WD -40 and busted knuckles. In a pinch we'd use the old tin man style oil can and some 30 weight. I still have scars. I actually have a chunk of rust from my suby wagon permanently embedded under the skin in my right arm. (and I'm not that old either)
4 channels (and PBS, but I don't even count that one since nothing was ever ever ever on)
We were watching a black and white with knobs to change the channel until about 1990. I guess we were behind the times.
Sunday mornings were the worst. No cartoons, church on every channel, and a telethon on PBS.
Hauling firewood, feeding the chickens and geese, weeding the garden, picking the apple, peach, prune, and pear trees.
All uphill. Both ways.
and we hadn't even dreamed of the svx yet....