Mini skirts and go go boots. Pull tab beer cans.

Thankful drivers... years ago people would give a friendly wave for letting them merge into traffic and on to the roadway. Now they would rather speed up and not let you merge or block the road.

There is one in Valley View Texas just off the square. Stopped and made a call with it last year just for the photo opp.

Dad and me fixed the TV more than once.

We were always outside playing, as we didn't have air-conditioning back in the day. It was cooler outside than it was in the house most of the summer.
One other thing you don't see or hear about much is Whole House Attic Fans. If it wasn't raining, we had ours on every night in summer with the windows open.

Outdoor movie theaters!

I still use my attic fan daily when needed. Usually turn the AC on early July. My parents never had AC until after I moved out!

insane asylums

Yep

We have 2 fairly large ponds across the road from the house, so I see the toads, and turtles and other things all the time. I don't see owls in our back yard anymore. There was a dairy farm behind us when I was a kid and we ALWAYS had owls. I may see one every few years now, but that's it. We had a HUGE red ant pile in the back yard when my parents bought the house in 1979. By 1980, my father had poured enough stuff on it that it was dead. Fire ants we had something like 44 mounds in 2004 or 2006 after all the floods. I boiled water and poured it down every mound I could find; took over 8 hours...I had 4 pots on my stove constantly going. Nightmare, but it worked...only had a few left and we've gotten rid of those without poison. Yeah, the grass around the mound was dead for the year, but oh well.

Never see a manual car anymore. Rarely see people eating at a restaurant without a phone in their hands. The old manual credit card imprint thingamabobs that stores used to make a copy of your card. We had one at my old store for when the phone lines were down, but that's been over 20 years ago now.

I didn`t have central heat and air, color television or my own bedroom until I moved out @ 18.

Quickest way to remove smells that would get you in trouble.

I still pick up pull tabs at the ranch. 'Bunch of slob hunters before me.

Church keys
Station wagons
Old men with Duke's roll your owns hanging from their mouths
Empty Schlitz, Falstaff, or Jax beer cans along the road sides

WWII vets driving around in Caddys, Mercedes, Olds, etc.. Automobiles with points and condenser ignition and shapely character. Gun racks in the back window of pickups. Kids running around the neighborhood with bb guns and fishing poles. Christian values in school. Respect and friendliness. 3 channels and rotary phones. Could go on and on!

We still have a whole house attic fan, but covered the vent in the hallway with Sheetrock a dozen years ago. We were loosing too much heated and cooled air through the vents. It definitely helped our electric bill.

Made in Austin Texas U.S.A.

Renting a Betamax tape at Blockbuster Video

Sonic carhops on rollerskates...

Fire flies. I used to see them growing up in Grayson county 30 years ago, but it’s been close to that long since I’ve seen one.

Typewriter

Come to Deep East Texas. We are running about 30 yrs. behind the times.

Still have plenty of fire flies here.

Quail are pretty much gone. No native Red Ants, just fire ants.

Not as many Road Runners as there used to be.

Feral Hogs have taken over everything here.

Store clerks who can do math in their heads.
All the kids playing outside unsupervised in big groups of different ages.
Dodgeball.
Robins in the winter time.
Low gas prices.
Native Texans(seems like).

Nobody can do math in their head anymore
Not even bank tellers. They all have bill counting
machines on their desks.
Nobody can give change correctly. Example-giving
five dimes instead of 2 quarters when your
drawer is full of quarters, or five ones instead
of a five dollar bill.
Nobody knows how to sack groceries correctly.
Bread always by itself. Cold things together.
Cans double bagged with other cans instead
of on top of your twinkies. No non-edible things
like bugspray or oven cleaner bagged with
food items. Potential blood leaking things
like raw poultry and cuts of meat bagged
by themselves. Etc. Etc.