Old pictures and how things used to look

Does anyone else like looking at old pictures or film footage and remembering how things used to look vs. how they look today? If you're a child of the 80s (like myself) or before, you might be better able to relate to what I am saying. Remember those dimly lit malls with predominating brown and orange hues, or those old-school supermarkets and their characteristic smell, which were nothing like the yuppie supermarkets of today. Some places like this still exist in less developed areas, but it's a growing few.

Everything looks so uniform and sterile these days. Everywhere you go it's bright and pristine. It just creates this feeling that everything in society is so plastic and cheep.

Does anyone else know what I mean, or am I way off in stonerland?

 

Goonies then and now, they revisit the goonies home and what it looks like today.
I really enjoyed this one..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8yxrenBZW-8"]The Goonies 1985 ( FILMING LOCATION then and now) Steven Spielberg - YouTube

 

I never went back to look at where I grew up... I'm sure it wouldn't be recognizable.

In general, yeah it's all different now... But I purchased a home, a "Mid Century Modern" that would have gone through a major renovation with additions right around 68-70. It actually did, I'm just adjusting them to my liking. So I tend to decorate this way to some extent. (Forgive the computers in the studio and LED lighting) I spend most my time here so it's a comfortable retro feel...

 

Things have changed a lot in the past few decades! Televisions, cars, phones, decor, clothing, etc. Anyone older than 10 can look at pictures from their infant-hood and feel like a fossil.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF7EpEnglgk"]KIDS REACT TO OLD COMPUTERS - YouTube

 

I know exactly what you mean. There is a street in my town where all the chain shops and restaurants are. You can go to almost any town in America and find the exact same same street with the exact same stores and restaurants. This has always really bothered me.

incidentally my grandparents owned a lot of land on that very street and I love looking at old photographs of their farm. Its pretty depressing that such a beautiful piece of land is now a strip mall replicated thousands of times over all across the country.

 

When I was a kid those computers were cutting edge technology



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When I was a kid they didn't exist.

 

You mean home computers of course because there were business computers which could fill an entire room but had no more processing power than a hand-held calculator




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Cars first came to mind, i hate how cars look today, they all look the same

 

i still have a commodore calculator around here somewhere

 

I used a 10 key adding machine at work; a corded telephone; and a typewriter with a ribbon and keys in it. I wrote payroll checks by hand. Oh, and we had several big filing cabinets!

I worked for my dad and some things in his office were really old school. He had an adding machine that wasn't even electric, lol

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93b5MelKGQE"]The Good The Bad and The Ugly Location Tour - YouTube

 

Not much changes in this peaceful town. =]

 

So all vestiges of nazism and nazi influence have been wiped-out, cleansed and made whole again over the passage of time


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Yeah there isnt a whole lot of plastic in my town either. Just family dollar...or dollar general whatever they are all the same.
i like looking at pictures and comparing hoe i remember it to what it actually was. things always seemed nicer then compared to seeing them in pics now.

 

That darn bead always sticks!

 

What?
I was born in the 80s. I'm really not sure what it looked like in the 30s.
As far as I'm aware our roof tops look the same now as they did back then.
But bravo for trying to bring up racism and stuff. =]

 

Just probing you do after all live in germany


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