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Sun May 20, 2012, 02:36 PM

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Name something you used to do that today's whippersnappers have never heard of. [View all]	Bertha Venation	May 2012	OP
multiplication on a sliderule	HereSince1628	May 2012	#1
Turn on a TV	Dyedinthewoolliberal	May 2012	#2
Turn on a TV	Duer 157099	May 2012	#8
A knob? A KNOB? Look who's all high and mighty!	NoPasaran	May 2012	#163
That should have been a DUzy.	pacalo	May 2012	#189
You were lucky!!	FiveGoodMen	May 2012	#341
We use to dream of having teeth.	Throckmorton	May 2012	#352
I was thinking about that the other day	ashling	May 2012	#196
And don't forget the antenna rotor control	HarveyDarkey	Jun 2012	#404
Ah, yes, the sign-off. When we stayed at Grandma's	Bertha Venation	May 2012	#10
That was America the Beautiful arranged by Carmen Dragon	Manifestor_of_Light	May 2012	#80
Heck, getting up to change the channel or turn it on and off ...	zbdent	May 2012	#56
turning the color dial so people were somewhere between pink and green skinned.	Manifestor_of_Light	May 2012	#174
The brightness control never worked. We turned it all the way up,	tclambert	May 2012	#231
...that Conelrad was a helluva detective!!	lastlib	May 2012	#122
Getting up at 5:30 on Saturdays	ashling	May 2012	#201
We must have grown up together.	Scuba	May 2012	#311
We had someone a bit prettier...	mwooldri	May 2012	#357
You had TV?!!	unc70	May 2012	#225
Put a playing card on the fender of your bike	geardaddy	May 2012	#3
Dial a telephone, literally.	hifiguy	May 2012	#4
Yup, been there, done that. n/t	RebelOne	May 2012	#27
I remember those things	sakabatou	May 2012	#76
hated dialing - I would lose track trying to dial quickly into a radio station	nadine_mn	May 2012	#118
Work on a telephone "cord board"	IDemo	May 2012	#183
We lived in the country and had a 'party line.'	CrispyQ	May 2012	#188
we did too, when I was 20	Voice for Peace	May 2012	#214
Gas wars--where the prices kept going DOWN!!!	Maeve	May 2012	#194
Gas prices of 17.9 to 19.9¢	unc70	May 2012	#228
Cigarettes were 50 cents at the Clarke Station.	randome	May 2012	#237
A lot less than that, but I was in NC	unc70	May 2012	#241
I can handle no air conditioning fine now.	randome	May 2012	#244
You must not live in the South.	unc70	May 2012	#250
You're right. I'm sure it's worse in other places.	randome	May 2012	#252
And many places worse than NC	unc70	May 2012	#272
the gas wars were not necessarily good things	suninvited	May 2012	#335
Dial a phone - yes and it was originally a "Party Line" in our house.	Marie Marie	May 2012	#336
We had a party line too. The interesting thing is that,	Old Troop	Jun 2012	#409
In the laudry room of my house is a working, original equipment, dial telephone from 1962.	FiveGoodMen	May 2012	#342
I gotta admit back then the phone number was a hoot.	mwooldri	May 2012	#354
I remember going to the record store...	RevStPatrick	May 2012	#5
putting the spindle adapter on the turntable	zbdent	May 2012	#16
Changing the needle.	rug	May 2012	#39
78's	sarge43	May 2012	#44
My folks bought a good stereo and NEVER used it.	Manifestor_of_Light	May 2012	#143
At Robbie's Records they had booths with turn tables	ashling	May 2012	#211
I can still do that.	Neoma	May 2012	#270
I'm a 20something and I still do that	ButterflyBlood	May 2012	#360
