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16 Jul 2015, 8:07 am

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Cars with no place to plug certain things in like cell phone chargers. The cigarette lighter being just that, a cigarette lighter.

There are still millions of cars, out there, like that, today----so, I'm sure the younger generation has seen them.







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16 Jul 2015, 8:09 am

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Gas stations, where they pumped the gas, checked your oil and washed the windows.

It's so funny that you mentioned this, when just yesterday I read where there's actually TWO states in the Union that don't ALLOW "Self-serve" gas stations----one of them was New Jersey, I think; and, I can't remember what the other state is. Isn't that WILD?
Oregon is the other state.

Oh, THANKYOU!!




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16 Jul 2015, 8:16 am

As part of volunteer work I do, today I'll be visiting a 93 year old guy who was a farmer his whole life. The things he could tell us to write here.

But I do remember my grandfather plowing with a mule, not a tractor.



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16 Jul 2015, 11:28 am

My mother-in-law remembered milk being delivered in a horse-drawn cart in Chicago. She was born in 1908 or 1907.


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16 Jul 2015, 1:04 pm

Dime stores. Five and dime.



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16 Jul 2015, 1:13 pm

Payphones where you paid a dime to make a phone call. Now the few remaining payphones charge 50 cents.



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16 Jul 2015, 1:34 pm

Portable CD players (probably?)
Original Game Boys (?)
VCRs and VCR Players
Record Disks and Record Players
Foot-Peddled Sewing Machines
Iceboxes (before Refrigerators)



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16 Jul 2015, 1:37 pm

Answering machines that have tapes inside of them.



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16 Jul 2015, 1:41 pm

Devices in stores that sold CDs where you could scan the CD and listen to samples of the CD with a headset that was attached.

Feather pens.

Video game consoles with the Sega brand.

Computers where to play a computer game you have to have its disc in the computer.



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16 Jul 2015, 2:11 pm

printers where the paper goes down into a box and is extremely loud.



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16 Jul 2015, 2:19 pm

The phone booth was actually a booth, three sides and a door. Where Clark Kent could rush in and change into Superman.



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16 Jul 2015, 2:27 pm

I didn't even see a printer for the home until I was in my 30s.

Those Sega things came out when I was in my late 20's/30's

What's really old-fashioned: metal-wheeled roller skates that opened with a key, and metal-wheeled skateboards.

There was a song about those roller skates: "Brand New Key," by Melanie.



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16 Jul 2015, 3:04 pm

Kraftie;

Was that song really about roller skates or there was another meaning?



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16 Jul 2015, 3:22 pm

Toasters that don't pop up when the toast is done.

Church bells ringing.

One-room schools.



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16 Jul 2015, 4:03 pm

NewTime wrote:
Toasters that don't pop up when the toast is done.

Church bells ringing.

One-room schools.


I miss the bells.


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16 Jul 2015, 5:07 pm

LOL..."Brand New Key" was a double-entendre.