Thanks!

@horacesubayar794

Жыл бұрын

@Biden Hates America there’s no need to be derogatory. Sometimes you gotta put up or shut up.

@SiliconBong

Жыл бұрын

Australia and newZealand still have many of these items.

@steveperry3572

Жыл бұрын

It wouldn’t be bad to keep the old credit card swipers. Cause if the power goes out, you still have that method of payment by card.

@SiliconBong

Жыл бұрын

@@steveperry3572 I miss the sound of authority those things had!

@davidplant6805

Жыл бұрын

​@@steveperry3572 Actually, you would just plug in your Square credit card processor into your phone and swipe the card.

Also, obsolete is the little horsey ride found outside of K Marts or grocery stores you had to put a quarter in and it would rock back and forth.

@Soxruleyanksdrool

Жыл бұрын

As well as the KMart itself.

@rabbidcow2135

Жыл бұрын

I live in a rural area and know of a grocery store that has one still in use. It's in pretty good shape!

@Greg-xv9qj

Жыл бұрын

In the Chicago land area all of them little horsey rides and little 10 cent Kiddie rides we're all owned And controlled by the syndicate

@matrox

Жыл бұрын

The weight scales are missing too.

@stphinkle

Жыл бұрын

I have seen a few of these still in use at malls but there are far fewer of them than before.

Those old phones were so durable. You could slam them down as hard as you wanted when hanging up on someone ☎️

@Manuel-gv6qt

Жыл бұрын

LOL

@richardresendez2325

Жыл бұрын

Yep

@patcurrie9888

Жыл бұрын

and they heard it too. I have one & love to slam it down on telemarketers

@howardsmith9342

11 ай бұрын

We still use the phrase "hang up the phone," but fewer and fewer people know where it came from.

@douglashogg4848

10 ай бұрын

I remember you leased them from the phone company and they easily last 20 years.

I grew up with all these things and the think I miss most is the civility we had when we had these items.

@kjsdpgijn

11 ай бұрын

As long as you were of the same race and ethnicity, that is 😂

@ianstuart5660

9 ай бұрын

​@@kjsdpgijnThat's such a great point. It really puts a big question into place when the statement of everything was better once upon a time!

@themookshit

9 ай бұрын

​@@kjsdpgijn so woke

@TravelerVolkriin

9 ай бұрын

@@themookshit He’s telling the truth. These boomers don’t miss that old tech. They miss homogeneous societies.

@nthused

9 ай бұрын

As we get older and reflect we find the good ol’ days were not ALL that good. Just like everything…there was good AND bad. To brush the past too positively OR negatively is a mistake we all make. An honest, thoughtful reflection is needed personally and societally. With ALL of that said…I remember fondly much of these items…though not very fondly of not being able to get away from cigarette smoke while eating, or in a car or airplane!

I miss how whenever you called a business on the phone how you talked to a person instead of automated answering services and when you applied for a job you'd go to the place, fill out a simple paper application and actually talk to a real live person.

@TheBrokenLife

Жыл бұрын

I don't miss the "going places" to find a job thing... The entire reason I needed a job was so I'd have money so I could go places. Driving around town all day in the hope that you might find someone hiring was terrible.

@cryanc

Жыл бұрын

Now you fill out a form online, have to set up an account with a password and your email address, answer a million questions for an hour, and *still* not hear back from the potential employer. Online applications waste far more time than the simple paper applications of the past.

@weston407

Жыл бұрын

@@cryanc the WORST is having to fill out the saaame applications over and over while still uploading your resume - it's soul-crushing after a while

@ShamanSage

Жыл бұрын

@@cryanc don't forget how an Algorithm picks you based on 'buzzwords' included in your resume

@fury5500

Жыл бұрын

I don't miss paper applications, but automated call lines are extremely annoying if sometimes the options they give you don't really match your intentions.

I grew up with all this , I miss the old world .....

@frankrizzo4460

Жыл бұрын

Yes me too, I'm so glad I got to grow up back in those days.

@elid3906

Жыл бұрын

RESIST AND RECLAIM THE GOOD OLD WORLD💯 HANDS DOWN A WAY BETTER PLACE ‼️

@brodriguez11000

Жыл бұрын

Bring back Columbus!

@tonycollazorappo

Жыл бұрын

Same here @shannon newman. I grew up with all this and I miss the world back when and would go back in a heartbeat if I could.

@cindyobrien9270

Жыл бұрын

Me, too

The Sears catalog just in time for Christmas. I spent many hours looking at all the cool toys I'd never get.

@chrism3784

Жыл бұрын

yep, and never get was the truth.

@tuseroni6085

Жыл бұрын

i'm surprised that wasn't on the list. hell even sears itself isn't around anymore.

@willgriffin3490

Жыл бұрын

@@tuseroni6085 I was surprised as well. I know we (I have 7 siblings) fought to get the catalog first. And Sears is where we all got our school clothes for the new year as well.

@hommie789

Жыл бұрын

The Sears catalog was delivered in April and was the really thick one, the one delivered in time for Christmas was called Sears Wish book as in kids wishing, it wasn't just kids toys but very little else was looked at.

@tuseroni6085

Жыл бұрын

@@hommie789 that may be the official name but we just called it the sears catalog.

The days take so long to get through. But the years just fly by.

I noticed that a lot of what is missing required us to engage with each other. So many people are lonely now or having a hard time meeting potential friends or getting dates. Anyway, I just thought I’d put that out there.

@cherecemorgan1204

Жыл бұрын

Tell truth tell my brother same thing to world different . Now

@lesliecurran1704

8 ай бұрын

It's ironic how social media has connected people, but on such a superficial level that nobody really knows anybody. And it fosters such adverse communication people are so angry with each other and so quick to step on other people's feelings.

@kdub2229

8 ай бұрын

So true . Had a debate 20 years ago with a friend and told him all this E-mailing and texting was going to ruin social interaction .

Another one that should be on the list is music stores. They were everywhere when vinyl, tape and CD were the typical music formats.

@DardanellesBy108

Жыл бұрын

Yep! I remember going to Tower Records a few times a month to look for new cassettes. There was another music store, can’t remember the name, that would make custom mix tapes. Just take in a list of your favorite songs and for a reasonable price they’d make the tape.

@duckduckgoismuchbetter

Жыл бұрын

Many Walmarts now are carrying vinyl records again. And sometimes the selection is quite large. Like in the 80s.

@KevinW3278

Жыл бұрын

@@DardanellesBy108 I found this list looking around. 1. Camelot Music · 2. Coconuts · 3. Peaches Records & Tapes · 4. Strawberries · 5. Sam Goody · 6. Tape World · 7. Tower Records · 8. Turtle's. We had one, maybe more regional, that was record town or something close to that. It was in several malls.

@KevinW3278

Жыл бұрын

@@duckduckgoismuchbetter Yeah it used to be every major store like Walmart or Kmart at least had a music section of CDs and tapes.

@Poundz978

Жыл бұрын

And movie rental stores

Finding forgotten coins in telephone booths was like winning the lottery. Back when coins had real value.

@d.vaughn8990

Жыл бұрын

As a young child, I spent many nights, at a tavern, during the early 70's. Btw: there's a good reason. Anyway, there was a jukebox in the corner of the 'dining' area. I always inspected the coin return slot. It was usually empty. One night, I accidentally discovered an additional coin return on the side - towards the rear. It was stuffed full of coins! What a score! Honestly, it probably amounted to $1.50. But back in 1973, that could buy something!! I still don't understand why jukeboxes possessed those additional coin returns??

@ralphholiman7401

Жыл бұрын

Same thing with a vending machine! Finding forgotten change in the return slot. Another thing that could have added was all the glass bottles that you could return for a deposit.

@TranceGurl20

Жыл бұрын

Remember when pennies existed xD

@ImTheFatboy

Жыл бұрын

Back when a stray quarter meant you could get yourself a small snack

@ralphholiman7401

Жыл бұрын

@@ImTheFatboy , Could get a McDonald's burger for $0.25 back when I was young.

Here's another one -- Remember the S&H Green Stamps we always got at the grocery store with our purchase? It was a kind of rebate program (like cash-back programs on some credit cards). You could save a whole bunch of Green Stamps over time and then take them back to the store to get a few free grocery items.

