Now that I think about it, a lot of the social entertainment hubs that used to bring young people together are gone or not popular.
There used to be roller rinks. You could play arcade games, eat rotten hot dogs and fall down.
There were arcades. You could wait around the popular games and watch your quarter on the glass to make sure everyone knew who was next.
You would go bowling it was cheap and you could make up numbers and drink birch beer.
There seemed to be a lot of delis and candy stores where kids would just hang out, buy junk and play video games.
Movies were cheap enough for kids to spontaneously go together using spare cash.
Lots of comic book stores to hang out at, lots of D&D or game/hobby stores, same thing.
I don't know if that's still a thing because I don't have kids/not a pedo but we also used to get a lot of social action at the Y or the Boys Club. There was swimming and bb ball and softball we did a lot of stuff, met a lot of kids that way. I was a Boy Scout I know their membership is down but that was super social too, we went a lot of places and had a lot of fun with that.
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