Fun pub discussion last night - things your kids will never know or experience

[newspeak]

382. we didn't have the plastic like we do today

i remember drugstore soda fountains, paper straws, playing outside all day with the neighbor kids (no setting up play dates). playing was a spontaneous event, not one that was planned. going to the local mom and pop store for mom down the road-bread, milk and steak for five dollars.

i still have an 8 track tape player with 8 track tapes. also, i worked on those telephone switchboards my junior and senior year in high school.

putting our change together for gas. cruising fremont street in las vegas, cruising central street in phoenix. dancing clubs for teens in phoenix, i remember one named "the hungry eye." as teens, we had places to go and have fun.

in phoenix, many went to municipal pools, instead of private pools. some residence, like my grandparents still irrigated their lawns (if you had one). last time i flew over phoenix, it looked like almost every house had a pool. my grandmother, as a child, came to phoenix in a wagon, and told me stories of water rationing. washing was on one day, bathing another and irrigating your crops only on certain days. now, it's like a water free for all.