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olbriar said:
Everyone is younger than me :)
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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. ...........
 
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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. 🤣
 
olbriar said:
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. 🤣
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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.
 
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.
 
Another item from the past
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olbriar said:
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. :)
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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
 
IHateMyTreo said:
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
 
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. :)
 
I thought @olbriar posted the coin dispenser thing in the Funny Pictures thread.

Now I'm here, have most people here caught the amazing You Tube channels that upscale, artificially colorize, clean and increase the frame rate of footage from really diverse time periods?
I've only watched seen about 10 - 15 but always meaning to watch more.
The UK street scenes from the Forties and Fifties eerily remind of shop fronts from my childhood in the Sixties and Seventies.
New York and LA, including "dashcam" footage from the 30"s - 50's are fascinating.
I would never have thought this would be possible one day.

Some go back to the beginning of the last century or earlier iirc.

Initially eerie but gradually are compelling in a nice way.
 
MadNine said:
I thought @olbriar posted the coin dispenser thing in the Funny Pictures thread.

Now I'm here, have most people here caught the amazing You Tube channels that upscale, artificially colorize, clean and increase the frame rate of footage from really diverse time periods?
I've only watched seen about 10 - 15 but always meaning to watch more.
The UK street scenes from the Forties and Fifties eerily remind of shop fronts from my childhood in the Sixties and Seventies.
New York and LA, including "dashcam" footage from the 30"s - 50's are fascinating.
I would never have thought this would be possible one day.

Some go back to the beginning of the last century or earlier iirc.

Initially eerie but gradually are compelling in a nice way.
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I did post the change thing in funny pictures. When it generated fun conversation and especially after I wanted to add more :) ... I thought I had best move it to this thread which is all bout old times and supporting posts.

I have not seen any of the videos you are talking about but would like to. Can you link one or suggest how I might search for that sort of content? Thanks
 
olbriar said:
I did post the change thing in funny pictures. When it generated fun conversation and especially after I wanted to add more :) ... I thought I had best move it to this thread which is all bout old times and supporting posts.

I have not seen any of the videos you are talking about but would like to. Can you link one or suggest how I might search for that sort of content? Thanks
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^ I had already doubled my medication :)

I'll trace the channel names of the 2 or 3 big ones from my pc in a while, or add a few links.

*Maybe I'll add them as Edits to this post.
It's really like you are there among people from another era.
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"NASS" is one. A YT search for upscaled historical footage brings results. I'll find the channels I've seen soon.
 
I'm watching the NASS and taking notes :) I would love to have some of those autos. The first car I drove was a 37 Chevy. I am getting a kick out of seeing markets and the price of foods. Four boxes of Corn Flakes for 25¢. What really got my attention and made me feel much better is Catsup 3 for 25¢. I grew up spelling catsup catsup and not ketchup. When I noticed the name had changed years ago... I thought I had lost my mind.

Another observation... Some sort of public gathering / celebration where at least a couple of hundred people and I'm guessing more were filmed. I observed only one person that was over weight. What has happened to us?
 
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Television? :)

I thought catsup was American for ketchup.

It's interesting the lifestyles you can wonder about, especially from the 1920's and earlier. Street scenes with trams mixing with horse drawn carriages and very early autos and delivery vehicles with people walking between them.

I had wanted to find 2 or 3 I viewed in last 2 years that stuck in the memory as amazingly good. It's difficult though with so much viewing history to scroll.

You can also search a city say "Los Angeles 1940" or 1950.

These are a few channels I found again :
(Not all I guess do the restoration work themselves.)

(NY 1911 is fairly good, also did 1902)

History Colored ( a few)

"Nineteenth Century Videos. Back to Life"

Unhinged past

Lost in Time

Vivid History

BERLIN CHANNEL (July 1945)

Film Rescue

Glimpses Into the Past
 
MadNine said:
Television? :)

I thought catsup was American for ketchup.

It's interesting the lifestyles you can wonder about, especially from the 1920's and earlier. Street scenes with trams mixing with horse drawn carriages and very early autos and delivery vehicles with people walking between them.

I had wanted to find 2 or 3 I viewed in last 2 years that stuck in the memory as amazingly good. It's difficult though with so much viewing history to scroll.

You can also search a city say "Los Angeles 1940" or 1950.

These are a few channels I found again :
(Not all I guess do the restoration work themselves.)

(NY 1911 is fairly good, also did 1902)

History Colored ( a few)

"Nineteenth Century Videos. Back to Life"

Unhinged past

Lost in Time

Vivid History

BERLIN CHANNEL (July 1945)

Film Rescue

Glimpses Into the Past
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I truly appreciate your time and effort to bring those results here. I will definitely check them out. I got a real kick out of the NASS video.

It was simply catsup at my house. I see that Hunt's didn't change their label of Catsup to Ketchup until 1988 which was many decades after Heinz changed their label to Ketchup. I still say catsup. My wife says ketchup. Both are considered proper spelling of the condiment.
 
olbriar said:
I'm watching the NASS and taking notes :) I would love to have some of those autos. The first car I drove was a 37 Chevy. I am getting a kick out of seeing markets and the price of foods. Four boxes of Corn Flakes for 25¢. What really got my attention and made me feel much better is Catsup 3 for 25¢. I grew up spelling catsup catsup and not ketchup.
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Which NASS channel video did you catch, out of interest; or which time period. I think I've only seen three of those so far.
I'd love to find the highest quality ones I had seen before on whichever channels again.
 
A google moment: The money-related definition of two-bit makes its etymology obvious: it is derived from the noun phrase two bits. However, two bits is an interesting phrase because it actually means "the value of a quarter of a dollar." There is no such thing as a single bit, at least not anymore. The now-obsolete Spanish dollar (also known as a peso or piece of eight) was composed of eight reales, or eight bits, so a quarter of the dollar equaled two bits.
 
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