How about “Free HBO weekends”?
I know they still do that once in a while, but it’s not the same.
“OMG!! They showed BOOBS on TV!!!”
“Mom, can we get HBO?”
Pudding that came in small cans, and licking the pudding off the sharp edged, pull-top, lid.
The toy records actually WORKED too.
Heck, in the late '70’s, we relied on PBS* for all our TV boobies- and we liked it!
(*Monty Python, Voltaire’s Candide, and I CLAVDIVS)
Locally-produced TV shows- game shows, afternoon movies, kids cartoons, and of course, horror movies, and their character hosts.
And speaking of horror films- WARREN Comic magazines (the revived VAMPIRELLA I think still survives, a bastardized FAMOUS MONSTERS was stolen from Uncle Forry, and I think someone has the rights to CREEPY and EERIE and may occasionally issue reprints) AND the intellectual horror movie mag for the time- The Castle of Frankenstein…
and of course, Hammer Studios films (tho rumor has it that a revival is being planned).
Saturday afternoon kids’ movie matinées - a quarter got you a ticket, popcorn, soft drink and the following:
Coming attractions
Movietone News
Cartoon(s)
Weekly serial instalment
and then
The main feature!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAY! 
If you got there early enough you got a seat in the balcony, front row! 
I wonder if they have torn down the Oak Theatre (Kingsway and Imperial in Burnaby BC) yet?
Every office I’ve worked in still has a communal typewriter for envelopes and non-electronic forms and such.
Soda bottles without twists off and soda cans without pop tops. And using a churchkey to open them.
ETA: whiterabbit I still use a typewriter, and have no trouble ordering ribbons from Staples
We used to get these! My father would sit there and eat practically the entire can at one sitting.
Paddlings in school. They don’t do it anymore, and sometimes, I don’t think it’d be a bad idea if kids got paddled once in a while.
Girl Scout Cookies that cost $1.25 a box (when I was selling them.)
Using brown paperbags to cover your school books. Everyone knew how to do it.
Oh YESH. If the teacher ran a test or the like off before class, mmm, the smell.
Heck, I had to do that when I was in school, and I’m only 23. That’s not old! (Is it?)
The aluminum Christmas trees which my Dad would then shine his three color rotating light at - oohhh sparkly! And real metal tinsel for the upstairs live tree.
“The Sound of Music”, “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”, “The Wizard of Oz” being on once a year and everyone sitting around the Zenith console, munching on stove popped popcorn, drinking Pepsi from a bottle.
For $1.07 I could go to McDonalds and get a cheeseburger and small soda. I made sure I didn’t spend that much out of my amazing $3/week allowance so my friends and I could ride our bikes to McD’s for lunch during the summer.
Swinging on park swings over concrete. No woodchips, no recycled rubber. Concrete.
Buying Pink Floyd “The Wall” album for $6.95 at Woolworths.
I remember when my parents first bought a dishwasher. My sister had JUST moved out. She loudly objected to it - not fair that I didn’t have to do them anymore. BUT I had to lug the thing across the kitchen, clamp on the nozzle, etc and load it. Of course you had to pretty much wash the dishes before you loaded it.
Buying Archie comic books for .15C at the drug store.
Huge orange buckle life preservers. Once you had it on you could barely move your head. But we rarely wore them anyways.
Where have people gotten the idea that kids don’t say the pledge of allegience at schools anymore? Mine certainly do. (Public school in California.)
Buying Legion of Super-Heroes for ten cents, and being really upset when they went up to twelve cents.
P.S. I still have my entire collection
When there used to be a reason to eat the red Smarties last (mmm… red dye).
Come to think of it, the dark brown ones tasted kinda yucky too.
I remember the little wings they’d give you, and the ability as a kid to get a tour of the cockpit while the plane was in flight. I remember that was ultimate in cool, being able to meet the pilots and look all the switches and meters. 
I feel sad for kids who have only gotten to fly after that time, when cockpit doors are locked and pilots carry guns. 
Don’t feel sorry! The cockpit isn’t locked until taxiing (that word looks so wrong); my kids have both been invited to tour the cockpit when boarding, including moving the little stickshifty thing that makes the engines rev. All post 9/11.
But the plastic wings are stick-on now, not pins. Cheap bastards.
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[li]Regular gasoline, and along with it, analog number wheels on the pump. Even if they are in use today I wonder how they could be retrofitted to accommodate $3/gallon prices.[/li][li]Stereo TV was the big thing in the early- to mid-1980s. Some of the early MacGyver episodes I have on my DVDs say “(((Now in Stereo)))” at the beginning.[/li][li]Candy cigarettes. We kids felt so grown-up pretending to be smoking them.[/li][li]Christmas specials on TV. You planned for this event. One year the Peanuts special was on the same night as our school Christmas progam. I was so pissed that night, having to go sing a bunch of silly songs instead of watch Charlie Brown. [Curmudgeon]Man, kids and their [del]VCRs[/del] Tivos these days have it sooooooooooooo easy… sheesh![/Curmudgeon][/li][li]Playgrounds with metal slides and other fixtures. The slide was virtually unusable on a hot summer day.[/li][li]Sonic booms. Every now and then one would rattle the blinds in the classroom and scare the crap out of everyone.[/li][li]Those little plastic inserts for 45 records. I’m sure there is probably a technical reason for it, but it would seem to me that the standard spindle hole used on 33 1/3 records would have worked for a 45 record, too.[/li][li]Postage stamps were 13¢.[/li][li]Metal lunchboxes.[/li][li]All underwear was plain white, period. Underoos hadn’t come along quite yet, and hardly anyone ever wore boxer shorts.[/li][/ul]
I think it’s somewhat understandable, I had several self-inflicted pin-related injuries over the years with the old ones. My parents were cool about it, but I can just imagine some parent being outraged by the airline giving their child a dangerous sharp object!
Bra ads using only mannequins and some scientific woman explaining how the bra fit. These, I don’t miss.
Unaffiliated local channels with regular monster movies and horror show hosts.
There are still some of these around, as parts of clearly-fairly-modern play structures. (But most slides are plastic, which seems generally better, I agree.)