Items Kids Today Wouldn't Know!

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[@Broughton1128]

*So many things are considered obsolete today that were viable not that long ago. I miss the simpler times.*

[@johnlopez3996]

I remember when ash trays were on top of restaurant tables, and kids would make them in grade school for their art projects. I am so blessed that I know and used many of those items that you mentioned. Thank you for your video presentation. Take care.

[@rustyshackleford3320]

Lol ya I remember making those ashtray even in kindergarten

[@easyontheeyes78]

I played w/ the ashtrays built in the back of the driver and passenger seats of my parents car when I was little. Sometimes I would put candy in them that I wasn’t supposed to have and eat it on long trips

[@-Thauma-]

Thanks Rhett for yet another trip down memory lane 🥰 I remember it all, because I am older than the internet 😄

[@ensabahnur7657]

GO1D bless you!🙏

[@barb-jm7990]

I bet most of us are older than the internet if we watch this channel. lol (I'm talking about when internet was available to everyone in the 1990s. My Dad was working with a network sort of thing long before that with his work. He was an electrical engineer and computer researcher. We played with room-size computers in the 1960s.)

[@pam8962]

@barb-jm7990 wow my dad too lol

[@rustyshackleford3320]

86 here

[@gulfgypsy]

Your videos give us folks of a 'certain age' so much joy --- Remembering things we grew up with or things we bought for our own kids.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and I'm happy to know you are enjoying the videos gulfgypsy!

[@joemarchinski914]

If I could be my current age ,54 and go back and live in those days I would be a very happy man

[@joeheid2776]

I remember almost all of this stuff!! I wonder how many of the newer generation knows what a dial-tone sounds like?

[@lesliehackney7519]

Thanks, Rhett, for another flash back to another time. I remember every item you covered. I am pretty old and been around a long time. My kids would know some of them but my grand kids probably would be in the dark with most of them. These videos are a lot of fun and I look forward to when you post them!

[@ensabahnur7657]

Yes great memories all! I was born in 1970 & blessed to STILL be here thank GOD for all of us to be around to pass down so much knowledge other generations!🙏💖💯📠

[@harley0519PDX]

Many would not know what a tube tester is. Using a percolator to make coffee would probably throw them for a loop too! Thanks Rhetty, these items bring back a lot of great memories.

[@Someone-kg8qf]

My grandparents gave me an old percolator and the thing STILL works.

[@GeeEm1313]

I'm 44 and I wouldn't know how to use a percolator.

[@Someone-kg8qf]

@@GeeEm1313 It's great because you don't need to buy filters. I'm almost your age but my grandpa showed me how to use it.

[@baldeagle5297]

I still have a percolator that I take with me when I go camping.

[@cs4451]

Yea my parents used a percolator they did try , 1 of those coffee makers but it wasn't hot enough

[@janellemiller1195]

I am giving my grandson a throughly 80s childhood. He has used a canopener ,45 insert,made ufo out of internet disks, has use a 45 camera, made a tape from the radio .even slide down a metal slide on a 90° and made a collect call. Joe's ice cream he said for his name. Has loved lookin through my old Sears catalogs.

[@playdiscgolf1546]

Wait a minute, the can opener is a thing of the past? I still use it today…lol….what has surpassed it? Funny you mention the cassette tape recording the radio, I’ll never forget my Christmas present of a 20 pack of blank cassette tapes, I went hog wild for weeks!!! Lol

[@riderfkc2835]

even the cassette tape and a pen would confuse them 😂

[@christopherpuylara6355]

You also had to find a pen or pencil that fit "just" right 😂

[@ensabahnur7657]

Indeed!

[@melaniebell8115]

I don't miss this at all

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

@@melaniebell8115 same here.. was a total pain in the A$$!

[@tavonfenwick-yb5xv]

That’s obvious.. why would they know what that was?

[@VickiCampbell-1216]

Thank you, Rhett. I always appreciate these memories. As a kid, I was envious that my best friend's family always had the latest cool thing. While we still had our rotary phones and old black and white TVs, they had push-button phones and a color TV. I was thrilled when I was gifted my first 8-track, portable player!! 😅I worked at a video store when they first came out. We were lucky to be able to take home free movies to watch when they weren't rented out for the night. 😁😁Good times!!

