GenderLife Forum: The Information Exchange

-Console TV's
-Grainy black and white cartoons
-Watching news reports in TV store windows
-Asking her fathers permission for a date
-Thongs were shoes not underwear
-Kids could be spanked
-For entertainment kids had to actually go outside and play
-Sunday supper
-Renting VCR's
-Saying the pledge of allegiance in school
-Hand crank pencil sharpeners
-Kaliko Vision/ Atari
-Glass long neck soda bottles
-Home made ice cream
-When TV shows didn't use vulgar language
-When kids brought frogs instead of guns to school
-When "sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me"
-1 room school houses
-When there were no metal detectors in schools
-baseball cards with that stale stick of gum
-When checks were accepted everywhere
-backward message warnings on vinyl records
-Puppy love
-Praying for snow so school would be cancelled, then getting mad because it wasn't
-Not being able to sleep on xmas eve, then waking up at 4:30AM xmas day
-Rotary phones

Gas was 25 cents a gallon
$3.50 was a good hourly wage
Rent an apartment for $75.00 a month
A new car cost $2,000.00
no computers or calculators
no treehuggers or environmentalists to screw up the ecomony
drafted into the military
no hippies
no rap music
schools paid for all sports equipment, uniforms, etc.
respect for your elders