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Adjust “Rabbit Ear” TV Antennas

If the only rabbit ears you’re familiar with are the ones you bite off of your chocolate Cadbury bunnies, then you probably weren’t around in the era when TVs still needed their antennas adjusted for clear reception. The twin antennas that topped TVs from their launch in the 1950s until about 2007, when they were phased out, were notoriously frustrating to manipulate.

Today, we have built-in digital tuners that often deliver a crystal-clear, HD-quality picture, and rabbit ears have become a virtual relic.

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Drive a Stick Shift

While consulting your paper map, you might have been driving a car with manual transmission, otherwise known as a stick shift. Though stick-shift cars barely exist today, they were ubiquitous until about the 1970s.

Operating a “clutch” took a particular skill that was second nature to drivers of the day, but can seem much trickier to someone today who’s used to an automatic transmission. Shifting gears manually had a kind of cool factor that made it worth the ride, especially if you were driving a sports car. Some drivers preferred a stick shift for practical reasons, like fuel economy and performance.

Now that automatic cars have surpassed their predecessors in all areas, though, stick shifts are becoming archaic pretty fast; only about three percent of American cars now have them.

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