<p>Dobie Gillis and Maynard G. Krebs. </p>
<p>Then, drive-ins with Car-Hops and “cruising” the Ave.</p>
<p>Not squeezing the 19 cent coke out of your date…</p>
<p>Hmmm…(I didn’t read all the responses) How about shorthand? Does anyone still learn it? I recall a couple of HS years when I swore I didn’t want to go to college and insisted on taking the secretarial prep courses. I spent hours watching reruns of Gilligans Island doing the shorthand drills. (luckily a wise GC forced me to continue college prep courses)</p>
<p>We still have drive-ins here! I have three (with multiple screens) within 10 miles of my home! </p>
<p>And, I got kissed by Soupy Sales at a homecoming dance in college! I’ll never forget it!</p>
<p>Did you make “buttons” out of the lids to soda-pop bottles? Those with the little piece of cork behind them? I think later they were plastic.</p>
<p>How about having only one phone? Ours was in the dining room (did someone already mention that?).</p>
<p>Do you remember when kids were not allowed to visit in hospitals? </p>
<p>How about winter boots where you wore your shoes inside? They were fantastic; kept your feet dry and lasted through many many kids.</p>
<p>I grew up in Minnesota. At least through the mid '90s, the boots where you wear your shoes inside were still going strong amongst the elementary school aged population :)</p>
<p>I was with a class of fourth graders today. None of them had ever heard of the Davy Crockett song and the sad thing is probably none of their parents have either. “Born in the mountaintops of Tennessee…”</p>
<p>I remember when my grandparents bought the first color TV I had ever seen. It seems to me that the NBC peacock “test pattern”–remember those?- was about the only thing broadcast in color. Later my parents got one, too.</p>
<p>However, my husband and I made do with a small black and white set until 1984. The deal was: if the Tigers made it to the Wold Series, we would buy a color TV to watch them.</p>
<p>The NBC peacock–remember the little piece of music? My flute teacher was the studio musician who did that recording–two upward trills. </p>
<p>My son actually loves to hear details of stuff like this. For example, now that the new “Get Smart” movie is coming out, he quizzes me on details of the original show–he loves to spring his trivial knowledge on unsuspecting souls. Of course, my memories may be completely skewed!</p>
<p>My mom told me not to take typing in HS, because if I was good at it, I’d forever get stuck doing it for others! My how times have changed–both my kids can type (keyboard) circles around me.</p>
<p>haha. My mother told me that I HAD to take typing in high school, so I’d always have something “to fall back on!” I’ve told my daughters the gruesome stories of typing papers in college, how I made lots of $$ typing papers for friends, and how awful it was to make changes and have to retype the whole dang thing…</p>
<p>I made a point to make sure that D’s played with pick-up sticks, jacks, yo-yos, paddle balls, and some of my all-time favorites when they were little…sort of like visiting a museum in their own home!!!</p>