# Without saying your age, what's something from your childhood that a younger person wouldn't understand? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 25, 2021, 1:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-saying-your-age-whats-something-from-your-childhood-that-a-younger-person-wouldnt-understand/953138 "2021-10-25T01:08:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 76
**Author:** ![thorny\_locust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thorny_locust/32/431_2.png) [@thorny\_locust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thorny_locust)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2023, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-saying-your-age-whats-something-from-your-childhood-that-a-younger-person-wouldnt-understand/953138/1503 "2023-02-23T17:36:05Z")
I am forty years over the age of 30, and the only reason I have tins full of buttons is because I inherited them from my mother. Even back in the 20th century, there were quite a few of us who didn’t sew; though I remember one young man back in the 1970’s who was quite taken aback when I refused to fix his clothes for him on the grounds that I didn’t know how. ---
**Author:** ![DesertDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/desertdog/32/11503_2.png) [@DesertDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DesertDog)\ **Post date:** [February 23, 2023, 8:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-saying-your-age-whats-something-from-your-childhood-that-a-younger-person-wouldnt-understand/953138/1504 "2023-02-23T20:12:56Z")
> [@Mama\_Zappa](#): > > Not rare at all. One bank near us has several drive-through lanes. The one closest to the building is the drive-through ATM. The other two lanes (maybe only one?) uses pneumatic tubes. Weird. My closest bank has the ATM on the outside lane – no human intervention needed – and the three inner lanes all tubes. Even the one next to the building is a tube instead of a teller with a window and drawer. ---
**Author:** ![Orville\_mogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/aeb1de/32.png) [@Orville\_mogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Orville_mogul)\ **Post date:** [February 25, 2023, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-saying-your-age-whats-something-from-your-childhood-that-a-younger-person-wouldnt-understand/953138/1505 "2023-02-25T17:54:53Z")
Sorry if these have been said already, but I am only about a quarter of the way through the thread… There was only one major company that made baseball cards, and the supply was actually limited You could find fields full of milkweed where you could collect monarch caterpillars There were nine planets and three taxonomic kingdoms ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-saying-your-age-whats-something-from-your-childhood-that-a-younger-person-wouldnt-understand/953138/1506 "2023-03-10T01:28:02Z")
> [@Railer13](#): > > Cars with the gas cap under the rear license plate. Cars with chrome bumpers with slots in them. the slots were for the bumper jack. This was in improvement from the earlier bumper jack that grabbed the whole bumper. When my dad was in WW-II he got a jeep unstuck by lifting the whole front end up and pushing it off the jack toward solid ground and repeating it on the back until it was out of the mud. He did the same thing 30 years later to my Pinto when I got it stuck an hour away from home. ---
**Author:** ![california\_jobcase](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/9d8465/32.png) [@california\_jobcase](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/california_jobcase)\ **Post date:** [March 12, 2023, 6:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-saying-your-age-whats-something-from-your-childhood-that-a-younger-person-wouldnt-understand/953138/1507 "2023-03-12T18:29:13Z")
Along with Sammy Terry, everybody my age from central IN will understand if you drone the word nooooo-body! Bob Catterson sure left his mark. ---
**Author:** ![saucywench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/85e7bf/32.png) [@saucywench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/saucywench)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2023, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-saying-your-age-whats-something-from-your-childhood-that-a-younger-person-wouldnt-understand/953138/1508 "2023-03-14T04:07:42Z")
Sammy Terry (said real fast). LOL Thanks for the laugh. That reminds me when I lived in Bellevue, NE in the 1970s we had a show called Creature Feature. I think it was on Saturday nights. The host was Dr. San Guinary. ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2023, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-saying-your-age-whats-something-from-your-childhood-that-a-younger-person-wouldnt-understand/953138/1509 "2023-03-14T04:29:07Z")
oh and janie… that show ran until the mid 80s or so ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2023, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-saying-your-age-whats-something-from-your-childhood-that-a-younger-person-wouldnt-understand/953138/1510 "2023-03-14T09:55:39Z")
MTV got rolling in 1981, but if your house didn’t have cable then the next best thing was Friday Night Videos, which started broadcasting on NBC a couple of years later. The early years of the show were just before the advent of stereo sound in television broadcasts (and TV sets with decent speaker systems), and one of the coolest parts of FNV was that the audio was **[simulcast](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simulcast)** on local FM radio stations. So way past your bedtime on Friday nights, you’d get your stereo dialed in, and your TV dialed in, and be able to watch 90 minutes of music videos with good quality stereo sound. > **[Friday Night Videos](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friday_Night_Videos)** > > Tom Kenny (1990–1992) > Darryl M. Bell (1992–1993) > Branford Marsalis (1993) > Henry Cho (1994–1996) > Friday Night Videos (later becoming Friday Night and then Late Friday) is an American music video show that was broadcast on NBC from July 29, 1983, to May 24, 2002. It was the network's attempt to capitalize on the emerging popularity of music videos as seen on MTV. From January 5, 2001, to August 30, 2002, the show changed to Late Friday showcasing new stand-up comedian talent with original video ... ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2023, 10:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-saying-your-age-whats-something-from-your-childhood-that-a-younger-person-wouldnt-understand/953138/1511 "2023-03-14T10:04:10Z")
