Everyday Items That Are Disappearing!

Many of the things we used on a daily basis are now fading away. At some point today's items will suffer the same fate. In this video we will take a closer look at some everyday items that are disappearing!
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[@dolcevitausa6448]

I do not miss the items as much as the slower pace of life and the kindness of people that was exhibited at the time.

[@TheUluxian]

Right.. Like when you could "kindly" tell "those people" that THEIR section was around back

[@martingannon874]

People interacted so much more back then.. They were happier days.

[@martingannon874]

@@TheUluxian Whatcha talkin bout Willis

[@Mxyzptlksac]

They were kinder as long as you were like them. Otherwise you were allowed yo live in their neighborhoods, use the drinking fountain, bathrooms etc..

[@TheDanno210]

Agreed, and yet we sound like our grandparents who said the exact same as they aged.

[@keithbrown7685]

I miss the Sear's catalog, and the Sear's "Wish Book" at Christmas. It was an event when that thing arrived. We'd head straight for the toy section. In private, some of us older kids would go to the women's underwear section to look at the bras. Not a lot going on where I came from. : )

[@RhettyforHistory]

Sears, Montgomery Wards and JC Penneys catalogs were all great to receive. Thank you for watching!

[@scottbeck7762]

Yes... toy section up to age 11 then "other sections". Small town in Nova Scotia...lol

[@BastetFurry]

Oh yeah, over here it was the good old Quelle catalog, what a hefty piece of wood and always nice to browse trough. ❤

[@scottbeck7762]

@@BastetFurry was the catalogue heavy or are you flattering yourself?...lol

[@BastetFurry]

@@scottbeck7762 it was as large as a phone book from a big city, the German Amazon of the pre Internet era.

[@larryn1929]

Free X-Rays at a shoe store but pay an arm and a leg for an X-Ray for medical purposes.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching Larry!

[@savagejiren9660]

😂

[@AudreyC379]

Sad but true

[@drudown76]

Free cancer for the shoe salesman

[@collegeman1988]

However, it would cost you a foot or even a leg to cancer if you were exposed to enough of those x-rays from one of those machines.

[@diandian9827]

I can still remember the sound of typewriters, the manual return, the correction tape!

[@sl8605]

And the keys were so hard to press

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching Dian!

[@davidgoodman6924]

And the pay phones usually had a phone book attached to a cable. The phone book always had pages that were ripped out ...😂

[@RhettyforHistory]

You're right about that. Sometimes they would be a wet clump too. Thank you for watching David!

[@pjcnet]

I remember when payphones in the UK had a 2 pence and 10 pence slot with an actual dial, 2 pence was a quick call and you could talk for ages with 10 pence if it was a local call at an off peak time. There was 3 call distance rates within the UK, local calls to the same dial code, regional calls which extended to the dial codes surrounding you and national calls beyond that. On top of this if I remember rightly this was combined with 3 different rates for the time of day, morning (most expensive), afternoon (medium) and then evenings/weekends. If you were making a national call at the morning rate you'd need quite a few 10 pences lined up, you wouldn't get long before you'd hear the pips and you couldn't stack them in advance.

[@westerlywinds5684]

The only page ripped out, was always the one you needed.

[@chuckpoore]

@@westerlywinds5684 Just hope the page wasn't just torn out by a Terminator.

[@PhantomFilmAustralia]

@@chuckpoore If the page with your name on it is still there, you're safe.

[@baconwahoo7538]

I remember in like 1980 there was talk of the phone booth calls going from 10 cents to 25 and we all thought like what the hell.

[@Nomed38]

By the late 1990s and early 2000s the rate was 50 cents but the rate was seldom posted on the phone box.

[@SousChef77]

Hard to put a quarter into your Penny Loafers...lol

[@tedecker3792]

That’s where the term “drop a dime” came from, as in someone anonymously calling the police to turn someone in.

[@spudspuddy]

in the uk now you can't even use cash, you have to buy a prepayment phone card in a nearby shop first...crazy

[@brinsonharris9816]

In the 70s, bubble gum was a penny a piece. We were OUTRAGED when the price doubled to 2 cents. I remember when I was in HS (class of ‘80), a guy glumly looked out the second floor window and said with resigned disgust “Gum’s 3 cents now.” First world problem all the way, but all these years later I can still remember how bummed out the guy was. Coke machine was 15 cents a can, and we were shocked and stunned when they raised it to a quarter.

[@lindah6954]

Remember when anyone who sold shoes had a measuring device that would tell you the right size shoes you needed.

[@RhettyforHistory]

They sure did. I really don't see those much anymore. Thank you for watching Linda!

[@GenRN]

It is called a Brannock device. I found a children’s size one at a thrift shop when I had little kids and it was great for measuring and then ordering on Zappos.

[@ShawnRavenfire]

This is something that should come back. So often, we just try on a pair of shoes, say, "yeah, good enough," and then keep buying that same size for years afterward. The problem is that feet tend to stretch and flatten over the course of the day, so we often end up buying a half a size too small. I was buying 10½ work boots for years and years, wondering why my feet were always so sore at the end of the day, until about a month ago, I tried a size 11, and problem solved.

[@WhynotMinot]

I haven't been to a shoe store recently, but a dedicated shoe store will measure your feet if you don't quite know your foot size. The problem with modern foot measuring, is that only the length of the foot is measured. Then depending on your foot length you try on shoes and if your foot, or heel is wide, you try on the wide version or vice versa. I think that works in general, but there is so much more to a foot, than length and overall width. I personally have a narrow heel, but long toes and a wide toe bed, which is unusual, but that means 99% of shoes don't fit me, and custom shoe stores are rare and very expensive.

[@alimfuzzy]

Our shoe store still uses that

[@sl8605]

I remember visiting people in the hospital and they had the little tin ashtrays so patients could smoke in their rooms.

[@RhettyforHistory]

That's crazy to think about that now. Thank you for watching!

