Smoking areas for students in school.
Walking to the store when I was around 10 to 12 or so to buy my dad a carton of cigarettes. He would let me use the change for a slurpee in a baseball star cup. I finally scored a Hank Aaron cup.
Fishing on the local piers and the Gulf was teeming with fish (it is depressing to go to a pier now).
Hunting doves pretty much wherever we found them. A knock on the farmer's door and an offer of shotgun shells in exchange for permission to shoot almost always was accepted.
32 ounce Miller High Life at the gas station for 50 cents.
Johnny Carson on TV.
3 channels to choose from.
My first truck, an F150 that my dad bought for me. It was barely used and still a current year model. He paid $4k for it.
My parents buying a 3/2 house for $21 K.
Our neighbor taking me deer hunting (my dad was a bird hunter only). I was hooked after that first deer stepped out of the woods onto the food plot.
Catching 10 lb bass out of said neighbor's ponds.
Really good rock and roll music that has faded away from today's culture.
Fishing on the lower Tensaw in gin clear lakes covered in healthy grass and slam full of fat bass, huge bream, crappie, and catfish. I REALLY miss that.
Fishing on the jetties at Alabama Point and catching way more fish than we could ever use. You very rarely saw more than a very few boats using that pass and there was one little store there.
Driving from Pensacola to Panama City Beach on 98 was a 1.5 hour drive.
Saturday morning cartoons.
The smell of bacon cooking on opening day of dove season.
Catching big croakers in Pensacola Bay. They have been gone for a long time now. Today, you wouldn't know they got that big unless you saw it back then.
Fishing in my first Gulf boat (18.5 ft center console) and absolutely smashing the cobia, kings, spanish, etc every single trip. I remember my brother and I taking an afternoon off from work to go cobia fishing. We caught 5 before we even made it to the old Coast Guard station on the beach. Then saw dozens more riding back in. I think I miss that the most.