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mwsmedia Member Since: September 2009 Contributions: 214 Gold Stars: 4 View User Posts	Re: When your past disappears Posted: Tue Oct 20, 2009 8:45 pm Central Time Saucerian wrote: The drugstore where I used to buy my comic books when I was a kid is still around, but I haven't gone in there for years, and I'm a little afraid to. I keep feeling it will be so disappointing not to discover a spinner rack in the corner with all-new books... view Damn straight. Remember when 7-11 not only had comics, but arcade games? Oh thank heaven, indeed. These days, not only will you not find comics in your corner drugstore or convenience store, when you do find them (at Borders or Barnes and Noble if you're not lucky enough to have a comics shop in your town) they'll be the price of a paperback book. Oh, wait... I mean the price of what a paperback book used to cost! _________________ Matthew Wayne Selznick Chief Evangelist http://www.retroland.com
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eddmarkstarr Member Since: November 2008 Contributions: 538 Gold Stars: 9 View User Posts	Re: When your past disappears Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 8:28 pm Central Time Maybe this is a good place to mention that I got a warning for what the future held when Esso changed its name to Exxon in 1971/1972. Funny how I'm still not quite over that one, lol!
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hulk Member Since: October 2006 Contributions: 3561 Gold Stars: 241 View User Posts	Re: When your past disappears Posted: Thu Oct 22, 2009 8:47 pm Central Time eddmarkstarr wrote: Maybe this is a good place to mention that I got a warning for what the future held when Esso changed its name to Exxon in 1971/1972. Funny how I'm still not quite over that one, lol! view It's still Esso here in Canada. Remember BP gas. we had one up the street where my parents lived. They're all gone now. _________________ Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage -- it can be delightful." -George Bernard Shaw
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Wizard Member Since: November 2005 Contributions: 4719 Gold Stars: 139 View User Posts	Re: When your past disappears Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 6:20 am Central Time Railyn wrote: A Lyfestyle Center is, what we call in these parts, a Strip Center or Shopping Plaza. view Lifestyle Centers... George Carlin would have fun with that one. Remember when they used to be called 'stores?' _________________ wizzerd's not heer any more, mrs torrance im shadow i live in wizzerds head redrum! grrr!!! hahahahahaha
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Railyn Member Since: November 2005 Contributions: 693 Gold Stars: 12 View User Posts	Re: When your past disappears Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 6:33 am Central Time Wizard wrote: Lifestyle Centers... George Carlin would have fun with that one. Remember when they used to be called 'stores?' view Yeah, he would have. I always thought it was incredibly stupid, along with the lame-o names they give them now. What used to be "3rd Street Plaza" or similar is now "Colonial Commons" or "Marston Marketplace". Like you said, they're STORES. It's a PLAZA or SHOPPING CENTER. When I did my 6 months of servitude at Wal-Mart, it wasn't a store, it was a "Discount Center". And that was 15 years ago. I was trying to come up with some clever George Carlin-esque thing, but I got nothing this morning...
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Wizard Member Since: November 2005 Contributions: 4719 Gold Stars: 139 View User Posts	Re: When your past disappears Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 6:42 am Central Time Railyn wrote: When I did my 6 months of servitude at Wal-Mart, it wasn't a store, it was a "Discount Center". And that was 15 years ago. ( view Were you known as 'Associates' back then? (God, try and find a decent smiley here.) _________________ wizzerd's not heer any more, mrs torrance im shadow i live in wizzerds head redrum! grrr!!! hahahahahaha
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Tom1956 Member Since: December 2005 Contributions: 1343 Gold Stars: 34 View User Posts	Re: When your past disappears Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 3:09 pm Central Time Some of the older malls here in South Florida are being renovated by having the front half of the mall torn down, and turned into strip shopping centers, sometimes with office space added to a second floor that used to be parking. What was built as Pompano Fashion Square, later shortened to Pompano Square (I guess it fell out of fashion), is now Pompano Citi Centre -- the spellings really annoy me. Other malls are shedding the word "mall" and going with similar names that hardly reflect their status as shopping centers. The Esso - Exxon connection actually was caused by the breakup of Standard Oil into multiple companies. Eventually one of the regional Standard Oil companies changed its stations to Enco, and later Exxon, while another one retained the Esso brand. (Old joke: what kind of bee buzzes around gas stations? An Esso-bee.) Notice how other companies have shortened their names over the years? Remember Sears, Roebuck & Co.? Now it's just Sears. Kind of like the way cable networks now make no mention of the names that originally formed their initials: ESPN, AMC, TNN (before it became Spike). One of the buildings where I worked as a temp in 1999-2000 was torn down and replaced by a supermarket (I have no idea where the company I worked at relocated). Another one, a county agency, has moved and the county is trying to sell the building. _________________ "Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." -- Ferris Bueller "A word to the wise ain't necessary -- it's the stupid ones that need the advice" -- Dr. W.H. Cosby, Jr.
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Railyn Member Since: November 2005 Contributions: 693 Gold Stars: 12 View User Posts	Re: When your past disappears Posted: Fri Oct 23, 2009 7:18 pm Central Time Wizard wrote: Were you known as 'Associates' back then? (God, try and find a decent smiley here.) view I worked in the office, so yes, I was the Assistant Barcoding Associate (meaningless title - it translates into "lackey for stuff no one else wants to do". An alternate meaning is "make an enemy out of every single manager in the store when you audit their department". However, they took to calling a lot of the floor workers "team members". We used to have a morning meeting where we did the Wal-Mart cheer. If you were a good brown noser for the day, you got to be the squiggle and shake your butt in front of customers. You also got to pick the rest of the brown nosers to be the letters. Great for team spirit, huh? Yay team...... (and yes, I could think of a fantastic smiley to put there.......)
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eddmarkstarr Member Since: November 2008 Contributions: 538 Gold Stars: 9 View User Posts	Re: When your past disappears Posted: Sat Oct 24, 2009 1:25 pm Central Time So what's worse than having a building you knew as a kid torn down? Playing games with the names for everything else left standing. A store isn't a store anymore! A mall isn't a mall. Let's get fancy with the language, or lets get real. I pick real.
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Saucerian Member Since: August 2009 Contributions: 287 Gold Stars: 21 View User Posts	Re: When your past disappears Posted: Tue Oct 27, 2009 6:23 pm Central Time The concept of Wal-Mart as a 'lifestyle center' is incredibly depressing. It's bad enough shopping there without being told it's now your "lifestyle..."
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mhallack Member Since: December 2007 Contributions: 768 Gold Stars: 25 View User Posts	Re: When your past disappears Posted: Wed Oct 28, 2009 6:56 am Central Time So would stores on Rodeo Dr in Beverly Hills be the lifestyles of the rich and famous??
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