Can You Name These Old Things From Grandma's House?

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[@sherimurphy483]

I knew them all. Last one is a meat slicer?

[@judysandles2100]

​@@sherimurphy483⁰

[@margaretmcgill526]

Bonus: boot scraper (I think). Am I right?

[@mikesahle1193]

Thank you 🙏 I like 👍 🍞 toaster ☝️

[@johngalloway9248]

​@@sherimurphy483 😊😊

[@bug2011]

Of course I remember them, I've been married to granny for 55 years !!!

[@MsShannruggles]

Awesome

[@kellypilon2422]

Love "Waltz of the Flowers"!

[@carolewynn9407]

Slightly worried as most of these were present in my childhood, and I thought I was still young😂

[@mikeball6182]

You're still young if someone, somewhere, is or was, older than you.

[@AnitaYoung-w5p]

Made me smile

[@joniangelsrreal6262]

You are this is bull 💩

[@july8xx]

@@mikeball618275 % of these items are still on the shelves of Walmart and target in one form or another.

[@milliemouse6525]

😂

[@rupe53]

Grandma's house? I'm almost 70 and half of these things would date back to my great grandparents!

[@carmell51]

This was a time when we all worked together In the house and outside. It was so enjoyable! We were a family then. What a loss!

[@donaldshimkus539]

The bonus, I believe, is a meat/cheese slicer. Only one I missed was "harmonium". My first real skates were old when I got them and had wooden wheels for indoor use on wooden floors such as in roller rinks. I have several sad irons which you heat on a stove, but the one you show you put hot coals inside of it to give it heat. I love antique items. Thank you for the fun video.

[@lynnrobnett7199]

I forgot, I missed that one too. I thought it was an organ. I played my Grandma’s all the time.

[@mamieanding5691]

I learned to skate in the keyed skates and my mom's skates that had wooden wheels. Crazy times.

[@barbaravecchio5600]

I have not seen one before or used one, but I believe that the bonus is a slicer as well but for primarily bread.

[@donaldshimkus539]

I'm not sure how well this would do cutting bread as the motion needed would be a sawing type for bread. This seems to just be a straight down pushing or chopping motion, which may crush the bread.

[@mickeyreed6338]

That is the one I missed, too! I had never heard of that one.

[@Will-yf7ut]

WOW! My grandparents had every item in their house...except the Harmonium! The last item looks like Grandmas' bread slicer...but Grandpa used it to cut "thin" slices off a cheese block, as long as there was no danger of Grandma catching him! I still smile every time I think of them; thank you for the trip down memory lane!

[@klausmaerz197]

And that's why I thought that was a cheese grater.

[@bocajrs7628]

The same for me. My grandparents never had a harmonium. I wish I had kept those other items. I love those old radios.

[@smerchly]

@@bocajrs7628 A few things crossed my mind on that one ....a garlic crusher , nut breaker , fruit pitter , but didn't think about a cheese slicer . I should have known as I approach 80 !

[@robertwalker5521]

I thought you were going to say: " ..to trim his toenails"

[@vlastimilhejduk7347]

We used the bread slicer for many things to slice.

[@alistairmcelwee7467]

I’m 58 & grew up in the mountains of New Zealand so probably no surprise that we used almost all these items on a daily basis.

[@MsOldmom]

These things were made much better than any of the junk sold today

[@BETTERWORLDSGT]

Things would last for years! In the 70s, We had a vaccum, an Iron, a TV, and Radios in the House all made in the 50s.. We had a Fan from 1965 that quit working in 1985!

[@beverlygannon4141]

​@@BETTERWORLDSGTyes I right. It's a throw away world now they want U to buy buy buy. Spend money and what happens with it all , all dumped aat sea. The animals are all eating it and the plastic . So sad. Worlds gone mad and greedy,🤮😱🙏❤️❤️🌎

[@martin-u6j8q]

roller skates are much better now.

[@nuttybar9]

And American made as well.

[@Thomasnmi]

​@nuttybar9 back when "made in the USA" meant quality Long time ago

[@meisje365]

I was born in 62 and knew all but three . Some of them I knew from vintage shops though . Last one is a mistery to me .

[@jobbelar]

The bonus :bread slicer, i am owner of 2, nice quizze. Regards from Denmark 🇩🇰

[@durandswanson8788]

Thanks Jobbelar.

[@jamesvoigt7275]

I am 80 years old, and I remember some of these from when I was young. But some of them would have been in MY grandmother's time, like the iron and the toaster. You have items from a very broad time period.

[@farialmab4723]

🤍 Very true! The Rolodex, for example is from a *completely different* generation than that particular iron, telephone and toaster! 🤣

[@latachia_2981]

When we went camping, my mom used one of thse toasters over the campfire to make toast! (I'm 71 )

[@ChannelGrowMedia]

@@farialmab4723 at one time or another my Grandma would have had most of these items in her house or garage, she lived 96 years. so I guess it doesn't matter if they are not all from the same period. Was fun seeing this old stuff

[@farialmab4723]

@@ChannelGrowMedia I think the point is, if you say from “grandma’s house” while showing things from the 1880s to the 1980s it’s calling everyone before Millennials & Gen Z “Grandma” regardless of if they’d actually be Great- (or even, Great-Great), or are in their early 40s, and tends to come off as anything before “Just Now” as Ancient/irrelevant regardless of how long it’s *actually* been, making the past one blur that’s irrelevant to today, which is just plain wrong and we were just pointing out that it struck *us as funny* to lump it all in together. No need to be upset by our conversation. 😉

[@raspberryparade]

​@@farialmab4723 none of the stuff shown in the video is from the 80s...its mostly 1800s-1950s...

[@kevinogracia1615]

Pretty cool. I got 'em all except the bonus. I'm a geezer. Peace on earth, kiddo's.

[@pamelamccall5653]

Some of these things are from great, great Grandma’s house!

