You're Not Old Unless You Can Remember ...
* What you do with the pointed end of a can opener.
* When there was no McDonalds.
* When you dressed up to fly on an airliner.
* When you could watch the engines start on an airliner.
* When candy bars cost a nickel.
* When comic books cost 10 cents
* When you actually got up out of the couch to change the channel on the
TV.
* When there were only four other channels to change to, five if you
adjusted the antenna.
* When whole communities were mass vaccinated against polio.
* Where you were when you heard JFK had been shot.
* When VWs broke the $2000 barrier.
* When John Glenn went into space the first time.
* When you drank milk through a Flav-R-Straw.
* When you did calculations with a slide rule, an adding machine, and/or
a table of sines, cosines, and logarithms.
* When this year's new cars looked different from last year's, and when
different makes of cars looked different.
* When car radios were AM only
* When paperback books were 25 cents.
* When you watched, "Today on the Farm" on TV before going to school.
* When the number of home runs to beat for the record was 60.
* When you could work on your own car.
* When you had to punch cards to use a computer.
* When you would read Life, Look, or The Saturday Evening Post every week.
* When you would leave empty milk bottles for the milkman
* When postage stamps went from 3 cents to 4 cents.
* When a TV show would have 39 new episodes in a season.
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