Revenge of the Nerds (1984) was filmed in Tucson. The Pi Delta Pi sorority house is a private home at 309 E. 1st Street.:
Look at the difference in vegetation. In 1984 there was a grass lawn and normal green trees and bushes. That looks pretty much like any front yard in coastal soCal, where...
A friend of mine in college had a pager. I didn't know he volunteered for the Red Cross and was on call much of the time. I only knew he was a poli sci grad student.
I remember thinking that must be a really hard core program if they made their students wear pagers for all those poli sci...
I don't remember the phone itself but I do remember I was in my forties and held out as long as I could until a job required I have one. It might have been a flip phone. I knew a guy about that time who had a Star Trek original series communicator flip phone.
I also remember when texting...
Pockets used to be their own clothing item, worn under skirts. There was a slit in the skirt and you reached through it to access the pockets. The pockets were big and useful. Sort of the 18th century version of a double fanny pack.
Grrrr... people who allow their cats to roam around here are ignorant or downright cruel. Coyotes love eating cats. Also I don't need cats hanging out around our chickens and using our yard and gardens as their hunting grounds and litter boxes. All that dander and urine makes my lungs shut down...
Oh the no pockets/fake pockets thing kills me. So many of us complain it's a wonder they haven't stopped doing it.
It wasn't so long ago that clothes were made to fit you instead of the other way around. Almost no one has an off-the-rack body.