recording songs off the radio	Viva_La_Revolution	May 2012	#6
putting my hand on the back of the radio	SCantiGOP	May 2012	#64
Work	zzaapp	May 2012	#7
Aw, that's rather unkind, zzaapp, and unfair.	Bertha Venation	May 2012	#9
+1	geardaddy	May 2012	#12
Bertha, you don't know my kids. LOLOL	zzaapp	May 2012	#13
Bertha, it's probably none of my business...but	zzaapp	May 2012	#29
A lot of people have questioned me on this.	Bertha Venation	May 2012	#55
oooops, now I get it. Thanks.	zzaapp	May 2012	#57
Pssst...I knew that, actually!	dixiegrrrrl	May 2012	#171
Listened to radio dramas.	The Velveteen Ocelot	May 2012	#11
I still have a skate key	HeiressofBickworth	May 2012	#115
I have a friend who's	ashling	May 2012	#215
And a skateboard was a board with a pair of roller skates you nailed onto it	pinboy3niner	May 2012	#147
In our early 50's Hudson	NEOhiodemocrat	May 2012	#364
Make a scooter or skateboard from a 2x4 and old clamp-on skates.	bluesbassman	May 2012	#14
With bottlecaps.	rug	May 2012	#40
Roller skate with clamp-on skates.	GoCubsGo	May 2012	#91
closing the door of a phone booth ...	zbdent	May 2012	#15
They have phone booths at O'Hare airport.	Neoma	May 2012	#273
Do you remember the really nice wood paneled	Old Troop	Jun 2012	#410
almost before my time, but ... setting a turntable to 78 rpm so that I could	zbdent	May 2012	#17
Or to listen to 33s or 45s to make 'em sound like The Chipmunks.	geardaddy	May 2012	#22
That's what I was going to say	Ron Obvious	May 2012	#116
Spinning the turntable BACKWARD in order to hear "turn me on dead man". n/t	cherokeeprogressive	May 2012	#383
Man, I hope I never get old...	ellisonz	May 2012	#18
You'd BETTER hide, e....z!	elleng	May 2012	#65
Oww...	ellisonz	May 2012	#68
Well, consider the alternative...	crunch60	May 2012	#279
Either way, old or young...	ellisonz	May 2012	#377
Well, there's only the one alternative...	FiveGoodMen	May 2012	#345
You woudn't like the alternative! nt	zanana1	Jun 2012	#414
Used to go up to Rexall Drugs and use one of these.....	kayakjohnny	May 2012	#19
Those were so cool!	hifiguy	May 2012	#21
Ha! I always thought I'd get zapped by electricity or that my tube would blow up when testing.	kayakjohnny	May 2012	#24
I remember those.	geardaddy	May 2012	#23
My dad had one of those	LaurenG	May 2012	#50
Still have my RCA receiving tube manual	unc70	May 2012	#230
?	onpatrol98	May 2012	#314
A test machine for	JoeyT	May 2012	#329
Giving a friend a "buck" on my bike.	LNM	May 2012	#20
Yes. We'd give seat bucks or	geardaddy	May 2012	#98
Yep, a handlebar buck	LNM	May 2012	#151
We called those "pumps" nt	WolverineDG	May 2012	#379
Deliver newspapers before and after school.	ohiosmith	May 2012	#25
I delivered the evening Star	geardaddy	May 2012	#28
Walk 10 miles to school,uphill both ways,in 3 feet of snow.	Swede	May 2012	#26
And you didn't complain!	Arugula Latte	May 2012	#34
I had to get up in the morning at ten o'clock at night half an hour before I went to bed,	zbdent	May 2012	#59
Thank you!	potone	May 2012	#182
Luxury!!!!	Tripper11	May 2012	#108
Except for the 10 miles part, I actually did that	jmowreader	May 2012	#297
Since you mention it,	4_TN_TITANS	May 2012	#30
I'm 36, but I'm willing to bet some people just a little younger me....	sadbear	May 2012	#31
how about the 8 inch disks?	zbdent	May 2012	#58
That's before my time	sadbear	May 2012	#67