[@jaydenkerr1559]

This was my mum that used these items I was born in 1962 . I've just shown my gran children who are laughing so much . They did not understand we did not have mobile phones I showed them our phone we had . Only rich ppl was able to have phones bk when I was a kid . We had lots of these . The rest we had to so it's nostalgia at its finest. Thank you from Glasgow

[@Quizzes4U]

They joys of going to a payphone only to find it had been vandalised, used as a toilet or someone was already on it and had a pile of ten pence pieces stacked 6 inches high in front of them. I don't miss those days. 🤣👍

[@reb1050]

I not only got all of them, but have used most of them and still have a few of them. But then again, I'm over 70. I can understand why younger (40 and below) might not know some of them. Especially a teen.

[@lynnrobnett7199]

I’m 40 and can proudly say I got all but 2 by there proper names. I have also played with/used most of them at one point or another. The phones looked a little different lol.

[@hydrolito]

Some young people don't even know what a video cassette recorder is which became popular in the 1980's.

[@mlanae20]

So what was the last (bonus) one?

[@reb1050]

@@mlanae20 Bread slicer

[@curtriceennis2924]

@@hydrolito And some young people don't know what a toaster is, either. (HECK ! Some younguns don't even know how to add without an electronic device !!!) Then again, some young people don't know how to even boil water without scorching it. LOL !!!

[@loboheeler]

Remember all these things (except the bonus), and used many myself. The skates have steel wheels for sidewalk use, which I made into a crude skateboard. Rental house where I grew up in the 1950s had a 1920s stove, a 1930s refrigerator, and a huge super deluxe tube radio,. Great time to grow up!

[@Quizzes4U]

Thanks for sharing!👍

[@howardsmith9342]

When I was a kid skateboards were death traps made out of those old roller skates nailed to a board. I never had one, because I wanted to keep my arms intact!

[@violentviolet1404]

I too made a skateboard from my jacko skates and a dolls ironing board! Great minds think alike 💋

[@haroldwilkes6608]

Before the refrigerator there were "ice boxes", the ice wagon delivered daily and we got ice slivers to lick. We were easily amused.

[@haroldwilkes6608]

@@hayloft3834 But can you feel your backside yet? "Drip safe" is a phrase I'd never heard, kinda cool.

[@gailgeer3101]

I used most of these growing up. Even yes, the accordian. It's a jaw dropper when you go in Antique stores and see the things you used there! lol

[@suzannereiter3600]

Yes, I used to play an accordion when I was younger.

[@johanna5688]

And not to mention the museum. I saw the same desks we used in primary school in the mid 60s, in the museum. I thought: What?

[@suzannereiter3600]

@@johanna5688 Really? Wow - I guess we are antiques, too :).

[@CornbreadOracle]

My grandfather, who was blind from infancy and had perfect pitch, gave me a harmonium when I was about 10 years old. I never knew there was a word for it, actually. I just thought it was an organ. He was so musical and had so many instruments I didn’t think much of it. I have no musical talent myself. One of the greatest regrets of my life has been losing track of that harmonium/organ. I’m so sorry, Pa, that I didn’t value what you were trying to share with me.

[@soonermimi1953]

I know the regret you feel. I’m very sorry. My Granny, maternal grandmother, was my favorite person in the world. Her rich laughter could be heard all day throughout the house;she was a very happy person. She came from a musical family and at one time, she even sang on the radio with Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys. Her voice was full and rich and she was always singing around the house. I really took it for granted. I wish I would have asked her for some advice in developing my voice. Her voice just came natural to her so I guess none of us thought it was something that could be learned! Can you believe that? I have natural ability because my music teachers would always give me harmony, alto, parts because it came easy for me;I sang alto in many funerals. I had difficulty with breath control and thus, range problems, as I look back, now. I remember her saying, “I wish some of you kids had gotten some of my musical talent.” It made me sad, but I guess we actually thought it was something that a person had to be born with, with no effort at all. With just a little help…we could have had so much fun.

[@ahill4642]

You’re both making me miss my dear grandma. ☺️ A child with a loving grandparent is wildly blessed.

[@dianeporter9336]

You remembered, so give yourself some credit. I'm sure he would be pleased to know that ❤

[@jayniekinser7029]

I seriously also regret getting rid of things like an old typewriter or a rotary phone that I think would be fun to have now.

[@janasimon7780]

I few years back we lived in an older home with a dial phone on the wall. My grandson stared at it and asked what it was. I was a bit shocked that he'd never seen a dial phone nor how to use it. I felt a bit older that day!🤭

[@dianayount2122]

i had a dial phone in storage and when we had a black out we still had dial up for our computer, so got out the old dial phone. the kids crowded around. Amazed, wow. They called a friend, who picked up!

[@petegregory517]

First phone I remember using (not seeing, using) had no dial. Pick it up and the operator ask “number please”. She’d let it ring about 5 times and ask if you wanted to keep trying, yep, 5 more and “please try later, thank you.” Click.

[@macwest5790]

@@petegregory517our first phone had no dial, and our tel # was three numbers.

[@mikeball6182]

@@macwest5790 We had number 3. Eddison and his pal had 1 and 2.

[@stevenfarmer2660]

At my grandparents I used to rotary dial phone and then a digital dial which we had put in our house

[@patricialassle6125]

I would call it a movie camera, not a film camera. Got almost all of them. Stumped by the scales. Fun memories!

[@kenkahre9262]

Bonus fact: that movie camera was a wind up type. It didn't run on batteries.

[@squigtonianmayhem4602]

@@kenkahre9262 I played with one as a kid! Salvation Army find.

[@davidshumski4629]

I thought the scale was for ice other wise I got the rest.

[@kirnpu]

@@davidshumski4629 I thought the same thing.

[@RichZFishes]

And you would be more precise than the answer given, which could have referred to any old still camera.

[@nikiTricoteuse]

The first telephone l remember was a less flash version of the one you showed. In 1964 we moved from the city to a small New Zealand country town in another province and, I guess the telephone system wasn't as modern as in the province we had left as, that's what was there. I was 5 and totally in awe of it. My mother, on the other hand, loathed it with an undying passion. If you wanted to make a call you turned the handle and a switchboard operator would answer, ask you what number you required and connect your call. We were on what was known as a party line and every house had its own distinctive ring pattern. My mother was convinced, probably quite rightly, that other houses on the same line would listen in to her calls. I know us kids certainly listened in to others and there were certainly no secrets from the switchboard operators. They knew who talked to whom, what about and for exactly how long. Simpler times and a magical place to be a kid.

