Did anyone else have a pen-pal in elementary school? Mine was in Africa somewhere. Our school made us do it and we wrote once or twice.
"Downtown Mortuary, you stab 'em we slab 'em." "Airport Firehouse, you crash, we dash." (Wrong number answers, based on 'Is Frank there?' Because, no caller ID.)Prank phone calls
Phhh! Party lines. Picking up the handset and listening to see if anyone is on the phone. And if they are, listening to see if the conversation is interesting.A dial up modem. You’ve got mail!
Wait, what? How else would you pay for food? I don't usually carry that much cash.Standing behind ladies in the grocery line while they write out personal checks! It actually happened to me today. I was wondering if that old bitty had just time-traveled in from 1985.
Dad, in the car. Using the triangular vent windows to blow the smoke to the back seat. Where the kids sat.Everyone smoking inside. At home. In restaurants. Fuching everywhere.
I was going to say developing your own pictures, You beat me to it.Actually HS photography class was awesome. 3-1 ratio and plenty of dark room time.
Does anyone remember the brief period of time when Netflix started and would mail out DVD’s to your house to watch?Blockbuster
Does anyone remember the brief period of time when Netflix started and would mail out DVD’s to your house to watch?
Yup, a girl in Greece.Did anyone else have a pen-pal in elementary school? Mine was in Africa somewhere. Our school made us do it and we wrote once or twice.
Transistor radios. The toy department that Sears only had during Christmas season. Lightning bugs on a June night. Board games. Model building (although 3D printing is a splendid alternative).
Boys being boys, girls being girls, kids being kids, and long prison sentences for anyone who has a problem with that.
We still have them on our farm. Our kids played with them.A few times a year, I can see a few Lightening bugs in the backyard.
What a fantastic flashback that is vanishing every day.
Still remember my home phone from back then, but none since.have all their friends phone numbers memorized.
Still remember my home phone from back then, but none since.
On the phone number front, was it just a Michigan thing, or did anyone else here have the holdover phenomena of this: for phone numbers with the prefix of "565-XXXX" or "274-XXXX", people would say "Logan 5" and Crescent 4" whereby "56" is "L" and "O" above the numbers and "C" and "R" are "2" and "7". Detroit area also had a lot of "Belvedere" for the B and E numbers. You didn't make up the Logan, Crescent, Belvedere... they were fixed conventions, but didn't match up to any phonetic/pre-phonetic alphabet letters like "Baker/Bravo" or "Love/Lima"... (Charlie was Charlie both pre and post).