@weswolever7477

7 ай бұрын

My family would sometimes spend the evening pasting the stamps into the booklets after dinner

@jb-qi8fz

2 ай бұрын

I got a whole set of dishes that way.

Oh how i would love to go back into time of the 70s and 80s the good ole days.😢

@thegrays3303

11 ай бұрын

What I really miss from that time with the '80s arcades in the malls. A pocketful of quarters would go a long way back then in the arcade.

@montaguewithnail6372

3 ай бұрын

Little did we realize that the "good ole days" of Thatcher and Reagan were actually good. How things have changed for the worse.

I remember my mom buying the TV guide for the week when she did the weekly grocery shopping on Friday....I read it cover to cover and circled the "must see" shows for the upcoming week....did anyone else do that?

@geraldboykin6159

Жыл бұрын

TV Bible

@CandanceOnline

Жыл бұрын

Mine too my mom and granny would buy TV guide for the week lol on Saturday 😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤

@lesliehoncharik1289

Жыл бұрын

It was one of the high points of my week as a kid...getting the guide, reading through the nightly TV schedules, looking for holiday special shows, beauty pageants, etc. and reading the descriptions for the weekly episode of your favorite shows, then circling them so you wouldn't miss anything( long before the days of vcr's and digital recorders; if you missed your favorite show, maybe you'd catch the rerun). Now with hundreds of channels, that charm and anticipation is gone (and half the time nothing good to watch)!

@epowell4211

Жыл бұрын

Absolutely!!

@craigstjohn4470

Жыл бұрын

we want the old size of,TV guide,NOT like now!/. looks like, regular magazine! 😔😠🙏

I miss VHS cassettes and going to movie rentals.

@joeldukes303

11 ай бұрын

I miss buying cassette tapes to play on my Walkman

@kdub2229

8 ай бұрын

Browsing was the most fun , whether Blockbuster or Family Video .

@johntracy72

8 ай бұрын

​@@kdub2229oh the nostalgia.

@zeroturn7091

2 ай бұрын

The heartbreak when a new release was out of stock, hard pass.

Waking up in the morning before sunrise and reading my newspaper and having my coffee was the most peaceful part of my day years ago. It prepared me for the workday. I miss it. The Sunday paper was especially nice. The "funny papers" were my favorite.

@grandpavan8335

9 ай бұрын

I'm with you! Remember when the "paperboy" would come around to "collect" payment? I had a "paper route" for a few years as a kid. I knew everybody on my side of town! Our local paper stopped delivering them to your door and made you put a tube at the end of the driveway. At my age, I wasn't about to go out in the snow and ice at 5 AM. I sadly cancelled my subscription.

It's sad to see all of these things that I grew up with now noted as obsolete.

@howardsmith9342

11 ай бұрын

What's really bad is when the stuff you played with as a kid turns up on Antiques Roadshow. Sadly, I remember everything on this list.

@wendyh2708

11 ай бұрын

@@howardsmith9342 And then you REALLY feel as old as dirt :)

@thetruthandnothingbutthetr6484

9 ай бұрын

That means you are getting old and will soon also be obsolete

@greghomestead8366

2 ай бұрын

Your next. 🤪

@wendyh2708

2 ай бұрын

@@greghomestead8366 You already are.

There's a weird feeling of sadness that comes from this. Like the life you knew is over. I understand one day we'll look back at current items with that same feeling though. Everything is relative. Yet I can't help but reflect with a bit of sadness about days long gone. I'm only in my 30s, so I imagine someone older feels it even more.

@agomodern

Жыл бұрын

That's why we collect things such as gas pumps, jukeboxes, vending machines, as adults that we couldn't have when we were kids or that are now obsolete. Brings back memories and preserves the past.

@PoesRaven73

Жыл бұрын

As a person who will be 68 in about a month, I can concur that we old shits feel that sadness even more!

@cattysplat

Жыл бұрын

Who knows what crazy stuff we'll have in another 30 years. World is always changing in strange new ways.

@grantyentis5507

Жыл бұрын

I'm in my early fifties and I definitely feel the sadness. I miss flash cubes!

@TEXCAP

Жыл бұрын

You have to keep in mind all the stuff we have left behind that very few of us alive remember. Horses for transportation, outdoor plumbing, home made ice cream machines, butter churns, just a few that I can think of off hand. It's always changing.

You didn't say it, but I miss having a phone hanging on the wall in my kitchen the most. I was at an indoor pool with my wife and kids last weekend and I saw approximately 25% of the adults with cell phones in a watertight case in the pool. It amazes me that when I was a kid, in the 80s, we could go on vacation for a week or two and leave our phone hanging on the wall in the kitchen. Now, we can't even go swimming without it.

@blueduck9409

Жыл бұрын

I feel your pain. Lol. I agree with you. I miss those days.

@REDPUMPERNICKEL

Жыл бұрын

Back in the days when single celled organisms began to clump together they didn't know it but they were trading independence for security.

@McPatMan124

Жыл бұрын

Yeah, but your wall phone wasn't also a computer with access to the entirety of human knowledge.

@Savage3OO6

Жыл бұрын

@@McPatMan124 I'd happily give up the advantages of a smart phone in lieu of the advantages of human interaction.

@nuttybar9

Жыл бұрын

Do you miss the stretched out phone cords?

*LOL! I got such a kick out of this. I remember as a kid on vacation on Lake Sebec in Maine, the town of Bowerbank ( population 17) two spinster sisters were the post office, town clerk, tax collector , Magistrate and phone switchboard operators. Our cabin on the lake had a hand crank wall phone, our phone number was "7". Those were the days.*

As for carbon paper, if I'm not mistaken, when we send someone an email and ":cc" someone, that refers to the old way of sending someone a "carbon copy." When actual paper was used, a piece of carbon paper (or sometimes more than one) was used to make a copy of the original document.

@richdorak1547

4 ай бұрын

c.c. is correct . Just explained that very concept to my 39 year old daughter last week . Ha ! She had no idea about this .

@zephyrcalm9717

2 ай бұрын

what about b.c.c., blind carbon copy - not sure how that works in the olden days.

@jsusna1972

2 ай бұрын

@@zephyrcalm9717 I don't know if there was a blind carbon copy option in the old days. Good point. That hadn't occurred to me.

@mariongordon4199

Ай бұрын

Typing any correspondence you’d use one piece of carbon paper between the original sheet and a second sheet, with the second sheet being your file copy. If your letter was going to Person A and you wanted Person B to get a copy of it, you’d add another piece of carbon paper and another sheet of paper. If Person B’s copy is going WITH Person A’s knowledge, you’d add a notation such as “cc: Person B” at the bottom of the letter. Everyone knows what’s going on. If Person B’s copy is going WITHOUT Person A’s knowledge, you wouldn’t add any notation when typing the original letter. When it was finished, you’d take the whole lot out of the typewriter, then put just Person B’s copy and the file copy back in. Now you add “bcc: Person B”. Thus Person B knows that they got the copy without Person A’s knowledge. And in both cases the notation is on the file copy.

Anyone remember checkbooks and bank savings books?! The teller would add the interest and amounts manually in the book!

@arthas640

Жыл бұрын

checkbooks are still pretty common. I work construction where credit card payments cost a fortune (3% on a $50k remodel is $1,500) and even many younger people still have checks, bank will even send you a single check if you dont have a checkbook. I think something like 90% of our transactions are via check and most of the remaining being money orders, EFTs, and stuff like that.

@jamesstuart3346

Жыл бұрын

I don't miss standing in line for half an hour just to see how much is in my bank account

@kkarllwt

9 ай бұрын

I opened my first savings account at age 12 . 1966. I can still visualize the passbook.

@MikeSmith-ir7xn

2 ай бұрын

I still have one

@alansimmons7732

13 күн бұрын

How about s&h stamps

I miss film the most. I managed a camera store from 1992-2013 and saw the emergence of digital. I do love that younger generations are shooting film again. Kodak can’t keep up with the demand and people are paying steep prices for this medium. It makes me happy to see the art continue. There’s nothing like film.

@deedoyle4069

Жыл бұрын

Yes, Agreed!

