Cars that had no plastic parts. Seats were made of cloth or leather. If it lasted a 100K miles before wearing out you were lucky. On hot days it would sometimes vapor lock. Sometimes when on a trip you would have to stop and clean and reset the points in the distributor. And them old Fords always had a squeak in the front end. Flat tires always required pulling the tube and patching it. On long trips you would pack bread and lunch meat to have lunch at a road side park that consisted of a picnic table under a tree. Lots of gravel roads in rural areas consisting of chuck holes and mud holes when it rained. Free cigarette samples arriving in your mailbox and using cards and a clothes pin an your bike spokes to make it sound like a motor bike.Saturday night was bath night in a wash tub set up with water heated on the cook stove, first the kids, then mom and then dad last so we would be clean for church in the morning.Listening to big sisters idolizing Pat Boone singing love letters in the sand on the radio.When radio stations played a variety of music on the same AM station from rock and roll to motown and country thrown in. Variety shows on TV such as Steve Allen and George Burns and good ole Ed Sullivan. Game shows such as I’ve got a secret and what’s my line and don’t forget Groucho and the secret word for a hundred dollars.Reruns of the little rascals and the 3 stooges. Oh and the Alfred Hitchcock hour.Tarzan and Jerry Lewis and Dean Martin movies.
Some of these are still around.