[@turbofanlover]

As a kid, back in the early 80s, I got a boom box that had a song search function that could locate the start of the next song. Oh, what a technological breakthrough at the time...lol. I still miss the 70s, 80s and 90s.

[@TrinhNguyen-sh4fj]

Me too! I miss the 80s and 90s a lot!

[@sl8605]

I always look forward to your videos Rhetty, they take me down a trip called memory lane. Thanks for the step back in time. You always amaze me with the items you come up with.😊❤

[@bryanbilek2146]

You Rock, Rhetty !!! I sooo enjoy, and appreciate your vids. Very accurate, entertaining, nostalgic, comedic, and totally awesome !!!

[@LittleRedIrishRover]

I recognise a lot of these. Grew up with a lot of 90s technology from floppy disks to blackberry phones. Had a very basic MP3 player as a kid. My dad has a custom truck from 2007 and it actually has manual locks and window cranks (they were much cheaper to get than electric). I recently got a Panasonic and I'm super excited to use it!

[@MrMegaFredZeppelin]

Rhetty for History RULES!!!!!!!👍🏻ROCK ON!!!!!!!🤘🏻🤙🏻✌🏻

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching mrmegafredzeppelin4630!

[@JoeMotionVideos82]

I still use a needle threader. We went to a privately owned video store to rent a VCR and movies every Friday night. We often re-watched the best movies the next day. The rental time was usually 2 days. They even had a reserve list for new releases. We would receive a call when the movie became available. There is something to be said about having to wait. With today's instant gratification, society we are slowly losing the virtue of patience.

[@brendaholliday6866]

Rhett, I really enjoyed this video about items that kids wouldn't know today. It brought back a lot of memories long gone. Kids today probably wouldn't know about typewriters manual/ electric, land-line phones/rotary, writing personal letters/invitations, washing clothes by hand, using an actual camera, personal telephone/address book, etc. Have a fantastic weekend. Take care 🐎

[@edwardaustin740]

Kids today wouldn't survive in our time. Thanks Rhetty. No GPS. Going on a road trip with a paper atlas back in the day was fun.

[@TrinhNguyen-sh4fj]

So true! Life back then was a bit harder but a lot more peaceful.

[@Kdschaak]

Those plastic film canisters sure were perfect for storing my toothpicks. My buddies and I went through an awful lot of toothpicks back then. 😁

[@mkshffr4936]

Great targets for plinking too.

[@johnlopez3996]

You put your quarters in those canisters to take with you to the video arcade.

[@edie4321]

I used them in the seventies to stash my weed. They are probably still used for that to this day. I wish the weed stores would use recycled ones. They are a horrible addition to our ecosystem using plastic containers, when they certainly could be made of hemp by now.

[@hinotefanatic]

Toothpicks, huh? 😉😂

[@RhettyforHistory]

They were fun to shoot with the right rubber band bow/gun. Thank you for watching!

[@danielletwiztidbaarda3775]

The Ashtrays In The Cars! I Have Such Fond Memories Playing With Them On Trips As Well, And The Sounds Of The Metal Scrapping When Closed It Slow or When it'd Snap Shut Fast And Go Clink. Great Memories! Thank You Rhetty.

[@mickieg1118]

We had a '72 Mercury Grand Marquis. It had an ashtray in each of the four doors, one in the dash, and two in the back of the front seats. All 7 ashtrays had lighters in them. Talk about luxury, haha.

[@TrinhNguyen-sh4fj]

I love this channel! I get so nostalgic and miss the old days so much. This channel brings me back in time. My nephews would not know about these as they are too young. If I try to tell them, they call me old.😳 Thanks for this lovely video!

[@kirkmorrison6131]

My Mom taught me to sew by hand and machine. I still use my Palm Pilot, I prefer the card catalog over the computer look up

[@RhettyforHistory]

I never learned how to use a sewing machine but I can do it by hand. Sarah does have an old family sewing machine but she doesn't know how to use it either. That is interesting that you still use your palm pilot. Thank you for watching my friend!