[@Quizzes4U]

Thanks for sharing your memories 😁

[@jacquelyns9709]

Party lines. I remember them well. We had them in larger towns in the US as well. They were cheaper than private lines. Phones belonged to the telephone company back then and came in basic black. Benefit was if anything went wrong with phone service the telephone company had to take care of it. Everything from phone itself, inside line, outside line, long distance lines, to telephone poles.

[@nikiTricoteuse]

@@jacquelyns9709 Makes sense that they were cheaper, l suppose a complete lack of privacy should have some benefits. 🙂 I haven't had a landline for a few years but, l think the phone company are still responsible here, for everything up to and including the actual plug you plug your phone into so, the wiring inside the house as well. Then you buy your phone of choice and choose your provider. I think there's a deal whereby, if the fault inside is theirs you don't pay but, if it's damage you've caused there's a fee. I may be out of date with the inside the house bit though. Also, black! Cor, they were flash, ours really was wooden. I think we went straight from wooden to cool 60s vibe, when we moved back to the city, without going through the black bakelite stages. The black ones are quite the collectors items now, a couple of decades ago l acquired one and a couple of years later, swapped it for a piano for my daughter to bash about on.

[@carlcushmanhybels8159]

@@nikiTricoteuse In the US when I had a landline, repair service was free up to the connection at the house. Inside wiring was on you. They would repair some inside work, for a fee (rather high per hour).

[@latachia_2981]

I remember the party lines! LOL And I remember being able to call to see what time it was. The recording used to say "At the tone it will be ---o'clock!

[@JohnnyAngel8]

Definitely things from my grandparents' days but for today's younger ones, their great grandparents and great great grandparents!

[@LanaLorenzen-i4f]

I'm 74 but can't remember my grandmother using too many of these except for the three-party phone pictured in the video. Remember the old tub-crank clothes washing machines in the kitchen? My grandmother and grandfather lived in a huge Colonial house with an attached barn in Windham, Maine, atop Windham Hill. What a life that was!!

[@SophieBird07]

When I started working at a medical facility in a good sized city, even so late as 1982, they had a Rolodex that was at least 6 feet wide and 4 ft deep, with a card for every patient ever seen at the facility. I’m glad to have witnessed it. They shortly converted to a big boxy computer system, lol, and onward from there!

[@cyirvine6300]

The rolodex never crashed!

[@carolleslie2673]

When I first started work in an office they used a calamazo filing system it used to make me feel that I was either going to throw up or pass out horrible idea for filing 😂😊

[@jeannieheard1465]

I had a temp job at a Louisville Ky hospital about 1970. Medical records had a Soundex system of filing.

[@jerryg50]

I got them all. I was born in the early 50s, and my parents used a lot of items from the 20s and 30s given to them from their parents. My grandparents even had items from the very early 1900s. I still have some of the items from the early 1900s.

[@haroldwilkes598]

I still use a 50s cooking timer, works like a champ.

[@elviradonaghy6425]

I remember my father making toast that way and also green peppers to peel skin off to make Italian peppers and eggs. Oh how I wish we had them back.

[@davidshaffer4649]

Thank you very much,I appreciate being given the opportunity to show my age.

[@OATMEALCMC]

I still use a lot of these things to this very day. Grew up in an reenacting family that was all real big into history. I like to restore old tools and such and put them to use. A lot of them work far better than a lot of their modern counterparts and they last longer; as evidenced by the continued and regular use in my home today.

[@marlenejones6266]

It's awesome to hear someone is using some of these tools. Makes life more interesting I feel to use old things. And yep things built back in the day lasted a lifetime as you have proved.

[@haroldwilkes6608]

Antique planes and levels are in my collection and I wouldn't swap for any of the new ones. Also old braces and bits and saws.

[@damnhandy]

When I was a kid, we had a cat that chewed through one of those cloth-covered power cords on the toaster. We had to get a new cord, and a new cat.

[@joycekastamonitis2187]

I use one of my old irons as a door stop…it’s filled with bits of metal to give it weight….unfortunately we painted them with hamorite

[@timothyroatenberry1274]

Those older tools are better than anything you could buy today ! When plastic come in, quality went out !

[@bgrigg07]

Nailed every one. I've used or played with every one except the Harmonium. Bonus trivia: The stovetop toaster is what Sting is using when he sings "I like my toast done on one side" in "Englishman in New York". You had to manually flip the bread, and some people couldn't be bothered to wait that long.

[@CuriousFocker]

You can also toast on one side in any oven which has a grill which is 95% of all ovens both yesterday and today in the UK and Ireland.

[@Bikebrh]

I'm 56, and some of that stuff would have been in my great-grandmother's house, not my grandmother's. The oldest stuff I have now is the bed and commode that was given to my grandfather in 1900 when he left home to make his way in the world. I also have the piano that was bought for my grandmother in 1915 for her 13th birthday.

[@rayewen3347]

I'm 82 and agree with you. Definitely several generations ago for a few of these things.

[@BenDarioush]

These are all from different eras. If your grandma used a Filofax, that same grandma wouldn't herself necessarily know what a stovetop toaster or manual scales looked like or were, if they were shown those same images. The grandma that would know what those items were, would probably be a great grandma, or older.

[@Quizzes4U]

It depends on how old you are. My Grandma would be 112 now and would have seen all of these things in her lifetime. 😀

[@klumpytheklown3798]

@@Quizzes4U Good job covering all the grandmas. Thanks for not putting anything from my house in the video.

[@Lovelife-xw2pw]

I thought that myself.

[@424stormygirl]

Yeah they still make and sell the stove top toaster to this day, mostly for camping though

[@MrKelseyB]

I have run across Filofax while living in England in the early 2000's and just assumed it was British brand of Day Runner, or planner. Were they ever a thing in the US?

[@josephrogers5337]

I am a great-grandfather and I have used or seen all but the last bonus. I have been a projectionist on 8mm, 16mm, 35mm and 70mm.

