“Seatbelts weren’t taken seriously by most people until the ’90s.”
I myself was kinda shocked too, because I’d just assumed that was common knowledge.
(Wait till I tell them about the mythical world of Blockbuster.)
“Going to get gas was more of an experience.
u/3D-ironowl
3.
“I’m just old enough to remember smoking on planes.
It still blows my mind that that was a thing!”
“We used to make our Christmas or birthday wishlists from looking in store catalogs, like Sears.
u/LeeAnnLongSocks
5.
“This wasn’t that long ago, but there used to be no security screenings at airports.
You could literally walk the person to the boarding area and watch them board the plane.”
Plus, in the mid-’90s, you’d have to pay by the hour.”
u/Shaydie
7.
“Seatbelts weren’t taken seriously by most people until the ’90s.”
u/Top-Philosophy-5791
9. u/mr_roborto
11.
“There was a room called the ‘coal room’ in the basement of our house.
We’d shovel coal from that room into a coal furnace whenever we needed to heat our house up.
u/Logybayer
13.
“It was normal for an entire household to share a single phone number.”
Nobody really cared.”
u/jefuchs
15.
“If you misbehaved in school, the teacher could and would dish out some corporal punishment.
I had a couple of teachers who absolutely loved punishing kids with those big wooden paddles.”
u/Felon73
17.
“Phone numbers were memorized, and there was no speed dial, caller ID, or voicemail.
I still remember my home number and my best friend’s number from over 50 years ago.”
u/ethottly
19.
“Kids could leave home, and people didn’t bat an eye about it.
My grandfather was 8 when he left home and made his way in the world.
He signed up for World War II when he was 17 because no one checked for identification.”
u/mrxexon
21.
“I remember that you couldn’t know the sex of your kid until the baby was born.
Apparently, there were ways to tell, though.
I remember my mom’s friends would hold a necklace with a weight over the woman’s belly.
u/Building_a_life
23.
“On the evening news, every night they would show the ‘Doomsday Clock.’
It’s an analog clock that, when it hits midnight, means we’re in a nuclear war.
It was usually very close to midnight like five minutes before.
Imagine having the very real threat of nuclear war looming over your head every single day.”
“There were telephones EVERYWHERE: streets, shops, sidewalk corners, etc.
And you paid for calls with COINS.”
u/PawzzClawzz
25.
“Cigarette machines were pretty much everywhere.
Before that, women could only have a card through their husband.”
u/jmac94wp
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