Not being allowed to watch Hawaii 5-0....because it was too violent!
Walking down to the corner store (Mr. T's) with 50 cents to buy a loaf of bread and 1/2 gallon of milk, and Mom expected the change back
Being told I couldn't have a mini-bike because soon gas was gonna be 25 cents a gallon and I'd never be able to afford it.
Full service gas stations that gave away drinking glasses and such with a fill-up.
Having the old man give me some change and send me to the store to buy him a pack of cigarettes.
Listening to Kent State on the radio as it was happening
Spending Saturday rummaging through garbage cans and about town hunting for soda bottles. The small ones were worth 2 cents, large 5 cents.
My parents having 3 remote controls for our black and white TV set that got all 4 stations (ABC, CBS, NBC and the local PBS station from the college). They were named Mark, Mike and Bill. (Mark, turn the knob to Ch 3. Bill, turn up the volume)
If you wanted to play a really fun game, you went outside and made it up!
"Smear the Queer", when it wasn't a slur.
Lawn Darts
A really neat new game at the arcade....PONG!!!!
Literally walking to school through the snow both ways carrying your big oscar load of books in your arms! We lived just shy, by a few feet, of the limit for the bus (you had to live more than 1 mile away before you could ride it) and there was no such thing as "back packs" unless you were going camping.
Learning to drive in the old mans '60 Valiant w/ 3 on the column. And my first car, a '53 Ford
Carbide cannons.
Running home from school to watch Dark Shadows before I had to do my homework.
Listening to my Aunt's new Beatles Albums when she was at work
Playing "army" while the soundtrack to "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" was playing on the stereo.
My first hunting vest was red.....just red. And the old man still wore the plaid hunting outfit he got from his dad
Ahhhhh...those were the days my friend!
