Without saying your age…..

[Dancing_Queen]

no clue?? you will eventually tell, right?

Baby bottles?

 

[wcwbf]

a lot of phone things listed. before push buttons.. rotary. friend has a "vintage" aqua blue wall phone in her kitchen... rotary. her daughter a school-mate were working on a project and daughter asked if friend could stay for dinner. mom says sure, go call mom to make sure it's ok. kid is gone a loonnngggg time? she comes back looking confused. she didn't know how a rotary phone worked! mom could only picture in her mind that kid poking her fingers in those holes and nothing happening!

 

[Dancing_Queen]

Analog clocks -- They're being removed from some schoolrooms because students can't tell time with them.

Having to keep the telephone numbers for the various emergency services handy.

Being able to go out wherever you wanted all day as a child and just show up in time for dinner.

Having to watch television shows when they aired.

Having to go to the movie theater to see a movie.

 

[Geezerette]

The National Anthem at midnight sign off, then the Test Pattern.
Saving grease to turn in for the War Effort.
Clapping the erasers or cranking the ditto machine was a reward for good behavior.
Somebody besides y ourself cleaning the car window at the gas station,

 

[Dancing_Queen]

The National Anthem at midnight sign off, then the Test Pattern.
Saving grease to turn in for the War Effort.
Clapping the erasers or cranking the ditto machine was a reward for good behavior.
Somebody besides y ourself cleaning the car window at the gas station,

And pumping your gas for you. And checking everything under the hood.

 

[Dancing_Queen]

Cinemascope

 

[Lewkat]

Taking a dime to school every week to buy a savings stamp for your stamp book.

 

[hollydolly]

 

[hollydolly]

This was our Mall...

 

[wcwbf]

can't remember when/why but went to Mohonk Mountain House (NY). there were elevators that you controlled literally by hand. huge, thick ropes that you pulled on to get the car started moving.

https://www.mohonk.com/

 

[hollydolly]

This is how I learned to type and send mails...( honestly )...

try sending a whatsapp on this...

 

[Pepper]

That particular type Underwood was my first typewriter, too. My dad had three of them, two were for his work.

 

[hollydolly]

That particular type Underwood was my first typewriter, too. My dad had three of them, two were for his work.

yep it was the first one I learned on in my first year of senior school..darn near broke my little fingers pressing those keys down so hard..

This was the electric follow up the second year..

 

[Aunt Bea]

Close Cover Before Striking

 

[wcwbf]

i never took typing... i was in college prep... typing was for "business" students... said by some as they looked down their noses. so i never learned how to type properly... have to watch my fingers on keys most of the time.

what would kids do if they had to use an old-school typewriter to do an assignment on? what would they do when they noticed typos once paper was out of the rollers.? oh wait... nothing kids hand in has to be remotely correct... spelling, punctuation, spacing, etc.

 

[jujube]

Dad up on the roof twisting the antenna, yelling "HOW IS IT NOW?"
Mom sticking her head out the window, "STILL A LITTLE FUZZY!"

"Rabbit ear" antennas on the TV with a wad of aluminum foil on the end of each one.

"Hurry, get the TV set warmed up. It's almost time for Milton Berle!"

"Sing Along with Mitch".

 

[RubyK]

Getting your foot measured by the shoe salesman in the shoe store before buying a new pair of shoes.

 

[RubyK]

X-ray fluoroscope machines installed in shoe stores where you could see an Xray of your feet!

 

[Lewkat]

i never took typing... i was in college prep... typing was for "business" students... said by some as they looked down their noses. so i never learned how to type properly... have to watch my fingers on keys most of the time.

what would kids do if they had to use an old-school typewriter to do an assignment on? what would they do when they noticed typos once paper was out of the rollers.? oh wait... nothing kids hand in has to be remotely correct... spelling, punctuation, spacing, etc.

I was a college prep student as well, but we could take typing as an elective for just one year so we could type our college papers.

 

[Aunt Marg]

why don't cars still have them?

You know what I'm talking about!

 

[Aunt Marg]

Baby bottles?

Right you are!

 

[Dancing_Queen]

This is how I learned to type and send mails...( honestly )...

try sending a whatsapp on this...

As did I.

 

[Gary O']

We hung the sears catalog in the outhouse.

Never used the bra/underwear pages for TP, however

 

[Dancing_Queen]

Crinolines and hoops

 

[jerry old]

great memories when we were YOUNG