[@pjcnet]

You could smoke in most places in the 1980s in the UK including upstairs on buses, work places like offices and yes even in hospitals, no-one really thought anything of it, then the 1990s started seeing more places restricting it and then of course the law changed in 2007 banning smoking anywhere indoors in a public place including pubs and nightclubs.

[@patriciap9307]

I remember going to the doctor with my mother as a child. There were ashtrays in the waiting room and we would go back and he and my Momma would have a cig and chat in his office before either of us had an exam. Our doc knew my Momma was kind of doctor phobic and he would tell her “Sit down and let’s talk. I’ll have one of your cigarettes and you have one of mine. Let’s trade up and talk about what is going on”. If we were there for Momma, I would sit with his wonderful nurse. If I had to be examined and had to have a shot, he convinced me that his nurse gave shots that didn’t hurt, and I believed him. They treated us so well that wasn’t a bad thing to get to visit them, no matter how sick you were. I miss that!

[@magnificenthonky]

That should really come back. Now, those bastards won't let you even smoke outside 🙄. Things have gotten downright uncivilized.

[@electrogestapo]

It's bound to happen since waaay back then, even doctors were endorsing cigarette commercials.

[@jeffaltier5582]

Oddly, I mostly miss the TV Guide. But that's just because I kind of miss only having 5 stations to choose from. The Guide was great to help play my viewing week!

[@snoopu2601]

I remember my father would send me and my sister to buy his T.V. guid and a newspaper

[@Clara-ph7my]

I used to love the Christmas edition of the Radio Times/TV Times. You would circle all the movies and specials you needed to watch as a family.

[@lamontbradford4630]

Sunday papers used to have a T V Guide

[@kotysuefawcett6538]

I loved the crossword puzzles in TV guide! If I didn't have time, I just tore it out & saved it for next week.

[@snoopu2601]

@@kotysuefawcett6538 yes I remember reading the back stories about some of the actor's that played in the T.V. shows or movie's, there was a lot of intestine stuff to read and use the T.V. guid for. I remember i was able to fold each page to coner to coner to make a Christmas decoration out of it. It would turn into some sort of fancy circle. Ol the good ol day's 🍻 some thing's I would like to have back. We even used to get milk delivered to our home up until the mid 90s in the bottles the last milk man in the northern California bay area. Oh how I miss something of the good ol day's. I do still get the morning Newspaper that seems to be smaller with less readings in it that I remember.

[@BlankBrain]

I miss the smaller shopping carts. They were easier to maneuver and made you consider whether a purchase was a want or a need. I miss the smaller grocery stores too. If you forget something now, you have to push your cart a football field to get it. They used to have baggers at the store too!

[@RhettyforHistory]

It was definitely more personal when they were small and people were much more willing to help you out. Thank you for watching!

[@jrnfw4060]

And it's way too easy to get separated and lost in those huge mega-stores. What gets me are the ones that have their restrooms located a mile away and you have to walk all that ridiculous distance just to use one. They don't take into account folks with bad knees or foot pain or who can't walk huge distances. Obviously, there is little corporate caring about customer convenience.

[@tehrinny7031]

For awhile, I was a cashier at a grocery store that still had baggers (early 2000's). I still see them sometimes at some bigger grocery stores. The problem is that baggers would need to go from one cashier to another depending on how big of a load they had. And not all of them would get the details about how someone wanted their items bagged. You wouldn't always have a dedicated person. It was always a struggle trying to tell the new bagger to make sure to only put 3 cans per bag, and they wanted specific items seperate, when my attention is on what I'm scanning and not on who is behind me. I had so many angry customers. Honestly it was just easier for me to turn around and bag it myself because I knew how they wanted it, especially if they were a repeat customer. That said, I actually prefer using self checkout because I can bag stuff the way I want. And if I forget something in my cart, I can just grab it instead of jumping back in line. I do get the stuff about declining jobs, but I think the solution is finding better and more meaningful work for people rather than scraping bottom of the barrel minimum wage mindless tasks. A lot of times, my baggers weren't just high school students, but people in their 30's and older, and this was 20 years ago. It's only gotten worse. :/

[@warthog473]

Our two grocery stores have two sizes of carts and handheld baskets. The smaller carts have two tiers of baskets and they are very maneuverable. But when my son was a toddler, it had to be the cart that had a car attached to the front with a steering wheel so he could "drive". That thing was like pushing a tractor trailer truck through the aisles. Circling the parking lot, looking for one of those car carts that wasn't in use...good times!

[@briansaxby5357]

Miss everything in this, wish I could go back to the 1980's

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching Brian!

[@andrewmah2962]

I never knew that had cigarette vending machines

[@mark3464]

You miss pay phones? Lol

[@michellelogreco3351]

Yes, good life then 🙏🏻👍🏻💕

[@DoubleMrE]

The thing I miss about the pre-cellphone era is that you could escape from being contacted. If you went camping or whatever, you could be really free from being bothered.

[@kylegroth3199]

Put the phone on silent and tell people you don't have service about 2 days a week I have "no service "

[@decemberkat]

@@kylegroth3199 Yep!

[@pantsberg]

And you can still do that now, it’s not that hard to silence a phone

[@DoubleMrE]

@@pantsberg the same people you’d like to avoid (like parents or bosses) are the same people that expect you to be available on your cellphone and won’t be pleased if you’re not.

[@davidwilson2214]

You still can. Heehee

[@Retired_Gentleman]

I remember the x-ray machine in a particular shoe store. I was fascinated how I could see the bones in my toes move. My mother told me to stop putting my feet in it not because it was dangerous but because, "Other people wanted to use it."

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us RPM!

[@nickimontie]

I remember when cigarette machines had signs that warned only 18 and over could purchase them. That never stopped anyone I knew!

[@RhettyforHistory]

Very true! Thank you for watching Nicki!

[@spudspuddy]

still had a cig machine in my pub in 2010, had to watch it like a hawk or teens would sneak in and use it

[@clifftarrance]

I recently saw a pay phone on a wall outside a corner store, and it surprised me so much to see it that I took a picture of it. A few weeks later I saw that it was gone, so I took another picture of the blank wall where it had been.

