Kids won't remember...

Everything was closed. The grocery store, the hardware store, the mall. Sunday was not a shopping day. It was not an option. If you ran out of milk on...

You pulled up, stayed in the car, and a guy in a uniform came out and did everything. Pumped the gas, checked your oil, cleaned your windshield...

Twice a year, a book the size of a cinder block would arrive in the mail. The Sears Wish Book. Everything you could ever want was in there, and you...

One phone in the house, bolted to the kitchen wall, with a cord that stretched about six feet if you were lucky. Every conversation happened in front...

There were maybe 7 channels, and you changed them by walking to the TV and turning a knob. Click. Click. Click. You could hear the mechanical switch...

The national anthem would play, then a test pattern, then static. That was it. No 24-hour anything. If you were up at 2am, the TV could not help you.

You had to stick your finger in the hole and drag it all the way around. Long distance calls cost real money and the phone was attached to the wall with a cord.