HistoryLover Loc: Landenberg,Pa.

Home of Mario! Nuf said. Miss those drive-ins!

bobbyjohn Loc: Dallas, TX

How about having your teenager(s) try dialing a rotary phone, and see if he/she can do it?

See:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHNEzndgiFI

crushr13 Loc: Sacramento, CA

Wow. I'm a young 59, and I thought back to 1972 to count the TV channels I can remember, and we had at least 10 in Los Angeles. Some were UHF, but all were viable channels that I could remember. I did not watch all of them, but I remember them.

Let's see: 2 - KNXT - CBS, 4 - KNBC - NBC, 5 - KTLA - Independent, 7 - KABC - ABC, 9 - KHJ-TV - Ind, 11 - KTTV - Ind, 13 - KCOP - Ind, 22 - KWHY - Ind (not watched), 28 - KCET - PBS, 34 - KMEX - Spanish (not watched), and 52 - KBSC - Ind.

That makes 11 that I remember. I don't know if there were more. That was a little bit of fun to think back and see how well I remember. In 1972, I was 11, and graduating elementary school. Wow.

PAR4DCR Loc: A Sunny Place

Yep, that's me.

Don

old poet

I'm so old we didn't have electricity, phone, indoor toilet until I was seven years old. My first school bus had three longitudinal seats. Oh, we never had a phone before I left home at eighteen for college.

wbk56

63

old poet

I'm 79

flathead27ford Loc: Colorado, North of Greeley

I've done all of those. Great memories.

DickC Loc: NE Washington state

81, and still taking phots!!

Transbuff1985 Loc: east central Iowa

LittleRed

I’d like to thank all whom added to my original post. Just reading the comments from youse brought a flood of memories to this old man and I thank you. Twas born (literally) on a small farm in Northwestern Ontario, Canada. For the first 10 years no electricity, just a wood stove and coal-oil lamps. Thus no fridge and because we were so far out of the way no ice box so we kept some of our food items cold in a wooden bucket lowered 30 feet into our outside well. Wash machine was driven by a small gas engine and the clothes were “rung out” with hand operated rollers (and no need to tell you whom the operator was). In winter the only warm room was the kitchen which was our “family” room amongst other things. No indoor washroom for my first 12 years or so meant that when young our baths in the winter were in a galvanized tub in the middle of the kiTchen floor from water ladled from the wood stove reservoir. Our main entertainment during this period was listening to the radio. But, only on special occasions as it was battery powered and them things cost money. But for sure my dad didn’t miss one Saturday nite of Hockey Night in Canada with Foster Hewitt. He would drive his old 39 Ford up near the kitchen widow and run 2 lines from its battery to our old tube radio. Didn’t cost us anything.
From the time I turned 9 or so my main job was to keep the woodbox filled which meant bucking a helluva lot of slabs every day. One of the most joyous events in my life was at age 14 when my dad finally put in power and bought my mom an E-lec-tric stove and fridge. Finally could put the old Swede saw to rest. Shortly added an oil furnace, telephone (party line so you could listen to how yer neighbours were doing) and a copla years later a TV ( one channel from 7am to midnight then the good old Indian head test pattern the rest of the time).
Seems like just as the farm was getting “modernized” I headed out on my own at the ripe old age of 18. But even now looking back I have no regrets. We were a close knit family whom enjoyed what we had and also enjoyed a happy and bountiful life in many ways. Sadly not like a lot of the younger families I see today. Although a lot of my younger life was hard it also made me whom I am today, something I feel a bit of pride. So again thanks to all who added all your memories to my post.

Take care and stay safe.

LittleRed (Ron)