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Who Is Old Enough To Remember All Of These?
Does Anyone Remember This Movie?
(I loved it!)
If You Can Tell What This Is, You Might Be Old
How Many Of You 70s Kids Can Feel This Picture?
Who Else Made Their Own Popsicles? (We did!)
Remember When You Opened A Band Aid By Pulling A String?
Who Remembers Changing A Channel By Turning The Knob?
I Loved These And Used To Read Them At The Dentist's Office. It Was Standard Waiting Room Stuff For Kids
Did Anyone Else Sleep In One Of These? I Think I Would Have To Be Helped Out Of It Today
Could This Movie Be Made Today?
The Older I Get, The More I Identify With These Men
I guess I am old as dirt. I did/had just about all of these.
MLAA
(18,326 posts)WestMichRad
(1,636 posts)Still have some, including a pickup truck with window cranks, Pyrex dishes exactly like those pictured, and a pencil sharpener.
I remember using a phone much older than the one pictured. Oy.
Biophilic
(4,544 posts)I feel like I should win a prize or something.
MiKenMi33
(111 posts)I loved my Spirograph and I have that exact Corning Ware now. I remember all but a couple of these.
NJCher
(37,415 posts)At a thrift shop and bought it. I play around with it just for fun. In fact , I may just get it out later and play with it. So much fun for $1!
MiKenMi33
(111 posts)Good for you. Im always on the lookout for anything considered vintage.
Ocelot II
(119,585 posts)I am older than dirt.
Kali
(55,566 posts)although I never had that particular camera and flash and our wall phone was beige/bandaid colored.
and still have too much of that stuff
Delmette2.0
(4,252 posts)My sister wore out 4 of the numbers.
She must have called her friend a dozen times a day until the contacts were worn down.
ms liberty
(9,688 posts)And I really want to pick up that receiver and stretch that cord out more evenly. There's another three or four feet in those tight new coils of phone cord, says the telephone man's daughter!
LoisB
(8,252 posts)Karadeniz
(23,169 posts)pat_k
(10,375 posts)I didn't recognize the glue (used goggle lens), but should have. We did use those in crafts when I was a kid.
The cigarette lighter took a minute.
Yikes! I'm old.
some_of_us_are_sane
(312 posts)Looking through this group of images is like one of those marvelous old movies that begin with a calendar fanning the months backward to show the story is in the past, and particularly, when
Thanks. I smiled BIG on this one.
Charlie Chapulin
(287 posts)And Im almost, but not quite retirement age. I remember it all. Had that Spirograph, have a crank pencil sharpener and that Corning Ware, too. Did the Silly Putty and have an inactive phone like the one shown, but beige.
And, no. Blazing Saddles couldnt be made today. Which is too bad.
oldfart73
(67 posts)birdographer
(2,326 posts)You didn't just flip through the records, if you were interested in one, you went into a little room and listened to it (John Wade records, Cleveland, Ohio)! And I actually have one of those coin holders now! They are still handy!
sinkingfeeling
(52,751 posts)I still have my blue flower Corning Ware and a manual pencil sharpener.
Just Jerome
(71 posts)Now wheres my Tip Top Lucky Cake ?
Sorry, not too swift at cut & paste.
kimbutgar
(22,763 posts)The writing the sentences was the standard punishment in my grade school!
And today I saw an old Princess phone on a job where I was moving a woman into a senior center and I remembered my blue one that I had in high school,
I never liked the Spirograph just couldnt get it to work!
Blazing Saddles could never be made today!
I had a boyfriend that had a waterbed and I didnt like being on it, let alone sleeping on it!
NJCher
(37,415 posts)Even at age 25!
Ferrets are Cool
(21,566 posts)BoomaofBandM
(1,897 posts)wendyb-NC
(3,711 posts)I had to write, I will bring my beanie to wear at Mass on every First Friday. I always lost, misplaced, or forgot stuff, the beanie, or the yellow clip on tie, that was part of my Catholic school uniform.
I enjoyed the Spy vs. Spy, in the Mad magazines, and the movie, "The gods must be crazy".
Fun stroll down memory lane.
highplainsdem
(51,691 posts)I was just thinking about Bandaid strings the other day. "Sterile unless opened" was like a magical mantra to six-year-old me.
Best regards,
Sorghum Crow
sueh
(1,861 posts)niyad
(118,512 posts)mountain grammy
(27,090 posts)My moms favorite.
Hysterical movie.
NH Ethylene
(30,968 posts)It was really funny, but also illuminating.
OAITW r.2.0
(27,617 posts)Sadly, my kids never made the grade....
PatrickforB
(15,007 posts)Enter stage left
(3,719 posts)happybird
(4,978 posts)and hated fancy-ass 95. It took a while to adjust.
Enter stage left
(3,719 posts)Picaro
(1,745 posts)But Windows II was renowned for crashing with the blue screen of death.
You could hear the screams of horror and outrage echo across the floor as people lost all their work.
EverHopeful
(342 posts)As always, MS let Apple do their R&D then "Created" barely functional knock offs.
Yes, I'm so old that I'm shouting at clouds.
P.S. How do you write the plural of OS?
NJCher
(37,415 posts)A computer consultant coming to our offices to tell us about what Windows was!
There was one other thing he said that has stuck with me all these years. He said (explaining what his job was about), if youve got a computer, youve got a problem.
