Things your children will never experience

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Grand Vol

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Feeling a bit nostalgic today and thinking of some of the things I grew up with that children of today have no experience with or likely ever see. Things like:

The entire little league team riding in the beds of two trucks on the way to a local burger and shake joint after a game.

Being able to build a fire on a public beach after dark.

Using a knob to change the channel (all 13 of them, 14 if you count the UHF channel) on a TV set.

Adjusting ears on said TV set. Aluminum foil optional.

Wondering why said TV had 13 channels when only five actually had stations.

Riding a bike all over the town (sans knee/elbow pads, a helmet and any parental guidance) and barely making it home for supper.

Buttons for radio stations that popped out when another was pushed in.

Blockbuster Video and wanting to go into the section behind the curtain.

"And don't forget to rewind."

Having to flip a cassette over to hear the rest.

Road maps actually being used.

Lawn darts. (a.k.a. head implant missiles)

Answering machines.

Rotary phones for that matter. With the extra long cord so you can go between rooms.

Three on the tree.

Leaded gas, unleaded gas and which one you needed.

Calling the radio station and dedicating a song to a girl you liked.

Seeing the World Trade Center in movies was considered part of the NYC skyline and normal.

Dial up and the time it took to connect (also the sound would be foreign to most children these days)

Dewey Decimal System and card catalog.

Mercurochrome and the fact your parents believed it was a cure all for cuts and scrapes...regardless of how much it stung. (nothing like the sting of an asphalt scrape being "cured" by pouring the piss of Satan onto it)

Chalkboard (and the accompanying nails on said board)

And getting picked to clean the chalk out of the erasers by the teacher.

Anything else?
 
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And here's a video to make you feel dated:

[youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1NKoMNy5bY[/youtube]
 
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You had knobs on your TV? We had vise grips.

And a $.50 surcharge if you didn't rewind.
 
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Getting film developed.
Riding in a car with no seat belts.
Dad "blowing the soot" out of the car.
Sears when they actually made good stuff.
Drive in theaters
 
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Silver Dollar City
Magic Kingdom
Mine will never know the joy of growing up with a world of mountains to play in, like I had back home.
Real music
Really knowing your neighbors
Not having a computer
Or the Internet
All day old fashion homecoming church meeting
Real family reunions
 
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And service merchandise, watching what you pick roll out from the back!
 
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Crawling under my desk in elementary school for nuclear war drills.
Being my dads remote control.
Not having air conditioning, power windows, power door locks, etc. in cars.
Milk in paper cartons.
Transistor radios.
 
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VolStrom said:
Crawling under my desk in elementary school for nuclear war drills.
Being my dads remote control.
Not having air conditioning, power windows, power door locks, etc. in cars.
Milk in paper cartons.
Transistor radios.
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Add lack of seat belts to what the family car didn't have when I grew up. My mother would stick her right arm out in front of me and my brother to keep us from sliding off the clear plastic covered seat, and hitting the metal dash with our faces.
 
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1972 Grad said:
Add lack of seat belts to what the family car didn't have when I grew up. My mother would stick her right arm out in front of me and my brother to keep us from sliding off the clear plastic covered seat, and hitting the metal dash with our faces.
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Amen to that. Every time my parents would have to brake hard they would stick their arm out like they could actually hold us back.
 
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I remember when

there were only 3 TV stations,we were lucky to have a ABC UHF station

and we would reach thru the window to tune the antenna thru the window and screen

couldn't afford a remote controlled one

our first phone was a party line,which sucked ,the other party tied it up talking all day and yes.the phone was black and a dial up


my parents couldn't afford a window AC,till after we were out of the house

oh there were earth quakes in Kingsport Tn,back when I was young

you couldn't buy gas or anything on a holiday,till a 7 11 came to town

the park in font of the school DB, was a major drug dealing spot for years :)

oh and Broad Street was a place to cruise in Kingsport,back then,you would see all the hot cars and hot babes :)crusing and not saying a whole lot :) fights and drugs got that broke up

and if you had a hot car,you could usually find a drag race at a red light or on Lincoln street

but if you were a parent looking for your kids,that was the place to go,just ask my sisters,they got dragged off there more than once lol but you knew where your kids were then


oh when cable came,I think it was 28 channels or so,it was big time

almost got shot in the back of a bar,when i was 15,my 16 year old friends mom said go find your daddy to him :) so we went,we drove behind a bar looking for his car,this guy stepped out with a rifle and shoved it in my face,hollering he was going to kill us,he was beat up and bleeding big time on his face,he blinked his eyes and put on his glasses,thank god and told us he had been in a fight and apologized,needless to say,I was sacred ****less :) it was my face

wasn't the only time I seen a gun that close,I do have to say it looked like a cannon

and i hate to say it,but I haven't been in a library since Dewey was there :)

and the swimming pool next to the high school,seen a few fist fights,knife fights and some beer bottles broken over heads,good place to send the kids I guess lol

oh and the two movie theaters in town,the State and the Strand,watched Elvis movies for 6, I think Pepsi caps at one and Bunny bread wrappers at the other on certain Saturdays

we took frozen cans of soda wrapped in aluminum foil,so we didn't have to buy drinks,while we were there,movie theater screens are small as hell compared to those and yes,they have been out of business for a long time
 
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VolStrom said:
Getting film developed.
Riding in a car with no seat belts.
Dad "blowing the soot" out of the car.
Sears when they actually made good stuff.
Drive in theaters
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lol my dad done that too

"Dad "blowing the soot" out of the car."

dad had an old police cruiser,seen him hit a 120 miles an hour,on a Sunday,driving back from Bristol Tn,on the old highway to Kingsport

that was back when you couldn't buy a beer in Kingsport on a Sunday
 
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Staying up on Monday nights just to see the halftime highlights of Sundays games on Monday Night Football
 
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Saturday cowboy movies with Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, etc.

Downtown being full of people on Saturday.

Staying outside all day playing in the snow, and just coming in long enough to put our wool gloves and socks on the steam radiators to dry them out. Get some hot chocolate, and right back at it.
 
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oh Saturday horror shows,in black and white,my Uncles sacred the crap out of me with them,i would run into the bathroom and hide when it got to bad lol

watched the Little Rascals too
 
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really ugly flannel baseball unis in HS and generic unis for FB in HS --- short shorts and tight fitting tops for BB -- of course the Chucks are back, but not for wearing only in games like back then
 
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oh the tall knee high socks for guys


long ass hair was a no no


bell bottoms


jean jackets


bra less girls in a halter tops getting sent home from high school, with bell bottom jeans and long hair :)
 
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governmentmule said:
oh Saturday horror shows,in black and white,my Uncles sacred the crap out of me with them,i would run into the bathroom and hide when it got to bad lol

watched the Little Rascals too
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3 Stooges and the Honeymooners, as well as All in the Family
 
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