Feeling old yet?

[mpullen]

Let me add a few:

Turn signals were an option on vehicles

Suicide knobs on steering wheels.

Someone already mentioned no seat belts.

Curb feelers.

Bosco

Door step milk delivery.

Iceman delivery

Crying rooms in movie theaters

Enough for now, brain starting to hurt from remembering.

[Merlin the Elder]

The only one I didn't personally witness was the iceman delivery.  Do you remember natural gas refrigerators in the home? I knew one couple whose house was equipped with one, and my wife and I already had our son! Admittedly, it was a very old fridge, but it still worked. Until I saw that one, I never knew they existed.

[BubbleWright]

Remember when Western Union had platoons of young men who delivered TELEGRAMS on their bicycles?

[PollyPoPo]

Crying rooms!  Oh, yes - now we could use cell phone rooms.

[VIII]

Now lets step into the 'Way-back machine' so make room for all of us: My parents would tell me about going to the Saturday Movies and, for a quarter (yes $0.25), they got a soda, popcorn, candy, a movie, a newsreel, cartoons and a serial or two.

[Merlin the Elder]

When I was old enough to go on my own, movies were only a quarter. Candy was expensive—it was a dime. A box of popcorn was either a dime or $.15.  Frequently they were double features, and always had either a cartoon or two, and/or a newsreel.  It was common practice to applaud at the conclusion of the film!

[dbaldock]

When I was old enough to go on my own, movies were only a quarter. Candy was expensive—it was a dime. A box of popcorn was either a dime or $.15.  Frequently they were double features, and always had either a cartoon or two, and/or a newsreel.  It was common practice to applaud at the conclusion of the film!

Were they talkies, or did you listen to the piano player during the films?      

[Rowan MacD]

When I was old enough to go on my own, movies were only a quarter. Candy was expensive—it was a dime. A box of popcorn was either a dime or $.15.  Frequently they were double features, and always had either a cartoon or two, and/or a newsreel.  It was common practice to applaud at the conclusion of the film!

Tickets were $2.50 in the 70's. (I saw The French Connection).  This price was for new releases.  No cartoons, no double features and few previews. 

[Rowan MacD]

Hehheh!...

Didn't Chevalier also do "Thank Heavens for Little Girls" in that flick, Polly? That song seemed to become his trademark.

Yes, the one and the one with the line "Am I getting Old? Oh, No, Not You" as well.

Yes, I remember it well!  
  Gawd I miss Drive Ins.  Mom would bring snacks, because she refused to pay concession prices!
I remember crying my eyes out over Thomasina, and being terrified seeing The First Spaceship on Mars (later hilariously reviewed on MST3K).
 I was in love with My Fair Lady it was Cinderella all over again.  Disney was going through a dry spell for cartoon movies..We had to make due with Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.  For some reason I just never liked Aristocats.
 

[Hoowil]

One of the few drive ins in the western US is here, just on the edge of town. Double features still, but the sound plays thru your radio instead of the awful, tinny (and tiny), window hanging boxes. And the snack bar has full grill with burgers and hotdogs, and well, dinner.

[Merlin the Elder]

When I was old enough to go on my own, movies were only a quarter. Candy was expensive—it was a dime. A box of popcorn was either a dime or $.15.  Frequently they were double features, and always had either a cartoon or two, and/or a newsreel.  It was common practice to applaud at the conclusion of the film!

Tickets were $2.50 in the 70's. (I saw The French Connection).  This price was for new releases.  No cartoons, no double features and few previews. 

It does seem like prices rose quickly. When I turned 11 (`63), I had to pay adult fare...$.35. Within a couple years, prices were on a steady climb.  A bunch of us went to a drive-in to see all five Planet of the Ape movies on the 4th of July. It was the last time I went to a drive-in movie.

It seems rather strange to me that the first (1957) and last (1974) drive-in movies I saw were based on books by the same author, Pierre Boulle.