Little did we know
.
happybird
(4,978 posts)We made coin purses in Shop in middle school, and I can still taste the zappy-tingle end of the flash cube stick on my tongue, and hear the satisfying crinkle when squeezing the rubber top of the glue.
Guess Im old now. Yay.
Bristlecone
(10,395 posts)And this is the modern unit.
happybird
(4,978 posts)of her and Grandpas latest trip. As a kid I was bored to tears. But I would give anything now to hear Grandma tell us about some dusty cathedral, Grandpa interrupting with some correction or extra fact about the stained glass work and a description of whatever ice cream or gelato he had in that town. I miss them.
KPN
(16,007 posts)AThe slides are any good anymore?
Picaro
(1,745 posts)There isnt one these that I dont recognize. Silly Putty lifting up an image of the Sunday funnies? Check. Manually changing channels? Check? Wallphone with manual dial? Check. Wont go on and on. But I can still drive a stick.
Oh, I still have a Corningware covered baking dish. Not sure how old it is, but it has been moved at least 6 times.
Ah memories
Kittycatkat
(1,651 posts)I miss all of the above and didnt even know it.
DFW
(56,142 posts)And since my daughters were born here in Germany, I taught both of them (born 1983 and 1985) to drive a stick shift. I dont know if they remember! I even taught my wife, who is my age, to drive a stick shift, and shes German. They were already using automatics for drivers ed here in 1969. My car (year 2013) is a stick shift. I had to order it! The brand we drive doesnt hardly make them any more.
femmedem
(8,420 posts)I had a spirograph as a kid.
NJCher
(37,415 posts)I laughed at the part where he said they had overcome the problem with the Spirograph, and that was that it doesnt work!
DFW
(56,142 posts)I dont know how I missed it.
dchill
(39,972 posts)...but I haven't thought about most of it in years! So yeah. I'm that old!
LudwigPastorius
(10,501 posts)everything else rings true.
NJCher
(37,415 posts)Cuz you have a kitty! You would end up in a puddle on the floor.
highplainsdem
(51,691 posts)changing the sheets.
Been there, done that, no t-shirt about it and there was no puddle on the floor, thanks to the liner. But I gave up on kingsize waterbeds after that.
FuzzyRabbit
(2,063 posts)I never had a Spirograph, and we didn't have to write "I will not . . . "
I still have a rotary phone but the phone company is all digital now, so I can't use it. Cell phones are definitely not an improvement. Not everything new is an improvement.
And stay off my lawn you whippersnappers.
NJCher
(37,415 posts)We should have gotten rid of the lawns and kept the phone lines!
hvn_nbr_2
(6,576 posts)Windows 3 is kind of old.
DOS 3.0 is old.
The Osborne 1 is old
TRS-80 and Commodore Pet are really old.
I still have (and use) those blue and white Corning casseroles.
I remember living in two houses with phones that didn't even have rotary dialers. You picked up the receiver and an operator came on the line and asked, "Number please?" When our town got rotary dials and 7-character phone numbers (BEachwood 45789), we had classes in school to learn how to use them.
Stick shift: I always drove stick shifts until recently. I once left a car salesman speechless when his company didn't even have any stick shift models. I said, "When I'm on a steep and twisty one-lane dirt and gravel road on the edge of a 3000 foot cliff in the middle of a rain, wind, fog, and hail storm, I don't want a machine deciding to shift gears for me." (A real experience I had had.) The salesman just looked at me with his mouth open.
Fun thread.
hvn_nbr_2
(6,576 posts)NJCher
(37,415 posts)Twisty, windy, hail
NBachers
(17,891 posts)going downhill, hit the hairpin, the road would start a steep incline, and you'd need to clutch into first to negotiate the uphill. I was glad i had a synchro 5-speed.
Later on, we hit some coastal pea-soup fog and decided it's saner to abandon the Coast Highway and head inland instead of hanging our wheels over the drop-off to the Pacific.
electric_blue68
(17,097 posts)Ugh, that ?musilage stuff.
The band aid string? 😄 Waaaaaay back!
Going to the record store! 🥰
Balsa glider planes!
What is that crank for - a piece of furniture?
Ocelot II
(119,585 posts)3catwoman3
(25,190 posts)in your car.
bamagal62
(3,557 posts)EverHopeful
(342 posts)I even have it on DVD and, apparently, DVDs are now also on the list of "Old stuff."
Realized some years back that pretty much everything I liked was either vintage, classic, or retro.
TommieMommy
(872 posts)Think. Again.
(16,386 posts)...that there is, and always will be, only one group of humans, throughout all of our human history, who will have known life through both an "analog", non-digital experience of the world, and the digital human experience that has now erased that prior life.
And it is us, who are the only group who will ever know both sides of that bridge.
Phoenix61
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NBachers
(17,891 posts)thick frosted-over little freezer compartment. In my family, we called it the ice kretcher. Then you had to manipulate the lever on top of the ice cube trays to loosen them to get them out. It was quite a procedure. Frost-free freezers were way off in the Space Age future.
And then, there were these:
hunter
(38,765 posts)Upgraded to Linux soon after.
highplainsdem
(51,691 posts)the mid-1980s.
Prairie_Seagull
(3,609 posts)This trip down memory lane may not even come with a seat belt.
Hold on, it may leave a mark. Thanks Bayard.
Aristus
(67,868 posts)I still feel seventeen