I remember having a job interview at McDonalds when I was 16 and the hiring manager chain-smoked throughout the interview and basically filled one up while we talked.
A friend of mine collects stuff from Mickey D’s. He usually collects the kids toys in the happy meals. But, he has a whole sleeve of these ashtrays still in the original packaging.
A pictorial and video celebration of history’s coolest kids, everything from beatniks to bikers, mods to rude boys, hippies to ravers. And everything in between.
If you’ve found a photo, or a photo essay, of people from the past looking fantastic, here’s the place to post it.
Vividly remember being in elentary school and my mom having a hard time explain to me how a smoking section that shares our air made sense. I was 7 and still had more logic than most adults.
We had a smoking room in our school (nicknamed “the smoker”) that kids could use after Grade 10 if they had parental permission. It was always full of stolen McDonald’s ashtrays. They didn’t shut it down until 1986.
1980 when Big Tobacco was uncorking aged Dom, mainlining caviar, building champagne pyramids, and swimming in the chocolate mousse fountain at the anniversary party celebrating 50 full years of Big Tobacco suppressing all medical evidence of the perils of smoking. Those sneaky fat cats smoked a ton of cigars that day, I tell you.
There was still smoking in and around hospitals in the late 90s and into the mid 2000s. I was a night shift nurse and every morning when a certain Doc showed up, you knew it because you could smell the pipe he was puffing.
When I about 15 back then, sitting in a McDonald’s with a couple friends, noshing, having a smoke, just hanging.
Deputy Sheriff I knew walks in, sees us, sits down, takes my smokes, empties the box, takes out his pen, writes “cancer” on each one, puts them back in the box, says “see ya later,” and leaves.
Hash tokes at the double arches, circa 1986…🇨🇦 🤙
I remember having a job interview at McDonalds when I was 16 and the hiring manager chain-smoked throughout the interview and basically filled one up while we talked.
And for the next 20 years
80s? In Germany you got those ashtrays until 2007
Ah, the good old dayz! Smoking in airplanes…ah, nostalgia.
A friend of mine collects stuff from Mickey D’s. He usually collects the kids toys in the happy meals. But, he has a whole sleeve of these ashtrays still in the original packaging.
I think there’s like 50 of them in it.
Okay, but was that *cool*? with a bonus of /r/HailCorporate
“Smoking section” like the smoke is going to be contained within that section. 🙃
Making it into a spinner was the pro move. Add a pointer and ask “who is the dingus?” And letting the spin choose was top teir.
My god. Core memory unlocked from childhood. My dad used to demolish these things with ash.
Back in the days smoking was heathy. /s
The coke spoons, I mean coffee stirrers, were the best.
Wrong sub
From the description:
/r/OldSchoolCool
History’s cool kids, looking fantastic!
A pictorial and video celebration of history’s coolest kids, everything from beatniks to bikers, mods to rude boys, hippies to ravers. And everything in between.
If you’ve found a photo, or a photo essay, of people from the past looking fantastic, here’s the place to post it.
Should have included one of those little coke spoons McDonald’s used to give out to stir your coffee. Missed opportunity, that.
I remembered the cashier asking my parents smoking or non and they smoked 🤮. We had the those orange glass trays
I watched a man hit on a fifteen year old mother while she had a cigarette on her break inside a Wendy’s.
North Carolina, probably 2002.
Back in the 2000s when I was in a successful touring band, I thought this was a great concept for band merch. So ironic.
Vividly remember being in elentary school and my mom having a hard time explain to me how a smoking section that shares our air made sense. I was 7 and still had more logic than most adults.
We had a smoking room in our school (nicknamed “the smoker”) that kids could use after Grade 10 if they had parental permission. It was always full of stolen McDonald’s ashtrays. They didn’t shut it down until 1986.
1980 when Big Tobacco was uncorking aged Dom, mainlining caviar, building champagne pyramids, and swimming in the chocolate mousse fountain at the anniversary party celebrating 50 full years of Big Tobacco suppressing all medical evidence of the perils of smoking. Those sneaky fat cats smoked a ton of cigars that day, I tell you.
There was still smoking in and around hospitals in the late 90s and into the mid 2000s. I was a night shift nurse and every morning when a certain Doc showed up, you knew it because you could smell the pipe he was puffing.
When I about 15 back then, sitting in a McDonald’s with a couple friends, noshing, having a smoke, just hanging.
Deputy Sheriff I knew walks in, sees us, sits down, takes my smokes, empties the box, takes out his pen, writes “cancer” on each one, puts them back in the box, says “see ya later,” and leaves.
I’m old enough to remember the glass ashtrays.
Freedom, normal world. In China you are allowed to smoke nearly everywhere.
Lot less crime cause everybody was calm cause of nicotine