Material Things of Which the Younger Generation Has No Idea

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14 Jul 2015, 3:38 pm

Thanks for the heads-up on the Erector Sets. The Boy is SOOOO getting one for Christmas.

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14 Jul 2015, 4:09 pm

Front doors of houses with mail slots where the mail carrier walks up to the door and puts the mail in the slot.

Newspaper slots that the paper boy puts the newspaper in instead of dropping it on the driveway.

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14 Jul 2015, 5:43 pm

I have a mail slot going into my apartment!

I remember how shocked I was, in 1983, when all these video places popped up all of a sudden.

I remember, circa 1979, how, in video game parlors, there would be that ubiquitous pulsating rhythm emanating from games like Centipede and Space Invaders.

Does anybody remember listening to music on the beach with a transistor radio?

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14 Jul 2015, 6:31 pm

Lukecash12- you mentioned real hymnals, do you remember the ones with shape notes?

For church folks, do you remember when a Revival lasted all week?

Raleigh and any other military oldies- do you remember the khaki uniform, or Chrome dome helmets?

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14 Jul 2015, 7:51 pm

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Televisions made of fake wood. Televisions that were made to look like a piece of furniture. Floppy disks. Schools having chalkboards. Payphones. Arcades and arcade games. Record players and records. VCRs and VHS tapes. Cassette tapes and cassette players. Car radios that can only play the radio and cassette tapes. Cell phones that can only be used for phone calls. Dirt driveways and dirt roads.

All of these things are still in use, today----so, surely, the younger generation knows about them!!

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14 Jul 2015, 8:00 pm

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A wood stove, and a cord of cedar out back that's waiting to be split. Cows waiting to be milked. Chickens and hogs you need to slaughter yourself. Hunting for frogs at the creek so Mother can fry them for supper. Going to church and singing music that has multiple verses and actual sermon material in it, instead of a bunch of choruses; there was no screen and projector, just hymnals. Waking up to the sound of a couple of roosters, and if you don't have one your neighbor probably does so you wake up anyways. Grandfather telling stories while he plays his harmonica.

All of these things are still going-on, down South, where my family lives.

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14 Jul 2015, 8:04 pm

BuyerBeware wrote:

Thanks for the heads-up on the Erector Sets. The Boy is SOOOO getting one for Christmas.

You mean, so you'll have an excuse to be playing with one? LOL You're welcome!!

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14 Jul 2015, 8:19 pm

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Do you remember the ones with shape notes? For church folks, do you remember when a Revival lasted all week? Raleigh and any other military oldies- do you remember the khaki uniform, or Chrome dome helmets?

I do----I do!! I thought khakis were still being worn..... NO branch wears them? I remember the Navy and Marines wearing them.....

I still DO listen to a transistor radio at the beach----AND, when I go camping----AND when a storm knocks-out the electricity!!

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14 Jul 2015, 8:50 pm

Do they still teach cursive writing anymore?

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14 Jul 2015, 8:56 pm

I think it's part of the second-grade curriculum.

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15 Jul 2015, 2:52 pm

outhouses.

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15 Jul 2015, 3:00 pm

Someone already mentioned smoking vs non-smoking sections but how about even before that when smokers smoked anywhere they wanted and second hand smoke wasn't even a known issue.

CC- yes I think the Navy and Marines may still wear khaki uniforms.

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15 Jul 2015, 4:07 pm

Clothes lines where you hang clothes out to dry.

Car phones.

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15 Jul 2015, 4:26 pm

Phone lines that people share with their neighbors.

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15 Jul 2015, 4:55 pm

chapstan wrote:

Someone already mentioned smoking vs non-smoking sections but how about even before that when smokers smoked anywhere they wanted and second hand smoke wasn't even a known issue.

Good one! It is weird to watch old movies where they show people in a cinema audience and they are smoking at the same time while watching the movie.

Also, the other day I remembered that as a boy the doctor's office had ashtrays in the Waiting Room. I mean, I'm a smoker and yet when I remembered that I was like: WTF?

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15 Jul 2015, 5:07 pm

I remember when airplanes had ashtrays at the end of the armrest.

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