- Rabbit ears
- Cassette, 8–Track, reel to reel tape recorders
- Coffee cans with keys
- Roller skates with keys to adjust the size
- Metal ice cube trays
- Eagle Stamps
- S&H Green Stamps
- Postage stamps you lick
- Cotton diapers
- Metal keys for hotel rooms
- Typewriters
- Typing paper (It’s called printer paper now)
- Carbon paper
- Mimeograph machines and that smelly fluid
- Prince Albert tobacco in a can
- Floppy disks
- Dot matrix printers
- Gas stations with rubber hose that dings when you drive over it
- Drive-In theaters
- Lawn Darts (Jarts)
- Rotary dial phones
- Free glasses with a fill-up at the gas station
- Gasoline at 30 cents a gallon
- Film strips at school
- Part lines (on your phone)
- Smoking in public places (OK by me)
- 8mm movie film
- 45 RPM records
- All vinyl records… albums too
- Rotary TV channel changers
- Wired television remote
- Air was free at the gas station
- Flash bulbs and flash cubes
- Instamatic cameras
- going to the library to use the encyclopedias
- Soda in glass bottles
- Soda bottle deposits
- Soda pop tops that came off when you pulled them
- Milk in glass bottles
- Meeting someone at their airport gate
- $2 bills
- Window cranks in your car
- Penny candy
- They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed. . and they did
- Laundry detergent had free glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box
- Getting your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped, without asking, all for free, every time
- Ladies nylons that came in two pieces
- Going to the movies for a quarter… and seeing two movies
- Ugly girl’s gymsuits at school (the suits were ugly not the girls)
I could go on and on…. and I just might.
Inspired by article on Harris Online
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