Older than dirt

[Suz]

Poodle Skirts

Sock Hops

Everly Brothers

Big Bopper

Getting to ride in the back of a pickup (as long as I sat very still with my back up against the cab.)

Steel roller skates (that required a key)

Unlocked doors

Milk man that came to the back door and actually put the stuff in our fridge.

Friday night "Rawhide" on TV

Neighborhood grocery stores.

No Interstates. Everyone traveled on the blue highways and it took twice as long to get there.

[Donna D.]

Dials on the TV, and you had to get up to change the channel and listen to the clunk, clunk, clunk as you spun the dial... heck, I remember getting our first TV

Transistor radios with 9 volt batteries. And you tested the battery by sticking it on your tongue! And all the best stations were on AM radio.

Go-Go Boots and Nancy Sinatra singing about them.

1963 - Gloria Steinem, when she went undercover at the Playboy club to get the scoop.

Fishnet stockings.... the first time around!

1964 - The Pill becomes the most popular form of reversible birth control in America.

[Gina D.]

Full on, unrestricted, take anyone you want with you at any time divers licenses at 16.

[andy s]

Party line phones, Sugar dots candy on the wax paper. Chocolate Egg Cream at the fountain in Rxall drug store.
The Woolworths. The Bowery Boys, The little rascles which was also Our Gang, Have Gun Will Travel. Soopy Sales,
Mc Donalds when it was just a walk up with the golden arches no indoor seating or drive thru. Jack in the Box when it looked like a giant Jack in the Box. Saw dust on the floor at the butcher shop. 8 track tapes.

[Byron Kinnaman]

Show your stuff! Name all the Mavericks!

My favorite was one where Bret kept saying "I'm working on it."

[Roger H]

The lunch counter at S.S. Kresge's.

Roger

[CarolnJim]

Seeing children playing outdoors - hopscotch, jump rope, jacks, trading cards, the simple, fun things that we did back then. Those were the good days of real fun. Now they are inside watching TV or playing electronic games.

When we got our first car - we bought it - usually it was at least 10 years old, with some problems. Now it seems, starting out with a brand new car is the only way, and parents usually pay.

[Camilla]

Seeing children playing outdoors - hopscotch, jump rope, jacks, trading cards, the simple, fun things that we did back then. Those were the good days of real fun. Now they are inside watching TV or playing electronic games.

I had forgotten all about that until last year when I stayed in an RV park in central FL over the winter. Once in a while we'd take a shortcut thru town and go through a Mexican neighborhood. Even though the neighborhood was kinda crummy looking and poor there was always something familiar about it that I couldn't put my finger on. I found myself thinking about it when I rode through and I finally realized was what it was. Kids were out riding bikes, playing on the sidewalks, in the little park playing all kinds of games, etc... They weren't in the house like in the other neighborhoods and it reminded me of when I was a kid. I would get in from school and change clothes so fast the screen door didn't have time to shut before I was back out of it!

yep, the good old days!

[Nita F.]

Spanish moss hanging from southern trees.

Push mowing the entire 2 acre yard.

Sky King, and Roy Rogers and Dale Evans.

Cars with no air conditioning or radio.

Foam hair curlers and bonnet hair dryer.

My father picking up hitchhikers without fear of personal safety.

Neighbors really knowing their neighbors.


Nita

[Vivian]

The Ed Sullivan show when The Beatles were introduced.

[brian m.]

Calling someone at their home phone and if it rang, and rang, and rang, that meant nobody was home.

[Roger H]

Mowing the lawn with a reel mower...

Roger

[Roger H]

"The Untouchables" with Robert Stack as Elliot Ness.

Roger

[Vivian]

Calling someone at their home phone and if it rang, and rang, and rang, that meant nobody was home.

Party lines...one ring for yours, two rings for them!

[Byron Kinnaman]

Party lines...one ring for yours, two rings for them!

WOW, only two people on a party line. We had about 16. Series of rings that went something like long, long, short, short, long.

[Byron Kinnaman]

Cold trips to the out house in the middle of the winter. brrrrrr.

[Suz]

A beard

That's rough

And overgrown

Is better than

A chaperone

Burma-Shave

[Gina D.]

I actually still handle these everyday, but I bet most of ya don't anymore..and some of ya NEVER have

oh, those trips to the drug store tester, and the language that would come out of my Dad..

[BuzzardsBurro]

Playing marbles and stickball.

[Paul from NWOnt]

I actually still handle these everyday, but I bet most of ya don't anymore..and some of ya NEVER have

oh, those trips to the drug store tester, and the language that would come out of my Dad..

Got those in my short wave radio, and a tester of my very own.

Every GOOD guitar amp contains those.... There's no school like old school!