OTish Cults in Connecticut

[RichZ]

It was even funnier when Jason Garrett tried to make "Dallas Football Cowboys" a thing.

As opposed to the Calgary Stampede cowboys, the Texas cattle ranch cowboys, etc. Makes sense to me.

 

[Guapo]

I’m the opposite. Grew up in Hebron and have lived in glastonbury for a year now...I’m always sort of embarrassed to say I live there

I tell people I grew up "near Hartford" to avoid telling them I'm from Glastonbury.

 

[uconnphil2016]

I tell people I grew up "near Hartford" to avoid telling them I'm from Glastonbury.

Yeah I hear ya man. I just don’t like the assumptions that come with it lol. I live there because I live in my grandparents old house, and they were there in the 50s and 60s when Glastonbury was just a farm town. It’s definitely a pretty town, but weird place culturally

 

[J187Money]

I know it’s in Massachusetts but calling Six Flags, “Riverside”.

It will always be Riverside!

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

My God, how old are you? Cheapest I remember is $.99 at the Bing Theatre is Springfield. On Saturdays this got you a couple movies, and a few shorts.

I lived 50' from their front door. At that time, I can think of three neighborhood theaters within a mile of where I lived. All small, but every seat was filled.

The place in West Springfield with a dozen screens put them all out of business. My parents would have robbed a liquor store to get the money to get rid of me for a few hours, but the drive to West Springfield wasn't going to happen.

That was the end of my childhood. Well, that ... and the girl across the street.

My first games at the Field House featured Ed Slomcenski & Toby Kimball. A Facebook "You Know You Grew Up in West Hartford..." page fully confirms my 35¢ movie cost memory.

Next month, I get to start moving forward with my Medicare application. Not sure how I got from point A to point B.

 

[Robertelamin]

My first games at the Field House featured Ed Slomcenski & Toby Kimball. A Facebook "You Know You Grew Up in West Hartford..." page fully confirms my 35¢ movie cost memory.

Next month, I get to start moving forward with my Medicare application. Not sure how I got from point A to point B.

Did you take the trolley into Hartford to go clothes shopping?

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

Did you take the trolley into Hartford to go clothes shopping?

Nope, long gone, but I remember clothes being delivered to the house directly from G. Fox after they were hemmed.

 

[Guapo]

Nope, long gone, but I remember clothes being delivered to the house directly from G. Fox after they were hemmed.

Amazing that a thread started because of a youth twitter trend has ended up here.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Amazing that a thread started because of a youth twitter trend has ended up here.

Whether we long to admit it or not, this whole place is nothing more than a bunch of (mostly) guys who like the same college team, shooting the Spartacus. It's the water cooler, pub, town hall of a digital age. We argue, (stupidly in the case of the Cesspool) and bicker, and share memories and common experiences, likes and dislikes. We mourn those that are lost at times. It's really quite fascinating. I think you'd call it a community. And, despite some obvious warts, it's a pretty good one.

So I'm never really surprised when these threads stray onto topics that reflect our shared experiences. More than UConn basketball connects most of us.

 

[Guapo]

Whether we long to admit it or not, this whole place is nothing more than a bunch of (mostly) guys who like the same college team, shooting the Spartacus. It's the water cooler, pub, town hall of a digital age. We argue, (stupidly in the case of the Cesspool) and bicker, and share memories and common experiences, likes and dislikes. We mourn those that are lost at times. It's really quite fascinating. I think you'd call it a community. And, despite some obvious warts, it's a pretty good one.

So I'm never really surprised when these threads stray onto topics that reflect our shared experiences. More than UConn basketball connects most of us.

I didn't mean it as a bad thing!

It's just interesting...for the reasons you stated above

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

I didn't mean it as a bad thing!

It's just interesting...for the reasons you stated above

This is the first place that I've been kidded for being old, and it's been fun to embrace it.

It's also the only place where I can share my sports autograph collection and imagine there's someone who knows who everybody is.

 

[CL82]

This is the first place that I've been kidded for being old, and it's been fun to embrace it.

It's also the only place where I can share my sports autograph collection and imagine there's someone who knows who everybody is.

Sweet! Even better because they are random scraps of paper.

 

[husky8273]

This is the first place that I've been kidded for being old, and it's been fun to embrace it.

It's also the only place where I can share my sports autograph collection and imagine there's someone who knows who everybody is.

acquired personally - where? who signed over Nicklaus?

 

[Hans Sprungfeld]

acquired personally - where? who signed over Nicklaus?

Jackie & Yogi came from my parents. Can't find the photo with Yogi's arm around my mom. Toby was mine at the Field House.

Nicklaus was in the same ICO threesome as Tony Lema. At the time, it was very easy to get autographs when they finished the 18th hole at Wethersfield. Probably a very rare pairing of signatures given the short window of time in which it could have occurred.

 

[freescooter]

I'm down in Lake Mary right now and last night people were talking about it. Said the area was "70%" scientologists. So odd.

Ah. That explain a lot