Loved my Saturday morning cartoons. Leave afterwards to go anywhere I wanted, just needed to be back when street lights came on for dinner. Great time to be a kid
I remember the book of Thomas Maps we had as late as the 1980s and early 90s. I worked temporarily as a delivery driver for a florist, and those maps came in very handy as I had to locate residences for delivering flowers. They were a godsend, as I was able to find addresses that I had never been to, before. Would have been lost without those printed maps.The booklet was easy to use, with various sections of the cities and towns on different pages, and a nice key for quickly finding the pages I needed. GPS is unreliable, and can be misleading. Wish we still had the printed maps, today. Not everyone has GPS in their vehicles.
I delivered fresh roasted coffee to fine dining restaurants in the Seattle area in the early 80s. I was new to the city and the Thomas Guide was crucial.
Oh, so much freedom and for a kid like me who grew up in the 70's it was a good time to be a kid and then an teen. And yes I remember the station wagon we had one. I grew up in Yorba Linda and I do remember the smog. I love the 70's.
RE: STATION WAGONS: I had a 2005 Mercury Sable station wagon. I bought it used. It was fully equipped and had a full "leather" interior.....and get this,,,,,,,,it had a CD player and a cassette deck factory installed. It was incredibly comfortable unlike the so called "sport tuned suspensions" of today that are like sitting on a felt covered block of cement.
I remember a party line, I had to wait if one of neighbors was on the line. I also remember when I only needed 4 digits to call. Then the added three more, now I have to use the area code as well. Progress?
Oh, Boy! My first plane flight was in 1962, when I was just 12. We could walk right out onto the tarmack and into the plane. My only worry was that they might lose our luggage. I had heard horror stories about lost bags by airlines. But they didn't lose ours, and the flight went smoothly. Try that, TODAY! Flying isn't fun, anymore!
I also remember a wooden phone on the wall. You had to turn a crank to make a call. The crank turned a small generator in the phone. I was very young a that time.
I agree with the request for a time machine!! What a great time to be alive!! As a kid I actually felt more freedom than I do now as an adult!! God forbid you don't answer your phone 🤳 , people freak out 👿 and get an attitude!!
Do not forget CB radios every one had one it seemed and those Walkie Talkie’s you showed used the CB channels. Mostly 14 I still have a 23 channel radio shack one that was as big as a old WW 2 military hand held . It’s got to be 40 years old and still works fine with a 5 watt output.
Smoking killed both of my parents. I would have to put up with that crap and didn't respect adults much for it. Yes, our family physician's office had ashtrays in the waiting room even though neither he nor the office staff smoked. One thing I learned is how to identify cancer in a person's lung and how long they have to live.
My Dad smoked 2 packs a day(only in our basement) and the walls were yellow and brown on white walls, NASTY. He quit though on 1991 and is still alive in his mid 70's now
@@StephenHuntsI was born in ‘65 so I too grew up in the ‘70’s and ‘80’s. My parents were both heavy smokers and we lived in a two bedroom apartment, so you can just imagine the smoke buildup; it was nasty. They both died rather young too-not necessarily from smoke related illness, but I think it contributed alot to it.
@purrfect0613 my condolences 🙏. My father's doctor told him in a random X-ray checkup and asked him if he smoked heavily. Doctors know of course (looks like a little over 2 packs a day.) Shaken, my Dad admitted and was told "if you don't quit cigarettes within 5 years, they'll quit you". This, after my Dad's doctor asking him if he has any children (he showed his Dr a picture of my sister and I) and promptly said, (I was 12 and my sister 9 at the time). His doctor said I'd you don't quit, there's a strong chance you won't be around to see your children graduate high school. With that, my Dad came home that night, smoked considerably less each day until in 1991 (at my age now - 46 y/o quit smoking for good. ) I (like my Dad also had an outside job, and smoked up until my wife became pregnant with our son *that was it for me*! It was tough (as any ex-smoker knows), but with the Nicroderm Patch, it took me about 3 weeks and August 8th it will be 9 years smoke free. God, I wish I had the $$$ back I WASTED on cigarettes 🚬. But LIVE AND LEARN!!!
I do have to agree with you, there. That's the only way one can know in advance of answering who the caller is. We get so many scam and junk calls, it's nice to not be disturbed, and caller ID allows us to screen. But, caller ID can fool you. It can look like a familiar party, prompting you to answer it, only to find it's not who you thought it was, at all. Robo calls are particularly annoying. We tell everyone we know or might be doing business with in the future to CLEARLY identify themselves when they call or leave a message on our answering machine. If we're in doubt, we don't pick up or call back.
We could trust people with your kids back then.. Like you could go over to one of your friends house just to see if they were home. And if you were one of the kids that your friends Mom and Dad really like , you might end up hanging out with that family all weekend.. And your Folks didn't have to worry about anything. I was 11 and went over to see one of my best friends before he left the next day going on family vacation.. And next thing I know I was leaving Indiana on the way to Daytona Beach for the next 6 days. 👍 Today , I wouldn't let my kids leave our County surrounded by State Troopers.
I still prefer to order things out a printed catalog, over the phone or mail in the order form. Neither hubby nor I buy things online. Sorry, Amazon -- we just aren't comfortable shopping on the internet. We might research certain products we're interested in, but if we decide to buy, that company had better have a telephone number. We know they input our credit card numbers on THEIR computers, and we can't do anything about that. But we can control what we do on our home computer, and we limit our activities there.
