Dial a phone, say thank you for someone holding the door open for you, count back change ( Goood luck with that).

Fast forward, play, fast forward, play, rewind play ... trying to find the start of a song.

Blow in the Nintendo cartridge thinking that's what made it work.

you could use your thumb to get a ride and you stopped to pick them up

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Originally posted by Patrick-SP2022:
Pay for their own car which would likely be a jalopy just about ready for the junk heap.

...which you had to buy an accompanying Chilton's manual for.

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Originally posted by nighthawk:
Dial a phone,

Ask a kid today to dial a dial phone. Its pretty much a lost art. I even have trouble until I get the hang of it again.

Get up to change the channel or volume

Use a thermal paper fax machine?

Duck and cover in the event of a nuclear attack by the USSR. Great fun drills.

Watch a real news program on TV.

Enjoy Dick Clark and American Bandstand.

Watch Guy Lombardo on New Years Eve.

See a newsreel at the movies about how the war was going.

Watch Liberace play the piano with that giant Candelabra.

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Originally posted by KDR:
Get kicked off the 14.4 AOL connection because your Mom wanted to use the phone.

Use a floppy disk (any size)

Know that although you were loved, you were definitely the low man on the totem pole in the household.

Be able to experience non-supervised play time for hours on end. As long as your didn't get maimed and made it home for dinner on time, all was good.

Get disciplined (spanked) by a friend's parents.

14.4k? That was screaming. I remember using 300 baud and thanking my lucky stars that I wasn't stuck with 110. Yikes!

Moondial....

rotary dial your own number & yell in synch with the pauses between the 'beeps'....and listen to others doing the same. Sometimes you knew who it was, and carry on a syncopated conversation. Of sorts.

Clean a choke

Rebuild a Carb

Watch the Tonight Show with Johnny Carson

Cut your finger on the pull tab on a pop or beer can

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Originally posted by braillediver:
Push button shifter on the dash to the left.

Interesting the things mentioned here that I never did when I turned 18.

I loved my 300B Chrysler with push buttons.

I got one. In Jr High, on Friday mornings, some band members played the National Anthem loudly down the school hall. Mostly trumpets and drums

Have native memories of 9/11...

Learn how to use a slide rule.

Wait 4-6 weeks for delivery.

Wipe off the inside of a distributor cap to get the condensation out, then put it back on so your truck will start. Did that for my college roommate after we went off roading. Him and his girlfriend hiked 5 miles back to our house so I could go fix his jeep for him. He made me swear not to tell her how easy a fix it was.

Using a xerograph machine (was that the name?). The old circular hand crank machine that made ugly looking copies that were all wet when they were done.

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Using a xerograph machine (was that the name?). The old circular hand crank machine that made ugly looking copies that were all wet when they were done.

Mimeograph. After reading through all these, I realize just how lucky I was to grow up in the 50s/60s.

Draw drinking water from the well because the pump would freeze up every winter...sometimes it would even quit working in the warmer weather so back to the bucket again.

Fill the coal buckets with lump chunk coal for the coal stove in our 4 room house.

You ate what Mom cooked or you didn't eat.

I wouldn't change one thing about growing up as I did.

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Originally posted by 46and2:
Use a thermal paper fax machine?

One where you had to answer the phone manually, hear the tone, then put the handset into the acoustic coupling on the fax machine??

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Originally posted by markand:
Learn how to use a slide rule.

I had two slide rules, one was a very professional quality, the other was plastic, but circular to fit in your shirt pocket.