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In reply to the discussion: 5 things you had as a kid, but your kids did not have [View all]snagglepuss
(12,704 posts)73. My Aunt lived in a ranch style bungelow and there was a little nook in the
hallway leading to the bedrooms expressly designed to accommodate a little telephone table and chair. i thought it was the high of sophistication.
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We never had a station wagon but I remember sleeping on the ledge between
A Simple Game
May 2012
#64
I was just thinking about how we did that too. Pjs and a pillow on the ledge between the back
SammyWinstonJack
May 2012
#129
Banana bike seats (with the accompanying tall handle bars), rotary dial phones,
riderinthestorm
May 2012
#6
Yeah no tv remotes. Of course there were just a handful of channels so no need to
snagglepuss
May 2012
#75
Having to repeatedly turn the tv dial manually caused it to fail quickly so that
LibDemAlways
May 2012
#77
That is a riot. I had no idea anyone else had to situate the dial between two numbers.
snagglepuss
May 2012
#81
We had UHF channels (14-82) also. PBS and a couple of independent stations.
madinmaryland
May 2012
#24
Isn't it amazing to think we only had 4 flash pics on there! And a roll of 24 pics was awesome.
MatthewStLouis
May 2012
#33
"It's more than a camera, it's almost alive, only nineteen dollars and ninety-five"
Gidney N Cloyd
May 2012
#127
I remember. One nun told us in second grade that none of us would live to see our
truedelphi
May 2012
#125
Well maybe not polio, but I could see a lot of those infectious diseases
4th law of robotics
May 2012
#105
so true. that's why i find the anti-vac folk so insanely dangerous. nt
La Lioness Priyanka
May 2012
#109
Phone #s with two letter prefixes. BEachwood 4,5,7,8,9 You can call me up and have a date
OffWithTheirHeads
May 2012
#146