The Clicker and before that laying on the floor changing channels on the TV for dad. “Slow down or you’ll break the knob”
Jarts
Clackers / Kanockers
Embroidered blue jeans
“VD is for everybody not just for the few”. TV public service announcement
National anthem at TV sign off
“It’s 10 pm. Do you know where your children are?”
Mutual of Omaha’s wild kingdom
Plastic hot molded dinosaur toys at Sinclair gas stations
Banana seat Schwinn bikes
Cars with no seat belts
Laying on the rear shelf of a no AC car going down the highway at 75+ with the windows down to keep from dying in the Texas summer heat. We were on the way from Houston to Chattanooga and saw gators under the bridges over the Louisiana swamps. Dad drove us through Biloxi the year after Camille came through on the way to see our grand parents.
Copper POW bracelets
Conjunction junction what’s your function?
Not being allowed to watch Sesame Street because of the mixing


“It’s enough to make a man feel sour. Burning minutes every day by the hour. Just to end up gone like everything else.”