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In the discussion thread: Name something you used to do that today's whippersnappers have never heard of. [View all]

Response to Bertha Venation (Original post)

Sun May 20, 2012, 04:22 PM

233. I remember being 10 yrs old living in Germany on the military base with my family waiting

for the Long Ranger to come on the radio while my mother was cooking a great Italian meal. Sure miss those days when you used your ears to pay attention. Also remember all the kids going outside and playing soldiers. Back then girls and the boys all played soldiers. Gee we kids had alot of fun.

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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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