Material Things of Which the Younger Generation Has No Idea

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I remember "Howdy Doody" and the TV series "Fury" (about a horse). I read Osama Bin Laden watched "Bonanza" and "Fury" when he was a child.

On Sunday nights in the 1950s, we watched a Disney show that varied between cartoons, "Pollyanna", "Tonka", miscellaneous shows and about once a month they showed a documentary. I love documentaries. This was before PBS and my only exposure to documentaries was the occasional one on this Disney show that was on Sunday nights.

I remember "Peyton Place" and "Ironside". My family frowned on "Peyton Place" but everyone else in the community was heavily into it.

OMG - a job for life, YES. When the person retired, they got a nice watch. And the companies wanted the people to stay (if they were a good worker). It was considered a good thing that a person stayed at a job for decades.

With the advent of digital TV, having the picture look 'ghosted'; now it looks pixelated if the signal is bad.

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Oh, I just thought of another one.....

Does anybody remember when you could just walk down the street (so-to-speak), and get a JOB? Like, you could just go to the gas station, on the corner----or, the corner drug-store----and get a job as a gas-pump-jockey; or, as a soda jerk, at the fountain?

Speaking of gas stations..... Remember when you could stop at a gas station, and ask for directions? Nowadays, everybody working at a gas station, has COMMUTED to work, and doesn't know the area. Also, remember when maps, were FREE?

Also, speaking of soda jerks..... Does anybody remember actually going to a restaurant that had car hops? I thought, at-the-time, that that was the coolest thing, EVER----I mean, come-ON, staying in your car, and being SERVED!?!?!

The show with the bear called Ben was called "Gentle Ben."

I've never been served by a car-hop.

I used to enjoy going to the drive-in.

The Disney show was called "The Wonderful World of Disney."

Anybody remember "Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom?" Or "Wonderama?"

Of course I remember "Ironside"--Perry Mason with gray hair and a wheelchair!

Tape recorders, cassettes and blank tapes.

I remember when you didn't need a locking gas cap for your car...and when you had to wait for your designated day to fill up your tank. Thankfully, I was only a young passenger and wasn't feeling the stress directly, but I still hated sitting in the car, waiting in line for hours--it was like being on a long trip devoid of any changing scenery, novel destination, or even remotely potential adventure.

At least we got some good conservation practices/tech out of the whole mess(es).

Wow, us oldies are way so much better people than those rascally youngies!!

I had a trashcan in my bedroom (in the 70's) that looked like a giant 7-up can. I think they made Coke and Dr. Pepper trashcans, as well.

I used to make gum wrapper chains, out of fruit stripe gum wrappers, and would hang them across my bedroom walls.

8-tracks, I only recently learned what they were

there is a WONDERFUL movie whose title escapes my aging memory about how 8-tracks are so bad they're good, it was narrated by the lady from star trek TNG baba yar I think.