There were a lot of things that I get nostalgic for
Simple bikes with the pedal break. They were awesome, high speed and it felt like you were slamming on the brakes on an out of control train.
A less dense city. I lived in Bonivista growing up. The area with the big strip mall off Mcleod trail was a huge vacant lot, they had built the road there but it was never used because it linked to nothing. So it became our Calgary Corral, then the Saddle Dome for all day ball hockey tournament. We even had Mike Eaves show up for one.
Going to the Library and having to do research instead of googling. First of all, it forced a lot of collaboration. Second it was a real sense of accomplishment when you used the Dewey Decimal system, tracked down a book, opened the book and then found that nugget of information that you needed.
Someone mentioned Albums, and I completely agree that I liked that better then going on Itunes and downloading. you could spend hours in a record store. It would take you three minutes to find the one you were looking for. But you would go up and down the aisle admiring the Album Cover Art.
(Asia yo)
Fast food served on roller skates. A+W, you'd drive up and order through the speaker thingy and a waitress in a short skirt and roller skates would roll up with your food. It made it unique, and the servers were I guess more into in and more chatty. Now you can barely get a server to look up from their phone to serve you.
Drive ins, a movie watching memory that needs to come back in the worst way. I still remember sitting in a Van with my girlfriend at the time. The whole place smelled of pot and stale popcorn. Seeing the Michael Keaton batman on the screen with the sound playing through the crappy car stereo.