@fr2ncm9

Жыл бұрын

My first SLR was a Pentax ME Super. I had that camera for 30 years before the film rewind died. Now I have a Nikon D 90 and N90. The N90 is a film camera with a faster shutter speed than the digital version.

@thehighllama8101

Жыл бұрын

I used to work at CVS, back in the 90s. At the time, we had to send film out to the Kodak lab (and, later, the Fuji lab) to be processed. One thing I dreaded: dealing with missing film orders and mixed film orders (i.e., when a customer would get another customer's pictures). What a pain.

@PBryanMcMillin

Жыл бұрын

I think the big difference with film photography is that we took time to plan our shot. We had a limited number of pictures a roll of film could take, so we didn't want to waste a shot. With digital you can take 100 pictures and hope that one or two are good enough to use, and delete the rest. Digital is great for its convenience, and affordability, but for many the trade-off was the skill it took to get a good picture. Now you just take pictures until, purely by luck, one satisfies you.

@mersea.714

Жыл бұрын

@@fr2ncm9 The ME Super is a classic! How amazing that it lasted 30 years! I shoot with a D90 too & my main film body is my N80. Cheers!

I probably miss telephone booths the most. I worked in Yellowstone for the summer in 1995. I absolutely amaze my kids by telling them that I traveled across the country with only a calling card & an atlas.

@faulltw

8 ай бұрын

@@Rick-S-6063 Where in Mid Michigan? I am from Onsted

Imagine what Frank Costanza's collection of TV Guides is worth now!

Used to love getting the newspaper, especially on Sundays. Sunday funnies! Phone books would be delivered every year and had coupons for anything you were looking for and you would write numbers all over the cover of it. Good ol'days.

@22ergie

Жыл бұрын

The 'Parade' magazine was my favorite inside the Sunday paper. Did you have that as well?

@johnmadow5331

Жыл бұрын

American made news paper disposal machine in public place that using honest system can not stay in business since people a free to taok more than one copy of news paper then most case, vandalized the machine to take the money!

@mercster

Жыл бұрын

People still get newspapers all the time.

@usmale49

Жыл бұрын

@@22ergie We did get Parade every Sunday. My parents had a subscription to "The Rocky Mountain News"! Miss that little newspaper insert!!

@norwegianblue2017

Жыл бұрын

I think you can track the decline in informed voters with the decline in newspaper readers. Not only were newspapers more common back then, but they were also much more professionally written and had better journalistic standards. Not nearly as many snarky or sensationalistic headlines and partisan hackery. Just the fact, ma'am. And yes, the 'funny papers' as my grandfather called them, were a treat on Sundays.

I can remember the photo booths they used to have at malls and amusement parks in the 70s, 80s and 90s.

@BOBXFILES2374a

Жыл бұрын

And 1950s! Grandma Fay and me as a little kid together. !

@GrislyAtoms12

Жыл бұрын

I still see those photo booths sometimes. A mall in Saratoga NY had one as recently as 2017

@MsThebeMoon

Жыл бұрын

Remember the drive-thru photo booths.

@caitlingill

Жыл бұрын

And sometimes in the 2000s

@geraldboykin6159

Жыл бұрын

WOOLCO

Those days were sooo much better and happier.

@domenicv7962

Жыл бұрын

Judy Judy Judy !!!

@Doodlebirds1

11 ай бұрын

If you were anything other than a middle - upper class white man sure. Lots of similar values and things we could appreciate more today sure. However, we forget about racism homophobia, the stigma around mental illness etc: Areas like medicine have advanced much further too now. We can’t look back with rose coloured glasses.

@domenicv7962

11 ай бұрын

@@Doodlebirds1 I think you are looking at today through those glasses. You have no idea what happened back then, because if you did, you would feel differently. Actually was quite the insult.

@joeldukes303

11 ай бұрын

@@Doodlebirds1 Judy and domenic are correct. You are woke. Cognitive dissonance is a helluva drug

@johnerwin9024

9 ай бұрын

​@@domenicv7962have to have lived those days-

Does anyone remember when you had to get a paper bus ticket and they would punch a hole in it? I remember my mother getting tickets at the booth in perforated sheets. Also the card sleeve inside a book from the library. The librarian would stamp the due date on a card and slide it in the sleeve inside the book's cover. Card catalogues to help one locate a book in the library are obsolete too. Microfiche (I think that was the name) where you could look up some old paper or documents on a huge machine with a projector screen at the library! So many memories are coming back! Oh, and tv dinners when they were in aluminum foil before microwaves! They went in the oven. You had to peel the desert section back to brown it.

When our TV set would act up, my dad would remove some vacuum tubes and head down to the Piggly Wiggly grocery store and use the TV Tube tester just inside the store. If you found a weak tube, they had a replacement for sale right there.

@heidibonjour

Жыл бұрын

Why is there not a store called Piggly Wiggly now?

@Abitibidoug

Жыл бұрын

Good one! I completely forgot about those tube testers.

@Abitibidoug

Жыл бұрын

@@heidibonjour I think they still exist in the Southern States, and have been around for many years.

@heidibonjour

Жыл бұрын

@@Abitibidoug I LOVE that name! If there was one in my city I would shop there! "😂Piggly Wiggly!"

@Abitibidoug

Жыл бұрын

@@heidibonjour I was at one in Myrtle Beach, SC in 1996 and another in Lafayette, LA in 2010 and possibly others.

Of all the things that have been lost over the years, it's my mind I miss the most!

@robertlange1772

Жыл бұрын

You ain't the only one

@jocko774

Жыл бұрын

Ozzy Osborne?

@nestorjrabalos1998

Жыл бұрын

I miss my virginity. Lost to a hooker on one drunken night.

@billhennessy5118

2 ай бұрын

Joe Biden

Born in 79, I remember most of these stuff, I wish i could go back, I miss the payphone and pin ball machines

@frozenhouse5362

11 ай бұрын

I remember as a kid we use to go around checking payphones for left change, sometimes we would find a broken one full of change

@mikebutkevich8805

11 ай бұрын

I was playing pinball on the nes. It was 1983. My mom had it still and I got to borrow it

I miss drive-in movie theaters. They were fun and you could go with the whole family.

@grandpavan8335

9 ай бұрын

I worked at one in the 70's. The indoor concession stand was very bright, and all the stoned people would be squinting and grinning as they ordered their treats. It was SO obvious and funny!

@user-nd3tg5zn1b

4 ай бұрын

Yes, but you would probably get robbed at a drive in these days 😢

@jameshazen1679

28 күн бұрын

I live in a small East central Illinois community and we have a twin screen dive -in, they play first run movie, digital, with 2 separate FM 's for the sound. Have been busy for years!

VCRs and cassette tapes immediately came to mind when I saw the title of this video. Neither were featured, so a "Part 2" is definitely required.

@lanceash

Жыл бұрын

I remember having an argument in high school with another guy who claimed that CD's would make LP's obsolete. And now CD's are obsolete and LP's are highly collectible and often specially printed for new releases.

@Bernz66

Жыл бұрын

I just digitized all my home movies from VHS and Hi-8 tapes…..

@Bernz66

Жыл бұрын

@@lanceash I still have all my LPs and cassettes that I started buying back in 1974….

@lanceash

Жыл бұрын

@@Bernz66 How did you do it? Because I've got a pile of home movies on camcorder tapes that I need transferred to digital.

@robertschmidt9296

Жыл бұрын

@@lanceash CDs are obsolete? I had planned on getting a player in the near future.

I remember going to NYC on a train when I was around 13 in 73 with my father to watch a baseball game. I remember going through what seemed like hundreds of phones in the train station to see if there was change that someone forgot to grab.

@nomadbrad6391

Жыл бұрын

and????? did you find any?

@freedomrings1420

Жыл бұрын

@@nomadbrad6391 I believe so

@jamesmurray8558

Жыл бұрын

So did I.

@samanthab1923

Жыл бұрын

Phone banks

@ZoruaZorroark

Жыл бұрын

reminds me of when i would do the same in the 90's for vending machines as a kid so i can get myself either a soda for "free" or even play a arcade game without begging my parents for change

I miss the old (in line) coke machine that you had to pull a bottle out of a hole. Very retro, and very cool, you never see them anywhere.

