If you are talking about cameras, long lenses could produce close up shots, or sound effects from shows we would watch as kids like Superman on TV taking off at a near by phone booth after changing from his disguise as Clark Kent. Ask a kid today what a phone booth is or how to use a phone with a rotary dial. Chances are they wouldn’t have the foggiest idea.The following bit of rhyme might help some seniors to zoom back to a nostalgic memory or two.
Remember the days of convenient phone booths all over the place that would swallow a nickel, two bits and a dime.
You could find them in hotels such as Devonshire and Ritz; in restaurants like The Sky Diner, once upon a time.
What about expressions like a ‘penny for your thoughts’?
Life was still credit card free. Of course, what we have today is so much better, just think what we have got.
We can do everything on line...whoopee!
So much is virtual reality with cellular phones they even take razor sharp pictures instantly.
Who needs camera, film, manual typewriters and sending hand written letters by mail? We were enveloped and stamped out with a cumbersome outdated structure.
For future generations studying how things used to be will sound almost like an unbelievable tale.
Perhaps these few lines may reprise many yesterdays such as sitting and having a fountain drink at Woolworths or perhaps browsing at Army and Navy or Fields.
Just a tad different how humanity in 2020 surfs the internet searching for deals.