I do not miss the items as much as the slower pace of life and the kindness of people that was exhibited at the time.

@TheUluxian

Жыл бұрын

Right.. Like when you could "kindly" tell "those people" that THEIR section was around back

@martingannon874

Жыл бұрын

People interacted so much more back then.. They were happier days.

@martingannon874

Жыл бұрын

@@TheUluxian Whatcha talkin bout Willis

@Mxyzptlksac

Жыл бұрын

They were kinder as long as you were like them. Otherwise you were allowed yo live in their neighborhoods, use the drinking fountain, bathrooms etc..

@TheDanno210

Жыл бұрын

Agreed, and yet we sound like our grandparents who said the exact same as they aged.

And the pay phones usually had a phone book attached to a cable. The phone book always had pages that were ripped out ...😂

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

You're right about that. Sometimes they would be a wet clump too. Thank you for watching David!

@pjcnet

Жыл бұрын

I remember when payphones in the UK had a 2 pence and 10 pence slot with an actual dial, 2 pence was a quick call and you could talk for ages with 10 pence if it was a local call at an off peak time. There was 3 call distance rates within the UK, local calls to the same dial code, regional calls which extended to the dial codes surrounding you and national calls beyond that. On top of this if I remember rightly this was combined with 3 different rates for the time of day, morning (most expensive), afternoon (medium) and then evenings/weekends. If you were making a national call at the morning rate you'd need quite a few 10 pences lined up, you wouldn't get long before you'd hear the pips and you couldn't stack them in advance.

@westerlywinds5684

Жыл бұрын

The only page ripped out, was always the one you needed.

@chuckpoore

Жыл бұрын

@@westerlywinds5684 Just hope the page wasn't just torn out by a Terminator.

@PhantomFilmAustralia

Жыл бұрын

@@chuckpoore If the page with your name on it is still there, you're safe.

Free X-Rays at a shoe store but pay an arm and a leg for an X-Ray for medical purposes.

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching Larry!

@savagejiren9660

Жыл бұрын

😂

@AudreyC379

Жыл бұрын

Sad but true

@drudown76

Жыл бұрын

Free cancer for the shoe salesman

@collegeman1988

Жыл бұрын

However, it would cost you a foot or even a leg to cancer if you were exposed to enough of those x-rays from one of those machines.

Remember when anyone who sold shoes had a measuring device that would tell you the right size shoes you needed.

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

They sure did. I really don't see those much anymore. Thank you for watching Linda!

@GenRN

Жыл бұрын

It is called a Brannock device. I found a children’s size one at a thrift shop when I had little kids and it was great for measuring and then ordering on Zappos.

@ShawnRavenfire

Жыл бұрын

This is something that should come back. So often, we just try on a pair of shoes, say, "yeah, good enough," and then keep buying that same size for years afterward. The problem is that feet tend to stretch and flatten over the course of the day, so we often end up buying a half a size too small. I was buying 10½ work boots for years and years, wondering why my feet were always so sore at the end of the day, until about a month ago, I tried a size 11, and problem solved.

@WhynotMinot

Жыл бұрын

I haven't been to a shoe store recently, but a dedicated shoe store will measure your feet if you don't quite know your foot size. The problem with modern foot measuring, is that only the length of the foot is measured. Then depending on your foot length you try on shoes and if your foot, or heel is wide, you try on the wide version or vice versa. I think that works in general, but there is so much more to a foot, than length and overall width. I personally have a narrow heel, but long toes and a wide toe bed, which is unusual, but that means 99% of shoes don't fit me, and custom shoe stores are rare and very expensive.

@alimfuzzy

Жыл бұрын

Our shoe store still uses that

I remember visiting people in the hospital and they had the little tin ashtrays so patients could smoke in their rooms.

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

That's crazy to think about that now. Thank you for watching!

@pjcnet

Жыл бұрын

You could smoke in most places in the 1980s in the UK including upstairs on buses, work places like offices and yes even in hospitals, no-one really thought anything of it, then the 1990s started seeing more places restricting it and then of course the law changed in 2007 banning smoking anywhere indoors in a public place including pubs and nightclubs.

@patriciap9307

Жыл бұрын

I remember going to the doctor with my mother as a child. There were ashtrays in the waiting room and we would go back and he and my Momma would have a cig and chat in his office before either of us had an exam. Our doc knew my Momma was kind of doctor phobic and he would tell her “Sit down and let’s talk. I’ll have one of your cigarettes and you have one of mine. Let’s trade up and talk about what is going on”. If we were there for Momma, I would sit with his wonderful nurse. If I had to be examined and had to have a shot, he convinced me that his nurse gave shots that didn’t hurt, and I believed him. They treated us so well that wasn’t a bad thing to get to visit them, no matter how sick you were. I miss that!

@magnificenthonky

Жыл бұрын

That should really come back. Now, those bastards won't let you even smoke outside 🙄. Things have gotten downright uncivilized.

@electrogestapo

Жыл бұрын

It's bound to happen since waaay back then, even doctors were endorsing cigarette commercials.

I miss the Sear's catalog, and the Sear's "Wish Book" at Christmas. It was an event when that thing arrived. We'd head straight for the toy section. In private, some of us older kids would go to the women's underwear section to look at the bras. Not a lot going on where I came from. : )

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

Sears, Montgomery Wards and JC Penneys catalogs were all great to receive. Thank you for watching!

@scottbeck7762

Жыл бұрын

Yes... toy section up to age 11 then "other sections". Small town in Nova Scotia...lol

@BastetFurry

Жыл бұрын

Oh yeah, over here it was the good old Quelle catalog, what a hefty piece of wood and always nice to browse trough. ❤

@scottbeck7762

Жыл бұрын

@@BastetFurry was the catalogue heavy or are you flattering yourself?...lol

@BastetFurry

Жыл бұрын

@@scottbeck7762 it was as large as a phone book from a big city, the German Amazon of the pre Internet era.