[@kirkmorrison6131]

@@RhettyforHistory I use the Palm pilot because it keeps data miners from being able to get my information. On your phone they can get to it. I am very careful not to give them access to it.

[@kirkmorrison6131]

You can get an old Singer book at thrift shops and they will tell you how to use the machine. Just take it to a shop before the first project and have it serviced. Those older machines are better than the new ones mechanically

[@karenmiller2642]

Another great video. I remember when my first daughter was born in 1981, you could smoke in hospital rooms. My big family and several friends came to visit, and the nurse said she was a smoker, but could they smoke in shifts because it looked like the hospital was on fire. lol

[@francklie6568]

Thanks for the video! I would go back living in those years in a heartbeat!

[@RhettyforHistory]

You're welcome and thank you for watching francklie6568!

[@angeliqueguerra1631]

I tried to teach my daughter how to read a map several times over the years. She said there was no point cuz she has GPS. Yea, there's no chance that could not work.

[@Bear_58]

Ah yes, some really cool old stuff and good memories 🤠👍🏻. I was born in 1958 so all these things are still very fresh in my memories.

[@juliemarchese-temple7749]

1958 RULES🎉😅

[@ronm6585]

Thanks for sharing Rhetty.

[@RhettyforHistory]

You're welcome and thank you for watching Ron!

[@TammieR-B]

Lol. I have a needle threader and none of us could remember how to use it, so thank you 👍💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@swansfan6944]

It’s amazing how you seem to always make me feel so good 😊 and sad 😢 at the same time Rhett. I’m going to spend my Sunday reminiscing now. Thanks Rhett. ❤️Jodie 🇦🇺

[@paulstan9828]

👋😁🦘

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you so much for watching Jodie! Let me know if you think of anything I should cover as you think back!

[@Aly.knuckles]

I have one of those bottle openers on my fridge with a magnet on it. Use it almost daily lol 😆 love your videos!! 🖤🧡

[@cordeliabuffy6419]

Same.

[@3DJapan]

In art (and photography) school I used film canisters to store wet paint. They were air tight so they kept it wet for a long time.

[@unicornmadness6286]

The record adapter had me confused big time. I thought it was a fidget spinner. Also, the sanitary belt was invented in the early 20s by an African American woman named Mary Kenner, but due to racial discrimination she was unable to get a patent for a long time. Love this channel.

[@spankynater4242]

Actually, the person who invented it was named Mary Sanitarybelt.

[@unicornmadness6286]

​@@spankynater4242👎🏽

[@ttop64]

If you really want to freak kids out today show them an 8 track cassette and player, a reel to reel tape and player or an old 78 rpm record . I never had to use one of those 45 adapters because the record player I had had an adapter you put over the spindle so you could stack and play them like regular 33 LP's . Love it when you do these types of videos Rhett. BTW I still use needle threaders when sewing .

[@MTM358]

LaserDiscs would trip them out more than vinyl I think

[@Mick_Ts_Chick]

It was definitely a love/hate relationship with 8 tracks. They were great in the car and portable. The way they cut songs in half between the tracks was annoying as hell though. I can still hear the kerthunk sound when it changed over.

[@ttop64]

@@MTM358 True that . Even I forgot about those .

[@dedebones1967]

thank you for kindly reminding me of my past experiences with many pictures and your comments about things most people don't even remember it's like you are Marty McFly taking us back in time

[@roonboo96]

We have some good throw-back items in our house so our kid knows all about those slide address books, land line phones, CDs, tapes and record players…even the adapter for the 45s. She’s only 15 but likes Janice Joplin, Bowie, Floyd, Mungo Jerry…We have an extensive record collection and a few of them are ones she bought for herself.

[@bardgettbrandy]

3:00 I know I didn't store paper clips or toothpicks in these containers 😅😂 but rather some good old herb 😉 😉 🌳 I absolutely love your videos and going back in time if only for a few moments watching these....I cannot get enough. ❤ 👍 💯 😊

[@mikeywid4954]

Thank you Rhetty for History for not only reminding us of how far we have come but also of how great things were back in the day. I for one truly miss those days. Better and simpler times.

[@RhettyforHistory]

You're welcome and thank you for watching Mikey. There really were some great items we all enjoyed.

