Back in my days of youth and innocence (Bullsh*t!):
The drinking age was 19, but it was ridiculously easy to get a drink without flashing a fake ID. Guys (and gals) in my class proudly boasting about getting drunk on Mai-Tais, spending our lunch drinking pitchers of cheap beers at a local dive. Or stocking up on potent potables at a drive-up liquor store not far from the high school.
Parties at 85th Street Beach and Haulover in Miami Beach. Cops run us off one place - we'd regroup and continue in another location!
Cable TV that only had about 20 channels and NO remote - just a channel selector slider box connected to the TV. And waiting until your neighborhood was wired up for cable!
No Nintendo, no PlayStation, just Atari 2600, ColecoVision or Mattel's Intellivision. Anyone remember Mattel's Electronic Football?
Getting used, cheap muscle cars as your first car. Sucking gas and haulin' a**!
Watching old, overloaded and decrepit propliners and jetliners barely struggle to get off the ground at Miami International on a hot and humid day. (At least you can still see that today!)
South Beach was a senior citizen ghetto and developers were looking for an excuse to raze the whole area (Art Deco be damned) and build new condos.
Watching our high school English teacher use his preferred method of transportation - a skateboard! (He still does it today!)
Hard to believe it's been 20 years since I graduated high school!