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List things from your Youth that do not exist in today's world

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February 14, 2020, 04:56 PM
kramden
List things from your Youth that do not exist in today's world
Pencil boxes with a built in ruler and pencil sharpener.
February 14, 2020, 04:59 PM
PHPaul
quote:
Originally posted by kramden:
Pencil boxes with a built in ruler and pencil sharpener.


Whoa...flashback!

Only the really cool kids had those in the 5th grade.

How about ball point pens with 3 or 4 tips in different colors. Red, Blue, Green and Black IIRC.



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February 14, 2020, 05:07 PM
ZSMICHAEL
Roy Rogers metal lunchbox.
February 14, 2020, 05:13 PM
mcrimm
Loading the Little League Baseball team in the bed of my pickup and taking them to Dairy Queen for ice cream after the game - Win or Loose.


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February 14, 2020, 05:24 PM
YooperSigs
Drive in movies.


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Upper Peninsula: 4 Miles
February 14, 2020, 05:28 PM
Johnny 3eagles
Vent windows in cars and trucks. Frown




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February 14, 2020, 05:29 PM
Greymann
Paint can shaking machine.
(self serve)

I dared my older sister to put her head in one, she did an I tighten it up and hit the switch. She survived, I got the strap.
February 14, 2020, 05:32 PM
mrmn50
Winky Dink Crayons
February 14, 2020, 05:37 PM
Nismo
quote:
Originally posted by Andcommande:
Many people mentioned phone related things, but no mention of the

Phonebook

Big, heavy, yellow, dropped off at your door. So very necessary.


We still get phone books dropped off on our driveway every year.

I work for the Printing company that made the AT&T Yellow Pages. Our plant phased out of making them maybe 8 years ago, but somewhere out there, phone books are still being produced.
February 14, 2020, 05:38 PM
WaterburyBob
Wrapping a piece of aluminum foil around the cable wire and sliding it along until the HBO signal was unscrambled.


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February 14, 2020, 05:47 PM
ZSMICHAEL
Newsboys on the corner shouting "Extra Extra read all about it!"
February 14, 2020, 05:48 PM
Bisleyblackhawk
Blue Horse notebook paper (we could buy it in class)...cut out and saved many of those blue horse heads to turn in for prizes Smile


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February 14, 2020, 06:05 PM
Webley Green
Most of the car/truck related items have been mentioned but here's a few.
Floor vents, actually located below dash board, "flow thru ventilation".
Radios AM only and often without pushbuttons.
Manual Chokes on the dash board.
February 14, 2020, 06:16 PM
TMats
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Hand-crank telephones


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Coca Cola with codeine


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Kerosene pumps at the gas stations


quote:
Newsboys on the corner shouting "Extra Extra read all about it!"


Thanks you guys! I don’t feel so old at all...you guys, on the other hand, whoa!

I’ll add baseball cards (and football) bought in packs of 5 with bubble gum. Triples of Marv Throneberry of the NY Mets. No Mickey Mantle, maybe a Warren Spahn, a Willie Mays, Lou Burdette, Luis Aparicio, Roger Maris


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despite them
February 14, 2020, 06:16 PM
71 TRUCK
Bubble gum cigars
8 track tapes
8 track tape players
boom boxes(big portable radios)



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February 14, 2020, 06:24 PM
davetruong
Dirt clod battles.
Service merchandise.
Makeshift club houses.
Payphones.
Pagers.
Love letters.


God, Family, Country.

February 14, 2020, 06:32 PM
fpuhan
Floppy disks



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February 14, 2020, 06:36 PM
wxdave
mimeograph machines! We used to sniff the sheets as the teacher handed them out.


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February 14, 2020, 06:37 PM
VBVAGUY
Here are my items. God Bless Smile




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February 14, 2020, 06:41 PM
gocatgo
Smudge pot flares around roadwork overnight. When they were working on the road by my house we would sneak out and play with them.

And another thing that I’d rather forget - “Whites Only” signs on business doors Frown


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