at one-time music videos were on almost every pay movie channel because their parent companies also owned record companies and even Disney got in the act ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2023, 12:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-saying-your-age-whats-something-from-your-childhood-that-a-younger-person-wouldnt-understand/953138/1512 "2023-03-14T12:55:32Z")
> [@california\_jobcase](#): > > Bob Catterson sure left his mark. Yeah, I remember him, too. “If you don’t have a Bob Catterson price, then you really don’t have a price.” “Ol’ Dave needs the money!” ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2023, 5:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-saying-your-age-whats-something-from-your-childhood-that-a-younger-person-wouldnt-understand/953138/1513 "2023-03-14T17:38:34Z")
Mentioned this in another thread. There were wage and price controls in effect. You couldn’t get a raise at your job. You could get a raise with a promotion or a change to different position already paying more. And companies couldn’t raise the price of the goods they sold. Sometimes they made things bigger in order to charge more. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2023, 6:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-saying-your-age-whats-something-from-your-childhood-that-a-younger-person-wouldnt-understand/953138/1514 "2023-03-14T18:47:12Z")
> [@saucywench](#): > > That reminds me when I lived in Bellevue, NE in the 1970s we had a show called Creature Feature. I think every town/city with a TV channel had a Creature Feature show. I know in L.A. we had a whole slew of different ones over the decades…beginning with the original – Vampyra. ---
**Author:** ![Hypno-Toad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/b2d939/32.png) [@Hypno-Toad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hypno-Toad)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2023, 8:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-saying-your-age-whats-something-from-your-childhood-that-a-younger-person-wouldnt-understand/953138/1515 "2023-03-14T20:19:48Z")
We had Count Gore de Val on WDCA in DC. He was (and still is) played by Dick Dyszel. Dick was also the kids show host as Captain 20, since this was on UHF channel 20. I remember him more as Captain 20 since I was still a child. He had on Spock ears and a Spock haircut and would make the Vulcan hand sign from time to time. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [March 14, 2023, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-saying-your-age-whats-something-from-your-childhood-that-a-younger-person-wouldnt-understand/953138/1516 "2023-03-14T20:25:40Z")
> [@carrps](#): > > I think every town/city with a TV channel had a Creature Feature show. I know in L.A. we had a whole slew of different ones over the decades…beginning with the original – Vampyra. New York’s [John Zacherley](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt10355914/) was well known but started after [Vampira](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vampira_Show). Later in Philadelphia we had [Dr. Shock](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Shock) who did the horror movie thing in shows with different names. Eventually it turned weird when he featured his 9 month old daughter on the show and called her “Bubbles” to promote his sponsor, a local soda company. He was a professional magician that I met several times at a local magic shop. Very nice guy. Just found out he passed away from a heart attack at age 42. I knew he wasn’t as old as he looked in make-up on the show but he must have been even younger than I thought, only about 35 when I met him. ---
**Author:** ![TRC4941](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trc4941/32/6792_2.png) [@TRC4941](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TRC4941)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2023, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-saying-your-age-whats-something-from-your-childhood-that-a-younger-person-wouldnt-understand/953138/1517 "2023-03-15T14:03:04Z")
Not really a childhood thing but a thing from the past that is never done these days. Babies were put in their crib and then covered with a blanket and more than likely they were put down on their stomachs. In fact, I remember that it was said that a baby that sleeps on its back too much will develop a flat head! Nowadays, for safety reasons, there are no blankets in the cribs and babies are always put down on their backs. ---
**Author:** ![doreen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/858c86/32.png) [@doreen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/doreen)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2023, 2:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-saying-your-age-whats-something-from-your-childhood-that-a-younger-person-wouldnt-understand/953138/1518 "2023-03-15T14:11:18Z")
No blankets, no bumpers, no pillows and put to sleep on their backs - but [tummy time](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tummy_time) is now recommended , in part to avoid flat spots. ---
**Author:** ![echoreply](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/echoreply/32/3641_2.png) [@echoreply](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/echoreply)\ **Post date:** [March 15, 2023, 6:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-saying-your-age-whats-something-from-your-childhood-that-a-younger-person-wouldnt-understand/953138/1519 "2023-03-15T18:55:46Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > at one-time music videos were on almost every pay movie channel We didn’t stay watching a movie on HBO through the credits because there was an end scene, but because we were hoping that HBO was going to fill the 18 minutes until the top of the hour with some good music videos. More likely it would be a 10 minute making-of piece on the Terry Fox story. ---
**Author:** ![Andy\_L](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/c67d28/32.png) [@Andy\_L](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy_L)\ **Post date:** [March 24, 2023, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-saying-your-age-whats-something-from-your-childhood-that-a-younger-person-wouldnt-understand/953138/1520 "2023-03-24T00:44:36Z")
[Uncle Ted was the Creature Feature host in Scranton. One time the kid’s morning host was out sick and Ted substituted…](https://www.wnep.com/article/news/local/bradford-county/its-official-uncle-ted-inducted-into-horror-host-hall-of-fame/523-1ac2f721-a895-4692-8093-9d53b3b303af) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/without-saying-your-age-whats-something-from-your-childhood-that-a-younger-person-wouldnt-understand/953138.md?page=75)