Oddly, I mostly miss the TV Guide. But that's just because I kind of miss only having 5 stations to choose from. The Guide was great to help play my viewing week!

@snoopu2601

Жыл бұрын

I remember my father would send me and my sister to buy his T.V. guid and a newspaper

@Clara-ph7my

Жыл бұрын

I used to love the Christmas edition of the Radio Times/TV Times. You would circle all the movies and specials you needed to watch as a family.

@lamontbradford4630

Жыл бұрын

Sunday papers used to have a T V Guide

@kotysuefawcett6538

Жыл бұрын

I loved the crossword puzzles in TV guide! If I didn't have time, I just tore it out & saved it for next week.

@snoopu2601

Жыл бұрын

@@kotysuefawcett6538 yes I remember reading the back stories about some of the actor's that played in the T.V. shows or movie's, there was a lot of intestine stuff to read and use the T.V. guid for. I remember i was able to fold each page to coner to coner to make a Christmas decoration out of it. It would turn into some sort of fancy circle. Ol the good ol day's 🍻 some thing's I would like to have back. We even used to get milk delivered to our home up until the mid 90s in the bottles the last milk man in the northern California bay area. Oh how I miss something of the good ol day's. I do still get the morning Newspaper that seems to be smaller with less readings in it that I remember.

I can still remember the sound of typewriters, the manual return, the correction tape!

@sl8605

Жыл бұрын

And the keys were so hard to press

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching Dian!

This channel is like a favorite blanket. It always makes me feel so warm, comfy and filled with good memories. 😊

@brendakrieger7000

Жыл бұрын

Yes,I agree🥰

@pongop

Жыл бұрын

Me too. This channel and Recollection Road give me that feeling. Great channels!

@kathyp.9507

Жыл бұрын

Have you noticed at 5:56 on the first 5 coins all the faces (Eisenhower, Kennedy, Washington, Roosevelt, Jefferson) are facing towards the left. Only Lincoln is facing right.

@decemberkat

Жыл бұрын

@@kathyp.9507 👀 Interesting!!

@crystalhogan3834

11 ай бұрын

Me too

I remember in like 1980 there was talk of the phone booth calls going from 10 cents to 25 and we all thought like what the hell.

@Nomed38

Жыл бұрын

By the late 1990s and early 2000s the rate was 50 cents but the rate was seldom posted on the phone box.

@SousChef77

Жыл бұрын

Hard to put a quarter into your Penny Loafers...lol

@tedecker3792

Жыл бұрын

That’s where the term “drop a dime” came from, as in someone anonymously calling the police to turn someone in.

@spudspuddy

11 ай бұрын

in the uk now you can't even use cash, you have to buy a prepayment phone card in a nearby shop first...crazy

@brinsonharris9816

8 ай бұрын

In the 70s, bubble gum was a penny a piece. We were OUTRAGED when the price doubled to 2 cents. I remember when I was in HS (class of ‘80), a guy glumly looked out the second floor window and said with resigned disgust “Gum’s 3 cents now.” First world problem all the way, but all these years later I can still remember how bummed out the guy was. Coke machine was 15 cents a can, and we were shocked and stunned when they raised it to a quarter.

i remember as a kid, my grandmother would drive me to the convenience store and i'd get a comic book and she'd give me money to get her some marlboros. it was never a problem getting them.

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching Spaceghost!

@patriciap9307

Жыл бұрын

I used to walk to the local store with a note from Momma and Daddy, lol! They always gave me some extra to buy penny candy!

@chichi9851

Жыл бұрын

My aunt used to send me. They were "so expensive" at $2.10 a pack. I went for penny candy when it was really a penny! Those were the days.

I remember the x-ray machine in a particular shoe store. I was fascinated how I could see the bones in my toes move. My mother told me to stop putting my feet in it not because it was dangerous but because, "Other people wanted to use it."

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us RPM!

I miss the smaller shopping carts. They were easier to maneuver and made you consider whether a purchase was a want or a need. I miss the smaller grocery stores too. If you forget something now, you have to push your cart a football field to get it. They used to have baggers at the store too!

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

It was definitely more personal when they were small and people were much more willing to help you out. Thank you for watching!

@jrnfw4060

Жыл бұрын

And it's way too easy to get separated and lost in those huge mega-stores. What gets me are the ones that have their restrooms located a mile away and you have to walk all that ridiculous distance just to use one. They don't take into account folks with bad knees or foot pain or who can't walk huge distances. Obviously, there is little corporate caring about customer convenience.

@tehrinny7031

Жыл бұрын

For awhile, I was a cashier at a grocery store that still had baggers (early 2000's). I still see them sometimes at some bigger grocery stores. The problem is that baggers would need to go from one cashier to another depending on how big of a load they had. And not all of them would get the details about how someone wanted their items bagged. You wouldn't always have a dedicated person. It was always a struggle trying to tell the new bagger to make sure to only put 3 cans per bag, and they wanted specific items seperate, when my attention is on what I'm scanning and not on who is behind me. I had so many angry customers. Honestly it was just easier for me to turn around and bag it myself because I knew how they wanted it, especially if they were a repeat customer. That said, I actually prefer using self checkout because I can bag stuff the way I want. And if I forget something in my cart, I can just grab it instead of jumping back in line. I do get the stuff about declining jobs, but I think the solution is finding better and more meaningful work for people rather than scraping bottom of the barrel minimum wage mindless tasks. A lot of times, my baggers weren't just high school students, but people in their 30's and older, and this was 20 years ago. It's only gotten worse. :/

@warthog473

Жыл бұрын

Our two grocery stores have two sizes of carts and handheld baskets. The smaller carts have two tiers of baskets and they are very maneuverable. But when my son was a toddler, it had to be the cart that had a car attached to the front with a steering wheel so he could "drive". That thing was like pushing a tractor trailer truck through the aisles. Circling the parking lot, looking for one of those car carts that wasn't in use...good times!

