Walk Down Memory Lane with us 55+'ers...

[Neuromancer]

In another thread regarding what fictional character you might like to be someone said Richie Cunningham as it would be fun to have grown up in the 50's and I replied that it wasn't such fun and it was a naive stifled world...which got me to thinking...what did we have then that we don't have now and what do we have now that we didn't have then...so for all of you growing up in the 50's, jump in here and add to the list I'm starting just to see what things were really like 50 years ago...

What We Had
--------------
The McCarthy Witch Hunt
Segregation
Corner Drugstores with soda fountains
Black & White TV's' with rabbit ears and only 3 or 4 channels
Corded Phones
Elvis

What We Didn't Have
---------------------
Color TV's (and no flat screen, plasma, or HD)
Cable and Satellite TV with hundreds of channels
Cell Phones
Remote Phones (hell we were glued to one spot to talk on the phone)
Personal Computers
Shopping Malls
Indian, Thai, and Japanese Restuarants
Digital Cameras
Brittany Spears

Feel free to jump in here, all you old farts and add to the list to jog our memories and show these young whippersnappers just how good they've got it...this ought to be fun...

PS - And, oh, yeah, when I was as young as half the guys here I had to walk ten miles in the snow just to get to school...