Hoth-Nudist said:
YO Hal! Chuck e cheeses and aladdins castle back in the 80's, RULED! I had b-day parties at both. did ur town have a showbiz pizza place? Mine did and had parties there as well. It was just like chuck e cheeses. 80's CEC, unlike todays', had tons of video games!
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love the b-day cake bkev! My mom bought a darth vader cake mold for one of my b-day's and an R2D2 for another. She spent a lot of time frosting them and getting the colors accurate, and the cake would be ready by the time I got out of school! back in 77' after the movie was released and my SW craze commenced, I received that following Christmas: han,leia,3po,r2d2,luke,kenobi,strmtrooper,chewy and vader figures along with the x-wing, mini tiefighter and the landspeeder. After that all I talked about was SW and my parents ceased buying me any more toys, LOL! So if I wanted to buy anymore toys, I had to buy them myself which was a good life lesson. I absolutely loved saving up enough money for additional figures and ships and relished in anticipation the car trip or bike ride to Kmart, Walmart, service merchandise or Venture. One of my fondest purchases was the full size y-wing, admiral ackbar and boush the bounty hunter at Kmart on a saturday night. I saved up lawnmowing money for several months to get them! Another memory is having friends bring over their SW toys for a sleepover and we would combine our forces for a huge battle till the wee hours!
yeah buddy we sure did have a showbiz pizza here. I loved aladins castle. back when going to the arcade was a special event almost.Kids today are so spoiled with technology. Back then everything was special because you only got the great things every blue moon. Like the high tech graphic games at the arcade..we only got to play when pur parents took us to the mall or something. Now such things sit in a kid living room. THe movies we all love and care for..back then we had to wait an entire year just to see it.. the wizard of oz, charlie browns xmas or halloween, the grinch who stole xmas. you made a point to be in front of the tv set to watch it and it meant something to you because you knew when it was over you couldnt see it again fior an entire year.. now you can just go to wal mart or click a button online and poof its there to watch. the magic is gone from it.
I went to toys r us thre other day and it had more clothes and things of that nature than it had toys. back in the day the entire store row after row after row was toys and toys and toys. I think those of us born between 1970-1975 give or take a few yrs in either direction really were blessed with being raised in the best time period. Everything we got to grow up with was the best of the best. the movies, the music, the cartoons, the technology. we are really the generation that refuses to grow up because things were so good back then. other than the advanced techology we have today nothing is better.. If god gave me the chance to go back to 1980 right now and live it all over I would go in a heart beat.
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