Monday, June 16, 2008

Remember?

The Edsel? Rambler? Pinto? Karman Ghia? Datsun? The Gremlin? Ethyl gasoline?
Sylvania Blue Dot flashbulbs? Polaroid SX-70? Kodak Instamatic 20?
8-track tapes? Betamax? Transistor radios?
Typewriters? Red & black ribbons? Carbon paper? Before fax machines?
Your first color TV? Putting a quarter on the stylus to prevent skipping? Tableside jukeboxes?
Busy signals? Party lines? Rotary-dial phones? Before caller ID? Before answering machines?
Erector sets? Lincoln logs? Wooden building blocks? Heathkits?
Defrosting the refrigerator? Hot-air popcorn machines? Before Teflon? Percolators?
Whitewalls? No seat belts? No headrests? Column shifts? Carburetors? Flooding? Chokes?
Slide rules? Abacus? Learning the metric system? Protractors? TI-30 calculators?
Top-loading VCRs? Changing channels with a knob? Tape rewinders? Slide projectors?
Braniff? Pan Am? Eastern? Frontier? TWA? Muse? Legend? Sonic booms?
Ginsu knives? Veg-O-Matic? Pocket Fisherman? Mr. Microphone? View Master?
Indian head test patterns? Clock radios with numbers that flipped down? Ham radios?
Airmail? Special delivery? Telegrams? Telex? Before zip codes? 25¢ stamps?
Wooden tennis rackets? Wooden baseball bats? When woods were wooden?
Double-edged razors? Bobby pins? Metal toothpaste tubes? Sleeping in rollers?
Farrah Fawcett's nipples? Actually watching the Miss America Pageant? Sex before AIDS?

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