flashcubes on slimline cameras
brown bags to bring home grocery/fruit
Mom cleaning the house with daughters helping without a kvetch
butcher packing meat/chicken in paper
koshering your chickens at home
discussing important topics with your parents(not friends)
carbon paper for copying notes for your friend who was absent
staying home for seminary and turning our great
yeshiva boys going to Eretz Yisroel to learn,with no cell phone nor credit card and not coming home for about 2 years with a call perhaps once a year
communal sukkas(made of old doors) in the shul yard and all men of all types eating together b’achdus
double reeled cassette players
super 8 movie camera
trolley cars on 39th street
Myrtle Avenue line
green city buses
train seats made of cane
when youngsters gave their seats for elderly(with a smile)
when kids who graduated and went to work knew what responsibility meant and were capable of being on their own without Papa’s handouts