Right now #YouAreOfficiallyOldIf is trending online in an effort to make everyone feel miserable about their age.
Well let’s localize that misery. I’ve called Central Florida home for over *cough* *cough* years, and I’m here to tell you that #YouAreOfficiallyOldIf you remember these things 30 about Orlando.
- Getting your Driver’s License at the DMV where the Winter Park Village currently sits.
- The Summit building being the only significant structure on Maitland Boulevard.
- Eckerd’s being the Drugstore of Choice.
- Renting your movies from Mega Movies, 16,000 movies, or Movie Gallery.
- The Orlando Thunder.
- The Orlando Twins.
- Taking the CTBS test in Orange County Schools
- QZar Laser Tag on Orange Avenue.
- Having the Duke Boys come to your classroom, fake arresting your teacher, and telling you not to use drugs.
- If you were either a Cablevision or Telesat family.
- Epcot’s World of Tomorrow featuring touchscreens you’re probably using at this very moment.
- When Wet n’ Wild’s Summer Nights was the best July party in Orlando.
- The West Oaks Mall was the shining jewel of shopping in Orlando and had stadium seating in it’s movie theater.
- Driving through Altamonte Springs to get to Apopka because there was no overpass on the 414.
- We had a Shoney’s in every town and that breakfast buffet was awesome.
- LYNX was an efficient bus system. Just kidding! LYNX has never been efficient.
- The Rimar Drive In Theater.
- Pay Phone Banks at all of the tourism heavy locations.
- When Orlando area convenient stores would keep all of their cigarettes in a big tub at the center of their locations.
- Orlando Magic Players coming to your class and then getting asked questions for 45 minutes about Michael Jordan.
- Mannequins on Pleasure Island.
- Computer labs in Orange County Public schools that were filled wall to wall with huge monitors.
- Those NSFW hot dog vendors you’d see everywhere.
- Sunbank, Barnett Bank, and First Union Credit Union.
- Captain EO’s original run at Disney.
- BJ 105.1 and SHE 100.3
- The Hanna Barbera ride being the best thing about Universal Studios.
- When John Morgan was on TV but had two other names attached to him.
- When Orlando hosted it’s first All Star game at the O-rena with most of the members of the 92′ Dream Team in attendance.
- You went to High School with Frank Torres