@janetclaxton217

3 ай бұрын

Coke in a glass bottle taste much better than Coke in a can.

A Yellow Pages phone book was delivered to me in late 2022. Within 5 minutes, I found a listing for a business that closed 5 years ago. A restaurant opened there 4 years ago and is not listed there. That book landed in the recycle bin immediately.

@zyxw2000

8 ай бұрын

But the online listings are inaccurate even more commonly.

I am 70 years old so I remember using shoe polish to shine my shoes. Can’t remember the last time I did that.

@samanthab1923

Жыл бұрын

Growing up my dad had a wooden shoe shine kit. Loved watching him take care of his shoes.

@shiroibasketshoes

Ай бұрын

Boys on street corners and in train stations and airports used to chirp, "Shine Your Shoes, Mister?" The "shoeshine boys" of yore.

I don’t know if these really fit into this category or not but How about the weekly readers or the Highlights magazine we would get from school, i remember getting one every week from school these memories are priceless

@IamToniD

Жыл бұрын

You know that lil pamphlet we would get every week at school where you could order books magazines and posters of your favorite characters but unfortunately, I never got to order not one thing, but ALWAYS wished I could😞

@marionpeebles3836

Жыл бұрын

I was just thinking about weekly readers and wondered if they were still around.

@tooldog5062

Жыл бұрын

yea i miss those little mags, i still try to get my wife to believe that readers in the 70s said the best ways to lose weight and get in shape was sex 3-5 times a day but she doesn't believe me

@diannelavoie5385

Жыл бұрын

"Highlights" is still available and has ones for different age groups. I gifted a subscription to my little granddaughters.

@eandatoo

Жыл бұрын

I remember Weekly Readers in school. We could also order books from the back by filling out an order form and mailing it in with the payment. Miss those days.

I still have an electric typewriter in my office and use it occasionally to fill out paper forms and documents. It looks better than writing by hand, and it's fast and easy.

I miss cameras that used film, dropping the film rolls off to be developed at a store and picking up the photos. It was fun to look forward to seeing the photos. Was special.

@eendagepic

8 ай бұрын

True but it wasn't that much fun when you needed a photo you had just taken for an event and then either had to waste the rest of the film or wait for another two years for the film to be full before you'd have it.

During the '50's, my mom preferred using enclosed green phone booths in dept. stores with the attached stool inside & small counter to place her purse.

@blondy89

Жыл бұрын

I remember those at our local bowling alley ☺️

@samanthab1923

Жыл бұрын

I loved the old wooden ones you’d find in places some times.

@citrine65

Жыл бұрын

You gave me a nice memory image. 🙂

@HELENGodLoves

Жыл бұрын

Trucking we had them in truck stops

@fjtalleyauthor2242

Жыл бұрын

I recall the banks of payphones at airports near baggage claim and ground transportation as well.

When clicked on this video, I didn't realize it was going to make me as sad as it did. I miss the old world.

I think of the days when I bugged my parents for change $$ to play those great tunes back in the late 70's and early 80's.... more often it seems these days. I thank God my mom is still here to reminisce about those days with me 😊🙏

@dairyair5371

Жыл бұрын

My older sister would buy a forty five every Saturday for a dollar. She had quite the collection.

Things I miss are taking a date to a Drive In movie like back in 70s & 80s. The walk in phone booths that were at every grocery store or shopping center complex. I also remember cigarette vending machines in bowling alleys. Rotary Telephones.

@ReallifeBambiDeerattheFarm1

3 ай бұрын

I still use a rotary phone. Got a yellow one on the wall in the Kitchen, and the other in my computer room. Both work great! They still have cigarette vending machines in casinos, but they look like a regular vending machine so not as cool as a old timey one.

The post office and stores at one time had postage stamp vending machines.

@garyfrancis6193

Жыл бұрын

Barney Fife refused to use them.

@richardharepax123

Жыл бұрын

I miss those because I didn't have to wait in line for stamps

@panatypical

Жыл бұрын

​@@garyfrancis6193 😄

@AbandonedMines11

Жыл бұрын

Out here in California, you can buy a postage stamp or multiple postage stamps at any 7-Eleven convenience store just by asking the cashier.

@davidmitchell6873

Жыл бұрын

Barney Fife was a man of principle.

One thing that I miss from the past are pin-ball machines.

@hyena131

Жыл бұрын

@Kevin Hanz Pinball machines are alive and well at the myriad old time amusement arcades throughout the country.

@bobsmoth-iv3sp

Жыл бұрын

tilt

@Savage3OO6

Жыл бұрын

There's a pinball machine at my family's favorite restaurant. Ironically, it's "Back to the Future" themed. My kids (7 & 9) love it. It makes me happy to see them playing it.

@peterbell8019

Жыл бұрын

Next time you're in Vegas, go to the Pinball Hall of Fame.

@Workdove

11 ай бұрын

Yes and video arcades too

Small town living provides most of these "lost/forgotten" items fairly easily. Some places are so isolated that getting rid of these items would actually make things more difficult than modernizing everything.

I just remember the cigarettes in vending machines often being stale but I remember the feeling of pulling the knob and hearing the sound.

I feel so old since I remember EVERY one of these every objects. Time flies far too fast.

@revdan4853

Жыл бұрын

Same here. I'm nearly 60 and watching this video makes me feel old, as if I didn't already feel old enough! When I was a kid here in the UK, you had to purchase your bus ticket from a conductor who walked up and down the bus. Train carriages still had a corridor that ran along the side of the carriage, with separate compartments for passengers. Telephones still had rotary dials. The TV only had 2 or 3 channels and you had to get up and walk over to the TV to change the channel. I can remember when telephones first got buttons. I can remember when TVs first got remote controls. I can remember changing all my vinyl records and cassette tapes for CDs. Life back then was far simpler and in many ways more innocent.

@arthas640

Жыл бұрын

@@revdan4853 I cant imagine how my grandparents felt. Grandma was born in a North Dakota town so rural she grew up speaking Norwegian more than English since the tiny town was mostly immigrants. She didnt have indoor plumbing or electricity and traveled by horse drawn cart more than by truck. When she died it was in a house with an LED TV, smartphone, wifi, wireless security cameras connected to my phone so i could keep an eye on them, with a powered recliner that could stand her up for her.

@robertschmidt9296

Жыл бұрын

@@revdan4853 I remember when push button phones came out. I never did figure out how to press one for English on my rotary.

@marycanary

9 ай бұрын

Absolutely 😊

@Clifford-yi3cj

9 ай бұрын

If you give your life to Jesus, then you will have no ending of time.

Sometimes I have to refrain from getting too lost in nostalgia for times gone by. But your videos allow me a quick trip down memory lane and I so appreciate them! Thank you!!

@413smr

Жыл бұрын

It's barely worth it to indulge in nostalgia for a mythical good old days. Humans persist in believing that nothing changes, that everything that's here today will be here tomorrow. Everything changes, quickly, slowly or imperceptibly. Think about it - does it look like the 1950s now? Even the 199i0s? What's around today may well not be around in the future.

@glennso47

Жыл бұрын

@@413smr Unfortunately some things never change such as racism and hatred of one another. Actually the good old days were over when Adam and Eve were removed from the Garden.

@hoppas77

Жыл бұрын

@@glennso47 🙄

@Veteran007

Жыл бұрын

@@413smr Why are you here.

@redline1916

Жыл бұрын

@@413smr At least back then people had half of a brain and quality was used in most products. Now consumerism has completely ruined us as a whole. Not only that, but jobs paid a living wage when you could get it. I can't even afford an apartment while my mother at least had one when she was my age, and she was working one full time job. I can't afford that at 15 an hour even. There's clearly no such thing as the 'mythical good old days' when clearly us Gen Z knew they had it good, and we want a slice of it too.

It's amazing to see how practically all of these obsolete objects have been condensed into one little cell phone...

@larrybe2900

10 ай бұрын

And then some others to boot.

@nickm5419

9 ай бұрын

not if you dont have one ;)

@ianstuart5660

9 ай бұрын

Yep, the list is very long!

@jb-qi8fz

2 ай бұрын

And most peoples brains condensed into a Thimble.

@Saboteur709

Ай бұрын

It's kinda why Radio Shack went out of business.

