Lest I be drawn and quartered for my humorous reflection of "uphill, in the snow..." (not I put it in green). I can state that I certainly have a lot of recollections from my childhood and days gone by. Some of the modern marvels I remember were:
Color TV
FM Radio with no static (not to be confused with the moderator)
Amana Radarange that could bake a potato in ONLY 20 minutes
Cassette tapes
CB Radios
Radial Tires
Cordless telephones in the home (heck I remember the breakup of ATT so that you could actually own your phone!)
Answering machines
Integrated Chips
Nuclear Powerplants (and the advent of the phrase NIMBY)
My High School was so advanced, we had a teletype modem connected to a computer at Hofstra.
Commodore 64 and then my first IBM clone that ran at 8 MHz!
I was always in love with cars. It started with drag racing greats like Big Daddy Don Garletts, Snake and Mongooge... Built a ton of model cars. I remember when STP was high tech and it was super cool to have the stickers on my school books, Andy Granatelli, when AJ Foyt was a driver, Mario Andretti winning Indy.
My and my buddy Bob, watched for the new models kept in utter secrecy until they were unveiled on a specific day. Hemi Under Glass. My buddy's `69 Camaro SS and my `67 Chevelle SS (oh if we had only kept those cars!).
And yes, I actually walked 1.5 miles to Junior High and High school in the snow because in my school district you had to be 2 miles or more to ride the bus.