[@reneastle8447]

It's a good thing the Retro Decade Revival Project is gonna bring back the good things from our childhoods, from video rental stores to film cameras.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching reneastle8447!

[@SuperFlashDriver]

Dude I hope they bring some of the things back that was memorable, and leave the others that were nonsensical or garbage in the past.

[@reneastle8447]

@@RhettyforHistory You're welcome, your videos will give pure inspiration for the Retro Decade Revival Project.

[@reneastle8447]

@@SuperFlashDriver We will. Which ones we shall bring back and which ones we shouldn't?

[@AlBundyPolkHigh.]

I bet some kids wouldn't even know how to tell time on a regular clock since everything is digital now 😮

[@jenniferhansen3622]

This is true!! 😂

[@playdiscgolf1546]

And most people, even older generations, don’t realize that most analog clocks are set to 10 and 2, or why that is.

[@TrinhNguyen-sh4fj]

That is so true!

[@TH-hy9kr]

All the clocks in schools are analog.

[@jenniferhansen3622]

@@TH-hy9kr Kids aren't looking at them though. For example, middle schoolers and high schoolers are probably looking at their phones or digital watches to see what time it is. Even if they learned how to tell time on an analog clock when they were really little, many have forgotten. They also use Chromebooks in school which have a digital clock on them.

[@Bob-sd7qr]

I'm still waiting for a mimeograph scented candle, or glade plug-in! 😂✌️

[@johnlopez3996]

My third grade teacher's classroom was close to the school office, and we always had fresh and damp copies of our work. I still remember that smell! The candle idea sounds cool!

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

LOL!! They'd be a million dollar best seller, for sure!

[@Bob-sd7qr]

@@johnlopez3996 👍✌️

[@Bob-sd7qr]

@@Nunofurdambiznez 👍✌️

[@travelingwithmikeandpam9074]

Went through all of those. Great job Rhetty, thanks for the memories!

[@Eventwow]

That was my 1st cell phone lol. 1:28 hated getting that in the mail. Free frisbee. I miss those days sometimes.

[@russellforsyth8416]

An old rotary type phones gave you some time to think before you made those angry and / or late night calls! You're doing good work!

[@animetuna]

Another nostalgic video. Love it.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching animetuna! I'm glad you enjoyed this one.

[@pam8962]

Lol😅😂Thanks for the trip down memory lane 😊

[@RhettyforHistory]

You're welcome and thank you for watching Pam!

[@monikameza4107]

Thanks Rhett for the memories. 👍🙂

[@RhettyforHistory]

You're welcome and thank you for watching Monika!

[@e815usa]

I have a T-shirt with the 45 adapter on it that I bought at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame! I still get compliments on it when I wear it!

[@leesashriber5097]

Yay!! Another awesome upload!! Thank you Rhett, my friend 😊

[@RhettyforHistory]

You're welcome and thank you so much for watching leesashriber5097!

[@JeffMeadowsOutdoors]

My cassette player had the analog counter that would click as the numbers advanced. I knew how far it had to go to reach each of my favorite songs. Then there was the sick feeling you got when the cassette player “ate” your favorite tape!

[@nickimontie]

OMG filing cards in a card catalog was my life in high school and college! I wonder what they did with those old cabinets? With some alterations, they could be excellent tv cabinets.

[@TJ-zv1di]

In addition to the overhead projector, we also would occasionally have film strips shown in class. The teacher would pick a kid to be the one to turn the knob to advance the film when the accompanying audio prompted it with a ding sound. If the kid in charge of turning the knob wasn't paying attention, the other kids in class would yell at him/her. I wonder if kids today even know what film strips are.

[@cindydott452]

I got in trouble for using a pin to scratch funny pictures on the blank part of the film strips! (Nothing bad. Just funny faces and little corny comics!)

[@shanonangermeyer-norman5280]

I think of the items you mentioned, records are making a comeback and these should: cassettes, menstrual pad belt, typewriters, and ashtray/lighters in cars. Those were inventions that served people well and made the world a happier place.

[@CallmeMelinanow]

I know every generation goes through this, but different doesn’t always mean better. That being said, I’m really enjoying this content!!

