Things our kids can't imagine...

[Soldier's*Sweeties]

..............Dial up.

 

[RedAngie]

 

[here757]

Love this

 

[BLAZEY]

That's how my Grannie did it. She got her licence in 1970 (at age 52) she hate parallel parking when it came to that part of the test, she said I don't parallel park. Tester said what if the only place to park is street parking? her answer "I'll go home", Said with conviction . got her licence but was still docked the points for not doing it. True to her word, she never did it.

 

[MetalMasterC]

The funny thing is with many new (and future) cars having the ability to do this, you'd never have to worry about parking in general ever again.

 

[L&Lfan]

Things our kids can't imagine:

Prayer in government school classrooms.

 

[sam_gordon]

Things our kids can't imagine:

Prayer in government school classrooms.

As long as there are tests, there is prayer in public school classrooms.

 

[L&Lfan]

As long as there are tests, there is prayer in public school classrooms.

ZING!
Ya got THAT right!
I bet even some atheist students whisper a prayer to someone/something come exam time!

 

[Matoskah Poodle]

Having to wait on your neighbors to get done on the phone to make a call becasue you had a party line
Using the good ole #2 pencil to fix you favorite mixed cassette tape you made off of the radio
Being kicked out of the house at 7am and told that there would be sandwiched and drinks on the patio at noon during the summer.

 

[mrodgers]

Having to sit and watch live tv. No pause, no rewind. If you go to the bathroom you miss it.

Watched a Tyson fight on HBO with my brother and Dad, well, just with my Dad. My brother had to go to the bathroom. He ran upstairs, ran downstairs and we said, "boy, you missed a good fight."

Sitting in front of the boom box with your finger on the record button of the tape deck waiting for the song you wanted to play.

Sitting 2 boom boxes face to face because your friend had it on tape and you wanted it also so you taped it on one box playing on the other.

Going to the store with $1 to the penny candy counter. "Can I get 4 of those, 2 of those, 5 of those, 6 of those, 1 of those....."

And last but least (if it hasn't been mentioned...) Going outside to play!

 

[L&Lfan]

In the 1969-1970 TV season, there were 19 (NINETEEN) different soap operas which aired Monday-Friday on the three broadcast networks. That boggles my mind. I would guess that most people who were home during the daytime watched at least one.

 

[AppleDumpling]

I thought of something else from elementary school, though I probably caught the tail end of it in the late 60's. Air raid drills. We heard the alarm (different tone than a fire drill), and had to go out into the hallway, sit on the floor and assume the "duck and cover" position. I still remember the cartoon turtle and the Duck and Cover song. And the school had a "fallout shelter" in the basement.

Sad, but today, some school kids do "lockdown drills" instead.

 

[Matoskah Poodle]

In the 1969-1970 TV season, there were 19 (NINETEEN) different soap operas which aired Monday-Friday on the three broadcast networks.

Oh I can so remember my mom timing her laundry so she could fold clothes and watch The Guiding Light

 

[AppleDumpling]

Double features at the movies

Those were great. And doubleheader baseball games. They rarely have those anymore unless there's a makeup for a rainout.

A tv had an antenna and a vertical and horizontal button that you had to adjust too many times.

Ours had "rabbit ears" antenna and we put tin foil on it to get better reception.

We went to the Horn & Hardart when we were in NYC.

Ooh, the automat. I remember going there for breakfast with my grandparents when I was very young, and always got pancakes. There's a new restaurant I want to try, that's similar but more high-tech, called Eatsa. I can see that concept making a comeback.

 

[sksjasams]

Getting paid 50 cents an hour for babysitting!
I remember by the time I was a junior or senior in high school, some families actually paid $1/hr!

To go along with that...starting to babysit at 11 or 12 years old.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Playing out side most of the day and riding our bikes with out protective gear many miles from home.

True, the only thing I wore was a helmet..though yes there were times I decided to take it off.

Having to find a phone booth to make a call outside your home

OMG when my friends and I would bike to the local parks the only way we knew we could stay out longer was to use the payphone.

