And before Google maps, waze alexia , my mom used the phone book because it had the streets of our town in the back to find where my friends lived if I didn't know 😂
Does anyone remember the paddle? It was an instrument the teachers used to keep us in line. They kept one in their desk drawer or hung one up on the wall for all of us to see. The paddle helped us to keep quiet in school and encouraged us to complete all of our homework before returning to school the next day. And it helped us to have respect for the teachers too.
We are living in the Last Days. Lawlessness prevails. I have good friends who are teachers today. They all say they cannot wait to retire in a couple years. The kids can hit them and spit on them. If the teacher repremands them, they get written-up or fired.
@@joesheppard1367Yes, among other paddlings I got, my 7th grade music teacher gave me 3 swats in the hallway because she told me 3 times to stop making noise in class. Needless to say, I kept quiet for the rest of the school year.
I remember when babysitting and watching tv at 10 pm the station would have a public service announcement… “It’s 10 o’clock, do you know where your kids are at?”
Yep, in the 70's it was Saturday morning cartoons. We were sent to church on Sunday mornings and told we would be quizzed on the topics of discussion that day... so we picked up the leaflet at church and left for the dirt lot to play, and quickly skimmed through it to be ready for the quiz later, then tossed it and had fun at the park! 😁
Love this! Thank you for creating it. Two very minor things that I’d correct: 1. Poor TV reception did not produce pixelation prior to digital TV. You got snow, ghosts, horizontal rolling,, wavy lines etc., but not pixelation. 2. Cartoons where I grew up were on SATURDAY mornings Not on Sundays.
Two excellent points. Snow was the enemy of reception. And Saturday morning cartoons kicked Sunday morning cartoons' BUTT!! In fact, Wikipedia has an article for "Saturday Morning Cartoons", not Sunday morning. It talks about how Sunday morning cartoons were much less popular and had inferior programming than Saturday morning cartoons.
@@davidestrich7055 I agree with you but he never mentioned "The Sabbath", only that Sunday mornings were held sacred by many families, which they were. The debate over which day is the biblical Sabbath is a valid one but is completely off topic and not really appropriate here.
My grandmother - (God rest her soul) was a woman of the depression era she washed tinfoil, saved bread bags and tabs, made menstrual products out of old rags (can you imagine?) and in her efforts to save EVERYTHING was the last person in BC to have a phone on a party line! She also collected cans and went to Hawaii on the proceeds. She survived the “Dirty Thirties” in Canada on the prairies and when my grandfather went to war - she drove a milk truck and worked in a munitions factory!
@@elmersmammalove8577oh yea, the Milkman. Anyone else remember the joking around when it was said that they didn’t think you looked like either parent and you could embarrass your Mom by bringing up the idea of the Milkman?
This and other RU-vid nostalgia videos all seem to have one underlying theme: the old days were special. I'm dang near 70 so most all the things in this video I remember fondly. Cartoons that were mostly on Saturday mornings, no 24 hour TV, spending hours creating a mix tape, going to the library to access the encyclopedia, dime stores. Compared to today's instant access and 24 hour availability makes me realize that if you have a good thing all the time, it's no longer special.
Wow! Great one to remember!! I can still smell the paper cards using the Dewey decimal system. Once you found the book(s) you 📚 wanted,you'd go to the desk for the librarian to pull the card from the inside cover and stamp the due date on it with the metal/rubber stamper!! Feels like yesterday!!😊@@brianarbenz1329
Yeah, they're probably baffled that you don't carry that flat thing in your hand and constantly have your finger sweeping across the front of it. You know, I was sort of glad when, a couple of days ago, the grid went down for awhile and nobody's "smart" phone would work.The land lines, few though they still are, worked just fine.I grinned, because we still have land lines.
I spent eight years in a Catholic elementary school. Plenty of praying there, plus crossing over to the Cathedral for First Fridays and Ash Wednesday ashes.
