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 Anita_Blake on December 24, 2008 at 3:56pm: I know where you are located, gorgeous area. I also do love the movie Fargo....

Every area is full of their "ideal images". For instance, I have never worked on a dairy farm...ever! lol; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by deenibeeni on January 6, 2009 at 1:16pm: Going to the drive-in and walking to the snack bar at intermission with my older sister, wearing my PJ's.

Look bars (still my favorite) were 5 cents.

Cartoons where "running" sounds like bongo drums (maybe they still have this. I don't even know).

Soupy Sales (The Soupy Sales shuffle). Captain Kangaroo.

The Helm's truck. They drove around the neighborhoods selling donuts.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Spindaddydad on January 6, 2009 at 1:21pm: Cartoons where "running" sounds like bongo drums

As odd as it may seem, I know exactly what you're talking about! =)

And not sure if they still do that.; ▶ Reply to This

Permalink Reply by Melony on February 17, 2009 at 4:30pm: We still have a Drive In Theater were I live. I hope it never closes. I remember the first movie I watched as a little kid at the Drive In was Close Encounters of the Third Kind.... Didn't watch much of it though was running around with all the other kids. ha..; ▶ Reply to This

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