How many remember this stuff?

[Bob Blaylock]

As a kid, I did have skates similar to those shown on that page, but I never had a skate key. I don't think I ever saw one, but I'd heard of it. I guess my skates must have been designed a bit differently, so as to not need one.

The milk chute and the motel room wall-mounted bottle opener, I don't think I ever saw or heard of.

Everything else described on that page is familiar to me, although I had never before heard the

 

[breadnatty08]

We still use rabbit ear antennae or the bowtie equivalent. OTA only. Too cheap to bother with cable or satellite. We can get all the local stuff free OTA, no one watches movies/sitcoms here. Can't just get special stuff w/o the crap.

We use a slightly more attractive antenna for our tv. Got rid of cable a couple of years ago. Netflix, local news and PBS is all we need.

 

[zuben el genub]

We have an outdoor antenna also. We can record off one and watch the other. The outdoor will pick up some Denver channels.

Some cheaper motel chains in the west still have built in bottle openers. I can think of a couple of motel 8.

A TR3 and early TR4 still had a space in the radiator for a hand crank.

I also remember an older relative trying to make a phone call. He would answer the phone, but never called out. Heard him yelling at "Central" one day. Had to explain a rotary dial and get his number for him.

Don't have Netflix, but would consider something that would pick up MLB.

 

[EarlyMon]

Good memory - That show was called "Maya" - not to be confused with "The Adventures of a Jungle Boy" that had a cheetah as the animal co-star. "Jonny Quest" was a scientific mystery-solving show, that also happened to have an Indian orphan as one of the kid stars.

Johnny Quest looked like this -

Maya looked a little different -

I was just kidding about it being due to reception.

 

[EarlyMon]

Probably, it's obvious by now, but just in case, the reason we called them church keys is because we used them to open beers.

 

[OfTheDamned]

I remember all of those, though we never had a milk chute I have seen them.

She'll comment on the things no one remembers from the 1460's later. :ciao:

I wasn't around in the 15th century. I do remember some nice things from the later half of the 19th, but you guys have seen most of those.

The stereoscope, antisceptics, safety pins, sewing machines, pasteurisation, the washing machine, modern typewriter, the telephone etc.

I also remember these before church keys

As far as my families first phone number, there wasn't one. We called the operator and asked to be connected to someone.

 

[IHateMyTreo]

How many of you did this:

Take your (or in my case, my sister's) skates

then hammer down the toe and heel pieces, and screw the wheels to a pine board

This was around 1958-1960. We would then use a mop or broom handle to push us around. Tony Hawk wasn't born yet. And our parents thought nothing of it, even with constant wipeouts and road rash

 

[lunatic59]

While we're at it, what about

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[damewolf13]

OMG.....We had one of those big a** accordion shaped poloroids, and you had to leave the photo just the right amount of time before pulling the developer pack off or the color was off due to under processing. Of course, back then everyone wore watches so you could time it by the second hand. Now we just keep time by our cell phones.

 

[lunatic59]

Don't forget the little sponge in the tube with the fixer in it.

 

[olbriar]

Did any of you have to deal with parents with an 8mm camera? They had a light bar with like 4 five hundred watt flood lights that could easily melt your eyelids. We had a recorder that used a wire as it's medium. I will have to Google that up to see just how that worked. but it worked lol.

 

[zuben el genub]

We had a Kodak box camera and a Kodak Baby Brownie. I got an Asahi Pentax SLR and learned existing light. Preferred that to the Instamatics.

I remember the Super 8 cameras - at least the one I played with wasn't that big. The VHS ones were HUGE.

 

[melim]

Did any of you have to deal with parents with an 8mm camera? They had a light bar with like 4 five hundred watt flood lights that could easily melt your eyelids. We had a recorder that used a wire as it's medium. I will have to Google that up to see just how that worked. but it worked lol.

:rofl: My dad had a super 8 with one of those light bars in the 70s. Coming downstairs on X-mas morning was always fun...