What do you remember?

Everything you mentioned ... and ...

Tuning the reception by banging on the side of the TV
Matchbox cars
Vic-20 wonder computer of the 1980s
The Wonderful Flight To The Mushroom Planet
I still have a breadbox
Pay Phones
Gas Station Attendants
Slot cars
5 and 10 cent Cokes/soft drinks from a big cooler with ice in it
1 speed bikes
Not having ads everywhere you look and on all visible surfaces
It being legal to drink and drive in Texas

I remember all that stuff. I also remember when chocolate bars and other candy (sweets in the UK) came in just loose paper wrappers folded together, not glued or sealed in any way. Nobody died or got sick from eating a piece of candy you just took a simple paper wrapper off instead of sealed within inches of its life, so that you can't even tear it open without the Jaws of Life.
Same for larger food items.

I remember our family had the old fashioned telephone that only came in black and had that classic shape.

You also had only the one phone in the whole house, a landline, there were no answering machines, no cell phones. If you missed a call you missed a call.

I remember when the UK postal service delivered twice a day -- once very early in the morning, like before you even left for work or school, and again in the afternoon, called "second post."

NOW, they only deliver once a day and it can be as late as 4pm. "First post" is now 4 bloody pm.

I remember when even houses in London, which has always been a more expensive market, could be bought for about £3,000, which is about what my dad paid in 1958 for a huge, detached Edwardian in a nice area. That house sold for only 60,000 by 1982. But is NOW valued at just under ONE MILLION. And has probably been bought by a developer and split into rooms to let or tiny apartments miserable to live in, because one single family cannot afford a million to just buy what used to be a family home. :(

I remember, I think it was back in the 80's the Frito-Lay company
made these really huge potato chips with ridges like Ruffles, but
really thick, about a 16th of an inch thick. They were great, but I
cannot remember the name of them to save my soul. I am sure
they were a thousand calories apiece, but they were really good.

Then there was this milkshake drink when I was a kid. You bought
a plastic shaker container, and then you could take these triangular
packets and dump them in, add milk and shake. The results were
really good ... just like a real milkshake.

Back when all Baskin and Robbins had very cold water coolers to
drink from.

I actually remember when 7-11s were only open from 7 til 11
and not 24 hours.

I remember when Icees made their debut.

When an adding machine took up half a desktop and made a lot
of noise.

Oh, and I remember when there was only black and white TV,
and the first family on our block to get a color TV and what a
big deal it was that everyone got together to watch Flipper,
Wizard of Oz, and Rowan and Martin's Laugh In and the
Smother's Brothers. It actually brought people together instead
of everyone sitting in their own room watching their own thing.

The Arrow book club in elementary school.

Oh, and I remember when you never heard so much as a damn or hell
on TV and very, very rarely in the movies, and it was a scandal if you
did ... like "frankly my dear, I don't give a damn".

Also when most movies were watching and not totally brain dead, idiotic
and always trying to sell you something.

Back when everyone saw the same news, and no one ever called it fake.

I can also remember so far back ... way back ... when Republicans were not actually crazy insane, and lunatics did not vote.

I remember when we used to have a proper winter,with alot of snow and low temps.,not like these days.

Hairy pussies

Bubble gum underneath the school desk.