Yesteryear things that today's kids have never heard of or seen

Carbon paper
Typewriter
Floppy disc
Push lawnmower - no motor whatsoever
TV with no remote control
cap pistol - toy
fountain pen - no ball point pens
cars with vacuum wipers for rain
cars with crank windows

Respect for their parents.

- 8 track player
- Auto Window A/C (used evaporation to cool)
- Auto Manual Choke
- 3 speed column shifter
- Wing windows.
- Reverb that used a spring for sound delay. You would hit a bump and it would go boingggggggggggggggg.

I really miss eating baked potatoes that had thick skins. I remember coming home from school and baking a potato for a snack then after eating the inside lather the skin inside with butter and gobbling it down. Crunchy and delicious. LOL. I can't find potatoes like that anymore.

VHS
Tape
VHS porn

Push button to start a car. You flipped the key to On and pushed the button to start. My father had one one his 1940-something Plymouth.

Speak and Spell. I us d to make mine say curse words as a kid.

Tipex

C.O.D.

Walkman or Discman.
Pagers

1.Respect for their elders.
2.Good work ethic.
3.Walkman
4.Boombox
5.Remote controls with cords.
6.How to write script/cursive.

Fender Skirts
Curb feelers
Light dimmer switch on floor

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Changing a fuse.
Re wiring a socket
Writing a letter
Having some manners
Not being easily offended by words
Nokia 3210
Using a washing machine
Vinyl
Paper maps and a compass.

Driving without seat belts. - There weren't any.
Black and white Television
Electronics based on tubes.
Lead paint.
Asbestos siding, heat blankets, and insulation
Steel bumpers on cars
Being able to just get out of the car, walk into the airport, check in and get on the plane. In 10 minutes.
Dirt roads
The inside of a car engine.
A real spare tire
reel to reel audio
Packaged and canned Food without long name chemical additives.

A world without AIDS.
A world without Hillary, Obama, Valarie Jarrett, Lynch, etc.

In the early 60s my parents had a old car with the push button starter that sat in the driveway. I would sneak out into the car after they went to work and back it up and forward a bit like driving a car using just the starter. Never actually started it. LOL.

Encyclopedia man coming to the door.
Fuller brush man coming to the door.
Avon lady coming to the door.

Back then, you didn't worry about opening it and letting people in.

Playing outside all day until the streetlights came on, small roving packs of happy kids wandering blocks from home. Streetlights on were your signal to start making your way home. Moms would stand on the front porch and holler out your name if you weren't home by dark..."Emmm-i-leeeeeee!!!" If you heard your name you were almost in trouble so you started running to get back.

Of course we all knew there were "bad men" out there somewhere, but there were only a few of them in the whole world, not every tenth guy on the block. And all you had to do was go up to ANY front door if you needed help. We slept with our windows open and rarely thought to lock the doors at night.

In the evening we all sat down to dinner together. We only had dessert on Sundays. When dinner was over, the dishes got washed and dried and put away by hand. Leftovers were saved in bowls covered with waxed paper. All women and girls knew how to bend and crimp the wax paper around the rim to make it hold on to the bowl like a cap. Men stayed out of the kitchen, they were outside using the push mower to mow the lawn. Or reading a newspaper while smoking a cigarette.

Getting out the ironing board was a regular task. Nothing was perma-pressed, everything needed to be ironed, shirts, blouses, slacks, skirts. If you were rushing to get ready you could ask your sister to iron your blouse real quick, but then you owed her a favor. We had a washing machine but no dryer, clothes were hung on the line to dry. When dry, they got sprinkled with water and rolled up to await ironing. If you couldn't iron them that day they could be stored in the refrigerator overnight.

I had five dresses for school, and it was a big event to go shopping for school clothes in the fall. One pair of shoes. When I got a little older I had a second "dressy" pair of shoes in patent leather. We wore ankle socks with our shoes. In school, girls took Home Ec class and learned how to sew a skirt and blouse, and how to bake muffins and make creamed tuna casserole. Boys took Shop class and learned woodworking and auto mechanics (I think that's what they did...it was a mystery, and not meant for us to think or talk about).

1st, 2nd and 3rd place trophies... & only one of each...if ya didn't win one...too fucking bad, try harder next time.

Having to research at a library.

Kodak Brownie home movie camera 8mm (celluloid film 16 frames per sec), home roll down screens.

Having photos made into slides w/ rotisserie carousel projector for viewing.

Oh yes. All our family vacations from the '60s and '70s were filmed in glorious 8mm color silent film.

When TV turned off for the night

Smoking in stores

Simon

Large Satellite Dishes in backyards

Block Parties

Tv Repair Shops

Super Soakers

Sizzalean!

Back in the day, if you had a package delivered the whole neighborhood would know and ask, whatcha got there something fancy?

Yeah, it wasn't common to get packages. People actually went to brick and mortar stores and bought their stuff.

IQ

The milkman delivering in his white truck, milk, cream, butter, yogurt and ice cream. The Wonder Bread truck coming through the neighborhood and you could buy, bread, rolls, cakes, donuts and cupcakes off his truck.

SATURDAY MORNING CARTOONS!!!!!

and then Classic Horror and Monster movies in the afternoon.

Milkmen are making a comeback around here actually.
Not in those all white suits they used to wear, but a couple do wear white shirts, and or hats.

Vinyl is at least back now. Nokia phones notsomuch.

If you woke up early....Three Stooges before cartoons every day of the week...followed by wacky racers.

What was the carbon paper for?