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My family getting its first TV set (before that we listened to programs on the radio). And my parents getting their first automobile (a Nash Rambler -- but my Dad had had a car before he got married).
Before we had a car, we did all our shopping at the corner grocery store, or maybe the drug store with the soda fountain just a few blocks away.
There was a mailbox on every other corner. (I only know of less than a dozen in Santa Fe today, and we're big enough for 3 zip code areas!) Mail then meant letters, not just bills and ads.
Speaking of Zone Improvement Plan, remember when the postal zone was a 2-digit number between the city and state? And the state was a real name or abbreviation, not a 2-letter code.
Our first phone. A black plastic you could hammer nails with. And a rotary dial. Our number was BUtler 5- and 4 other digits I've long since forgotten. We were on a party line, so we had to wait and hear if it was our "ring tone" before we could answer it.