What today's younger generation will never know:

[horseless carriage]

I guess little girls don't dream of being mommies these days, they dream of being teenage girls in hooker outfits.

Is it really the little girls? At that impressionable age they are hardly likely to know to whom they are dressing up for.
https://www.todaysparent.com/blogs/skimpy-halloween-costumes-for-little-girls-is-disturbing/
That link doesn't show any excess but all the same it really isn't for children.

 

[Lewkat]

Balloon bicycle tires and patching same when one got a flat. Getting dressed up to simply go shopping. Ration books.

 

[hollydolly]

Irish Setters, Collies. All my neighbors had big beautiful dogs, now it's all Pit Bulls and Poodle-mixes.

well, we have had 3 poodle Mixes..( Labradoodles)..and they are beautiful, and also a chihuhua .. we've also had until the last 3 years ..a Doberman, a Belgian Malinois , a rescue Staffie.. a rescue Pitbull... several mixtures.. all rescued ( except the labdradoodles and the Belgian Malinois) ..and all beautiful..and exceptionally good natured....just a small example of them here ..

Dobi
Dobie & Staffie... both people pleasers...

Labradoodles

Doberman- Chihuahua- Miniature Labradoodle

9 Year old Dobie, with a 12 month old Belgian Malinois..in the exercise yard together ( both trained security dogs).. but with gentle natures around children and other dogs..

tiny yorkshire-terrier..cross, rescue ....who had a huge playful character

 

[charry]

 

[C50]

When was the last time an elementary age kid brought home a clay ashtray that they made in art class? These days the kid would be suspended for such a project.

 

[caroln]

Typewriter, fax machine, Rolodex, filing cabinet, answering machine, cassette player, carbon paper

Being a secretary back in the day, my best friend was a bottle of white out! That or those little strips of white paper you stuck behind the typewriter key to erase the mistake.

 

[Paco Dennis]

Fresh water

 

[caroln]

I remember attaching playing cards to the spokes of my bicycle wheels with a clothes pin. It made a really cool noise!

 

[Della]

well, we have had 3 poodle Mixes..( Labradoodles)..and they are beautiful, and also a chihuhua .. we've also had until the last 3 years ..a Doberman, a Belgian Malinois , a rescue Staffie.. a rescue Pitbull... several mixtures.. all rescued ( except the labdradoodles and the Belgian Malinois) ..and all beautiful..and exceptionally good natured....just a small example of them here ..

All your dogs are beautiful, Holly. In fact I was going to include Dobermans in my idea of big beautiful dogs but I wasn't sure whether it was Dobermen or Dobermans. I just miss those breeds I mentioned that were everywhere when I was young, due to the movies, I expect.

 

[IrisSenior]

Camping when I was young was basic: canvas tent, picnic table, campfire site, all meals outside, swimming in a fresh water lake and surrounding by parents and siblings. Some of the younger generation could still do some of the above but in my day, I had no comparison to today's tech. life.

 

[Chet]

Walking to school instead of being bussed. Pencil sharpeners. Getting up to change the TV channel. Test patterns on the TV.

 

[horseless carriage]

Cranking handle to start a car. The cynic in me thinks that the starting handle disappeared because it made car servicing easy. Turning the engine over slowly means you can find TDC. Top Dead Centre. Being able to do that means you set and adjust the points and the engine's firing sequence. If all that sounds like gobble-de-gook, it's because no one ever services their cars anymore. How can they? The starting handle has long gone.
Some engines are transverse and some are elsewhere, like in the back, but front, inline engines could still have that handle. But there are some drivers that beggar belief.
https://www.republicworld.com/enter...up-his-electric-car-at-gas-station-watch.html

 

[JaniceM]

Walking to school instead of being bussed. Pencil sharpeners. Getting up to change the TV channel. Test patterns on the TV.

I've been tempted to ask if my little grandkids know what pencils are...
The oldest already had an email account shortly before turning 6...

 

[Chet]

View attachment 208527
Cranking handle to start a car. The cynic in me thinks that the starting handle disappeared because it made car servicing easy. Turning the engine over slowly means you can find TDC. Top Dead Centre. Being able to do that means you set and adjust the points and the engine's firing sequence. If all that sounds like gobble-de-gook, it's because no one ever services their cars anymore. How can they? The starting handle has long gone.
Some engines are transverse and some are elsewhere, like in the back, but front, inline engines could still have that handle. But there are some drivers that beggar belief.
https://www.republicworld.com/enter...up-his-electric-car-at-gas-station-watch.html

Then there are motorcycles without kick starters anymore. The one on my '78 Yamaha 650 came in handy a few times when the battery was low. Kick start was super easy on the old two strokes having low compression.

 

[Tom 86]

My Dad's gas station in Ohio. 12¢ a gallon gas, full service of your car. War bonds, towels that came in dish detergent. An so many more.

 

[palides2021]

Typewriter, fax machine, Rolodex, filing cabinet, answering machine, cassette player, carbon paper

Interesting you would say those - I still have my fax machine, filing cabinets, answering machine, and cassette player.

 

[palides2021]

I remember going to the bank and they would offer home products like a toaster if you opened an account.

 

[MMinSoCal]

FEDCO, Gottschalks, Woolworths, Montgomery Ward, Kmart (almost), same with JC Penney. Of the luxury stores on the West Coast: Bullock's, Bloomingdales, May Co., I. Magnin.

 

[C50]

View attachment 208527
Cranking handle to start a car. The cynic in me thinks that the starting handle disappeared because it made car servicing easy. Turning the engine over slowly means you can find TDC. Top Dead Centre. Being able to do that means you set and adjust the points and the engine's firing sequence. If all that sounds like gobble-de-gook, it's because no one ever services their cars anymore. How can they? The starting handle has long gone.
Some engines are transverse and some are elsewhere, like in the back, but front, inline engines could still have that handle. But there are some drivers that beggar belief.
https://www.republicworld.com/enter...up-his-electric-car-at-gas-station-watch.html

Points? TDC? Geesh, next you're going to be talking about carbuators, external fuel pumps and drum brakes.

 

[MMinSoCal]

Interesting you would say those - I still have my fax machine, filing cabinets, answering machine, and cassette player.

I still have my typewriter somewhere in the garage! If I read the Thread Title correctly, it asks for what ‘today’s younger generation will never know’.

 

[MMinSoCal]

PanAm, Eastern Air Lines, America West, Continental, Northwest Airlines. A few toiletry brands: Breck, Faberge Organics, Flex, Gee Your Hair Smells Terrific, Agree. Some are still available online, but no longer manufactured in the US, or quality is not the same.

 

[horseless carriage]

Points? TDC? Geesh, next you're going to be talking about carbuators, external fuel pumps and drum brakes.

You've obviously seen my car.

My bicycle is even older, there again, so am I.

 

[horseless carriage]

Who remembers getting paid weekly, in cash? You had a purposely made cash envelope and your wages were made up in cash. There would be an advice note that we Brits referred to as, a pay slip. It gave all the details of hours worked, tax and any other deductions.

 

[Grampa Don]

Records & Reel-to-Reel tape recorders.

My 15 year old Granddaughter collects vinyl records.

 

[Irwin]

Good music, affordable housing, a world without the Internet...