I still remember a Burger King with smoking and non-smoking seating areas. As if anything ever kept the smoke on the smoking side of the room.
The 1980s summed up in a single photo.
Submitted 2 months ago by BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world to [deleted]
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kersploosh@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Triumph@fedia.io 2 months ago
There used to be smoking and non-smoking sections on airplanes.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
But they have HEPA filters way back in the tail section!
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
With ashtrays in the arms of the seats at that. You still used to see them for a long time afterwards but they were sealed off.
dejected_warp_core@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I served at a restaurant that had this. Not only was the entire dining room a de-facto smoking area, despite the zoning, but it mattered for nothing if your section was smoking or not. Between the constant smell of fry grease and cigarettes, I wanted to burn my uniform after every shift. And since I was depending on a low paying job, guess how often laundry happened? :(
PSA: Tipping culture is a problem, but so are server wages. Please help 'em out; their job is miserable.
ICastFist@programming.dev 2 months ago
Thank fuck smoking indoors in public spaces has been banned in Brazil since 1997, I can’t stand the smell
Lemmyoutofhere@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
I can smell this picture.
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 2 months ago
ODGreen@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
All the glass ashtrays are like 10% lead too.
SaveTheTuaHawk@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
that’s why they are delicious
Grostleton@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
May as well sprinkle a little lead induced brain damage on top of the lung cancer.
ContriteErudite@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Licking restaurant ashtrays is just what we kids did back then. We didn’t know any better!
ryedaft@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Yeah, we did a lot of stealing back then. Ashtrays, glasses, towels. Steal steal steal.
Cigarettes still suck. I would never talk to strangers but I’m pointing it out to them if I see them throwing cigarette butts.
bstix@feddit.dk 2 months ago
Stolen ashtrays setc. was almost free marketing distribution.
Chais@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
And nothing of value was lost.
aeronmelon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I remember siting down at fast food restaurants and playing with the little free matchbook sitting in the ashtray.
(Playing meaning reading it and looking at it, I would have been throttled right there if I tried to light one of the matches.)
mvilain@fedia.io 2 months ago
Nana had a bunch of ash trays from Vegas casinos. They were much classier that these things. And I seriously doubt she ever ate at any of these places in her life.
Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
But those casinos stank just as bad, because stale cigarette smoke out-ranks cheap food
CoopaLoopa@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Those casinos still stink. Smoking in casinos in Vegas is still allowed.
Had to walk through the casino to get food at my hotel. My clothes absolutely reeked of stale cigarettes from the couple minutes it took.
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
The casino here still allowed smoking long after it was banned everywhere else. You could also smoke at the Royal Canadian Legion after the fish fry was over.
Triumph@fedia.io 2 months ago
I had some of those, plus the disposable gold foil ones from McDonald's.
Shamber@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Oh the good old days, where the doctor telling my dad to stop smoking while he’s smoking 😅
samus12345@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Reading the headline: Oh bullshit
Seeing the picture: Oh, OK, yes
BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world 2 months ago
I would never do you wrong.
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Got to camp today and pulled out a thing my wife found. 1980’s ashtray from a San Francisco bar. Had a solid laugh about your post. (I put my .22 rounds in it while I shoot.)
RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 2 months ago
HootinNHollerin@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Nothing like Arby’s and a live one
Steve@startrek.website 2 months ago
Arby’s twice
flop_leash_973@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Those little tin Burger King ones were peak.
Onyxonblack@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Bottom-left on every scavenger hunt.
tidderuuf@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Whenever older folks tell me they want to return to what the U.S. was like I think about the times I had to ask for a non-smoking table only to wait an extra 10 minutes just to sit somewhere where I could still smell the sweet aroma of stale cigarettes like a pound of ash that was fermented with moldy potatoes being stuffed up my nostrils.
ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Somehow underselling how much it sucked.
EndlessNightmare@reddthat.com 2 months ago
Or actually sitting in the smoking section because your folks are smokers. Blech!
That smell gets on everything.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Hope your lungs made it out of there ok. My friends mom died from lung cancer, but the kids are mostly ok so far. Sad part was she was a nurse who smoked like a chimney pretty much right up until death.
red_bull_of_juarez@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 months ago
Every once in a while I remember that people could smoke on airplanes and trains and I am so thankful that that fucking bullshit is over. My god, that was some awful shit.
FriskyDingo@sh.itjust.works 2 months ago
Counter point- I miss being able to smoke in bars
derry@midwest.social 2 months ago
After having to stroll through the smoking section none the less