[@RhettyforHistory]

It's always sad to see past items we used go away. Thank you for watching Cliff!

[@paulstan9828]

Oh boy can’t believe the X-ray machine was still in use in the 70’s. All the things we grew up with are already obsolete. When I occasionally worked on a Sunday I knew a guy who would put in his $.50 to buy a paper and empty the whole machine then sell the other papers throughout the work area. He’s one of the reasons the paper machines are gone. Loved the old TV guide.

[@RhettyforHistory]

I don't think it was as readily available in the 70s and it was more the earlier part of the decade. Thank you for watching Paul!

[@jbrou123]

Although foot x-ray machines aren't used any more, some shoe stores do have a device that you stand on to measure your feet, but I think those use infrared or ultrasound.

[@paulstan9828]

@John Stuart Mill 😁 That’s for sure.

[@swansfan6944]

Hi 👋 Paul

[@paulstan9828]

@@swansfan6944 😁👋

[@DashingPunkSamurai]

This channel is like a favorite blanket. It always makes me feel so warm, comfy and filled with good memories. 😊

[@brendakrieger7000]

Yes,I agree🥰

[@pongop]

Me too. This channel and Recollection Road give me that feeling. Great channels!

[@kathyp.9507]

Have you noticed at 5:56 on the first 5 coins all the faces (Eisenhower, Kennedy, Washington, Roosevelt, Jefferson) are facing towards the left. Only Lincoln is facing right.

[@decemberkat]

@@kathyp.9507 👀 Interesting!!

[@crystalhogan3834]

Me too

[@spaceghost27]

i remember as a kid, my grandmother would drive me to the convenience store and i'd get a comic book and she'd give me money to get her some marlboros. it was never a problem getting them.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching Spaceghost!

[@patriciap9307]

I used to walk to the local store with a note from Momma and Daddy, lol! They always gave me some extra to buy penny candy!

[@chichi9851]

My aunt used to send me. They were "so expensive" at $2.10 a pack. I went for penny candy when it was really a penny! Those were the days.

[@MikeysMorgue]

Yep. I remember when I was a kid wondering about those newspaper machines. That's trust! Remember the days when you could leave your door unlocked and a handshake meant your word? Those great days are long gone!

[@RhettyforHistory]

Times have certainly changed!

[@jrnfw4060]

Keeping one's word was especially cherished in past times. Trust, and being trustworthy, were highly valued. A promise was a promise, and you were expected to keep a promise once you made it. Today, even when the terms of a deal are put into writing, as in a legal contract, seems there are all kinds of ways any one or more of the parties can renege on parts of it, and actually get away with it. That's because there's so little honor, anymore, and little or no accountability these days. And you don't dare just accept a verbal agreement, anymore, because so few people these days regard their word as their bond. That's sad!

[@MikeysMorgue]

@@jrnfw4060 Perfectly said! Sad indeed.

[@RIPPER334]

Funny... There's a waffle house just outside of my town, that STILL has a cigarette machine, a payphone, AND a jukebox. The cigarette machine has been empty for a few years... But I remember buying many packs of smokes out of it 30+ years ago... When I thought I was looking cool setting there puffing a stinking cigarette in front of all the "cool" kids. 😂

[@GetDougDimmadomed]

The cigarette DOES look kinda cool, and some people even find it attractive. The device, not the addiction. The scruffy looking Sherlock looking guy with a longcoat leaning on a vintage Indian Knucklehead, looking at you sideways while puffing on a Marlboro. Now if only it was a null aesthetic device instead of a deathstick.

[@rebornitsybitsy7515]

This video definitely deserves a thumbs 👍 up

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and I appreciate the thumbs up!

[@travishagan8951]

I was once friends with a Korean war vet who sold ads in the yellow pages for a living God bless you Lou

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and sharing his memory.

[@williamhild1793]

I remember all of these. Life was so much easier back then. I still pine for those days, before the world went crazy.

[@TheUluxian]

Ah..yes.. The TB..the polio..the asbestos..the lead paint..thalidomide babies.."Duck and Cover" drills..Air raid shelters...Being a cigarette smoker where ever you went, whether you wanted to be or not..having separate facilities for "those people"... So much "saner" back then...

[@AgentOffice]

Calm but deadly. I wouldn't give up our technology

[@incognito5109]

​@@TheUluxian I think the 90s were the best and what he was probably referring to . But then 9-11 happened and suddenly everyone and everything started becoming different and uptight . Regardless i miss when $20 could be infinitely stretched and I could easily start a family without the home buying stress . 28 and still live with parents 😂..sigh 😢.

[@BastetFurry]

@@TheUluxian if i may cherry-pick here, would love our modern medicine, modern view on society and so on with 80s style tech, games, music and movies. And speaking for Germany, bring back smoking in the bar! A Kneipe has to have an Aschenbecher!

[@spudspuddy]

me too i really yearn for the 50s and 60s again in Britain

[@BenjaminGessel]

