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there were no cartoons on Saturdays. Cartoons were for after school. Saturdays was for Roy Rogers & Dale Evans.

We were punished at school if we said a “bad word”, but everyone was perfectly happy to let us run around pretending to shoot each other during recess.
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Back in my day, we used to dress like proper royalty, like the alpha predators we are … not like suburban plebeians!

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Back in my day, we used to say, “he higher the hair, the closer to God.”

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#BackInMyDay our parents paid zero attention to what we were reading and we consumed libraries when we weren’t running wild in the woods. #HashtagGames

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We had only ONE phone in the whole house. It hung on the wall in the kitchen, had a rotary dial and a 25 ft. cord….it looked like this…

Back in my day, even as a very young child you could disappear for an hour or three in n your neighborhood and enjoy absolute solitude. No calls, no texts. If you didn’t turn up for a meal your mom would call around to the neighbors to locate you or step out on the front porch and shout your name. #BackInMyDay #HashTagGames

Back in my day you could call a telephone number for the time.

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gasoline could be had at a quarter a gallon and it was a scandal when it went up to 30 cents...and then the big oil companies said "hold my beer" and alarmed everybody when that price got doubled.

Our playlists were manually dubbed onto cassettes from the radio. If you got a mix tape from a friend it was a special gesture of affection because of the effort it took to make one.

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Back in my day, you could drink ice cold sodas out of glass bottles - and it was the best

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If you did something embarrassing, you could recover without having it follow you for the rest of your life - but ONLY if no one had a camera. If they did, you could at least try to get the negatives to control how long it followed you.

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@sezduck #BackInMyDay there were moderate and liberal republicans who were way less evil than certain racist democrats.
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you had to be a rich SOB to have your own private phone line. Everybody else was on a party line. And you had to specify the name of the party you were trying to contact via long distance calls.


The U.S.A. had a Censorship Board comprised of dirty old men that would screen all films for suitability for public theaters...which is why there were also burlesque theaters. And then the Ratings got invented. First Amendment?? WHAT First Amendment??

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