OK, here we go: "I'm so old I remember..."

[Genki Hikari]

42. Glass bottles of soda sold in regular vending machines

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"Ice chest" style soda vending machines, where you lifted the lid, put in your money, and slid the bottle over to get it out.

L'eggos pantyhose

TV soap operas being 15 minutes long

American Bandstand, Midnight Special and Don Kirschner's Rock Concert music shows.

When TVs were "sets" in wood cabinets far bigger than the screens.

Your car's bright lights being activated by a button you pushed in the floorboard.

Vinyl-roofed cars

When pickup trucks were for work, not show

My grandfather's push-button gear shift in the car.

Students having their own designated smoking areas at school

School cafeterias served real food, not pizza and chicken nuggets. Friday was either hamburger or pizza day. The pizza slice was a rectangle.

Gallons of milk came in paper cartons.

You needed a church key to drink canned soda.

Phones being hardwired inside your house.

Phones that weighed more than a gallon of milk.

Phonebooks from the phone company

Paying for long distance phone calls

Toll call charges between neighboring cities with different area codes

LPs, cassettes, 8 tracks

Entire swaths of the country with zero FM stations.

Even cheap radios being able to pick up AM radio stations hundreds of miles away--but only at night.

AM radio playing all kinds of music, and "talk" radio was the farm reports in rural areas.

Hours set aside on radio stations for listeners to dedicate songs to people.

The drinking age = 18.

Having color choices with appliances, sinks, tubs, toilets, and even paper towels and toilet paper!

If I think of more, I'll post more.