I think the only things I actually miss are primarily buying music, movies and video games on CD’s, DVD’s, or some other physical format, rather than electronically/digitally buying them. It’s a “weird” way of owning something…. I’ve never truly liked it… As for this stuff, I kinda miss seeing a few things, but, you know, I don’t think I’ve ever actually used a pay phone…. (Though I have seen them, here and there in the past.) Also phone books…. They were kinda nice, yes…. Some of this stuff seems very pre-1980 or pre-1970 even…. I think old fashioned typewriters became outdated right around when personal computers started to be a big thing…. (80’s?) I’ve never even seen an X-ray device at a shoe store (for feet)…. (Was that a pre-80’s thing?). Newspaper dispensers, yep, these were fairly common until recent years (in big cities/street corners and in big businesses, malls, hospitals, etc.). Jukeboxes still exist, but only in retro cafe’s, etc. Cigarette dispensers, geez…. Those guys look like they belong in a motel somewhere that never made it past the 70’s, regarding interior design/decor, etc. 🤣😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣 TV guides were never truly my thing (as a boy, teen, etc. in the 80’s and early-mid 90’s), it was always more like, “Let’s see what’s on now…” I miss how popular libraries used to be, as well as the way they were. I miss some of the programming on tv, as well as the VHS stuff at public libraries. I miss the variety of stores there used to be. I HATE Amazon…. I have mixed feelings about malls, and yes, they are not nearly as popular as they once were. I also miss the way movie theaters used to be. Drive-in movie theaters, that’s somewhat different, sure, but I am definitely a sucker for 60’s and 70’s architecture/design (50’s as well). So with those cigarette machines even, kinda like those smoky bowling alleys, video game arcades, dart playing areas, etc., sure, I have a spot in my heart for even those kinds of places (interior decor-wise), esp. video game arcades. Bowling alleys still exist of course, along with the video game arcades, but yeah, things are different these days…

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and sharing some of your thoughts and experience with things.

[@robertsieli3640]

You can still buy physical media. I've got plenty of movies that I love on 4K, Blu-ray, and DVD. You aren't looking hard enough. Everything else I stream. I don't buy digital.

[@christopherlussier4383]

Being born in 71 I know of an miss all of these things. There are a few of these things still around if you look really hard enough and some of these left decades ago. Thanks Rhetty 👍

[@unicornmadness6286]

They use to have cigarette machines inside hospitals, and I use to think that was quite odd. Out here in Seattle Washington we still have news paper machines throughout the state. The last time any news papers were in them, was back in 2010. I haven't seen a phone book since 2006, and phone booths the last one I saw here in Washington state was in 2016 and yes it still worked.

[@jbrou123]

Back in the 50's and 60's, there were TV commercials with doctors promoting the brand, or the ad would say 'Doctor recommended'.

[@alphagt62]

My folks have been watching old Perry Mason reruns. In every episode, there is a scene where they all light up a cigarette. I guess it didn’t seem so obvious in 1957, but now the product placement sticks out.

[@dbranconnier1977]

That would be like seeing candy and sugary drink vending machines at a dentist' office.

[@unicornmadness6286]

@@dbranconnier1977 🤣🤣🤣 Absolutely, which would defeat the purpose.

[@unicornmadness6286]

@@jbrou123 Oh yes I'm quite aware of that there, and I thought that to be odd as well. My grand folks told me all sorts of stories. Most, I thought were tales and when I found out they were true I was flabbergasted.

[@kenyattaclay7666]

One thing you left off about the cigarette vending machines was that you could also buy cigarettes with just a note if you were under age. My mom quit smoking when I was around 9 or 10 but before then she would send me to the store with a note & some money & the guy would just hand me the cigarettes & change. I can’t even imagine a parent today letting a 6 year old walk to the store these days let alone to buy cigarettes.

[@RhettyforHistory]

You're right about the note. I remember doing that. I talked about that in another video dealing with what kids can no longer do. Thank you for watching!

[@magnificenthonky]

If it were up to me, you could send your 6 year old to grab a six pack, along with the cigarettes. Laws have gotten way too overbearing.

[@critical_always]

The tobacco store in my neighbourhood knew everyone. Dad would often send me for errands like that. They knew whose kid I was.

[@spudspuddy]

true, my mum used to sent me with a note in the 60s, packet of 10 players number six, they cost about 1/6d which is about 7.5p - 8p in modern decimal money lol

[@1805movie]

I don't think cash is ever going away. It's always good to have it on hand in case you're low on funds on your debit card (or if you're over-drafting on your credit card). Especially if you're out and about going to your local coffee shop or store. Plus, it helps you budget your spending habits by physically counting how much money you have in your wallet. With credit/debit cards, you're only guessing and hoping you're paying the right amount. Sometimes having something tangible can feel reassuring. Also, film cameras are making a comeback. And there are directors who prefer to shoot on film (Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson, Christopher Nolan, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg, etc). I think these "disappearing" items will only disappear if we allow them to.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and sharing your thoughts Ryan!

[@mardus_ee]

The problem with guessing whether the amount paid will be within the limits of an account balance, is characteristic only to United States, because stores and other outlets do not show tax on price tags, making it difficult to guess the actual amount to be paid at the cash till.

[@sammylane21]

I can't imagine all germs on those phones in those phonebooths...YUCK!

[@RhettyforHistory]

They could really be nasty sometimes. Thank you for watching Sammy!

[@Gr8Passion4Music]

Wow what a memory :-) those phonebooks. Seeing own number in a phonebook was really delightful.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and sharing your memories!

[@sideburn]

“I’m in the phone book! I’m somebody!” - Navin Johnson

[@RhettyforHistory]

Love that movie! Thanks for watching!

[@sideburn]

@@RhettyforHistory Navin is my idol. I strive every day to be just like him!

[@leesashriber5097]

I look forward to your uploads!! I remember most of these. I never knew about the shoe x-ray machine. We stepped on those metal rulers for new shoes. Thank you my friend!!😊

[@angeladay1534]

Or wooden floor measuring rulers.

[@bettytordoff8920]

Another great stroll down a not so distant Memory Lane. Thanks, Rhett!

[@RhettyforHistory]

You're welcome and thank you for watching Betty!

[@whiterabbit-wo7hw]

Hey Rhett, great video on how our lives have changed during the past years. I had my grandfather's 1930s typewriter and gave it to a friend of mine. Lost a treasure there. I'm so sorry about Sarah's father. May God comfort your family in this time of need. Take care my friend.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for your kind words. It is greatly appreciated. Her mother is still around but her mobility is limited. He really took care of her and it was all unexpected. We are all trying to pitch in a help her here and there. That typewriter you had sounds really neat. I would love to have something like that now.

[@kimglass4851]

I really miss the TV guides! Loved the articles in them and the crossword puzzle in the back! Phone booths should be brought back IMO and in the UK they still use them or did when I was there in 2011. Great video! Thank u Rhett!

