Things from your childhood that would baffle young people of today

I was born in 1953 in Queens, NY. We moved out to Westchester when I was probably 2 or so, which would be around 1955. My parents had bought an old farmhouse that had a coal burning furnace. I still remember the dump truck that delivered coal down a chute into our basement.

It is likely that most people no longer had coal at that point, so we don't have to be REALLY old to have such memories. It all depends on where we lived at various point sin our lives. As another example, I knew people in small town Montana who still had only an outhouse in the mid 1970s. By then, most people had indoor bathrooms, so it really depends on where you live at any given point in time. It is probably safe to say that the older a person is, the more likely to have experienced these things because there was a time when these were the norm.

Tony
 

we had a coal scuttle either side of the fireplace but they both had a seat on them and they were joined together by a fender? Not sure if that's the word, it was a long thing? that went across the front of the fireplace. Sorry, senior moment.
 
RobinWren said:
we had a coal scuttle either side of the fireplace but they both had a seat on them and they were joined together by a fender? Not sure if that's the word, it was a long thing? that went across the front of the fireplace. Sorry, senior moment.
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something like this ?

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or this ?....
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or this...

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Do you remember cars without air conditioners? Cars with air conditioner kits under the dashboard? Cars with a middle consol? The Daytona Charger, Super Bee, The Judge, Hurst Olds, MG Midget, Triumph TR4 (I had one) American Motors Gremlin, AMX Rambler, those were the days
 
Mr. Ed said:
Do you remember cars without air conditioners? Cars with air conditioner kits under the dashboard? Cars with a middle consol? The Daytona Charger, Super Bee, The Judge, Hurst Olds, MG Midget, Triumph TR4 (I had one) American Motors Gremlin, AMX Rambler, those were the days
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We borrowed and drove an MG Midget in Spain...'twas a great little car!
 
Mr. Ed said:
Do you remember cars without air conditioners? Cars with air conditioner kits under the dashboard? Cars with a middle consol? The Daytona Charger, Super Bee, The Judge, Hurst Olds, MG Midget, Triumph TR4 (I had one) American Motors Gremlin, AMX Rambler, those were the days
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Do I remember? Goodness, yes, that's all I ever knew until I got into my 20's.

Family vacations at the height of summer have kept the memories fresh... burning the backs of ones legs on vinyl-coated seating that was just a few degrees away from melting, and sweating from the start of the trip to the end, with windows fully down all around, where nothing but turbulence and wind-noise filled the vehicles cabin.
 
Mr. Ed said:
Do you remember cars without air conditioners? Cars with air conditioner kits under the dashboard? Cars with a middle consol? The Daytona Charger, Super Bee, The Judge, Hurst Olds, MG Midget, Triumph TR4 (I had one) American Motors Gremlin, AMX Rambler, those were the days
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Mr. Ed said:
Do you remember cars without air conditioners? Cars with air conditioner kits under the dashboard? Cars with a middle consol? The Daytona Charger, Super Bee, The Judge, Hurst Olds, MG Midget, Triumph TR4 (I had one) American Motors Gremlin, AMX Rambler, those were the days
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Never heard of them, but my baby could do with one if the top is up. Then in twenty years, it has only been up for 20 minutes, alfresco me.
 
Mr. Ed said:
Do you remember cars without air conditioners? Cars with air conditioner kits under the dashboard? Cars with a middle consol? The Daytona Charger, Super Bee, The Judge, Hurst Olds, MG Midget, Triumph TR4 (I had one) American Motors Gremlin, AMX Rambler, those were the days
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I remember most of these. The drummer in our road band had The Judge. I had a 1964 Chevelle SS with "4 on the floor" chrome shift with that "T" to go in reverse, 2 door hard top and 283. I bought it used in 1977 in Sidney, Montana for $250. I wish I still had it. Mine was blue, but otherwise looked like the one in the picture. Our band leader was much older than we were and he had one of those boring Chevy "dad mobiles" - 4 door that you would see mom and pop and kids out for a picnic in.

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Tony
 
Mr. Ed said:
Do you remember cars without air conditioners? Cars with air conditioner kits under the dashboard? Cars with a middle console?
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Remember? Are you serious? Our car doesn't have, in no particular order:
No more than four gears.
No self parking wipers
No multi-speed wipers
No windscreen washers
No power steering
No power anything
No radio
No laminated glass, windscreen or anywhere
No indicator flashers, (it has semaphore signals)
No fuel sensors, ( the tank is full when the fuel sloshes over your shoes.)
No buzzer to tell you that you have left a light on
No low fuel warning, so watch the gauge
No air conditioner (what's that?)
No, tell you what, there's not a lot it does have, but then again, that means there's not a lot to break down.
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horseless carriage said:
Remember? Are you serious? Our car doesn't have, in no particular order:
No more than four gears.
No self parking wipers
No multi-speed wipers
No windscreen washers
No power steering
No power anything
No radio
No laminated glass, windscreen or anywhere
No indicator flashers, (it has semaphore signals)
No fuel sensors, ( the tank is full when the fuel sloshes over your shoes.)
No buzzer to tell you that you have left a light on
No low fuel warning, so watch the gauge
No air conditioner (what's that?)
No, tell you what, there's not a lot it does have, but then again, that means there's not a lot to break down.
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yep, they don't make them like they used to.
 
horseless carriage said:
Remember? Are you serious? Our car doesn't have, in no particular order:
No more than four gears.
No self parking wipers
No multi-speed wipers
No windscreen washers
No power steering
No power anything
No radio
No laminated glass, windscreen or anywhere
No indicator flashers, (it has semaphore signals)
No fuel sensors, ( the tank is full when the fuel sloshes over your shoes.)
No buzzer to tell you that you have left a light on
No low fuel warning, so watch the gauge
No air conditioner (what's that?)
No, tell you what, there's not a lot it does have, but then again, that means there's not a lot to break down.
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Sure looking good!
 
Food rations stamps, walking to school, walking home from school for lunch and then back to school, going to the movies and getting a free piece of dinnerware, a ticket got you two movies instead of one, baseball double headers(2 games for the price of one, newspapers with morning and afternoon editions,
blackout curtains....
 

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