Oh boy can’t believe the X-ray machine was still in use in the 70’s. All the things we grew up with are already obsolete. When I occasionally worked on a Sunday I knew a guy who would put in his $.50 to buy a paper and empty the whole machine then sell the other papers throughout the work area. He’s one of the reasons the paper machines are gone. Loved the old TV guide.

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

I don't think it was as readily available in the 70s and it was more the earlier part of the decade. Thank you for watching Paul!

@jbrou123

Жыл бұрын

Although foot x-ray machines aren't used any more, some shoe stores do have a device that you stand on to measure your feet, but I think those use infrared or ultrasound.

@paulstan9828

Жыл бұрын

@John Stuart Mill 😁 That’s for sure.

@swansfan6944

Жыл бұрын

Hi 👋 Paul

@paulstan9828

Жыл бұрын

@@swansfan6944 😁👋

I remember when cigarette machines had signs that warned only 18 and over could purchase them. That never stopped anyone I knew!

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

Very true! Thank you for watching Nicki!

@spudspuddy

11 ай бұрын

still had a cig machine in my pub in 2010, had to watch it like a hawk or teens would sneak in and use it

Miss everything in this, wish I could go back to the 1980's

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching Brian!

@andrewmah2962

Жыл бұрын

I never knew that had cigarette vending machines

@mark3464

Жыл бұрын

You miss pay phones? Lol

@michellelogreco3351

Жыл бұрын

Yes, good life then 🙏🏻👍🏻💕

Funny... There's a waffle house just outside of my town, that STILL has a cigarette machine, a payphone, AND a jukebox. The cigarette machine has been empty for a few years... But I remember buying many packs of smokes out of it 30+ years ago... When I thought I was looking cool setting there puffing a stinking cigarette in front of all the "cool" kids. 😂

@GetDougDimmadomed

11 ай бұрын

The cigarette DOES look kinda cool, and some people even find it attractive. The device, not the addiction. The scruffy looking Sherlock looking guy with a longcoat leaning on a vintage Indian Knucklehead, looking at you sideways while puffing on a Marlboro. Now if only it was a null aesthetic device instead of a deathstick.

I recently saw a pay phone on a wall outside a corner store, and it surprised me so much to see it that I took a picture of it. A few weeks later I saw that it was gone, so I took another picture of the blank wall where it had been.

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

It's always sad to see past items we used go away. Thank you for watching Cliff!

Yep. I remember when I was a kid wondering about those newspaper machines. That's trust! Remember the days when you could leave your door unlocked and a handshake meant your word? Those great days are long gone!

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

Times have certainly changed!

@jrnfw4060

Жыл бұрын

Keeping one's word was especially cherished in past times. Trust, and being trustworthy, were highly valued. A promise was a promise, and you were expected to keep a promise once you made it. Today, even when the terms of a deal are put into writing, as in a legal contract, seems there are all kinds of ways any one or more of the parties can renege on parts of it, and actually get away with it. That's because there's so little honor, anymore, and little or no accountability these days. And you don't dare just accept a verbal agreement, anymore, because so few people these days regard their word as their bond. That's sad!

@MikeysMorgue

Жыл бұрын

@@jrnfw4060 Perfectly said! Sad indeed.

Being born in 71 I know of an miss all of these things. There are a few of these things still around if you look really hard enough and some of these left decades ago. Thanks Rhetty 👍

The thing I miss about the pre-cellphone era is that you could escape from being contacted. If you went camping or whatever, you could be really free from being bothered.

@kylegroth3199

Жыл бұрын

Put the phone on silent and tell people you don't have service about 2 days a week I have "no service "

@decemberkat

Жыл бұрын

@@kylegroth3199 Yep!

@pantsberg

Жыл бұрын

And you can still do that now, it’s not that hard to silence a phone

@DoubleMrE

Жыл бұрын

@@pantsberg the same people you’d like to avoid (like parents or bosses) are the same people that expect you to be available on your cellphone and won’t be pleased if you’re not.

@davidwilson2214

Жыл бұрын

You still can. Heehee

One thing you left off about the cigarette vending machines was that you could also buy cigarettes with just a note if you were under age. My mom quit smoking when I was around 9 or 10 but before then she would send me to the store with a note & some money & the guy would just hand me the cigarettes & change. I can’t even imagine a parent today letting a 6 year old walk to the store these days let alone to buy cigarettes.

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

You're right about the note. I remember doing that. I talked about that in another video dealing with what kids can no longer do. Thank you for watching!

@magnificenthonky

Жыл бұрын

If it were up to me, you could send your 6 year old to grab a six pack, along with the cigarettes. Laws have gotten way too overbearing.

@critical_always

Жыл бұрын

The tobacco store in my neighbourhood knew everyone. Dad would often send me for errands like that. They knew whose kid I was.

@spudspuddy

11 ай бұрын

true, my mum used to sent me with a note in the 60s, packet of 10 players number six, they cost about 1/6d which is about 7.5p - 8p in modern decimal money lol

I was once friends with a Korean war vet who sold ads in the yellow pages for a living God bless you Lou

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and sharing his memory.

They use to have cigarette machines inside hospitals, and I use to think that was quite odd. Out here in Seattle Washington we still have news paper machines throughout the state. The last time any news papers were in them, was back in 2010. I haven't seen a phone book since 2006, and phone booths the last one I saw here in Washington state was in 2016 and yes it still worked.

@jbrou123

Жыл бұрын

Back in the 50's and 60's, there were TV commercials with doctors promoting the brand, or the ad would say 'Doctor recommended'.

@alphagt62

Жыл бұрын

My folks have been watching old Perry Mason reruns. In every episode, there is a scene where they all light up a cigarette. I guess it didn’t seem so obvious in 1957, but now the product placement sticks out.

@dbranconnier1977

Жыл бұрын

That would be like seeing candy and sugary drink vending machines at a dentist' office.

