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arion:
When I was a kid:

 We used to go over to my Grandparent's house when there was a good movie or tv show on tv because they had a large color television.

 VCR's and microwave ovens weren't available for consumers yet.

 Cable tv came to our neighborhood and there weren't any commercials.

 There was no such thing as a remote control for the tv. I was the remote control. "Son, go change the channel on the tv."

 Toothpaste came in tubes made of lead and there was no warning label on it. Now, toothpaste comes in a plastic tube and it has a warning label on it.

 People didn't wear seat belts. Only race car drivers wore seatbelts.

 The phone company owned your phone. You only rented it from them.

 I didn't need a social security number. The only reason you needed a social security number back then was for starting a job.

 At the movie theater, they would show cartoons before the main feature. Now they show advertisements.

 The servicemen at the gas station pumped your gas for you. They also washed your windshield. This was included in the price of gas, which may have ranged from 30 to 75 cents a gallon.

 Dimes, quarters, and half dollars were made of silver.

 People didn't have credit cards. If you didn't have money for something, you couldn't buy it.

 If you were at a picnic and ate lunch, you had to wait an hour before you went swimming.

 When I was a teenager, I got a job as a dishwasher at a restaurant for less than minimum wage, which was $2.90 per hour in that year.

Dave in Tenn:
and those were the 'good old days'?

lderr:
When I was a kid in the "good old days":

People had Polio.

A cancer diagnosis was a death sentence.

People didn't have seat belts, but ran into things anyway. They were usually stopped by the steering wheel in their chest. Or the windshield.

Talking to my dad overseas on the telephone was an expensive proposition that took half an hour to arrange.

Television had three channels.

A three day weather forecast was pure imagination.

I was twenty years away from buying my first motorcycle.

I was being raised Roman Catholic.

Stacey:
When I was a kid,

I got a lot of whippings!

Should I stop there? Nah, there's no fun in that,

Playing barber shop with my sister earned me a whipping but it cost her a lot of hair!

Playing shoot the empty milk jug with my Daisy BB gun earned me a whipping but I got to shoot one of my sisters in the butt cause she didn't get out of my line of fire between me and the jug, I warned her, she didn't listen! Was it worth it, nah, actually, I got two whippins for that. One from my grand-maw cause she was keeping us young-ins at the time and she destroyed my Daisy beating it to pieces on the corner of our brick house and then another whipping when momma got home.

When Hurricane Fredric came through our town he took down about 45 pine trees in my momma's front and back yard and a whole bunch more all around our little neighborhood. A pine cone and especially the greens ones make for good war game bullets throwing'em at who ever wanted to play war or who ever didn't but could be provoked into a one! Yep, I got more than a few whippings for pine cone wars.

As I got a little older us neighborhood boys and girls found new war game bullets. Black Cat Bottle rockets and we had a Firework Stand just up the road!

My Daddy bought me a Go Kart one Christmas. That was the coolest thing ever to me until...... I figured out how to make it go faster by tying a string on the throttle and as I was driving with one hand I'd pull that string with the other and presto, instant super speed! I had to go show my girl who later became my wife, just how fast it was. We were flying for a short while until it blew up

My Grandma's said on more than one occasion, that I had a lot of ebow in me, don't know where she got that idea from but since I know there is no hell now, when we all reach gory, I'm gonna see her and remind her she still owes me a Daisy BB gun!  ;D

Kat:

I remember when you pick up the phone and you heard the operator say, "Number please?" But that was before we got a house phone. Our first phone only had 4 digit numbers and we were on a 'party line' with several families were on the same line. Each had there on ring to know who the call was for, I think ours was 2 long and 1 short ring.

We had vinyl records and we could buy single 45's. Since they had a large hole in them you had to put a little yellow plastic thing in the center to put it on the record player. Then there was 8 tracks tape players, those tapes were about 6 times bigger than a cassette.

There wasn't carseats for babies when I was born, but I can remember my parents getting one for my little sister. It had 2 arms that hooked over the front seat.

Cartoons were only on TV on Saturday morning. I remember watching The Jetsons, The Huckleberry Hound Show, Rocky and Bullwinkle Show, Mighty Mouse and Space Ghost.
 
Some of the TV shows I watched were Gilligan's Island, The Flying Nun, Lost in Space, My Three Sons, The Beverly Hillbillies. We watched a lot of westerns too, that my Dad liked to watch.

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