Aaah, I had one too! Also got it from my grandparents! My mom blew up the lightbulbs inside by pushing the wrong buttons trying to get the radio off because I had to make homework instead of listening.
I kept that radio almost all of my life despite it didn’t work anymore. Still regret I’ve trown it away a couple of years ago 
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Didn’t know that trick, I managed ones to enter a radio quiz (forgot the name, but it was popular. You needed to dial quickly when the quiz was open. I came through, but chickened out and hang up 
, while I had all the correct answers.
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How in the world did hit the thingies on top of the phone dial a number?
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Hit 'm the number of times for one number (six time for a 6), then pauze, then hit again and repeat until done.
@Mischa84 My first camera, 1974ish.
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We had tin cans with a string attaching them. ( for a phone)
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The first pager I had was the size of a huge boom box and weighed about ten pounds. ( 4.53 Kg ) The only good thing about it was the pager noise that came out of it was really super loud.
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This thread is like, totally tubular 
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And putting card in the spokes to sound like a motorbike
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I remember doing that too! We used wooden clothes pins to attach the cards to the spokes.
This entire thread brought me down childhood memory lane.
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Getting coal before winter deposited in front of your cellar to be shovelled inside.
Putting down the ash before heating the oven.
Freezing before someone put on a fire.
Hating my brother when he didn’t put on the fire. 
Not having landline until the 90s. When you planned meeting a friend you were there.
Getting sandwiches for school I didn’t like and hid behind the bed and forgot about them 
Playing matchbox with my brother.
Having the selection of 3 TV channels and having to walk to the TV to change.
Doing what
Doing dishes and battle who had to dry. Ahhh, doing the dishes on Christmas 
never ending story.
Roads that were made to fall asleep as there were so many bumps in the road.
When your mom cleans your face with her own saliva 
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Having a 25 foot phone cord so you could sneak in the other room with your staticky connection.
The biggest advance besides the birth of the internet was a cd player with 10 seconds skip protection lol.
A high speed vhs rewinder was pretty sweet too 
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VHS 
and going to the rental shop to choose a film for the night… Forgetting to take it back and getting charged extra.
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Recording the weekly top 40 on your cassette player to make your own playlist and making one full of love songs to give to that person you fancied.
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One local movie rental place had “be kind; rewind” stickers on all the tapes.
Also remember renting the actual vcr machine from the shop with the movies.
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And dialing a wrong number in the number and having to start over. Pressing the hang up thingys and waiting until you finally got a dial tone.
Knowing you’ve already lost the free T shirt giveaway for the 15th caller on the radio…
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I worked at a local video store (not Blockbuster), my 1st real job. I don’t count the few days at Burger King or couple weeks at Great America.
We had the Bee 
kind Rewind stickers.
Working weekends were a nightmare, especially around the holidays, everyone wanted the same movie, and we only had 10 of them.
Then they asked for suggestions… Or did I see what they were renting. 
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Our land line had a “party line,” so if you did want to call a friend you may pick up the phone and hear some other people talking and you had to wait until they were done.
Text would have been handy.
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So were people kind, and did they rewind??
Or did you guys not check and just leave it that way for the next renter to deal with?
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