When I was a little girl, telephones were made of hard plastic. You got them from the phone company and they were attached to the wall. If you were waiting for an important call, you had to stay home because there was no voice mail or answering machines.
When I was a little girl, if you wanted to see a new movie, you had to go to the theatre. You could only see an older movie if it was on television or re-released in the theatre, as was Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, and Disney animated films like Fantasia. Rosemary had yet to have her baby, and no one had called The Exorcist.
When I was a little girl, Richard Speck, murderer of 8 nursing students, was the most notorious killer around. The Manson Family, Son of Sam, Hillside Strangler, and Zodiac Killer hadn't killed anyone, and John Wayne Gacy had yet to stuff the corpses of adolescent boys into his crawl space.
When I was a little girl, the original Star Trek, Dark Shadows, Outer Limits, and Twilight Zone series were on the air, on our black and white television that received signals through rabbit ears antennae. My sister was particularly fond of a spy show called The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
When I was a little girl, corn chips were always yellow, many people outside of major cities had never tried sushi, bagels or even nachos, there was no Ben & Jerry's, and a fondue set was a popular gift.
When I was a little girl, Michael Jackson and Donny Osmond were cute little kids, the moonwalk was done only by astronauts, John Lennon was still alive, and we had to stand by our desks for a moment of silence when Martin Luther King, Jr. was killed.
When I was a little girl, my cousin was drafted and sent to Vietnam, hippies looked fun and interesting with their love beads and groovy music but there were people who wanted to kill them, and a 9-year-old girl had yet to be photographed running down a road naked and burned with napalm.
When I was a little girl, I wasn't allowed to wear my bell-bottoms (or any pants) to my public grade school unless it was winter, when I could wear them for warmth under my skirt but had to take them off and leave them in the coat room during class.
When I was a little girl, I was told that someday we would all have computers, and that we would have to get really smart because we would need to program them. I was told computers in the work place would get our work done so much faster that we would all have only 3 day work weeks.
When I was a little girl, the newspaper classifieds were divided into "Help Wanted -- Men" and "Help Wanted -- Women" before being broken down into other categories.
When I was a little girl, I told my parents I wanted to be a fireman. They laughed and said I couldn't and that I would get married and have babies instead. On the odd chance I might want to go to college, I would have to pay for it myself, because it was only a waste of money since I would drop out, get married, and have babies before I finished.
When I was a little girl, I thought that only old people believed in racism and sexism, and that by the time I was an adult, all those people would be dead.
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