[@RhettyforHistory]

You're welcome and thank you for watching Kim!

[@mandiwolfe6631]

Sacagawea coins spritzed with a touch of glitter hairspray were what the tooth fairy brought.......no one else really used them so they really believed the coins were from the fairy. ♡

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us Mandi!

[@magnificenthonky]

Lol, that's not what the tooth fairy brought me. I was lucky to get a quarter; I think that it was a nickel the 1st few times, then dimes, and the last one or two were quarters. Meanwhile, that fairy was dropping $5's on my peers 😡. Oh well 😂

[@angeladay1534]

Wow....that's wild!!!! 🪙🧚‍♀️

[@angeladay1534]

​@magnificenthonky 😂 I got a dime, Nickel or a few pennies. Never dollars.😂🦷

[@magnificenthonky]

@@angeladay1534 Heh. Well, now we both know that we weren't alone in suffering from tooth fairy discrimination 🤣

[@vixengypsy]

Seeing Tom Hanks & Stephen King for typewriters was needed, thanks Rhetty!

[@RhettyforHistory]

You're welcome and thank you for watching! I had some other celebrities in this one too.

[@PhantomFilmAustralia]

Spielberg put a typewriter joke in _Saving Private Ryan._ Knowing Hanks was a typewriter enthusiast, there was a small scene where Private Huppam wanted to take a typewriter on the mission. Hanks' character suggested a pencil would be more practical.

[@edwin5419]

Nice trip down memory lane

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching Edwin!

[@rayinpau.s.a.6351]

Rhetty , Please do a show on the becoming of radio/stereo's on how massive they were and now blue tooth and earbuds !

[@kimbrey65]

My husband had these huge speakers for his component stereo system. They were 3 feet tall and heavy. His component system was simply a receiver and a multi - disc changer. Plus huge headphones 🎧 with a very long coil cord.

[@alphagt62]

@@kimbrey65 the speakers I have now are 5 feet tall and weigh 200 lbs each! They cost $8k new as well, I got them used for a fraction of that. Big stereo is still around, but it’s extremely expensive, the mid fi of the 70’s and 80’s has faded away, the old receivers from those days can be found restored and sell for big money! And record players have made a big comeback, new vinyl records sell for $25 each, and are very well made. High end stereo is now a thing for the wealthy or dedicated, I’m not wealthy but I’ve got $10 grand in my system, collected over a number of years, and mostly all used. I can’t believe that kids today are content with their cell phones and ear buds, they do sound amazing but it lacks something that the big stereos have.

[@weegie3343]

nothing sounds better than 10 inch subwoofers. Headphones can be good, but something is missing from bluetooth earbuds

[@anasbakhit4303]

I still have a TV guide in a closet somewhere it was for the year 2001. each time I scroll through the pages of the magazine I felt nostalgic and also laughing my ass out since almost 98%of the channels on the magazine no longer exist😂

[@RhettyforHistory]

Times have certainly changed. Thank you for watching!

[@tinytt854]

I'll be 54 this month. I remember all but the shoe machine. How time flies, right?

[@RhettyforHistory]

It sure does. Thank you for watching and sharing what you remember!

[@BrokenFootRailfan]

I live in a tiny rural mountain town where we still have a pay phone on the main road (because you don’t have reception in a lot of our area) and we also still have a couple newspaper machines! I love buying our little local paper just to see what’s going on in our area, even though I can read it online. The thing I miss most is film and manual cameras, although I do still have one. It’s been decades but I can still remember the smell of the darkroom and developing film and prints. I would love the chance to be able to do that again!

[@stephenpowstinger733]

I miss most of these. The Yellow Pages were easy to use. Too often I’ve seen Google have the wrong or obsolete information.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching Stephen!

[@jrnfw4060]

We still have a land line where we live. Can't get cell service out here. And we still have the printed phone directories that include a page of zip codes for our town and various surrounding cities. We still have the newspaper dispensing machines, and hubby often purchases papers from them. We live in a rural area where some of these things are still present and used. I'm glad.

[@marcuslinton310]

And yet the yellow pages put out once a year somehow had all perfect information? I don't think so. GMAFB!!

[@stephenpowstinger733]

I never said the Yellow Pages were perfect. An irritating remark you made troll.

[@bigshot0987]

Always a good weekend when one of Rhett’s videos hit love it and miss the good old days

[@suzannelawson9215]

I loved the TV Guide, not like the current ones. This was before cable channels. I still have some I kept and are in a box in my storage unit. T.V. Guides from late 1970's, some from the 1980's and into the 1990's.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching Big Shot!

[@bigshot0987]

I bet those guides would probably sale for good money to the right collector but I’m not sure if I could give up a piece of history like that

[@LemonTree9280]

One of my fondest memories of my adolescence was being 12 or so in the early 90s riding our bikes with a sock full of quarters to the IGA to use the lobby cigarette machine. One of us would lookout while the other would frantically shove quarters into the machine

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thanks for watching and sharing your memories!

[@marinebiogeo]

Yeesh! That sounds disgusting! 🤢 Thank goodness we have plain cigarette packages and upcoming individual cigarette cancer labels in Canada. 🇨🇦 Hopefully, cigarettes will be banned soon enough.

[@cherisseshaw]

IGA? Are you from Ohio? We had a few IGA's was one of my fav. Grocery stores as well as Finast

[@LemonTree9280]

@@cherisseshaw small town Missouri just outside st Louis

[@bh2155]

This is a very fun channel full of nostalgia.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and I'm glad to hear you are enjoying the content!

