re: Has everybody here manually rolled a car window up?

And a manual carb choke.

Bruh, that post will probably get you banned

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I’ve changed headlights from bright to dim with my foot

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when I was a tot there were cars still being driven that had starter switches on the floorboard

Did you ever use a hand crank?
On a car or an aircraft?

Close enough!

My butler hand cranked the windows.

I worked the 8-track.

Best stuff there ever was. No silly arse motors to break. The first car I ever drove was a standard, no AC, triangle vent window forward of the door window, crank windows, a manual lever under the dash and glove box to open and close fresh air, points and condenser, carburetor, ran on leaded gasoline and didn't have emissions bull shite, grease fittings to lubricate bearings. When America built quality cars. Before planned obsolescence.

I miss vent windows. Wish they would come back.

Yes, and a sunroof too on a 1982 Toyota Celica my buddy had back in the day.

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We had one when I was a kid. I don't think my maternal grandparents ever not had one. And they lived till the mid 90s.

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I actually remember some early push dial phones that had a switch to generate a pulse signal like a rotary dial would, because some of the more rural interchanges were not yet set up for the pushbutton phone. It was weird when you dialed it because you would push a button and hear the same tick tick tick like you did on a rotary dial phone.

We also had a party line when I was a youngster, before I started school, if memory serves.