I'll start. What can you add?

-An odometer rolling over from 100,000 to 0 miles.

-A metal built-in mirrored bath wall cabinet with a little slot in the back. (Don't tell me you never used a double-edged safety razor.)

A balanced budget.

Black and white TV.


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Parachute pants

Candy cigarettes

A good public education

Skate keys

12 Cents a gallon prices for Regular leaded gasoline

Fizzies! and the Frito Bandito.

Premium leaded gasoline

Milkmen

Newspapers actually being delivered by paperboys, on bicycles.

Cars without seatbelts

Marines without their names on their fatigues

Cars with a distributor, points, a coil, spark plugs you can see, and a carburetor.

Margarine pillows with the coloring to knead in.

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Originally posted by Brice:
Margarine pillows with the coloring to knead in.

My dad told me about those.

They were so gross.

They will never know the satisfaction of slamming down the receiver on a rotary phone.

A juke box
A dimmer stud on the floorboard of the car
Coal delivered to their house for heating, with occasional thin tin coins announcing the name of the coal supplier randomly mixed in.

Tax tokens, bus tokens.

Here in Washington, eons ago, tokens were issued for payment of sales tax. Not sure why.

Tokens in the coal? Never heard of that, though I do remember coal delivery. Where was that done?

Having an ice box instead of a refrigerator; and a guy bringing a block of ice upstairs on a set of tongs.

sweat stains.. caloused hands...

A TV without a remote.

Live action Saturday morning TV action shows that don't teach a lesson (Sky King, etc).

A transistor radio.

An ashtray in a car built after about 2010.

Sugar Corn Flakes

Super Sugar Crisps

Cigarette ads on TV

Schools without "resource" officers

A beer can that you need a church key to open.

Rabbit ears on your TV.

A sharpening stone
A sledge hammer and wedges
A waitress that can read anything OTHER than a screen
A waitress that is smoking when she takes your order
A slack jawed faggot IN the closet
A democrat w/ a brain that functions

Drum brakes on a car...

S & H Green Stamps (They are gone, aren't they?)

Free dishes and stuff for buying gas. (I had a big set of white dishes with a nice wheat pattern, from Standard Oil.)

Loki, the James Gagney film with the coal delivery -the tremendous noise of the coal going down the shoot , used to cover the sound of the machine gun !

The red dye pill to color the margerine -I think used to keep the kids busy ! Finally after many years of fraud they admit that butter is not evil but that hydroginated fats are !!

Individual responsability,sad to say.

Grit newspaper sold door-to-door.
S&H Greenstamps
LSMFT or other Cigarette ads on tv
AMWAY salesmen or women

A double feature with cartoons between the movies.
The Fuller Brush man.

The serial before the Saturday matinee. Everything Dutch said + also gas wars.

Snow tires with 78-profile tread and sawdust mixed with the rubber for traction...

Cars and trucks with massive engine displacement that only got 8-10 mpg from the factory.

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Originally posted by cal30 1906:
Cars and trucks with massive engine displacement that only got 8-10 mpg from the factory.

With contact points and condenser, no electronics required. Keep a spare set in the glove box and never pay $900 for an engine-control computer.

$10 concert tickets.

Percolating coffee pot.

.99c gasoline.

$3 deer tags.

Magnetic compasses and maps.

A functioning Congress.

HS girls in garter belts. Oh, those Friday nights after the football game and sock hop in the girls gym...

And the real nemesis-panty girdles.

The fist fight that you had after school without going to jail/expulsion/zero-tolerance/. Then you were friends afterwards(usually).

Everything Texas Killartist said, full service gas stations, $5.00 Levis, original bell bottoms, playing outside after dark, stores closed on Sunday.

Dutch

RW50 for $3 a box...

Buying .22 ammo at the grocery store when I was 14.

Amos & Andy on TV.

...but they can channel-surf by a ton of other Black sitcoms that are equally, or more demeaning to Blacks, but for some reason today's Blacks think the characters make them look cool.

Tell me the difference between The Kingfish and Red Foxx.

Live TV that was actually live. Think Dorothy Kilgallen (What's My Line?), Groucho Marx, Jack Benny, (You'll never see another Rochester), and many dozens more who didn't need a script to be entertaining.

TommyII:

Ten years ago, I spent some money for swiss compass. Friend told me: "For this money, you can have very good GPS device". After 10 years, compass works the same way as new, no batteries etc., but there is maybe 5th generation of GPS since that time.

But I have to admit that taking out compass when lost in London city catches some attention from bystanders. It also catches attention from customs at airports. It is derived from military one and there is also inclinometer and table for recalculating degrees to artillery units. Last time I had about 20 minutes talking to customs why I need that compass in the age of GPS ;-)

Also I got training of using sextant for navigation. You can use 50 years old one (if in good condition) or brand new one.

Almost nobody knows, how to use sextant now (with all that calculations and nautical almanac)

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I hope millenials will never see a communism in Europe, barbed wire fences on borders, solders with assault rifles there etc.

Jiri