25 Things From 1960s Once Necessary, NOW COMPLETELY OBSOLETE!

[@kenbernard5267]

You know you're getting old when the stuff you grew up with is in a museum.

[@dalghren]

or you see the toys you played with are in antique stores.

[@randallreed9048]

@@dalghren Or you seeing the Beatles' "Abbey Road" album cover on a children's bookbag in Walmart. That was equivalent to seeing a sheet music cover from 1912 when I was that age!

[@laurendoe168]

Or when the hits you remember growing up are "elevator music"

[@jenbill]

I noticed that also my stereo equipment I still use went from being old and obsolete and somehow became collectible vintage lol

[@kenbernard5267]

@@jenbill I saw that too, I couldn't afford them in my early 20s, my wife would kill me now.

[@Davidbirdman101]

Remember all of these things.I was born in 1957 when Eisenhower was President. The milkman used to deliver our milk about twice a week and the tops of the bottle were heavy duty cardboard type stuff. The party line phones were my entertainment because I would listen in on my neighbors and catch all the latest gossip. My mom used to take me to the "beauty parlor" and I would sit down in the hair drying chairs and act like I was an astronaut. I learned to type on an old typewriter I found in the garbage.I fished during the summer when I would also go bare footed because shoes were expensive, yes I remember very well.

[@brianarbenz7206]

Interesting post. I was born in 1958, and recall some of these types of experiences. I lived in the suburbs of a city, but we once visited my dad’s relatives in rural West Virginia and saw how a party line worked. A long ring and one short one meant one house, two sorts and one long meant someone else’s, etc. Today everyone at the restaurant table hears a cellphone ringing and knows if it’s theirs by the song playing. We’re back to the old ways.! 😊

[@Starshadow]

The trays were mostly aluminum, not steel. I still have a set of ice cube trays.

[@Mike1614YT]

yep. that was before everything was made from plastic. and before plastic became a worldwide pollution problem- thanks to the recycling scam

[@PerspectiveEngineer]

Yeah they were all aluminum it's like they don't even care they're just click baiting the kids

[@earleford8889]

@@PerspectiveEngineer There were many that were stainless as the vid states. I have sets of them I still use.

[@wheelieblind]

It had me wondering if the earliest models would have been made of still. Also I am wondering when the party line service stopped? I was born in the 70's, and this video is not really informative to me, because not enough changed. Also when did you start and stop burning your trash, if you lived in an apartment and they were just burning the trash? I think I have an idea when but I'm not sure. I was living in a house by the way, so I never paid to much attention to that.

[@beelmars5400]

@@wheelieblind Party lines were still available in our area through the mid 1980s at least. I don't think they were advertised, you had to know that they were available, and request them from the phone company.

[@davidhandyman7571]

The ice cube trays were not stainless steel but rather aluminium as you showed in the video. I remember using all those items, including the party line phone, the slide-rule, and manual typewriter.

[@xlerb2286]

I remember way too many of these items. My parents had a party line and warned me not to talk about anything you didn't want the neighbors to know because Agnes always listened. And she wasn't shy about it. My grandmother said Agnes would sometimes call her up wanting to ask questions about something she had overheard when grandma was using the phone. I was one of the last graduating classes in high school to be taught how to use a slide rule. I learned to type on a manual Royal typewriter. I remember when mom and dad replaced the old kitchen tube radio with a transistor radio. And I just got a phone book in the mail a couple weeks ago - so some of these things are still with us.

[@RobertJarecki]

In the early 1980s, I visited a family who had moved from Los Angeles to a very rural Missouri area. They had a party line and their very local phone company had a switchboard operator. Then, the telephone company was sold to Contel? (Continental Telephone) and, after new electronic equipment was installed in a new building, the operator was happily retired after over 40 years service with a pension and customers received new *_Touchtone_* phones and private lines.

[@marytramp5678]

i remember my Grandparents having a party line. And having to interupt the people on their calls bc it was an emergency. i would always try to sneak in and listen to the conversations going on. even though i didn' really know who the people were. when i would get caught i would get the standard lecture about how it was very "naughty and impolite", but i was mischevious, and it made me feel like i was a super spy. and the temptation to pick up that phone as i was walking by just to see if anyone was on it was just too much! when g'ma told me it was impolite though i got brazen enough to ask permission to listen in! After all if you had permission it couldn't be naughty or impolite. i never got punished for it, although we did have a very lengthy conversation about privacy. that was punishment enough for a 5 yr old who had places to be, things to do, and mischief to attend to..

[@Tinyman12]

You made me think of that old TV show BEWITCHED where that nosey neighbor AGNES KRAVITZ and her husband Abner. By the time he looked at the situation Agnes always looked like a looney tunes.

[@ER_Murrow]

Agnes was always saying the most outrageous things about the Stevenses.

[@xlerb2286]

@@Tinyman12 I'd forgotten about that! This Agnes was a real person and her name was Agnes. She and her family were nice people and good neighbors. But she had to have been the nosiest person in town.

[@sylvisterling8782]

I learned to type on an old 1925 Underwood manual typewriter. My first transistor radio (1959) was a Viscount radio with a single earplug. It was AM only, and monaural. We got milk from the Giacapuzzi dairy, our bread from Helm's delivery trucks, and there were TWO mail deliveries each day. Morning mail and evening mail. My first recorder was a reel to reel Ehrcorder. When cassettes came in, I got a Panasonic cassette recorder. I finally acquired an IBM Office Electric typewriter for my 16th birthday. WOW! Later, I got a Selectric Uni-ball typewriter! I could change fonts! YAY! My first computer was a Commodore-64. My first camera was a Kodak Instamatic, with popup flash and film cassettes. We have come a long way, indeed!

