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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

Clackers, I know what you are talking about. I bet a lot don’t. Mine came from Hammers in Guntersville

Remember the TV playing the National Anthem at midnight, then turning off.

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.

Those Clacker Balls would wear out your arms.

I tell young folks about the designated smoking area for students and they think I'm full of it.

It seems like there were a lot more lightning bugs back in the day.

"Do you think Jimmy the Greek would get in trouble for saying what he said if it were today? For those not familiar, he was an oddsmaker that regularly came on TV to discuss pro football games and said that Black athletes were so good because of the genetics. He went on to say that only the biggest and strongest were brought over as slaves and furthermore only the strongest survived the trip to pass on their superior genes. That is only common sense but it caused an uproar. The network (CBS, I think) fired him and he was never to be seen on TV again."

Wasn't he talking about Bo Jackson and his huge thighs? Seems like he said he came from slaves and the above.

We need more threads like this and less threads about how everything sux and the world is coming to an end.

I don't remember the specifics about it, but you may very well be correct. If He'd said that these days he would be fired, blackballed, and they would be burning down and looting the cities. This is the actual quote:

The black is a better athlete to begin with, because he's been bred to be that way. Because of his high thighs and big thighs that goes up into his back. And they can jump higher and run faster because of their bigger thighs. And he's bred to be the better athlete because this goes back all the way to the Civil War, when, during the slave trading, the big, the owner, the slave owner would breed his big black to his big woman so that he could have uh big black kid, see. That's where it all started!

I saw it on TV later, but couldn't remember for sure who he was talking about other than black offensive backs. I do still have a mental recording of Woody Hayes coming off the sideline on the Clemson guy though. I was watching the game with my Dad, and I said "WTH?". Dad just gave me a funny look and said something about the same. I just knew I was going to get the belt, but I guess he understood my surprise.