Ditto machines in school? Your hands were blue from the ink and it got onto everything you touched.
And the papers always had that smell.
First diet cokes: RC Cola; Tab; Patio
And you could drink at 18 but had to wait until 21 to vote.
And Harvard was all-male, as were many other schools.
Walter Cronkite
The Huntley-Brinkley Report. (Goodnight Chet. Goodnight David.)
My Mother the Car
Dialing 0 for Operator and actually getting the information or service you needed.
Memorizing phone numbers for the police and fire departments because there was no 911. (In Chicago it was PO5-1313 and FI7-1313.) And of course, let’s not forget phone “numbers” had letters in them.
And speaking of phone numbers, all area codes had either a 1 or a 0 as the middle digit. There was no dialing 1 for a long distance call.