[@DrinkYourNailPolish]

5:00 i saved a lot of money tailoring my own clothes. Back in 00 I bought my prom dress for $10 from fashion bug- origionally $100 but it had a rip in it, it was styled after Rose's dress in titanic. I fixed the rip and you couldn't tell where it was and got a lot of mileage out of that dress. I used it for prom and several black tie charity events years after.

[@taffykins2745]

He nailed it on those "mix" tapes!!! 😁

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching taffykins2745!

[@southerncross5360]

I remember making mix tapes on Sunday's while listening to Casey Kasem's weekly top 40 count down.

[@shannondore]

8:52 I think it would take a lot more than just a Walkman to make this guy cool Rhetty.🤣 I used to sit by my radio with my finger diligently on the pause button so I could keep the djs and commercials out of my mixed tapes. I still have them in a box somewhere. I should give them a listen for old time sake. And I used to love seeing the Bionic Woman tearing the phone book in half.💪🏻😊

[@JW-vi2nh]

You should've mentioned how you got past "DRM" on cassette tapes! A quick piece of tape over those holes in the top of the cassette and voila! Your very own recordable cassette tape! The first one of them I ever had was gifted to my by my older cousin. It was a promotional tape that had the "Snuggle" song on it (Snuggle the bear from the fabric softener commercials). She had taped over it with Rupaul's "Supermodel." I spent years jamming to that song as a kid.

[@laureencriss8220]

Great video! Just wanna say that I still use a needle threader as a lot of people do. When you showed the needle threader, I wondered what could have replaced it, lol. But it's still the same, haha. 😂

[@spankynater4242]

I agree 100%

[@laureencriss8220]

@@spankynater4242 🙂

[@Wil_Liam1]

I miss cruising the video stores for vhs or earliest dvds as you could literally meet your future ex to be in them while browsing around searching for a couple of cool new releases to help you get through the weekend !! 😅

[@kellyhughart9600]

I was born in 1968, and there are still a lot of everyday things I prefer to do the way they were done in the 20th century. I have a Smartphone, but for the most part, I'm just not into the ways of the 21st century. I'm just not! Watching this video, and several other videos on this channel is fun, because they take me back to better days. But it's also bittersweet, because those days are gone forever. When I realize that many of the things that those of us from the older generation grew up with are things that the younger generation never heard of, it makes me feel old! I guess that's true of all generations.

[@bardgettbrandy]

I'm 43 and my oldest is almost 27. He drives a 1984 Toyota Corolla, everything is stock and original. The previous owner did put an aftermarket stereo with a TV screen and all the bells and whistles but my son prefers cassette tapes or records. He uses a Walkman and connects it to the stereo with a aux cord. He is definitely an old soul. He still buys cassette tapes in the mail. He also just bought a computer from the 80's. He has an eye for vintage electronics and clothes. It's cool to see him enjoying things I grew up with. My younger 3 kids, a girl 12, and boys 10 and 7 are polar opposites and live in this instant gratification era where they expect everything to be instant. My oldest has all the vintage game systems and prefers to play them on a era appropriate TV too. It's so neat to see just how different your kids can be from one and other. Li,e you my grandma, 83, doesn't want a smart phone or a computer. She has her jitterbug flip phone and she's fine with it. You don't miss what you never had. In my opinion there's both good and bad with technology, as with most things, but I sure do miss certain things from the past. I know I spent a lot of time outside. I'm from Oregon and grew up with lots of natural beauty and creeks to play in and exploring the woods and trees that were my playground. 😊

[@3namechangezalowdevry90day7]

A manual camping can opener (similar to the church key bottle opener) should be in every kitchen in case of power outages.

[@yuvgotubekidding]

Barber chairs had ashtrays too. Imagine smoking while getting your haircut. 😁

[@mickieg1118]

I seem to remember ashtrays built into some recliners too.

[@davepedersen2115]

2:50 That's what you put your weed in😂🎉🤣 There's a Blockbuster just down the road from my house about 90 miles... but that's closer than any of you😊

[@ghyein]

Except for that special time of month, we had all of that, the computer, walkman, nokia, beeper etc. Also not only having to remember the decimal system but using the microfiche to find stuff at the library. That drove me nuts.