[@DramaMustRemainOnTheStage]

My camera had a flash cube. 4 sides with 1 flash on each side ❤

[@PRH123]

And people think home delivery and e-commerce is a new thing. We got most of our clothes from the Sears catalog.

[@mikenuyen4441]

Typed papers for school on an old Royal. Learned to sew on an old pump Singer.

[@hotpuppy1]

Most things made decades ago were expensive to buy, but generally were made to last and to be repaired, unlike the throw-away society we live in today where virtually NOTHING can be repaired and ends up in the landfill. Single use plastics and packaging should be banned. Milk and soda tasted better in glass returnable bottles and are better for the environment, even considering that they had to be washed before refilling.

[@RobertJarecki]

The Technology Connections channel has a video about the Sunbeam Radiant Control Toaster, titled *_This Antique Toaster Is Better Than Yours_* . They were made from the 1940s through the 1980s. I found an early 1950s example in a thrift store for $5 about 10 years ago. An ad from the 1950s for the same model lists a price of $29.95. CPI calculator said that's equivalent to about $310 when I bought it. And, it's still working!

[@memyname1771]

While glass bottles were more environmentally friendly, and a source of income for children finding and returning them the the store for the deposit, there was a disadvantage. I remember, in the 1950s, my brother getting a bottle (if I remember correctly, it was Coke) and finding a cigar butt in it.

[@RobertJarecki]

@memyname1771 A cigar butt in a soda bottle! That's an awesome food horror story ! I don't know if she made these stories up, but growing up in the 1950s, Mom told us about: - working in a candy factory and the foreman going on a catwalk above a vat and spitting his "chaw" of tobacco into it; - working in the Lipton tea packing plant and sweepings from the floor being packed; - that time a canning company offered a $100 reward for the can of greenbeans that a worker had lost a thumb in; - the time an ice cream parlor was selling weight loss milk shakes that worked because they had tapeworm eggs in them. But then, she'd set me in front of the TV on Saturday afternoon and we'd watch horror movies.

[@Woodman-Spare-that-tree]

Now, if something breaks, it’s cheaper to buy a new one than it is to find a man to fix the old one.

[@sirtango1]

I remember rounding up soda bottles to return and get some money for the weekend! I don’t think I have ever seen one of the LP record cleaners though!

[@rogertemple7193]

I just turned 60 a couple of weeks ago and thanks a lot for the memories of the past thank you.🇺🇲👋🇺🇲

[@rjladd2787]

I just turned 61 a couple weeks ago

[@SWExplore]

I will be turning 70 in a couple of months. I was able to remember each and every item that the presenter explored. From manual typewriters to aluminum (corrected from steel by @Starshadow). I saw it all. One of the things from the 60s that I remember was the baker truck that would sell baked goods from door to door. Boy that trucked smell so delicious as the man pulled out that long wood tray from the back of his truck. This video has reminded me just how far I have come.

[@johnnycrash3270]

YA and when you garbed them from the freezer your dam fingers stuck the tray

[@heyitsjay22]

We did not have a recycling problem back then. We Reused everything and then reused it again. Even food scraps went into the garden. There was very little that actually wound up in the trash at all. Those obsolete milk bottles were never a problem that needed recycling unless they were broken.

[@heatherhoward2513]

Still got the projector and camera for super 8mm

[@PRH123]

Table scraps were a major component of our dogs diet.

[@kenpearce3269]

I remember when I was in grade school I was assigned to run the projector whenever the classroom needed it. That meant going to the closet retrieving the projector and movie, threading it and playing it for the class. I recall the tricky part was making sure your loop above and below was accurate so the picture didn’t stutter.

[@RodCalidge]

We were the AV kids, right?

[@PRH123]

That was always an honor that we competed for. Even the filmstrip projector.

[@trainliker100]

I remember very well, especially in elementary school, what a treat it was when they showed us a film with a projector. The problem was that I always fell asleep. The darkened room and whirring of the projector were just very relaxing.

[@dean-ph2ww]

I was the kid who got to run the projector in class in the 60s. Most of them were Bell snd Howell sixteen millimeter.

[@JoeZyzyx]

Unless it was a safety film about the creepy guy in his car, offering kids candy, or to see and pet his new kitten or puppy. Now the creepy people are in the schools themselves.

[@azsinger49]

So many memories with this video. I would ride in the Milk Man's delivery truck as he made the rounds to the other houses on our ranch. It was Borden Milk. He would give me an ice cream sandwich when we came back to the main gate where our house was. I also worked with a bee keeper who maintained hives on our ranch. Chopped and picked cotton, picked citrus and grapes. Played all day in the orchards and swam in the ditches in the summer. Simpler times, slower life.

[@philiprice7875]

In Liverpool UK we had inner city farms a few cows chickens and shire horses the last horse drawn milk man was based at the back of our house. all the kids in summer would gather to groom the horses milk the cows by hand and put the foil tops on the milk bottles

[@bluewolf7572]

This was entertaining and fun. I grew up in the 60’s and remember all of these.

[@briangriffin4937]

I remember those vacuum tube testers in stores: If it was bad you could buy a new one from the cabinet underneath the testing device.

[@entryreqrd]

I had a hand-me-down portable tube tester as a kid. It was about the size of a laptop computer. -Mr EntryReqrd

[@RobertJarecki]

Yes, Dad taking all the tubes out for a trip to the store. I don't remember, though, if the cabinet below was locked. Maybe I shop in the wrong store, but so much is in locked cabinets: detergent & bleach; eye drops; skin lotions and,of course, alcoholic beverages.

