Kind of a fun game

[hollohas]

They still make them. You can still get him one...and replace your own.

I plan on it. It just won't have the history of countless sticks whittled, spears made, fish gutted, misc things tinkered and the lots of blood that comes with learning to use a knife properly that mine had. He's 1 now...should be ready for one soon, right?

[Scanker19]

Paper food stamps! And getting change back in cash.

[3beansalad]

Calling 555-1212 for time and temperature.

I know there are still similar services out there, but I doubt any one uses them much.

[GilpinGuy]

The "Service Merchandise" catalog. I used to love to look through that.

I bought my first shotgun at a Service Merchandise when I was a kid. Still have it too.

How about:
candy cigarettes

<$1.00 a gallon gas

<$10 for a case of Bud. I remember the first time a bunch of us high school kids went to the local gas station that was a pushover for selling beer to us and a case was over $10 for the first time.

That 20 foot long coil cord on the telephone so you could walk into the other room and have a little bit of privacy. The cord would always end up a tangled mess.

[3beansalad]

S&H Green stamps.

My mother saved enough to get me an Atari 2600 as a kid. It happened about 5 years after everyone one of my friends got one sadly.

[3beansalad]

The format wars! Thankfully we didn't choose Beta, of course we probably picked 5 years after everyone else again!

[whitewalrus]

The format wars! Thankfully we didn't choose Beta, of course we probably picked 5 years after everyone else again!

They had HD DVD vs BluRay

[whitewalrus]

How about going outside and told not to come back in until it was dark?

[Gman]

How about going outside and told not to come back in until it was dark?

I had to be home when the street lights came on. Fortunately, those old lamps made a distinctive noise when they started and took a couple of minutes to get going. It was a race to get back to the porch before they actually came on.

I had just remembered the S&H Green Stamps, but 3beansalad had that one covered.

[whitewalrus]

No street lights where I grew up...so dark had to suffice. Now it seems the kids cannot get too far away from the house before getting called back in.