@unicornmadness6286

Жыл бұрын

@@dbranconnier1977 🤣🤣🤣 Absolutely, which would defeat the purpose.

@unicornmadness6286

Жыл бұрын

@@jbrou123 Oh yes I'm quite aware of that there, and I thought that to be odd as well. My grand folks told me all sorts of stories. Most, I thought were tales and when I found out they were true I was flabbergasted.

I remember all of these. Life was so much easier back then. I still pine for those days, before the world went crazy.

@TheUluxian

Жыл бұрын

Ah..yes.. The TB..the polio..the asbestos..the lead paint..thalidomide babies.."Duck and Cover" drills..Air raid shelters...Being a cigarette smoker where ever you went, whether you wanted to be or not..having separate facilities for "those people"... So much "saner" back then...

@AgentOffice

Жыл бұрын

Calm but deadly. I wouldn't give up our technology

@incognito5109

Жыл бұрын

​@@TheUluxian I think the 90s were the best and what he was probably referring to . But then 9-11 happened and suddenly everyone and everything started becoming different and uptight . Regardless i miss when $20 could be infinitely stretched and I could easily start a family without the home buying stress . 28 and still live with parents 😂..sigh 😢.

@BastetFurry

Жыл бұрын

@@TheUluxian if i may cherry-pick here, would love our modern medicine, modern view on society and so on with 80s style tech, games, music and movies. And speaking for Germany, bring back smoking in the bar! A Kneipe has to have an Aschenbecher!

@spudspuddy

11 ай бұрын

me too i really yearn for the 50s and 60s again in Britain

I think the only things I actually miss are primarily buying music, movies and video games on CD’s, DVD’s, or some other physical format, rather than electronically/digitally buying them. It’s a “weird” way of owning something…. I’ve never truly liked it… As for this stuff, I kinda miss seeing a few things, but, you know, I don’t think I’ve ever actually used a pay phone…. (Though I have seen them, here and there in the past.) Also phone books…. They were kinda nice, yes…. Some of this stuff seems very pre-1980 or pre-1970 even…. I think old fashioned typewriters became outdated right around when personal computers started to be a big thing…. (80’s?) I’ve never even seen an X-ray device at a shoe store (for feet)…. (Was that a pre-80’s thing?). Newspaper dispensers, yep, these were fairly common until recent years (in big cities/street corners and in big businesses, malls, hospitals, etc.). Jukeboxes still exist, but only in retro cafe’s, etc. Cigarette dispensers, geez…. Those guys look like they belong in a motel somewhere that never made it past the 70’s, regarding interior design/decor, etc. 🤣😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣 TV guides were never truly my thing (as a boy, teen, etc. in the 80’s and early-mid 90’s), it was always more like, “Let’s see what’s on now…” I miss how popular libraries used to be, as well as the way they were. I miss some of the programming on tv, as well as the VHS stuff at public libraries. I miss the variety of stores there used to be. I HATE Amazon…. I have mixed feelings about malls, and yes, they are not nearly as popular as they once were. I also miss the way movie theaters used to be. Drive-in movie theaters, that’s somewhat different, sure, but I am definitely a sucker for 60’s and 70’s architecture/design (50’s as well). So with those cigarette machines even, kinda like those smoky bowling alleys, video game arcades, dart playing areas, etc., sure, I have a spot in my heart for even those kinds of places (interior decor-wise), esp. video game arcades. Bowling alleys still exist of course, along with the video game arcades, but yeah, things are different these days…

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and sharing some of your thoughts and experience with things.

@robertsieli3640

Жыл бұрын

You can still buy physical media. I've got plenty of movies that I love on 4K, Blu-ray, and DVD. You aren't looking hard enough. Everything else I stream. I don't buy digital.

This video definitely deserves a thumbs 👍 up

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and I appreciate the thumbs up!

Wow what a memory :-) those phonebooks. Seeing own number in a phonebook was really delightful.

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and sharing your memories!

Another great stroll down a not so distant Memory Lane. Thanks, Rhett!

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome and thank you for watching Betty!

I don't think cash is ever going away. It's always good to have it on hand in case you're low on funds on your debit card (or if you're over-drafting on your credit card). Especially if you're out and about going to your local coffee shop or store. Plus, it helps you budget your spending habits by physically counting how much money you have in your wallet. With credit/debit cards, you're only guessing and hoping you're paying the right amount. Sometimes having something tangible can feel reassuring. Also, film cameras are making a comeback. And there are directors who prefer to shoot on film (Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, etc). I think these "disappearing" items will only disappear if we allow them to.

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and sharing your thoughts Ryan!

@mardus_ee

2 ай бұрын

The problem with guessing whether the amount paid will be within the limits of an account balance, is characteristic only to United States, because stores and other outlets do not show tax on price tags, making it difficult to guess the actual amount to be paid at the cash till.

Hey Rhett, great video on how our lives have changed during the past years. I had my grandfather's 1930s typewriter and gave it to a friend of mine. Lost a treasure there. I'm so sorry about Sarah's father. May God comfort your family in this time of need. Take care my friend.

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for your kind words. It is greatly appreciated. Her mother is still around but her mobility is limited. He really took care of her and it was all unexpected. We are all trying to pitch in a help her here and there. That typewriter you had sounds really neat. I would love to have something like that now.

I look forward to your uploads!! I remember most of these. I never knew about the shoe x-ray machine. We stepped on those metal rulers for new shoes. Thank you my friend!!😊

@angeladay1534

Жыл бұрын

Or wooden floor measuring rulers.

I really miss the TV guides! Loved the articles in them and the crossword puzzle in the back! Phone booths should be brought back IMO and in the UK they still use them or did when I was there in 2011. Great video! Thank u Rhett!

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome and thank you for watching Kim!

I can't imagine all germs on those phones in those phonebooths...YUCK!

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

They could really be nasty sometimes. Thank you for watching Sammy!

Sacagawea coins spritzed with a touch of glitter hairspray were what the tooth fairy brought.......no one else really used them so they really believed the coins were from the fairy. ♡

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us Mandi!

