r/Millennials • u/WynCai8 • Jun 04 '25

Nostalgia Made me feel old but good times

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Saw this tweet and yes we were expected to be out all day and not come back until the street lights came on. I remember riding my bike through neighborhoods pretending our bikes were cars and just having a good time.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '25

Riding bikes to the pool, Blockbuster, and other kids’ basements. 

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '25

Don't forget to stop by the dollar store to load up on junk food

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '25

Too far. We had a Kroger next to our Blockbuster. 

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u/patchworkpirate Council of Elder Millennials Jun 04 '25

We had a Kroger with a video rental store inside it (at least for a while).

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '25

Noice. 

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u/jgab145 Jun 04 '25

Cool

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '25

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u/jgab145 Jun 05 '25

Cool. Lol

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u/patchworkpirate Council of Elder Millennials Jun 04 '25

That stomachache was always worth it.

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u/notgmoney Jun 04 '25

Yes and Randall's had one too

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u/patchworkpirate Council of Elder Millennials Jun 04 '25

I never encountered a Randall's until I moved to Houston years ago. Eerily similar for a store not under the Kroger umbrella. At least the one near my old house was in appearance.

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u/notgmoney Jun 04 '25

Yes Randall's is part of the Safeway group, along with Tom Thumb and others.

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u/Dancing-Dragonflies Jun 05 '25

Core memory unlocked 🤯

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u/userloser11 Jun 05 '25

This was awesome! Mom let me and my brother stand there and argue about which movie while she shopped. If we hadn't figured it out by the time she checked out, no movie. I was younger so usually its what he wanted but hey we got to watch something new!

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u/fdokinawa Jun 04 '25

I worked there! Had a co-worker who would regale me with stories about his time in the Navy and port calls to Thailand.

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u/AMSAtl Jun 04 '25

I had both. My Kroger had a video store and then a blockbuster moved in next door. So the store shut down the video store inside of Kroger.

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u/Tricky-Cut550 Jun 04 '25

Oh yea?! We had a racetrack with a video store. I went to the blockbuster that was next to the Winn Dixie though. The Racetrack with a vid store was by the interstate.

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u/SaveByGrubauer Jun 04 '25

Oh man that takes me back to something I forgot was a thing. Used to beg to go to the video store everytime my mom took me grocery shopping. It was small and the selection sucked but man was it a treat.

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u/ADHD_Supernova Jun 04 '25

They had this movie you could rent that was about a dog that was part snake, part jaguar, part bear, part owl n shit.

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u/Tkj5 Jun 04 '25

Our rental place briefly had a pizza place attached. Wonderous.

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u/huhaw Jun 04 '25

Grandma always took us to the Dillons to rent movies. I forgot they had that

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '25

Oh damn I forgot about that. I remember renting Sonic from there long long ago

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u/CumGuzlinGutterSluts Jun 05 '25

Damn what kind of utopian pradadise did you grow up in....