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Getting stuff with S&H Green Stamps you got at the gas station 

Only owning white underwear

Installing 8 track player in you car. Able to hear more than one track at the same time.

Smoking everywhere

Using a triptik from AAA

 
Stompin' Tom Connors said:
We were a Betamax family.

Good one -- remember also dialling information @411? That may still be a thing, but pretty much obviated by availability of information and technology.

I remember just having to use pay phones period. 

Some others:

  • When you actually needed a newspaper or calling a service like Movifone to get movie times at theaters near you
  • Those cookies shaped like the characters you could get with a Happy Meal at McDOnalds
  • physical photo albums
  • the art of making the perfect mixed tape (and the need to time it *just right* so you could record a song off the radio and avoid the DJ talking)
  • riding in the trunk seat of the family station wagon which had zero seat belts
  • the satisfying churn of a rotary phone (and the pain of dialing numbers with a lot of 7, 8, 9, and 0s in them)
  • the sound of a fax modem coming online
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1) I remember my twin brother and I riding in the back of mom and dad’s pickup truck while heading down the highway. I don’t see that happening today without a local cop pulling the truck over for child endangerment

2) Smoking on airplanes

3) Catchers mask without a throat protector

4) Going golfing and pulling out a three wood made of persimmon wood and a steel shaft

5) The Pop Shoppe

 
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calling a 1-800 number to get score updates when the game wasn't on in your viewing area. #degenerate;

Getting up early and going to get a newspaper to get the boxscore from the game to score your magic football game;

Ice cream truck coming down the road ( although there is one that does come down our street every now and then);

Going to the drug store on a Sunday morning to get the Sunday paper and having $.50 or a $1 to spend on anything you wanted.. usually candy or baseball cards;

The underground railroad of smuggling pron around the neighborhood.. and using taking the dog for a walk after dark as my cover;

 
Stealing all the change of my moms dresser and riding my bike to the Little League field and buying as many packs of baseball cards that I could at ten cards for a dime.  And I loved that gum.

 
Bucky86 said:
"Mompickmeupoutfronttheaters"
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Used to call from a pay phone. It would connect but they couldn't hear me until I put the money in so I would click the flap to hang up the phone fast 1 time for yes and 2 for no and they would ask a bunch of questions.

 
Pleading with my mom to buy a 50’ cord for the telephone so I could take the one phone in our house away from the family so I could talk dirty to my girlfriends.

 
TheIronSheik said:
I worked for Continental back in 1998-9.  They were one of a couple big companies that installed Windows 2000 on all of their computers prior to it being released.  That way MS could say "It's now available and these companies have been using it for a year with no complaints!"  So I was one of many teams that went all over the US installing new PC's throughout the airports.  One day, while in a back room, I found where they kept all the tags that could be put on bags.  One roll had bright orange stickers and said something like "FIREARM IN BAG".  I took one and put it on my bosses laptop bag right before we went out to do some work.  After about 20 minutes, a cop came up to him and asked if he really had a gun in his bag, because he shouldn't be taking that on as carrry-on.  He freaked out then saw my and my buddy laughing.  I told the cop it was a joke and we all laughed about it.  The cop said, "Just do me a favor and take that sticker off your bag."  Then left.  This was in the middle of the C Terminal at Newark.  
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Man, I miss Continental. Jeff Smisek is evil.

 
falguy said:
These are awesome. :clap:

I recall my baseball team going to away games and arriving in 2 cars.  Coach and asst coach drove and we'd fit 6-7 players in each car.  Smallest kids in the back window ledge.

Also,

Wired remote controllers.
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We rode in the bed of a pickup.

 
Angry Beavers said:
calling a 1-800 number to get score updates when the game wasn't on in your viewing area. #degenerate;

Getting up early and going to get a newspaper to get the boxscore from the game to score your magic football game;

Ice cream truck coming down the road ( although there is one that does come down our street every now and then);

Going to the drug store on a Sunday morning to get the Sunday paper and having $.50 or a $1 to spend on anything you wanted.. usually candy or baseball cards;

The underground railroad of smuggling pron around the neighborhood.. and using taking the dog for a walk after dark as my cover;
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Here in the DMV we used to call in the George Michaels Sports Machine™️

 
I needed a new heel for my shoe, so, I decided to go to Morganville, which is what they called Shelbyville in those days. So I tied an onion to my belt, which was the style at the time. Now, to take the ferry cost a nickel, and in those days, nickels had pictures of bumblebees on 'em. Give me five bees for a quarter, you'd say.