I still have the Radio Shack "flyer"/catalogue where, for a mere $8000,	zbdent	May 2012	#69
Or, punch cards?	GoCubsGo	May 2012	#92
I made one of those in the 5th grade! n/t	Gore1FL	May 2012	#255
Me, too.	GoCubsGo	May 2012	#257
We had the tape with holes punched.	Frustratedlady	May 2012	#192
I'm 36 too, and yep, seen the 8 inch diskette	Woody Woodpecker	May 2012	#219
I am 32 and remember those	tabbycat31	May 2012	#102
26 and I used some	a2liberal	May 2012	#152
Awesome!	JustAnotherGen	May 2012	#204
I'm 26 and I remember those.	Odin2005	May 2012	#289
sadbear	Diclotican	May 2012	#333
Computers	bongbong	May 2012	#348
Run out to the huckster's truck to get fresh fruit and vegetables	livetohike	May 2012	#32
Receive tests and homework on purple-inked "ditto" paper.	Arugula Latte	May 2012	#33
And sniff them.	rug	May 2012	#42
Oh yeah. They were most pungent when they were fresh off the machine and still drying.	Arugula Latte	May 2012	#46
Now, THAT's what I call HIGH Technology!!!	lastlib	May 2012	#125
Mmm hmmm...	Arugula Latte	May 2012	#154
The mimeograph was a favorite of mine	Woody Woodpecker	May 2012	#220
Yep. I loved those things.	geardaddy	May 2012	#99
I still occasionally embarrass myself ...	hay rick	May 2012	#114
Aw, that's okay, Gramps.	Arugula Latte	May 2012	#155
i miss those	Blue_Tires	May 2012	#268
What's ditto paper?	Odin2005	May 2012	#291
From retroland.com:	Arugula Latte	May 2012	#310
Mimeograph and ditto/fluid duplicator were different technologies	unc70	May 2012	#378
All I ever remember seeing in grade school	hifiguy	May 2012	#323
Semi-private phone lines	FSogol	May 2012	#35
Even worse was the "Party Line". Up to 5 families on the same line.	yellowcanine	May 2012	#89
Five families? We had ten on ours.	Silver Swan	May 2012	#145
Enema parties on acid	graywarrior	May 2012	#36
No shit?	rug	May 2012	#43
I shit you not	graywarrior	May 2012	#47
what a shitty party that had to be.	LaurenG	May 2012	#52
One bathroom, too	graywarrior	May 2012	#53
you really had to have some close friends for that kind of party ...	zbdent	May 2012	#61
We were all seriously crazy	graywarrior	May 2012	#72
did you bring a roll of toilet paper to a crap game??	Manifestor_of_Light	May 2012	#81
Aggies knew how to use toilet paper?	El Supremo	May 2012	#120
Don't know.	Manifestor_of_Light	May 2012	#133
Driving a manual transmission car with the shift lever on the steering column	Kaleva	May 2012	#97
Three on the tree?	geardaddy	May 2012	#100
My first car had one of those.	GoneOffShore	May 2012	#130
So did mine - 1965 Ford Club Wagon van.	hifiguy	May 2012	#325
1975 Ford F-100	bongbong	May 2012	#349
How about driving a car with push-button automatic transmission?	GoCubsGo	May 2012	#160
Loved push button.	unc70	May 2012	#238
Yes..	absyntheminded	May 2012	#283
Whoa!	Rainngirl	May 2012	#359
I had one of those - a '63 Mercury Comet. Also had a '64 Dodge Dart with	Old Troop	Jun 2012	#411
Drink Root beer kool-aid by the gallon!	RedCloud	May 2012	#37
Make your own root beer with the Hires root beer kit	geardaddy	May 2012	#103
xray machines	book lady	May 2012	#38
They had those things in the company store!	yortsed snacilbuper	May 2012	#109
Type reports with 5 carbon copies	marlakay	May 2012	#41
yeah	lillypaddle	May 2012	#79
Snopake correction fluid.	hay rick	May 2012	#113
Liquid Paper, invented by Michael Nesmith's mother.	Manifestor_of_Light	May 2012	#131
