Weekend Weirdness – What Kids Will Never See

Weekend Weirdness – What Kids Will Never See

This is one of those tangent posts because history – post WWII American social history – is one of my favorite subjects. I was at a friend’s family dinner at a restaurant. There were about ten folks there including a funny young man about 12 years old. This got me to thinking. What are the things he will never see that were common when I was 12 years old?

Some are obvious:

• Cassettes/LPs
• Rotary dial phone
• Public telephones
• Roadside assistance call boxes on the interstate highways
• Lots of litter in the streets
• Pull tab beverage cans
• Smoking indoors

Some are not so obvious:

• Seven digit phone dialing
• Pagers
• Music CDs
• CRT monitors and televisions
• Paper boys (I used to be one)
• Rusty cars
• Fax machines

So, I throw this out to my astute and brilliant readers. What are the things that were common in our youth and that kids simply won’t see now?

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