[@trevcam6892]

I doubt if all of them would have been in grandma's house, such as a Rolodex. I would have added a slide rule which I used as a Professional Engineer for at least 15 years before the advent of affordable electronic calculators. Still got three slide rules. And my first electronic calculator which cost me £80 in the UK in about 1975. It still works (but I don't use it). Anyway, thanks for reminding me that I'm old and on the scrap heap. Mind you, if all the electronics that keeps everything running today failed at one time I reckon I'd have a leg up on them youngsters for a while.

[@TimberwolfC14]

Have collected and still use a fair bit of stuff built from 20's to 60's, in these days of seemingly built-in obsolescence the old stuff just keeps chugging along

[@skydiverclassc2031]

I have a slide rule too, but it's 18" long or so, not really suitable for school. I did have some smaller ones when I did start high school (1968)

[@JohnnyAngel8]

I went to a tech college in the late 70s and never knew how to use a slide rule. It was Texas Instruments all the way through.

[@hydrolito]

Rolodex were used by secretaries and something similar in library to look up books.

[@haroldwilkes598]

My father was a carpenter so my first calculator (other tha fingers) was a framing square, believe it or nor. You'd be amazed what can be calculated with it. Now I have an abacus and a Lightning Portable Adding Machine from the 40s, both auction finds. Yeah, I'm an accountant.

[@andrewbates6399]

I managed to identify all of them except the bonus pic. I think it could be a vegetable slicer. I actually own a few of those items. They were passed down by my parents in law and my own parents. Happy times. The strange thing is some of those items work better than the ‘modern’ things we have today !!!

[@fernandolimon5909]

Bread slicer for sure

[@rayshelld791]

I'm in my 80s. Not only do I remember, but have used most of them, with the exception of the meat-cheese slicer and the coal iron.

[@melissafields3376]

My grandma collected thimbles. I have her collection now. I didn't realize until I got them that she'd wrote on tiny pieces of paper the names, date and where they came from. Most were given to her by family members whenever we traveled; we would pick up thimbles for her. 🙂 now my grandkids love seeing them and hearing the stories behind them.

[@Quizzes4U]

Thanks for sharing your memories.😀

[@bluegrassgal7856]

Awesome!

[@bryanbennett972]

My wife still uses thimbles that belonged to our Grandmothers and Mom's.when she sews by hand. We have several dozen of them that she keeps in an old sewing basket that was her Moms. She still makes clothes to this day with her sewing machine for herself and our Granddaughter. She also loves to do cross-stitch while I watch TV or fall asleep in my recliner. She is teaching our Granddaughter how to cross-stitch now as well.

[@adrielburned6924]

Kisses not thimbles!

[@424stormygirl]

I still remember when the push button phones come out and were the coolest thing ever. LOL

[@janborrowdale7926]

The roller skates brought back great memories.. you had to tighten them on your shoes so they would stay on.. Linda Ronstadt sang the cutest song ..”I’ve got a brand new pair of roller skates, you’ve got a brand new key. I think we should get together and try them on to see…” Very nice old stuff challenge! Thank you!

[@Quizzes4U]

You got that right! I remember the terrible noise they made as I tried hopelessly to drag my feet down the road😂

[@lechatbotte.]

That was Melanie who sang the song about the shoes skates

[@AFmedic]

Looks like @lechatbotte beat me to it. Linda Rhonstadt may have done a cover version but Melanie not only performed it, she wrote it. I was 21 when it came out in 1971.

[@paulhare662]

We took them apart, nailed them to 2x4s and had dangerous as heck skateboards.

[@bungarraoz254]

Melanie Safka wrote brand new key in early 70's

[@pierresavoie]

I was able to get most of the items shown here. Boy, I am only 61 years old and I am not a grandfather yet. Time flies. Nice video.

[@Quizzes4U]

Time sure does fly.

[@susieq9801]

@@Quizzes4U - Grandma's house??? MY house!!! I'm 73.

[@estellehillermann7650]

I recognised all of these and I'm 56. We used to have that wall mounted telephone at our farm in Zimbabwe and it was a party line. 🤣🇿🇦👍🇿🇼

[@Bogie3855]

Im 73 now and remember using almost all of these items or at least seeing them in houses. I have seen so many changes in tech over these years. Reel to reel, cassette decks, 8 track and it goes on. I got my first cel phone when I was 60 and have had 3 since then. Still have my original flip phone....

[@janeforever]

Got most of these-fun memories. I used a rolodex when I first started working. And my roller skates took me to many wonderful places back in the time when kids still roamed free. The one not so old is the metronome. Many a music teacher still uses one, & we have 1 on our piano that our kids used when they took piano lessons.

[@Quizzes4U]

Thanks for sharing your memories😀

[@rchrdgrn]

Yes but that metronome would be very expensive the ones that teachers use now are electronic

[@rogerrabbit80]

@@rchrdgrn Just took a quick look, and Amazon has some mechanical metronomes for as little as $15.

[@edievandusen5197]

I remember these roller skates well! You could be going like the wind down the sidewalk and one would come loose and there you were, wiping out with a knee that was scraped up and truly painful and hurting!!! We did it over and over everyday, we were tough and fearless!

[@jacquelyns9709]

@@edievandusen5197 My brother and I would jump down 2 to 3 sidewalk steps on our skates all the time. We would also push our baby sister in her stroller while skating. Fun times. As a sidenote, we had her be a cheerleader in her stroller while we played kick ball with our friends.

[@susanlane8803]

Got all of them right, some I even have here at home, still working perfectly, pretty sure the bonus is a bread slicer!

[@AFmedic]

Things found in Grandma's House??????? Most of these are things found in MY house while growing up - and not as relics but everyday items. Of course - I'm 72

[@haroldwilkes6608]

I still regularly use a Lux kitchen timer made in the early 50s.

[@eldamarinadoli]

70 here, and I still remember most of them from my grandparents' home.

[@latachia_2981]

Yeh, you are right! I'm 71 & I can say the same thing! When I saw the title, I sort of figured that would be the case.

