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I was born in 1967, so in my lifetime that I can think of:
-4 digit telephone numbers. Within neighborhoods, you could dial the last four numbers.
-Words and letters in phone numbers: "Greenwood 7-5342,"that sort of thing."
-Evening editions of newspapers, and soon, newspapers! When I was young, there was an evening edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
-Gas station attendants, uniformed and more than one checking oil, tires, et al.
-Greenstamps; I think they've gone away, have they?
-Leaded gasoline
-Few, very few, foreign cars on the road
-my favorite, and I forget what it is called, so you all can help me here, in Philadelphia it was called the Horn & Hardot, or something like that, and it was a Lunch-O-Matic, with the little doors that you put money into and took out your food. The architecture was totally atomic. I loved that place as a child.
-Shoe shine stations all over the place
-Steel Pier in Atlantic City. Wow. It's a mall now.
-Doctors making house calls
-4 digit telephone numbers. Within neighborhoods, you could dial the last four numbers.
-Words and letters in phone numbers: "Greenwood 7-5342,"that sort of thing."
-Evening editions of newspapers, and soon, newspapers! When I was young, there was an evening edition of the Philadelphia Inquirer.
-Gas station attendants, uniformed and more than one checking oil, tires, et al.
-Greenstamps; I think they've gone away, have they?
-Leaded gasoline
-Few, very few, foreign cars on the road
-my favorite, and I forget what it is called, so you all can help me here, in Philadelphia it was called the Horn & Hardot, or something like that, and it was a Lunch-O-Matic, with the little doors that you put money into and took out your food. The architecture was totally atomic. I loved that place as a child.
-Shoe shine stations all over the place
-Steel Pier in Atlantic City. Wow. It's a mall now.
-Doctors making house calls