Pick up the phone receiver and hear "Number please?" (Uncle and Aunt, a few miles out of town had a ringer phone until the mid-seventies ) Dollar watches, Heaters in cars were optional - as well as radio. Blackjack chewing gum. Steam radiators in the classroom. Kerosene smudge pots at road detours and closures. Kerosene plumbers torches. Rope blocks - come-a-longs hadn't been invented. Metal saddle horns. Split windshields. Big Ben wind-up alarm clocks. (clocks and watches that held within ~3 minutes / day were considered "good" Noon whistle. Time and temperature by phone. Paul Harvey at noon, even in the 50's, I liked listening to him.
edited to add -stock racks on pickups.
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I've always been a curmudgeon - now I'm an old curmudgeon. ~Molɔ̀ːn Labé Skýla~