Things you remember that no one in the next generation can identify...

Since we've been getting all nostalgic, I've started thinking about things that my son has only seen in movies or wouldn't recognize if I held them up before him.

TV dial tuner
UHF/VHF
Original remotes (they actually turned the dial)
Dial telephone (I had to explain what a princess phone was)
Stick pins
Leg Warmers
45 records
Car phones (the installed kind, along with bag phones)
Dickies (the fake turtleneck kind)

These things all seem sooooo old and so long ago that they make me feel ancient. What do you remember from your house/closet that could show up on Antiques Roadshow looking for identification?

Tags: nostalgia, old, remember, when

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Permalink Reply by deenibeeni on February 17, 2009 at 5:20pm: ...and that same Drive-In (Foothill Drive-in in Azusa, California) was where I got my first job. Working at the swap meet on Sundays. In the snack bar. For $1.35 an hour. My first check was like 10 bucks & I was in heaven.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Alan-Not So Nice Not So Helpful on January 6, 2009 at 3:02pm: Being able to fill up your gas tank for $20. Oh wait... I can do that again. :-)

How about going to a gas station and seeing a choice of Regular or Unleaded?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by MilesToGo on January 19, 2009 at 7:27pm: Carbon paper...; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Cheryl on February 17, 2009 at 1:36pm: The smell of the mimeograph.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Firewater on February 17, 2009 at 4:53pm: Junior high school. When did they become "middle" schools?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by eigafan on February 20, 2009 at 10:03pm: The first middle school was created in Bay City, Michigan, in 1950.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by deenibeeni on February 20, 2009 at 9:27pm: Jiffy Pop. The kind where you stand over the stove wagging it back & forth over the burner & the foil expands into a big ball. I actually saw some in a store recently.

And those yellow adapter things you put in the middle of a 45.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by T.F.I. on February 21, 2009 at 3:18am: CHIP'S! Call me silly but I remeber me and my younger brother pretending to be ponch & john I was ponch becuse I was older and thinking back on it now I think I looked like A little ponchito!....Oh yea and dont forget watching P.B.S. every sunday night to watch Dr. WHO!; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by lisag on February 21, 2009 at 4:04am: I was in our local pet store buyin fish last week. I asked the young man working if the had any Corey Catfish and he sort of got a blank stare and went ummm. So I said, "they're little bottom feeders and they look like The Lorax." ( I thought this was helpful information) He just looked at me and said," Okay, I have no clue what a Lorax is." I could have cried.
One of my daughter's friends was slepping over nad they wanted popcorn. As I got out the pan and oil they came in to the kitchen and the friend asked what I was doing. I told her I was making popcorn, she looks at me like I've sprouted a second head and says.......but won't that burn the bag?; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by mizdaice on April 28, 2009 at 11:08am: a transitor radio
rabbit ears for VHF/UHF reception
8 Track tapes and player
The lp
Beta video
cassette tapes
carbon copies
refillable pens
kitchen matches
Fred Flinstone and tons of other "old-fashioned" cartoons
Saturday morning glee
Jiffy-Pop popcorn
popping corn in a pan; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by mizdaice on April 28, 2009 at 11:12am: Dog-n-Suds
Bimbo Burger (Michigan)
Burger Chef
A&W Drive Ins
Drive-in movies
Drive-in speakers
Necking at drive-in movies
Drive-in playgrounds; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by mizdaice on April 28, 2009 at 11:21am: The Midnight Special
The King Biscuit Flower Hour
The Little Rascals
The Three Stooges (not Penn, Del Toro, and Carrey)
Leave It To Beaver
Walter Cronkite
Aspirin and Coke
Smoking Aspirin
Hopping cars in winter
Ding Dong Ditch-it; ▶ Reply to This