The milk man disappeared too. I remember as a little kid in the 70's one of my chores was to put the empty milk bottles outside for pickup, we also had a ordering note if we wanted something different, like chocolate milk.

@shiroibasketshoes

Ай бұрын

How about soymilk, too? Involvement by women, too? Imagine a new job term "The soymilk people"!

@Workdove

Ай бұрын

@@shiroibasketshoes Nope, it was clearly mens work. Nothing wishy washy back then. Men had defined roles, women had defined roles.

@shiroibasketshoes

Ай бұрын

@@Workdove As a feminist, I was aware of the unfortunate sexism and discrimination regarding job opportunities and gender that existed back then. Lots of women could do traditional men's roles, but were not allowed to do so. I knew that many men were reluctant to do "women's work."

@Workdove

Ай бұрын

@@shiroibasketshoes Although you are correct about that, will you rewrite history? Force the 70's to be the 2020's ? What is your point

@shiroibasketshoes

Ай бұрын

@@Workdove I know no one can turn back time. I miss much about the past, but I also feel it was far from perfect in terms of many social fairness and equality issues. My point was to express those type of things, and initially to try to use a bit of humour to try to make a serious subject more palatable to some readers here.

I miss the phone number you could call for time and temperature. And alerting your parents to pick you up at the library by calling home collect and them refusing the call so it was free!

@Tom-ok2rh

Жыл бұрын

You sneaky little devil…😀😀

Phone booths were essential for Superman.

There was a huge collection of phone books, both domestic and international at Grand Central Terminal, NY. Next to them were banks of phone booths with lighting, small fans, and seats.

@bevyofbabes

11 ай бұрын

I worked as a commercial printer for most of my life until about 2010 when business died out. I printed Sears, Radio Shack etc. and many other catalogues as well as telephone books for Bell Telephone. To think we would produce about 50,000 copies a shift really makes you think how many trees were consumed just for those purposes alone. Although it did employ a lot of people at the time there were many years without recycling programs so all those resources were either burned or buried after they were used.

@darlingmoon003

4 ай бұрын

I remember that.

Relating to travel, I also remember the paper airline tickets and some of the airlines having their own ticket offices not just at the airport but in storefronts in downtowns of major cities. And American Express travelers cheques, road maps and atlases were very popular.

@janetclaxton217

3 ай бұрын

And getting to go to the airport gate to see off family or friends

I discovered a cache of old office supplies at work: adding machine paper, typewriter ribbons, stamps with date rolls ending in 99, fax paper. I had fun explaining to the young people what each thing was, I felt like an archeologist!

@anthonyrobertson2011

Жыл бұрын

Ha, I forgot about those stamps where you could change the date. Yeah played with one as a kid.

I remember all these things when I was a kid. Miss those days 😔

@tooldog5062

Жыл бұрын

me to people had imagination back then they had IQ's they knew the difference between someone lying and someone telling the truth, even a monster movie was meant to scare people not gross them out!

I remember all these things. We still still have fax machines at work, although now they are bundled as Multi Function Printers. You forgot rotary phones ... I still remember having one with a 30 foot cord in the kitchen at my parents house.

One thing that wasn’t mentioned was the old ditto machines I used to love being the teachers helper smelling the ink and filling the warm papers right off the machine…….

@verak66

Жыл бұрын

Purple ditto ink got all over your hands, too

@Adogslife54

8 ай бұрын

Mimeograph.

@Icarus-81

7 ай бұрын

carbon copy haha@@Adogslife54

I miss public telephones. If someone doesn't have a cell phone, or is in an area without service and needs to make a call urgently, public telephones including payphones are a literal godsend. Imagine being trapped somewhere with no car, no bus service, nobody else around and its -20C or colder outside!

@climeaware4814

Жыл бұрын

That is why you need to wear clothing that can withstand that cold! always plan your trips eliminate your single point of failure.

@FelisTerras

Жыл бұрын

I agree; especially when in remote areas, where there are no cell phone towers, a payphone would be literally lifesaving. Or imagine you get robbed. Making an emergency call via a phone booth costed nothing(where I live). Some places still have emergency phones, clearly signaled as such, but they too keep on disappearing

@cattysplat

Жыл бұрын

Since everyone carries cell phones now, you could always ask someone. Especially since most calls are cheap/free now.

@joyfulsongstress3238

Жыл бұрын

@@cattysplat Not everyone carries cell phones. Not everyone can afford them. Cell phones and cell service where I am are very expensive. It can happen quite easily that there is simply nobody around when you really need to use a phone. Seriously, would you let a random stranger in a slightly sketchy area of town use your cell phone?

@j.andrewk.327

Жыл бұрын

A crazy location for pay phones was on the platforms in the NYC subway system. The noise was incredible. Those old ones had separate slots for different coins.

Juke boxes are still a thing in most bars I've been to, although they are now internet based. Vending machines are not that uncommon either, and most even come equipped with card readers for credit/debit card payment.

Love how cigarette machines lasted from $.25 to $10.00 a pack.

@tooldog5062

Жыл бұрын

yea when i started it was .65 a pack $3 a carton, i was a chain smoker, a four pkg aday smoker, it didnt matter the brand, i had to quit because my sone was born with asthma, so with the help of sun seeds i was able to quit, and that was 30 years ago

@tomsimpson197

9 ай бұрын

I remember to buy cigaretts in the service was 2 bucks a carton

@Camman010

9 ай бұрын

Now it is $20.00 a pack but I still buy them at the casinos in the smoking rooms.

Full-service gas stations are obsolete! I remember as late as 1986 or so pulling into a gas station and telling the attendant to fill up the tank. Then you would simply hand them the money through the window, and they would provide change if needed. Sometimes they would even lift the hood and check your oil and other essential components for you for free. Or even clean your windshield!

@Jeff-uj8xi

Жыл бұрын

We still have full-service gas stations in New Jersey.

@johnyoung9874

10 ай бұрын

​. Isn't it against the law to pump your own gas in NJ ?

I miss catalogs, Sears, J.C. Penney, Spiegel, Victoria's Secret. Also really miss pay phones and the Sunday paper (printed on paper), sections scattered all over the house on Sunday.

Film and 35mm cameras have returned in popularity, retro and kitch fun, like a Polaroid.

I honestly miss all of these things. Seems like many of them the internet killed off, but having grown up throughout all of 80’s and 90’s, I was around to see both ways be the norm. Yes, the ways today are much more convenient overall. But I miss the world being more of a physical and tangible place with things like in this video. To me those things made it more interesting and colorful. Not just “in the ether” so to speak.

@davidmitchell6873

Жыл бұрын

Perfect comment. I have seen many changes in my 56 years, some things are better and some worse.

@thihal123

Жыл бұрын

Michael, you’re so right about the physicality of things. For example, going to the local video store was a common Friday activity and marked the beginning of a restful weekend. It was fun to browse through the collections and plan part of the weekend. That is gone. Now you just create a playlist and it’s not special.

@cgimovieman

Жыл бұрын

@@thihal123 Agreed. Could tapes or discs at your local video store be out, or damaged when you got them? Yes. But you were out interacting with people. And you didn’t always have instant gratification if something was out that you wanted. When you did find it back in, it was more of a treat. Today we just sort of expect to have whatever we want, whenever we want it. And I admit, I’ve gotten used to that myself, from streaming content to Amazon deliveries sometimes within the same day you order them. But things feel a little less special today to me than they used to.

@Mike1064ab

Жыл бұрын

The internet is a disease. It’s amazing how once it’s gone and run it’s course how quickly all this stuff will come back. :)

@cgimovieman

Жыл бұрын

@@Mike1064ab The internet is not a “disease”. In the grand scheme of things for human existence though it’s still just a baby. The same even more so with social media. We just haven’t yet learned how to use it like adults on so many levels, control what’s out there, or understand some of its psychological implications. It may have temporarily caused us to lose our way in terms of some physicality, but it’s completely opened up the world to so many people, and has the potential to be an even more powerful and legitimate learning tool once we can filter out the fallacies from the truths. Sure at times I miss the simplicity of when I was growing up without it. But just the same I sure wish I had had it as a resource growing up. Using a 10-20 year old set of dated encyclopedias or old school books as opposed to say current accurate scientific knowledge? Or having online access to things like the National Archives, Smithsonian, Louvre, or even government court reports? I’ll take online resources any day.

