| Topic Summary |
| Posted by kerouac2 on Jun 24, 2009, 5:34pm |
Most of us, even those who are considerably younger, have lived in a very fast paced world where common things that we used to use have already disappeared.
Without thinking of what you still might see in antique or vintage shops, what common items have you used in the past which have already disappeared forever?
Just for a start, I can think of a few --
slide rules (in school only, thank god!)
dial telephones
televisions with knobs
jukeboxes that played 45's
watches and calculators with red digital numbers
walkmans that play cassettes
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| Posted by imec on Jun 24, 2009, 5:46pm |
| Typewriters, acoustic couplers, frost shields (gotta be Canadian to get that one), punch cards (and the machines that punched them), 8 tracks, 5 1/4" floppy disks, film, telex... |
| Posted by casimira on Jun 24, 2009, 7:17pm |
transistor radios,turntables(although more and more people are reacquiring them)
I still have a telephone with a dial and use it during power outages. |
| Posted by BigIain on Jun 24, 2009, 7:19pm |
I remember:
No mobile phones... how did we manage???
Having to go in to a bank to get cash out... no ATMs
No Email or chat rooms
only 3 TV channels here in the UK!
Air travel that was prohibitively expensive. |
| Posted by kerouac2 on Jun 24, 2009, 7:40pm |
mini cassettes in answering machines
no answering machines
VHS & Betamax
Kodachrome (end of it just announced this week) |
| Posted by imec on Jun 24, 2009, 7:46pm |
Jun 24, 2009, 7:17pm, casimira wrote:| I still have a telephone with a dial and use it during power outages. |
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Hopefully NO doesn't still use 999 for it's emergency services. Remember that? 9..........., 9..........., 9.........., oh forget it, the house has already burned down. |
| Posted by BigIain on Jun 24, 2009, 9:38pm |
I also remember the wonderful French Franc banknotes, so colourful and always full of pinholes at one side. *sigh*
Vinyl 33rpm records
Asteroids arcade games
having hair! |
| Posted by bixaorellana on Jun 25, 2009, 12:48am |
![[image]](http://ibmcomposer.org/SelComposer/images/MyComposer1.jpg "[image]")
IBM Selectric Composer
which was followed by: ![[image]](http://ibmcomposer.org/MagTapeComposer/images/TapeComposer.jpg "[image]") the Magnetic Tape "Selectric" Composer (see link above).
But of course I learned to type on something like this: ![[image]](http://www.mygrannysatticantiques.com/assets/images/underwood_typewriter.jpg "[image]") (& I know Imec did mention typewriters)
No one has mentioned universal black & white tv yet. I saw my first color tv when I was @9.
Reel to reel tape recorders. |
| Posted by traveler63 on Jun 25, 2009, 2:05am |
| Mimeographs, carbon paper, boom boxes, roller skates with four wheels and a key, penny candies, Barq's Creme Soda, soda machines with the doors and you pulled the bottles out, manual cash registers, starter buttons for cars(although these are back, there is one on our Z06 Corvette). Speaking of cars, curb finders, water bags(no a/c), outside visors on the windshields, manual headlight dimmers on the floor. |
| Posted by cigalechanta on Jun 25, 2009, 2:42am |
3 party line phones,
ugly colored celuoid put in front of the tv to look like you had color,
car hops.
drive in movies
root beer floats
5&10s |
| Posted by imec on Jun 25, 2009, 3:02am |
| Gas that was cheaper than beer... |
| Posted by kerouac2 on Jun 25, 2009, 4:52am |
I've been thinking that younger generations soon won't recognize what this is supposed to be.
![[image]](http://web.thebigtree.org/images/image.php/telephone_sign.jpg "[image]") |
| Posted by happytraveller on Jun 25, 2009, 6:05am |
Jun 24, 2009, 9:38pm, BigIain wrote:
LOL !
Me: having a small bum 
A walkman with cassettes.
Cars with no airbag and no seat belts on the back seats.
