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Cars are a part of American culture. We grow up in them, live in them, love them, but like the culture they reflect, cars change over time. Here's ten things you experienced your kids probably won't.

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Vent Windows
Air conditioning, to the city-dweller, is often the line separating a rugged existence from a civilized one. In the past, what you had instead was the vent window, a magnificent triangular piece of glass in the front door windows which rotated to funnel air into the cabin and cool the occupants. Crossing large expanses at high speeds means lots of fresh air, but as we transitioned to an urban population, those high speeds were replaced by sweltering traffic and air conditioning has completely replaced the vent window.

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Crank Windows
Nearly everyone reading this post probably grew up with a car featuring crank windows. They're cheap, they're reliable, they're light weight and they make you exercise to get at that sweet, sweet fresh air. All reasons they're being naturally selected out of the automotive gene pool. It doesn't help that even on the most beautiful days, everyone stays bottled up with their air conditioning humming.

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Keys
The idea of a key to operate your car was first implemented by Cadillac, since their cars featured the Charles Kettering starter, making ignition so easy anyone could steal your car. As time progressed thieves upped the ante with master keys or bypassed the key entirely by hotwiring. Since computer technology and the commonization of keyless entry have advanced, the metal key finds itself succumbing to the digital one. These days its common to find cars with a short-range radio frequency transmitter in the key fob and a push-button starter. They still come with emergency metal keys, but its only a matter of time before those disappear.

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Vinyl Seats
If you're old enough, the searing pain of hot vinyl bench seats turning your thigh into a roast is one of your earliest car memories. You learned quick to sit on your shorts and ease down on the bench, otherwise those vinyl covers, hot as the surface of the sun which baked them, would inevitably bake stitch marks into you. Unsurprisingly, as material costs dropped and buyers decided not to maim their children, vinyl seat options are becoming scarce. Believe it or not, they can still be had on the ultra-base Toyota Prius.

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Manual Transfer Cases
Driving off-road used to be a test of manliness. You had to know things; what a low range meant, how to roll a truck back and forth to get the manual lockers to engage, and most importantly, you had to be a master of the secret handshake of the non-synchro transfer case. Electronic, on the fly, fully synchronized and push-button transfer cases have made the second shifter next to the gear selector an anachronism. It will survive with the rock crawlers, but it'll never see the light of production again.

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Jump Seats
When the man killed the folding jump seats in the Land Rover Discovery, a little piece of us all died. How many grew up facing the back of a Country Squire watching the world evaporate behind them at a Federally mandated double nickel? Oh sure, we're all technically "safer" without the jump seat, but are we happier? Probably not.

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Being Lost
Used to be if you wanted to get anywhere, you had a Rand McNally road atlas and your sense of direction. It required spatial awareness, planning, paying attention to the road signs and at times a little luck. Now Navigation systems are becoming standard equipment on even the most basic models. In a few years, it'll be hard to avoid finding a Navi in any decent used car you look at. Discounting preinstalled Nav, portable units are crossing the magical $100 barrier, making them accessible to the unwashed masses. There will always be hold-outs clinging to their old-timey maps, but your kids won't be among them.

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Cigarette Lighters
As goes the smoker, so goes the cigarette lighter. We're not fans of smoking in cars, it inevitably leads to burns in the upholstery, but having a readily available fire source in your car seems useful. If nothing else cigarette lighters provide hours of entertainment to danger loving pre-teen boys. And who will ever forget cleaning out the disgusting and too-small chewing gum repository they become for non-smoking families. On a wider note though, lighters, and they're counterparts ash trays, are some of the last remaining automotive artifacts left over from the greatest generation. When lighters disappear completely, something elegant and confident will die out too.

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Hanging Your Arm Out The Window
Possibly the most insidious on the list, it's one of the greatest pleasures in a car nut's life; To hang your arm out the window on a cool summer night, cruising down the main drag, your significant other at your side, a mellow tune belting out on the radio and from under the hood. There's no greater bliss for any automotive aficionado. Much like with window vents, this past time faces an end from the evils of air conditioning, but it also will die out as a result of government regulation in the form of ever-more-stringent side impact requirements forcing windows and beltlines higher and higher. As it stands there are few cars on the market today you can hang an arm out of without significant discomfort, and we'll be very sad when there are none. In fact, in our recent Muscle Car Wars showdown, the only member of the threesome we could comfortable accomplish this in was the Mustang. Camaro? Challenger? Fail.