Anyone remember slide rules? They performed mathematical functions, including the calculation of trigonomic functions. Their use was tricky to master. Our year in school spent two years learning to use the damn things only for the rules to change allowing for what were called "scientific calculators" to be used in our GCE exams in 1979. Oh, and the calculator recommended by our school was made by an obscure electronics company called Commodore.

@dairyair5371

Жыл бұрын

I was so mad at them for not building a network of enthusiasts for the Commodore 64. Yes, the other computers had better graphics but the games were so much fun.

@howardsmith9342

11 ай бұрын

I still have a slide rule around someplace. We put men on the moon with slide rules.

@deanvinlove6095

11 ай бұрын

Sold by Radio Shack!

@kkarllwt

9 ай бұрын

In 73 there was a freshman course on how to use one. By 76/77 they were almost gone. I still have a few, includuing a 4 foot training one.

@jasonfullerton7763

9 ай бұрын

I have a BS in Engineering, and I'm *just* old enough to have never used a slide rule. I did take a mechanical drawing class as a Freshman in 1992, using triangles, compass, and drafting paper.

Another reason for the decline of the $2 bill is that in places that used cash registers there was no space for them. I remember rolling my eyes when I heard about them coming back (for the second time!) Saw that coming. It's like someone once said "I know this failed before but let's try it again. There's a saying about doing something, failing, and doing it again and expecting different results.

There was a pay phone at our post office & I remember back in 1977 I engraved my name on it.Juteboxes were fun.This video brings back so many great memories.

@latinforever

15 күн бұрын

I grew up in the Sixties, and my tiny little village had three pay phones, four if you count the one at the high school. The local restaurant had tiny little boxes on the wall that were connected to the juke box in the bar. You wanted music, pop money in the box and pick your song. My grandfather had a juke box in his bar that was very elaborate---lots of neon.

I remember all of these - including the little post office stamp machines that looked like a letterbox. I particularly liked the sound the mechanical sound the cigarette and candy machines would make when you pulled the tab.

@csnide6702

Жыл бұрын

chunck- ka-shunk.....

@HELENGodLoves

Жыл бұрын

In school we had a machine you put a few quarters in and get a decorative pencil or another had notebooks.

@nikkimcdonald4562

Жыл бұрын

I bought a Lance vending machine and love it so much 😍😍😍

@jjryan1352

Жыл бұрын

Those pulls on the cig machines was oddly satisfying and unnerving. The way the long shafts came out. Made you think are they supposed to do that? Will this even work or will it jam up?

@billrobertson5895

Жыл бұрын

@@jjryan1352 they were like pull chords on lawnmowers. Sometimes they would just decide nope I want to eff your arm up I’m only coming out 2 inches then I’m stopping

I'm 65 and I remember all these things. I took typing in the 10th grade, and when computers came, that turned out to be the best skill I ever acquired from high school.

@heidibonjour

Жыл бұрын

My dad said to me in grade 9, why are you taking typing? You will never be a secretary! And then just a decade later when we had those first Macintosh computers, he said, you were smart to learn to type!! LOL

@heidibonjour

Жыл бұрын

@@susanfaulkner2304 I was a late computer adopter myself, but use youtube a lot to trouble shoot the numerous problems I encounter so I don't have to ask others for help all the time! :)

@kingfunk9336

Жыл бұрын

I'm 76 and I took typing in 9th grade. It's served me well all my life.

@terryg8516

Жыл бұрын

I'm 59. Lol, I took typing in the 10th grade also. The typing skill I learned in that class has actually stayed with me all these years, as I've probably typed 10 million words since. My teacher's name was Mrs. Wadsworth. Every time she wanted to test our speed, she'd have us place our fingers on the correct keys and then she'd say, "Alright students. Eyes on copy." Then she'd tell us to start. I also remember that dangerous paper cutter at the side of the room. We'd use it whenever we needed to turn in a smaller sheet of paper. I'm surprised no kid ever chopped a finger off using that thing.

@josephhaddakin7095

Ай бұрын

I'm 59 also & took typing in 10th grade. I worked on Computers in the 80s & was glad I learned to type. The class had 2 electric typewriters & the rest were manuals.

Making collect calls to home from a pay phone during basic training as an Airman comes first to mind when I see the pay phones. Hard but good times.

These videos really bring to light the vast amount of change that has happened just in the last 60 years. It’s astonishing.

I miss each and every one of these! Life didn't zip by, people were not in such a hurry. What I wouldn't give to go back!

@thecatatemyhomework

Жыл бұрын

And people weren't nearly as crazy as they are now

@frankrizzo4460

Жыл бұрын

Yes me too, we were blessed to have experienced those days. I definitely would go back in a heartbeat.🤔

@elid3906

Жыл бұрын

WELCOME TO‼️YOUR‼️ DIGITAL PRISON⏰

@daveogarf

Жыл бұрын

*@bridgetmccracken1381* - I second this!

@toddb2537

Жыл бұрын

I agree with you 100%. Would love to go back. Life was so much more enjoyable then for sure!

I miss the Phone Booths, the Juke Box and the Phone Books a lot 😔

@NinjaZXRR

8 ай бұрын

Cops still use phone books for confessions

@ant-1382

8 ай бұрын

Remember when there was a little personal juke box in every diner booth. You could have your lunch and listen to your favorite song for a nickel.

@Icarus-81

7 ай бұрын

Phone book delivery trucks.

Loved my tv guides, especially the fall preview, I even collected them, they had great cover art.

@johntracy72

8 ай бұрын

Hold on to them. They're probably worth money now.

I remember and have used about everyone of these things. One thing that used to be common was the "microfiche." That of course went away with the computer. I had all these 8-tracks and a box for them I sometimes carried around with me especially in my car and I always ended up needing to keep a doubled over piece of cardboard handy to slip in along side of the tape to get it realigned with the head to play properly....Later you needed a pencil handy so your regular cassette tape could be rewound when it came out while playing, that is if it was salvageable.

We still use fax and rolodex in the law office! Believe it or not, some clerk's offices don't accept documents via email, and a well-maintained rolodex is the easiest way for everybody in the office to have access to the same set of contacts. Funny how some of these objects still have their niches.

@kevinkent6351

Жыл бұрын

It’s crazy that some govt agencies require a fax for requests. Imagine these people running healthcare.

@jaystewart8757

Жыл бұрын

How about Wordperfect?

@lindasmith7875

Жыл бұрын

Haven't used my FAX in years (my neighbor use to come over & have me fax insurance claims for her). I still have & use my rolodex

@washkoskat

Жыл бұрын

I had to contact the IRS and we can never get each other on the phone and there was no way to email her so I said faxes back and forth this was in 2021 and the IRS is still using fax machines to communicate I finally did get the person on the phone and she turned out to be quite nice but it was so silly that I had to fax things and wait for the confirmation and hope to God she got it

@Sacto1654

Жыл бұрын

Fax machines are still common in eastern Asia, because it's not easy to type out correspondence on a computer when you have thousands of characters to deal with in Chinese and Japanese.

I stayed in a hostel a few years ago and they had a repurposed cigarette machine that sold toiletries for people staying there. It was so cool!

@tooldog5062

Жыл бұрын

in the 70s a few states if you knew where to look had vending machines that sold pot nothing great every label different yet in reality you were paying 50-100 for the name and maybe $5 for the weed!

@epowell4211

Жыл бұрын

that's awesome! They were so much cooler looking than regular vending machines - guess because they never got updated after the 60s lol

@jenniferburchill3658

Жыл бұрын

I once saw a cigarette vending machine repurposed to sell mini works of art!

@tooldog5062

Жыл бұрын

@@jenniferburchill3658 back in 73 cigs were .60 a pack and a carton was $3-$5.00 depending on where you were, went the lawsuits started is when the jacked the prices, so instead of the manufacturers paying up to this day the smokers are the ones actually paying for the lawsuits! as for the manufacturers they haven't paid out one blood covered penny, yet they profit each time a pack is bought, before i quit 30 years ago i was a 4 pkg aday smoker, i knew a distributor who would give me box's of outdated brands most of which were stale but smoke able, that is until i found out he was a thief and i turned him in,

@jenniferburchill3658

Жыл бұрын

@@tooldog5062 FOUR packs a day????? DAMN! 🤯

I grew up in the 70s and 80s,and I SO remember the cigarette vending machines and also the coffee vending machines.Jukeboxes were a huge part of my youth.I see them at Mel's Diner in Hollywood and Encino, CA as well as The Great Grill in Burbank CA(a 50s themed restaurant).

