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[Melonious Thunk]

Cars when the windshield cranked open, the roof had a canvas insert to save metal and there were no directional signals. The only transmission was stick, and it was literally a four foot long shaft protruding up from the floor by the driver's right hand.

[cristina]

Big John and Sparky...

Foot X-Ray machines in kids' shoe stores...

Getting dressed up to go downtown...

The Big Show on the radio, with Tallulah Bankhead...

[voyager]

But you're far too young to remember another copier, the hectograph.

OMG, the hectograph! You could look down into the jello and read previous documents!

[Maurice Naughton]

But you're far too young to remember another copier, the hectograph.

OMG, the hectograph! You could look down into the jello and read previous documents!

Oh my God yourself! Your're old!

[voyager]

But you're far too young to remember another copier, the hectograph.

OMG, the hectograph! You could look down into the jello and read previous documents!

Oh my God yourself! Your're old!

You noticed.

[rancho_gordo]

Tranactional Analysis?

[Steve R.]

I just got to this thread and realized it isn't what I thought. I figured it was a poll on the question "do you remember?" and I was going to just answer "no". "Every day's a new day" (now, try to get that song out of your head ).

[SLBunge]

I remember in 1975(ish) when my Grandmother showed up one Christmas with a sort of skinny box of yellow plastic with a few toggle switches, a couple of dials on it, and some wires sticking out of it. After Dad made a big production out of reading the instructions we three kids played our first matches of ...

PONG!

[Wilfrid1]

When television was in black and white and there were only two channels which only broadcast in the evening?

And then during the miners' strike there was not television at all, and you had to play board games by candlelight?

And there were only three radio channels (you were supposed to know about anyway), called L, H and T on the dial of my television set (because the radio was in the television set)?

Jack DeManio getting the time wrong every morning?

Chipolatas for breakfast?

The first Action Man?

Also, could I recommend I Remember by Joe Brainard?

[Squeat Mungry]

Milk, butter and orange juice delivered to a metal box on the front porch.

Mailing a letter required a five-cent stamp, a postcard was four cents.

[omnivorette]

Mr. Lombardi, who came around in his truck twice a week, selling fruit and vegetables.

[JPW]

What was the 21st night of September?

When love was changing the minds of pretenders while chasing the clouds away.

[omnivorette]

When air travel was special, and fun, and one dressed for it?

[Maurice Naughton]

That new stuff called margarine, dead white in a plastic bag. Little capsules of yellow food coloring somewhere inside. You had to pop the capsule and knead the bag a while to make the stuff a consistant butter yellow. That job was for kids.

[ngatti]

Sliderules.