When I was growing up...

[ydahecnot]

WIWGU....air conditioning and radios were not standard in cars

 

[LostGirlTink]

Playground slides were made of metal that got very hot, you had to climb up very high and only they had a simple handrail, often over concrete.

 

[jeff_is_smiling]

WIWGU and went into a record store to buy a new album, the store would have that album already opened and would play a song off of it for you on their turntable...and the album cost about $6.00.

 

[ydahecnot]

WIWGU...gas stations would give away tumblers and such to draw customers to their gas at 33 cents a gallon

 

[Leigh81]

WIWGU....air conditioning and radios were not standard in cars

WIWGU.....heated seats & steering wheels were not standard in cars, at least the cars my parents had

L

 

[ydahecnot]

Steering wheels weren't standard?

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Denny

When I was growing up... there was a daddy, a mommy, and normally two little well behaved children called a family. Daddy worked while mommy cooked, cleaned, and shopped for those TV dinners and other food.
The remote was the oldest kid. Every time a damned Ford V-8 went by the house the TV went off channel. We didn't worry about what was said on TV. No one called others a dumb shit, a cunt, or showed 99% of their body parts. Red Skelton signed off saying "God Bless."
The first time I saw a female belly button on TV mom changed channels.

We ran all over the neighborhood shooting our Roy Rogers cap guns and tied friends to trees so we could shoot Dairy Queen spoons out of their hands with our BB gun.. Nobody screamed "git off my lawn!" and no one got their eye shot out.
Drinking water from the garden hose was a treat.
We used switch blade knives to carve sticks into toys at recess and carried little metal lunch boxes as we watched some Chinese guy play with a yo-yo and sell them to us for a $1.00.

 

[jeff_is_smiling]

WIWGU, my total choice of TV stations included:

2 - CBS
4 - NBC
7 - ABC
9 - Local
11 - Local
13 - Local
28 (if you had the right kind of antennae) - Public Broadcasting

 

[Leigh81]

Steering wheels weren't standard?

Heated steering wheels smartass :caning:
WIWGU....I thought the 32" TV screen we had was huge, now I think it's tiny

L

 

[ydahecnot]

WIWGU...the caning emoji could be seen only in tawdry mags like Policeman's Gazette

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Denny

WIWGU.....heated seats & steering wheels were not standard in cars, at least the cars my parents had

L

We had heated seats and steering wheels June thru August.
Our first fast food place replaced an old farm house and was called SANDY'S

 

[just4friends]

When I was young.. "porn" was the lingerie section of the Sears catalogue

 

[ydahecnot]

Spiegel catalog was hotter!

 

[beachbaby179]

... curfew was sunset. And if mom needed you earlier, she rang the big bell on the front of the house.

... you had to get to the drive-in movie early, because some of the speakers didn't work and you had to find one that did.

... everyone used baby oil at the beach instead of sunscreen. Nobody knew what an SPF was.

 

[jeff_is_smiling]

WIWGU, stores used to give S&H Green Stamps as a reward for shopping with them. You used the stamps to buy little cheap stuff at the Green Stamp store....

 

[beachbaby179]

WIWGU, stores used to give S&H Green Stamps as a reward for shopping with them. You used the stamps to buy little cheap stuff at the Green Stamp store....

...it was always my job to lick the stamps and put them in the book when we got home...

 

[ydahecnot]

WIWGU...the Devils did not exist, and the Blues had not won a Stanl...

 

[jeff_is_smiling]

WIWGU, people used to show up on my street to sell things. There was the ice cream truck, the donut truck, and the man that would bring western looking clothes with his miniature horse and took pictures of you in the get up on the horse. He'd walk you around a bit - all part of the cost.

 

[just4friends]

Milk crates were actually used for milk in glass bottles delivered to the door

 

[ydahecnot]

WIWGU...a flat tire or breakdown late at night would be a dangerous situation, as cellphones didn't exist

 

[jeff_is_smiling]

WIWGU, Art Linkletter and Ed Sullivan were still on the air, and the Walt Disney show would tell you to go wash your hands and face before they'd show the next segment....

 

[LIVINRFANTASIES]

Denny

WIWGU...a flat tire or breakdown late at night would be a dangerous situation, as cellphones didn't exist

Didn't need a cell phone. Normally a car or pick up truck would stop and they either helped or got a friend to repair or change the tire by placing the bumper jack under the chrome bumper and using the spare with the tools in the trunk.

 

[beachbaby179]

... we would hitchhike into town to go to the movies. Or we would pile into the back of a pickup truck and wave to the cops as we drove by them.

Until Son of Sam ruined everything.

 

[jeff_is_smiling]

... we would hitchhike into town to go to the movies. Or we would pile into the back of a pickup truck and wave to the cops as we drove by them.

Until Son of Sam ruined everything.

It was a special treat if you got to ride in the back of the truck on the freeway....

 

[emsway]

When I was growing up we'd spend the entire day at the beach, eating Kentucky Fried Chicken out of a bucket that had been sitting in the sun all day long.