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The Danger Of Death
To date, we've seen cars with two front air bags, knee bags, thorax bags, side curtain airbags, rear thorax bags and a center rear airbag. Cars have adaptive cruise control, can brake to a stop automatically, detect blind spot danger, protect pedestrians from a frontal impact, pretension your seat belt, brace your neck in a rear collision, and automatically apply brake force to avoid a rollover. At some point, barring egregious stupidity, cars will become essentially death proof. So much for fear as a motivator for responsibility.


This might have been posted before, just thought it was cool. From another website.

A few other things (although not exclusively car-related) that some kids won't experience:

1) Using a pay phone. Cell phones, text messages, etc...need I say more?

2) Experience "full service" at a gas station. My youngest daughter was amazed when I told her that people actually used to come out, pump your gas, clean your windshield, check your oil, etc.

3) Telling time on an old "conventional" clock. My wife teaches 3rd grade and she's had more than one student ask about the "funny looking clocks" in the classrooms.

collecting Social Security ( at 24, ill never see it )

Good stuff..brings back fond memories of a simpler time.The bells and whistles and technology today, allows inept drivers to garner up a license to drive.Whats not factored in..is the carnage they leave in their wake.
Have em parallel park a dually with a 4 spd.Have them brake and steer around a tire thrown in front of them without ever leaving their lane.Disable abs/tc and have them stop with a fire hose directed at the windshield.Better yet(been there)..have them deal with a blown open hood .I agree that todays vehicles are state of the art vs our classics.What i do not agree with is the dumbing down of society and the lack of personnel responsibility.
Imagine arguing in a court of law that your forward sensing cruise control failed to disengage when you rammed a slower moving vehicle in front of you.:sad:

Something else that kids will not experience is the drive in movie theater. Land prices are making them all disapear.

How about knock-off wheels?

Working on the RR tracks building track at 15 degrees below zero!

Working on the RR tracks installing ties at 105 degrees in the summer!

Then driving to where home is as fast as you could not get caught at after Friday, noon! Usually across states..

And repeating early Monday morning back to the tracks.

I bet the pups wouldn't stay two weeks.

pdq67

haha....I was talking to a college grad the other day at work and I mentioned a "beeper" and she said "what's that?"

I was like.....small thing before cell phones were popular about the size of a deck of cards........and she had no idea...HAHA

On a side note......my 2 year old daughter knows her way around my iPhone like she has owned it for 10 years!!:noway: Kids these days just aren't like the kids I grew up with!

How about the old stories of our parents walking 2 miles up hill to school in the pouring down rain or snow and back home 2 miles up hill in the pouring down rain or snow...

What about breathing all that second hand smoke...

What about breathing all that carbon banoxide....

What about those bad sunburns befor sunscreen was ever invented...

1. Car hops and car service
2. Pulling your buddie's coil wire at a party so his car won't start
3. Auto Shop (getting out of class so you can get the teacher's car running before 3PM)
4. Hitchhiking to the beach
5. Cruising Van Nuys Blvd.
6. Tuning up your girlfriend's car
7. Calling a girl on a phone for a date (landline and screwing up the courage to do so)
8. Being sent to the VP's office because your hair was too long
9. Shaving your head to play high school football
10. Parents not being able to get ahold of you once you left the house

Here are a few more:

Record Players and Records (33, 45, 78)

8 Track Tapes

Awesome Post.

Malted milk shakes
Inventory control with pencil & paper
Lead paint
Meetings face-to-face rather than through e-mail
Lack of Spell Check
Party phone lines
8-track tapes
4-track tapes
$5 lawn mowing jobs
Helping your neighbor(s) without asking.

1) Seeing Elvis Presley perform live in Vegas
2) Super Unleaded under a dollar …
3) Being at the top of the World Trade Center
4) Using a pager
5) Driving on the Fiorano test track
6) Awesome cruising on El Camino Real between Millbrae and San Carlos , California in the 70’s
7) Four regular TV channels and three UHF channels…44 , 20 and oh yes for you Bay Area people, The Perfect 36 J
8) Not being able to have your parents call or page you anytime they want to keep track of you !
9) Vacant lot Baseball
10) A real A&W


This video spells it out :)
YouTube - Everclear - AM Radio

Carbon Paper
Typewriters
TV's without a remote
TV's Black and White

Dial telephone's......

Phones cords that reached from the kitchen to the other side of the house......

Red and green tv lens to make your black and white tv look like a color tv......

Shoveling snow.......

