Things I remember:
Walking a mile to catch the bus when I was in grade school
No kindergarten
Ice Cream carts in the summertime (the kind that teenagers peddled around neighborhoods selling popsicles and fudge bars)
Moon Pies (the large ones they used to sell)
Penny candy
When Black Jack gum was 1st sold
Polio vaccines in liquid form
People actually getting polio
Nuclear bomb drills at school
playing outside all day, every day even in winter
A pump outside for water
Water pipes being installed in our neighborhood and then Dad running pipes to our house so we could have running water
An outhouse, no inside bathroom
Taking a bath in a wash tub
I could go on and on - I'm 58.