[@tanchiewleong59]

We were very poor back then. We never knew our paternal grandmother because my father immigrated from China with a few village friends to seek a better life in early Singapore. My maternal grandmother slept outside someone else's corridor all her life and has no worthy possessions to speak of. Half the things shown in your video we didn't have at all. All of us had a dirt-poor childhood. My father struggled to bring us up selling cooked food on the roadside.

[@tomaustin9017]

our first phone in the house was "pick it up and ask Sadie to get Joe on the phone for me.." the operator worked at a switchboard downtown in the telephone office...our second phone was a rotary dial...my Dad kept using the o instead of the 0 in the phone numbers and they, of course, would not go through...I still have several of the vintage models in a box in the garage.....great memories.....

[@Pinky-lg3lz]

Oddly, those of us old enough to be grandparents may remember flash cubes and 126 film.

[@robertwilliamson6121]

I go back further than flash cubes…to flash bulbs. You could only use them once. Oh wow…I’m showing my age.

[@howiedewin3688]

@@robertwilliamson6121 never regret growing old; It is a privilege denied many.

[@jamesha175]

@@robertwilliamson6121 do you remember that smell from the flash-bulb?

[@robertwilliamson6121]

@@jamesha175 No, I don’t remember the smell. I guess my memory fails me at that point. What did they smell like?

[@jamesha175]

@@robertwilliamson6121 like a powdery chemical kind of smell - i can't really remember it properly other than it was distinctive

[@richardbell7678]

A little known science fiction television series "The Starlost" was filmed back in 1973. They needed a prop for a 'key' that accessed the ship's computer system and activated the doors of the habitat modules. The props master simply grabbed a couple of micro cassettes used for dictaphones. As dictaphones were not cheap, few people had them and the microcassettes would be unrecognizable to most people. Now, with MP3 players, if microcassettes could be found, they would, again, be almost unrecognizable.

[@hydrolito]

Why does Darth Vader have a cassette recorder on his chest and how would anyone not recognize it when the movie came out?

[@jacquelyns9709]

While not as old as the toaster you showed, I still have my parents" original 2-slice electric toaster from the late 1940's. It still works! Although we only plug it in when we are actually using it and stay near it in case it shorts out. It has a thick fabric covered cord.

[@reneemulherin2899]

My husband's beer fridge is his parents' first electric refrigerator. It is the Hotpoint brand and I believe it is from the late 40s or early 50s. It has moved around the country with us several times and still keeps the beer ice cold. It really is true that they don't make things like they used to.

[@patriciaecampbell372]

I SO wish I had my in-laws toaster like this one!! I think it got thrown out.... 😢

[@kerrischuh8000]

I have one of the stove top toasters. We use it for camping.

[@SousChef77]

Was it the kind that slowly rose, instead of popping up? My aunt had that kind and I still that is so cool!

[@williardbillmore5713]

That "fabric " on the cord is asbestos fibers.

[@felsinferguson1125]

Got almost all of 'em - Stumped me with the harmonium and filofax - never heard those names used for either one. I tried to call them a tabletop organ and a daily planner. The bonus shot is a meat and/or cheese slicer.

[@ForeverNeverwhere1]

A filofax wasn't a daily planner, though it could be used as such. They were utterly and totally ubiquitous in the 1980s. Synonymous with Yuppies and the greedy excess of the decade. Basically you bought the binder which came with a few generic pages, then added packs of specific page types for your intended use. You could buy them in every corner shop or stationers. It was more an organiser for whatever you wanted to remember, the thicker and more worn you made yours look the more it projected how important or busy your life was, they seemed to mostly die off in the 1990s at some point but you can still get them if you try hard. The name Filofax does seem to have disappeared from usage.

[@A2D4]

My parents had a toaster like the one shown. I wish I could have one like that. Every toaster Ive owned, no matter how new or innovative, has never worked as well or made toast so even on both sides as that old relic. PS - love the Strauss waltz music!

[@anneupton7776]

It's Tchaikovsky not Strauss. The Waltz of the Flowers from The Nutcracker.

[@A2D4]

@@anneupton7776 Oops, you’re right. My bad......🙄😁

[@RedRonFJB]

I don't have a toaster. I use the top rack of my oven and set the oven to broil. Hi broil it only takes a minute or so.

[@kateslippers8289]

If you really want a stovetop toaster, try looking in camping gear catalog or elsewhere. We had one of these when I was growing up in the 1950s and in the 1990s for camping. Actually we had most of the items shown and we use a rolodex.

[@A2D4]

@@kateslippers8289 That’s a great idea. Thank you!

[@DaimlerSleeveValve]

Got all of them, though we have different names for some of them on this side of the Atlantic. The "scales" are properly known as a Steelyard for example. Normal scales use arms of equal length; these measure weight as a distance along one arm.

[@CitizenSmith50]

Spot on ! "Scales" were either a Beam Balance or a springy thing with a hook one end, a ring the other and pointer to divisions marked on its face.

[@curtpiazza1688]

WOW! Great stuff! Great Memories! Love the background music....Waltz of the Flowers from the Nutcracker by Tschikowsky!

[@curtriceennis2924]

I've used quite a few of these. Such wonderful memories !!! But, I used them at many places, not only at my Grandma's. The bonus is a multi - purpose slicer, I believe. That is one thing I DID use only at my Grandma's, though. My immediate family could not afford to get one for our home. 😻

[@Quizzes4U]

Thanks for sharing!

[@mikebrzostowski8183]

What about the item to beat the small rugs clean, the crease presses that went in mens pants when hanging in the closet, or the insert that goes into socks so they could be mended, shoe stretchers. I remembers all of these things. I wonder how we survived without A/C. We had a coal fired furnace. My job was to fill the stoker with coal. Im 73 and sooo glad i grew up when i did. We all sat at the kitchen table for meals, there was only 1 channel to watch on TV for a long time. Milk came by neighborhood truck delivery. We were happy kids, we were all safe in neighborhood, school, church. Its a truely different world now.

