Old stuff that wouldn’t pass muster today...

Leonie said:
Looks as though it toasts the bread more evenly than the one I've got now. :rolleyes:
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it probably did.I remember when we were kids we had this to toast the bread over the fire....
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and although it took longer than my £50 electric toaster today, it did a much better job...
 

Leonie said:
Dangerous things, my mother almost lost her hand after it got caught in one of these.
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yes we had one when I was growing up.I would have to fold the towels or sheets, and feed them through the wringer while my mother turned the handle.. I was always terrified my fingers were going to get caught in there, they got nipped a few times and that was painful enough, can't imagine how painful it was for your mum with her hand in the rollers...
 


We hung clothes outside when I was young. My job was to hang up socks for a family of 7. Each sock had it's own clothespin. It took forever.

There was a railroad track at the end of our street. In those days (1940s) the locomotive spewed black smoke. So when the clothes were still wet and the train was coming, we had to rush out and take down the clothes or they would get dirty and have to be rewashed! Most housewives stayed home in those days and would help each other remove the clothes. That was neighborly.
 
senior chef said:
Then again, there are cars of today that wouldn't pass muster back in the day.
When cars were really serious machines.
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Conversely, while many of the cars of the '60s and '70s were works of art, you were lucky to get 100k miles out of them. They usually started burning and leaking oil at around 70k. Spark plugs would foul out; you'd have a big puddle of oil under your engine; you'd have to change out the points and condenser twice a year. And the seats were horrendously uncomfortable unless you had a big boat with a bench seat that felt like you were driving around in your living room. Those were pretty great, actually.

Today's cars are far more reliable and better engineered. It's not unusual to get over 200k miles on a car built in the past 25 or so years and have it still run well.

So, while they might have been "serious machines," they wouldn't pass the muster today.
 
Irwin said:
Conversely, while many of the cars of the '60s and '70s were works of art, you were lucky to get 100k miles out of them. They usually started burning and leaking oil at around 70k. Spark plugs would foul out; you'd have a big puddle of oil under your engine; you'd have to change out the points and condenser twice a year. And the seats were horrendously uncomfortable unless you had a big boat with a bench seat that felt like you were driving around in your living room. Those were pretty great, actually.

Today's cars are far more reliable and better engineered. It's not unusual to get over 200k miles on a car built in the past 25 or so years and have it still run well.

So, while they might have been "serious machines," they wouldn't pass the muster today.
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Yes, you are correct. Cars of yesteryear had some failings BUT I still rather drive one of the old time muscle cars than any car of today.
 
Sylkkiss said:
Whats this? My Daddy's family are Gibsons. I.. don't understand. :unsure:
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An acclaimed master of pen-and-ink drawing, Charles Dana Gibson (1867–1944) came of age when the expansion of women's roles and increasing social mobility were changing America. After training at the Art Students League in New York City and in Europe, Gibson began to create satirical illustrations based on his observations of upper-middle-class life for such mainstream magazines as Life, Collier's Weekly, Harper's Weekly, Scribner's, and Century.

In the 1890s he created the “Gibson Girl,” a vibrant, new feminine ideal who was the visual embodiment of what writers of the period described as the “New Woman.” The Gibson Girl pursued higher education, romance, marriage, physical well-being, and individuality with unprecedented independence.
 
Maude Adams as Gibson girl ~ my all time fave ideal beauty:



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Novelist Richard Matheson (originally from Brooklyn, like me) fell so in love with her pictures that he was inspired to write the book that became the movie Somewhere In Time - the only romance movie in history that has as many if not more male fans than female fans.
 
Just asked my daughter about school drinking fountains. She's a teacher in one school system, her husband teaches in another and their children attend yet another.

She said most schools still have drinking fountains, however some are being replaced with contactless water bottle filling stations like this:


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