Without telling your age, what is something from your childhood that kids today wouldn't know about?

[reecejackox]

Blockbusters for me.

 

[PrincessShmoo]

Captain Kangaroo and Howdy Doody

 

[FigmentSpark]

Dial telephones
getting up to change the TV channels

 

[MOREMICKEYFORME]

Land of the Lost and Magic Garden. (both TV shows)

 

[2China2009]

Sesame Street

 

[wendypooh22]

Sunday morning cartoons

 

[nw6675]

Playing outside sun up to sun down, drinking from the hose, Friday night skating rink, hot fudge sundaes at Farrell's...

 

[tvguy]

Free TV.

 

[Kittyblue]

Waiting for your favorite song to play on the radio so you could record it with your tape player

 

[mousefan73]

Well my DD and I were watching Ellen yesterday and Bon Jovi was on.. She never heard of them.

 

[skittles67]

8-track tapes

 

[Heather07438]

Remembering everybody's phone number in your own head, lol

Navigating by paper map and knowing how to fold it back up right

Having to fast forward & rewind to keep playing your favorite songs on a cassette

Growing up being told fat was the ultimate health enemy, when it turned out to be overload of simple carbs instead

 

[LuvOrlando]

The annoyance of having a friend with zeros in their phone number.
66 WNBC because no-one had money and my free bank radio only had AM.

 

[RamblingMad]

Pagers. Voicemail machines. Brick mobile phones.

 

[NannyBeBe]

Slide rules
Getting water from a pump in the kitchen
The milkman
Returning glass bottles to the store for a refund
Scooping the cream off the top of milk

 

[Chupaca bruh]

Traffic barricades with a little flame on them instead of a battery powered light.

 

[Breezy_Carol]

Skate keys

 

[dvc lover 1970]

Blockbusters for me.

UHF tv channels

 

[macraven]

Having only 3 tv channels and all just black and white viewing ( no color tv)

 

[Erica Ladd]

Cassingles

*69 phone feature