I don't miss any of these objects but they bringing back great memories and I'm grateful to have lived through these times.

I remember the daily newspaper would have a section showing what would be on tv that day, for local broadcast and bigger cable channels, along with a few entertainment articles. If you got a Sunday paper it would have a book with everything to be on tv for the following week. My dad kept that on top of the tv and we’d use it to figure out if anything good would be on. Commercials and all.

@GrislyAtoms12

Жыл бұрын

"I remember the daily newspaper would have a section showing what would be on tv that day" Soon, the daily newspaper will belong in one of these videos.

@renmuffett

Жыл бұрын

We still have the daily newspaper here in my area of Eastern Oregon.

@honkytonkinson9787

Жыл бұрын

@@renmuffett there’s a daily paper her in Chattanooga, TN. It’s the two big newspapers combined into one: The Chattanooga Times, and The Chattanooga Free-Press. They used to be the morning paper and the evening paper. Now it’s just the one a day, and a few people in my neighborhood still get them delivered. I haven’t read a newspaper since maybe 2009. I get everything online now

@GrislyAtoms12

Жыл бұрын

Love your user name, @ Honky Tonkinson

@Bernz66

Жыл бұрын

I used to spend hours going through every page of the Sunday paper after my dad was done with it

As a little kid I remember sitting on the phone book as a booster chair at the dining room table. In Chicago the phone books were VERY thick.

@pamelabrown7204

Жыл бұрын

I remember that; I also remember my West Virginian mother-in-law laughing at the very idea. Her "big" phone book was barely as thick as the Detroit Free Press Sunday edition. 😁. Thanks for the fun reminder!

@Loveinthe808

Жыл бұрын

my sister was 5'0" and drove a 69 Dodge Charger back in the day. She used a phone book to sit on so she could see over the dashboard. Not sure if it was a Brooklyn or Manhattan phone book....LoL

I started work using a manual typewriter and retired using a computer. One of the things I miss are the stereo stores that were ubiquitous in the 70's. I want to replace my old system but old style stereo systems are hard to come by these days.

Ah yes... The payphone. When I was growing up (the 1990's to early 2000's), we didn't have a phone in the house as we couldn't afford the service. Whenever we needed to make a call, we would take a looooooooong and potentially dangerous walk (the nearest payphone was across a fairly busy highway where the speed limit was barely acknowledged).

@whatifschrodingersboxwasacofin

Жыл бұрын

Wow. I hope things are far, far better for you now. :)

@angelarakestraw2235

Жыл бұрын

@@whatifschrodingersboxwasacofin I have a landline but no cellphone, and no cable. I have internet and use a laptop. I might be considered mid-aged in today's standards :).

TV Guide was a NECESSITY for the fall and spring previews. Another awesome video.

@sdube001

Жыл бұрын

I looked forward every year for the fall preview guides!

@constancemiller3753

Жыл бұрын

I used to read TV Guide last pages about movies, directors and stars of cinema when I was too young to watch films like The Godfather or foreign arthouse films.

Saw these in my early life. I feel the world changed the most for millennials. Everything went from being physical to digital by the time I got out of high school. Those before me was all physical. Those after me is all digital. I was the inbetween.

@GeneralChangOfDanang

Жыл бұрын

I'll agree with that. I was born in the mid 80's and it seemed like the mid 2000's got to be a really confusing time. I had just finished school in a world that barely knew the internet and then all of a sudden, everything was online. I just stopped trying to keep up with it.

@chrism3784

Жыл бұрын

@@GeneralChangOfDanang me to, 1984, we saw the physical to digital change the most

@ledhed5717

Жыл бұрын

I am not so sure about that, to me Gen X are the ones who saw the most change. I was a kid in the 1970’s (born in ‘72), teenager in the 80’s and young adult through the 90’s. We saw a TON of changes- video games, home computers, using old rotary phones to digital to the first bag phone and Motorola 8000 “cell” phones, the list goes on and on. We not only remember them but we used a lot of analogs before the digitals. I was sophomore and taking typing but my Junior year we had “office of the future” with Apple Macintosh computers. Bare bones cars with manual everything and 8 track to cassette players if you were lucky to CD players in cars and all electric windows and door locks by the time I graduated high school. You sound like an early Millennial so yes we have both lived through some incredible times and changes.

@Betobilletes

Жыл бұрын

I was born in 2000. I’m gen Z. The first 8 years of my life there wasn’t that much technology. There was but not as exaggerated as now. But now that I’m 23 everything is technology it’s crazy.

@Tokamak3.1415

Жыл бұрын

@@ledhed5717 I would agree. Us Gen Xers saw a lot of things that were non digital go full digital. I don't remember 8 tracks but I certainly bought vinyl records and cassettes, then CDs, then converted my CDs to MP3s stored on my computer, and now everything is streamed. I remember my parents paying with credit card and the carbon paper and now I see people walking out of Amazon Fresh stores without having to use a checkout isle. The biggest single change is the internet though. My parents bought me a World Book encyclopedia set in the mid 80s. I lived through the online BBS days, AOL, Netscape browser vs IE war, and now the current dumpster fire that is social media. I can see it in my own kids that the Gen Z don't have a concept of patience when a 3 second wait for Google to populate your search results is "tedious". I don't long for the days of having to walk or drive to the library, check out a book and look up info to learn something vs watching a 5 min KZread video about how to apply thermal paste to a CPU, but the kids of today really won't have any idea of previous life unless we have a significant CME (solar flare). I've lived without electricity for weeks at a time so I know what my parents went through.

TIP: If you need to fax something, business class hotels still have faxes and will sometimes fax for free even though you aren't a guest. Some banks will fax for you if you are a customer. It would be interesting to see a list of where payphones are still available. I imagine at the airport - where international cell phones might not work - and in hospitals where you are supposed to not turn them on. We were poor, so Reader's Digest and TV Guide were an annual gift from our out of town grandparents. Always rushed to go through and mark everything we wanted to see lol. People can't be trusted with Newspaper Machines anymore - they'll take out a stack to get the coupons, resell them, or just destroy them out of meanness. We had to learn how to use a telephone book in elementary school, along with phone etiquette. I remember we were made to find a government office number, the area code for another state, a business and a doctor. Last time I looked at one was when I moved to a rural area - figured it would be the quickest way to find out what businesses were in my area. Online searching when you don't know the specific name of a business sucks because you get flooded with all the ones who paid for advertising. I probably still have some $2 bills and Silver Certificates somewhere. As you said, popular birthday present from elderly relatives lol There was a huge gap between the time when pretty much everyone started paying for everything with cards and the time when vending machines finally accepted them - I think that was a main reason they declined in popularity. One place that has a bunch doesn't make sense to me: at the entrance to Walmart. Like, why would we pay $2 for a can when we could have grabbed a 6 pack for $3 inside or at least gotten a cold bottle for $1.50 at the checkout lol Typing is very satisfying. Tap, clack, see the result. Kaching, next line. I think digital photos kind of decreased the value of photos. We used to be so careful what we wasted film on, because we sure couldn't afford to pay for mistakes, and every copy was treasured. Going through photo albums at my grandparents was always a fun way to waste an evening, yet today I can't be bothered to go through and delete the accidental pics on my phone lol

@kdub2229

8 ай бұрын

Fed Ex/kinkos still fax 4 U and some public libraries also.

@shiroibasketshoes

Ай бұрын

Payphones disappeared from my local California airports. A few years ago, I asked a flight attendant if their airport still had a payphone. She seemed puzzled, scribbled something, replied, "Explain what is paid phone?" and handed me a slip of paper on which she had written "paid phone." I've never owned a cellphone and never will, so I consider the removal of payphones from airports a dangerous insult. Any cellphone owner can happen to be without one at an airport when they need to call. This issue was very distressing and problematic to me during my last vacation.

