Things you remember from when you were younger?

[DarrenTR1970]

Station wagons. It was like a playroom on wheels. None of today's stuffing kids in carseats until they're 13 years old nonsense. You rode in back, you played with your pals, it was great.

How about taking said station wagon to the drive-in with the back end facing the screen so you could roll out sleeping bags and lay on them with pillows while your parents sat in folding chairs.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

Three channels on the telly

and no colours

I just discovered that audible has lots of old German radio serials from the 60s =) It's fun to hear them again after all that time.

 

[Delta Vega]

and no colours

I just discovered that audible has lots of old German radio serials from the 60s =) It's fun to hear them again after all that time.

My family got their first colour set in 1973

 

[Kor]

The days of sneaking your own snacks into the cinema. One time I snuck (sneaked?) in a can of Pepsi in a puffy jacket, and opened it with a loud crack and a hiss in the middle of the movie. It was hilarious.

Kor

 

[RandyS]

The days of sneaking your own snacks into the cinema. One time I snuck (sneaked?) in a can of Pepsi in a puffy jacket, and opened it with a loud crack and a hiss in the middle of the movie. It was hilarious.

Kor

Did you get thrown out?

For me, I remember when my mom and grandparents were still alive. The world was a better place then. If they could see the mess we've made of everything today my grandparents would be constantly bitching about the worthlessness of the younger generation (they would not be wrong and did that when they were alive anyway), and mom would have killed herself in a fit of depression by now.

But at least I'd still have them.

 

[Oddish]

I snuck in a whole package of Milky Way bars once. Much quieter.

 

[rhubarbodendron]

^I used to sneak in fruit jelleys or gummi bears that I repacked in a tupperware box. No traitorous rustling.
Do you recall the fashion in the late 60s and early 70s. And the horrible haircuts in the 80s? ROTF!

 

[Oddish]

The 50's were the year for horrible haircuts. Those crewcuts, blechhh.

 

[Lanzman]

Picking elderberries so that Grandma could make elderberry pie. Picking black raspberries (or "black caps," as we called them) and filling up a coffee can with them. Add milk and sugar and then squish them up with a spoon and eat. Yum. Climbing the maple tree in the back yard. The yearly trip to the Eastern States Exposition, the Big E, to eat fried dough and ride the rides. Playing in the sandbox with Major Matt Mason and my small collection of Outer Space Men. A little later, when I was older, taking my tent and disappearing into the woods for a few days at a time. Riding the tobbogan down the big hill across the road from our house in the winter. Spending hours at my drawing board. *sigh*

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

I wasn't that daring. But I remember climbing trees and looking down at streetlights.

Do kids even climb trees anymore?

Only if there's an app

 

[Oddish]

I guess, given the hours I devoted to my old Atari 2600, I can't judge too much.

 

[Ar-Pharazon]

For TV channels, we had 4 VHF (CBS, NBC, ABC, PBS) and 2 or 3 UHF in Chicagoland. I could occasionally get a station or two from Milwaukee, their ABC and PBS (it was the only time I saw Red Dwarf until many years later, Chicago never had it).

 

[Oddish]

I remember when I was 7 or so, after dinner I'd go to my room, turn on all the lights (I was afraid of the dark), and play records on my turntable. Happy as a clam, I was.