I remember when:

[Redmt]

Coffee was a dime. Cigarettes in a machine were .25. Gas was .15 Collecting Coke bottles for a couple days worth of gas. Going to the neighbors house to watch Disneyland in color. Going house to house to collect money from my paper route. Seeing Credence, Sly and the family Stone , Santana at highschool dances.

 

[Bill Zent]

When three TWO's on a 239 flathead was the fastest car around

 

[Goodfish]

I remember runner sleds growing up in Alaska and laying on your stomach 6 inches off the ground or whatever and sledding down our long street that was downhill your eyes watering from going fast in the cold , do they still makes those things ???

My elementary school had a couple inner tube runs that produced at least 1 casualty a week!

 

[Little Big Man MT Chris]

My elementary school had a couple inner tube runs that produced at least 1 casualty a week!

We had a hill we’d run and try to see how far we could slide down standing up on without a wipeout

 

[SFC B]

I remember my mom sending with $.50 to the store about 2 miles away FOR CIGARETTES when I was 7-8. I simply walked in and said "it's for my mom", no questions.

 

[Maverick1]

I remember when I first started elk hunting 20 years ago:

1. Physical location in the field was determined by a topo map with UTM gridlines, UTM coordinates from a GPS, and a blade of grass pointing to an approximate location on the map. (No cell phones, no satellite imagery)
2. Mobile mapping services and applications did not exist. You want to travel across the USA to go hunt in another state? Get a gazeteer and figure it out. (No mapquest, google maps, apple maps).
3. The SPOT device did not exist. (Just drove into town, made a call from a pay phone in an actual booth to say everything was ok.)
4. My first NR Idaho archery elk hunt was in 2006. Purchased tag online the first week of August and was hunting a few weeks later. If a NR filled their tag with the bow in Idaho and there were tags left over they could purchase a second tag and fill that one too.
5. Some states only had paper applications - nothing was online.
6. Wyoming did not have a preference point system for deer, elk, or antelope. The first several years WY implemented such a system, a GEN elk tag could be drawn as a second choice.
7. Wyoming and other states did not realize what a ponzi-scheme-cash-cow they could create with preference points and application fees.
8. The best units in many states could be drawn with very few points.
9. Point creep - as we know it today - did not exist.
10. YouTube did not exist. (If one wanted to watch an elk hunting video, they purchased a DVD.)
11. Paid shill "Influencers" did not exist.
12. Podcasts did not exist.
13. Many of today's "higher-end" hunting clothing companies did not exist: First Lite, Stone Glacier, Kuiu
14. The higher-end backpack's of the day were Badlands (warranty-central!), Mystery Ranch (no load lifters!), and Kifaru. Again, many of today's offerings did not exist.
15. It was uncommon to come across another hunter while in the field.
16. Eastman's Hunting Journal and Eastman's Bowhunting Journal were about the only sources for information on hunting "out west".
17. I didn't sound like a "get off my lawn" type of guy!

 

[fishing4sanity]

I remember the school principal using a flat bat to persuade me to behave better at school and when you got home you sure didn't tell your parents about it or it just meant another attitude adjustment was coming.
I married a city girl who didn't even know what a party telephone line was and you had to know which ring combination was ours. I didn't know there were private phone lines as a kid. I guess that shows age and maybe a certain level of 'country hickness' as well.

 

[Wildabeest]

I remember the school principal using a flat bat to persuade me to behave better at school and when you got home you sure didn't tell your parents about it or it just meant another attitude adjustment was coming.
I married a city girl who didn't even know what a party telephone line was and you had to know which ring combination was ours. I didn't know there were private phone lines as a kid. I guess that shows age and maybe a certain level of 'country hickness' as well.

My mom worked at the school. “Double jeopardy” was a common occurrence.