When I was a youngster my grandpa would amaze us with stories of helping on cattle drives when he was 6, or living in a dugout cabin without electricity or running water.

When I finally get grand kid's I'll tell them of the dark ages when you only had 3 channels on TV. And it was a black and white picture, and you had to change channels with your hand.

What will be your "Back in the Day" story for your grand kids? Assuming your'e not already telling them now....

Corded phones, and the transition of music from cassettes to how we listen to music today.

To expand on the "corded phone" ^...how about a rotary dial phone. Put in front of a kid today and ask him to dial a number.

Any body ever see payphones anymore?

How's about those dang old party lines?

Nickel coke machines.

19 cent gas.

Stopping the car when they raised or lowered the flag.

Back in my day we didn’t have queers around every corner.

8 tracks to cassettes LOL

Doing math with a pencil and without a calculator.

I wonder if they were there, just in the closet?

Let me tell you about the floppy disk drive and three on the tree. Telex and later faxing. Communicating through postal letters.

Starter button on the floor.
No remotes.
No AC.

12 years of public school.......no air conditioning.

I don't believe there were that many even in the closet. MSM and relaxing of the social norms have been just awful for the world.

Back in the day you could leave your back door unlocked and could leave your bike in the front yard overnight.

I’m sure plenty were, but I doubt it was nearly as bad as it is now, since it’s encouraged by mainstream outlets.

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Predating 8 tracks (which came out when I was in my teens) we only had Radio. Mostly AM stations with a few FM stations (in large cities).

In the house...Radio and records. 45 rpm singles and 33 rpm albums. Some of the really old singles were 78 rpm.

Small portable transistor radios (would fit in a shirt pocket). Circa 1960's

I'd go back to those days and simpler times gladly.

how politicians gave us fake stories of racism and sold us to china

Big block v-8s where you could pop the hood back and sit in the engine compartment...... straight 6 where you reach every part and set the timing by moving the distributor.

Rotary dial phones, party lines and phone numbers looked the ones on this old wooden yardstick.



I have seen one in the last year and not sure where I saw it....it was a working pay phone.

Outhouses......no running water in the house.....cistern to catch rainwater off the roof.....laying a dark colored garden hose filled with water on the driveway to have hot bath water in the summer time....tv stations signed off with the National Anthem.

The old push button pre-selects on your car radio that actually moved the dial when you pressed them. Tune to a new station, pull the button OUT to set the new station.
Four fuses for everything in the house, and two of those were for the water heater.
Steel dash on your car and that big deck in front of the back window for the little kids to lay on.

Bright light switch on the floor board of your vehicle.
4/40 a/c= 4 windows down doing 40mph.
3 on the tree shifting.

When you could go to the junkyard and actually find just about any replacement part for your vehicle. 5 cents for a QT of reconstituted oil when you couldn't afford the 30 cents for a new one.

Shag carpet
Rabbit ear TV antennas & aluminum foil
10 pm sign off with the singing of the National Anthem, followed by a Bullseye, then the bumble bees.

Everyone ate dinner at the table at the same time and you ate what was served

I have not seen one in years.

64 has.