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In reply to the discussion: Name something you used to do that today's whippersnappers have never heard of. [View all]ashling
(25,771 posts)216. Was in line at a burger stand
back in the early sixties and the person at the window told the black gentleman in front of us that he would have to go around to the back door to order, so mom took us kids around back, too.
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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
turning the color dial so people were somewhere between pink and green skinned.
Manifestor_of_Light
May 2012
#174
hated dialing - I would lose track trying to dial quickly into a radio station
nadine_mn
May 2012
#118
In the laudry room of my house is a working, original equipment, dial telephone from 1962.
FiveGoodMen
May 2012
#342
And a skateboard was a board with a pair of roller skates you nailed onto it
pinboy3niner
May 2012
#147
Spinning the turntable BACKWARD in order to hear "turn me on dead man". n/t
cherokeeprogressive
May 2012
#383
Ha! I always thought I'd get zapped by electricity or that my tube would blow up when testing.
kayakjohnny
May 2012
#24
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
Oh yeah. They were most pungent when they were fresh off the machine and still drying.
Arugula Latte
May 2012
#46
you want a laugh, look at the reel-to-reel drives on the computers on the Death Star
zbdent
May 2012
#62
When babysitting and a kid pooped his diapers, had to wash it out in the toilet while flushing,
crunch60
May 2012
#285
You knew how long it took the tires to warm up and loose the little flat spot.
oneshooter
May 2012
#138
When I was 18 (in '68) I used to hop the freight trains between Salem, Oregon and Seattle
panader0
May 2012
#75
Necking for hours, by the lake at the boat harbor, full moon, listening to Johnny
crunch60
May 2012
#287
Cross my heart and hope to die! No "S-I" until I left my home, the RCC, and the country.
crunch60
May 2012
#304
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
I had a red IBM Standard and typed other peoples' papers as well, for money.
Manifestor_of_Light
May 2012
#85
My uncle and aunt had pop-top curtains hanging in the doorway leading from the living room.
cherokeeprogressive
May 2012
#384
Turning in soda bottles for spending money/Picking cotton/Using a party line phone...
KBlagburn
May 2012
#146
We went to serials on Saturday, double feature, .12 cents, box of good and plenty
crunch60
May 2012
#303
Yeah! I regularly sound like an old fart when I tell ppl "kids don't do anything anymore except
Nay
May 2012
#246
Playing baseball in a friend's back yard, using various fruit trees as the bases.
Bette Noir
May 2012
#278
he! he! . . . I was thinking yesterday about an edit to that post. You read my mind.
patrice
May 2012
#389
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
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
Buying a gallon of root beer from A&W (before they sold it in grocery stores).
ET Awful
May 2012
#226
I remember being 10 yrs old living in Germany on the military base with my family waiting
southernyankeebelle
May 2012
#233
chase after the truck that was spraying pesticide in the neighborhood to control mosquitoes
dmrtndl1
May 2012
#247
fortunately, my mother would make us get inside when the mosquito sprayers went by.
ellenfl
May 2012
#274
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
Ordering toys from the milkman when I had finally cut out enough circles from the paper milk
Nay
May 2012
#286
Having to buy porn from that nice lady at the Convenient store on the corner....
WCGreen
May 2012
#316
Sending a telegram, leaving the house and cars unlocked all the time, and
Kip Humphrey
May 2012
#337
REAL mums for corsages at football games. And catching horned toads. (now almost extinct)
northoftheborder
May 2012
#356
I'm really glad to hear that; we used to have them here in central Texas too.
northoftheborder
May 2012
#374
Being sent off to the movies with my younger siblings so my parents could fuck.
mysuzuki2
May 2012
#376