590 AM
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RIP
slowly but surely, the world you once knew will be a memory.
AM radio
rotary phones
landlines
yellow pages
memorizing phone numbers
knocking on your friend's door to ask if they can play
hanging out by the utility box under the street light until you hear your name yelled that its time to come home
ugly old lady teacher with a mullet that nobody was concerned with sleeping with a student
asking a lady's father for her hand in marriage
waiting for someone to arrive somewhere with no means of instantly checking on them
dominant nebraska football
pen and pad note taking
communicating with people in person
slowly but surely, the world you once knew will be a memory.
AM radio
rotary phones
landlines
yellow pages
memorizing phone numbers
knocking on your friend's door to ask if they can play
hanging out by the utility box under the street light until you hear your name yelled that its time to come home
ugly old lady teacher with a mullet that nobody was concerned with sleeping with a student
asking a lady's father for her hand in marriage
waiting for someone to arrive somewhere with no means of instantly checking on them
dominant nebraska football
pen and pad note taking
communicating with people in person
Yeah and there are other stations struggling with even getting a strong signal within Omaha as well. Finding a good station to listen to Husker games locally in Omaha is painful... just keep scrolling until you hear Kent... drive a block and your signal gets static. Serious radio issues in Omaha. Even 1620 has the range of a scud missile... good luck getting it to come in within 30 miles of Omaha without a ton of static.
Memorizing phone #'s is totally a lost art.
I was going to say landlines but you already nailed that.
Next door neighbors knowing each other having conversations.
New vehicles with built in CD machines, or even keys to start your car. Gawd, I could keep going.
Cigarette lighters in cars that every kid burned their thumb on.
This is the biggest one. I feel like sense of community has been exponentially reduced over the last 25 years. Maybe not as bad in the small towns, everyone still knows everyone out in the panhandle where my family lives, but when I was in Omaha I hardly knew anybody in my neighborhood. Most of the people wouldn't wave or wave back when I'd wave passing by running or driving. Heck, even growing up on military bases, the sense of community was a lot stronger than it was when I was serving myself. Technology took away a lot of peoples' interpersonal communication skills.
Actually modding your V8 for more power and i'm not talkin about a fart can. Swappin intakes, headers, Edelbrock, air shocks....dual exhaust... and if you're lucky like i was, you did it with your dad.
Do teenagers or early 20 somethings even care about cars anymore? The days of kids longing or saving for a car, fixing it up, customizing, taking pride in owning it, etc. seem long gone. Some parents still buy their kids new/nice cars or give them nice hand-me-downs, and they aren't complaining, but it seems way different. My first car was my baby, but I can't remember the last time I saw a teenager out washing/waxing their car.
Drive in movies... sneaking into drive in movies.
Meeting a woman you didn't know at a bar (or anywhere else while out and about)...with no prior contact...and talking her into going out with you.
Women holding out on head.
Sorry lady, you can try to hold out on anal nowadays, but head is just part of the deal.
Sorry lady, you can try to hold out on anal nowadays, but head is just part of the deal.
We all did. We could see a sibling or cousin do it and at some point we were still gonna do it.
I saw a kid with a modded out 98 Lexus SC 300 this morning. I thought wtf? Really? You’re not pulling any fur with that.
Giving ****** my pager number at Guitars and Cadillacs.
Lee Corso on Gameday.
Destroying hot dogs at W.C. Franks.
Trying to decipher T&A on the scrambled Skinemax signal.
Carbon Paper
Fapping to the JC Penny Catalog Lingerie Section
The car was "freedom" back then but I think now, it is the cell phone.
Getting that first cell is now such a big deal and that makes sense.
But the car just doesn't seem to be as big of a deal. I know tons of kids that don't even care about driving when they turn 16.
In college me and friend got a black box, so we got all the channels for free...one day Spice or Playboy cam in and it was not scrambled...We were terrified that if we changed the channel we would lose it forever...so we just kept it on that channel for like 2 days. Then it went away again.
Dang. So what happens to that frequency. I'm no expert but aren't radio frequencies given out by the federal government? Seems like there's always a station that will rise up to take that frequency? 590 was a pretty powerful signal. It's not just going away, is it?