[@paulnorton2885]

As for overhead projectors, a couple of my lecturers in my first year at university would not prepare their overhead transparencies before the lecture, but would write down the lecture text on the OHT scroll as they went along. The content of their lectures would include worked examples of calculations in chemistry and statistics, and they would do the working as they went along, sometimes making errors at some step in the calculation which cause the final result of the calculation to not be what they had intended. As I was always sitting at the front of the lecture theatre following the calculation closely, I would then interject to point out the step in the calculation where they had erred.

[@aprilrich807]

I truly loved typing! I actually enjoyed all of the hassle that came with it, too.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and sharing your memories April!

[@playdiscgolf1546]

We never really had internet in the late 90s-early 00’s but we had a month free when I was a freshman in high school of AOL….that was the most exhilarating month of my life..LOL

[@Rob_1776]

I remember using can openers like that to open oil! As well as the spout you punched! Through the can! So it supposedly didn't make a mess! And I remember making my own mix tapes with cassette! I would also call! A local DJ to play a song as a request! And would wait all day and they never would lol! But it was fun none the less!

[@SavaFiend]

Nobody in my family smoked back in the day believe it or not. So the ashtrays in the back seats of our cars used to be places where my brother and I could stash our gum and candy wrappers!

[@RhettyforHistory]

Those were perfect for that and even coins. Thank you for watching SavaFiend!

[@BRITISH87PATRIOT]

Kids don't understand commonsense nowadays. Great content 🖒

[@geologyjoerocks]

Those little games with the tiny floaty rings in the water. You’d press that little wheezy button at the base and it would squeeze water up to make the little rings float up. The goal was to get the rings in these little pegs. It was like a cross between an ant farm, aquarium, and fairground game, lol

[@andeeharry]

Used to love the old Atari and apparently they are doing a new up to date version for it's 50th birthday

[@RhettyforHistory]

That is awesome to hear! I still have my old Atari and all the games. I'm always surprised it still works. Thank you for watching!

[@julieabraham3566]

In the early 80s, everyone wanted a Merlin, a red handheld gaming device that looked like a space-age telephone and contained six different games.

[@douglassexton1513]

I don't miss buying tapes and CDs. I'd rather just pay for a streaming service but those were better times. I miss the 80s and 90s.

[@mickieg1118]

You don't miss going to the record store? Those were fun times.

[@davidgoodman6924]

Feel sorry for kids of today, they are now told what to think, not how to think. So happy I grew up in the 70's and 80's!!!

[@Laszlo34]

- AOL Disks... they sent us _DOZENS_ of them!!! And how especially ironic (read: pointless) since A) I worked for the company and got the service for free and 2) I hated the service and never used it. - "Still rockin' the pager! Good for you!" - Tron: Legacy - Film canisters: I STILL use them, but now mostly for medication. (OMG so old!!) - Needle threaders!! I rarely needed one, but my eyes actually _worked_ when I was that age. :/ - "Be Kind: Rewind!" - Card Catalogs! I find it easier to just browse the books on the shelf in the section I'm interested in, then I know it's in stock. But of course at a larger library this could take lots of time.

[@crazyviking24]

I remember a lot of these. Ironically they are bringing back the Atari joystick games as a retro gaming mini console

[@janedee6488]

I still use a needle threader. Great for oldsters with bad vision.

[@Mick_Ts_Chick]

Even with good vision it's hard to do because when you cut the thread the ends fray. Great little gadget.

[@coolguypravara]

I am missing those mechanical engineering wonders because of this digital era now. Audio, video cassettes, players, recorders, film cameras everything had mechanical parts. So the irritating issues like tap getting winded up and using a pen. But those days were simple. With this digital era technology is becoming short lived and obsolete within a year or two. Also life became dull without those moving parts. I used to be enthusiastic to learn the mechanism in those electronics and open them to see how they are working. Sometimes I tried to repair even without any knowledge. Those were the days 😊

[@3Storms]

I can't count how many times I wanted to rage-punch the radio DJ in the face for talking over the beginning or the ending of a song I was trying to record. The thing is they did it on purpose, because they were shills for the record labels who played with music while hoping you'd buy it. I can't fault them too much because of it.

