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cheerocc t1_j22bs8h wrote

Reply to comment by yahabbibi in Remember Ames? The department store is returning to New England by nebirah

Building 19 was awesome.

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wheres_ur_up_dog t1_j22rlzt wrote

I bought a fishing lure and then went to the candy room while my dad bought a rug and my mom got stockings. Building 19 was like a whole yard sale with weird cartoon ads ...that I used to look forward to seeing in the paper for reasons I can't explain. Guy looked like John from Garfield maybe?

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DMala t1_j23xrtl wrote

That’s funny, I remember enjoying the Building 19 ads, too. As I recall they had a sort of a Mad Magazine vibe.

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PWL9000 t1_j277afz wrote

There were also "hidden" (small print) jokes and riddles in the flyer.

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wheres_ur_up_dog t1_j27c9az wrote

If I were more code literate I would have responded with this gif... but, contrary to what all of the boomers I worked with, I am not in fact able to code anything on any website or program. In reality I am just another millennial who only had 2 years of "computer" class in the early 2000's. Which was just the worst math teacher (who was given the choice of teaching "computers" or being fired), or the librarian who just lost their free period, listlessly making a bunch of 7th graders play mario typing or letting us play zoombinis or kidpix. We ended up learning to type cuz of AIM and rudimentary code from Myspace, and are competent with most technology/programs because we were curious enough to figure them out rather than like those wrinkly douches shake their fists and refuse to learn. ... Yeah, I'm still bitter that an exec made a scene about how I couldn't overlay what he was describing in realtime onto a projection of the architect's drawings.

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