Extinct Car Features Only Boomers Remember

Before powering everything, rolling down a car window meant grabbing a crank and giving it a few spins. It wasn’t hard, but it required effort—and for kids in the backseat, it often meant begging mom or dad to do it for them. If you wanted just a crack for airflow, you had to finesse the handle just right.

Sure, it wasn’t glamorous, but it worked. Nowadays, the idea of manually lowering a window seems foreign, even absurd, to younger generations raised on one-touch buttons. But that tiny rotating arm once ruled every road trip snack pass and drive-thru order.