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Date Posted: 08:59:36 04/09/05 Sat
Author: Mark Mears
Subject: Thought of some more...
In reply to: Mark Mears 's message, "25 years--Things our kids know nothing about...." on 15:46:09 04/06/05 Wed

--Vacuum tubes in department stores

--Wing windows in our cars

--Montgomery Ward Catalogs

--No airconditioning

--Pop bottle rocket fights

--Candy cigarettes

--Pipes and pipe tobacco

--Typewriters!

--Little old men sitting outside the barber shop all day

--Carbon paper and mimeograph machines

--Gun racks in the back of all the pickup trucks

--All the guys were expected to have pocket knives at school

--Getting to pound the chalk board erasers

--If girls were wearing thongs, they were on their feet!

--Glass powerline insulators

--Card catalogs in the libraries (instead of computers)

--No interstates

--Reel to reel projectors at school

--Getting caught behind tractors on the highway

--Knowing why you had summers off from school (and it wasn't to play nintendo for three months)

--FULL Service gas stations (ding, ding!)

--Returning pop bottles for money

--Crank ice cream makers

--drinking from the water hose

--S & H Green Stamps

--Little gas heaters built into the wall

--Push button channel changers on the car radio

--School House Rock

--Saturday morning cartoons

--Picture tubes on TVs, crystals in radios

--Waiting for the TV to "warm up"

--Polaroid camera film--waiting for 60 seconds before peeling the paper off of the photo

--Flash bulbs

--Nehi!

--Sideburns

--Shoe horns

--Putting playing cards in the spokes of your bike

--Banana seats and sissy bars

--Down vests

--Hair dryers with bags to fit over a lady's hair, extending by a hose to the machine

--Oil can spouts

--Phone booths

--Gusty!

--Sensaround

--Metal ice trays

--Percalators

Ok, I'm done for now!

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