20 Things Only TriCities Children of the 1980s Will Remember

If you grew up in Tri-Cities during the 1980s you shared some experiences younger people missed out on. I actually like Tri-Cities better NOW, but I still get nostalgic for:

• The Colliseum
• Outdoor playlands at McDonalds
• Super aggressive seagulls
• Baseball card shops in the Uptown and off Kennewick Ave and 395
• Pride in the Mushroom Cloud
• Big Letter R on Badger Mountain
• Concerts at the Fingernail
• VHS rental stores with a XXX Restricted Section
• Animatronic elves in the mall at Christmas time
• The Bon Marche
• Red Robin on George Washington Way
• Water treatment plant at the gateway to Richland
• Tri-Cities Soccer Association with patches on the white shorts
• Bicycle Rodeos put on by police at the elementary schools
• Crawl space under the Chuck E. Cheese animatronics
• Roy's Chuck Wagon Buffet
• Urban legends about the family on top of Thompson Hill
• rusted car bodies driven off Jump Off Joe
• a journal hidden under a pyre of rocks on top of Candy Mountain
• the kiva in the old Richland Public Library
• winning goldfish at The Christ The King Sausage Fest
• Sunday buffets at The Red Lion
• salad bars or chili and cinnamon rolls for school lunch