8-track? I remember when cars did not come standard with radio and heaters- these were optional accessories. My phonograph records were 78 rpm. When I went away to college 45s were becoming a craze and I bought a player and a friend helped me add a phono input.
I started modeling before plastic models. Flying models were balsa and tissue, static scale models (we called them solid models) were balsa, basswood or pine. The wings and tail were sawn to planform, we carved and sanded airfoil into them Fuselage was sawn to profile, and better kits were sawn both to profile and planform. We had to carve to section, but the kit provided cardboard templates.
I remember listening to the Pearl Harbor attack announcements on our floor model console radio. It remember family driving downtown in Detroit to celebrate VJ day.
I remember my first control line plane, a Goldberg Nifty with a Forester 29.
My first plastic model was a P-80, second was a Lindberg GeeBee.
Built my first scratch built model, a Curtis P-6E. Later built a scratch built !/2A freeflight.
When I moved to Minnesota, weather not conducive to flying models, switched to static scale full time (well, I occasionally build a rubber model just to prove I can).
Landmark technologies- internal cockpit detail, full interiors, resin aftermarket, flat model paints, photo-etch, DIY resin casting.
I can remember all that stuff, but not where I laid the X-acto knife 30 seconds ago!