Walking to school.........

Making thier own lunch for school..........

The smell of ink on the test that the teacher just memographed in the office that morning......

Opening less than five gifts at Christmas.......

Opening only one gift at a birthday.... still mad about the kite "Mom" and no string to boot...

Kids birthday party that is not at the latest fun spot.....

and the number one thing they will miss out on.....

Metal toys........

How about the old stories of our parents walking 2 miles up hill to school in the pouring down rain or snow and back home 2 miles up hill in the pouring down rain or snow...

What about breathing all that second hand smoke...

What about breathing all that carbon banoxide....

What about those bad sunburns befor sunscreen was ever invented...
This was usualy done in bare feet around my way....So they say...

How about playing safe outdoors, and going to bed with your doors unlocked?

Do you remember outside plumbing...I think the next on the list to go are newspapers,have you noticed how thin they are.The internet classifieds are killing them who wants to pay $30 dollars for a week to sell you car when Craigs list is free.

Walking home from school, throwing the books down, grabbing cookies and milk then heading out to play in the new apts being built, getting filthy crawling around the construction site (the best was when the apts were in the framing stage, you could go up to the third story and lean out between the studs), collection slugs when the electricians knocked them out of the boxes as they pulled conduit flex and then coming home when the street lights came on for dinner.

When the apts were finished, we would go back to riding our bikes until dark, exploring anything or anyplace we could.

And there was everyone's favorite pastime.........cherry bombs and M80's.

alan

alan

Mini bikes.And filling up my mini bike for 15 cents worth of gas
Paying 10 cents to get into the YMCA pool, or riding our bikes from East Las Vegas to the Landmark hotel and use that pool for free
Watching Evil Knievel wreck
Delivering the "Grit" on my bike

Not dialing an area code first unless long distance.

Rotary phone and miss dialing the last number :clonk:

Going to the Drug Store and sitting at the counter drinking an Egg Cream.
Milk Deliveries to the home.
Seltzer Deliveries to the home. Our delivery man even delivered the Chocolate U-Bet Syrup to make the egg creams.
Walking west down Pitkin Avenue and seeing the Twin Towers (World Trade Center) in the distance.
Living in a tight knit neighborhood where everybody cared and knew each other. I remember neighbors reminding me to be good or else they would call my parents.
Taking a grocery list to the Mom and Pop store around the corner to do some shopping for Mom starting when I was 5 years old.
In these times, we would never send our kids out by themselves for anything. I miss the old days.

What about reel to reel tape players?
Buying gas for under $.70 a gallon.
Getting a pack of reds for under a dollar.
Crusing,that disappeared around here in the late 80's.
Getting pulled over as a teen and have the cops take your beer and sending you home with just the loss of you beer as punishment.
Cassette tapes.

riding a three-wheeled atv and 2 stroke dirt bikes.

Dan E.
69 SS 396 4 spd. 4.11 posi. x66 coupe

Some of the things that went theough me head as I read the preceeding comments on the previous posts.

1. Real sodas (made with carbonated water/syrup)... not the pop(soda) float of today, that they call sodas.

2. The steering wheel knobs...some called them suicide knobs.

3. That unique smell of the pharmacy that is no more of today.

4. The chime of the bell going off as ya entered the service station, and station guy would check the oil/tires/batt and clean the windshield if you asked him.

5. The doctors who would come to your home if you were sick.

6. The "party line" wherein you often shared the line with several neighbours, and you could "rubber" in in the latest gossip.

7. Airline travel was really something, and they treated you like royalty... not like the bus service of today, eh?

9. When oil came in round tins, or the old stations in the small towns that still used glass oil containers with metal spouts on them.

10. When you would travel down the road, wave at people, and get a smile... not the one fingered salute that is so prevalent of today's traffic.

These events/things... the young won't experience today.


capt

The simple joy of getting on your bike with friends, riding all day to return just in time for dinner. Neither the child nor the parents ever worrying about someone snatching (or worse) those exploring their new found freedom.

The simple joy of getting on your bike with friends, riding all day to return just in time for dinner. Neither the child nor the parents ever worrying about someone snatching (or worse) those exploring their new found freedom.

"just in time for dinner" or how about being home before the street lights came on!

From the list, I have experienced these, but my kids won't.

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Crank Windows
Nearly everyone reading this post probably grew up with a car featuring crank windows. They're cheap, they're reliable, they're light weight and they make you exercise to get at that sweet, sweet fresh air. All reasons they're being naturally selected out of the automotive gene pool. It doesn't help that even on the most beautiful days, everyone stays bottled up with their air conditioning humming.

