DelMarVa's Premier Source for News, Opinion, Analysis, and Human Interest Contact Publisher Joe Albero at alberobutzo@wmconnect.com or 410-430-5349
DelMarVa's Premier Source for News, Opinion, Analysis, and Human Interest Contact Publisher Joe Albero at alberobutzo@wmconnect.com or 410-430-5349
Manual typewriter
ReplyDeleteHolding up a cassette recorder to the speaker on the radio to record your favorite song. And then getting annoyed when the DJ talked through the first few words. LOL
ReplyDeleteFurby
ReplyDeletePlaying outside with other children till the street lights came on.
ReplyDeleteBridgevillan
Holy rail...
ReplyDeleterotating the tv antenna to get better channel reception
ReplyDeleteRotary phones. Specifically how you could dial the number, hang up quick, and the phone would ring. Oh, the simple joy!
ReplyDeleteodd jobs
ReplyDeleteMilkman
ReplyDeleteDid the MilkMan come today?
ReplyDeleteGetting three stations on TV, and having to walk up to the TV to change the channel.
ReplyDeleteRespect your elders.....
ReplyDeleteUsing a map to navigate.
ReplyDeleteRespect
ReplyDelete5 gallons of gasoline for $1.00
ReplyDeletePhone without a dial. When you had to tell the operator the number you wanted.
ReplyDeleteRespect for my teachers.
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ReplyDeleteHaving Bob spin a 45 at Watson Smoke House on Main St Salisbury, MD. Listen to the entire record to see if you wanted to purchase it.
Along with dimes placed on the curb out front to donate to March of Dimes. Strung up and down the street. Wouldn't get a dollar today before some turd would cabbage them.
Young's music across the street on the corner in the basement. The corner opposite where Mr. Albero use to hold up.
Picking up empty soda bottles to get money back for it.
ReplyDeleteSpyder bikes with a banana seat!
Having my hair air dry and then ironing it with a clothes iron, for real!
ReplyDeleteAunt Jamima making pancakes at the Colonial Store. She was so sweet and nice to us children.
ReplyDeleteFuller Brush Salesman coming to the door, after the Avon Lady.
ReplyDeleteNot allowed to wear jeans to school - Definitely not girls (girls HAD to wear skirts/dresses) but boys too.
ReplyDeleteWhen a heater and a radio were extras in a new car.
ReplyDelete8 track tapes
ReplyDeletePatriotism, courtesy, love, marriage,work, tolerance, non-racism for starters
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ReplyDeleteFind a neighbor willing to give you some change to wash a car, cut a lawn, take care of their pet, anything to get a coin in hand. We did something instead of open our hand looking for a coin to be handed out to you. As the good president says...Art of The Deal. Good days...miss them
Shoveling a path to the outhouse.
ReplyDeleteTRUTH AND LOYALTY.
ReplyDeleteWORKING AND CHORES
ReplyDeleteSavings, investments. History of America. Needs, not wants. How was your day. Opening/holding the door.
ReplyDeleteBuying a loaf of bread for 25 cents, or a gallon of gas for 30 cents. And no, I'm not ancient....yet.
ReplyDeleteMilk and bread delivered to the house by route salesmen.
ReplyDelete
ReplyDeleteRiding in the back of the pickup with the wind blowing through our hair.
slavery
ReplyDeleteYou must have been born before Lincoln was president.
Deletehand milking cows and actually learning math and english in school
ReplyDeleteHorrible green bubble girls gym suits.
ReplyDeleteFilm strips in class
ReplyDelete4 track tape player in the 66 convertible! Add on A/C under the dash!
ReplyDeletesay to EVERY OLDER PERSON: yes mam, no mam, yes sir, no sir, and thank you...if not my ass was made so I couldn't sit on it for a half hour or so...that was called a spanking....another word kids today don't know!
ReplyDeletetoothpicks = free channels
ReplyDeleteThe day Elvis died
ReplyDeleteRabbit Ears. TV console. VHF/UHF. Change the track (on the 8 track). Needle skip. Record scratch. Turntable. 3 on the tree, 4 on the floor. Carburetor. Black and white television.
ReplyDeletetube testers for your tv & radio. and in house visits by a tv repairman.
ReplyDeleteam radio.
ReplyDeletespankings, especially in public if you were acting up.
ReplyDelete2:44 yeah it started with the Johnson "great society program" all of us tax payers are slaves to it.
ReplyDelete2:44 seriously??? So you are over 150 years old? Obviously a Liberal retard.
ReplyDeleteOpen a checking or savings account get a toaster. S&H Green stamps at the grocery store.
Eating dirt
ReplyDeleteRoswell eyewitness.Not just reading about it but an eyewitness to the aftermath.I drove the military vehicle that removed the object(s) in question,and yes there were 2.
ReplyDeletePop rocks
ReplyDelete8 Tracks, no seatbelt required, no car seat required, no bike helmet required, playing outside because there are no electronics to suck out your brains!
ReplyDeleteNO air conditioning in the house.
ReplyDeleteLeaving the door unlocked when you leave to go somewhere.
Leaving the door unlocked when you go to sleep.
Going outside in the morning to get your eggs.
No dogs on leashes and no collars.
