+ 7829V Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 Pay phones Rewinding vhs tapes before returning them Life without internet Milkman delivering fresh milk Pagers + Axiom2001, marylander1940, manforme and 10 others 12 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thickornotatall Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 No zipcodes no area codes gas at 25 cents/gallon streetcars on Woodward Ave/Detroit home delivery/milk..bread... my 1st day in kindergarten TV only on in the afternoon til 11pm manforme, + sync, + 7829V and 3 others 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samhexum Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 (edited) The black & white episodes of I DREAM OF JEANNIE A milk vending machine next to the cigarette vending machine in our apartment building's lobby. People using phones to talk to each other Answering machines and landlines (both of which I still have & use) Pinball arcades 8 mm home movies with no sound Aquarias & Sugar Sugar battling it out to be the #1 song of 1969 Pool clubs My parents letting 7 year old me and my 10 year old sister walk 10 blocks to take a public bus then another 6 block walk to our pool club Being able to walk one block The Golden Age of Music-- The Disco Era The first baseball players' strike, which occurred from April 1 to 13, 1972. Ron Blomberg of the Yankees being the first DH Single screen theaters with large screens My father's liquor store in a blue collar section of Williamsburg, Brooklyn, at a spot that is now hipster central and properties sell for millions of dollars (not that I'm bitter about that, of course) Trying pizza for the first time at a pizzeria (that is still there) next to the barber shop near my father's store Having sex with anonymous strangers with no concern of catching a deadly disease The NY Knicks being good A new show on NBC called Saturday Night Live Shouting "look out below" when somebody jumped out a window during an explosion scene in a fireworks factory in Thorough Modern Millie when I was 6 and having the whole theater crack up. Making my parents take us to see Thoroughly Modern Millie again the next week Edited February 16, 2021 by samhexum CheckCar, marylander1940, + AntonGraza and 6 others 8 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ 7829V Posted February 14, 2021 Author Share Posted February 14, 2021 No zipcodes no area codes gas at 25 cents/gallon streetcars on Woodward Ave/Detroit home delivery/milk..bread... my 1st day in kindergarten TV only on in the afternoon til 11pm No zip codes ? Had to go to Wikipedia. Interesting. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ZIP_Code?wprov=sfti1 “A ZIP Code is a postal code used by the United States Postal Service (USPS). Introduced in 1963, the basic format consisted of five digits. In 1983, an extended ZIP+4 code was introduced; it included the five digits of the ZIP Code, followed by a hyphen and four digits that designated a more specific location.” Danny-Darko and manforme 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ Lucky Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 Intelligent threads Threads that made me think + WilliamM and MikeBiDude 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CuriousByNature Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 Still seeing a fair number of cars from the early 60s being driven down the street. When Mr. Hooper died on Sesame Street. The popularity of roller skating rinks. The existence of the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc. Sunbathing without the fear of skin cancer. Ashtrays in doctor's offices. Most stores being closed on Sundays. Bench seating in cars. Every potluck or buffet including some variation of a jelly salad. + 7829V, Danny-Darko, samhexum and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samhexum Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 The existence of the Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc. Going to Russia after communism had fallen, but before the USSR broke up + 7829V and ReynST 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ 7829V Posted February 14, 2021 Author Share Posted February 14, 2021 Walkman Discman Myspace Friendster Geocities (I still remember my address there!) marylander1940, + sync and liubit 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeBiDude Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 No zipcodes no area codes gas at 25 cents/gallon streetcars on Woodward Ave/Detroit home delivery/milk..bread... my 1st day in kindergarten TV only on in the afternoon til 11pm No area codes.....and phone books! There used to be two listings of my surname in the phone book, my dad and my grandfather....now hundreds and hundreds. + sync, + WilliamM, marylander1940 and 1 other 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lchnsf Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 JFK assassination Bozo the clown Romper Room Being able to stay out and play until the street lights came on My first bike- a stingray Hot wheels My dads car, a Plymouth with tail fins No seat belts Works ended at 5 dinner at 6 Dial phones with a cord Penny candy I had a paper route gallahadesquire, liubit, Samfoslom and 7 others 10 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ WilliamM Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 Betty White, her situation Comedy when she was quite young (around the same time as I Love Lucy) + sync, thickornotatall and marylander1940 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ WilliamM Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 Jackie Washington, a Black folk singer from Boston marylander1940 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thickornotatall Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 Betty White, her