[@mikenuyen4441]

Remember the aroma of those tubes warming up and the warmth hovering above the TV?

[@briangriffin4937]

@@mikenuyen4441 Or the TV picture tube diminishing into a small star-like dot once the set was turned off? As a toddler I would stare at the dot until it faded from the screen.

[@sirtango1]

@briangriffin4937 when the dot disappeared you KNEW the tv was off! 😂

[@briangriffin4937]

“DO NOT FOLD, SPINDLE or MUTILATE.” Remember when your U.S. Treasury checks were printed on a punch card?

[@samiam619]

What do you suppose it means to “spindle” something?

[@briangriffin4937]

In olden days a spindle was a sharp pin on a weighted metal base used to gather various notes and documents into one stack.

[@samiam619]

@@briangriffin4937No, but I remember Savings Bonds were on punch cards…

[@briangriffin4937]

@@samiam619I just found two $25. punch card U.S. Savings Bonds I bought with my Savings Stamps in 6th grade back in the ‘60s 😊 Worth about $200. today.

[@Pinky-lg3lz]

Sister had an afterschool job as a keypunch operator. She took bags of chad confetti to the school ball game and stadium personnel weren't happy about that afterwards. If only they had a leafblower, eh.

[@cmccloskey56]

We had milk BOXES by the back door., The milkman would drive up to the back door, remove empty milk bottles from the box, and put the standing order for milk in the insulated box. We also had a man come up the driveway with bread, a standing order. He tried to sell us tins of potato chips and pretzels, but didn't get a sale very often. And, yes, we had ice trays, of course.

[@georgejones3526]

We had a milk box on the front porch and the milk bottles had paper caps. At times during the winter the non homogenized milk would freeze and you would find the frozen cream standing over an inch out of the bottle neck with the cap sitting on top.

[@Gary-Seven-and-Isis-in-1968]

We had silver foil tops on our bottles and it was quite common, especially in the winter months to find a large hole in the foil top made by starlings and the like, stealing the fat rich cream off the milk. We had to throw the rest away.🤬

[@xaenon]

The house I had until about ten years ago still had a little door next to the front door. It had a door inside, too. The milkman would make his deliveries by putting the fresh bottles inside the little cubbyhole, and when the bottles were empty you'd put them in there for him to collect. The house also had a coal chute - though the door had been bolted shut by one of the previous owners. Yup, for coal deliveries from the days when the house had a coal-fired furnace. At some point the house had been 'upgraded' to an oil furnace, and in the 1970s to gas. It sounds like this house was ancient, doesn't it? It was actually surprisingly 'modern' - built in 1948, when Toledo was expanding into the rural areas surrounding it.

[@elemar5]

@@Gary-Seven-and-Isis-in-1968 We had the same every winter. Milk was never thrown away. Used to drink water from the river as well. I remember tasting a worm.

[@blacksquirrel4008]

Charles Chips

[@cyclenut]

Back then we had to memorize important phone numbers. There was no 911, we had to dial the number to police, sheriff, fire department or hospital. Pay phones were everywhere and it was common for one to ask stranger for a dime or later a quarter for pay phone. Cell phones were out in the 70s but only in big cities.

[@meemo32086]

Also police and Fire numbers were on the inside cover of the phone books to make them more accessible.

[@dwightl5863]

I still remember the easy to remember fire department number for our area from the 1950's: 55555.

[@dianeridley9804]

Phone books!

[@orbyfan]

And there was also a number to call to get the correct time.

[@JoeZyzyx]

I knew 2 people who used those first analog phones and maybe coincidence, both of them died in their 40's from brain cancer. One had it develop right behind the ear where he would use the phone.

[@kellyswoodyard]

The reel to reel tape machines made by companies such as Studer Revox, Otari, Pioneer, Nagra, Sony, Ampex, Byer, Teac, and others, still are the gold standard for audio reproduction.

[@McGhinch]

Yes, but this one at 3:37 was the Grundig TK24 made in Fürth, Germany. I remember this one, I did have a different brand, but a friend had it. I still have my Tandberg 10 XD.

[@jimgore1278]

@@McGhinch We had the Grundig. Loved that thing.

[@joanneromeo2630]

Still have my Wolllensak

[@jhaninger]

@@joanneromeo2630Mine still worked until I finally had to get rid of it to move. Loved it !

[@xaenon]

Hand cranked record players were not really a thing in the 1960s - they vanished mostly in the 1930s. There were certainly 'portable' players, but most of them still needed to be plugged into a wall outlet. 'Portable' only meant that you could carry it easily from room to room, or maybe out to the porch or patio. There were battery-operated record players as well, but they were usually fairly small units. And, record players are not realy 'obsolete'. A bit outdated, perhaps, but there is still a significant industry making and selling record players, everything from a sub $100 portabls (Can you say 'Crosley' and 'Victrola'? I knew you could...!) on up to precision unis costing thousands.

[@PRH123]

Portable record players as I recall were for kids, to play 45’s. They had a handle to carry it around. When I was 3 years old I had a tiny battery powered record player called a Close n Play, it had special little floppy records, you would put them inside and close the lid and it would play, like for a minute as I recall.

[@jesstreloar7706]

In high school, I used a slide rule in advanced trig. Saved up my money to purchase a four function calculator. It ran on three 'AA' batteries and was the size of a paperback book. 3 months later a 6 function, credit card sized one was being given away as a promotion at one of the local car dealers, it ran on solar power.