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Keys
The idea of a key to operate your car was first implemented by Cadillac, since their cars featured the Charles Kettering starter, making ignition so easy anyone could steal your car. As time progressed thieves upped the ante with master keys or bypassed the key entirely by hotwiring. Since computer technology and the commonization of keyless entry have advanced, the metal key finds itself succumbing to the digital one. These days its common to find cars with a short-range radio frequency transmitter in the key fob and a push-button starter. They still come with emergency metal keys, but its only a matter of time before those disappear.

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Vinyl Seats
If you're old enough, the searing pain of hot vinyl bench seats turning your thigh into a roast is one of your earliest car memories. You learned quick to sit on your shorts and ease down on the bench, otherwise those vinyl covers, hot as the surface of the sun which baked them, would inevitably bake stitch marks into you. Unsurprisingly, as material costs dropped and buyers decided not to maim their children, vinyl seat options are becoming scarce. Believe it or not, they can still be had on the ultra-base Toyota Prius.


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Being Lost
Used to be if you wanted to get anywhere, you had a Rand McNally road atlas and your sense of direction. It required spatial awareness, planning, paying attention to the road signs and at times a little luck. Now Navigation systems are becoming standard equipment on even the most basic models. In a few years, it'll be hard to avoid finding a Navi in any decent used car you look at. Discounting preinstalled Nav, portable units are crossing the magical $100 barrier, making them accessible to the unwashed masses. There will always be hold-outs clinging to their old-timey maps, but your kids won't be among them.

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Cigarette Lighters
As goes the smoker, so goes the cigarette lighter. We're not fans of smoking in cars, it inevitably leads to burns in the upholstery, but having a readily available fire source in your car seems useful. If nothing else cigarette lighters provide hours of entertainment to danger loving pre-teen boys. And who will ever forget cleaning out the disgusting and too-small chewing gum repository they become for non-smoking families. On a wider note though, lighters, and they're counterparts ash trays, are some of the last remaining automotive artifacts left over from the greatest generation. When lighters disappear completely, something elegant and confident will die out too.


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The Danger Of Death
To date, we've seen cars with two front air bags, knee bags, thorax bags, side curtain airbags, rear thorax bags and a center rear airbag. Cars have adaptive cruise control, can brake to a stop automatically, detect blind spot danger, protect pedestrians from a frontal impact, pretension your seat belt, brace your neck in a rear collision, and automatically apply brake force to avoid a rollover. At some point, barring egregious stupidity, cars will become essentially death proof. So much for fear as a motivator for responsibility.

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We have owned 1990 and 1993 Dodge Shadows, a 1989 Ford Taurus, A 1998 Dodge Stratus (my dad's first real new car. I've practiacally grown up in this thing), 2001 Chevy Cavalier Z24 with sunroof (got hit by a van, mom was told it was a loss. cars just can't take a hit like they used to), 2002 Corolla.

The last time I saw crank windows was when we owned the Shadows. Same goes for vinyl seats, wait no. Dad's Stratus' seats are part vinyl and my grand parents Town Cars are either leather or vinyl. We still have keys and maps.

Grabbing a piece of card board and sliding down the dry grass on the mountain hills...

Towing your car thats out of gas with rope or chains...

Friday & Saturday night cruises with the A & W hang outs...

Poor practices with Dentist drilling on your teeth without any pain meds...

Having your dad kicking the **** out of you...

Having your mom grab you by your ears in a grocery store...

What about the Schools sending you home with a permission slip so that the teachers can discipline you by spank you or smack your hand with a ruler.

trunks so big you could hide a body in there... and you wouldn't get caught. Now, they got all this fancey forensic stuff. Ahh, the good ole days!

dogs chasing kids on bicycles, using cigarette lighters to light firecrackers and toss them out the window, bench seats, cruising around chatting on the c.b. radio.

Getting 10 cents for allowance. Riding down to the 7 Eleven and buying loads of gum and licorice for that 10 cents.

I thought of another one; buying a running reliable car for under 200.00 dollars.

OK my news paper rout and on pay day for a tip getting a silver 50 cents piece or a silver dollar.

1. Fishing and Hunting:
No Licenses, No Limits.
Rabbit/Squirrel Hunting around the corner in strips of forest "In City Limits"
Robin Stew (migratory bird illegal to hunt now).
Catching King snakes, Turtles and trapping birds.

