[jimroth]

My first temptation was to tell about a few choice facts from my childhood to counteract the nostalgia, however, my heart softened.
Remember watching that big black and white TV? Nobody in my neighborhood even HAD a color TV.
I saw the real actual Batmobile at a car show and said "What are those red stripes doing there?" They didn't show up in B&W.

The mailman delivered mail to our front door, twice a day.

You could mail-order a live monkey in the back of Boy's Life! Not that I ever did. Got some anoles, though.

My folks were usually flat broke, but we never felt poor or deprived.