Hit bottle caps with a wooden stick.	RedCloud	May 2012	#45
Write a Program on Key Punch Cards	Yavin4	May 2012	#48
use an adding machine	lillypaddle	May 2012	#78
DO NOT fold, spindle or mutilate!!	lastlib	May 2012	#129
Close cover before striking.	Bette Noir	May 2012	#275
When I see your username I think of	Bertha Venation	May 2012	#373
I punched cards in my first year of college.	calikid	May 2012	#157
Knowing Fortran, or Assembly language.	Woody Woodpecker	May 2012	#222
I Took A Pascal Class from Asian Prof with a thick accent	Yavin4	May 2012	#227
My Pascal/Fortran education came from a British instructor	Woody Woodpecker	May 2012	#267
Crochet	LaurenG	May 2012	#49
Re Using the phone book	Yavin4	May 2012	#51
you want a laugh, look at the reel-to-reel drives on the computers on the Death Star	zbdent	May 2012	#62
Lots of people still crochet.	GoCubsGo	May 2012	#93
I have no idea what the young people do as far as needlework.	Manifestor_of_Light	May 2012	#106
They do all of it.	knitter4democracy	May 2012	#176
I can't crochet (thought I can knit and want to learn)	tabbycat31	May 2012	#104
Hey, I do all of those still.	knitter4democracy	May 2012	#175
Cut out 45s from cereal boxes and play them on a turntable.	Arugula Latte	May 2012	#54
I loved those things.	Bertha Venation	May 2012	#71
Sure!	Arugula Latte	May 2012	#73
I had that one.	Hissyspit	May 2012	#369
Totally!	geardaddy	May 2012	#101
They had those in MAD Magazine too!!	Manifestor_of_Light	May 2012	#107
Excellent resource:	Hissyspit	May 2012	#370
All of the above	Worried senior	May 2012	#60
When babysitting and a kid pooped his diapers, had to wash it out in the toilet while flushing,	crunch60	May 2012	#285
Star Wars ...	zbdent	May 2012	#63
Jean Shepherd!	elleng	May 2012	#66
Adjust the manual choke on the car	Brother Buzz	May 2012	#70
Adjust the idle screw on the carburetor	Manifestor_of_Light	May 2012	#83
Or change the points & condenser....	lastlib	May 2012	#126
You knew how long it took the tires to warm up and loose the little flat spot.	oneshooter	May 2012	#138
Or sitting in the car till the end of a song.	bikebloke	May 2012	#74
I sit in the car waiting for the end of NPR programs.	GoneOffShore	May 2012	#132
'Driveway songs' they call them in England.	randome	May 2012	#256
When I was 18 (in '68) I used to hop the freight trains between Salem, Oregon and Seattle	panader0	May 2012	#75
I used to "neck."	lillypaddle	May 2012	#77
No, belts to hold pads were horrible.	Manifestor_of_Light	May 2012	#159
Ah yes but did you use the thin tissue paper wrapper of a Tampax	Sedona	May 2012	#190
No, sorry. Missed that fad.	Manifestor_of_Light	May 2012	#232
You are one sick puppy!	lillypaddle	May 2012	#290
Tampons too	treestar	May 2012	#298
Necking for hours, by the lake at the boat harbor, full moon, listening to Johnny	crunch60	May 2012	#287
yeah sure	lillypaddle	May 2012	#288
Cross my heart and hope to die! No "S-I" until I left my home, the RCC, and the country.	crunch60	May 2012	#304
Type a research paper for college.	sinkingfeeling	May 2012	#82
Using one of these?	baldguy	May 2012	#112
I typed my senior thesis....	lastlib	May 2012	#127
I typed too fast for a manual. Besides it hurts.	Manifestor_of_Light	May 2012	#142
I was at a yard sale today and a 10-yr-old girl there did not not what a typewriter was - there	Nay	May 2012	#245
Using a slide rule to calculate lens curves	quaker bill	Jun 2012	#395
