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I remember having a "party line" rotary dial phone. I remember nickle coke machines and a cherry Coke at the snack bar of the drug store for five cents. A one scoop ice cream cone for five cents. We had the first Television in our neighborhood because my father worked in a TV lab. He invented the old mail sorting machine. He worked on parts that went up in the first rockets, as well as electron microscopes. When he worked for the gov. he had over 50 inventions that he never received compensation for because of his gov employment. He fought in WWII. And my grandfather fought in WWI, underage I might add.
The doctors from my childhood made house calls. I had all the childhood diseases, even having to be immersed in a tub of ice water (literally) to lower my temperature. My grandmother had polio and had a limp until she died. Same with my aunt.
When it comes to hardships, we have lived through nothing in comparison to our parents.