NO CLUE KIDS

[pinballdude]

No organized sports!! Gather the neighborhood kids of all ages in an empty lot and just play ball!! Didn't matter the age OR  if we knew how to play. Heck we were  pre-teen age (there's a word that didn't exist) playing either Kick-the-can or Hide n Go Seek after dark! FUN! Never crossed our mind we could be snatched off the street. We had about 100 kids on our street in a town of about 5000 back in the mid-1960s.

[jbrumett]

Didn't have the internet.......

Had to rely on junkyards, landfills, swap meets, and the classified Ads to find soda machines.

Sorry....had to throw that one in

[Eric]

Something my grandmother had was a pen pal.. she picked a name from a list of girls of the same age but lived in a different state (New York) in a Sunday school class
when she was around 8 years old... they wrote each other every month up until my grandmother passed at age 74. (She died in 1991) I think they may have called
each a few times... but no internet or facetime... I think that is something really cool.. just waiting for a handwritten letter from a friend she never met in person.

I ran ads for soda machines in the local papers... also had to watch for sales/auctions in the paper or the Antique Trader (which I think is still around but nothing near what it
was 20 years ago) ... now there's Craigslist...

[kbareit]

Going to an arcade to play video games.

[Fire708]

Wait in line at a bank to get cash or listen to a busy signal when you made a call.

[Kilroy]

Getting cool prizes in Cracker Jack boxes

[BONOVOX]

Going to an arcade to play video games.

Good one!
I spent HOURS playing Galaga 88

HOURS!
And I never finished it, or had the net to find out how to beat it

[Ben]

****On a hot summer day, riding my bike to the gas station/country store about 1/2 mile down the road from my house. Buying summer sausage and cheese from Mrs. Culp, who had coke bottle glasses and smoked cigarettes from a long plastic filter.  She would put the cost on my parents "Tab." Then going outside to the coke machine, putting money in and opening the door, feeling that cool air around my hand, with that "coke machine smell". I wanted to stick my face in there. Then there was the whole experience of pulling out a bottle of coke, the sound it made when you opened it. ice cold....... My kids sat in their air conditioned house playing video games occasionally getting up to get anything they wanted from the fridge... not the same

[tkaz]

Calling a girl in grade school and having to talk to her mom...or worse dad! 

[collecture]

Making prank phone calls...
Is your refrigerator running....better go catch it!
Got Prince Albert in a can....better let him out!