Vespas with no indicator (I sooo miss my dear old Vespa from 1976) |
| Posted by kerouac2 on Jun 25, 2009, 7:42am |
"church keys" for punching a hole in a drink can before pull rings existed.
detachable "pull rings" on drink cans before the pull tab was invented (I confess that I still see pull rings from time to time in developing countries). |
| Posted by fulgenzio on Jun 25, 2009, 1:08pm |
love letters
>>> all gone, just some random textos on an old mobile, nothing tied with satin ribbon, no perfume, no memories of old love |
| Posted by happytraveller on Jun 25, 2009, 1:11pm |
Oh yeah... love letters ! Thankfully when I met my hubby he did not have email and I did not have a mobile phone (10 years ago) so I still have some love letters  |
| Posted by imec on Jun 25, 2009, 2:38pm |
| Smoking on airplanes. |
| Posted by casimira on Jun 25, 2009, 4:16pm |
I have some love letters wrapped in a satin(very faded) ribbon. When we got burglarized many years ago they took a little wooden box with some others,WTF for,a random throw in the old pillowcase senseless theft. I looked in some empty lots around to see if they tossed 
Thank you for allowing me to ventilate. |
| Posted by bixaorellana on Jun 25, 2009, 4:54pm |
Jun 25, 2009, 7:42am, kerouac2 wrote:"church keys" for punching a hole in a drink can before pull rings existed.
detachable "pull rings" on drink cans before the pull tab was invented (I confess that I still see pull rings from time to time in developing countries). |
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Oh my goodness, yes! And remember you used to get a free church key thrown in when you bought a six-pack. Strange little memory -- buying a six-pack in a small grocery story in Lafayette, La. @1967 or '8: The grocer commented as he put the can opener in my (paper!) bag, "this is probably one of the last one of these you'll ever get". I asked why, and he said that all the metal was going to have to go to the war in Vietnam.
Speaking of pull rings, I absolutely hate cans of regular stuff -- beans, etc. -- with pull-ring tops. Gimme something that can be opened with a can opener (my trusty Swing-Away) every time. |
| Posted by patricklondon on Jun 25, 2009, 6:10pm |
Quote:| detachable "pull rings" on drink cans before the pull tab was invented |
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My mother once told me that, quite a few years after these had been in common use, my father came home with a puzzled expression and said "I can't understand it. Why have so many women started losing the clips off their suspender belts in the street?"
As for old technologies - I still have a turn-the-handle gramophone, my first office job involved using a mechanical adding machine (where you keyed in a number, moved a lever to plus or minus it and then a handle to make the sum), and a later one saw me in charge of the office Gestetner stencils. |
| Posted by lola on Jun 26, 2009, 2:40am |
| So sorry, casimira. |
| Posted by bixaorellana on Jun 26, 2009, 2:49am |
That's hysterical, Patrick!
Are the gestetner stencils the blue ones -- the ones where you "cut" a stencil, and have to paint on that blue stuff in order to correct mistakes? |
| Posted by casimira on Jun 26, 2009, 2:53am |
| I still have a box of carbon paper. Why I'm keeping it I have no earthly idea. |
| Posted by bixaorellana on Jun 26, 2009, 3:25am |
Bring it here. It's still used in all govt. offices on their ancient upright typewriters.
When I changed my address with immigration recently, I had to present a letter  saying I was changing my address. For this I went to the last scribe in the downtown market and got a letter typed on a manual typewriter and a carbon copy, both very blurry and faint on stiff heavy paper.
The scribe was old. There used to be a whole bunch of them when I first moved here. Anyway, as usual something needed to be changed, so I needed to get a different letter. The lady in immigration said, go to an internet café!, which I did. It was cheaper & looked nicer. |
| Posted by hwinpp on Jun 26, 2009, 3:36am |
Jun 25, 2009, 1:11pm, happytraveller wrote:| Oh yeah... love letters ! Thankfully when I met my hubby he did not have email and I did not have a mobile phone (10 years ago) so I still have some love letters |
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I just met my very, very first girlfriend on one of those school networking sites.
She still had all my old letters! I couldn't believe it!
I did not ask her to scan them and send them over... |
| Posted by happytraveller on Jun 26, 2009, 8:52am |
| "slow time" in Discos. *sigh* |
| Posted by casimira on Jun 26, 2009, 10:41am |
| real disc jockeys |
| Posted by bixaorellana on Jun 26, 2009, 2:46pm |
| Car radios with push-in buttons. I miss those! They were practical when driving because you could easily find the station you wanted by feel. |
| Posted by imec on Jun 26, 2009, 2:55pm |
Jun 26, 2009, 2:46pm, bixaorellana wrote:| Car radios with push-in buttons. I miss those! They were practical when driving because you could easily find the station you wanted by feel. |
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Or Chryslers, Plymouths etc. with the push button transmission...
![[image]](http://i695.photobucket.com/albums/vv320/imec46/plymouthsteeringwheel.jpg "[image]") |
| Posted by casimira on Jun 26, 2009, 6:37pm |
| I always thought those cars too weird with the push buttons. My stepfather had a Comet with those. Didn't feel like driving without shifting something somehow. Or the buttons could fail at any time. |
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