"Mom, what's 'juke box money'?

[CTyankee]

Second in a my series of things my 19 year old granddaughter has never heard of (but her mom and I have). You'll fondly remember my first one "Mom, what's a phone booth?"

I may be wrong. Are juke boxes retro-cool now?

Do kids know songs by the B52s? ("Mom, what's a B-52?&quot ?

[dameatball]

1. B-52 is a square on a Bingo card. No...wait....that's not it.

[sakabatou]

2. Heh, I remember jukeboxes back in the 90s

They had one at a pizza shop. Can't remember the name of it.

[Codeine]

3. That was our youngest's favorite band

when he was around five; “Love Shack” and “Rock Lobster” would get him jumping around all excited. He’s eleven now and he still likes them, but his own musical tastes are somewhat different these days (something called Marshmallow? Fuck if I know.)

[captain queeg]

4. Someone gave me a book awhile ago about stuff that's gone and largely forgotten.

I’m old enough to remember most of the stuff in the book but there was one thing that I’d never heard of and had a hard time believing; that kids used to get tar or asphalt or something from road workers or roofers. I can’t remember now if it was one of the other or maybe both. But the kids would chew it like gum which not everyone could afford.

I asked a friend of mine who is a few years older and grew up in the city about it and he had fond memories of doing so.

[Codeine]

5. Brings new meaning to the term

“Street food.”

[flor-de-jasmim]

7. Good one!

[REPUguy]

10. It is true

It was a thing back in the 50's, sorry to say. Kids just scraped it off freshly filled cracks in the asphalt.

[elleng]

6. Had them/one @ diner near our DC neighborhood, near Politics & Prose,

NOT far in the past.

Sadly, the diner has closed.

[CTyankee]

8. I guess the idea of subjecting everyone to your music selection seems oddly tyrannical to kids

who are used to walking around plugged in to their musical selection. It's a good thing in a way but I wouldn't want to be that disconnected to my "now."

[elleng]

9. Fortunately my 'kids' like my 'old' music,

rock'n'roll AND classical; the little ones do have their own favorites, not MY favorites, but I do have to be educated!

[jmowreader]

11. Tell her it's slang for condoms...

[Niagara]

12. That's funny

I was looking for missing photos awhile ago. I was texting my daughter and I had asked her if she possibly knew where these particular photos were, or if she could find any negatives for them. Her reply was "What's a negative?"


Luckily, I found the photos that I was looking for a few weeks ago.

[ProudLib72]

13. I remember them in diners

And later in bars. I think they were around up until the mid 90s in some bars (from what I remember of college.) Go into the bar to play pool. Buy some pitchers. Plug the juke box.

Now that you mention it, there are a few places around me that might still have one, so I'm going to keep an eye out.