[@DrinkingStar]

Except for the TV tester unit, I remember all the thinks listed, most of which I or my wife have used. We still have a number of those items shown in this video. I remember things going back to the late 1940s when I was very young. My mother bought our 1st TV in 1953. It had a 12" screen. My mother had a foot-petal driven sewing machine. I remember the milkman delivering bottled milk and the coal man delivery coal. I also remember the ice man delivering ice for the refrigerator. There was also a man who had a large wagon pulled by a horse. We called him the "rag man. He would come by once or twice a month yelling, "Rags, paper, rags". Finally, I remember cars that were started with hand cranks.

[@SWExplore]

Thanks for sharing @DrinkingStar. I remember all of it with the exception of the ice man, milk man and the coal man. As a young boy living in eastern Canada, which has really cold winters, heating was a must. Instead of coal, I can remember an oil truck with a reel at its back containing a long black hose with an nozel at it's end. The delivery person would pull out the hose and stretch it along the side of our home to reach a capped oil pipe. He would then unlock the cap and proceed to fill the tank that fueled the heater system in the basement. Old memories has this video brought back to mind.

[@DrinkingStar]

@@SWExplore Thanks for leaving the comment. I see in your home page there were a number of videos of beaches. I've been to the beach in Santa Cruz in California. I went to California to compete in the 1985 Masters America Bodybuilding Competition. I have spent my life looking for the perfect beach. You might like some of my beach videos on KZbin

[@dmmarks]

That drum device was not a card reader. It was a control card for the keypunch machine which allowed tabbing and duplication to occur automatically,

[@mfbfreak]

24:37 you still need them for digital over the air TV if you're in an area with marginal reception. The VHF-low antennas (the ones with elements about 2m wide) aren't used anymore, but VHF-High and UHF definitely are. Furthermore, a satellite dish is also just another form of roof mounted antenna.

[@guthrieoklahomachannel1]

Yep, outdoor antenna sales are up. The cheap "in the window" junk should be avoided. With a good outdoor antenna most metro areas have ~ 80 to 90 channels available.

[@powersb]

Yeah, and what the heck is a “Digital” antenna

[@jamesheartney9546]

@@powersb Just marketing. A good 30 year old antenna works fine for digital OTA; it's about how much gain they get.

[@user-up3ik4in2m]

💯 2m (6+ feet) is correct. 16 x 16 inches mentioned in the video is quite small. 24:49

[@dahsuerk]

A lot of the items and most of pictures/videos look much more "1950's" to this man who was born in the late 1950's and grew up in the 1960's. The clothes, hair, cars and much more look 50's all they way.

[@allan9603]

@dahsuerk, I'm waiting to see the channel owner answer your comment.

[@cindykaeding9196]

Party lines were more 50's than 60's

[@allan9603]

@cindykaeding9196 I remember my Grandmother lived in Arkansas in 1968 and she had a Party Line. Every time she went to make a call her cousin was yakking away on the line😂🤣😅

[@JamesDavidWalley]

True. Lots of the things shown here are from the 1930s to 1950s.

[@allan9603]

@JamesDavidWalley Notice not a word from the channel owner responding to these comments? Click bait!

[@josephcooper6692]

I received a cheap little battery-operated open reel tape recorder for Xmas when 10 or 12-years-old. I was mesmerized by it, even took it apart & reassembled it. That fascination carried over to my 40 year career in radio & sound production. Thinking back to those early transistor radios reminded me that my WW II Marine father didn’t want us to have them. Why? They were made in Japan!

[@phbrinsden]

I still have my slide rules. One straight type and one circular which I kept in my pocket. I’m 82 now. I was raised in the Uk in the 50s and 60s and I remember the milkman in the 50s coming on a horse drawn milk float. In the early 50s after the war we still had rationing.

[@Hibiki_Oneesan]

for me, I would consider that barometer as a piece of art, not an equipment... they're look beautiful... 😍❤️

[@sirtango1]

I still remember the first number I memorized that wasn’t my own! My best friend from first grade, nearly 50 years ago! And it’s still in service!

[@laurendoe168]

I have YET to come across any phone or tablet with an alarm loud enough to wake me. The "good ole" Baby Ben is my fave.

[@tidepoolclipper8657]

Even though only a decade or two away from the 1970s and 80s; alot of stuff from the 1960s feel so old. Though milk bottles and typewriters are debatable. Milk in glass bottles is still a thing. For security reasons, there are government agencies around the world that use typewriters.

[@MagicMaus29]

Reel 2 Reel is still very much alive among audiophiles

[@JeanetteIsabelle]

Reel-to-reel tape machines are less popular than turntables, even among audiophiles. This is not due to the cost of the machines but rather the availability of new reels.

[@james-np7fj]

Reel to Reel tapes still have the best audio quality and still some use it today.

[@SWExplore]

Reel to Reel is okay, but only if you can put up with the hiss.

[@kkoller8952]

Hi quality low noise tape, higher taoe speeds, and Dolby and dbx noise reduction systems all but eliminated tape hiss ....both in R to R tapes and cassettes!

[@kellyswoodyard]

@SWExplore a properly maintained and calibrated QUALITY reel to reel machine, is a far superior audio device.

[@tricotdiko1435]

@@kellyswoodyardIf you say so. I guess you’re fine with dynamic range of 60db.

[@tricotdiko1435]

Wrong.

[@daveerhardt1879]

I remember back in the 80's I got transistor radios for my kids at Radio Shack, I used to love transitory radios growing up in the 60's. I still use an electric alarm clock, I like it better. I miss a lot of those items. You didn't mention telephones, those I actually don't miss.

[@Pinky-lg3lz]

Back in the 80's when caller ID was available, had an add on device to the phone line, a tele-zapper i think it was called, it screened calls so telemarketers couldnt even make it ring. [edit] or maybe rang once b4 the device interdicted, been awhile i reckon.