@magnificenthonky

Жыл бұрын

Lol, that's not what the tooth fairy brought me. I was lucky to get a quarter; I think that it was a nickel the 1st few times, then dimes, and the last one or two were quarters. Meanwhile, that fairy was dropping $5's on my peers 😡. Oh well 😂

@angeladay1534

Жыл бұрын

Wow....that's wild!!!! 🪙🧚‍♀️

@angeladay1534

Жыл бұрын

​@magnificenthonky 😂 I got a dime, Nickel or a few pennies. Never dollars.😂🦷

@magnificenthonky

Жыл бұрын

@@angeladay1534 Heh. Well, now we both know that we weren't alone in suffering from tooth fairy discrimination 🤣

I still have a TV guide in a closet somewhere it was for the year 2001. each time I scroll through the pages of the magazine I felt nostalgic and also laughing my ass out since almost 98%of the channels on the magazine no longer exist😂

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

Times have certainly changed. Thank you for watching!

“I’m in the phone book! I’m somebody!” - Navin Johnson

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

Love that movie! Thanks for watching!

@sideburn

Жыл бұрын

@@RhettyforHistory Navin is my idol. I strive every day to be just like him!

Always a good weekend when one of Rhett’s videos hit love it and miss the good old days

@suzannelawson9215

Жыл бұрын

I loved the TV Guide, not like the current ones. This was before cable channels. I still have some I kept and are in a box in my storage unit. T.V. Guides from late 1970's, some from the 1980's and into the 1990's.

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching Big Shot!

@bigshot0987

Жыл бұрын

I bet those guides would probably sale for good money to the right collector but I’m not sure if I could give up a piece of history like that

Rhetty , Please do a show on the becoming of radio/stereo's on how massive they were and now blue tooth and earbuds !

@kimbrey65

Жыл бұрын

My husband had these huge speakers for his component stereo system. They were 3 feet tall and heavy. His component system was simply a receiver and a multi - disc changer. Plus huge headphones 🎧 with a very long coil cord.

@alphagt62

Жыл бұрын

@@kimbrey65 the speakers I have now are 5 feet tall and weigh 200 lbs each! They cost $8k new as well, I got them used for a fraction of that. Big stereo is still around, but it’s extremely expensive, the mid fi of the 70’s and 80’s has faded away, the old receivers from those days can be found restored and sell for big money! And record players have made a big comeback, new vinyl records sell for $25 each, and are very well made. High end stereo is now a thing for the wealthy or dedicated, I’m not wealthy but I’ve got $10 grand in my system, collected over a number of years, and mostly all used. I can’t believe that kids today are content with their cell phones and ear buds, they do sound amazing but it lacks something that the big stereos have.

@weegie3343

Жыл бұрын

nothing sounds better than 10 inch subwoofers. Headphones can be good, but something is missing from bluetooth earbuds

Seeing Tom Hanks & Stephen King for typewriters was needed, thanks Rhetty!

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome and thank you for watching! I had some other celebrities in this one too.

@PhantomFilmAustralia

Жыл бұрын

Spielberg put a typewriter joke in _Saving Private Ryan._ Knowing Hanks was a typewriter enthusiast, there was a small scene where Private Huppam wanted to take a typewriter on the mission. Hanks' character suggested a pencil would be more practical.

I'll be 54 this month. I remember all but the shoe machine. How time flies, right?

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

It sure does. Thank you for watching and sharing what you remember!

I live in a tiny rural mountain town where we still have a pay phone on the main road (because you don’t have reception in a lot of our area) and we also still have a couple newspaper machines! I love buying our little local paper just to see what’s going on in our area, even though I can read it online. The thing I miss most is film and manual cameras, although I do still have one. It’s been decades but I can still remember the smell of the darkroom and developing film and prints. I would love the chance to be able to do that again!

Nice trip down memory lane

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching Edwin!

One of my fondest memories of my adolescence was being 12 or so in the early 90s riding our bikes with a sock full of quarters to the IGA to use the lobby cigarette machine. One of us would lookout while the other would frantically shove quarters into the machine

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching and sharing your memories!

@marinebiogeo

Жыл бұрын

Yeesh! That sounds disgusting! 🤢 Thank goodness we have plain cigarette packages and upcoming individual cigarette cancer labels in Canada. 🇨🇦 Hopefully, cigarettes will be banned soon enough.

@cherisseshaw

Жыл бұрын

IGA? Are you from Ohio? We had a few IGA's was one of my fav. Grocery stores as well as Finast

@LemonTree9280

Жыл бұрын

@@cherisseshaw small town Missouri just outside st Louis

I miss most of these. The Yellow Pages were easy to use. Too often I’ve seen Google have the wrong or obsolete information.

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching Stephen!

@jrnfw4060

Жыл бұрын

We still have a land line where we live. Can't get cell service out here. And we still have the printed phone directories that include a page of zip codes for our town and various surrounding cities. We still have the newspaper dispensing machines, and hubby often purchases papers from them. We live in a rural area where some of these things are still present and used. I'm glad.

@marcuslinton310

Жыл бұрын

And yet the yellow pages put out once a year somehow had all perfect information? I don't think so. GMAFB!!

@stephenpowstinger733

Жыл бұрын

I never said the Yellow Pages were perfect. An irritating remark you made troll.

I remember that my father had an electric typewriter that I used for school in informatics. That was around the year 2000. My landlady is older than 60 and she doesn't own a PC. She uses a typewriter for writing us tenants notifications. 😅 20 years wasn't such a long time ago, yet every day technology changed so fast that if I at least would look forward from 2000 to today, I would think that all this was like totally surreal because practically every normal person can afford a flatscreen and a smart tv, when back then it seemed that this stuff was reserved for the more wealthy people. 😊

@SousChef77

Жыл бұрын

We bought a "Smart TV". Thing is in closet collecting dust because we cannot get it to work. Probably best thing that ever happened. No TV is AWESOME!!!!! No longer mad at kids or grands for not helping us. ROFL. God is Good!

