<p>Watching “Dark Shadows” with the drapes closed and the lights off.</p>
<p>Watching “Captain Kangaroo” in the morning before school.</p>
<p>Making May baskets.</p>
<p>Going to the fireworks was a big deal.</p>
<p>Riding all the way to Chicago (1 1/2 hours) laying down in the back of the station wagon.</p>
<p>Bicycles with “banana seats” and high handlebars.</p>
<p>Boys had paper routes.</p>
<p>Garage bands.</p>
<p>I could go on and on…</p>
<p>We have a dial phone at our country house. Our kids are used to it, but when their friends come over and need to make a call, they pick up the receiver and just stare at it. We also have a phonograph record player. I remember when my daughter was little, she was playing a record and wanted to know how to hear the songs on the other side. (Pick it up and turn it over.)</p>
<p>Skateboards made of wood, with metal wheels.</p>
<p>Those little square looms and nylon loops you used to make pot holders.</p>
<p>Click-clacks.</p>
<p>The Dr Demento radio show.</p>
<p>Space Food Sticks.</p>
<p>Mutual of Omaha’s “Wild Kingdom” with Marlon Perkins.</p>
<p>Being disappointed if I missed the once a year broadcast of some favorite show or movie.</p>
<p>Any type of apple other than Red Delicious was exotic and rare.</p>
<p>The only public place that didn’t allow smoking was the gas station.</p>
<p>Little league baseball used only wood bats…Garbage cans were made of metal…</p>
<p>LVKris - I visited the St. Louis zoo when I was a kid, to see the new approach - open, more natural areas with animals, instead of animals stuffed into small cages. And a golf cart went by, with Marlen Perkins in it ! I was so excited. He was like a movie star to me.</p>
<p>Our first color TV set, was a used one, and the main colors were pink and green, and we could never get it to look natural. With this TV came a sort of remote control…a plastic box with buttons you could push and it had a long cord that connected the box on the coffee table with the TV set.</p>
<p>We had a CB radio in my dad’s van. I’d sit in the front seat and talk to complete adult strangers over the inter…er…radio. I can’t believe my parents let me do that. </p>
<p>When I was older i got a walkman. It had this big case you had to strap onto your body to hold the big thing up comfortably, but it didn’t work when riding your bike as it would skip.</p>
<p>I made the mistake of asking my freshman on Monday if they had seen a typewriter…sure they had. But it launched this BIG side discussion between them, talking to their neighbors, sharing stories about typewriters. Took a few minutes to get them back on track they were so ‘into’ that topic. Lol.</p>
<p>Speaking of Mutual of Omaha’s Wild Kingdom, remember Stan? He always seemed to be the guy wrestling the alligator while Marlon sat in the boat and narrated.</p>
<p>And also on Sunday, “GE College Bowl”. My parents made us watch it (probably why I’m now on cc), but I secretly loved it.</p>
<p>Oh and starbright, D asked for a manual typewriter a few years ago. MIL had one (from the 40’s!). D loves it.</p>
<p>Oh how I longed for faded Levi’s. Those Sears toughskins were indestructible and nothing would ever make them fade.</p>
<p>I love this thread. I also always wondered what all those stay-at-home moms did each day after they threw us out of the house.</p>
<p>red shag carpet. sleeping all night long in my new bean bag chair. Camping in a popup trailer. Drinking orange pop out of a glass bottle. Pouffy hair on adults, and long, long, long straight hair on girls and boys. Love’s Fresh lemon scent. Incense. trolls. Barbies. Easy bake oven.</p>
<p>Sealing wax
Lemon Up shampoo
Dr Scholl sandals
Making a halter top by safety pinning a scarf over a wire necklace and tying it in the back
Bermuda bags with interchangeable covers you button on
Birthday parties in the basement around a ping pong table
Having the entire neighborhood turn out when someone bought a new car</p>
<p>I was just telling my 12 year old today about how I remember one year I was playing outside and my mom called me in because the Wizard of Oz was on and it was a big deal since it was only on once a year. And how I never knew that Oz was in color because we only had a black and white tv.</p>
<p>Yes, click clacks made of glass!</p>
<p>How about filmstrips. It was always a treat to be picked to work the projector and move the filmstrip every time you heard the beep on the accompanying record. </p>
<p>15 cent and 25 cent comic books. </p>
<p>The Sweet Shoppe. And the lunch counter in Woolworths. </p>
<p>Shoe stores where someone waited on you and measured your foot and laced up the shoe lace and put the shoe on your foot! And then told you if it fit or not.</p>
<p>Double features at the movies.</p>
<p>The first post in this thread mentioned the milkman delivering milk. He would put it in a box at our front door. </p>
<p>Yes, it came in 1/2 gallon glass bottles with plastic handles. I still remember my then 7 year old - older brother bringing in 2 bottles, one in each hand swinging them, and they crashed together in front of him, breaking both! That’s a full gallon of milk on the living room floor! Talk about crying over spilt milk. :D</p>
<p>Prell shampoo.</p>
<p>Taking a bath, not a shower. </p>
<p>Five cent candy bars. Almond joy was 10 cents, so you had to consider carefully . . . .</p>
<p>Getting dressed up to go into the City to visit the grandparents.</p>
<p>When my D was younger, she thought I was a genius because I could always “predict” the outcome of an episode of the new show she liked, “I Dream of Jeannie”.</p>
<p>I used to sneak out of bed and hide behind the wall while my parents were watching “Peyton Place” so I could stare at Ryan O’Neal. I also loved Kurt Russell and spent hours writing “Joan Russell” or “Mrs. Kurt Russell” on my notebooks.</p>
<p>Going to the library and getting actual books.</p>
<p>My mom and her mah johng ladies and sneaking the candy that was only “for company.”</p>
<p>Massive games of ring-o-levio, red light green light, mother may I and the like with the 50 plus kids your age who lived in your apartment building.</p>
<p>My shock when I first saw the yellow brick road because we also only had b & w TV.</p>
<p>Getting my hair “done” at the beauty parlor for school pictures.</p>
<p>Going forward a bit, remember when people talking to themselves on the street were mentally ill and not just on cell phones…</p>
<p>The milk chutes where the milkman would leave the milk in its glass bottles.</p>
<p>Go go boots.</p>
<p>Listening to the neighbors on the party line.</p>
<p>No seatbelt, but instead, a cord along the back of the front seat.<br>
We would jump up and down riding that cord.</p>
<p>Caramel popcorn balls girlscout and boyscout treats.</p>
<p>Caroling door to door during the holidays.</p>
<p>The people who gave out homemade popcorn balls on Halloween</p>
<p>the original Star Trek</p>
<p>Twister when it first came out</p>
<p>our first dishwasher that you had to wheel over to the sink and hook the house to the faucet</p>
<p>the first cassette voice recorders</p>
<p>switching from a manual to an electric typewriter</p>
<p>adding machines with the arm you pulled down to enter the figures</p>
<p>carbon paper</p>
<p>Go-Go boots</p>
<p>Early copy machines with weird, slick paper</p>
<p>Mimeographs</p>
<p>^^^I used the word dittos the other day instead of copies. I got quite the blank stare. Remember how purple your fingers would get and the inky smell?</p>