[@gailwhitten1360]

I still have my grandfather's Kodak Carousel slide projector. I still have many, many slides.

[@Peterjones3913]

Thank you for all these memories ❤.

[@Reubenhubert]

I lived in a rural area southwest of Cleveland Ohio starting in the late 80s. It wasn’t until the mid 90s that DirecTV became available. It didn’t include local channels so I went to Radio Shack and bought the second biggest outside antenna and a rotator. Once I put that antenna up I could watch channels from as far away as Columbus Ohio and Detroit Michigan.

[@skrayraja]

I also remember the transparencies that were made by taking Xerox of the documents. These were then use with light projectors to make presentation. Transparencies need to be changed manually like we change slides on the laptop presentation nowadays

[@safiremorningstar]

White out which still exists today was literally one of the end-all and beals for clearing out mistakes made by your typewriter it was a liquid substance with a little brush and some of them were not even liquid some of them had a little paper that you would put and then you would type over the letters that you made a mistake with and it would clear them away I mean as much as those things did which was to turn them white to make a long story short here that has existed and it still exists the white out.

[@jb888888888]

Invented by Michael Nesmith's mother.

[@williammay2332]

At 0:22, my mom was taking pictures in the '40,s, '50s, and '60s with the Ansco version of that Kodak Brownie camera.

[@cmccloskey56]

I installed a TV antenna in June 2024. My sister decided to go full-streaming at her apartment, where she had WiFi but no free cable. To get local, over-the-air channels she had to have an antenna to pick up the broadcast signal. The antenna, purchased at Best Buy, was just a plastic doohickey that we installed behind the TV. So, not a rooftop antenna, but if I hadn't remembered the antennae from my youth, I wouldn't have known to install a similar device in her home. Her son couldn't conceive of an "antenna". He just couldn't wrap his brain around it.

[@allan9603]

@@cmccloskey56 "Rabbit ears"😅😆🤣

[@PRH123]

You can tell the kid that it’s like long range free WiFi :)

[@peeet]

I used those computer punched cards in 1976-1980. I still have one stack of the cards with my favourite computer program on the cards. Nostalgia - the great trash retainer! :-))

[@stevecagle2317]

Born in 1960 - I remember this all and getting many of these things as presents at Christmas! 😀⛄

[@jamesheartney9546]

00:35 Party Lines 01:34 Slide Rules 02:27 Computer Punch Cards 03:23 Reel to Reel Tape Decks 04:26 Transistor Radios 05:24 Film Reels for Home Movies 06:31 Manual Typewriters 07:35 Glass Milk Bottles 08:33 Adding Machines 09:47 Steel Ice Cube Trays 10:43 Car Ash Trays 11:48 Portable Phonograph Players 12:57 Kodak Brownie Cameras 14:06 Tube Televisions 15:10 Filmstrip Projectors 16:10 Vacuum Tubes 17:05 Home Barometers 17:54 Vinyl Seat Covers 18:42 Phone Books 19:43 Zippered Pencil Cases 20:25 Digital Alarm Clocks 21:21 Sewing Patterns 22:23 Vinyl Record Cleaners 23:15 Carousel Slide Projectors 24:27 TV Antennas

[@Williamplumptree]

Wow I used mostly all these items.still I would take the old times over today's technology in a heartbeat.was the happy times for me.😂😂😂❤❤❤

[@lindawilson4625]

I've lived through all of these...and more The changes from the late 50's to now is mind blowing. The internet and digital technology were real game changers...so far.

[@RamPMonyPers]

Digital, and even analog alarm clocks are still very much present.

[@lepompier132]

Hey some of these items are making a coming back. Like tube audio amplifier, turn table and vinyle disk and even tape recording is also making a comeback.

[@cmccloskey56]

Typing on the old manual Royal typewriters was HARD. I used a manual typewriter through high school, then was able to switch up to an electric.

[@patricklewis7636]

learning to type on a manual is why I now regularly beak keyboards.

[@heatherhoward2513]

Still got the portable manual typewriter and occasionally use it.

[@JoeZyzyx]

@@patricklewis7636 I even bought a mechanical keyboard for my computer, but wife complained it was messing with her sleep when I'd be on it at night, so finally switched to one of those soft quieter keyboards, but still with tactile feel. I can't stand those "chiclet keys" like all laptops have.

[@erie910]

One of the last manual typewriters was made by Hermes. It had a touch very similar to an electric.

[@brianarbenz7206]

I was a terrible typist then, and am still terroble at tpying.

[@NewsJunky1966]

I used to have the metal ice tray but it was aluminium, not stainless steel, and sadly broke. I still have a super 8 and regular 8mm projector and slide projector, and even an old Imperial typewriter! In the UK many people still have a TV antenna/aerial as well as possible access to cable/satellite/streaming Internet services. I also still have two barometers, though I must admit I rarely look at them. Milk in glass bottles still prevails in some parts of the UK as does the milkman. Still have a couple of slide rules but have long forgotton how to use them :-( And the fact that vehicles no longer have an ashtray and cigar/ciaretter lighter is - I am sure - an annoyance to many smokers. Several obsolete things not mentioned such as 5.25" and the smaller 3.5" floppy discs, 8 track players, rotary dial phones - still have one but no longer connected to a land line. Can you imagine having to dial an 11 digit number on one? As for telephone books they were useful as was Yellow Pages. Internet search services don't always provide what one maybe looking for and Directory Inquiry services can cost anything between £4.44 and £16.00 and even more if you want to be connected.