I had a Catholic School education from 1st to 11th grade, but in the 1960-61 and 1972-73 school years I attended Kindergarten and 12th Grade in a public school district in suburban NY. in the 1960-1961 school year We said the Pledge of Allegiance, then the following prayer: Almighty God, we acknowledge our dependence on Thee. And we beg Thy blessings on us, our parents, our teachers and our country. If my memory serves me correctly, this all stopped around 1963 when a nationally known atheist, Madeline Murry O'Hare filed suits that led to a Supreme Court decision that banned prayer in public school. Of course, in Catholic School, we prayed several times a day. In 12th grade, we still said the Pledge, but instead of prayer, there was about 10 seconds of silence. There was an opening and closing "benediction" by a Jewish Rabbi and Catholic Priest at our public school commencement exercises in 1973, the year that I graduated, but not when my children graduated in 2000 and 2001. Fast forward, none of this happens, now and school districts will not host bible study clubs, will fire coaches that take a knee (unless during the National Anthem), etc., but WILL allow Satanist clubs and will send your kids for abortions and gender identity counseling without your permission or knowledge! Much of this came from appointed (as opposed to elected) officials, the PTA (which actually advocated for school-based birth control clinics) and, of course, the major teachers' unions, all of which have committees forcing these ideas.
Me too. My dad worked a second job at one. Funny thing. I can see the back of that screen from my yard and it's still operating . I love stepping out and hearing the movie on the speakers
I got a couple to add. Using a map to find your way somewhere. A sliding credit card machine. Recording and watching 8mm home movies. Car radio with the mechanical preset buttons; you pulled out and pushed them back in to set the station. Most people only had single speed bikes. Black and white tv's and they only had 13 channels. You were luck if you could pick up 4 stations. Wringer washing machines and hanging the laundry out to dry. Oil can and spout. And finally, the smell of leaded gasoline.
Oh! I forgot that about leaded gas. I saved a manual credit card thing and a pong game you hooked to the TV that were being thrown out in case a museum wanted them some day.
we left early sat morns (early-mid 50s) on our Schwinn bikes with wide, white sidewalls and didn't come home til supper time. Sometimes no dime or quarter...for sure NO lunch backpack or water bottles....when we got thirsty we stopped at the full service gas stations and drank water out of the black hose used to fill the radiators with water, next to the air and gas pumps. I can still remember the smell from the black rubber hoses. No one ever asked us where we had been or worried we were "lost." We rode our bikes and easily turned corners "Look ma NO hands." LOL albuq. nm
@@liciewhiteley7376This guy doing this video is an idiot. Records crackle and pop, that's trashed records, drive ins there's over 300 still open. I think these people live in a cave that make these videos
Kids could ACTUALLY walk to school by themselves, without anybody bothering them! I even remember hitchhiking with my friends in my pre-teen years with nothing bad happening!
now days play grounds are boring plastic low to the ground stuff we had those all steel tall swing sets and monkey bars and a merry go round we used to spin so fast see who could hang on ! and it was concrete under them !!
Just a note...that wasn't safe. In 1974 I was 9 and my mom sent me with my 3 yr old brother to the public park a block from our house because she just had a baby and wanted to nap. I was taken Into the boys bathroom and sexually assaulted by 3 teenage boys. I told no one until I was in highschool and my.mom was letting my sisters go the the locawasn't. Alone (different park) it seemed life was safer. But it really wasnt.
and parents/adults didn't fight in such places. One didn't see people acting up in public, nor was their foul language in public. People reserved their bad behavior for private places, where their indignities could be hidden from public view.
Still remember when I would go on the roof and move the tv antenna around. My dad would yell through the heater vent up to me on the roof, "Stop right there!! No!! Move it back!!!" LOL
Yeah, we lived dangerously back then, didn't we? Oh well, I used to ride my bike and take public buses everywhere up until I was in my late teens. Most young people today don't trust public transportation.
We had 3 antennas on a tall mast made from pipe it was like 40 feet tall had TV transmitters from different directions they all had to be set correctly we got like 10 channels and that was something back in the 60s !
Yes I remember that too. It is crazy that people had to do that for the TV. My dad used to help a friend of his who had a TV shop and my dad would sometimes have to repair the TV replacing tubes in back of it.
My dad used a light bar to film holidays that were as bright as aircraft landing lights! 😵💫. You opened presents by feel since you were blinded by the lights! 🤪
Remembering us neighbor hood kids playing games in the yard. Hide and go Seek, Red Rover Red Rover, Freeze Tag. We played a game called Snake In The Gully . You had to have a side walk to play on. We would play till our Moms! and Dads! would call us in. Those were the DAYS!😊🤗🤗❤❤
For boomers and senior citizens, the current market and economy are unnecessarily harder. I'm used to simply purchasing and holding assets, which doesn't seem applicable to the current volatile market, and inflation is catching up with my portfolio. My biggest concern is whether I'll survive after retirement.