[@SavedByGrace_CitizenEmperor]

I remember that my father had an electric typewriter that I used for school in informatics. That was around the year 2000. My landlady is older than 60 and she doesn't own a PC. She uses a typewriter for writing us tenants notifications. 😅 20 years wasn't such a long time ago, yet every day technology changed so fast that if I at least would look forward from 2000 to today, I would think that all this was like totally surreal because practically every normal person can afford a flatscreen and a smart tv, when back then it seemed that this stuff was reserved for the more wealthy people. 😊

[@SousChef77]

We bought a "Smart TV". Thing is in closet collecting dust because we cannot get it to work. Probably best thing that ever happened. No TV is AWESOME!!!!! No longer mad at kids or grands for not helping us. ROFL. God is Good!

[@theodorerelic2718]

What do I miss? Probably the newspaper machines. We used to subscribe to the local paper (Columbus Dispatch) for over a half-century (We had it in the 60s when I was a small child, so my parents probably subscribed before then), but I also used to love going downtown and seeing the various vending machines with out-of-town newspapers as well. I especially loved it because I collect papers from special news events, like elections or wars or such. We recently quit subscribing to the Dispatch because they sold it to Gannett and now it is not even published in Ohio, so anything newsworthy often appears two days after the fact. But anyway, the newspaper vending machines pretty much went bye-bye in the last decade around here. Sadly, most stores no longer sell them either. I wanted a paper to document a certain newsworthy event that happened Thursday for my collection, but yesterday (when the newspapers would have gotten it) I found there are no stores within a two-mile radius that even carries newspapers anymore. So even the places that gave you a reason to not use a vending machine don't sell them anymore.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and sharing your memories Theodore!

[@brendaholliday6866]

Rhett, I really enjoyed this video about items we used but have disappeared. I've never heard of the x-ray shoe machine, but I've heard of practically everything else that you featured. The item I miss the most is the typewriter. Have a fantastic weekend.Take care 🐎

[@rsmith6212]

I worked on and sold typewriters back in the 60's, 70's and 80's. Also word processors, copiers, duplicators, and calculators. Then whatever new came along.

[@keywestjj]

My friends and I (in our 70's!?!?) are now ahgast that we would "play" with the X-ray shoe machine watching our foot bones moving around while our mothers tried on shoes!!! 😒 ALL that radiation .. but ... nobody knew.

[@lakrfan4980]

I remember seeing and using basically every vintage item in this video, including the foot xray machine. I used to have an extensive collection of 35mm film equipment that in my opinion offered superior results when compared to the present digital age.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and sharing your memories lakrfan!

[@janellemiller1195]

Our pizza hut had cigarette machine until 2002 when the restaurant remodeled. We still have phone books and newspapers machines. I live in a small rural town and I pass 3 on the way to get my po box.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and sharing how it is where you are Janelle!

[@marlenepearson3936]

Always enjoy your videos Rhett. Makes you realize how many things have just plain vanished. 😢

[@RhettyforHistory]

There really has been a lot that has changed. Thank you for watching Marlene!

[@slivorywings2821]

I concur makes me sad, not enough for tears, but still.

[@gooniesgirl1979]

My parents would probably never have met without some of this stuff. I remember seeing cigarette machines at places like Denny’s into the late 80s. Kids today wouldn’t know what a flash cube is. I am grateful I can send messages and photos to a cute guy who lives 700 miles away, though!

[@MikeysMorgue]

He's not that cute! 😁😅😁

[@gooniesgirl1979]

So you’re that cute guy I was talking to all night 😊! I sent you another photo just now.

[@MikeysMorgue]

@@gooniesgirl1979 Let me check. Am I that guy? This video got me remembering all kinds of stuff. I had to leave 3 comments!

[@skottlee8959]

Boomers in heat

[@MikeysMorgue]

@@skottlee8959 💋😘

[@flowerchild89]

Wow! This video was a pleasure to see! I remember all of the items that were spoken about. I'm an early 70's baby. I miss these days and ways of life!

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching Emily!

[@grayrabbit2211]

Those credit card imprint machines were known as "knuckle-busters". In the hands of a competent sales clerk, you could process a transaction almost as fast as US chip-reader transactions. Also, there were carbon-copy paper/slips which had individual carbon sheets between pages, then later carbon-less where the backside of the top paper was impregnated with some chemical which reacted with the bottom page.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and sharing a little more with us GrayRab!

[@tehrinny7031]

I did have to use these on occasion up until the mid 2000's. I worked at Sears and I broke them out when our card readers wouldn't work or the card wasn't functioning right. At least by that point, they were straight-forward to use and pretty quick. I imagine older models would've been harder. Later on, I was a manager at a dollar store for about 10 years. I don't even remember seeing one of them in my store or in my office. You'd just get a card declined message and the customer would have to sort it out themselves. We had no way to manually enter cards after a certian point due to human error.

[@xXGenuwineXW0lfensteinXx]

Thank you sir for making these epic videos to remind us of the past ..keep up the fine work ,have a good evening.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you and I appreciate you watching!

[@joshwarren7569]

I remember the micro fische machine at libraries for news paper aeticles. 😅😊😮❤😇💜

[@RhettyforHistory]

It was time consuming but I always enjoyed looking thru those. It never failed I would find something else interesting. Thank you for watching!

[@mardus_ee]

Microfiche is still used in any industry that handles documents, as it can last well up to a hundred years. The insurance industry comes to mind as one such place that uses microfiche for long-term document storage.

[@kotysuefawcett6538]

Still love my typewriter! Keeps my fingers limber also! Thanks, Rhett! 👍🤗✌️

[@RhettyforHistory]

You're welcome and thank you for watching Katysue!

[@marccaselle8108]

I also miss my dad's electronic smith corona typewriter. I used to do my homework for grade school on that one. In particular, I liked the clack sound it would make when the keys would strike the paper. When you pressed enter, it would beep and the red LED would flash briefly.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us Marc!

[@H4TTOR1_H4NZO]

Speaking of cigarette vending machines, its such a weird concept how we used to be able to go shopping while smoking, there used to be a Ashtray at the end of every aile lol, and walking through the mall smoking cigarettes with a mixer drink was normal 😂🤯

[@Nomed38]

Several models of Cadillac had a small cocktail bar in the glovebox compartment. The local Save-a-lot allowed smoking in the store until around 2004.

