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Posted: 3/8/2020 12:42:17 AM EDT
Perfumed and dyed toilet paper.
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Having to go to the library to learn new things or the lack of electronic communication to get news and talk to others
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Big collars.
Put check in mail and wait. Underpowered vehicles. Concealed carry not legal. |
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Disco and Techno music.
I do miss how females used to dress then |
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6 - 8 weeks for delivery of my fucking sea monkeys! YEP! View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes |
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One phone in the house. Upgrade to a fuck long cord that could reach to every bedroom and was always tangled up in a knot.
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This is a hard question. A lot of the “inconvenience” helped make me who I am and gave me a link to the past.
Medicine is more advanced. I remember folks smoking in Hospitals and Restaurants. Computers were a HUGE deal. And even the most basic phone blows them out of the water. I suppose lack of modern communication. If you were broken down in the middle of nowhere, you had a problem. Also if you agreed to meet someone somewhere you BETTER synchronize watches. In fact, standing someone up was an even bigger deal. I do not regret those times but I couldn’t go back. |
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Linebacker shoulder pads on professional women (80s)
Having to wait 4-6 weeks to get anything in the mail out of a catalog Speaking to family in another state like an auctioneer, because long distance charges were so high |
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The inability of an average citizen to legally carry a pistol.
No microwave ovens in the 70s - they existed but not as consumer products. Driving back and forth between Michigan and Colorado in a tin can Ford pickup. National 55 MPH speed limit. |
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All the smoking every where The hairstyles.
Sending checks off to do mail order. |
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The inability of an average citizen to legally carry a pistol. No microwave ovens in the 70s - they existed but not as consumer products. Driving back and forth between Michigan and Colorado in a tin can Ford pickup. National 55 MPH speed limit. View Quote |
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Linebacker shoulder pads on professional women (80s) Having to wait 4-6 weeks to get anything in the mail out of a catalog Speaking to family in another state like an auctioneer, because long distance charges were so high View Quote We signed up for Claydesta long distance calling when the phones got deregulated. You had to dial like 20 fucking digits to make it work. To save twenty five cents or some shit. |
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Bell bottoms. Disco music, although I like it now.
Low pay. I was a kid and worked minimum wage. Working your ass off and bringing home 115-120 dollars for a weeks pay. I remember working on a crab boat making 20 bucks a day and feeling like I hit the lottery. The 70's/80's were such an idyllic time for me. I was old enough to enjoy most everything, but young enough to miss a lot of the bullshit too. |
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Smoking everywhere...airplanes, restaurants, movie theaters...
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Smoking everywhere...airplanes, restaurants, movie theaters... View Quote And I don't really mind non-smoking restaurants as a rule, but man...a greasy spoon in some podunk town just off a state route needs a light haze tickling your nostrils as you sip your coffee, waiting for the waitress with the curlers in her hair to bring you your Denver omelette. That's just science. |
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I can't imagine road tripping here in Texas with a 55mph limit. It leaves me wondering how hard it was really enforced. There are some looooooonely stretches of road out here. View Quote View All Quotes View All Quotes Quoted:
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The inability of an average citizen to legally carry a pistol. No microwave ovens in the 70s - they existed but not as consumer products. Driving back and forth between Michigan and Colorado in a tin can Ford pickup. National 55 MPH speed limit. Those fucking signs though... 90 / 55. 90? Okay! |
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Cigarette butts in urinals.
Or pretty much just public smoking in general. |
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Hangovers. I did NOT know how to drink back then. Dear God, I remember some wretched mornings with my head in the toilet.
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Inflation, officially 5-15% 1973 to 80
You whippersnappers can look it up. And get ready to rumble again. |
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Inflation, dress style, and the sad excuse for American horsepower.
ETA forgot about the speed limit. Never paid much attention to it. 55 is like second gear now. |
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Shag carpets
Cigarette smoke smell in every house Tucking t-shirts in to weird cut jeans Old lady perm smell Drum brakes Women's fashion (especially hair and stupid shoulder pads) Brown and copper colored cars everywhere Burnt orange, avocado green, mustard yellow EVERYTHING |
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