Yes, gold is a great investment and a good bet against the devaluating dollar, been holding some for awhile now, I’m grateful my adviser’s moment by moment changes in the market are lightening quick, cos who know how much losses I would’ve had by now.
I remember elevator operators; well into the 1960's there were elevators that were operated by a person who's sole job was to make the elevator go up and down and stop at the proper floors, sometimes engaging in conversations with the passengers. As a kid, I wanted to grow up and be an elevator operator; but, alas, elevators are now fully automatic.
No doubt about it. We were the Rock N Roll generation, I'll never forget the evolution of rock music in the 70s. The music, the bands, and the concerts, that was quite a time and I'm glad I was privileged to live it.
And it is the baby boomers that cause todays problems. Campaign financing and trickle down economics started circa 1980. America has been degrading since.
My friend lives in the house he grew up in and still has active land line and rotary phone. I still remember the phone number from almost 50 years ago. I'm gonna call it just for kicks to see if he'll answer it😁
I tried calling my friend's land line rotary phone. I just got a busy signal and hang up. He probably got it disconnected recently because he said he was being charged ridiculous money to keep it active. It was functional for many years until recently.
Great nostalgia for a 63 years old fart like me! Loved the memories. But, you left out 8-track tapes, portable CB radios in cars, Lava lamps, "leisure suits", metal bumpers on cars, wide whitewall tires, and fins! There were few to none cartoons on Sunday here in Dallas. But Saturdays they were on every major TV network until 12 noon. Also only one frequency band on radios - AM - until about 1965.
@@karenwells5957Yes only he tells bs about records that they pop and crackle and only hipsters collect them more less. My records all clean only pop when the needle comes down. An occasional crackle not many because people that value their vinyl take care of them. Drive-ins there's over 300 still open he's crazy. Arcades we're at their peak in the early-mid 80s not 70s I'm 58 I hung out in them with my friends
I remember when I was raising my kids and the VCR was still new and unaffordable for us. About 3 times a year, we would rent a VCR and movies. You could get five movies for five days for $5. It was a thrill for all of us.
Yes! Woolworths also made real malts and bacon, lettuce ,and tomato sandwiches! In Minneapolis they also had snow cones. You could go thru two on a hot summer day of hitting the three dime stores and Daytons basement!( Bargains on great stuff....)
My lead crystal lamp I got from Green stamps never stopped working from the 1960's until the late 2000's. My kids convinced me it wasn't safe anymore. I loved it so much.
Encyclopedia Britannica and National Geographic were mainstays in our home before TV became widespread. I credit those two as nurturing my interest in the sciences.
Some things have improved. Less auto pollution. Lead free gasoline. The invention of point of sale transaction machines that allows you to use a debit card, instead of cash.
A lot of this is past baby boomers, I’m gen x and I used most of these things. I remember black and white tv with only 3 channels. Record players came in a box like a little suitcase. Polaroid cameras, all of this was my childhood. Fun times 😊
I was lucky. I lived in an area that provided 5 TV stations. ABC, CBS, NBC, and PBS. We also had 1 station that wasn’t associated with a national network. They showed movies, syndicated shows, kid shows, etc. It is still broadcasting today, but is affiliated with the fox network. I haven’t watched it in years.
In the Twin Cities, as late as 1965, there was ONLY one UHF channel. It was 17, an "educational" channel that carried programs originated by the University of Minnesota. It was on for TWELVE hours a day!
Remember red wax lips you could chew and black wax mustaches you could chew around Halloween. Remember turquoise tuttifruity popscopiles that would taint your tongues blue. You can still them in tubes.
Most baby boomers weren't watching Scoobie Doo....thats 1980s junk. We watched Mighty Mouse, Popeye, Top Cat, Heckle and Jeckle, Casper, Pixie and Dixie, Quickdraw McGraw, the Jetson etc. And the most cartoons came on Saturday Mornings, not Sunday.
@@brianarbenz1329 yea, basically carried that that over but now the 10 minutes has expanded to 30 or more minutes. I think that the news folks just live to hear themselves talk 🤪
I miss Woolworth. The delicious food at the lunch counter; the fun of going to the toy department for Colorforms, pin wheels, jacks, or paper dolls; and visiting the pet department. It was special!
Great memories! And I remember using White Out, a powdery white correction tape, and “liquid paper” liquid to wipe out poorly spelled words, only to carefully type over the whited out areas with the correct spelling.
