78 years ago today, 9/2/1945, Japan's surrender delegation boards the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay to end World War II. [5748x4504]8mo ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
I was an APG in the Navy and worked under an LLD who recommended I become a TCP but my fellow APG's...1yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/AdviceAnimals
I was an ALG in the Army and worked under an LLD who recommended I become a RNSC but my fellow ALG's...6mo ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/AdviceAnimals
77 years ago today, 9/2/1945, Japan's surrender delegation boards the USS Missouri in Tokyo Bay to end World War II. [5748x4504]1yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/HistoryPorn
Anybody else have parents who saved National Geographics and included them on the family bookshelf?1yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/nostalgia
An all-time favorite comedic villain: Bill Paxton as Chet in Weird Science1mo ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/nostalgia
Just because we're watching the movie on dvd or Blu-Ray, it doesn't mean we've seen it already.1mo ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/AdviceAnimals
Weekend nights at the skating rink were as close to a nightclub scene as us pre-high schoolers got back in the day.1yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/nostalgia
Weekend nights at the skating rink were as close to a nightclub scene as us pre-high schoolers got.1mo ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
Did your family have a shaker filled with a mix of cinnamon and sugar for cinnamon toast?1mo ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
What did you make in shop class and/or home economics? Any interesting stories from those classes?1mo ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/nostalgia
Did you notice The Breakfast Club's Carl the custodian was once the school's Man of the Year?1mo ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/nostalgia
Did your family have a shaker filled with a mix of cinnamon and sugar for cinnamon toast?1mo ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/nostalgia
Growing up, red-capped Jacques Cousteau and the Calypso were synonymous with the ocean.2yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
With Jiffy Pop, you didn't just get popcorn, you got a show. Great for a camping trip, too.2yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
30 years ago today our original king of late night hosted his last Tonight Show.2yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
Watching Alice and waiting for Flo to tell someone, usually Mel, to Kiss Mah Gree-its!2yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
With Jiffy Pop, you didn't just get popcorn, you got a show. Great for a camping trip, too.1mo ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/nostalgia
Weekend nights at the skating rink were as close to a nightclub scene as us pre-high schoolers got back in the day.1mo ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/nostalgia
Picking out which design you wanted at the t-shirt iron-on store at the mall.1yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/nostalgia
An all-time favorite comedic villain: Bill Paxton as Chet in Weird Science1yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/nostalgia
An all-time favorite comedic villain: Bill Paxton as Chet in Weird Science1mo ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
A Long Time Ago, 45 years today, Star Wars was released. When/where did you first see it?2yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
Picking out which design you wanted at the t-shirt iron-on store at the mall.2yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
What did you make in shop class and/or home economics? Any interesting stories from those classes?1mo ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
Probably an easy one for you folks, but what plane is this? Pic from the early '80s.2mo ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/Whatisthisplane
Did anyone *not* know someone who did/tried to do a Howard Cosell impression back in his heyday?6mo ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
Ever get picked to advance the filmstrip when the accompanying cassette beeped?2yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
Remember any details/themes of custom vans you may have seen when they were a fad in the 70s-80s?2yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
Anyone else enjoy the ride with Bandit, Snowman, Frog, & Fred with Smokey in hah speed pah-suit?2yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
Plenty of GenX'ers: We had/rode around in a Datsun. Loads of younger folks: a WHAT?1yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
Anyone else rock the Adam Rich-Eight is Enough haircut when they were a kid?2yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
Dodged a fashion bullet. Leisure suits ended just before older GenXers would've started wearing them2yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
Poor Duckie. The quintessential GenX friend-zoned guy. Can't say I never knew the feeling.1yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
Wearing your souvenir band concert shirt the next day at school to show everyone you were there.2yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
From a current real estate listing for a luxury home here in Florida5mo ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/mercedes_benz
Remember any details/themes of custom vans you may have seen when they were a fad in the 70s-80s?1yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/nostalgia
