2. Ever wonder how your life differs from your grandparents or parents? Maybe not but… Let’s take look anyway

3. All girls wore ugly gym uniforms

4. The TV took 5 minutes to warm up

5. Nearly everyone’s mom was home when kids got home from school

6. No one owned a purebred dog

7. A quarter was decent allowance

8. You’d reach in a muddy gutter for a penny

9. Your mom wore nylons that came in 2 pieces

10. You got your windshield cleaned, oil checked, and gas pumped without asking, all for free AND you only paid 29 cents a gallon in the 50’s

11. Well paid dads brought home $600 a month (1950’s)

12. We had “PARTY” lines on our Home telephone (We all had home phones or no phone at all) No one had a private line You’d pick up the phone & make sure your neighbor wasn’t talking. (The “original” conference call) There was NO call waiting

13. The men teachers wore ties everyday and the women had their hair done daily

14. Laundry detergent had FREE glasses, dishes or towels hidden inside the box as a prize.

15. They threatened to keep kids back a grade if they failed and they did

16. None asked for the car keys because they were always in the car, in the ignition and doors were never locked

17. Kids would lie on the grass look up and say, ‘That cloud looks like…”

18. Stuff came from the store without Safety caps and hermetic seals because no one had been poisoned yet

19. When the only weapons found at school a SLING SHOT

20. When being sent to the principal’s office was NOTHING compared to the fate that awaited when you got home from school

21. They ACTUALLY sold….

22. CANDY CIGARETTES

23. Glass bottles in Soda Machines

26. And

27. What about Cars & Gas?? A Cadillac in the 50’s = $5,000 NOW = $60,000 plus Gas in the Mid 1960’s = $0.33 a gallon NOW = $3.59 a gallon

28. AND These DIDN’T EVEN EXIST in everyday homes Microwaves OMG..How would you make popcorn?? Personal Computers Handheld Cell Phones The first were in a bag & weighted 3 lbs. Cassette tapes VHS, CD, DVD What… No movie or video game rentals???

29. Color TV Most families had black & white TVs Cable & Satellite TV (Fresno had 4 channels with rabbit ear antennas to pick up the signal) Surround Sound – Home Entertainment We had record players Xbox, Nintendo, Home Video Games Digital clock radios Central Air & Heating.. Ahh! swamp coolers Car air conditioning We had 2 windows & 60 miles an hour

30. I-anything (IPOD, MP3, etc) TEXT MESSAGES Coffee makers And MORE. Life has changed fast in 40 years…. Now, Can you imagine what things will change in the next 40 years? HOW WILL YOU CHANGE?