Liquid Paper - which was invented by Michael Nesmith (of the Monkees) mother. I never seemed to have White-out. I always used Scotch tape. Lifted the mistake right off the page.
I loved the sign-off where the pilot in the fighter jet was soaring while the poem High Flight played over it. It still gives me chills to this day. It’s available to watch on RU-vid and if you’ve never seen it, it’s truly inspiring.
I remember dialing a specific phone number on my regulation tabletop or desk phone in order to get the Time and Temperature- The temperature is 58 degrees. At the tone, the time will be 1:14 p.m.
I was a bellhop at a place called Lujans.And we had a convertible . SO one night we went to the the Drive In,with the speaker hanging on the window.My son who was just 2 ,yells into the speaker,he wanted some food.He wanted a hangabuugler with Ketchit and mangonase.And nobody answered, he was mad.After the third time everyone was dying laughing, he did not think it was funny.Finally we took him into the stand for food.Hes 62 now and it's still funny.
OMG!!!! I remember literally ALL of these! At the site of the S&H Greenstamps I instantly remember the taste of the glue when we had to lick the back to stick them in the books! Where did the time go??? I still have a real, old, rotary dial phone I use as it reminds me of the times my husband & I would talk for hours when we were kids and the cost of " Long Distance Calls" and paying per minute to talk! Our parents would get furious at the phone bills!!
I remember waiting for my family's television to "warm up" after turning it on. The sound came on after about 20 seconds, then the picture appeared after about a minute. Our table radios required time to warm up, too. Transistor radios came along in the 1950s and were "instant-on" but they were much more expensive than tube/valve radios. All-transistor televisions (except for the picture tube) didn't become common until the 1970s. In the 1960s and 70s, many transistorized items had the words "Solid State" on their panels.
You forgot the venerable Pinball Machine and the crude early skateboards (plywood plank with wheels from old roller skates). We had a very steep long hill that was a great skateboarding run. It is a wonder we survived.
Yes! My brother and I have scars from many homemade skateboard mishaps. Fond memories of spending summers at the shore roaming the boardwalk, checking the coin slots on the pinball machines for dimes to play pinball. Life was much simpler then. 😊
A blast from the past!! Loved every moment watching this!! Memories of childhood and bike rides with friends. Adventures where you were safe and used your imagination!! Enjoyed watching this ❤
@@doltonmurray1625 Are you sure you're not thinking of pudding with the skin on top? I liked pudding but didn't like Jello even though my mom would put bananas or cherries in it sometimes.
@@mickangio16 Nope.If you don't get the hot and cold mixture right, the jellow will form a slimmy skin on top. my mother was notorious for it! Hence the reason I still do not eat jello to this day!
Yes!! I’m 74 and miss the mood of those early years. Love my iPad and iPhone …. But “instant” food, and information. Yes, if your family had a Britannia Encyclopedia was a status marker! TVs were in black and white. I watched the first color tv show… the show was Disney, first into was breathless! The fireworks were in color filling your screen.
Yep but, the T.V. Dinner or those pouches of Chicken a la king you boiled and poured over a slice of real Bread. Let's be honest, Government Cheese made the Best Broiled Cheese Sandwiches. Peanut Butter and Banana Sandwiches. Peanut Butter and Syrup. Buttermilk and Hot Cornbread. Um Hungry Now!
Born in 1952, and I certainly do remembet all this. Lots of fond memories of it now, though some of it seemed quite ordinary back then. Maybe because that was just how things were. Nostalgia often adds a certain "glow" to thongs from our pasts, though not everything.
Ya, I heard about ham radio operators and how they came to the rescue of the people who were in the Sylmar earthquake in 1971. I'm sure that your dad was one of them. Love from Marysville, California
Yes, drive-in theaters did make for many unforgettable dates. It also made quite a few unwanted pregnancies. Since my great uncle owned the drug store where the only soda fountain in town existed, I usually made my own milkshakes and other drinks for me and my friends. Since our football coach told us carbonated drinks were bad for us, I made my soda drinks uncarbonated (flat). I developed a taste for them and to this day, an ice cold flat Pepsi is my preferred soda. I just shake the bottle until it stops fizzing. Our T.V. antenna was right outside the window and there was a pipe wrench on the window sill in order to turn it with. The video left out the most interesting part of the dial phone. In many small towns, you would find yourself on a "party line". Often you would pick up the phone to make a call, but another member on the party line would be chatting away. And before the rotary phones, you picked up the receiver and an operator would greet you with "Number please." I still have my dads typewriter from the 40's. In my younger days, the kids of the house was the remote control. The first time I ever heard of a VCR was in the early 70's and a co-worker bought one for $999. I'll quit now. :o)
Does anyone remember 800 number customer service lines for airlines and other businesses which were answered quickly by a real person in your own country who helped you sort out your issues quickly without stress. Miss that. Oh and TV channels without endless reruns.
