Phone numbers with letters in them. Ours had ST for Stillwell. Downtown stores with wood floors, and they tidied them up by throwing down clean sawdust and sweeping it up. Real pickle barrels. Chickens that didn't come in plastic. But they were plucked and gutted. Metal credit cards that were pressed into the receipt, and the purchase record sent to the store's accounting dept. via pneumatic tube. Laundry chutes. How you sprinkled clothing with water and put it in a bag before ironing. Back then, irons got hot enough to scorch cotton. A washer that had a rubber wringer. Toilets with tanks up high, you pulled a chain. Tubs with feet. We had one of the first blow dryers - it was metal with a wooden handle and weighed a ton. Record players. We had the first color TV in our neighborhood - the neighbors came in to gape at it. You could rake your autumn leaves out to a pile in the curb and burn them.