Where do you plug in the flatscreen?	krispos42	Jun 2012	#413
Take the car to the garage to get snow tires installed.	yellowcanine	May 2012	#84
Change the points and plugs...	Magoo48	Jun 2012	#396
I had a red IBM Standard and typed other peoples' papers as well, for money.	Manifestor_of_Light	May 2012	#85
I charged $2 / page to type in college. $4 if I corrected the grammar.	Scuba	May 2012	#312
Paste S&H Green Stamps into a book.	yellowcanine	May 2012	#86
I knew someone would remember S&H Greenstamps!	HooptieWagon	May 2012	#254
Super 8 home movies	Ptah	May 2012	#87
My childhood was preserved in 16mm COLOR home movies!!	Manifestor_of_Light	May 2012	#105
Drove a stick shift.	WhoIsNumberNone	May 2012	#88
You'd be surprised at how many of us still drive stick shift.	GoCubsGo	May 2012	#94
i do that now...	Blue_Tires	May 2012	#269
Pay for porn	taterguy	May 2012	#90
Go in search of a phone booth	XemaSab	May 2012	#95
A coke run perhaps? LOL!	Politicalboi	May 2012	#213
Catching lizards. That was playing.	Bette Noir	May 2012	#276
My youngest step-son didn't know what a phonograph was.	Kaleva	May 2012	#96
my eldest didn't know what a cassette tape was (n/t)	guyton	May 2012	#224
3 TV stations	underpants	May 2012	#110
When we were stationed in the Azores in the 1960s	NoPasaran	May 2012	#165
"Warming up" the tee vee!	Sedona	May 2012	#193
hopscotch. jacks. and	tnvoter	May 2012	#111
Using the card catalog at the library	nadine_mn	May 2012	#117
Do they not stamp due dates anymore??	a2liberal	May 2012	#153
They give you a receipt	tabbycat31	May 2012	#156
Well, that's just silly	a2liberal	May 2012	#170
librarians were getting carpal tunnel from the stamps	cally	May 2012	#358
Selecting from only four TV stations.	El Supremo	May 2012	#119
Four? You should be so lucky!	mwooldri	May 2012	#351
Rewind the videotape before taking it back to the corner Videorama	NightWatcher	May 2012	#121
Smoking cigarettes in the official high school student smoking lounge.	aikoaiko	May 2012	#123
I remember having professors in college smoke during the lectures	nadine_mn	May 2012	#158
I had a stereo with not only a turntable but also an 8 track!!!!	davsand	May 2012	#124
Sat in the back of the bus..	mwdem	May 2012	#128
Wow. You have the winner here.	El Supremo	May 2012	#136
Didn't want to do that!	mwdem	May 2012	#137
Was in line at a burger stand	ashling	May 2012	#216
Really. That's It.	byronius	May 2012	#326
EPIC WIN!!!	Odin2005	May 2012	#292
play "stretch 'em" by throwing knives at	frogmarch	May 2012	#134
We called it "mumbly peg"	ashling	May 2012	#217
I wish we had. I like that name for it	frogmarch	May 2012	#277
As I recall, the idea was to	ashling	May 2012	#301
Yep, same game. And yep,	frogmarch	May 2012	#305
Real nylons and garters.	cliffordu	May 2012	#135
The horrible straps	LiberalEsto	May 2012	#284
Opening a soda, or beer bottle using a "church key".	oneshooter	May 2012	#139
LOL!	LeftofObama	May 2012	#199
My uncle and aunt had pop-top curtains hanging in the doorway leading from the living room.	cherokeeprogressive	May 2012	#384
Going to the library to do research for school papers..	Brigid	May 2012	#140
Play with my Whipper Snapper	begin_within	May 2012	#141
Don't do that.	Arugula Latte	May 2012	#166
Buy A Four Finger,10 Dollar, Lid...	WillyT	May 2012	#144
Us poor folk had to settle for a nickel bag...	hay rick	May 2012	#169
