1) Sweet cigarettes...In my neck of the woods it was Camels or Lucky Strike. Except for my dad’s Raleighs.
2) No coffee shops but there was a small restaurant that had a juke box in the corner. That restaurant had one side for working folks and another side for the well dressed town folks.
There was a pick up window in the back for blacks.
3) Having milk cows and 100 laying hens we delivered milk in quart jars, eggs by the dozen and home made butter by the pound. You ever candled eggs or churned butter?
4) Was it just us or did every party line have two women who stayed on the phone from sun up to sun down?
5) TV station sign off would be announced by a playing of My Country Tis Of Thee and sign on was announced by The Star Spangled Banner. The first show in our area was sponsored by the local Dr Pepper bottler. It was a farm show with weather and local news.
Yeah, I remember most of those things.
12 out of 14. I feel about 3 days older than dirt.
Oh yes, party lines and phones with no dials.