(re-run)
When you reach a certain age, you realize that some of the things from your past are so obsolete that you haven’t thought about them in decades.
Here is a list. Feel free to add to it:
Candy cigarettes
The Crayola crayon color called flesh
Suntan pantyhose
Playing cowboys and Indians
Toy guns that shoot caps
Tomato soup with popcorn
Swanson chicken pot pies
Ayds diet chews (yes, it was a real thing)
Girdles
Garter belts
Nylon stockings with seams
Slips
Phones plugged into the wall or hanging on the wall
Party lines
Long distance plans
Landlines
Travelers’ checks
Wallet photos
Watches
Calculators
Slide rules
Pencil cases
Lined paper
Paper invitations
Stationery
Pre-ordering wedding announcements
The taboo of tattoos
Newspapers (I still read eight per week).
Paper magazines (I still read six a month).
Paper coupons
Cemeteries
Paper maps
The Thomas Guide street guide
Travel guide books
Lawns
8 tracks
Cassette tapes
45’s
78’s
Record players
Highfi’s
Beta tapes
VHS tapes
CD’s (I have 200 of them)
Paper applications
Phone calls
Cursive writing
Hitch- hiking
Typewriters
Mimeograph machines
Thongs (flip flops)
Hot rollers
newspaper ads (personal, jobs, apartments)
card catalogs
sign-up sheets
telephone trees
aerosol deodorant
aerosol anything
waterbeds
davenports
coffee klatches
plain coffee
free pets
manners (sorry about this one)
cameras
film
film-processing places
seamstresses
perms
Sun-In
keeping to the right while walking on the sidewalk
letting older people have the right of way on said sidewalk
Presidential plates with Nixon in the center.
The list goes on and on. Please send me your thoughts.
One reader suggested:
rotary dial phones
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