For us older GenXers, at least for a while, afternoon talk shows meant Mike Douglas & Merv Griffin.1yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
If you couldn't find one of these you'd have to use your old kiddie record player for that 45.2yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
What were your party/get-together spots when you wanted to avoid parents & other adults/authorities?1mo ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
We know our constipational rights The Wraith, 1986, starring Charlie Sheen and Sherilyn Fenn1mo ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/nostalgia
What school field trips did you go on? Anybody do the primo 8th grade to Washington D.C. one?2yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
We know our constipational rights The Wraith, 1986, starring Charlie Sheen and Sherilyn Fenn1mo ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
When many of us were kids, we didn't have to do math just for school. Going bowling involved it, too2yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
Did you build an outdoor or indoor fort as a kid? Where'd you build it and what was it like?1yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
Anybody else's dad, relative, whatever, buy a cowboy hat in 1980 because of this? Maybe you got one?2yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
We had the coolest, The Fonz. Never before or since has a tv character reached such peak popularity.2yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
Van Halen was so popular kids would draw that cool logo on notebooks and such.2yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
Did you notice The Breakfast Club's Carl the custodian was once the school's Man of the Year?2yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
Yes, Outback Steakhouse is still popular, but 30 years ago it seemed a law was passed you HAD to go.2yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
What were your party/get-together spots when you wanted to avoid parents & other adults/authorities?2yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
Many of us remember the Bicentennial. Well, the Semiquincentennial (250th) is 2026.2yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
What did you make in shop class and/or home economics? Any interesting stories from those classes?1yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
Who else enjoyed the ride with Bandit, Snowman, Frog, & Fred with Smokey in hah speed pah-suit?1yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/nostalgia
Christmas, 1981: The day it seemed every kid in America got a Rubik's Cube. I never solved it.2yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
1985: When paisley went from something on an older man's tie to in style for us & our shirts/blouses2yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
We didn't have a battery & motor to move our sit-in toy cars. We had to use old-fashioned leg power.2yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
It just doesn't matter! Who didn't want Bill Tripper Murray as their camp counselor.1mo ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
First day of school in 1980 looked like nearly every student had joined the Topsider club.2yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
Anyone sport the classic legwarmers, sweatshirt off the shoulder Flashdance look circa '83-'84?2yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
Pretty sure a white plastic spork will immediately remind me of school lunch for the rest of my days2yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
The 1977 unpowered gliding free flights really helped build enthusiasm for the Space Shuttle program2yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
Kinney's Nike knock-offs with the upside down swoosh. At least they were a step up from Kmart's four stripe Addidas-esque Trax shoes many of us wore.3yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
The picture that gave so many of us, and others, a bit of the chills the first time we saw it.1yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
What were the last vinyl lp's you bought before switching to cassettes or cd's back in the day?2mo ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
Anyone recognize this poster of Gene? It's hanging on a wall in a movie that came out in 1979. Can't find it with Google, Bing, or Ebay searches. Sorry for the poor quality, it's a photo of a tv screen.1mo ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/KISS
What movies that were too early for you to see when new did you see as a re-release in the theater?9mo ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
Maybe it was because I was in a beach town, but Sun Britches shorts were must-have attire circa 19802yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
Been on a cruise? How was it? Would you say it's as popular with us as it was w/Boomers at our age?2yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
What favorite movies of yours that you showed to your kids are now favorites of theirs?2yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/GenX
Victorian Railways (Australia) S-Class Streamliner [900x590]. More in comments11yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/TrainPorn
Duluth, Missabe & Iron Range 2-8-8-4 Yellowstone Mallet iron ore carrier in Minnesota 1957 [968x512]11yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/TrainPorn
Model from 1979 tv show Supertrain. A nuclear powered bullet train with a swimming pool! More in comments.11yr ⋅ Spalding_Smails ⋅ r/modeltrains