Mine was a red one too.
Remember when this was just the most awesome accessory to a teenager's life? It would enrich the most popular child's status, and offer the more socially-challenged a golden-ticket to making a friend or two.
I do so feel sorry for the teenagers of today. Imagine never having the headspace that contemplated the possibilities of such a beastie. They will never have the discussion over lunch at school regarding who had one and what material was at our disposal to create new and exciting mix tapes.
And there were those who had amazing talents on creating a mix tape. Perhaps it was only a cultural phenomenon available in all girls' boarding schools, but mix tapes had heritage and reputation.
They don't know what they are missing, with their NBNs of Youtube tube feeding, plugged in to their tunes and throughputting their lives.
Which got me wondering... my parents were of a generation of teenagers who aspired to life without war and the possibility of television, my grandparents motorised transport and dodging Depression (the sort that isn't cured by modern medicine). I wonder what it is my girls will wonder of with their own decendants when comes their time.
Did you have an adolescent dream unseen through today's lens?
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Once an old school chum came through town and happened to pick up the newspaper. She read my column, figured out that it was me and sent me an e-mail. She said, "Remember when we used to sit in the library and read Judith Viorst from the Redbook? You always wanted to have a column of your own. I'm so glad your dream came true!" It was a surprise to go back and realize that most of the dreams that I had as an adolescent have come true.
Ha! Now THIS is a topic I can expound on!
I'm of the vinyl LP generation. (I still have all my albums and a turntable on which I can play them) I've gone with the flow with each changing technology (though I had fewer 8-tracks, than any other medium) and do see some advantages to downloading individual songs, but oh...the things the younger generation is missing!!
*thinking* Beautiful album covers, especially the ones that folded out to include both front and back (even better if a double LP). Being thrilled to discover more great art OR all the song lyrics printed on the album sleeve. Realizing the best song on the LP is NOT the one you bought it for...one that might not ever make the charts, but you still love it best.
*sigh* I love music. :)
Oh Debby - that gave me goosebumps, how wonderful.
Kelly - I agree about the artwork and the discovery of the unreleased singles on an album - poor kids eh?
Oh Debby - that gave me goosebumps, how wonderful.
Kelly - I agree about the artwork and the discovery of the unreleased singles on an album - poor kids eh?
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