In my day ...

[BrickHouse]

Everyone is younger than me

Almost forgot to mention "telegraph" that's another one many likely haven't used. Wow, that's a bit o' time back. And t' think I've used that method of communique as well. ...........

 

[olbriar]

I did most all of the things mentioned on the list. I have listened to music on a wind up Edison, a crystal radio, and an early transistor radio. Then I listened on records, stereo records, 8 track, cassette tapes, and all sorts of digital media and players. I've used a wooden crank phone. I've pumped gas from a hand cranked pump. I first accessed the internet with a 2400 baud modem. I was a sysop for the local college BBS and they got a .edu address which gave me internet access before public access. I've seen and invested in a lot of tech that was replaced by new and improved through the years. My list of old tech used is long but I'm so old I've forgotten most of it. 🤣

 

[BrickHouse]

I did most all of the things mentioned on the list. I have listened to music on a wind up Edison, a crystal radio, and an early transistor radio. Then I listened on records, stereo records, 8 track, cassette tapes, and all sorts of digital media and players. I've used a wooden crank phone. I've pumped gas from a hand cranked pump. I first accessed the internet with a 2400 baud modem. I was a sysop for the local college BBS and they got a .edu address which gave me internet access before public access. I've seen and invested in a lot of tech that was replaced by new and improved through the years. My list of old tech used is long but I'm so old I've forgotten most of it. 🤣

I'm guilty of using the full list. I've used transistor radios, but not Crystal radios. The only place I messed with hand crank phone was in a ghost town. Called all the way across town. Didn't have any interest in computers until Steve started selling his Apples.

 

[Davdi]

Yep, I used a dial-up (56K) modem for internet access, and sent faxes from my PC. I still have a tape walkman and CD/Minidisc ones. I have boomboxes (one is tape, cd, AM/FM/DAB+ Radio SD/USB and Bluetooth) the other is similar, but lacks Bluetooth and tape.. We still use DVDs and my main source for Tapes/CD/DVDs is Charity)Thrift) shops.

 

[olbriar]

Another item from the past

 

[MadNine]

Another item from the past

Coins?

 

[olbriar]

Coins?

Yes Sir. Worn by car hops. Each press of the associated lever dropped a coin to make change. Now that nobody knows how to count change back, it's a fossil of our past.

 

[IHateMyTreo]

Yes Sir. Worn by car hops. Each press of the associated lever dropped a coin to make change. Now that nobody knows how to count change back, it's a fossil of our past.

Great memories. I shared one of these with my brother. As young teens I sold newspapers weekdays on the corner in front of the drug store; on weekends, my brother sold ice cream. The coin changer got worked every day

 

[MadNine]

I'm so old and forgetful I don't know if I vaguely remember those from real life, or in the Movies.

 

[olbriar]

I have memories of the good looking car hops lively stepping to bring your hot and well prepared order making the change jingle.

 

[IHateMyTreo]

As long as we're going down the nostalgia rabbit hole, does anybody remember going to the war/army surplus store to pick up an old practice hand grenade or old junk from WW2, including military patches to sew on your clothes?

 

[olbriar]

As long as we're going down the nostalgia rabbit hole, does anybody remember going to the war/army surplus store to pick up an old practice hand grenade or old junk from WW2, including military patches to sew on your clothes?

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I'm guilty of being a surplus consumer. I wore jump boots for work a number of years. Well built and could be had on the cheap. I also wore a pea coat for a couple of year. The same deal, cheap and very warm

 

[olbriar]

Though I didn't buy at a surplus store but from an individual, I bought 4 of the USGI MSS Modular 4 Piece sleeping bags with crush sacks. This is the older intermediate cold bags and super nice. I paid $25 a bag and see they have more than quadrupled in price since I bought fifteen plus years ago. I bought a desert storm vintage bullet proof vest with plates at a garage sale around the corner a few years back. I also bought three camo shirts... all desert tan. I didn't need the stuff but it was cheap and it looked like the Vet needed the money.

My father was an antique clock collector. When we traveled, we never passed an antique or thrift sort of store without stopping and shopping.
At one store I purchased with my money a WWI vintage bayonet. I think I paid a dollar for it... maybe two. I loved throwing it and sticking it in the yard. I just googled it up. It was a Carl Eickhorn Solingen WWI Bayonet that can now be bought for $280 lol. I sold it and a WWII German dress dagger along with a few other knives for $35 back in the late sixties or very early seventies.

I have a WWII GI helmet and liner that I bought somewhere along the way shopping with my dad. It lacks the netting but otherwise in great shape. I'm sure it was a one or two dollar purchase as well. I never had more than that. I can't really say why I've kept the helmet the last sixty years but it hangs on a nail in my shed. The inner liner has a tree and soldier sitting under it scratched into the surface with the name Dylan.

I had a WWII vintage trench shovel that I carried in my first car's trunk. I bought it for insurance if I should get stuck. I think I must have sold it with the car. I don't remember having it later.

The more I think about it... I was a big time military surplus consumer.