I remember that. I use to be an 800 answering service operator in the late 70s and early 80s. We would use a dumb computer terminal hooked up to a main frame computer to send our orders to. I would also take credit cards for orders, and once in a blue moon, someone would call in, thinking they could pull a fast one, and give me a made up credit card number, trying to get a free purchase. The computer would automatically reject the number, and I would tell the caller, that's an invalid number. They would make up some excuse, or just immediately hang up, 😅.
Schwinn was the stingray others had all kinds on names I had one that was hand built from my old bicycle A fried of my fathers had a motorcycle shop he welded up a chopper for me did nice metal flake paint and sent out the forks and sissybar along with the rear fender to be chromed he cut down a set of ape hangers for the handlebars and chromed them too .
I am 70 years old and I remember every single one of these things. I am surprised you didn’t spend more time talking about reel-to-reel tape recorders as a blind person, I got my college textbooks mailed to me from Recordings for the Blind. They were a separate organization from the National Library Service for the Blind and they specialized in recording textbooks for students. I also had my massive music collection and saved literature on 7 inch 4-track reels. I miss dialing 1411 to get information and asking the operator to give me a phone number for someone I wanted to call. The service used to be free and then they started charging for every single request which was hard on blind and vision impaired people. I can’t stand yelp and it seems to be more difficult to get a phone number these days than it used to be. I really enjoyed this video. If you ask me, there should still be a sign off on television and I enjoyed the pattern music in the morning. I never got to hear it at night. In the morning, the television would first play the pattern music and on many mornings, they would play the poem High Flight.
@@graysonwagner1855I always thought “ Pete and Gladys” was the first TV program to show a man and a woman share the same bed. It shocked me when I was a little kid. In the 1960s, the Sunday comic strip, “ Blondie” always ALWAYS showed Blondie and Dagwood in separate beds, I was much more comfortable with that. 😊
Had to laugh at the phone operator section. Many, many moons ago my wife moved down from Yankee land to the wilds of New Mexico. We met, 'got married in a fever' after one date (drinking heavily at the Half Way Bar!) and set up shop. Both of us worked for a major oil company. She kept trying to call home using One-Plus dialling and couldn't get through. I asked her what the long distance operator was doing wrong. "Long distance operator?" She had no idea that we were decades behind the rest of the country and still had to have a Southern Belle connect us to the outside world! Forty-some odd years later, we STILL laugh at that one. And, yes, we only had one date before seeing the judge in Lovington, NM. He took a break from a murder trial to perform the ceremony. We only brought one witness, needed two, so the judge grabbed the sworn witness to the murder to be our second.
Many areas did not have dial service at all. Even the local calls required operators to connect. Lift the handset of your phone and you would hear "Number Please" after which you would tell the operator the number you wanted to call.
Wow, and I thought my marriage happend quick. My late husband proposed to me 4 months after we met. We got married quick and had a wonderful marriage for 25 yrs..
@@rebeccaswift7588 I met my husband knew him for two weeks, then stayed married for 25 years. My mom knew my Dad for a month and a half and was married for 55 years.