Wearing the same pair of jeans for days in a row.
Eating dinner at 6:00 pm every night at the dinner table.
Chores.
If you came in 2nd place you didn't get a trophy or badge.
Eating at a restaurant was rare and an actual exciting event!
Having to pay a nickel or a dime to open the bathroom stall door.
ReplyDeletePraying before classes began in public school and a paddling from the principal if we were sent to his office.
ReplyDeleteGetting water from outside, hand pump thingy.
ReplyDeleteA matchbook in the 8-track player.
ReplyDeleteBasic math and writing legible material with correct grammar.
ReplyDelete@3:52, some of your comments are the norm at our place even today!
ReplyDeleteDave T: When kids in my neighborhood wanted to get together, they would come to the front of your house and call your name from outside until you came to the door to see them. It was a common personal practice among kids back then, when they actually enjoyed being outside doing things together and having fun like kids should do.
ReplyDeleteSears Toughskins, 'Fish head' sneakers, and soda pop in glass bottles
ReplyDeletePaladin
Green Stamps.
ReplyDelete39¢ gasoline.
A glass lined Thermos in a metal lunchbox.
Gym uniforms.
Poodle skirts.
The D.A. haircut.
A high number. (The Draft)
Froggy the Magic Gremlin.
The Hit Parade.
Television cigarette commercials.
The beehive hairdo.
I could go on for another hour, at least.
Joe Mannix
ReplyDeleteDad left his keys in the ignition on the street, we went to the movies on our bikes and they were always still there after the double feature that we paid 30 cents to watch, popcorn was tens cents, large fifteen cents. The cop on the corner knew you. The crime, what there was of it, was always in one section of town, take a guess.
ReplyDeleteThe poor section
DeleteAutomobile blinker switch was on the floor
ReplyDelete3 on the tree
Most people dont even know how to drive a stick shift now a days
Saddle shoes, or your neighbor whopping your ass and then taking you home and tell your parents then you get another ass whipping from parents for acting up .Oh and going outside and getting your own switch for the whipping.
ReplyDeleteA whipping with father's belt.
ReplyDeleteyes mam , yes sir , no mam , no sir , please and thank you for the slinky
ReplyDeleteice skating on the local ponds every winter.
ReplyDeleteWalking to school
ReplyDeleteBobby Baker's Carousel hotel.
ReplyDeleteThere is nothing wrong with your television. We have taken control.
ReplyDeleteGetting to run the mimeograph machine at school. And smelling the cool wet pages.
ReplyDelete4 track tape player in the 66 convertible! Add on A/C under the dash!
ReplyDeleteLincoln logs, pound puppies,cabbage patch dolls.little people..
ReplyDeleteRoot Beer Float at an actual soda fountain.
ReplyDeleteWhat is a church key? I've got one so does that mean I'm religious?
ReplyDeletefrom the Statler Bros. Hit parade, grape kool aid & Sadie Hawkins Dance,
ReplyDeleteWKHI in Ocean City.
ReplyDeleteDating, and marrying a Virgin.
ReplyDeleteBeginning every morning in school with "The Pledge Of Allegiance" which included "God".
ReplyDeleteChurches that didn't lock the doors
ReplyDeletelying about being a virgin
ReplyDeleteMarriage, then sex, then babies.
ReplyDelete2:48, Oh my Gosh. I had forgotten about those UGLY green gym suits!!!
ReplyDeleteGreen Machine
ReplyDeletePutting playing cards in your bicycle wheels spokes.
ReplyDeleteRiding bicycles.
Taking lunch to school in a brown bag.
Encyclopedias.
Door to door salesman.
Drive ins NOT Drive bys.
Looking in the back of your console TV to see if the tube came on.
Console tv.
Console stereo.
The iceman.
ROBO carwash.
Texaco gas station and trusting your car to the man with the star to wash your windshield and check your oil when he pumped your gas.
Ice cream man.
Making homemade ice cream.
CB Radios
Sony Beta Max...
Tired of writing.....
My first trip to a McDonalds I got two hamburgers, French fries and a chocolate shake; 50 cents.
ReplyDeleteTV with only one channel.
ReplyDelete5 years old and walking to school alone
ReplyDeleteyes sir/no sir
for punishment at school writing sentences on the board
clapping erasers to remove build up of chalk
telephone party lines
no seatbelts
am radio in the car
no remote for tv
no air conditioning
walking to the grocery store, only one car in the family
short people got no reason
ReplyDeleteChores every day, babysitting neighbors kids, dance parties with no drugs or drinking except soda pop.
ReplyDeleteHARD WORK, earn your way.........Period
ReplyDeleteThe feeling in America during the attacks of 9/11.
ReplyDeleteThree cartoons, a newsreel, a 20 minute comedy short or adventure serial, then two full length features, which repeated all day long in a movie theater for the kids' admission price of 25 cents. We could stay in there from eleven a.m. until six p.m. when they cleared and cleaned the place for the adults' seven o'clock shows.
ReplyDeleteMan moonshot
ReplyDeleteRabbit ears
Respecting one's elders regardless of their mental situation
Respecting authority
Yo-yo's, slinky's, muscle cars and hot chicks
ReplyDeleteClean, shined shoes.
ReplyDeleteNature
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