Some things that kids will never understand....

[Danimal16]

When the Worlds Population was 3 billion and the US national dept was under a half a billion dollars. When gold was $27 an ounce.

[Nordwest]

Cheap concert tickets....

[masraum]

Originally Posted by rfuerst911sc

S&H green stamps
8 track player
110 camera
In car record player
Montgomery Wards
Grants department store

And for some common sense 😋

Never heard of "Grants" before. I'm guessing either regional or before my time.

I did have a kodak 110 camera.
I've only seen photos of in car record players
Monkey Wards was a great place to buy appliances, at least, towards their end.
When I was a kid in the mid 70s I used to love to put the green stamps in my grandmother's stamp books. I remember going to an S&H to redeem them.

[jcwade]

Turning the TV dial with a pair of pliers because the knob fell off.
The UHF dial.
Having 5-6 TV stations to choose from, in the larger cities.
The TV remote making that metallic pinging sound.
The youngest child in the room being the remote control.
Channels signing off for the evening with the Star-Spangled Banner then the test pattern.

For those of us in LA, the Helms Bakery truck.

[herr_oberst]

Classes in High School in such subjects as

Social Studies and Citizenship
Home Ec
Typing
The slide rule
Drivers Ed

[jcwade]

Originally Posted by herr_oberst

Classes in High School in such subjects as

Social Studies and Citizenship
Home Ec
Typing
The slide rule
Drivers Ed

Amen to that!

[hcoles]

Learning things by yourself.
- riding a bike
- building things with wood
Lots of mistakes were made.

[jcwade]

Carbon paper.
A mimeograph machine.
Only being able to go as far away from the phone as the cord would allow.
Having to go to the library to look at books to do research.

[herr_oberst]

Originally Posted by jcwade

Carbon paper.
A mimeograph machine.
Only being able to go as far away from the phone as the cord would allow.

Trying to talk to a girl on the phone while the whole fam damily listens in.!

[masraum]

Originally Posted by jcwade

Turning the TV dial with a pair of pliers because the knob fell off.
The UHF dial.
Having 5-6 TV stations to choose from, in the larger cities.
The TV remote making that metallic pinging sound.
The youngest child in the room being the remote control.
Channels signing off for the evening with the Star-Spangled Banner then the test pattern.

For those of us in LA, the Helms Bakery truck.

UHF, VHF+UHF being 5-6 channels, youngest (only in my case) child being the remote, channels signing off. All check.

I think our first remote mostly just clicked, BUT... If you opened a beer/soda can that made the "Ttssshhh" or sneezed loudly, that often resulted in the channel changing. I think our next TV w/remote used IR. I think technically, we had a TV that was "remote controlled" and the remote was actually connected to the TV by a wire. I don't think it got used much because having a wire running from the TV to the remote was a pain.

I'd never seen or heard of the bakery truck which isn't surprising because i'm not from Cali or LA, but I do remember the Charles Chips truck that delivered chips and pretzels.

[shadowjack1]

Dial tone
test pattern on TV

[LEAKYSEALS951]

Tiger11

[jcwade]

Another one for those of us in LA.
The smog being so bad you couldn't see the mountains.

My 400th post in a little under 20 years here.
I gotta cut back.

[masraum]

Originally Posted by hcoles

Learning things by yourself.
- riding a bike
- building things with wood
Lots of mistakes were made.

Riding a bike is still a thing. Our grandsons (4 and 7 both have bikes)

Originally Posted by jcwade

Carbon paper.
A mimeograph machine.
Only being able to go as far away from the phone as the cord would allow.
Having to go to the library to look at books to do research.

ah, carbon paper. I may have received stuff in school that was run off of a mimeograph, but I've never seen or run one.

I have spent plenty of time in libraries for school.

[Bill Verburg]

party lines
home delivery for milk & other farm products like veggies
tying a toboggan to the back of the car for a joy ride after it snowed
skis w/o safety releases
tv w/ an 8" screen and only 1 channel that wasn't always broadcasting

AM radio at night picking up stations 1000mi away

[masraum]

Originally Posted by LEAKYSEALS951

Tiger11

Your password?

[LEAKYSEALS951]

you don't remember that?

edit- maybe it was just local number. I thought it was everywhere. Date and time. "At the sound of the tone the time will be..."

[masraum]

Originally Posted by GH85Carrera

How about a rrotary phone dial! One of my old girlfriends had a phone number that had a lot of 8s and 9s and 0s in it and it was a pain in the finger to dial her a lot.

And the knowledge that you could tap out a number on the hookswitch without actually dialing.
tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap
short pause
tap tap tap tap tap tap
short pause
tap tap tap tap tap tap tap
short pause
tap tap tap tap tap
short pause
tap tap tap
short pause
short pause
tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap tap
867-5309
(I can't remember if a 0 was just a pause or what)

[herr_oberst]

Sneaking a few friends into the drive in in the trunk of Dad's Buick

[Rusty Heap]

Originally Posted by Danimal16

THANKS for the flashback and memories of the 60's.