Making your Christmas list from the Sears Wish Book and JCP Christmas catalog!

JCP was my absolute fav to get toys ideas. I was the kid that not only gave my family members handwritten lists from the catalogs but I also noted the page number and the price of the item.

Rolling down car windows.

So when I was looking for my car in December 2005 I almost got a convertible. We checked the price with the insurance company and it was only going to be like $5-$10 more per month than the other car we were looking at. The reason I ended up not getting the convertible is because it had rolled down windows lol it was a base model and in my mind I was like "no way am I going to crank my windows even for a convertible" lol.

As a teacher, I'll say chalk boards, overhead projectors, film strips, and crank pencil sharpeners.

I remember in elementary school when they switched the chalk boards with dry erase boards..omg we thought we were living the high life then! Overhead projectors for some reason was something I looked forward too. The crank pencil sharpeners were neat and I preferred them to the automatic ones because I felt like I could control the sharpening easier than the automatic ones.

I'm about to break the internet!!!
Parallel parking!!

So I took a driver's ed class and they briefly taught parallel parking. My state doesn't require it but I was so glad I learned it. My mom doesn't know how to parallel park. Granted I've only really had to parallel park in my tiny with a good turning radius escort zx2 but it was invaluable when I was in college and needed to go up on campus. There were parking lots but also parallel parking. Actually when I worked for the University's bookstore the location (which was just on the other side of the campus boundary line) I was at there was only parallel parking around it. You'd be walking quite a long ways and I mean a long ways to find a spot with normal parking especially when during the certain hours where campus was parking permit only. The streets around the campus were basically parallel parking.

 

[Tardisblue]

I did a quick search of this thread and didn't see this: physically cranking a car window open. A friend of ours had a 1970's AMC car (Javelin maybe?) that he had restored and asked if we wouldn't mind keeping it in our garage while he was refinishing his garage. It was really hot that weekend, so my wife went out to crack the windows a little in the car. My youngest DD saw her spinning her arm around this handle and asks "What are you doing mom...?"

Never occurred to us that our kids had never seen anyone roll down a car window in any other manner than just pushing a button.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

~So when I was a kid recording was on a VCR tape and you had to make sure your TV was set to record the right time. Buffy and Angel were the shows I typically recorded.

~Using the internet but tying up the phone line (had dial up for way too long too)

~Friday night ritual..Blockbuster and pizza

~Waiting for the TV guide channel to scroll through what was on TV..and realizing you just missed the channel you wanted to know what was on so now you have to wait for it to come back

~So this came out when I was in 6th grade I believe. My friends and I didn't use it for too too long but it was how we essentially texted with each other though you had to be in a certain radius of the other friendlink:



~Sending notes to each other in class and folding them up in a origami-type way..and hoping the teacher didn't see you pass the notes.

 

[mjkacmom]

I did a quick search of this thread and didn't see this: physically cranking a car window open. A friend of ours had a 1970's AMC car (Javelin maybe?) that he had restored and asked if we wouldn't mind keeping it in our garage while he was refinishing his garage. It was really hot that weekend, so my wife went out to crack the windows a little in the car. My youngest DD saw her spinning her arm around this handle and asks "What are you doing mom...?"

Never occurred to us that our kids had never seen anyone roll down a car window in any other manner than just pushing a button.

My cheapo husband bought a new car in 1990, no power windows! We were just dating at the time, I thought he was nuts (and it was a manual).

 

[hereyago]

I thought of something else from elementary school, though I probably caught the tail end of it in the late 60's. Air raid drills. We heard the alarm (different tone than a fire drill), and had to go out into the hallway, sit on the floor and assume the "duck and cover" position. I still remember the cartoon turtle and the Duck and Cover song. And the school had a "fallout shelter" in the basement.

Sad, but today, some school kids do "lockdown drills" instead.

I didnt grow up in the duck and cover days, but my old high school has the fall out shelter sign on the outside, yea like the funk from the gym would save you from a nuke,lol.