What do I miss? Probably the newspaper machines. We used to subscribe to the local paper (Columbus Dispatch) for over a half-century (We had it in the 60s when I was a small child, so my parents probably subscribed before then), but I also used to love going downtown and seeing the various vending machines with out-of-town newspapers as well. I especially loved it because I collect papers from special news events, like elections or wars or such. We recently quit subscribing to the Dispatch because they sold it to Gannett and now it is not even published in Ohio, so anything newsworthy often appears two days after the fact. But anyway, the newspaper vending machines pretty much went bye-bye in the last decade around here. Sadly, most stores no longer sell them either. I wanted a paper to document a certain newsworthy event that happened Thursday for my collection, but yesterday (when the newspapers would have gotten it) I found there are no stores within a two-mile radius that even carries newspapers anymore. So even the places that gave you a reason to not use a vending machine don't sell them anymore.

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and sharing your memories Theodore!

This is a very fun channel full of nostalgia.

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and I'm glad to hear you are enjoying the content!

Rhett, I really enjoyed this video about items we used but have disappeared. I've never heard of the x-ray shoe machine, but I've heard of practically everything else that you featured. The item I miss the most is the typewriter. Have a fantastic weekend.Take care 🐎

@rsmith6212

Жыл бұрын

I worked on and sold typewriters back in the 60's, 70's and 80's. Also word processors, copiers, duplicators, and calculators. Then whatever new came along.

@keywestjj

Жыл бұрын

My friends and I (in our 70's!?!?) are now ahgast that we would "play" with the X-ray shoe machine watching our foot bones moving around while our mothers tried on shoes!!! 😒 ALL that radiation .. but ... nobody knew.

Always enjoy your videos Rhett. Makes you realize how many things have just plain vanished. 😢

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

There really has been a lot that has changed. Thank you for watching Marlene!

@slivorywings2821

11 ай бұрын

I concur makes me sad, not enough for tears, but still.

Our pizza hut had cigarette machine until 2002 when the restaurant remodeled. We still have phone books and newspapers machines. I live in a small rural town and I pass 3 on the way to get my po box.

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and sharing how it is where you are Janelle!

I remember the micro fische machine at libraries for news paper aeticles. 😅😊😮❤😇💜

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

It was time consuming but I always enjoyed looking thru those. It never failed I would find something else interesting. Thank you for watching!

@mardus_ee

2 ай бұрын

Microfiche is still used in any industry that handles documents, as it can last well up to a hundred years. The insurance industry comes to mind as one such place that uses microfiche for long-term document storage.

Wow! This video was a pleasure to see! I remember all of the items that were spoken about. I'm an early 70's baby. I miss these days and ways of life!

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching Emily!

I remember seeing and using basically every vintage item in this video, including the foot xray machine. I used to have an extensive collection of 35mm film equipment that in my opinion offered superior results when compared to the present digital age.

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and sharing your memories lakrfan!

Those credit card imprint machines were known as "knuckle-busters". In the hands of a competent sales clerk, you could process a transaction almost as fast as US chip-reader transactions. Also, there were carbon-copy paper/slips which had individual carbon sheets between pages, then later carbon-less where the backside of the top paper was impregnated with some chemical which reacted with the bottom page.

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and sharing a little more with us GrayRab!

@tehrinny7031

Жыл бұрын

I did have to use these on occasion up until the mid 2000's. I worked at Sears and I broke them out when our card readers wouldn't work or the card wasn't functioning right. At least by that point, they were straight-forward to use and pretty quick. I imagine older models would've been harder. Later on, I was a manager at a dollar store for about 10 years. I don't even remember seeing one of them in my store or in my office. You'd just get a card declined message and the customer would have to sort it out themselves. We had no way to manually enter cards after a certian point due to human error.

Still love my typewriter! Keeps my fingers limber also! Thanks, Rhett! 👍🤗✌️

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome and thank you for watching Katysue!

Thank you sir for making these epic videos to remind us of the past ..keep up the fine work ,have a good evening.

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

Thank you and I appreciate you watching!

Speaking of cigarette vending machines, its such a weird concept how we used to be able to go shopping while smoking, there used to be a Ashtray at the end of every aile lol, and walking through the mall smoking cigarettes with a mixer drink was normal 😂🤯

@Nomed38

Жыл бұрын

Several models of Cadillac had a small cocktail bar in the glovebox compartment. The local Save-a-lot allowed smoking in the store until around 2004.

@jbrou123

Жыл бұрын

Back then, every car had a cigarette lighter and ash tray. Airlines, restaurants and movie theaters had a smoking section.

@stevenlitvintchouk3131

Жыл бұрын

@@jbrou123 The outlet for the cigarette lighter is still there, but now it's used mostly to power various plugin electronic devices. You can still purchase a cigarette lighter for the outlet if you want.

@wolfmantroy6601

Жыл бұрын

I remember smoking on airplanes.

@tehrinny7031

Жыл бұрын

I also remember getting burnt by random strangers in stores. Just being a kid, walking along and some granny not paying attention would burn a hole in my shirt. Sometimes it was my mom doing it. So glad that I can go places without smelling cigarette smoke everywhere.

My parents would probably never have met without some of this stuff. I remember seeing cigarette machines at places like Denny’s into the late 80s. Kids today wouldn’t know what a flash cube is. I am grateful I can send messages and photos to a cute guy who lives 700 miles away, though!

@MikeysMorgue

Жыл бұрын

He's not that cute! 😁😅😁

@gooniesgirl1979

Жыл бұрын

So you’re that cute guy I was talking to all night 😊! I sent you another photo just now.

@MikeysMorgue

Жыл бұрын

@@gooniesgirl1979 Let me check. Am I that guy? This video got me remembering all kinds of stuff. I had to leave 3 comments!