 
Mr. Ected said:
Loved watching the George Michael Sports Machine every Sunday night. Didn't get to see it until I was in college in the late 80s.
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This likely speaks more Ill of me than anyone else but I used to wonder if  Lindsay Czarniak was propositioned to get on that show. Michaels was a colossal Richard and it was odd seeing him be so accommodating. 

 
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brun said:
Smoking everywhere
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Ah yes.  Having the smoking section in the restaurant (or the plane!) right next to the non-smoking section so it didn’t really matter where you sat.   

Also, having my parents think I was really a good bowler because that was my excuse when we came home from the bars smelling like smoke in high school. 

 
rockaction said:
CurlyNight said:
When stereo systems with a phonograph, cassette player and large speakers was cool.
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You should hang out with punk rock kids then, because that's the cool equipment now
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Kind of like with portable stuff, I feel like discman's were never real "cool", they were widespread but no status... Walkmans were, maybe are again? And the first kid at school who had a (128mb, I think) MP3 player, he was so cool. I think it was a Rio. My first was maybe RCA? Apple wasn't anywhere near the game yet...

 
Walking Boot said:
How about getting disconnected from the internet because you used up your monthly minutes already and needed an adult to OK the additional per-minute charges for dialing in to prodigy or compuserve?
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I made a Prodigy reference in my football league chat the other day and no one knew what I was talking about.

 
Other things already mentioned in this thread that have come up in conversation in the last couple of weeks:
 

The remote control with a cord attached to the VCR (Beta in my house)

Having to watch the 11:00 news for scores and highlights (one of our longtime Boston sportscasters, Mike Lynch, retired tonight after 37 years)

S&H green stamps

Pay phones (if you're in the newspaper business, these were invaluable when you were filing a story from wherever, with the "Trash-80" Tandy computer that actually ran on AA batteries)

We also still have a phone with a long cord (push buttons there, not rotary dial) attached in our house ... it was there when we moved in five years ago. We kept it just for novelty, and our nieces and nephews like to mess around with it (it's not connected to our phone service).

 
Dickie Dunn said:
Other things already mentioned in this thread that have come up in conversation in the last couple of weeks:
 

The remote control with a cord attached to the VCR (Beta in my house)

Having to watch the 11:00 news for scores and highlights (one of our longtime Boston sportscasters, Mike Lynch, retired tonight after 37 years)

S&H green stamps

Pay phones (if you're in the newspaper business, these were invaluable when you were filing a story from wherever, with the "Trash-80" Tandy computer that actually ran on AA batteries)

We also still have a phone with a long cord (push buttons there, not rotary dial) attached in our house ... it was there when we moved in five years ago. We kept it just for novelty, and our nieces and nephews like to mess around with it (it's not connected to our phone service).
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Yow. I remember these as a young, young kid. 

 
When your a kid with $1 and walk in to a carry-out ask for 2 packs of Winston's and the clerk didn't think twice about not letting you have them.

 
When direct TV first came out you could buy a charged card and get all the channels for free even pornos.  Those were the days.

 
Walking along the country roads near my house looking for glass pop bottles that could be returned to the store for money. (mid 70's)

Having to take naps on Monday evenings so my parents would allow me to stay up for Monday Night Football (mid 70's)

Watching Howard Cosell's "halftime highlights" on MNF of every game from Sunday (In glorious fashion I might add)

Spending hours/days pouring through the JC Penny and Sears Christmas catalogs.

 
CurlyNight said:
When perms were in style for men and women and platform shoes. 😮
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I remember wearing my platform shoes with my suit to go clubbing. Travolta had nothing on me.

Speaking of shoes. Anyone recall desert boots & earth shoes? I worked with a guy who bought a bunch of earth shoes in case they stopped making them. Also Jox from Thom McCann were the 1st really lightweight sneaker I recall being mass produced. 

 
When dad gave us haircuts.  I'm youngest of 3 brothers and always had to go first.  Nowhere to hide.  My bowl cut looked like Lloyd Christmas in Dumb and Dumber if you raised his bangs about 1.5 inches.

I tried to walk around school with my eyebrows raised all the time like I was surprised to see everybody to try and make it look like the gap between my brows and hair wasn't so big.  True story.  I'll never forget my first trip to a real barber in my teens (maybe 12).  It was liberating. 

 
Scrounging enough change to run up to Sky City (pre-Walmart) to buy a new plastic baseball after we cracked the current one and the duct tape was working anymore.

 
No “participation” trophies. You had to actually WIN. 

No bike helmets

Drive-ins

Drinking water from the sink

Skin-a-max

Only one tv in the house

No microwave ovens

You got news from the newspaper or the tv

AM radio

Only one car 

Mother’s didn’t work

 
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