What did you have in your childhood area that you dont have now in your current area?

Corner stores. Neighborhood pizza place. Schools that kids could walk to in their own neighborhoods with their friends.

 

Ah man!!

 

My late mother (born 1917) came from the anthracite coal region of eastern Pennsylvania (before moving to NJ with her family at age 3), and well recalled seeing her uncles coming home from the mines, looking like pieces of coal themselves, during visits from New Jersey out to visit relatives.

She also recalls all the great coal piles and breakers; all of my maternal great uncles were miners; Mom's German-born grandfather was the manager of the huge and prosperous Glen Alden Colliery for many years, until retiring in the early 1930s......

 

Great memories!

Mom used to tell the story of a friend of one of her aunts who lived in nearby Nanticoke (this was in the 1920s); she had gone down into her cellar to get a jar of preserves when the mine shaft beneath her house caved in, taking her house with it.

Sadly, she was instantly killed.

Mom never forgor that story.

The local streetcar company, Wilkes-Barre Railways (which used private tracks near to my great-grandparent's house) would have to suspend service when sinkholes and settling appeared beneath the tracks, where the mine tunnels honeycombed the area.

These areas would have to b e filled in before the streetcars could rum safely through the area.

One of my great-aunts worked as a secretary in the timekeeper's office at a nearby colliery (she would take the streetcar to work); she also saw a lot of interesting things there, before she left to be married about 1928 (her husband was a foreman)....................

 

Sure hope all works well with your brother and his home.

Scary as hell, any way you look at it.

Just think of the hundreds of miles of long-abandoned mine shafts that STILL, after decades of being idle, have not been filled in/shorn up..........

 

Sinkholes in Northwest Jersey opening up under Interstate 80.

 

The old ramshackle garage where the 13 year old girl took my 10 year old self to have my first sex.

 

A yoshinoya, a swimming pool, reliable bus service.

 

In my youth (Oakland, CA) I had:
- Multiple parks nearby where I could go anytime to play baseball, touch football, go swimming, ride my Honda 350 Scrambler, etc.
- The Black Panthers that did more good for Oakland than the city or county did.
- San Francisco Bay where I could catch a 30-pound Striped Bass with no license.
- Parks in the Oakland Hills with Giant Redwood tree forests and dirt motorcycle riding
- The Oakland Raiders: George Blanda, Ken Stabler, Fred Biletnikoff, Daryl Lamonica
- The San Francisco Giants: Willie Mays, Willie McCovey, Juan Marichal, Orlando Cepeda
- Local Pro-Baseball Players: Willie Stargell, Joe Morgan,
- Getting drafted into the US Army to go to Eastern Asia to prevent world communist domination.
- 1962 World Series: "Ralph Terry gets set. Here's the pitch to Willie. There's a liner straight to Richardson! The ballgame is over and the World Series is over!
— George Kell, calling the last out of Game 7 on NBC Radio.

 

Yes, I've been keeping track of this on the news; scary, especially since 80 is such a busy corridor.

Too, with so much wetlands, wooded areas, and other undeveloped areas in New Jersey being rapidly built on (often with 20-30 story towers, one cannot help but wonder how this all will affect the stability of the earth and rock beneath.

As it is, there is an fault line that runs from the New Jersey side of the Hudson River and along 125th Street in Manhattan.......I shudder to think what COULD happen, especially with so much overbuilding and excavating going on...............

 

My old childhood area in urban northeastern New Jersey has been so overbuilt since my growing up days in the 1960s, that much is now virtually unrecognizable.

The old mom-and-pop stores, the corner candy stores (which, like the old drug stores, always had pay phones), the safety and security of the friendly neighborhoods where we all knew one another and always felt safe, now only exist in memory and old family photos........and we are all the poorer for it, and only today can truly appreciate just how fortunate we all were as children..........

 

I mi$$ good kind/loving people

 

You and me both, my friend, you and me both............

 

No ridiculously boring and insipid so called reality tv. More original films instead of endless sequels and prequels. Afforedable housing. More freedom without Big Brother tracking bloody everything . Cash was king now it is becoming almost obsolete. More free press as opposed to the modern corporate/smoke and mirrors propoganda rags. Less hyper consumerism. Less Fashionista bs. ( I still wont pay more to advertise some companies name on my clothing et al and dont give me that 'it's better quality' shite just because it has some particular name on the product. )
Democracy wasnt a complete sham like it is now. Jobs werent vanishing as fast because of corporate greed and the rise of the machines and tech to make us redundant. Humanity wasnt speedily devolving into oblivion. ( anyone care to notice even us desenters are caught in the Matrix - Anyone notice that we are all plugged in? - heading for virtual dis reality at the speed of nano tech. Queuing up to buy the next bit of extinction ware? Plug in - Tune Out - Shut Down - live in the ether.
Brave New World, 1984, The Trial, etc were works of fiction now they are future history novels. We have SkyNet, We are not far away from a full blown Matrix life/death. But no one will take down the Net or pull the plugs - it is too late. Generation Fucked has been born.

 

Good games in the arcade from the 80s that are not sped up!!!!


This local mall arcade near me recently put in a 60 game console... All good 80s games!!

THEY ARE ALL SPED THE FUCK UP SO ITS HARD TO PLAY THEM!!!!!!!!

Why bother hsving them at all??????

THESE GAMES ARE 1000% BETTER THAN THE CRAP IN ARCADES NOW!


IT PISSES ME THE FUCK OFF..........

Im glad I have these games on my computer AT THE RIGHT SPEED!!