Justine Bateman was one of my original crushes as a kid. Think it was Hogan Family. I could google it but I’m not.
Anyone ever do the thing where you bought a really nice pair of bball shoes from Nike, wore them all season, then after the season cut the tongue or the side of the shoe, sent them back to Nike, and got a credit for the full value of the shoes so you could just turn around and do it again? My Mom paid for 1 pair of shoes for me over like a 4 year span from 5th thru 8th grade and I always had one of the better ones like the KGs or the GPs. I miss the hell out of that.
It's in the top 2% of "a merciful God would kill me now" moments of my life. God, stop my heart. My achy breaky heart.
There is a political history to that. Blanking on the details but heard it before. Edit here we go America’s wholesome square dancing tradition is a tool of white supremacy If you live in the United States, chances are high that, growing up, you had to take square dancing in gym class Spoiler If you live in the United States, chances are high that, growing up, you had to take square dancing in gym class. I myself spent a week at my Rochester, New York, high school learning to allemande left and right—skills I was highly unlikely to ever need again. At the time, although I thought it was odd, I was merely grateful for not having to change into my gym clothes. 0:09 / 5:32 Share Fear is rising, but stock bets are bigger than ever. Here’s why As it turns out, there’s an unusual reason why so many American students spend their formative years learning to do-si-do. Twenty-eight out of 50 states have declared square dancing their official dance. This is part of a coordinated campaign—a dancespiracy, if you will—to make square dancing the official dance of the United States, in the hope that doing so “would give square dancing and its related activities more visibility and have a positive effect on recruiting new dancers.” But the institutionalization of square dancing isn’t just about the joy of dance. It’s also about America’s legacy of racism and anti-Semitism—and the surprising tools that get used in the effort to uphold whiteness. [paste:font size="5"]hated jazz; he hated the Charleston. He also really hated Jewish people, and believed that Jewish people invented jazz as part of a nefarious plot to corrupt the masses and take over the world—a theory that might come as a surprise to the black people who actually did invent it. In volume three of Ford’s The International Jew series, written in 1921, he writes: “Many people have wondered whence come the waves upon waves of musical slush that invade decent homes and set the young people of this generation imitating the drivel of morons. Popular music is a Jewish monopoly. Jazz is a Jewish creation. The mush, slush, the sly suggestion, the abandoned sensuousness of sliding notes, are of Jewish origin.” Like Hitler, who greatly admired Ford and even mentioned him approvingly in Mein Kampf, Ford believed that Jewish people were evil geniuses diabolically planning to control the world. Black people, he thought, were not necessarily evil, but certainly not as swift as white people, and were particularly prone to being manipulated and controlled by “the Jews.” “Democratic Plantation” theory that many of today’s conservatives have embraced, arguing that liberals and Democrats are “the real racists” in that they nefariously support social welfare programs only in order to manipulate black people into not voting Republican. Ford hired black workers, and paid them the same as his white workers. But he was very concerned that they, along with his other workers, would be morally corrupted by the evil forces of jazz. Jazz, he believed, would lead them astray, propelling them toward liquor, tobacco, sex, and all kinds of other sins. Ford and his wife had long had an interest in what he termed “old fashion dancing.” When he bought the Wayside Inn in Sudsbury, Mass, in 1923, he hired a man named Benjamin Lovett to not only teach square dancing to him and his wife, but also to guests of the Inn. At this time, however, the dance form was already seen as old-fashioned and, well, square. Even in the country, where these kind of dances had once been popular, jazz and swing were taking over. [paste:font size="5"]jazz was the cause of America’s moral decay, he reasoned, the road to repair it could be as simple as replacing it with fiddles and square dances. In order to bring his dream to life, Ford poured tons of money into square dancing and country music in general. In 1926, he published an instruction manual for aspiring square dancing instructors titled “Good Morning: After a Sleep of Twenty-Five Years, Old-Fashioned Dancing is Being Revived by Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ford.” He also required his employees to attend the square dancing events he created for them, funded fiddling contests and radio shows promoting “old time dancing music,” as well as the creation of square dancing clubs across the US—where modern, Western-style square dancing as we know it now was really created.
Fuck yes, in junior high there was the 2 week period in gym where we'd attempt to squaredance and we would always hate it and be immature about it and laugh at the short king who'd always get paired with the tallest girl in class, and Truman is correct, lots of clammy hands
Dennis the Menace Leave it to Beaver Mister Ed Gilligan's Island Flipper Grew up watching all that them reruns. RIP
The candy cigarettes were fucking nasty but gotta love trying to sell the idea of cigarettes to kids with the help of Popeye
I bought a college football preview magazine today, like it was 1995 and the internet marginally exists as an information source.
Granted I don’t really eat at Wendy’s anymore, but I feel like I still see locations with the sunroom randomly.
Wendy's is my kids favorite fast food place (even over Chic fil a) They're starting to tear those down and rebuild a newer, sunroomless design. They just did it to the one by my house last year.
Yeah I've seen both designs around here. I just looked on google maps at the location I was thinking of and while it doesn't have the sunroom, it has the same design on the outside as those that do. I know there's one around here with the sunroom still, I just can't remember where. Spontaneous Cumbustion might know. We have one in a really rough part of town with the new design and a fireplace and it was one of the first ones done many years ago.
They tore down and rebuilt the local pizza hut in my town during covid The old one was the classic with sunroom windows like those Wendy's