@skottlee8959

Жыл бұрын

Boomers in heat

@MikeysMorgue

Жыл бұрын

@@skottlee8959 💋😘

amazing what we grow accustomed to and than its gone for progress. fun to see old and new.

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching Elmer!

I was born in 85 and I still remember cigarette machines. Also I lived in Japan from 05-10 and they still have them so crazy

@ChrisRoth1972

Жыл бұрын

Same here,I’m ashamed to admit this,when I was 16 in 1988 I bought a pack of Marlboro 100’s from a Cigarette Machine & now I am glad they are obsolete so kids won’t make the same mistake I did.

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

That is crazy they still have them. Thank you for watching!

@donotsupportterroristgroups

Жыл бұрын

I have a value recollection of those but don't even remember where I saw them. 🤔Maybe in rest areas along the highway?

Verizon still delivers phone books where I live every year! They stopped doing it for a few years and people complained LOL Our local retro arcade has a jukebox that plays CDs. My dad has a very old jukebox that plays 45s in his basement.

Love these kind of videos !!!! Brings back so many memories::::: Thank you very much !!!!

I also miss my dad's electronic smith corona typewriter. I used to do my homework for grade school on that one. In particular, I liked the clack sound it would make when the keys would strike the paper. When you pressed enter, it would beep and the red LED would flash briefly.

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us Marc!

When I was a lad and the city supplied us with the latest White Pages, we used to look enthusiastically to see if my parents' names and address was still in there! ☺️

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us Edward!

@edwardx4979

Жыл бұрын

@@RhettyforHistory Thank you for sharing your videos of our memories from times past, mate! 😊

This certainly brought back a lot of memories!

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching All the Best!

I love this channel! The memories are great. Thank you 😀

I really enjoy watching these videos of the past .It brings back so many good memories. I grew up in the 70s there's so many things I miss .but life goes on I can share memories with my grandbabies

Any time that I got caught being that close to the TV, I would get a lecture about how it would hurt my eyesight (I was already near-sighted and wearing glasses by age 5). And after the lecture, and being told to move several feet away from the TV, I generally also got a spanking because I knew that I was not supposed to sit that close.

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

Now look at everyone with phones in their face!

@willhorting5317

Жыл бұрын

@@RhettyforHistory exactly 😁

I miss looking forward for the next issue of TV Guide when it came out at the drugstore. Also, Stephen King at 10:14! 😱

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

Yes it is. I had multiple celebrities in this video. Thank you for watching!

I never grew up in the 50s, 60s or 70s but this is video brings back memories of hearing stories of my parents and grandparents childhoods. I really enjoy your channel, you just gained a new subscriber! ❤😊

@spudspuddy

11 ай бұрын

i'm like your granny i grew up in the 50s, my heart breaks for it i miss it so much

One thing that wasn't so great back then was the absence of rest rooms in grocery stores. You had to be sure you took care of business before you left the house, or endure an agonizing wait in the checkout line. Those tile over cement floors could work like a laxative. Some customers would abandon their carts to race home. Once one store installed rest rooms it would become so popular the competition would soon follow suit.

Those were the good old days

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

Yes they were. Thank you for watching Isaiah!

I remember the year 2011. It was the first year that phone books in our area were discontinued. I wasn’t aware of it, and when our phone book didn’t come, I called the phone company to tell them I didn’t receive my new phone book yet. The lady laughed and said I wouldn’t be getting one anymore, and asked if my name was Fred Flintstone. Then she hung up on me.

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

Wow! Seems crazy things like that are gone. Doesn't seem to bad in that year for that kind of comment though. Thank you for watching!

@MrLyosea

Жыл бұрын

Wow that was pretty rude of her. I probably would be like you if I was 15 years older.

@scottbeck7762

Жыл бұрын

Harsh but also hilarious in a way.

@albertwells8503

Жыл бұрын

@@scottbeck7762 It’s pretty funny now, but it wasn’t very funny at the time!!

@scottbeck7762

Жыл бұрын

@@albertwells8503 I still have my last phone book and yellow pages plus a landline.

Love that you referenced: 'The Jerk.' "The new phonebook is here!!! The new phonebook is here!!!" 😂

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

I love that movie! Thank you for watching!

wow, i am blown away with this video of yours. i have so many comments to each thing you talk about, that its just too much to post, lol, but you outdid yourself this time! thx for posting all of this.

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome and thank you for watching Gail!

Keep in mind, you could have a paper dispensing machine where you put in a quarter, opened the front and took a paper, and though sometimes there was theft it was pretty rare.

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching Dylan.

Loved this! 🙂👍

I remember in the early 2000's I would go with my dad to his bowling league, and at one end of the building sat a cigarette machine. I also remember one time my dad had got his hands on a metal cigarette carton and gave it to me. I then put my colored pencils in it and took it took school one day in elementary, completely unaware of what exactly I was carrying. Teachers were not very happy with me that day, needless to say.

In Australia, 1c and 2c coins haven't been available since the early 90s.

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

Fascinating. Thank you for watching and sharing that with us Nathan!

There was a bar on the main street of my town, and during the summer when the door was kept open, you could see a cigarette machine as you walked past. It made sense since you had to be 21 to enter the bar. I don’t know if it’s still there since NYS enacted its indoor-smoking ban in the mid 2000s.

@martinmurphy4852

Жыл бұрын

So you can go into a bar drink poison and try to sleep with people you just met and NY is going to save me from myself by making sure I dont smoke while I am there?

I really liked the tv guide, I enjoyed flicking through and I actually miss it. I also still buy and read from real books 📖 I don’t like e books and don’t have one. I miss my mums old typewriter, ( I wish I had it ) I was so impressed with how quickly she typed. That brought back fond memories of her. ❤️Jodie 🇦🇺

@paulstan9828

Жыл бұрын

😁👋 Hi Jodie!!

@whiterabbit-wo7hw

Жыл бұрын

Hi Jodie. Good to hear from you again, my friend. White.

