<p>Slide rules?</p>
<p>Bottle deposits at the grocery store for glass soda bottles–they had a little “roller-conveyor-belt thingy” that you pushed the bottles into (as a kid this fascinated me–I always wondered what was in that back room at the end of the rollers. . .)</p>
<p>We had a coke machine at our church. I think that it was a nickel or dime for a soda. There were wooden crates next to the machine with dividers and you were supposed to put the emptys there.</p>
<p>Shrinkrap - those of us who could not afford the Winky Dink screen just went and drew right on the TV - I remember getting quite the whooping for that!</p>
<p>BTW - I must have done that in the syndication days : )</p>
<p>Whatever was on TV, was on TV tonight. No taping, no tivo, no youtube. You possibly got to see it again in re runs. I remember the excitement when special programing like Mary Martin’s Peter Pan or Cinderella with Julie Andrews would be broadcast.</p>
<p>Remember the controversy when pay tv was first proposed? I remember thinking “who would PAY to watch tv that is now free?”</p>
<p>Not only did you have to watch a show when it was on, but there were only a few channels and they all went off the air at night.</p>
<p>Did any of you have the American Indian standing alone and with a tear running down his face because of litter at TV sign off time? I still remember that image.</p>
<p>Cigarette commercials were the best!</p>
<p>^THAT was “Iron Eyes Cody”----And what a scandal… he was exposed to be Sicilian!</p>
<p>“they all went off the air at night…”</p>
<p>Test patterns!</p>
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<p>Flash cubes for cameras. I found some old ones last weekend and they’re really strange looking little objects–especially the used ones!</p>
<p>We still have a box in the attic with my family’s super-8 film reels and a projector. They were at one point converted to VHS and then, years later to DVD. I will eventually get around to transferring them to digital files that will be stored on a drive with online back-up.
I just hate to throw out the original film.</p>
<p>As a kid, I thought our new cassette tape recorder was the coolest toy in the world.</p>
<p>Wow, flash cubes, mapesy. I forgot about those! Maybe you can donate them to the Smithsonian, lol.</p>
<p>lol.</p>
<p>How many kids have seen cars that have NO radio?</p>
<p>After band practice the other day, our youngest came home and told us about this strange thing the teacher used to help him: “It was this pyramid triangle thing with a stick that kept going back and forth. And you had to keep moving something up and down on the stick or something to slow it down or speed it up.” </p>
<p>I fell out laughing, and explained to him that it was a metronome. Back in the day, of course, electronic ones didn’t exist.</p>
<p>“Remember when there were one or two kids in your high school who had the “technical” knowledge to run the movie projector.”…</p>
<p>Do I remember? I was one of the only 2 girls in the ‘AV Club’ (audio visual) that was called on to do that! Loved pushing that cart down the halls, I felt so important!</p>
<p>How many kids have seen cars without power windows and power door locks? I’ll never forget the time my S was in a car with manual window openers and couldn’t figure out how to work them!</p>
<p>remember having mumps?</p>
<p>I remember singing “Welcome to Alaska, that makes 49 states, welcome to Hawaii, now we’re up to 50…”</p>
<p>Memorizing famous poems to recite in front of the class on Friday for a grade.</p>
<p>Bible reading at public school assembly.</p>
<p>Panty raids after women’s curfew during freshman year of college. (Letting friends climb through first floor dorm window after curfew…)</p>
<p>Gender specified help-wanted ads in the newspaper.</p>
<p>College calc and science courses disproportionately male. Scorn for women who took these classes from both men and other women.</p>
<p>Mainland China as remote as the moon.</p>
<p>Nylons to be worn with garter belts. (Dress code did not allow pants for women.)</p>
<p>Getting dressed up (including white gloves) just to take the train downtown.</p>
<p>African-American students talking about Jim Crow when returning from trips to visit relatives in the south. Signs in restaurants south of the Mason-Dixon line prohibiting “Negroes and Jews.”</p>
<p>“Villager” outfits with coordinated skirt, blouse (with circle pin), and knee socks.</p>
<p>Entire family ate formal dinner prepared from scratch, in the dining room. </p>
<p>I guess I’m really old…</p>
<p>Writing college papers in longhand on legal pads, then cutting them into pieces and rearranging them on my dorm floor prior to typing them up.</p>
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<p>That was my high school uniform, along with Bass Weejuns. For “formal dress days”, we had to wear the matching jacket.</p>