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The Shangri-Las and "Leader of the Pack

Telstar

Chubby Checker "The Twist"

Sugar Shack

Diana Ross and the Supremes

 

We had no remote for our 3 channel black and white TV. We turned the antenna by hand too!

 

Cigarettes being recommended by doctors.
Lobotomies.
The cold war (the start, not the end).
Apollo missions.

 

Roller skating car hops.

Getting a Silver dollar with a fill up of hi test.

Oil in a cardboard can.

Driving over the black hose ( Ding - Ding) pulling into the gas station and getting the service station attendant to pump your gas and check your oil..... All free and with a smile.

Milkman delivering milk to your front doorstep.

Good government.

The gas chamber and "Old Sparky".

Mystery meat in the school cafeteria.

Getting "wacked" by the teacher with a paddle with holes in the board (and enjoying it). Hahahaha...

 

I own a push style lawn mower. It is wonderful to be freed from the mess of gasoline and oil and the noise that those motors produce. I can pull the mower down from it's storage spot (hanging on the wall) and mow the front yard in about 15 minutes. I've also had several Huck Finn moments where neighbors walking by stop to ask about the mower and I offer to let them make a few passes to see what it is like.

I'll admit that motorized mowers do much better with sticks, pine cones and the like, where the push mower catches on them and jams up, but I now alternate weeks with a professional crew that trims and power mows, so I just neaten up the yard every other week with the push mower. I had to quickly rake the yard once a month when I was doing it myself.

I've got a 20x40 front yard and and a 40x40 back yard, so this little mower is perfect for me!

 

......and the TV!


Going to the Payless store and getting new tubes for the TV.

 

Glad to hear that. If it wasn't, I'd be knocking on you front door with a couple of containers of Seafoam. Yep, you might end up screaming for a little while, but it's just to clean you out a little. Besides, I'd be fun to see how long you'd be smoking.

 

I traded my very first used car in for my very second used car and IT had a 4 track player crammed into the console. I'm pretty sure that Antiques Roadshow would place a very high price on one of those puppies today but I'd still rather have that second used car.

 

Rotary phones, for that matter, phones with 25 foot cords so you could go into the bathroom to have a "private" conversation.
And mixed tapes

And being under 40, I still have
A pressure cooker that gets used regularly
Use a clothes line and clothes pins
Have a push reel mower

 

Full service gas stations.... pump your gas, check your oil, water and air along with correcting them and wash your windshield to boot!

My first job when I was 15.

 

:ihih:

 

Oh, and I miss people paying attention when they were driving... not on the phone or texting :incazzato:

 

Parachute pants
Party Lines phones, used to make my grandfather so damn mad....
Charles Chips that were delivered to the house

 

They are dwindling fast, but fond memories of the drive in theater and how many we could sneak in hiding in the trunk. Fun time at intermission with the dancing and singing caricatures from the snack bar. The "hang on the window speaker" and of course all the steamed windows on the cars way in the back.

 

Points, Gap, Condenser, Dwell, Sun distributor machine...