- white dog poop
- bugs all over your windscreen when you drove on the open roads
- women having to wear petticoats/slips and pantihose
- the screeching of a dial-up connection to the internet
- the sound of a fax machine
- adjusting tv antennae
- manually searching for radio stations in the car
- ashtrays and cigarette lighters in cars
- ashtrays in general
- telescoping car aerials
- videotape rewinders
- daily wearing of high heels (mostly women, lol)
- whitewall tyres
- a choke in a car (do they still have them?)
- smoking sections
- nurses in full uniform
- shoe shiners
- spare tyres
- wearing hats outdoors
- roneo machines
- advertising matchbooks (I used to collect them)
- stationery in hotels
- prank phone calls
- high cost and low cost periods when phoning someone
- a lock on the home telephone
- pocket address books
- phoning a number to find out the time or movie times
- having to iron everything
- writing in cursive
- talking about ‘longhand’
- party lines on the telephone
- dialing the operator
- ring around the collar (due to a combination of better hygiene and fabrics, less tie-wearing, fewer manual jobs, and air conditioning)
- darning socks
- the stars at night
I remember cuban heels on boots (not exactly high heels since they were only 1.5″) and platform shoes with Oxford Bags. I used to wear flares that had a 28″ waist, were tight to the knees and then flared out to a 40″ bottom.
And I know exactly what Oxford bags are haha!!