alexjones wrote:Remember when........
Toll roads where you have to stop at the boom gate and pay a human to open it
Oldbloke wrote:Walking down the street with sixpence to the pay phone to make a call. Remember the A,B buttons?
alexjones wrote:Life before the internet and mass mobile phone adoption was a simpler more elegant time.
alexjones wrote:Drive in movie theaters. Although I believe there is still the odd few left around.
on_one_wheel wrote:Using Street directories , Phone books,
animalpest wrote:Going fishing from home to a spot 35km away on our treddlies (push bikes). Some decent hills navigate on our basic bikes.
Funny thing is that we didn't need to carry a big Yeti water bottle.
Die Judicii wrote:on_one_wheel wrote:Using Street directories , Phone books,
I have this Street Directory of Adelaide (updated version 1948)
Note: the directory is thinner than the biro.
Lazarus wrote:I remember the old phone boxes fondly.
The one nearest my house in the 60s was a reliable source of lollies.
Banging repeatedly on the "B" button would cause a pokie like cascade of zacs and deeners.
Oldbloke wrote:And the outside dunny. Dan, the dunny can man would pick up once a week.