Because of your old age what did you get to see that new generations won't get to see?

"The Birth of the Internet."

I was born in the 1930s so I remember the popularisation of the motor vehicle. As a child only two or three people in my street owned them...

...which meant that, because we all walked in and out, everybody knew everybody else. It was a big city suburb that felt more like a country town.

Milk and bread were delivered by horse-drawn carts. We also had carts delivering clothes props and rabbits, but ice (in a pre-refrigerated era) was delivered by truck. I was often sent out with my billy cart to collect horse manure from the streets to use in our vegetable garden. 

It was a time when a woman could walk the streets safely at night and where crime was something that happened somewhere else. There were no drugs in Oz during that time; they arrived in the 1960s.

Then, of course there were all the big events: WWII and the many wars that followed it; the nuclear build-up and the Cold War; JFK, Armstrong's moon landing; and you know all the rest.

This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at February 28, 2017 10:29 AM MST

The original Star Wars movies on the "Big Screen". The movies before they were altered with CGI visual junk and ridiculous edits. Maybe Disney will someday restore these movies since they're not beyond doing anything for a quick billion dollars.

This.

Dear Nanoose,

In the 1950's, advertisers were scared to post a TV commercial over one minute long, because they worried viewers would be driven away.
I cannot find it on YouTube, but there was one wonderful Kraft cottage cheese commercial, a little bird with only "six seconds to sing." So I liked the commercials, they were much easier to live with....now they seem to have equal time! (And I no longer watch TV.)

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And, I liked the censorship in the 1950's; as a child I could go to movies and watch TV without violence, cursing or sexual explicitess (explicity?). I could just be a child...didn't have to grow up prematurely. Strange, because the 40's and 50's was the era of such great film noir, too...
There were, of course, some negatives...I learned later the censorship era also proscribed many interracial scenes.

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In a small town, I grew up without access to drugs; no temptation, which can be too difficult for many young people to make a good judgment about.

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Hmmm...looking back at these, I seem to have listed the absence of negatives, rather than lost positives.

This post was edited by Benedict Arnold at February 27, 2017 5:21 PM MST

• Seeing color TVs come into every household for the first time
• Listening to the radio to hear your favorite song
• Seeing an astronaut walk on the moon on live TV
• Answering a telephone without any idea who was actually calling
• Leaving your front door unlocked
• Being able to buy a Coke in a glass bottle for a dime
• Pulling into a gas station and having an attendant pump your gas, check your oil, and wash you windows automatically
• Going to the library if you needed to research something
• Waiting to have a roll of film developed