Good times, good times.	dixiegrrrrl	May 2012	#172
Turning in soda bottles for spending money/Picking cotton/Using a party line phone...	KBlagburn	May 2012	#146
Walk around the neighborhood without a leash on my dog..	Youngat50	May 2012	#148
soda fountain counters in drug stores and woolworths	IcyPeas	May 2012	#149
tightening your roller skates with a key	IcyPeas	May 2012	#150
We had one of those old-fashioned drug stores until 1994.	Odin2005	May 2012	#294
Still have one of those drugstores here	unc70	May 2012	#309
Drive-in theatres....	NYC_SKP	May 2012	#161
Rewind a cassette with a pen/pencil to save batteries on my walkman/boombox.	dorkulon	May 2012	#162
Seeing weekly serials at the movie theater	Kingofalldems	May 2012	#164
We went to serials on Saturday, double feature, .12 cents, box of good and plenty	crunch60	May 2012	#303
"Play RECORDS."	Amerigo Vespucci	May 2012	#167
on, what else, a record player . . . in a box! a portable 45 player. eom	ellenfl	May 2012	#264
Sneaking friends in to the drive-in theater	Pool Hall Ace	May 2012	#168
LOL. I remember doing that too. I doubt I would have remembered without your post	RZM	May 2012	#187
going to the drive-in in the family station wagon in our pjs. eom	ellenfl	May 2012	#271
my son tried this	dmrtndl1	May 2012	#322
Not a good outcome!	Pool Hall Ace	May 2012	#324
I did that a few times.	hifiguy	May 2012	#327
Playing outside ALL day long, till dark.	dixiegrrrrl	May 2012	#173
Flashlight tag!	randome	May 2012	#207
oh wow...I missed out on that. drats.	dixiegrrrrl	May 2012	#242
Yeah! I regularly sound like an old fart when I tell ppl "kids don't do anything anymore except	Nay	May 2012	#246
When I was a kid, our screen was in the front door.	dixiegrrrrl	May 2012	#266
Playing outside with the neighborhood kids	lunatica	May 2012	#177
Playing baseball in a friend's back yard, using various fruit trees as the bases.	Bette Noir	May 2012	#278
Used to sit and listen to my dad's shortwave radio.	Bluzmann57	May 2012	#178
Saturdays in the summer	Art_from_Ark	May 2012	#179
Watching TV B.C. (Before cable)	jaded_old_cynic	May 2012	#180
Sleeping out in the backyard on summer nights	ailsagirl	May 2012	#181
1+ wake to the sounds of morning doves overhead.	patrice	May 2012	#185
Hope they weren't directly overhead!	ailsagirl	May 2012	#388
he! he! . . . I was thinking yesterday about an edit to that post. You read my mind.	patrice	May 2012	#389
Sorry, Patrice	ailsagirl	Jun 2012	#393
Most places you could still do that	TheCruces	Jun 2012	#412
Ride saplings in the summer, especially along the banks of a creek. nt	patrice	May 2012	#184
I've heard of almost all things listed in this thread	JonLP24	May 2012	#186
Take pictures on film with an instamatic using flash cubes!	geckosfeet	May 2012	#191
Turning the fucking channel with the needlenose.	lonestarnot	May 2012	#195
OMG. I had forgotten about that. We must have had the same TV. nt	Still Blue in PDX	Jun 2012	#407
Those knobs were great weren't they? Especially when the plastic finally wore out.	lonestarnot	Jun 2012	#416
When I was seven years old, my mom would give me some change and let me walk alone to the store	slackmaster	May 2012	#197
My mom sent me for smokes!	Sedona	May 2012	#206
CLACKERS!	Sedona	May 2012	#198
Trip acid and listen to King Crimson records...	stlsaxman	May 2012	#200
Oh yeah !	yesphan	May 2012	#317
