Even still, it’s one of many experiences I reminisce about and I’m not the only one.
Here are some responses that will either have you feeling nostalgic or 100% fascinated:
1.
“In the ’50s and early ’60s, there were x-ray machines in shoe stores.
“We had party lines for our phones!
It was a necessary thing to do if we wanted to use the phone!”
witchymug40
3.
“We couldn’t wear pants in elementary or junior high until the year before high school.
Since we had gym class every day, I wore a pair of shorts under my skirt every day.
When the school district finally allowed girls to wear pants, I jumped up and down joyfully.
Nothing was worse than going to school in 40-degree weather in a skirt I was freezing all day!”
“I got my dream vehicle a few years ago a Jeep Wrangler.
The doors come off, so many Wranglers still have crank windows to save weight.
She’d never heard of, let alone seen, a roll-down window before.
srandlett25
5.
“Fresh milk was delivered to my house three times a week.
“I lived in the country.
Late transportation was basically when bus drivers would take students home using their personal cars.
One time, we had 13 kids stuffed into a mid-sized car, including a heavyweight wrestler.
I had to ride 20 miles on another kid’s lap, tightly pressed against the dashboard.”
Anonymous
7.
“No one really used helmets.
Now, everyone uses a helmet when they’re skiing or cycling.
Somehow, our generation survived.”
kbbpll
8. Who thought that was a good idea?
And buses used to go to everyone’s house and park right there in front of it.
It blows my mind every time I think about it!”
No one thought differently about it.
Plus, their high school was in a decently-sized metro area, not out in the country.
“I’m going to be turning 67 this summer.
It was an alternative to having to do a whole funeral announcement.”
bitterasteroid54
11.
“I’m 55-years-old.
(It kept kids entertained on a trip.)
Oh, and I remember smoking on airplanes in my late teens/early 20s!
“I was born four days after Pearl Harbor and grew up during a time of war.
Lorraine, 82, Florida
13.
“When I was 13, I had a paper route.
Usually, I’d carry papers around the neighborhood using canvas bags over the handlebars of my pink bike.
Oh, and I wouldn’t wear a helmet either.”
axj66
15.
“Even in the 1980s, it wasn’t easy finding non-smoking seats in an airplane.
This was around ‘88 and ‘89.
It’s wild that the same amount of stuff would run me about $10 or more today.”
brandy188
17.
“Before mobile phones, there were pay phones everywhere.
“There were no remotes for the one console TV in the house.
The kids were the ones who had to get up and change the channels using the TV knobs.
Denise, 66, Illinois
19.
So you had to try and guess in advance how much money you wanted/needed to spend.
“My elementary school in the ’60s had an incinerator on the playground’s edge.
Students weren’t supposed to go near it, but it was too interesting to stay away from.
Once, I reached through for one and got caught by the principal.
He was a nice man; he told me to wash my hands and go back to class.
Can you imagine a school playground with an incinerator on it today?
It seems strange now, but no one thought much about it at that time.”
Steve, 66, Texas
21.
“I started working in a major television newsroom in 1980.
I remember all the reporters pounding on typewriters and smoking cigarettes and cigars.
There wasn’t a computer in sight.
Also, all the news stories were shot on film.
“Our family doctor was a chain smoker and kept an ashtray in every exam room.
He would advise my grandpa to stop smoking while simultaneously puffing away on his own cigarette.
Our doctor eventually succumbed to lung cancer.”
23.Lastly: “There was a time not long ago when we had NO sunscreen.
She’d slather me in it!
