All that BS about walking to school 20 miles uphill both ways.
Never happened just a bunch of bulls**t.
Me and my little brother had to swim across the river everyday both ways to get to school. Then endure a pint of warm milk that has been sitting on the steam raditor since 7:30 while chewing a stale gram cracker.
Someone mentioned cable TV HA !!! we had to hold the rabbit ears so the old man could watch Ed Sullivan. While our arms were wrapped in alum foil.
If one of the tubes burnt out we had to run down to the drugstore and use the test machine to find the bad tube and hope they had the replacement in stock.
Snowblowers consisted of a stick attached to an iron blade, a power mower was something you pushed.