CREEPY CRAWLERS!	Sedona	May 2012	#202
Creepy Crawlers were AWESOME!	randome	May 2012	#212
Totally forgot about Creepy Crawlers!!	blaze	May 2012	#248
Glow-in-the-dark-goop. That did it for me.	hunter	May 2012	#385
I would obsessively tape-record my favorite monster movies.	randome	May 2012	#203
And the monsters were cheesy.	Rozlee	May 2012	#320
smoking on busses and planes	chknltl	May 2012	#205
The smoking sections in restaurants	treestar	May 2012	#299
Also cigarette lighters in cars.	wickerwoman	May 2012	#339
I used to go to bed with my transistor radio.	Blue_In_AK	May 2012	#208
I had a 4 inch cube Sony transistor radio.	Manifestor_of_Light	Jun 2012	#399
I listened to KOMA out of Oklahoma City.	Blue_In_AK	Jun 2012	#401
S&H Green Stamps, Plaid Stamps, the premiums that came in the boxes of	1monster	May 2012	#209
Horrible Hamilton. Zeroids. Leif Ericsson starship models.	randome	May 2012	#210
Being able to go to a public college full time for $120.00 a semester.	mysuzuki2	May 2012	#218
IRONING BOARD...Funny story....My daughter saw an ironing board in my mother-in-law's bedroom.	PassingFair	May 2012	#221
How cute. I remember when I cooked for my neighbors 3 little girls. She had to come back	southernyankeebelle	May 2012	#235
Tape recording songs off the radio	Taverner	May 2012	#223
Buying a gallon of root beer from A&W (before they sold it in grocery stores).	ET Awful	May 2012	#226
Here in Moorhead, MN we have one of the oldest DQs in the country.	Odin2005	May 2012	#296
There's one of those in Richfield, too.	hifiguy	May 2012	#328
In the 50s there was a DQ at 48th and Nicolet in south Mpls near my house.	mysuzuki2	May 2012	#375
Walking around town with my new "transistor Radio" up to my ear.	99th_Monkey	May 2012	#229
I remember being 10 yrs old living in Germany on the military base with my family waiting	southernyankeebelle	May 2012	#233
I used to READ newspapers.	tclambert	May 2012	#234
you used to do.....	Hula Popper	May 2012	#236
Winky Dink	unc70	May 2012	#239
At the risk of revealing my age...	demilib	May 2012	#240
Typewriters. Electric typewriters.	randome	May 2012	#243
You're just a youngster!	classof56	May 2012	#265
That's called a candlestick phone.	Manifestor_of_Light	Jun 2012	#398
Thanks!	classof56	Jun 2012	#417
chase after the truck that was spraying pesticide in the neighborhood to control mosquitoes	dmrtndl1	May 2012	#247
It was like a call to a parade!	randome	May 2012	#253
fortunately, my mother would make us get inside when the mosquito sprayers went by.	ellenfl	May 2012	#274
OMG. My brother and I did this in Fla. I'm surprised I'm not dead yet. nt	Nay	May 2012	#282
The Top 40	grilled onions	May 2012	#249
Burning leaves	blaze	May 2012	#251
But not until after we'd spent some time jumping in them!	annabanana	May 2012	#280
beer	Locrian	May 2012	#258
Use a footswitch to dim the car lights	Coyote_Bandit	May 2012	#259
I had a foot switch too!	randome	May 2012	#261
MY first car, a 1976 Camaro, had a foot switch.	CottonBear	May 2012	#386
Set a tape recorder to 1&7/8, 3&3/4, or 7&1/2 ips. Splice a tape to edit it.	eppur_se_muova	May 2012	#260
Grass cutting jobs	Harry Monroe	May 2012	#262
what fun!	Liz_Estrada	May 2012	#263
Winding clocks...	cyberswede	May 2012	#281
Ordering toys from the milkman when I had finally cut out enough circles from the paper milk	Nay	May 2012	#286
Great OP!	chervilant	May 2012	#293
