(03-11-2022 10:09 AM)calvin12 Wrote:  

(03-10-2022 10:50 AM)mgm86huskiefn Wrote:  I used to keep tickets to all events I went to. With my Iphone I have transitioned to using electronic tickets and using my wallet on the phone so I can show the ticket even if wifi is down. I find most events I go to now use electronic tickets. For me now I don't have to worry about losing the ticket from my pocket. Just an older guy who left paper tickets in the past I guess. Nothing against all who like paper tickets.

I just dug out my old box of ticket stubs last weekend while doing some cleaning. Brought back some great memories. Sitting in row 8, the game I caught a game puck in the last season in Chicago Stadium. Another game sitting in the second (last row) dead center on the end of the ice on a new years eve game looking between the flags to see the ice. Cubs opening day 1995, orange bowl with NIU, concerts... Those stubs are great triggers, not having that option now sucks.

Yes, very true, those ticket stubs are great souvenirs and provide wonderful memories, as you've indicated. I still have my ticket stubs from when we beat Maryland in Huskie Stadium and, of course, the Orange Bowl (plus many more). I just cannot imagine attending a New Year's bowl with electronic tickets.

When I met my wife at NIU, our first date was attending a movie ("American Grafitti") at the cinema on Lincoln Highway. Gosh, how I wish I still had the ticket stubs from that movie. Of course, when we went on that date, I did not know she would become my wife.

Yes, ticket stubs provide wonderful memories. As the song "Traces" by the Classics IV states: "Tickets torn in half, memories in bits and pieces....."