I remember…
-When someone gave me for my Bar Mitzva a little (about 6″ by 8″) REEL TO REEL tape recorder. – This was even BEFORE cassette tapes! Wow, was that “cool”!
-When people judged the kashrus of a product by reading the ingredients.
-When the New York SUNDAY Times (that weighed about 2 pounds) was 25 cents. – Now I wouldn’t read that rag if it was free.
-The absolute silence on the subway train on my way home from school the day John F. Kennedy was assassinated.
-When I spent my first summer in Israel and wrote home on those fold-up airograms, but didn’t call home the whole summer because the only way to make an international phone call was from the main branch of the Post Office on Rechov Yaffo.
-When people in Israel waited for YEARS to get a phone installed in their home.
-When I used to get haircuts at a barber shop near the Flatbush & Nostrand intersection for 60 cents, and was upset when it went up to 75 cents!
-When my great joy of the week was when my father A”H, would take me out on Sunday afternoon for a frank to the only kosher deli in our neighborhood.