[@williamjones7163]

My freshman year of college, 1978, we were the first class that didn't have to use punch cards to program the computer. We had teletypes and CRT terminals to communicate with the mainframe. However we had to wait for most of our results to be printed out by a line printer and picked up from the cumputet center. We played with the card punchers and woud punch our first mame into to card so you could read it when you held it up to the light. Mine would read BILL.

[@drlong08]

FORTRAN was the first language I was taught along with the updated FORTRAN77 in college.

[@JoeZyzyx]

@@drlong08 probably also PLC1 and COBOL too!

[@jamesheartney9546]

We still have a rooftop antenna - best way to pick up OTA signals. Those crappy little flat surface antennas don't work very well.

[@aarondesrochers5172]

We do too, and it's a lot bigger than 16 by 16 inches, lol

[@HypatiaK]

In 1954-58 my high school speech class used a reel-ro-reel tape recorder. In 1959, I remember a man walking into an office in a cloud of music. He had a transistor radio in his pocket. Automatic correction was possible in the 1960s electric typewriter. It backspaced and used white-out in the ribbon to redo the typo.

[@sharonshort4018]

I remember when Dad brought home a reel-to-reel tape recorder back in the 59s.

[@muziklvr7776]

Huge money back then.

[@ThomasCullen-jp4fy]

I remember my dad bringing home a tape recorder in the sixties. We were absolutely amazed to playback our voices.

[@PRH123]

Would be amazing to have now one of those cassettes we used to record ourselves on as kids.

[@randyporter3491]

Modern technology brought so many advances, but at a huge price. Advances in electronics changed everything, including our culture. Today, we can only remember the joy of window shopping, or actually shopping in malls and stores. Kids "play" video games, instead of actually playing. The wonder of Tinker Toys and similar toys are lost and It's a shame. Of course, I doubt we'll miss the rotary phone much. Great video !

[@thejourney1369]

I still have my Mom’s Brownie camera and my Dad’s instamatic. They sit on top of my bookcase in my kitchen that holds my cookbooks. We still get a phone book.

[@hueyiroquois3839]

The coolest thing about vacuum tubes was that people repaired their own TVs (or got their husbands to do it), and electronics stores had tube testers for customers to test their own tubes.

[@RobertJarecki]

Some areas had the testers in supermarkets and drugstores, too. Went to the Thrifty Drugstore many times with Dad to hold the cigar box of tubes. Couple of times we got ice cream cones.

[@jimtownsend7899]

My grandmother, who had worked for Philco, was our handyman and TV repairman. She was very good at pulling the chassis out of the television cabinet, testing voltages and tubes, and fixing the set. She also did all the household fix-its, as well as all the painting in the house. Incredible woman. Having lived through the Depression, she was the original recycler. Everything has a worth, and we saved things that could be re-used. She could squeeze 12 cents out of every dime. And she could break down the trash to the point where our trash for the week (for a family of 6) fit in a brown paper grocery bag, with the top folded over and taped with brown kraft paper tape.

[@PRH123]

@@jimtownsend7899Sounds like she was a great lady! My father was an electrical engineer, but our tv repair procedures, other than replacing an occasional tube, was a good hard slap on the side. Amazing thing was that it often worked! :)

[@Pinky-lg3lz]

"TV repairman" view.

[@Flammable281]

I was born in January 1963 and can still remember walking with my older brother down to the local 7-11 convenience store in Ft. Lauderdale, must have been 1967 or 68, to test tubes from our tv on the tube tester the store had. Simpler times then.

[@mfbfreak]

2:17 i doubt addition and multiplication were done much by slide rule. Those things are as fast and more accurate if done on paper or in your head. Slide rules - i think - were much more useful for trigonometry and such, things that you would otherwise need a book of sin/cos/tan tables for.

[@SWExplore]

Good to know, so thanks. That's coming from someone who has never used a slide rule and lived through the 50s and 60s.

[@stevereimer5254]

Slide rules don't add!

[@justsad-1392]

I still have mine...and can still remember how to use it. No, the slide rule didn't add /subtract, that reference was about how logarithms work. We also had books of tables of Trig functions, logs etc but rows and columns of very small print numbers to 4 or 5 d.p. was very hard on the eyes! My classmate built his own pocket calculator in 1974. Yay! 3x4=......(1.5 mins later)..12. We made our own fun back then! 🤪

[@jfwfreo]

Alarm clocks are not dead, I own one and on the rare occasion I actually genuinely need to get up at a certain time I still use it and set it. Sewing patterns are not dead either, there are still sewing shops full of patterns out there. Same with TV antennas, there is a growing movement in the US of people ditching cable and using an antenna for over-the-air broadcasts (e.g. news and sport) and streaming for everything else.

[@georgejones3526]

Who remembers vacuum tube testers being in drug stores?

[@davea6314]

While that was before I was born, if I had asked my late father about that he would probably have joked that he rode on the back of a dinosaur to get to the drug store. 😂 Lol Unfortunately, that older generation is dying of old age. RIP 🪦

[@patrickf.4440]

I remember when the "hi-fi" or TV was on the fritz, I got to go down to Schwartz's Drug Store at Montrose and Albany streets (in Chicago) to test them out. I felt like a real "technical" kind of guy.

[@Rusty-METAL-J]

I was born in 1979 & my parents got the 1st camcorder we had in 1989. I taught myself how to use it. But what I was gonna say is my family never had reel-to-reel tape. Our home recordings were on VHS.

[@JoeZyzyx]

Yep, 9th grade was typing class, hear the bell, and slam the carriage back to the other side to type the next line. I got up to 40 wpm on it. Now the kids call it "key boarding", or at least my children did in the 90's. I still remember Andy Rooney on TV at his typewriter. I still have an old Royal mechanical one in my basement.