I used to wait for my fave son to tape it!	bigwillq	May 2012	#295
Leaving the house with no phone (nt)	Shankapotomus	May 2012	#300
I still do that.	FiveGoodMen	May 2012	#347
I hope to again someday (nt)	Shankapotomus	May 2012	#355
Early music piracy.	svpadgham	May 2012	#302
Buy a Hershey bar for a nickle.	vanlassie	May 2012	#306
Polaroid Cameras	Oldtimeralso	May 2012	#307
Chopping wood for a wood-fired stove.	Liberty Belle	May 2012	#308
In grammer school	Highway61	May 2012	#313
Aww, that Bandstand antenna story is cute.	WorseBeforeBetter	Jun 2012	#400
I loved to climb trees.	joanbarnes	May 2012	#315
Having to buy porn from that nice lady at the Convenient store on the corner....	WCGreen	May 2012	#316
Duck and cover drills	yesphan	May 2012	#319
Getting bread from the Helm's truck	Rose Siding	May 2012	#318
Helping my grandmother in Des Moines in the '50's	Iwillnevergiveup	May 2012	#321
count change back	guardian	May 2012	#330
There is way to much to list	Marrah_G	May 2012	#331
Have my transistor radio confiscated	malthaussen	May 2012	#332
gotcha beat ...	padruig	May 2012	#334
Sending a telegram, leaving the house and cars unlocked all the time, and	Kip Humphrey	May 2012	#337
Eat a Black Cow sucker	GentryDixon	May 2012	#338
Taking metal roller-skates apart . . .	Richard D	May 2012	#340
"Whippersnappers" is the precise term we use for members of our youth group	KamaAina	May 2012	#343
Dial a phone.	KamaAina	May 2012	#344
waiting outside for the milkman	suninvited	May 2012	#346
Jimmying vending machines	bongbong	May 2012	#350
Cars with vent windows	Throckmorton	May 2012	#353
REAL mums for corsages at football games. And catching horned toads. (now almost extinct)	northoftheborder	May 2012	#356
Relax	8 track mind	May 2012	#367
I'm really glad to hear that; we used to have them here in central Texas too.	northoftheborder	May 2012	#374
Play marbles!	yortsed snacilbuper	May 2012	#361
aDMIRING MY PUBIC HAIR god damn capslock!	FayeKane	May 2012	#362
Vhs	Dragonbreathp9d	May 2012	#363
Marijuana at Concerts	YOHABLO	May 2012	#365
jump a Huffy Bicycle with a bannana seat and a sissybar	8 track mind	May 2012	#366
In the summer, wait for the mosquito fogger to come along,	Art_from_Ark	May 2012	#368
Fizzies	fifthoffive	May 2012	#371
Tasted terrible? I loved the root beer ones!	Nay	May 2012	#382
Rotary telephone	ElbarDee	May 2012	#372
Being sent off to the movies with my younger siblings so my parents could fuck.	mysuzuki2	May 2012	#376
Traveling from point A to point B and freaking out because	Baitball Blogger	May 2012	#380
Writing letters to friends in faraway places.	SOteric	May 2012	#381
Splice. Film or Recording Tape. With adhesive tape.	CBGLuthier	May 2012	#387
A walkman. A VCR. An adding machine.	Taverner	May 2012	#390
Ride the trolley from Burbank To downtown LA	OxQQme	Jun 2012	#391
Friendship bracelets.	BlueIris	Jun 2012	#392
The Burma Shave signs!	ailsagirl	Jun 2012	#394
My brain	Turbineguy	Jun 2012	#397
latex free	ManyShadesOf	Jun 2012	#402
Listening to the neighbors on the party line	HarveyDarkey	Jun 2012	#403
All night drive in movies.	LiberalAndProud	Jun 2012	#405
Unplugging the TV and plugging it back in again to "fix" it.	Still Blue in PDX	Jun 2012	#406
Calling the overseas operator to place a call to my	Old Troop	Jun 2012	#408
Shorthand	felix_numinous	Jun 2012	#415

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