situation Comedy when she was quite young (around the same time as I Love Lucy) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeBiDude Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 JFK assassination Bozo the clown Romper Room Being able to stay out and play until the street lights came on My first bike- a stingray Hot wheels My dads car, a Plymouth with tail fins No seat belts Works ended at 5 dinner at 6 Dial phones with a cord Penny candy I had a paper route All of these....in Los Angeles there was a local clown show on TV “Chuckles the Clown”. I made a brief appearance on it at 4 years old on B&W TV. My dad was a real estate agent....he was showing a house in his newish Chrysler in the 60’s which had seat belts. He says a boy of the family got into the car, buckled up, and asked my dad “cool, when do we crash?” + Charlie and + Lucky 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ 7829V Posted February 14, 2021 Author Share Posted February 14, 2021 Sodas sold only in glass bottles + harey, + sync and ICTJOCK 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OCClient Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 I remember, when 4 digits were added to zip codes, a comedian's punch line was how we are left with one digit to tell the Post Office our opinion. ?? I don't care. Just something remembered. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CheckCar Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 1) Tom Hanks on sitcom TV in bad drag 2) My 45 of Natalie Cole’s “Mr. Melody” 3) The Pop Rocks scare 4) Being forced in school to write “get well” cards to Reagan after the assassination attempt marylander1940, + sync and samhexum 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ MysticMenace Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 (edited) TV with antenna and dial (no remote) to change channels, and the occasional tapping of the side of the TV to get a clearer picture quality. Being able to walk around the subdivision after New Year's Day to search for and recklessly collect fireworks that did not work, opening the contents, placing them in a much larger receptacle hoping for a bigger boom later that night. I am lucky my phalanges are still intact. Don't think it was ever introduced in the US, but I remembered taking pop quizzes in quarter-size sheets of paper. There were also half-size sheet of papers that I could get cross-wise or length-wise. Teachers ranking their students every quarter to 4 decimal places. Freaking out when the film on the typewriter dried out and I had no backup films. Typing over something I had white-out on a typewriter Solving math problems without a calculator or computer Walking across high elevations with strong running water underneath with a bamboo or two bamboo sticks as the 'bridge' Edited February 14, 2021 by JoeMendoza thickornotatall, marylander1940 and samhexum 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ tassojunior Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 Life without internet Milkman delivering fresh milk Pagers In reverse order: 3. I think some jobs still actually require pagers 2. Delivery now is almost everything 1. You don't have Comcast lol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samhexum Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 Phone booths with seats, a light that turned on when you closed the door, and a fan you could turn on or off + AntonGraza, + bashful and Danny-Darko 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ AntonGraza Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 Carrying a dime or two for the payphone (and remembering phone numbers). Dialing "0" to speak to a live person - Operator for information. Being able to "floating" a check for two or three days before payday. (Banks were closed on Wednesdays- no ATM's) The only size of batteries were the big square 6V, C and D sizes - dry cell, no alkaline. Transistor radios (AM and FM). To plan an airline trip, there was a thick paper book, like a phone book, that was printed twice a year. It contained all of the airlines, flight numbers, arr/dept times and cities. You looked up here you wanted to go, wrote down all the flight numbers, then called the travel people to book the tickets. A dedicated island of full service pumps at the gas stations. Motor oil was packaged in round cardboard cans with metal lids. You needed a steel oil spout to pierce - open the top of the can to pour in out. Danny-Darko, + Lucky, + sync and 4 others 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+ AntonGraza Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 No zipcodes no area codes gas at 25 cents/gallon streetcars on Woodward Ave/Detroit home delivery/milk..bread... my 1st day in kindergarten TV only on in the afternoon til 11pm Twin Pines Dairy + bashful 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samhexum Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 Phone booths with seats, a light that turned on when you closed the door, and a fan you could turn on or off The switch for the fan is right over the phone. The light should be off because the door is open. + Charlie, + tassojunior, CheckCar and 2 others 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbar123 Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 (edited) Sabin Oral Sunday.....when we went to our elementary school gym on three different Sundays to get the Polio vaccine on sugar cubes Edited February 14, 2021 by dbar123 MikeBiDude and prof 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
samhexum Posted February 14, 2021 Share Posted February 14, 2021 Sabin Oral Sunday.... Sounds like a Sunday sermon on the proper technique for giving head. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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