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Slingshot, home made with inner tube cut with jack-knife.
Inner tube
Jack-knife. In my pocket, 4th grade.
Baseball glove without webbing, pocket in the palm, use two hands,
Coins. You could buy something with a penny, lots with a nickel,week's allowance a quarter
Lawn mower whose blades went around when you pushed them
Bonfires
Walking to school
School on snow days
Mittens
Galoshes
Tire chains
Cars you could stand up in to see out the back-seat windows and ask queations about the world.
Cork inserts in pop-bottle caps so you could wear them like badges.
Polio, when parents didn't have to invent imaginary fears.
So, one day, when my kids were younger - around 20 and 15, we had a moment where I was going through all the albums.
My son says to me "why is there handwriting on some?" - I told I went to zillions of concerts and yes, I was one of those who would stand in line and get them signed. Yes, I did and I thought I was totally cool.
My daughter took The White Album to high school for some thing they were doing and came home and told me it would be worth $25K if I had not put a sticker on it. (I could have cried but I think I knew that also by that time).
Of course, they laughed at the hair and clothes. Some of it they thought was pretty cool.
Knowing how to operate the coal furnace in the cellar so you could keep the house warm.
Knowing how to change cloth diapers on your younger siblings.
Playing cat's cradle and Jacob's ladder string games.
Knowing how to make a paper airplane.
Darning the holes in your socks.
Writing with a stick pen that you stuck in an inkwell. In fact, a lot of them can't even write at all!
Big heavy rotary-dial telephones (in any color, as long as it was black).
And you didn't own your phone; AT&T rented it to you.
They didn't even have the simple plug connectors we have today...
did a telephone technician hook it up? I don't remember that part.
Big heavy rotary-dial telephones (in any color, as long as it was black).
And you didn't own your phone; AT&T rented it to you.
They didn't even have the simple plug connectors we have today...
did a telephone technician hook it up? I don't remember that part.
Yes, it required a screwdriver (or a dime) to connect bare wires.
Have you seen the frames seemingly everyone under 40 is wearing lately? They are the same frames that were considered ugly "nerd" glasses in the 60's, that maybe would get you punched!
P.S. vinyl records have been having and are having a big resurgence in the world of music
I'll be impressed when they bring back shellac records.....and I had a childhood friend who even had a few that were 80 rpm.
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