[@erie910]

Remember Leroy Anderson's composition, The Typewriter"? It often was an encode on Boston Pops Orchestra concerts. The solo instrument was a manual typewriter, complete with bell to signal a carriage return.

[@JoeZyzyx]

@@erie910 ah, I'll have to check that one out!

[@richlaue]

The slide rule was used thfwhen calculating the path to the moon.

[@laser31415]

My 2011 Silverado still has an honest ashtray. It's never been used, but it is still there.

[@wendigo53]

I like this video less than the 1950s one. 1. In the 1980s, when I was pricing phone service, Bell still offered party lines as an option. 2. I have a transistor clock-radio beside my bed, not obsolete. New word for you: "obsolescent". 3. Manual typewriters were around long before and long after the 1960s. YES there was a backspace button. Some even had a "white-out" portion of the ribbon. 4. Milk bottles went back far before the 1960s. 5. They had plastic ice cube trays in the 1960s. 6. You think barometers are obsolete!? 7. Every public library had a "phone book desk" into the 1990s.

[@LordGertz]

I was born in the early 70s, and I still remember some of these from my childhood. My "high-end" pediatrician would always remind my mother that she needed to bring my punch card along for every appointment. We had home milk delivery until the mid 80s, though the milk bottles changed from glass (don't remember this) to cartons and then plastic jugs. We had multiple record players. Had a home film projector. My father had a slide rule, my current neighbor still works with one. It's yet to be discussed, but I remember the fights with my siblings over who got to put the message capsule into the pneumatic tube at the bank. I remember the horror of vinyl seats during the hot Californian summers. The barometer hung in the entryway. If my father hadn't broken the handle of we would still have the metal ice tray, heck I think the tray part may still be in the back of a kitchen corner cabinet.

[@hortondlfn1994]

A friend’s mother worked with computer punch cards and sometimes would bring a bag of the discarded punches for us to use as confetti. It was the BEST!

[@FranklinK232]

Vinyl records have become incredibly popular with younger generations in the 2020s, with even brand new albums being released on vinyl. Last time i went to Newbury Comics i saw about 15-20 people browsing the vinyl section

[@mikenuyen4441]

Remember dry ice from the ice cream man who pushed the big white cart with bells on the handle. Some were attached to a bicycle. We would put a piece of the dry ice in a small Gerber baby food jar with a little water in it. Close the lid tight, put it down, them run far enuf away. In about 30 seconds, Boom. Hope you don't get hit with glass.

[@fabianmckenna8197]

Yeah.......We were indestructible in our youth. I recall putting a squib/banger into a bottle and jamming the cork on before we all ran away to await the explosion. Nothing happened so I went back to see what went wrong and opened the bottle....... BANG...... and a face full of glass and gunpowder. Luckily burns and cuts but no serious injuries.

[@dons2318]

I truly believe part of family lives missing today was the gathering around a TV to watch a favorite show. Television WAS the entertainment for most to spend time together with so many choices and varieties of programs to choose from. I remember the adults sat in the couches and chairs while us kids laid on the floor, until someone asked one of us kids to get up and adjust the rabbit ears to stop the "snow" on the screen BTW...ask a kid what snow means while watching TV today, and see if they know what your talking about.😀

[@randallreed9048]

7:05 - Wrong! EVERY typewriter ever made had a BACKSPACE key!

[@kevinchastain727]

and most of the last ones made had a correction key that you pressed down then retyped the letter to erase what you mistyped or you just use wight out.

[@heatherhoward2513]

Yep, mine has it.

[@billdivine9501]

I have a CRT office computer monitor that has a bunch of areas of liquid paper on the screen.

[@randallreed9048]

@@billdivine9501 So, someone decided to correct the screen?!?!

[@RedneckSpaceman]

21:08 - I have that Clock Radio!! An Identical unit, I mean!! I just wanted one for a spare bedroom! Got it at the Goodwill for $1.99 !!!!

[@sandybruce9092]

Ah - the slide rule! Y husband is a retired aerospace Engineer (Purdue 1972) who used a slide rule which he still has somewhere. I recently asked him if he remembers how to use it and he admitted that he didn’t have a clue - he probably hadn’t used it in over 40-45 yesrs! He bought a brand new TI (Texas Instrument) hand calculator in 1972 for close to $300 - we may still have that! I learned and quickly forgot - think I slammed it in the door of my HS locker and broke it😧

[@218philip]

In 1973 a class mate in trade school came back from Christmas with a Texas Instrument calculator, it could only add subtract multiply and divide, no other features, it cost 109 dollars. Minimum wage was about 1.35 an hr. Most of the items referenced were from the 60’s

[@DisabledNomads]

One of my parents friends would make Christmas wreath decorations out of IBM cards.

[@frankhooper7871]

LOL - My Dad was a programmer in the very early days of computing; we made those wreaths too. (At 95 years old, Dad is still computer literate, unlike many of his - or mine - generation!)

[@GThomas-q1e]

We had a party line and b&w tv. It was around 1970 when we got a color tv. The slide rule was common.

[@brianarbenz7206]

A very good friend of mine took me to his father’s office on the Northwestern University campus, circa 1965, where I saw one of those huge computers that were used in those days. The room had punch cards everywhere, on tables, chairs, shelves. The adults working there gave us a few. We thought it was cool that we’d be the first kids on our blocks to have computer punch cards. They probably were eager to get rid of as many as they could to get from under the avalanche.

