msstock87
Sitting For The Braddocks
Here Comes The Bride!
Created by Rie.
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Post by msstock87 on Dec 24, 2008 0:32:49 GMT -5
I remember that fan club camera! I joined the fan club and when I got my camera it wouldn't work. I actually still think I have it around somewhere.
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Post by otempora541 on Dec 24, 2008 16:53:20 GMT -5
Sassy and YM magazines have folded. (there's mentions of the girls reading/looking like the models of these magazines.)
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Post by sparklymouse on Dec 24, 2008 17:30:25 GMT -5
^My sister used to subscribe to Sassy. She thought it was the "intelligent" teen magazine out there. Or something like that. It took me way too long to just remember what YM magazine was considering I read that every month for 3-4 years. My old lady brain...sob. Teen People and Cosmo Girl have also come and gone since my high school years. I don't know why Seventeen is still kicking cause it is not all that great.
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msstock87
Sitting For The Braddocks
Here Comes The Bride!
Created by Rie.
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Post by msstock87 on Dec 28, 2008 17:05:04 GMT -5
I used to read YM all the time when I was younger and Teen People. I still have so many of my old ones magazines! I didn't know they had folded
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Post by aln1982 on Dec 28, 2008 18:47:26 GMT -5
I never read them but I didn't realize it either. Weird that Tiger Beat is something my cousin was just reading and my mom said she used to read it I think.
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msstock87
Sitting For The Braddocks
Here Comes The Bride!
Created by Rie.
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Post by msstock87 on Dec 28, 2008 19:03:53 GMT -5
I think Tiger beat is one of those teen magazines that has been around for ages as well. I think I read it a couple times in middle school, well read and took out the free posters in the magazines.
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Post by sweetvalleygirl99 on Dec 28, 2008 20:43:53 GMT -5
I used to read YM all the time when I was younger and Teen People. I still have so many of my old ones magazines! I didn't know they had folded Me neither! I used to love reading Teen People; one of the few magazines I read (that and Girls Life ;D) and would want to buy from the grocery store.
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Post by featherearrings on Dec 29, 2008 20:26:42 GMT -5
I didn't know YM folded. I used to love that magazine.
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Post by otempora541 on Jan 2, 2009 18:18:43 GMT -5
^My sister used to subscribe to Sassy. She thought it was the "intelligent" teen magazine out there. Or something like that. It took me way too long to just remember what YM magazine was considering I read that every month for 3-4 years. My old lady brain...sob. Teen People and Cosmo Girl have also come and gone since my high school years. I don't know why Seventeen is still kicking cause it is not all that great. I loved YM. It folded in early 2003 and I miss it. 17 is still kicking it because they are so much more conservative then the other teen mags.
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Post by wenonah4th on Jan 3, 2009 11:36:42 GMT -5
That's not saying much.
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Post by morbiddadestiny on Mar 15, 2009 17:24:11 GMT -5
-we always had a xerox machine growing up at my house, so i remember not getting why people in the books (especially karen) would just handwrite ALL of the flyers. but maybe a xerox machine isn't a thing that people regularly have in the house? i do not know to this day since i don't go around surveying people about it. -just the fact that owning a vcr was a huge deal to mary anne in the 4th book also confused me -like everyone else said, the call waiting thing baffled me -also, the fact that they walked to school.
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Post by sparklymouse on Mar 15, 2009 17:39:48 GMT -5
^My grandparents bought their own copy machine a few years ago. I have no idea why. But they use it all the time so it's kinda funny. I also remember xeroxed worksheets at school in the late 80s. The copies were purple and the text was always blurry and hard to read. Not really ideal if you're trying to advertise for a club.
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celaeno
Sitting For The Papadakis's
I have to share a room with Vanessa
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Post by celaeno on Mar 15, 2009 19:38:49 GMT -5
I read Snowbound recently, and so much of the book made me realize how outdated they are (which really takes you out of the experience). The existence of cell phones would have changed virtually every sitters' storyline:
~No one knows where Stacey and her mom are. Stacy and her mom can't call for help because their car gets stuck on a backroad. ~The Pikes are out of town, which means no one can get in contact with them. In an emergency, the kids would call their parents friends, and hope that the message would get reach them. ~Mr. Spier can't help Mary Anne and Mallory, because he has to wait at the house for a phone call from Dawn and Sharon. ~Dawn and Sharon are terrified Jeff feels abandoned, because no one can contact him when his flight gets rerouted to Washington. ~Jessi's parents and Quint's parents have no idea where Quint is, because Quint was left at the train station and couldn't be picked up.
The existence of cell phones would have made most of the drama in this book obsolete!
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Post by booboobrewer on Mar 15, 2009 20:05:28 GMT -5
^Absolutely!
When did car phones become popular? I have no idea. I have vague memories of my mom having a phone in her car when I was a teenager...if Mrs. McGill had one, that might have helped.
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Penny Lane
Sitting For The Arnolds
The Girl With Colitis Goes By
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Post by Penny Lane on Mar 15, 2009 21:01:02 GMT -5
I don't know when they became popular and mainstream, but my parents and grand parents had them for as long as I can remember -- and I was born in 1982. But I know not everyone had one. Car phones were so weird, what with the plugging into the lighter and boxeyness of them.
I think a lot of the drama could have still been around. In real emergencies, cell towers do still get jammed and people can't always get in touch. Having a cell phone isn't necessarily a catch all cure. Batteries go dead in extreme cold, and you can't use them on a plane, etc.
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