[@Guillaume2606]

I did not know all the English names, but I knew all the answers. Thimbles, accordions, film projectors, spinning tops, metronomes, sickles and oil cans are in fact not things from the past. They're still in use today. Not as often as a few years back, but still... I even know people that still use a rolodex and a filofax. Sometimes the manual scales are used too. The roller skates and the radio are in fact also still in use. They only got a new look!

[@Quizzes4U]

Video is of old things 😄 I never said they are obsolete.

[@Guillaume2606]

@@Quizzes4U No, the title is: "Can You Name These Old Things From Grandma's House?" Well, grandma never needed a rolodex or a filofax. At her age she definitely did not rollerskate, she was too poor to own a film camera, an accordion or a harmonium and of course she did not need a film projector, a metronome or a calculator!!

[@martynstevens100]

I remember the radio at my grandmother's house. Had to wait nearly a minute to get any programme until the valves warmed up enough.

[@frankharris6490]

As a high school student I took an applied electronics class. During the class I started a small business of restoring those old tube radios to working condition. I used to be able to go into the “Radio Shack” (back when the name was descriptive of the product) and would dig through boxes of old vacuum tubes. Rule was you would leave one for every one you took. Wish I had some of those pieces today.

[@mamasam5180]

I knew about 40% of them but I specifically remember the thimbles. My grandma used to collect them. 😊

[@davidshumski4629]

Don't we still use thimbles

[@jeannettehope670]

@@davidshumski4629 Yes, thimbles are still useful if you do any hand sewing or mending (unless you thow away clothes after wearing them twice).

[@howardsmith9342]

That last thing is a bread slicer. I only missed the harmonium. It was clearly a musical instrument, but I didn't know what it was called. I'm 68, BTW.

[@johnmontgomery3471]

It is not surprising that you missed the harmonium. The one pictured is an Indian style instrument which would be unfamiliar to most westerners.

[@markhwlett]

Agreed. Harmoniums are pumped with the feet, not the hand as the one here would be. It is Indian and sounds a bit like a harmonium

[@julienielsen3746]

My grandma died when I was about 6. I do remember going to her house. I remember glassed in cupboards on either side of her fireplace. It was a 1920s 1930s style house. And inside the cupboards was her salt and pepper shaker collection. And other assorted knick-knacks. She had a cat or two. Which my mom hated, because at the time she was not a cat person. And when she used grandmas bathroom the cats would be sitting on the counter, looking at her. Cats will do that if they know you don't like them. I love cats. I missed about three in the quiz. I guess the last one is some kind of cutter. Like a kitchen meat slicer.

[@theresachiorazzi4571]

Believe it or not I still have a few of these. ❤❤❤

[@nyneeveanya8861]

Only one I didn’t get was the Filofax. I thought it was an address/phone number book with alphabetic tabs or a monthly appointment book.

[@hydrolito]

I thought it was for people and businesses addresses and phone numbers and for appointments dates and times as had something similar to do that did not know the name though.

[@lesleyhawes6895]

I had a Filofax which I used mainly as an address book, so I gave both answers!

[@alansylvia4276]

Pretty sure Filofax was the brand name for that appointment book

[@donaldshimkus539]

You did get it right, you just didn't have the right name for it. Congrats!

[@melstiller8561]

Missed one plus the bonus. What a fantastic trip down memory lane! Thanks for posting it.

[@Quizzes4U]

Glad you enjoyed it😀

[@melstiller8561]

@@Quizzes4U -- Yes, I did -- very much! 😀

[@torfrida6663]

Remember most of them. The slicer is more likely to be for bread or similar as the wood for a appears to have traces of flour. All meat hand slicers I have seen were metal and easier to keep sanitary. 🇬🇧

[@kerrislazyoakcrafts9607]

I said bread slicer also. I know there were meat slicers but I think it was mainly sliced by hand. The meat slicers were metal, as you said, and the only one I have ever seen looked almost like a miniature guillotine.

[@haroldwilkes6608]

Good points about the flour and metal for easier cleaning, I missed them both and said meat/cheese slicer but I think you may have proved me wrong. Still, most of the meat and cheese had thin casings or wrappers so there would nor have been a lot of cleaning to do.

[@robertwilliams9753]

Makes a lot of sense

[@sandrataylor3723]

Missed 1. Heck, I've used some of these. especially the roller skates with my key hanging around my neck on a string...lol. Good ole days.

[@SamhainBe]

Only missed the harmonium and "grandma's house", I used most of that stuff when I was growing up!

[@jacquelyns9709]

My grandmother used a coal stove. My mother did the ironing with irons heated on that stove. Her older sister paid her money to wash, starch, and iron her nursing caps. When cooking certain items, leather shoe soles were added to the fire to get the proper heat. My mother, as the youngest daughter, didn't do any cooking so she didn't remember the items. She did do a lot of peeling and cutting of fruits and vegetables during canning season.

[@haroldwilkes6608]

I still have scars from canning season...I empathize with lobsters. My grandma used a coal stove too and was its master...biscuits (or pie) in the oven, coffee on simmering, vegetables boiling and meat frying, all different temperatures at once. That still amazes me.

[@pollyjazz]

I'm pretty sure that iron was the kind you put the hot coals into and not just heated on the stove. My mom was a master seamstress and had one she kept in working order that looked nice on the mantle but was sometimes used during power outs during winter storms. She loved it and said it reminded her of time together with her mother and sisters before ordinary homes had electricity.

[@jacquelyns9709]

@@pollyjazz No the irons my mother used were solid. She had some heating while she used one. They had electricity in her house. Mainly used it for lighting. My mother told me her father gave my grandmother an electric iron. My grandmother was afraid to use it so it was never used.

[@jacquelyns9709]

@@pollyjazz My mother was a fantastic seamstress as well. I hate clothes shopping to this day because she made all my clothes when I was young. I can still spend hours looking at material even though I don't sew myself. I don't have the right kind of patience for it. I can do needlepoint, crewel embroidery, latch hook rugs, etc. My mother didn't have the patience for those. She need make a few quilts however. She thought me how to iron using a regular electric iron before we had steam irons. When I was young we ironed sheets and pillowcases as well as tablecloths and kitchen towels. Now I don't even own an iron and ironing board.

