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Getting free road maps from AAA or gas stations that were a pita to read in the car. Glove compartments full of road maps. 

 
The phone book.  

White pages were the source of hours of fun prank calling people.  

As I got older I had to depend on the yellow pages if I needed a service like a plumber.  No reviews, nothing.  Just randomly picking because their ad looked legit.  

 
Walking Boot said:
Remember all the preparation that went in to taking a photo? Setting the shutter speed, exposure, f-stops? Lots of planning. And maybe, maybe, you took a second one, just in case, but that was expensive. But you wouldn't know how it turned out until two weeks later, so better hope all your settings were right.

God forbid someone walked in front of you while you were taking a picture, that was like $3 wasted.
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I grew up in a tourist town. 

My friends and I used to photobomb as many people as possible with the goal of doing it subtly so they wouldn't know until they developed the pictures.

If people yelled at us, that means we were caught and lost, which would lead to game #2- Sprint away down the sidewalk of our packed main drag in "Dodge the tourist". The game usually ended up not being able to dodge the tourist- in an explosion of crap t-shirts, maps and apologies and a quick exit off the main drag and into the hills. 

 
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Walking Boot said:
Remember all the preparation that went in to taking a photo? Setting the shutter speed, exposure, f-stops? Lots of planning. And maybe, maybe, you took a second one, just in case, but that was expensive. But you wouldn't know how it turned out until two weeks later, so better hope all your settings were right.

God forbid someone walked in front of you while you were taking a picture, that was like $3 wasted.
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This is great. Even moreso just the thought of buying rolls of film and having to drop them off to be developed. 

You had no idea what you'd end up with. It was expensive. 

The invention of the digital camera was huge. Even Polaroids don't compare.

 
Walking Boot said:
My "college fund" was four $1,000 CDs, staggered to come due the four years I would be in college. My dad bought them in the late 1970s. Interest rate was about 18% for 18-20 years  :lmao:
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After 18 years, one would be worth almost $20k.  After 20, just over $27k.  According to this, in the mid-90s a year of college at a 4-year state school (including room, board, tuition, and fees) on average was just over $11k.  Your dad did good.

 
clipping baseball/football cards to our bike wheels so that the spokes would slap them when turning making your bike a "hot rod".....

 
shuke said:
The phone book.  

White pages were the source of hours of fun prank calling people.  

As I got older I had to depend on the yellow pages if I needed a service like a plumber.  No reviews, nothing.  Just randomly picking because their ad looked legit.  
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Where the most important business naming requirement was how many AAAAA's you could put in front of your name so it would show up first in your category. 

 
We used to stand outside the convenience store and ask random strangers to buy us beer...it was usually a 50/50 proposition.

 
Movie rental late fees

Riding in station wagon back seat, facing backwards

Yoga pants thread

Mom made matching clothes for me and my brother on her sewing machine

Calculators, as in playing on one for hours.

Chipped beef on toast for dinner

Elementary school lunch room pizza - wtf was that?

Dad making bank when he returned to Texas from a trip somewhere with cases of Coors 

Me wanting to taste beer, and mom pouring some of dad's beer into a Dixie cup and handing it to me ... in the back seat of the car.  Pretty sure I was not wearing a seat belt.

The World Almanac - my Internet.

 
I used to go to a five and dime for random stuff- pre 7/11. comic books, soft drinks, candy, fruit- whatever- "buds five and dime". turned into a corner market... which I guess is basically the same thing. saying "I'm going to the five and dime" just has an old-timey ring to it.

 
This is a little off topic, but we've been talking a lot about lifestyle changes. But what about your job or careers?

I'm a graphic designer/artist and as a whole that industry has been completely changed by technology. 

Back in the day we would have to glue our designs down on mechanical boards. Headlines and body copy would come out in long strips and you would physically have to glue each line down. If there was an error or edit, you would have to cut each letter out by hand and manually re-space them. You would use spray mount and rubber cement indoors all day until you were high as a kite. 

Then you would send the boards to the printer to photograph and a stripper (not the dollar dance kind) would manually separate those into 4 color plates (Cyan, magenta, yellow and black) for printing.

They didn't have stock photography, you had to shoot everything and it was supplied on 4x6 chromes. We would have books and books of them. Using a grease pencil to mark up cropping instructions and actual hand retouching instructions. 

 

 
Mister CIA said:
Movie rental late fees

Riding in station wagon back seat, facing backwards

Yoga pants thread

Mom made matching clothes for me and my brother on her sewing machine

Calculators, as in playing on one for hours.

Chipped beef on toast for dinner

Elementary school lunch room pizza - wtf was that?

Dad making bank when he returned to Texas from a trip somewhere with cases of Coors 

Me wanting to taste beer, and mom pouring some of dad's beer into a Dixie cup and handing it to me ... in the back seat of the car.  Pretty sure I was not wearing a seat belt.

The World Almanac - my Internet.
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Rolls of film.  Disney World trip when my kids were 8 and 11.  Took a roll of pics at Animal Kingdom.  Then went to Magic Kingdom and when I went to change the roll I noticed the first roll didn't advance after each shot.  Came off the little tracks.  Me the dopey dad felt compelled to go back to Animal Kingdom and recreate all our shots.  Not joking.  We went back later in the day and tried again.  Turned out the camera was broken and rolls wouldn't scroll. Just wouldn't stay on the track.  

So upsetting.  Wife was mad at me for dragging them back in time.  Kids still laugh/make fun about that day.  They voted me worst photographer of the decade.  My MIL felt the need to pile on by announcing "I hope you kids see what a silly waste of resources this was."     **okay the last sentence is a movie quote but the rest is a true story. 

 
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