2. Making bombs with leftover fireworks.


3. Finding your dad/grandad's playboy "stash" the garage. Back then, porn was topless!
Now it's all "free" on the net :)


4. Driving Dad's beater work car to the corner store at 13, no license, to get him a pack of Marlboro's



If I were a kid today and doing what I did then, I'd probably be labeled a terrorist :)

Still 10x10x2 (Fingers, Toes and Eyes)

Rich

Rich, I've been to New Orleans and the surrounding areas about 10 times or so. (worked off-shore) I always felt like I belonged in that place for some reason. I tell people I'm lucky I didn't die of snake bite, drowning, or being accidently shot by one of my crazy hunting buddies. Heck, even at age 9 or 10 we'd be out with our 22 rifles shooting just about anything that moved.

I remember me and my older sister pedaling across Champaign/Urbana, IL to the "5-points" junction to buy the 1st Micky-D in town for 15 cents for a burger and 10 cents for fries!

I want to say '55, maybe '56 or so.

And I got a whole big 50 cent piece for a push mower lawn job back then on Sat. Morning.

I then could ride my bike to the Park Theater across from I think Robison's that afternoon and pay a quarter to see Gene Audry, Tonto and the Lone Ranger or the 3-M's, a news reel, a couple of GOOD cartoons and coming attractions, then buy enough popcorn, box candy, (JooJoos & Good-n-Plenty), and a small soda to get sick on w/ the other quarter!

pdq67

- Going to the theater for an actual movie, not a story about traveling pants or a soap opera blown out of proportion.

- Metal Hot Wheels cars

- Getting a whoopin' as a little kid and not having your parents arrested for "child abbuse"

- Politically incorrect movies or T.V. shows

- New cars that run on gas and have a sound to the engine.

- Going to the roller skating place for field trips.

- Video games with "boxy" graphics.

- A "G" movie that doesn't have foul language a little kid shouldn't hear and/or a "PG" movie that doesn't have adult content.

- And if the music business continues to run their course, not most, but ALL new music will suck eggs.

The cold war. Being told by a cop to pour your beer out and be careful when you drive home. Bottle rockets. Steel beverage cans that you had to open with a can opener.
Returnable soda bottles. Milk men. Fuller brush man.

Tripping out on LSD and having an out of body experience!... I've had an experience like this back in the early 80's!....Do they even still make acid?

A "Church Key"!!

He, He!!

pdq67

Riding motor cycles, bicycles and skate boards without helmets legally.

Rear Wheel Drive Cars

Landing on the moon in your shorts!:thumbsup:

Rear Wheel Drive Cars

Riding motor cycles, bicycles and skate boards without helmets legally.


Same here.

Getting pulled over as a teen and have the cops take your beer and sending you home with just the loss of you beer as punishment.


Yea I remember that :)

A little young to enjoy the 60's but got this

http://objflicks.com/TakeMeBackToTheSixties.htm

in an email today..not too bad.

Reminded me of TV dinners....in an Al tray..yum

Some things are best left unchanged. Some of us are smart enough to realize that no matter how persistent the marketing gets.


Having a beer with a good old boy. (My grandpas age...born in the 20's or so)
Procuring your first date with a muscle car and a phone call
Choosing to wear your seat belt
Hopefully mullets:D
A good county fair
Hunting and Fishing
I guess the finer things in life are going to be forgotton by the youngsters if they aren't raised right. I know I spend way to much time in front of this computer. It's only going to get worse with I phones and blackberrys. I'm glad to have been born when I was.

I got to drive a car with a push button transmission.:D

great thread, kinda makes you wonder what happened and whats to happen to our culture, pretty much all these are a thing of the past. which is sad. with me, all my cars that i own have crank windows(cobalt, camaro, and civic), on occasion, i still do goto drivein theaters(cant beat the price $10 a car load to see 2 movies), have never owned a cell phone, i-pod or a blackberry and dont plan on it. kids these days, just dont know how good they have it.

Think about what our Grandparents were saying. All of the stuff that we think is sad to go away. They thought the same.
Living in a house with no running water
Having to use an outhouse at home. Not out camping.
Riding a horse.
One room school house.

A couple of more.......Dual head lights......pull tabs......

Tripping out on LSD .Do they even still make acid?

Yes it is still around, the younger guys know where to find it.

