Those were the days! I remember driving into Bicester town centre having been told by Andy Gough the legendary CFI to buy a can of the stickiest hairspray I could find. These days downloading your flight from your LX or whatever and then comparing it on the internet with what others did is a different world.
There are things in aviation that barely change over decades and things like remote towers or the demise of face to face briefings from Met etc. that are unrecognizable.