[@jbrou123]

Back then, every car had a cigarette lighter and ash tray. Airlines, restaurants and movie theaters had a smoking section.

[@stevenlitvintchouk3131]

@@jbrou123 The outlet for the cigarette lighter is still there, but now it's used mostly to power various plugin electronic devices. You can still purchase a cigarette lighter for the outlet if you want.

[@wolfmantroy6601]

I remember smoking on airplanes.

[@tehrinny7031]

I also remember getting burnt by random strangers in stores. Just being a kid, walking along and some granny not paying attention would burn a hole in my shirt. Sometimes it was my mom doing it. So glad that I can go places without smelling cigarette smoke everywhere.

[@SavaFiend]

Verizon still delivers phone books where I live every year! They stopped doing it for a few years and people complained LOL Our local retro arcade has a jukebox that plays CDs. My dad has a very old jukebox that plays 45s in his basement.

[@UnwrittenSpade]

I was born in 85 and I still remember cigarette machines. Also I lived in Japan from 05-10 and they still have them so crazy

[@ChrisRoth1972]

Same here,I’m ashamed to admit this,when I was 16 in 1988 I bought a pack of Marlboro 100’s from a Cigarette Machine & now I am glad they are obsolete so kids won’t make the same mistake I did.

[@RhettyforHistory]

That is crazy they still have them. Thank you for watching!

[@donotsupportterroristgroups]

I have a value recollection of those but don't even remember where I saw them. 🤔Maybe in rest areas along the highway?

[@starababa1985]

One thing that wasn't so great back then was the absence of rest rooms in grocery stores. You had to be sure you took care of business before you left the house, or endure an agonizing wait in the checkout line. Those tile over cement floors could work like a laxative. Some customers would abandon their carts to race home. Once one store installed rest rooms it would become so popular the competition would soon follow suit.

[@bryanbilek2146]

Love that you referenced: 'The Jerk.' "The new phonebook is here!!! The new phonebook is here!!!" 😂

[@RhettyforHistory]

I love that movie! Thank you for watching!

[@edwardx4979]

When I was a lad and the city supplied us with the latest White Pages, we used to look enthusiastically to see if my parents' names and address was still in there! ☺️

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and sharing your memories with us Edward!

[@edwardx4979]

@@RhettyforHistory Thank you for sharing your videos of our memories from times past, mate! 😊

[@isaiahwinbrone]

Those were the good old days

[@RhettyforHistory]

Yes they were. Thank you for watching Isaiah!

[@timewarpambience1956]

I never grew up in the 50s, 60s or 70s but this is video brings back memories of hearing stories of my parents and grandparents childhoods. I really enjoy your channel, you just gained a new subscriber! ❤😊

[@spudspuddy]

i'm like your granny i grew up in the 50s, my heart breaks for it i miss it so much

[@earlschenk4343]

I really like looking back at the way we did things. Faster is not always the best way to do things. Patience is a virtue.

[@allthebest744]

This certainly brought back a lot of memories!

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching All the Best!

[@swansfan6944]

I really liked the tv guide, I enjoyed flicking through and I actually miss it. I also still buy and read from real books 📖 I don’t like e books and don’t have one. I miss my mums old typewriter, ( I wish I had it ) I was so impressed with how quickly she typed. That brought back fond memories of her. ❤️Jodie 🇦🇺

[@paulstan9828]

😁👋 Hi Jodie!!

[@whiterabbit-wo7hw]

Hi Jodie. Good to hear from you again, my friend. White.

[@RhettyforHistory]

I prefer real books as well. I enjoy the feel, sound and especially the smell. Plus I don't have to worry about having something charged or reception. I also love to go shopping for new ones and finding some gems I didn't expect to see. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories Jodie!

[@gregflaten4859]

amazing what we grow accustomed to and than its gone for progress. fun to see old and new.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching Elmer!

[@tj921able]

I miss newspaper machines a lot. You could look in the window and decide if you wanted to purchase a paper or not. Thank you for sharing this. God Bless You & stay safe.

[@luisreyes1963]

I miss looking forward for the next issue of TV Guide when it came out at the drugstore. Also, Stephen King at 10:14! 😱

[@RhettyforHistory]

Yes it is. I had multiple celebrities in this video. Thank you for watching!

[@bonniekaye]

Loved this! 🙂👍

[@anitalonski2126]

Don’t really miss any of these , I did enjoy the jukeboxes back in the day

[@lesliehackney7519]

There was not a single item in this video that I don't remember. I really don't miss any of them with maybe the exception of the TV Guide. I liked being able to see everything on one page for the day and not have to scroll. I do remember having to step into the shoe x-ray machine a few times but not all stores had them and we often went where they didn't have one. I really love how you come up with your videos and the research you have to do for them. Another interesting one today.

[@willhorting5317]

Any time that I got caught being that close to the TV, I would get a lecture about how it would hurt my eyesight (I was already near-sighted and wearing glasses by age 5). And after the lecture, and being told to move several feet away from the TV, I generally also got a spanking because I knew that I was not supposed to sit that close.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Now look at everyone with phones in their face!

[@willhorting5317]

@@RhettyforHistory exactly 😁

[@DylansPen]

Keep in mind, you could have a paper dispensing machine where you put in a quarter, opened the front and took a paper, and though sometimes there was theft it was pretty rare.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching Dylan.

[@j.s.matlock1456]

I miss the old IBM Selectric II typewriter I used when I first became a secretary in the mid-seventies. My boss' stepdaughter would sit on my lap and play with it. When she graduated from college, I was still using the same typewriter. I loved that machine.

[@love2000amglam]

2:14 newspaper vending machines - I forgot these even existed. Wow what a throwback. 😮

[@smittykins]

There was a bar on the main street of my town, and during the summer when the door was kept open, you could see a cigarette machine as you walked past. It made sense since you had to be 21 to enter the bar. I don’t know if it’s still there since NYS enacted its indoor-smoking ban in the mid 2000s.