I can recall a fond memory of riding around with my dad in his pickup in the middle of the night, stocking those newspaper machines with the Sunday edition. We would have to go get the papers...huge stacks and load them into the back of the truck. By the time we were finished, it was past dawn and we would stop at Dunkin Donuts right after they opened.

You know why the candy vending machines had a mirror on the front? So you could see the look on your face when the candy didn't come out.

@brodriguez11000

Жыл бұрын

Ah the days of rocking the machine.

@thaddeusmcgrath

Жыл бұрын

When the snack vending machine took your money you lean it forward to get what you paid for and maybe a few extra for the next customer. You only took what you paid for, all else was the price unpaid that accidently fell for the failures of dispensing what is owed.

I miss them all. I miss the world I grew up in. It was safer, saner and seems to me a lot happier.

@jamesp13152

Жыл бұрын

I was born in 1962. It was a much better place growing up then. It's gotten so bad, I tell people, I'm happy I'm getting old. That's sad.

@notjimpickens7928

Жыл бұрын

@@jamesp13152 my dad was born in 69 and said he hated growing up during that time due to the all the terrorist attacks,bank robberies, plane hijackings, and constant mass poisonings in toys due to lead paint, im not sure how it was ever "Safer".

@jamesp13152

Жыл бұрын

@@notjimpickens7928 Things like what are happening right now in Nashville didn't happen growing up. at least 3 grade school children dead! Buildings weren't hit by jets killing thousands in an instant. Never had to worry about being shot going to school. Believe what you want, I know. Your Daddy is delusional.

@princybella5386

Жыл бұрын

​@@notjimpickens7928 I was born in 1963 and I didn't experience any of that where I live it was a lot safer then

@jeffbrown2982

Жыл бұрын

@@notjimpickens7928 When I grew up in the '60s, I don't recall ever having to be instructed in grade school about what to do if someone started firing an AK-47 on the playground.

Don't forget the vacum tube tester! It was usually right next to the cigarette machine.

I miss the regular pay phones even though I hardly used them. It was nice to know if you didn't have your cell phone, you could go to any gas station and call. Sometimes I'll see one somewhere and be surprised. Those grocery store capsule toy vending machines seem to be disappearing too.

Notice how the phone book only shows 7 digits for the numbers. You didn't have to dial the area code if a number was in your area code, and for some states, that could be the entire state.

@Rockhound6165

11 ай бұрын

Up until the late 90's, NJ had 2 area codes: 609(south) and 201(north). By the time I moved to Arizona(1998) 856(south/south) and 732(middle of the state) were implemented. When I lived in Tucson, AZ 90% of the state was 520 with Phoenix being 602.

@WhyTheLongFace01

11 ай бұрын

Back in the day, the first two numbers were often designated by letters (and names) as well. 774 was referred to as PRescott 4.

@azwizeguy

11 ай бұрын

In AZ You have to dial the area code to call next door

@Rockhound6165

11 ай бұрын

@@azwizeguy same in Jersey.

@satoshinigamoto1608

10 ай бұрын

@@WhyTheLongFace01 I always thought that was a sitcom thing to prevent from using real phone numbers. On Seinfeld, he said his phone number was like Klondike 5 or something. Weird how much things change.

Cigarette machines were the illicit underage smokers best resource when I was a teenager. I also was required by my parents to have a pocketful of change for the phone before I left the house. I can't remember how many times my Mom would ask if I had enough change for the phone.

@josebro352

Жыл бұрын

Yes! I remember that. I quit smoking a long time ago but when I was a teenager in the 80s I bought my first pack of cigarettes out of a vending machine. It was in the doorway of a bar which was across the street from the roller rink. I remember putting the quarters in and grabbing the cigarettes as soon as they fell out and then running out the door. I was terrified someone saw me. LOL. I think I was twelve or thirteen at the time. I remember all my friends over at the rink were like 'oh cool how did you get the cigarettes?' LOL. It was fun being a kid in the 80s. Everything seemed more relaxed and chill. People actually did things together instead of online. I miss riding my BMX bike, roller skating, climbing trees, and all of that. Better times for sure.

@elid3906

Жыл бұрын

I Remember them too, As Teens we just bought our smokes from the corner store no problem 😁👍🏼

@dennishough3709

Жыл бұрын

@@josebro352 I graduated in 81’ good times!!

@samanthab1923

Жыл бұрын

A pack of Marlboro Lights cost $15 a pack. Imagine all the change you would need 😆

@theotakux5959

Жыл бұрын

I remember my parents used to take me to some club in town when I was a kid. There were sometimes other kids to play with, but usually I ended up reading or playing with toys I brought with me. But one thing I remember about the place is it had a cigarette vending machine right by the entrance. Can't remember if I ever used a payphone, though. I turned 16 in 2003, and my family replaced our landline with cell phones the previous fall, so by the time I was old enough to drive, I had a cell phone.

I miss all of these items to a certain extent, as life was simpler and more personal. Since everything is now controlled by computers, life is very cold, sterile, and generic at times. Even stores and restaurants have followed suit, creating a bland landscape of boxes... small, medium, and large! I'm glad I lived during the 60s to the 80s and was able to experience most of what you show in your videos. Thank you 🤗

My grandma used to tell my younger brothers and I to call her collect and when the operator came on we were supposed to say it’s George then she would tell the operator she didn’t know anyone by that name but that was the code word for we are ok. If we needed something, we would say Bill Jones then she would know something was wrong, and a couple of days later she would be at our house.She used the codes because if she said I don’t know that person, they couldn’t charge her for it. Oh jeeeeez I remember all of these

I had thought 2 dollar bills were only printed in 1976 as part of the bicentennial. Guess I was wrong. Anybody remember the Susan B Anthony dollar coins? They were far to often mistaken for quarters.

@samanthab1923

Жыл бұрын

As kids growing up we would come down every morning to $2 bills for our lunch money. My dad worked at the Meadowlands race track so had access to plenty of them. Susan B Anthony & Sacagawea dollars were both small & off color.

@jeank5410

Жыл бұрын

I remember the Susan B Anthony coins - they never caught on I guess. Anyone remember the Kennedy half dollar coins? I found a bunch when cleaning out my parents house and I guess there are lots of other people who have some laying around.

@ablemagawitch

Жыл бұрын

THE USA's Mint has spent 100's of millionns of dollars trying to get Americans to accept and use $1 coins to save on replacements costs. They keep trying release a new design, o many failed $1 coins over the years, at least 1 every decade. Each cost costing us taxpayers millions in design of the coin, making the special special dies to produce the abominations, , to only fail and have to destroy all the coins. They also have to destroy all the minting equipment less than 2-3 years old that cans several 10's of millions . Because no bank wants them, as customers don't want the shitty $1 coins that are difficult to use, stores don't want them as customers don't want them as change. When someone gets screwed into having one, they have hard time getting any business to accept it as legal tender. So the only way to get rid(use is too nice of word for these crap product that keeps trying to get forced on us) yourself of possession of these $1 coins often to dump into a tip jar and/or leave on table for the service industry folk. Who try in vain to get someone to take this worthless coin, as most machines that you insert change into won't recognize them. The USA Government have failed so bad launching the $1 coins that not even their own Post Office stamp vending machines would accept them. When the Government won't take their crap new currency, no private industry is going to spend 100's of millions to retrofit machines for them. If they did it before, they learned to wait out at least 5 years, so they don't get burned. Only some dweebs at the USA mint who has hard one for $1 coins and numismatologist (money collectors) want these, the later just getting them for their limited time in currency and the bank has uncirculated examples they'll gladly give them in exchange of real money.. The USA MInt can and does make special USA mint runs of "Legal Tender" coins that the value is more in the special coin. Every time you hear of new $1 dollar coin know we just ate 10+ million is boondoogle failed pork project from government. What good could 10, 15 20+ million have done elsewhere. The old 50 cent coins at least served a real purpose.

@timsmith2525

Жыл бұрын

@@jeank5410 I completely forgot about Kennedy half dollars! They were rare, but I still saw some from time to time when I was a kid. How about Eisenhower dollars?

@joeheid2776

Жыл бұрын

@@samanthab1923 Meadowlands in PA?