Personals in newspapers, good way of finding new friends. Back when most houses had just ONE car - for the whole family - today EVERYONE has their own car, or truck. When a family shared one telephone. When toys required imagination. In hardware stores and grocery store - the display of tubes ( for radios and TV) with tube tester. Bank when getting an ice cream cone at the ice cream pallor was fun. When a penny would get a handful of candy or gum from a bubblegum machine. Those rides in front of grocery store - there was a horse, or a helicopter, boat, bat mobile and others. S&H green stamps Sears Christmas catalog back when, all summer long, kids were gone from sun up to sun set. Playing tag, hid and seek, exploring the neighbor hood, knowing EVERYBODY in the entire neighbor hood. Back when many drove slowly looking for people sitting on porch or working in yard, so the could wave and say "Hello" as they went by. when during a trip, the kids played in the back of the station wagon. when a big news story broke, everyone talked about - even with complete strangers. when toy guns looked real and (with caps) made a bang with real smoke, just like a real gun when candy cigarette were cool during the 70s, when some girls painted their pants and jackets and some used rhinestones, and wore mood rings. during the 70s, those bags of little green army men, in grocery stores. Back when kids pick the box of cereal that had the coolest toy in it, who cared what kind of cereal. Back when there were very few choice=s in the grocery store. It made life so much easier shopping. back when most Americans worked in factories, gas cost 20 cents, a coke, 5 cents and bubblegum machines cost a penny. Back when EVERYONE read the newspaper. Back when calls were missed, and often. Photo album I could go one for ever on things that are no more. I was born in 63. I am sure older people's list will be longer.
@@Frank-pi2gzWell that's because you're a Gen Z and came here to learn something, we know that's a job for your generation that can't do anything mechanical or write cursive lol
First time I saw them I laughed and thought they looked like a bunch of girls. With in a year me and all my buds were trying to look like them to impress the real girls.
I heard a story that some band (I don't know who right now) told John Lennon "Someone stole our suits" and Lennon said "I wish someone would steal our suits!"
America's best days are behind her. I was born in 1958 and had an amazing childhood,teen years in the 70's we won't get into details 😂 it wasn't always easy but back then you didn't quit! Oh the memories and that's the sad thing about getting older you remember vividly your younger years.
Nonsense! 1948 birth year here. My happiest days are now, and in the future. Growing up in the 50's and 60's was painful. The food, especially, was awful Remember Wonderbread? And Minute Rice? When I became an adult and could make my own food choices, the first thing I did was buy quality Italian, French breads, and German, and Scandinavian whole grain loaves. I explored the wonderful world of real rice. I learned out there were actually 1000's of different cultivars grown and used across the world, and dozens of cultivars available locally. I learned that you could cook cruciferous vegetables al dente, instead of the way my clueless mother cooked them - until they were mush. And with no microwave food heaters, you had to _wait, _ for hours, for frozen food to thaw so that you could cook it evenly. We did have better watermelons and citrus fruit back then. Today seedless watermeons are the worst. Real tangerines have disappeared. Grapefruits gained color and lost flavor.
@@soilmanted To each his own. Good to see someone happy with the current situation. I liked Wonderbread before they left Chicago. Now it's hard to find a fresh loaf of bread anywhere.
32:02 One perspective on the moon landing - I watched it with my great-grandmother, who was an adult when the Wright brothers flew their first planes. That speaks to the rate of technological change.
How about the occasional vacuum tube that would burn out and you would need to find it or take a group of them to be tested to isolate the bad one. Either that or just call the TV repairman to come on-site to do the work.
Do you remember Hoppty Hop , lite bright , candy land game , Banana seat bicylces , play dough , VHS , TV Dinners , the veiw master , the cap gun and the Red Rider BB rifle at Western Auto , the christmas lite candles you would place in the window and hope they would not cacth fire these were the things that made life worth while😮😅😅
@@John-jd7mm haha. I'm not remembering the X-rays but the memory MAY come back. I remember an old TV that was in my grandma's kitchen for many years. It was about 3'×3', made of wood with wicker covering the speaker area, and the picture screen was probably about 6 inches. You could only get a couple channels on it and it got terrible reception. We still turned it on every now & then anyway. Maybe I will get a flashback of X-ray vision from that TV someday😁
I remember calling the operator and asking her if her refrigerator was running, when she say yes, we would tell her" well go catch it" 😂😂those were the good old day, kids now could never understand the fun we had back then❤oh yes and the BAIDA was first before the VCR then came the VHS
I remember drive in movies at a dollar a carload. Usually me, mom and dad. We would stop by the A&W rootbeer stand. Get mugs of rootbeet, go to the movies. After the movie was over we would drive back by A&W and just set our mugs on the outside order counter since they were closed. I also remember being the remote control for the TV and antenna adjuster.
Yes, loved those polaroid cameras! Film was ready to peel paper off in a few minutes, you had your picture! We saved the coke bottles, took them back down to the store and got change for them. 5cents a bottle? Gas was maybe 1$ gal. All stores closed on Sundays.
Penny bubble gum, paper routes and public phone booths. Mom had no TV growing up. Grandma had no autos growing up. I wish they were still here to talk to.