Ducktails, saddle shoes, poodle skirts, sock hops, jeans with cuffs, pack of Pail Mail's rolled up in white t-shirt sleeve, manual wind watches, Grandmother's Sweet tea, cast iron skillets, bib overalls, public school dress code, 15 cts to 28 cts/gallon for gas, real high test gasoline (Sunoco 260), high compression engines, under the dash 45 RPM record player, new Burma Shave signs, how to save money, lawns mowed for a $1, regardless of size, manual rope starter for your B&S mower engine,

"Dogs and Sailors - Keep Off the Grass" signs in yards,

How about this one,

I remember my Dad changing a car tire with a "Tire Iron".


Now, that's a man's job. :0

Rich

Ducktails, saddle shoes, poodle skirts, sock hops, jeans with cuffs, pack of Pail Mail's rolled up in white t-shirt sleeve, manual wind watches, Grandmother's Sweet tea, cast iron skillets, bib overalls, public school dress code, 15 cts to 28 cts/gallon for gas, real high test gasoline (Sunoco 260), high compression engines, under the dash 45 RPM record player, new Burma Shave signs, how to save money, lawns mowed for a $1, regardless of size, manual rope starter for your B&S mower engine,

"Dogs and Sailors - Keep Off the Grass" signs in yards,


"under the dash 45 RPM record player,"

Did they really have under the dash 45 players? was that what prompted 8 tracks?

Hey nobody mentioned the little hand held am radio with a 9-volt battery..

Hey nobody mentioned the little hand held am radio with a 9-volt battery..

AM or FM for that matter:sad:

AM or FM for that matter:sad: Hey Stephen do you remember the earphone for 1-ear on those little hand held gadgets. No stereo or surround sound.

Can't believe the price of the little suckers (radios) today! Used to be over $20... but saw one in the dollar store for ...$1.25 Can.!

capt

Hey Stephen do you remember the earphone for 1-ear on those little hand held gadgets. No stereo or surround sound.

Once I got one of those cicuit board things from the 70s with one in it. You know what I'm talking about right? It came with all these wires, lights, stuff, not an Erector set. More like it's electronic cousin. I don't know what happened to it. I used to have a pair metal headphones as well.

Analog TV

Yes, the 45 RPM player went to 4-track tape players, then to 8-track tape players.
Hey nobody mentioned the little hand held am radio with a 9-volt battery..I have one in my glovebox to use for setting timing. Here I thought everybody had a roadside fix for timing.

Takes up less room than a timing light, easy to operate.

Pensions... Socicial security payments?

Driving by a high school and being able to distinguish the student parking lot from the Teachers parking lot.

-Regular cameras with film.

-The cameras that gave you the picture on paper, on the spot.

-Watching a Petty on the NASCAR circuit

Newspapers! I just thought of that yesterday.

Cars without key fobs, manual door locks, windows, and seats with no heaters.

Debbie went to estimate a wrecked Nissan Altima this AM. Met with a 20-something female receptionist. Recep said owner drop off the keys. So here's Debbie & Recep standing next to the car and Recep has been repeatedly hitting the key fob to open the car door and to no avail, the door does not unlock. Recep suggests the car will have to go to Service lane for repair.

Debbie asks the Recep, "Did you put the key into the little hole on the door and see if it would unlock?"
"Why no I didn't," says the Recep. She did try the manual door lock and WA-LA! The lock unlocks...........I died laughing......

How about
* erector sets
* lincoln logs
* monopoly with the wooden hotels & houses
* building card houses
* playing tackle football with sidewalk on one side, street on the other
* trick or treating at night on Halloween
* no Chistmas decorations until AFTER Thankgiving
* having your car break down at 11:30 pm, knocking on a door and asking to use the phone and offered a beer until help came

CJ

Grabbing a piece of card board and sliding down the dry grass on the mountain hills...
YES, cardboard sliding!
Playing with metal toy cars, riding a Tonka Dump Truck down the hill.
Taking off in the morning and coming home for dinner and no one worried about it.
Building a "coaster" out of scrap lumber, lawnmower wheels and shopping cart wheels.
Getting busted for drinking, smoking or racing and the cop just sends you off with a warning.
Crusing the El Camino Real in San Mateo.
Having cars that you could actually wrench on with buddys.
Playing out side at night without fear of being stolen

Bill

Halloween.
Being able to go all through your neighborhood with your buddies and then go through the next neighborhood or two all by yourselves until you can't carry all the good candy you got anymore. (lots!)--- Or it was getting real late.


Pinball machines.
Video games costing 25 cents.