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

I prefer real books as well. I enjoy the feel, sound and especially the smell. Plus I don't have to worry about having something charged or reception. I also love to go shopping for new ones and finding some gems I didn't expect to see. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories Jodie!

Good Afternoon Rhett 🙋🏽. some of these things I had forgotten about.🤷🏽. some l never heard of.😂

I remember all of these because my parents were not from US, so a lot of things we got were handed down to us from neighbors, garage sales, yard sales, and thrift shops. I remember in 1997 we still used a record player and played the Atari 2600 while the other kids were playing N64. The only thing I still have from this list is the typewriter.

I started smoking at age 13 thanks in part to those vending machines lol

@sl8605

Жыл бұрын

I also started at 13, 50 years later and still smoking. My poor lungs!

@WinterInTheForest

Жыл бұрын

@@sl8605 I know at 63 it may seem futile to quit but it's never too late. Within 10-15 years your health risks would be similar to a person who never smoked.

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

Yeah they were too easy for kids. Thank you for watching!

Although i was never a smoker, I miss seeing all of these items. There is a mmorpg video game, City of Heroes, that was made in 2004. It still has many of those items in various places.

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and telling us about that game!

I remember a lot of the things that are on this video. I miss a lot of the things that are on this video. Love from Marysville, California

I miss film cameras! The anticipation of taking a photo, usually at the beginning of the roll, and the wait to finish the roll to see how the photo turned out! Then, going to pick it up and look at your photos. I switched to digital in 2008, as I loved my Nikon SLR!! The good thing about digital is that you can see your photo and retake it if it's not right.

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

I still have film cameras but I also have digital. Thank you for watching!

My mom (deceased) would be absolutely amazed at what can be done with a smartphone today.

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

It really is mind boggling sometimes. Thank you for watching Lynn!

I remember circling movies I wanted to watch in the tv guide. I would star the ones I wanted to tape!

@gooniesgirl1979

Жыл бұрын

Do you remember what the abbreviations were? AS, S, N, V.

@MikeysMorgue

Жыл бұрын

@@gooniesgirl1979 Yeah. Nudity, Violence, Adult Situation. RIight? If not let, what?

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching and sharing some of your memories Mikey!

❤😊I love seeing old vintage things.

I can't believe 7-ELEVEn in the 80's looked so huge on the inside! I've watched some 70's commercial compilations and a 7 - ELEVEn Japanese commercial. The 7-ELEVEn stores in my country are small and tightly spaced

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

Just depends on where you were. Some are big and some are small even today. Thank you for watching!

I don't remember the feel x-ray but I remember everything else. I'm feeling old 😁 I miss actual shoe stores. I can't remember the last time I saw one or a bannock device. Sometimes I miss my landline phone. A good look back

@SousChef77

Жыл бұрын

Our shoes actually fit correctly to keep our feet healthy with a Bannock...also being able to buy our correct size. I am an AAA heel and cannot find that at all now. So much plantar today, and doesn't need to be.

@SousChef77

Жыл бұрын

A Bannock is a sizer....not radiation. You put your foot into it and they would slide it to see your sizing. Absolutely harmless.

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching Kimberleyann!

@noirekuroraigami2270

Жыл бұрын

I’m pretty sure footlocker still exist. People now spend hundreds of dollars on shoes

Thanks Rhetty❤

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

You're welcome and thank you for watching Lana!

I miss newspaper machines a lot. You could look in the window and decide if you wanted to purchase a paper or not. Thank you for sharing this. God Bless You & stay safe.

There was not a single item in this video that I don't remember. I really don't miss any of them with maybe the exception of the TV Guide. I liked being able to see everything on one page for the day and not have to scroll. I do remember having to step into the shoe x-ray machine a few times but not all stores had them and we often went where they didn't have one. I really love how you come up with your videos and the research you have to do for them. Another interesting one today.

Of all your items, the only one that I didn't grow up with was the shoe fitting xray machine. This seems like it definitely would have been a more orthopedic type of method then others and I definitely would have used it given how as I have gotten older I have developed foot problems no doubt from poor fitting footwear. I don't understand why it has gone the way of the dinosaur given that we still take xrays for other things today.

@JustMe99999

Жыл бұрын

Because you rarely take an x-ray, and when you do it just lasts a second to get the picture. With these devices, you put your foot in there, and the salesman is looking at it through the viewer, so it's a very long exposure to radiation. Not to mention it's exposing everyone around the machine to radiation. Also as mentioned in the video, imagine you're doing this with every pair of shoes you're trying on, every time you're going to buy new shoes. That's a lot of radiation exposure.

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

Thank you for watching Joni!

Those cigarette vending machines were awesome! They were everywhere!

@Clara-ph7my

Жыл бұрын

You would only buy from them when you were desperate. More expensive and less cigarettes'.

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

They sure were. Thank you for watching Lois!

We were looking at car dealerships and discovered no one has model brochures. Just download a PDF. And business cards are mostly gone, it’s all on the dealer website for sales. Got one card with name of dealership and a QR Code. Pretty soon, dealers might be obsolete. Every sales rep we talked with knew nothing about the sedans (oh, but they knew everything about the SUVs). Started watching KZread vids for reviews. We’re probably going to buy our car online and have it delivered to our home. Another reason not to go to showrooms or the financial office. We can even secure a credit union check without setting foot in the office. My daughter just bought a car and had no reason to go to the DMV. Did it all online. Won’t miss that. I haven’t set foot in a dmv since WuFlu.

I sure don't miss typing my school papers, having to paint over the typos with WhiteOut, waiting for it to dry, and carefully re-typing over it!

@sl8605

Жыл бұрын

Or how hard the keys were to press down on.

@RhettyforHistory

Жыл бұрын

That wad a real struggle in many ways. Thank you for watching!

@b.p.4250

Жыл бұрын

@@RhettyforHistory Thanks for making this fun channel!