When I was a kid...

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It's funny now to remember how large new technology was. TV's, computers, the first cell phones...I remember how huge microwave ovens were when they blew up the mass market in the 1970s. And how we all stood around watching it work its magic
great ad pics:

https://clickamericana.com/topics/disco ... ance-1970s

red,
I agree. Everything was huge. The first microwave I saw had large knob dials that you turned manually. It was such an odd contraption and I didn't understand the point of having one. My first cell phone was nicknamed "The Brick". I also remember televisions that were so heavy they'd need a forklift to get them in the door.

lol,
I saw this while googling old remotes. I don't remember anything this futuristic in my childhood!

That TV looks more old-fashioned than the Zenith my father bought in 1967.

60's always getting carsick in volvo, to this day the smell of volvo's makes me sick
or driving in the big hanomag truck or what do you say these days now everybody drives a "truck"?
sometimes trying to stay standing in the back of the blinded van, guessing where you were about in order to keep balance
at my aunt's house they had huge chains of keyhangers, back in the days when promotion actually gave things with products
this comes closest, but no mess was allowed at my aunt's place

When I was a small kid (3-6 y/o), we lived in the middle of nowhere in a small village (only two families lived near us and they were both pathological), in a house without running water nor a toilet.

I could buy fireworks