[@haroldwilkes6608]

@@pollyjazz You are correct, heated by charcoal or coal. Sometimes left ashes or dust on clothes though.

[@claire567]

Born in the 90s and only got the ones right that I have seen in movies lol. It was pretty hard for me

[@ramonar6180]

I got them all except the Harmonica. I think the bonus item was a food slicer. My mother always used a thimble & I did too after I had sore fingers from pushing a needle into material. I had those roller skates & had to keep track of the key to tighten them. I put a string on it & hung it in the pantry so I always knew where it was. We still have the old stove top toaster we use when the power goes out. We got it many many years ago to use on camping trips at the beach. You can still buy them.

[@lordmerren9094]

Love "Waltz of the Flowers" , Good choice for a great video.

[@Quizzes4U]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@larissaskylark1174]

I still have a lot of these items in my house! Am I a granny already 😁? 👵👋 Thanks for the video!

[@happyandblessed5640]

I think the calculator was actually called a comptometer. Don't know if I spelt that correctly. We had one in our accounts office and only two ladies used it. The rest of us used calculators. It was amazingly accurate.

[@Ladybug19391]

Bonus answer. Meat/cheese slicer. I grew up in the 30s and 40s. and we had most of these items in our house and what we didn't, my grandparent's had on their farm.

[@donnapollock]

In the bonus I think it is a slicer of some kind. I missed one other. This was great, I enjoyed this. WOW I can't believe I knew all of these items, for only 29 years old LOL

[@Quizzes4U]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@haroldwilkes6608]

You just raised my respect for your entire generation.

[@billyblackie9417]

Very nice to see. I answered 9 out of 10. But may I say. The radio you showed was known back then as the Wireless and then later called the radio. The Iron was used as a coal iron you put red hot red hot coals in it to keep the iron hot while ironing. Similar to the heat pan held hot coal in what might look similar to a wok nowadays with steal lid which was used for warming up your bed. You also had the solid iron that you placed on the stove or gas to heat it and then ironed with it the only draw back is you had to keep re- heating it to continue ironing nice items. There was also the wash boards and the old steel bath the one had to heat the water in pots or kettles and transfer into the bath. We used candles because of no electricity and. The only water you had was an outside cold tap where you had to go outside in all weathers to fill your kettle. Thanks for your great memories

[@Quizzes4U]

Thanks for sharing 😊

[@suzanneturley4433]

I’ve still got and use my Filofax and at one time had a Roladex. Thimbles are still very much in use. Thank you for taking me back to my childhood and seeing my first Rollar Skates again. Absolutely loved rollar skating.

[@stanwolenski9541]

Being over 70 made it easier, I missed two but being over 70 I don’t remember which four they were. Bread slicer.

[@haroldwilkes6608]

Those Biden moments do happen to us, don't they?

[@stanwolenski9541]

@@haroldwilkes6608 Difference is I don’t have the ability to launch nukes worldwide.

[@haroldwilkes6608]

@@stanwolenski9541 Yah, Canada is gonna be in trouble...Ottawa, Odessa, pick one...

[@stanwolenski9541]

@@haroldwilkes6608 If I had to choose, not saying I would do such a thing, I would have to choose Ottawa. Cut off the head of government. In the late 60’s I was a missile launcher crewman for the Nike-Hércules air defense missile , it had a large enough warhead to major damage to Ottawa.

[@haroldwilkes6608]

@@stanwolenski9541 If Trudeau is there, I'm with you. USAF 62-70, never saw a NIKE but they did their job.

[@sarahfern7128]

In my childhood, we used that kind of toaster over an open fire at our summer shack until someone gave my folks a propane stove. We also used an ice box & an outdoors pump. Actually, the electric toaster we had in our city house was far less safe: we had to turn the bread by use of the door which held it in place. This seldom worked. Also, the heating coils were completely exposed. I wonder if that's why I never eat toast & don;t even own a toaster to this day. I think the bonus picture would work for cold cuts, but it would squish bread. A fun video!

[@oldyellerschannel4676]

You can still buy those at camping stores!

[@user-vm5ud4xw6n]

Pretty cool vid. I got quite a few of them right. Not because they were in grandmas house but they were in some in-laws house. Great memories. I remember the roller skates. If you didn’t tighten them down just right they would come off as you were skating and you tripped over them. Good way to fall and twist your ankle!

[@suedobak4971]

Been there,Done that

[@petebrooks6539]

We also had the infamous 'Skate Key' on a loop of string worn around the neck.

[@user-vm5ud4xw6n]

@@petebrooks6539 yep! And what a bummer it was to lose it!

[@deannalebaron8690]

I remembered if you tightened the skates to your shoes too tight, it could rip your shoe or take the sole off! I loved my skates!

[@user-vm5ud4xw6n]

@@deannalebaron8690 IKR? And if you were going too fast and lost your balance the front of the skate would come of and you were left with the strap around the ankle and the back of the skate dragging along behind. It’s a wonder we didn’t kill our selves on them. Good times!

[@JocelynEke-f5m]

My mom had thimbles. About 1/5 of these were not in my home. Many I could not recognize.

[@lindsey6169]

Haha.. I still have my Rolodex from my office days. I just can’t give it up! I don’t use it, but it’s very sentimental to me ❤ That last pic is a slicer.

[@ohcanada8084]

Use at Grandma’s house? We had some of those at items at my house growing up, lol! I do remember, though, the irons being at Grandma’s. She used them as door props, and if one was running through her house and turned too quickly going through her dining room doorway, you were limping the rest of the day!

[@dieselfan7406]

Missed out on the spinning top (we were very poor) but got the rest. The slicer could have been for tobacco. Thanks!

[@joannshupe9333]

Born in the mid 40s and both grandmothers had electric toasters, similar to this one but the electrics only did 2 slices. However, these stovetop toasters can still be bought today for camping.

[@latachia_2981]

I'm 71 years old, & my Mom use the toaster to make toast over the campfire, when we went camping.

