Showing Your Age
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When you could have a good night out on the lash (drink) and a Chinese takeaway on the way home and still have change out of a fiver 
marnat3
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Related to airline travel:
You had to go to the airport to make a reservation and buy the tickets (I don't remember when there were no reservations required and payment was taken in the air). When you were departing, a family member could go onboard and help you but had to depart before the plane left. I don't recall the screening but it was minimal at my airport. If you had a seat in the back, you likely walked thru a thick cloud of cigarette smoke. Flew on the likes of TWA, Eastern, Braniff, and PamAm. I remember when the people waiting for you to arrive (non-passengers) were standing at the gate to meet you and could see you coming down the jetway or going down the steps off the plane. And of course, you had a pocket full of American Express travelers cheques because a guy named Karl Malden told you not to leave home without them!
You had to go to the airport to make a reservation and buy the tickets (I don't remember when there were no reservations required and payment was taken in the air). When you were departing, a family member could go onboard and help you but had to depart before the plane left. I don't recall the screening but it was minimal at my airport. If you had a seat in the back, you likely walked thru a thick cloud of cigarette smoke. Flew on the likes of TWA, Eastern, Braniff, and PamAm. I remember when the people waiting for you to arrive (non-passengers) were standing at the gate to meet you and could see you coming down the jetway or going down the steps off the plane. And of course, you had a pocket full of American Express travelers cheques because a guy named Karl Malden told you not to leave home without them!
icecoldgin
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metal bottle caps (called tansan in my neck of the woods)
Then peeling off the plastic inside to reveal a prize
Then peeling off the plastic inside to reveal a prize
MARK (LI)
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When you played outside all year round not inside in front of a TV with computer games, no texting your friends you had to "WALK" to their house and knock the door
Hearing a new song on AM radio and heading to a record store to buy the monaural 45 RPM record.
Rattydude77
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I remember going to a pay phone to call the number that came up on my beeper
I remember my sister would wait for songs and record them on her cassette recorder.
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