When I was growing up between 8 years old and 12 years old, we lived way OUT in the country.....so there was no way to get to a library....and of course there were no home computers.
Board games and records were our great time passers.....and writing away for photos from movie stars and waiting on the mail. We loved Chinese Checkers, Clue, Monopoly, Careers, and of course card games.
We also liked flip sides of records, because some of them were instrumentals, and we would make up lyrics to the songs and sing them.....