Things my kids will never know about

Rain

Rolodex, pay phones and pagers to name a few. Your turn.I remember when my dad's pager would go off and he'd have to pull over to use a pay phone.

Jetmech_63

How to read a map, balance a checkbook, develop film, use encyclopedias, mail a letter.

jd50ae

Black and white TV.
Dial phones.
Coal shoots.
Walking to school.
Pea shooters.
House calls by doctors.

clearlysuspect

TV Dials and antennas, TV Guide, House Fuses, Parachute Pants

Rain

I'm tempted to add family dinners to this, but I'll hold off.

Ken Light

Dodgeball, football, ice cream cone cupcakes in school for birthdays

smoke em if you got em

Floppy disk, cassette tapes

dandin1

Why it is referred to as "roll down the window"

honorknight7

clearlysuspect:

TV Dials and antennas, TV Guide, House Fuses, Parachute Pants

blutattoo

8-tracks, 78's, B sides, rotary phones, VHS and Betamax, unlocked front doors

Puff_Dougie

Riding a bike without a helmet
Riding in a car without a seat belt
Lawn Darts (a.k.a. Jarts)
Candy Cigarettes

blutattoo

Puff_Dougie:

Riding a bike without a helmet
Riding in a car without a seat belt
Lawn Darts (a.k.a. Jarts)
Candy Cigarettes

Don't forget riding in the back of a truck too

brianetz1

Ken Light:

Dodgeball, football, ice cream cone cupcakes in school for birthdays

they still play dodgeball and football at my son's school.....

blutattoo:

Puff_Dougie:

Riding a bike without a helmet
Riding in a car without a seat belt
Lawn Darts (a.k.a. Jarts)
Candy Cigarettes

Don't forget riding in the back of a truck too

my kids have rode in the back of a truck and rode a bike without a helmet..........ok maybe i am just a bad parent. I look at it like my parents lived and i lived if they grab the bike without a helment, oh well. If they are going a mile to a friends house and want to ride in the back of the truck oh well.

and everyone who is talking about music media, all things become retro.....the mixtape is still a huge cultural phenomenon, and look at how big vinyl is in this day and age.

smoke em if you got em

brianetz1:

Ken Light:

Dodgeball, football, ice cream cone cupcakes in school for birthdays

they still play dodgeball and football at my son's school.....

blutattoo:

Puff_Dougie:

Riding a bike without a helmet
Riding in a car without a seat belt
Lawn Darts (a.k.a. Jarts)
Candy Cigarettes

Don't forget riding in the back of a truck too

my kids have rode in the back of a truck and rode a bike without a helmet..........ok maybe i am just a bad parent. I look at it like my parents lived and i lived if they grab the bike without a helment, oh well. If they are going a mile to a friends house and want to ride in the back of the truck oh well.

and everyone who is talking about music media, all things become retro.....the mixtape is still a huge cultural phenomenon, and look at how big vinyl is in this day and age.

Just got me a record player for xmas and my kids love it!

0patience

reel to reel audio tape and for that matter, reel to reel video tape
after school fights
duck hunting before school
Dinner at the dinner table
Sunday school
Ruler across the knuckles by the teacher. (and it wasn't abuse, it was discipline)
Having to do actual chores.
Having to turn the wipers on and off, cause there was not intermittent wipers.
Knowing how to check your oil on your car.
Having to actually be home to watch a movie or cartoon, cause there was no recording it.
And if there was something that pre-emted it [president or Dad had some show he wanted to watch], you were screwed.
Having to adjust the color on your TV with a color wheel. (now I'm really dating myself.)
mimeograph paper.
pens that leaked all over.
ashtrays on shopping carts.
Buying cigarettes out of a cigarette machine.

Just a small bit that I can think of off the top of my head.

Bob Luken

Oh yeah, That reminds me.

Tiny ashtrays built into the armrests on planes and buses.

RBeckom

This thread amuses me for it reminds me so much about my own past.

webmost

Liberty.

honorknight7

does having to go "Pick" your own branch to get whipped with count ? Damn i still have nightmares about poplar trees, oh and and leather straps

And I also grew up with "Radio night" instead of the TV
and Pop used the old Victrola for our "music" time around the house
why yes I did grow up on a ranch

Rain

Going to the store to pick up smokes/beer for their parents.

0patience

Bob Luken:

Oh yeah, That reminds me.

Tiny ashtrays built into the armrests on planes and buses.

And on the armests of cars. I remember many times having the indent on my arm from those things.

The records remind me of when I was younger and my sisters waiting at the store for a new record to come out. It was a big deal back then.

Rain:

Going to the store to pick up smokes/beer for their parents.

With a note from your parents. LOL!
Funny how their hand writing was so similar to mine.

RBeckom

Rain:

Going to the store to pick up smokes/beer for their parents.

Smoking in Jr. High with your parents permission slip. Not that I smoked way back then but a lot of my friends did.

0patience

RBeckom:

Rain:

Going to the store to pick up smokes/beer for their parents.

Smoking in Jr. High with your parents permission slip. Not that I smoked way back then but a lot of my friends did.

Schools with "smoking areas".

Which reminds me. Having to find a dime to call home from the pay phone, only to have no one home to answer the phone.
Which brings up the lack of answering machines.
Or having to leave a message with the phone operator to let your folks know you'll be late getting home or to pick you up.

Rain

Hmm, this is a maybe. Putting the car in neutral to coast down the street when you are sneaking out.

Rain

Rain

Wait, you could leave a message with the operator?

0patience

Rain:

Hmm, this is a maybe. Putting the car in neutral to coast down the street when you are sneaking out.

They could still hear my truck down the road. So we pushed for quite some time.

0patience

Rain:

Wait, you could leave a message with the operator?

yup. And we had 5 digit phone numbers and party lines.
Well, they were regular phone numbers, but you just dialed the last number of the prefix and the number.
For that matter, I remember telling the operator west seattle 4 and the number or CH4 and the number.

Rain

"Give me the 4-1-1"

0patience

Rain:

"Give me the 4-1-1"

Hello, directory assistance.
Or calling a number (used to be 555-1212 in our area) and getting, "at the tone, the correct time will be........"

Bigshizza

An honest to God Service Station
Gas at .50/gallon
Concert T-Shirts for $5.00 and tickets for $8.00
The Arcade
not wearing seatbelts
Not knowing the ingredients in food etc