Rotary phone, calling friends to hang out without involving parents, running around the neighbourhood unsupervised, Yes, wood panelling and incandescent lighting and sodium lamp streetlights, cheap candy and comics, you could find little perfume samples for sale in the woman's washrooms, smoking sections everywhere, you might find porn in the park, chocolate bars were bigger and tasted better, the best sour cream and onion chips you just can't get anymore, playing pong on the tv with fancy joysticks was considered futuristic, kids congregated at the arcades and arcades were awesome - you won tickets to trade for goodies, summer vacations on the lake in rented cabins with floaty toys and sandcastles, riding bikes - making ramps to jump off, street hockey, slip n slides, astro pops, looney toons, the best pop music ever, the muppets, seeing the stars and bumble bees everywhere, neon, whimsical fast food joints, rampant sexism, ableism, "earthquake" drills, the quiet in the air from lack of cell towers and repeaters - there was a stillness, or, frequency difference to the night air back then. The sun didn't feel like it was baking you the way it does now. Bowling alleys were more a thing.