[@martinmurphy4852]

So you can go into a bar drink poison and try to sleep with people you just met and NY is going to save me from myself by making sure I dont smoke while I am there?

[@MikeysMorgue]

I remember circling movies I wanted to watch in the tv guide. I would star the ones I wanted to tape!

[@gooniesgirl1979]

Do you remember what the abbreviations were? AS, S, N, V.

[@MikeysMorgue]

@@gooniesgirl1979 Yeah. Nudity, Violence, Adult Situation. RIight? If not let, what?

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and sharing some of your memories Mikey!

[@AntiSerpent]

❤😊I love seeing old vintage things.

[@angeladay1534]

I remember Rolodexes at work, I would have to update business addresses and information and make new addressograph plates. I loved playing with carbon paper for tracing cartoons in the Sunday paper, etc. Missing Ditto machines and payphones. Mising the "Real typewriters"!

[@albertwells8503]

I remember the year 2011. It was the first year that phone books in our area were discontinued. I wasn’t aware of it, and when our phone book didn’t come, I called the phone company to tell them I didn’t receive my new phone book yet. The lady laughed and said I wouldn’t be getting one anymore, and asked if my name was Fred Flintstone. Then she hung up on me.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Wow! Seems crazy things like that are gone. Doesn't seem to bad in that year for that kind of comment though. Thank you for watching!

[@MrLyosea]

Wow that was pretty rude of her. I probably would be like you if I was 15 years older.

[@scottbeck7762]

Harsh but also hilarious in a way.

[@albertwells8503]

@@scottbeck7762 It’s pretty funny now, but it wasn’t very funny at the time!!

[@scottbeck7762]

@@albertwells8503 I still have my last phone book and yellow pages plus a landline.

[@lanacampbell-moore6686]

Thanks Rhetty❤

[@RhettyforHistory]

You're welcome and thank you for watching Lana!

[@medic1937]

I miss all of it. What a simpler and great time to grow up. I was fortunate.

[@christineanderson4543]

I love this channel! The memories are great. Thank you 😀

[@marcieconant5559]

Of all your items, the only one that I didn't grow up with was the shoe fitting xray machine. This seems like it definitely would have been a more orthopedic type of method then others and I definitely would have used it given how as I have gotten older I have developed foot problems no doubt from poor fitting footwear. I don't understand why it has gone the way of the dinosaur given that we still take xrays for other things today.

[@JustMe99999]

Because you rarely take an x-ray, and when you do it just lasts a second to get the picture. With these devices, you put your foot in there, and the salesman is looking at it through the viewer, so it's a very long exposure to radiation. Not to mention it's exposing everyone around the machine to radiation. Also as mentioned in the video, imagine you're doing this with every pair of shoes you're trying on, every time you're going to buy new shoes. That's a lot of radiation exposure.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching Joni!

[@Arlecchino_Gatto]

Although i was never a smoker, I miss seeing all of these items. There is a mmorpg video game, City of Heroes, that was made in 2004. It still has many of those items in various places.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and telling us about that game!

[@gregoryrizer]

Love these kind of videos !!!! Brings back so many memories::::: Thank you very much !!!!

[@masonparker302]

Add on those geeky little white three ring binder paper reinforcements, that we used to make smiley faces out of and stick on school desks in the 1980s.

[@WinterInTheForest]

I started smoking at age 13 thanks in part to those vending machines lol

[@sl8605]

I also started at 13, 50 years later and still smoking. My poor lungs!

[@WinterInTheForest]

@@sl8605 I know at 63 it may seem futile to quit but it's never too late. Within 10-15 years your health risks would be similar to a person who never smoked.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Yeah they were too easy for kids. Thank you for watching!

[@kimberleyannedemong5621]

I don't remember the feel x-ray but I remember everything else. I'm feeling old 😁 I miss actual shoe stores. I can't remember the last time I saw one or a bannock device. Sometimes I miss my landline phone. A good look back

[@SousChef77]

Our shoes actually fit correctly to keep our feet healthy with a Bannock...also being able to buy our correct size. I am an AAA heel and cannot find that at all now. So much plantar today, and doesn't need to be.

[@SousChef77]

A Bannock is a sizer....not radiation. You put your foot into it and they would slide it to see your sizing. Absolutely harmless.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching Kimberleyann!

[@noirekuroraigami2270]

I’m pretty sure footlocker still exist. People now spend hundreds of dollars on shoes

[@TheGruffchickJournal]

I live in a small, quasi-rural town. We still have landlines. You get the phone book in the mail when you start new landline service in your home or business; It's thin and contains mostly the yellow pages for businesses in the city down river. We still have newspaper vending machines and copies of the paper are sold at our grocers. There's also a working payphone there. Upriver is a greasy spoon that has a jukebox. Our gas station has an updated POS that allows you pay via debt/credit if the cashier isn't at the counter. We also have the option of leaving bills and/or coins close to/on the register.

[@kirstymackenzie2437]

We had Yellow Pages too in the UK. We still have TV guides though, which are great! We get them in our Saturday newspapers. Used typewriters at work for 30 years.

[@lynnmcclure1103]

My mom (deceased) would be absolutely amazed at what can be done with a smartphone today.

[@RhettyforHistory]

It really is mind boggling sometimes. Thank you for watching Lynn!

[@loishunt2347]

Those cigarette vending machines were awesome! They were everywhere!

[@Clara-ph7my]

You would only buy from them when you were desperate. More expensive and less cigarettes'.

[@RhettyforHistory]

They sure were. Thank you for watching Lois!

[@MSDGAMEZ]

I remember phone books being a large part of life. I remember my parents always looking up something in the phone book

[@LuDogg805]

I remember all of these because my parents were not from US, so a lot of things we got were handed down to us from neighbors, garage sales, yard sales, and thrift shops. I remember in 1997 we still used a record player and played the Atari 2600 while the other kids were playing N64. The only thing I still have from this list is the typewriter.