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

[Whatchawatchin]

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?

[Whatchawatchin]

I remember that ankle toy! I had one of those things with what looked like a giant lemon on the end. It had some sort of sand or beads in it and made a hulahoop type of sound. I liked to drove my mom nuts running around with that on my foot all of the time..lol.

[Tammy]

I had that ankle toy as well. I also has these hard plastic cups with long plastic staps through them. You held onto the straps & walked on the cups.
My favorite thing by far was my portable turntable with disco lights. It had a photo of the BeeGees & a mic that was attached. I loved that thing.

[Whatchawatchin]

Romper Stompers! Those were awesome.

[Tammy]

Romper Stompers! Thank you.

[lalondon13]

I'm 26, so I don't know if I'm quite at the age for this, yet. I find that what happens to me is a little bit opposite. Everything I grew up with is becoming 'popular' again..both for kids and to sell to adults my age who are suffering from nostalgia. I'm sure this happens with every generation, but I've only started noticing it in mine within the last few years. Also, in the last couple years I went back to college as an older student and it amuses me how 18-20 year olds think I'm really, really old.

[Whatchawatchin]

Ha! I went back to college at 30 and constantly got mistaken for a professor. People looked at me like they expected me to drop dead from old age any moment.

[AlanTheAntagonizer]

When radio stations start to refer to music you grew up with as "retro" or "flashback" and they only play it on special weekends or holidays, then you know you're old. :-)

[Whatchawatchin]

Ha! Or when VH1 does a special called "Do You Remember The *insert decade of high school graduation here*"

[Laur]

Seriously, when did Pearl Jam become classic rock?

[Janine]

Everything comes back in style. I went to the store the other day and I saw they were selling jelly shoes!

[Aladdin Sane]

My daughter is 20 now and since vinyl records are recently making a comeback we were discussing how they work. She didn't realize a record had a single long groove and wondered how the needle moved between them. This led to a lengthy discussion about 8-track and cassette tapes as well. Amazing that here entire life has revolved around CDs and DVDs.

She has her iPod and was amazed that I grew up with a huge console that housed a record player, record storage, and built-in speakers.

[Okoomi]

Someone recently told me that I had a lot of CDs and that was really odd. All of a sudden, I felt insecure.