[Turk]

I remember it all, I guess I am old.

-Gasoline at Sinclair station in Edmond Oklahoma 19.9 cents a gal.
-Movie theatre across the street only cost $0.50, unless you went to the early show for .25
-Didn't carry checks, the merchants had counter checks available from every bank in town.
-45 RPM record players in the car.
-Replaced with the 8 track. (or was it the other way around).
-Safety minded folks were having seat belts installed in their cars. None came from the factory.
-You could but spray paint without an ID.
-Service stations actually performed repairs, and everyone spoke English.
-You dressed up to get on a plane.
-Everyone called one another "Sir, or Mam", even if they didn't mean it.
-Could buy guns at K-mart.
-You came to America , to become an American.
-Sexually transmitted diseases didn't kill you.
-Everyone was straight!
-Elvis was alive, and so was Hoffa.
-You paid extra to get a phone where you pushed the buttons.
-The phones in your home belonged to the phone company, you just rented them.
-You could smoke in public.
-You could demand a calibration of the radar gun.
-Some of the TV shows were in color.
-You didn't have to press #1 to hear it in English.
-Junk mail was something you actually looked forward to.
-Everyday you thanked the guy who invented carbon paper.
-Typewriters made typewriter noises.
-People in England were called English.
-Girls didn't have an 800 number.
-Hoped to never use a CELL phone.

Many more....
Them were the good old days.

TURK