1) Toured the California State Archives and they still use card catalogs. Oh, and their most used collection of books? Phone books. They have every one. People use them for legal and family research.1) Card Catalog
2) Hand crank car windows
3) No Caller ID, you just blindly answered the phone without knowing who it was!
4) Coming home when streetlights came on.
1) Toured the California State Archives and they still use card catalogs. Oh, and their most used collection of books? Phone books. They have every one. People use them for legal and family research.
2) Got rid of my 1987 Suburban 2 years ago. Hand crank windows. My 1965 Mustang has them.
3) Waste of money. Too many people who NEED to get a hold of me have their ID's blocked on both their landlines and cellphones.
4) Street lights? The neighborhood I grew up in still doesn't have street lights or sidewalks. County tried to put them in, residents sued to stop it. They don't want them. Only thing they want is fire hydrants, county refuses to do that. No water district, everyone has their own domestic water well. So it would cost a ton to tie into the nearest public water district.
Game systems from Atari, Intellivision and Coleco
How about waiting for the 7 year cycle for the Disney Classics to be rerun at the theaters, capturing a fresh crop of young kids born over the past years?Waiting all year for the annual showing of movies like Wizard of Oz, Peanuts Specials, Christmas specials, and others, like Gullivers Travels
Remember in the winter when the cream would freeze and the bottle lid was pushed up?Slide rules
Getting water from a pump in the kitchen
The milkman
Returning glass bottles to the store for a refund
Scooping the cream off the top of milk
I do too. I grew upon the 40's and 50's when it was a much calmer time.This is fun
Being able to go out and play all day til dark, and ride my bike through our whole small town. I wasn't allowed past the town city limits.
Mom perming my hair so I would look like Shirely Temple!!! I hated that stinky perm!
Drive in movies.
For special movies, we went to the Palace theatre in downtown. we waited in long lines going around the building to see Gone with the Wind, The Sound of Music. The theatre looked like a palace with red velvet draperies, balconies, sweeping staircase to enter. It was really special.
Having to wear those ugly, uncomfortable saddle oxford shoes.
Capezios (shoes with straps across the top). I could go on and on. It was a simpler time. and I wish my kids, grandkids could have experienced the innocence of it all.
Land of the Lost and Magic Garden. (both TV shows)
I remember the first time I saw Wizard of Oz . It was on Thanksgiving Eve and when the movie was over , it was snowing as we walked home. I was 7 then.How about waiting for the 7 year cycle for the Disney Classics to be rerun at the theaters, capturing a fresh crop of young kids born over the past years?