...if you consider a revolver to be a suitable self defense weapon 

I remember 78 before there was a 45 & a 33&1/3.If you know what the numbers 78, 45 and 33-1/3 mean.
know what green stamps are...
remember getting part of a place setting with a fill up...
know what a soda jerk is...
there was no 40cal or 10mm
You folks paid a quarter to go to the movies?
When I was 10-12, my folks gave us each a quarter, and dropped us off at the theater. That quarter would get us the movie, popcorn or candy, and a soda pop. We would get a cartoon, a serial, and a feature movie.
Of course, this was at the West Ruislip air base in London, the folks would pick us up after their commissary shopping for lunch at the NCO Club. We went to the movies on alternate weeks with Boy Scouts.
If we went to the cinema off base, it cost six-pence, but we did need to stand up while the rest of the patrons sang "God Save the Queen".