Notebooks that had blue carbon paper to put in between the two sheets of plain paper, so if you wanted to keep a copy of your handwritten letter, you could.
About ten years ago, I wanted some of that carbon paper, so I went to a “specialist” stationery stockist, and when I described what I was looking for, not one so called expert in that shop knew what I was talking about.
Does anyone remember Telex machines?
My second office job from after leaving school, had one, and as a sixteen year old, I was “trained up” to use one.
I also remember there were lots of warnings against using the tiny dots of white paper that spewed out, as “confetti” at weddings, as being so small, it could easily get in peoples eyes and cause trouble.
I can’t remember the last time I saw children using chalk on the pavements to mark up Hopscotch grids.
What I also used to love as a very young teen is hanging on to the poles at the back of buses, where the “clippie” used to raise their fists and shout at you to stop the dangerous practice… I expect it was dangerous, but at the time it just felt like the grown-ups were out to spoil our fun.
Childrens playgrounds back in the early sixties paid no regard to health and safety, and the enormous height of slides were (looking back) so terrifying.
We climbed the open metal “ladder” to the top, with the bigger boys and girls shoving past you if they deemed you to be too slow.
The drop to the floor below was frankly ridiculous, and back then, it was just a concrete floor, no soft rubber landings for the poor unfortunate victims.
i don’t see those wrought iron flower pot holders like my mum put in the porchway with huge fake wheels to look as tho you could move it, but it was just for show. The popular plant to place in their, always seemed to be red geraniums.
Ahhh those were the days. 🤣