[@betsyhall5094]

Agree it is a meet cheese slicer---I remember my grandmother's home very well---they lived in Alabama and we lived in Henderson, Nv. We went every summer to Alabama to visit our relatives there. As a child, I saw all of these things --I missed 1 because I recognized it, but could not remember what it was called!!!! I only saw them at my grandparents on my mom's side!!! So I have a pretty good memory!!! My dad's parents were very poor and didn't have much or many of these--good things!!! I am 63 now -so it was a long times ago!!!!! I loved going through their homes and I love history!!!! How much the young people miss now!!!!!

[@williamstyers4264]

OMG I feel like a certified "old fart" because I remember or have used most of them except the harmonium. Thanks for the memories.

[@ClissaT]

It's a bit hard to see the size/ proportions of the item in the bonus picture. But I have one that is almost identical, much bigger and it is a hand-operated chaff cutter. So I expect this one is smaller and is probably for something out of the veggie garden or maybe slicing some hard meat such as dried and salted pork or camel meat or perhaps a bread slicer.

[@suzannecooke2055]

camel meat??

[@ClissaT]

@@suzannecooke2055 Yes Suzanne! I'm in Australia and often worked in cattle mustering camps many miles from the homestead. We had to be self reliant so we would shoot wild pigs and camels then salt the meat and keep in barrels. Just like the old timers did. We sometimes killed a yearling steer to have a big BBQ and some roast meat on the fire. But they were worth too much money to kill for the workers! Just like now when the price of meat animals is going through the roof here, so it did when I was much younger. I'm talking 50yrs ago. Camel is quite nice and they produce good milk too.

[@haroldwilkes6608]

@@suzannecooke2055 Good eye, I didn't catch that.

[@haroldwilkes6608]

@@ClissaT Thanks for clarification. I feel better now about the ham(?) sandwich I just ate.

[@megpaul6099]

The final picture is a slicer of some kind. And I still use (and love) my Rolodex!

[@jthev]

Saddle shoes were the best shoes to wear with clamp-on roller skates. I still have my skates though the key has been lost. Got me on the filofax-never heard of it. Couldn't remember the name of the Harmonium. I've still got my dad's 8mm movie projector which still works. Wonder of wonders, I still remember how to load the reels of film! It's just as complicated as threading a sewing machine. We kids took music lessons so we had a metronome. What you call a calculator looks more like a checkwriter. It was a device to color and emboss the dollar amounts on business checks to prevent tampering with the amounts. I figured the bonus item was some sort of slicer, but I never saw one before so I don't know what it was supposed to slice.

[@Quizzes4U]

Thanks for sharing your memories😀

[@jerrydillon9436]

up dated to day planer👍👍😎😎

[@theresagallagher9161]

Had a pair of saddle shoes.... couldn't wear those things out ! And you're right ... great with the roller skates. Had a pair of them too with the key... lol

[@barbaratarbell606]

I absolutely require my GE table radio 📻.

[@yourrightimsooosorry884]

Those roller skates were awful, the only place flat enough to use them was the kitchen and the school tennis court!

[@maxotat]

Not so for me! I skated for hours every day after school, out on our street corner! Plenty of scraped knees but I think I loved that more than biking.

[@Myrddnn]

I'm retired now, but still have my old planner. Different brand. I don't really use it, but it has a few memories in it. I've used most of the others excluding the musical instruments. In my own humble opinion, that thing you showed last would most likely be the most dangerous meat slicer ever invented or something you might use to cut bars of ice, like from a drilling core.

[@patriciagarrison3182]

I still use my Filofax…just got my 2023 refills today! Honest!😊

[@karma13612]

Meat slicer. I got most of them, just a few were difficult since I never actually ran across them in my lifetime. At 68, I’d say I’m actually the old grandma in the house!!😂❤

[@athena3865]

Same at 64.

[@davidparker5068]

Considering this item's features, its curved knife--pivoted at the far end--would work like the old time paper cutters. It appears as if the operator would put a bundle of something into the hod/cradle and hold it in place by pushing down on the handle. It would not do a good job on anything that needed to be sliced--like bread, meat, or cheese--but do fine with something that could be *chopped.* It would work for something like scallions, as suggested already, but what kitchen would devote space to a setup that seems as limited in uses. It would do corn stalks, but it looks like an indoor implement, which would rule that out. My money's on tobacco cutter, maybe used to chop entire plants to length in preparation for rolling cigars. Somebody already suggested that, and this is why I agree.

[@haroldwilkes6608]

Logical but the tobacco cutters I've seen were sturdier, had thicker blades and had a longer handle for leverage because they saw heavy usage. Cheese used to come in long blocks and meats in long tubelike casings which would fit tn the trough nicely. Wonder if we'll get an answer.

[@Quizzes4U]

Quite a few correct guesses in the comments. It's a bread slicer made by the company Raadvad.

[@tom-kz9pb]

I am nostalgic for grandma's world.

[@guypeate3628]

My grandma just passed away this morning, the only things I'll remember is her cooking, the photos of my brother and I when we were little, taking the dogs out for a walk and feeding the horses

[@TerenceSmith-dn3gg]

Old women porn

[@poppydillings7448]

My grandmother did her level best attempting to use those old stovetop toasters.

[@SousChef77]

Probably better toasting than the electric toasters today, all of which are worthless....lol

[@alisoncooper1421]

Cooked the toast beautifully, it was a bit like the toast you get when you put a piece of bread on a long pronged fork and hold it over the fire embers. I can still taste it as I write this.

[@prosen8966]

Thank you, thank you! I actually didn’t know or recognize a slew of these items. It made me feel so much younger. That happens so rarely these days… 😂😂😂

[@marleybu302]

My gran never had a metronome. I have one though. Just think they're cool. 🙂

[@MarthaGonzalez-jm3vn]

I have seen them my whole life, but never knew what they were for. Forgive my ignorance. Could you tell me their purpose?

[@marleybu302]

@@MarthaGonzalez-jm3vn hi they're for keeping time while playing musical instruments, usually piano. 🙂

[@MarthaGonzalez-jm3vn]

@@marleybu302 thank you I thought it may have something to do with music but wasn't sure.

[@Pwecko]

I'm 64 and some if those things were antiques when I was a kid.