• Johnny Carson as host of The Tonight Show
• "Real" card catalogs in libraries
• Mom & Pop grocery stores
• General stores
• Vinyl records
• Gas station attendants who wore uniforms, filled our tanks, washed our windshields, checked the oil, and gave us trading stamps
• Redeeming our S&H Green Stamps and Triple S Blue Stamps
• Penny candy (at Mullens)
• Five & Dimes
• Elevator operators
• Service!
• Smell of mimeographed tests in school
• 8 tracks
• Beta VCRs
• Soda Fountains
• Drive-in Restaurants (not "drive through")
• Philadelphia Sales
• Burt's of Endicott
• The big, egg-shaped pool at CFJ Park in Johnson City
• Real muscle cars
• Real cars
• Tioga Airport in Owego
• Phones answered by real people
• Bandler, Stiles, and Keyes; Owego Murray; The Hub; and McLean's Department Store in Owego
• Hats on everyone
• One room school houses
• Oldsmobiles and Plymouths
• Milkmen
• Coca Cola in glass bottles (ah, a cold bottle of pop on a hot summer day!)
• Cheap gasoline
• Drive-in movies
• A traffic-free Vestal Parkway
• Newberry's in Owego
• Klines Store for Men & Boys
• A&S Furniture, Bern Furniture, and Stacks Fine Furniture
• Passenger rail service (locally)
• Bargain tables upstairs at Rasco's in Endicott
• Common courtesy and good manners
• Civil defense drills (ok, we don't 'miss' those, but we remember them!)
• Nestle Quick (not "Nesquick") and Plain M&Ms (not "Milk Chocolate")
• Burma Shave signs
• Skyline Park, Carousel Mountain, and Fraley's Park
• Big Band Era
• Party lines
• When Endicott's Washington Avenue or downtown Binghamton were the places to shop
• Seymour's Hardware & Jan's Department Store in Apalachin
• Typewriters and fountain pens
• The Great Owego to Nichols Raft Race
• The Green Lantern Restaurant
• Car engines you could work on yourself
• Guy Lombardo on New Year's Eve
• "Peanuts" and Charles Schulz
• Kies Bottling
• EJ's sneaker factory in Owego
• O'Brien's Inn
• Black and white TVs and radio tubes
• When AM rocked and FM was what your parents listened to
• Quadrophonic
• Automats
• Mr. Roger's Neighborhood
• IBM Owego
• Record players & reel-to-reel
• Speculation about whether or not a bridge will be built over the Susquehanna in Apalachin!