM PCs 5150
Apple IIe
FedCo
Naugles drive-thru
Pirates Cove Arcade in Monterey Park
714 area code covered the IE
Gas at 89 cents a gallon (briefly)
Answering machines (running out of tape)
Getting ripped off by the payphone
Freeway callboxes
Pirate Radio 100.3 (1989)
KROQ 106.7
KIIS 102.7
KMET 94.7
KLAC Lakers games (back when Chick Hearn did the pre-game show)
While there wasn’t the internet as we know it today, there were dial-up online services like CompuServe and Prodigy. As teens, we dialed into BBS’s all over the country and there weren’t enough lawns to be mowed to settle the long distance bills. Life at 1200 baud, ftw.
Dial-up BBS’s running WWIV, PCBoard, Wildcat, MajorBBS
Commodore 64
IBM PCs 5150
Apple IIe
FedCo
Naugles drive-thru
Pirates Cove Arcade in Monterey Park
714 area code covered the IE
Gas at 89 cents a gallon (briefly)
Answering machines (running out of tape)
Getting ripped off by the payphone
Freeway callboxes
Pirate Radio 100.3 (1989)
KROQ 106.7
KIIS 102.7
KMET 94.7
KLAC Lakers games (back when Chick Hearn did the pre-game show)
Dialup didn't start until the early 90s as far as I'm aware. _________________ KOBE
^While dial-up internet has been around much longer at the university level-through NSFNET, it's true that commercial ISP access through PSTN started becoming available around 1992.
To clarify, during the 80s, CompuServe and Prodigy offered various services such as airline ticket reservations (Eaasy/Saabre), stock quotes, chat/communities, and much more as stand-alone online services (NON-ISP) via local dial-up access numbers. Digital content as we know it today didn't exist back then, but these services were the closest we could get given the connectivity.
^While dial-up internet has been around much longer at the university level-through NSFNET, it's true that commercial ISP access through PSTN started becoming available around 1992.
To clarify, during the 80s, CompuServe and Prodigy offered various services such as airline ticket reservations (Eaasy/Saabre), stock quotes, chat/communities, and much more as stand-alone online services (NON-ISP) via local dial-up access numbers. Digital content as we know it today didn't exist back then, but these services were the closest we could get given the connectivity.
Ah thank you for the history lesson. I wasn't aware that Compuserve and Prodigy went back that far. Crazy how the stalwarts like them and AOL are all but gone. _________________ KOBE
That was a cool store. You could do a walkabout in there. Last time I went to my closest one before it closed was to get some dorm room toiletries on the way to the first week of uni. Even recall getting the kind of Oral B toothbrush that I liked and couldn't find at the grox store. That was in 94, like many former FedCos, it became some kind of police owned entity, maybe a storage place or some sh. Too bad. Used to get Nintendo gms there and my pops would expand the fam VHS library. FedCo prolly had too much merch to survive. Or bad management. I saw a docu on the demise of Kmart. To me, FedCo didn't seem to be depressingly dated like Kmart got after Target hit the scene, but then again, they didn't last as long as Kmart did. _________________ GOAT MAGIC REEL SEDALE TRIBUTE EDDIE DONX!
That was a cool store. You could do a walkabout in there. Last time I went to my closest one before it closed was to get some dorm room toiletries on the way to the first week of uni. Even recall getting the kind of Oral B toothbrush that I liked and couldn't find at the grox store. That was in 94, like many former FedCos, it became some kind of police owned entity, maybe a storage place or some sh. Too bad. Used to get Nintendo gms there and my pops would expand the fam VHS library. FedCo prolly had too much merch to survive. Or bad management. I saw a docu on the demise of Kmart. To me, FedCo didn't seem to be depressingly dated like Kmart got after Target hit the scene, but then again, they didn't last as long as Kmart did.
I bought my only-ever LaserDisc player at a FedCo, circa 1996.
That was a cool store. You could do a walkabout in there. Last time I went to my closest one before it closed was to get some dorm room toiletries on the way to the first week of uni. Even recall getting the kind of Oral B toothbrush that I liked and couldn't find at the grox store. That was in 94, like many former FedCos, it became some kind of police owned entity, maybe a storage place or some sh. Too bad. Used to get Nintendo gms there and my pops would expand the fam VHS library. FedCo prolly had too much merch to survive. Or bad management. I saw a docu on the demise of Kmart. To me, FedCo didn't seem to be depressingly dated like Kmart got after Target hit the scene, but then again, they didn't last as long as Kmart did.
I bought my only-ever LaserDisc player at a FedCo, circa 1996.
HUH?! They still had those for sale by then? Damn. See, that's a testament to FedCo's merch. What other store would possibly have an LD player in 96?
I've only seen one of those in my life. Neighbor had one and not only that, but Dolby surround and this was in 1990ish. He showed me and my Dad and a couple friends of mine from down the street his setup one day. He played Field Of Dreams and I recall hearing the baseball bounce in the grass from behind me. It was pretty damn surreal from a kid with nothing from a VCR and a staticy TV perspective. Guy was a movie buff, he had a real Oscar statue. _________________ GOAT MAGIC REEL SEDALE TRIBUTE EDDIE DONX!
Piiii-rate Raaaay-dio.... Here's the debut of Skid Row's latest song, "Uncle Tom's Cabin".
Hair band overload. I don't even think Pirate Radio was still on by the time Nirvana blew that hair metal scene away. _________________ GOAT MAGIC REEL SEDALE TRIBUTE EDDIE DONX!
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Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2022 7:32 am Post subject:
C M B wrote:
XTC wrote:
714 area code covered the IE
wow
LA had only one area code. 213. _________________ You thought God was an architect, now you know
He’s something like a pipe bomb ready to blow
And everything you built that’s all for show
goes up in flames
In 24 frames
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Posted: Mon Jun 06, 2022 8:02 am Post subject:
80’s? College, MTV, REO Speedwagon at Ted’s Warehouse. And then the cold reality of life, getting a job. _________________ RIP mom. 11-21-1933 to 6-14-2023.
80’s? College, MTV, REO Speedwagon at Ted’s Warehouse. And then the cold reality of life, getting a job.
THE SPEEDWAGON?! I like you more than ever right now. That is TOTALLY awesome, VLF. Keep On Lovin You was a tour-de-force in 1981. That and Open Arms by Journey. People love songs like that, I don't give a sh how hardened they think they are. They listen to those in their car and turn it down at red lights next to other people.
I'm gonna proffer Siskel and Ebert tho they lasted to the 90s. These lads were very much of the 80s. They had a special way about em that made replacements fall flat once they died. Poor Roger, man. He really had a harsh end to his life, but he was a good man. Very liberal, would fit into LGOT well.
Here's their review of Goodfellas in honor of Ray Liotta.
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