Material Things of Which the Younger Generation Has No Idea

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CB radio culture.

eventually some kinda automatic tranny will prevail due to emissions regulations, much harder to have uniform emissions output with different drivers shifting every which way.

I really enjoyed going out trick-or-treating at night WITHOUT PARENTS!! !

That's the thing which lessens the enjoyment--the presence of the parents (even though, alas, their presence is needed these days).

There was talk of razor blades in candy even back in the 1970s.

I wanted to be a truck driver when I was 15 because I wanted to try to pick up girls on the CB radio.

^^^^did you ever get involved in CB? if so, what was your handle?

I wish I would have gotten involved in it. But--if I ever asked for a CB radio or a ham radio or something, my mother and her boyfriend would have thrown a fit!

Also: my mechanical knowledge was too nil to have been a successful ham radio person.

I really got into the CB/truck stop thing, though. I would think about meeting nice, worldly girls at truck stops. Girls who were passing through on their way to somewhere---but who wanted a little break with a guy like me.

how did the CB truck stop thing work if you did not have a CB?

That's why I WANTED a CB. I wanted to talk to a girl on the road via CB, then meet her at a truck stop. Then we'd just "rap" for a long time, and really get into each other.

The good thing was: there was no commitment. She had a place to go to, and so did I.

I would still want her in my life, though. For some more good times on the road!

ah, those were the days...

Yep...

Nowadays, people are just too darn paranoid! LOL

Unfortunately, this paranoia has a basis in fact.

Sleep.

pensions.

The Scanimate! scanimate.zfx.com (although the site is currently down).

You old uns may not recognise the name, but this analogue device generated most of the computer graphics seen on television during the late 1970s and early 1980s.

The younger generation are spoiled, I tell you.

potentiometers controlled by knobs.

The milkman,tv repair man(boy were we happy to see him!) and Charles Chips.They delivered these big tins of potato chips right to the door.

leaded gas aroma