Skate boards made with a board & metal roller skate wheels taken from your sister's old skates
Hand saws. Hand auger drills, buck saws, and hand planes.
Slide rulers, graph paper, not using a calculator for mathematical problems.
Old math that worked, and learning how to give back change (3rd grade problem solving).
$0.20 cent gasoline, full service gas stations.
Real CocaCola in glass bottles, with real sugar,
calories and TASTE!
Every kitchen had a church key on
the side of the refrigerator to open
soda and juice cans.
.25 cent paper bag of candy from corner store
Blue laws... On Sunday- All stores closed, no trucks allowed on the roads, bars closed
no liquor sold, everyone went to church!
Lawn darts
Rock 'em sock 'em robots
Romper room, Howdy Doodey, Captain Kangaroo,
the Milton Burl show, Red Skelton, Marx Brothers,
and Jimmy Durante.
Saturday morning cartoons, Felix the cat, Huckleberry hound, Mighty mouse,
Under dog , Pink panther ( when he didn't talk), and the Bugs Bunny / Road Runner show.
Three stooges, Rat patrol, Get smart, Car 54 where are you,
The rifleman, Old Yeller, and Lassie.
Ice hockey when it was still a "Contact sport", and we
didn't wear helmets or shin guards. We used news paper and foam rubber
with duct tape instead.
We knew all the families in our entire neighborhood.
Neighborhood "MOM-phone/NET" was faster than any 4G network we have today.
We spoke to adults with respect, by saying Yes Ma'am and Yes Sir every time, thank you and please.
Getting spanked buy a mother in the neighborhood ( not yours) for doing something wrong,
and getting another when you got home too.
Playing on school grounds without a permit or fear of getting arrested!
When boys would scrap with each other on the playground and the teacher would grab each of you by the ear, and walk you back to the room for a "sit down".
Afterwards they would make you shake hands and apologize
to each other and the teacher too.
Being out playing until the street lights came on.
Acorn fights every fall after racking up the yards.
(Those things really stung when you got hit...OUCH!)
When a mobile phone was on Dick Tracy's watch, or Agent 86's shoe phone.
Phone booths with glass doors that closed
The Harlem globetrotters played exhibition games at the local school
after donkey basketball
Drug store soda fountains, hand cranked Cash registers.
Real five & dime stores
Stock car racing used ordinary street cars
with some mechanical tweaking, and a hand painted
number on the doors. Won on Sunday, bought on Monday.
ALWAYS KNOWING WHERE MY CAR KEYS WERE...
IN THE IGNITION OF MY CAR.
Never locking the house.
Mr G. delivered the milk 2 times/wk., and the local pig farmer
picked up the garbage from the in ground pail near the back door every
tuesday morning.
A rifle rack with rifles on it, in the back window of my truck.
45 rpm record singles
Hanging onto the back of the front seat of the car while Dad was driving down the street
Riding bicycles without a helmet
School having the Vice principal as dean of students and
no campus police needed.
Gun control meant using both hands to steady your shot.
Camping in national forests without a permit
MOSTLY ...
People with commonsense, mutual respect for one another,
belief in family, evening supper and Sunday Dinners.
Children respected parents, adults, the police and the rule of law.
Prayer in schools, and saying the Pledge of Allegiance
in home room each day.