I remember having only one phone line in the house, and nobody could call you when you were on the Internet. Unless you had a cell phone, but it was still pretty common not to have one.
I still remember my first experience sledding, although it’s more than 60 years ago. Not actually a sled, but one of those large plastic disks. It was in Iowa, where we stayed for only about a year, and it can’t have been that hilly, but it was a lot of fun.
We then moved to Louisiana, where there was no snow worth mentioning. Then central Illinois, where there were no hills worth mentioning. Didn’t get a lot of sledding done as a kid.
There’s a reason that cocktail lounges don’t hire bagpipers.