[@newlam7958]

In 1978, My Dad took my sister to a "Texas Instruments" calculator store. I was 16 years old at that time and went with them and the store sold pocket calculators! My sister needed one for college because she was going to major in computer science. The display cases had pocket calculators all displaced in rows and the salesman had demo models for her to try. Now you can buy a pocket calculator at the local Walgreens. How times have changed!

[@dons2318]

Yes and they were very expensive

[@cmccloskey56]

We didn't use reel-to-reel, but I have both an 8mm and 16mm projectors for looking through my grandfather's films.

[@DonnyHooterHoot]

Vacuum tubes are not completely obsolete. There are a few applications that require them still. Great viddy! Peace!

[@jppitman1]

Yup, like the Rogue amplifier I bought new a few years ago.

[@cynicalrabbit915]

About the only thing here I didn't use or interact with were the card punch and card readers of early mainframe computers. I have a slide rule, a reel to reel tape machine, a turntable that has a USB plug and have used it to digitize a couple of records, it has RCA inputs on the back so any audio source can be plugged into it and the resulting MP3 files can be cut up into individual song files. I used that setup with an 8-Track player to save a friend's collection of music she couldn't play. I even have a small collection of 78 rpm records I might get converted to MP3s. As a child I remember when they took away the old wall mounted crank phone and replaced it with black wall mounted phone in the same place, and it was a party line. Now I have a smart phone that has voicemail but the option to call voicemail doesn't show up unless I actually have voicemails. I didn't think I had voicemail because I'd never seen the option in my contact list. I'd never checked voicemail because I didn't think I had any. But dang if I didn't finally notice and had a bunch of calls to return. As I got a bit older I became the family photographer using one of those box cameras that used 120 or 220 roll film. Then later the Kodak Instamatic with the flash cubes. I could go on but this is probably becoming a wall of text.

[@safiremorningstar]

I remember absolutely loving a certain typewriter that came out in the 80s it was a newfangled when it had a little screen in front so that before you press the return button you could check to make sure that you hadn't misspelled anything so that way that it was correct before it would be printed out by the machine with its little ball in the middle.

[@PRH123]

Probably a Brother brand typewriter.

[@mattikaki]

Nice video, thanks. I’d like to add that Philips introduced the C-cassette in 1963 and I had Philips C-cassette player in my (dad’’s) car in 1970 here in Finland. And I always had girls in my car as I played Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix and CCR as loud as possible. 😁

[@JoeZyzyx]

I installed an FM converter in my second car.

[@slowmobrothers7470]

17:25 I still use a real barometer, because I have every sensitive sinus, issues and when the pressure changes I get headaches so I keep one because I need to know when the pressure is changing so I can prepare for the impending headache that will come.

[@AUTISTICLYCAN]

Gosh I sure do remember film strips. I remember when we thought it was the absolute in high tech when we had the film strip with recorded sound that told you more about what was on the screen. The high tech part was it beeped and the film frame auto-magically advanced to the next frame WOW! Yeah the trays were aluminum and broke often after not too many uses. What's funny is in the US what we called Tubes were called Valves in the UK. I have 4 Pioneer RT-707 reel to reel tape decks. They still work too. Lots of people collect vintage audio.

[@shelbychesnut99]

I still used a slide rule in high school in the 70's. My husband was president of the slide rule club at his school. We have his slide rule framed and hung in his office.

[@John-g6x1h]

Unlike most of these things, records and record players have made a huge come-back. I can't begin to imagine why, but there it is.

[@Handleyman]

Well put together and presented.

[@JoeZyzyx]

One thing has survived until today, still sold in stores. That's the "View Master" for using those round cards with pictures on them, providing a 3d view (stereo images) of pictures.

[@socalgal714]

Dad was an engineer with Altec Lansing. He showed me how to use a slide rule when I was in elementary school. Mom was a data punch operator at Autonetics. I still have the punch card Christmas wreath she made!

[@shadowpoet4398]

21:34 Sewing Patterns are vital for making ANY sort of clothing. How tf is that obsolete?

[@Rkenton48]

The old Hollerith Cards. Loved them!

[@modem500]

It should be noted that in the UK there are many regions that still have door step deliveries of milk in glass bottles which in effect reduces the use of plastics and employing people 👍👍

[@Mrs.T.Rusch25]

I remember every single one of these!

[@mom755]

My aunt had a wire recorder that she used in college she carried to each class. It weighed about 30 pounds before adding the wire spools. This was in addition to the required textbooks and notebooks. What a workout!

[@STScott-qo4pw]

I saw one being used! They were around during WW1.

[@orbyfan]

In Edmonton, Alberta, you can still get phone books, but you have to order them; they're no longer delivered automatically. I've found the white pages to be more current than the online directory. There's also a dairy in Edmonton that still sells milk in glass bottles.

[@JeanetteIsabelle]

Vacuum tubes are still utilized in high-end sound systems today.

[@SWExplore]

Really? I was so surprised to read how vacuum tubes are still used today. Like, Wow!!

[@JeanetteIsabelle]

@@SWExplore If you would like, I would be happy to share some links to contemporary tube amplifiers. However, if you prefer to conduct your own search, that is completely fine as well.

[@stevereimer5254]

It's for the soft clipping, i.e. the way it follows the analog wave form. There was an old joke about using a high power class A amplifier heat your room.

[@fredmullison4246]

I had, or even still have, pretty much all of those things. It is easier to list the things I didn't (or don't) have. I think there is only one; the vacuum tube tester. I never had one of those, but everything else, from party line telephone service and home milk delivery to a slide rule and cathode ray TV (both of which I STILL have), I had.

[@BETTERWORLDSGT]

I was gifted an IBM portable electronic calculator in 1975. I remember it's display had bright red numbers. It used 4 AA batteries and also had a plug in adapter.