Like this?!?!
I think people still spy on their neighbors. Well, I know they do actually. My next door neighbor, had most of neighborhood against her. Across the street, another lady had a camera pointed at her home, and called the cops on her. Also, the neighbor next door to her, called animal control, because of her dogs. She finally got evicted, not sure why, but she is out.
No one lives in the home any more. Well, at least I think they don't, but maybe someone moved in there, just saw a van parked there today. Don't really care really. Anyways, what were we talking about?
My guess for the old times entertainment would be, sitting by the fire, telling stories, and singing songs. Maybe playing instruments and singing hymns. I don't know, something like this. Probably back than, there wasn't so much time for entertainment, to busy working, and trying to survive.
There wasn't washing machines and microwave ovens. It was a much more harder time, everything was hard work, and people had to stick together to just survive. It's a little different now.