[chrisser]

Besides all of the above, there was actually a time when cars didn’t all have air conditioning, power windows and locks, and/or remote entry key fobs with alarms.

In the distant past, “alloy” wheels on cars were often not even an option and certainly not common and many cars had 14” wheels with 15” reserved for large cars and full size pickups. 17” wheels were a relic from the 30s.

Remember overhead projectors and filmstrip projectors?

How about chalk and chalkboards, and those special chalk holders the teachers could use to draw lines on the board to teach penmanship (back when that subject was taught).

[Buckeye McFrog]

Besides all of the above, there was actually a time when cars didn’t all have air conditioning, power windows and locks, and/or remote entry key fobs with alarms.

My first car was a 1971 Pontiac. No AC. Had those little triangular shaped vent windows up front. No carpeting, just black rubber material like a truck interior. No emission controls. Meaning I could actually work on it without first having to remove 600 miles of cable and tubing. Crank windows and key locks. AM radio. My first major upgrade was installing an FM converter.

And I was damned happy to have it.

[Nowhere Man]

Remember overhead projectors and filmstrip projectors?

I rmemeber those. "At the beep/bell," turn the knob to the next frame. Usually the audio was from a record or a cassette tape.

How about chalk and chalkboards, and those special chalk holders the teachers could use to draw lines on the board to teach penmanship (back when that subject was taught).

I think they use "white boards" with markers now although in the early 1980's we have small versions of those.

[Mogger]

Besides all of the above, there was actually a time when cars didn’t all have air conditioning, power windows and locks, and/or remote entry key fobs with alarms.

I just bought a truck with none of that stuff. A Unimog.

We got electricity and running water and phone (12 party line) when I was 6.

Got electricity at the one room school I went to when I was 7, running water when I was 10, the selectmen never did waste taxpayer money on a phone in the school.