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?

[Groovette]

Cars without cupholders
EightTrack tapes
Cassette tapes for that matter!
Penny Candy - that was actually just a penny a piece.
Woolworths soda counter
Front porches and friendly neighbors vs Back decks and fenced in yards

[Richard]

I was talking to my wife the other day about some of the personal styles I have been thru.Like work out pants with Velco around the waist and all my Simpsons t-shirts. I have this pic.of me from jr.high with a fro and I'm a white guy. I remember dancing at a school dance to the Bee-Gee's & the song Cat Scratch Fever :-(

[The Omnipotent Mr. Tinkles]

Heres something thats become an ancient relic in my lifetime.....

[Firewater]

Is that the Tardis?

[The Omnipotent Mr. Tinkles]

The Americanized version!!!! lol

[macroman]

Large telephone book sized Sears Roebuck catalogs.

[THE SLAVE]

I recently spent half an hour "introducing" the music of Culture Club and Duran Duran to two 15 yr olds who live in my neighborhood. They'd never heard of these bands. I also explained what the term "New Wave" music meant and then gave them some names to look up on YouTube.

Oh, one more thing... One of them has red hair, so I mentioned Molly Ringwald. They'd never heard of her either. Amazing. I'd never felt so old in my life... & I'm only in my early 40's.

[2McAbre]

OK this was a toughie to find a picture of! How many ever "uh hum" pulled the lever to see the fire trucks when they were kids?

There was one right across the street from the house I grew up in till about 1977 or 1978, except ours were blue. (add to that the "Black and" my butt became when I got caught and my folks got a bill!) Actually I recall having to take a wire brush and scrub all the rust and chipping paint off it, and then I had to put a new coat of paint on it, I was only 11 or 12.

[Firewater]

Years before we began riding motorcycles, the gang of young hoodlums I used to run with chopped their 20-inch bikes with the extended forks, the sissy bar and banana seat. And it was cool to put a lot of reflectors on your spokes and sometimes playing cards held on with wooden clothespins (probably an anachronism now, too). Anyone else here spend more time working on their bikes than the Brady boys?

[ocontraire]

1. "White Levis" (off-white/beige narrow leg jeans) from the early '60's (blue denim was not
allowed to be worn at school until 2nd half of decade)
2. Madras shirts that "bled"(colors ran after washing) from mid '60's

[Laura Ross]

I remember as a little kid taping pennies to the record stylus to stop the record from skipping, going barefoot to the grocery store, cutting out Archie records from cereal boxes, good Cracker Jack toys, buying cigarettes at the convenience store for my grandmother without the clerk batting an eye, watching the Apollo mission (and quickly getting bored with it), my parents dressing us in our pajamas and taking us to a drive-in to see a Western, fighting with my siblings as to whether we were going to watch "The Monkees" or "Gilligan's Island" (they came on at the same time), trading in my old-school Barbie for one with a "Twist and Turn" waist, worrying about the Atom Bomb, and when England was the coolest foreign country for American kids (rather like Japan now). I grew up in the '60s.

[susan]

we have WAY too much in common! my 1st lp was a bobby sherman record. i had to save cheerios (i think it was) box tops. and oh my gosh, those archie records!!! my mom had a record player that played not only 33 1/3, 45, and 78, but 16!