[@iamswell]

Floppy disks are obsolete and young people don't know what they are, and yet it is still the icon for saving documents. 🤔😂🤣

[@Octopuscoast]

This channel is so much fun 😅. Boy , do i miss those Polaroid cameras ......😮

[@wendyjones3586]

And we all know what we kept in those film cannisters . lol

[@mickieg1118]

Yes...yes we do.

[@gdtyra]

I knew I would find some juicy details in the comments

[@wendyjones3586]

@@gdtyra lol

[@bruceselenka7181]

In the 1970s. Get in the car and get on the Interstate. No cell phone, no GPS, not even a road map. Just follow the signs. How did we ever make it?

[@RhettyforHistory]

I think we were much more adventurous. It was ok to get lost sometimes and that was called exploring. Thank you for watching Bruce!

[@heronimousbrapson863]

My university library didn't use dewey decimal, but the library of congress catalogue system, which meant learning an entirely different cataloguing method.

[@gwendaily1147]

Love these videos of old times now days kids have no idea of what fun we had except my kids an grandkids do know what a vcr is cause I still have one lol

[@mjfanatic777]

I was born in 2010 and I absolutely love anything 80's and 70's (or basically anything vintage) I do recognize almost all of those items, I even use one of them! (the little yellow thing to put in your 45 rpm) sometimes I wish I could time travel back to the 80's. Thanks Rhetty for helping me do the 'time traveling' :)

[@TH-hy9kr]

GenX here and I think the Boomers, many people of my generation, and even the GenY Millenials don't give enough credit to GenZ and GenA about how much you guys know. My kiddo is two years younger than you and knows the functions of these many archaic and defunct items as well as the few we use daily. Don't ever let us "olds" get you down. You guys are the rising stars and though you might not hear it a lot, some of us think your generations are really cool.

[@albtckl]

I was born in 1981...growing up in the 80s was the best!

[@stanford-nf4jk]

We had a drafting course in high school and it was all done by hand because the district couldn’t afford computers for use in Computer Aided Drafting. (Also, CAD was fairly new). The school library, however, DID have computers but they were as basic as can be and largely served as devices to print special assignments with via Dot Matrix printers, which I definitely used.

[@nebraskarooster9244]

Love your videos! Thanks for doing these!

[@1805movie]

I'd argue that film photography is making a comeback through the Analog Renaissance.

[@RhettyforHistory]

It is making a tiny comeback and I have never stopped using it but it isn't anywhere near what it was a may not ever be. Thank you for watching 1805movie!

[@1805movie]

​@@RhettyforHistory Tiny, sure, but a comeback nonetheless. And I think it's only going to continue to grow as more and more people discover/rediscover it for the first time. That's what I find absolutely beautiful about it all. That people are willing to seek out "new" things that feel more tangible and personal (despite our sterile digital climate). It's like uncovering an old recipe from 100+ years ago, baking it, and sharing it with friends and family. Maybe it won't reach the same levels as vinyl records, but crazier things have happened. That's what I think anyway.

[@johnlouisgood]

C Batteries and all the things that we needed them for

[@jenniferhansen3622]

C batteries are still available.

[@andeeharry]

16 years have changed a lot.....it is still hard to believe

[@RhettyforHistory]

Yes it is. Thank you for watching andeeharry!

[@angeladay1534]

I don't understand today's youth/teens/ young adults. I wasn't born in the 1920's or 1950's, however I learned about the past and enjoyed old music, movies, antiques and embraced the past. I was fascinated about the past. I enjoyed time without cell phones, internet shopping and cashless societies. It was fun to go to video stores! Also, Musicland and Sam Goody for Lp's and cassette tapes. Block Buster's, Hollywood Video, Mr. Movie and Family Video stores made weekends something to look forward to. Miss the card catalogs at the libraries. You had to think and search, problem solving skills. The teachers woukd not allow us to use calculators in school, when they came out. Now, computers have made people lazy. 💔😭

[@karenrosen2983]

My son was talking about the senior prom and said it would be awesome to rent a “Lambo’(that won’t happen) I said you all should do what we did-go in a station wagon and sit n the way back, He looked at me and said: “would that be funny if I knew what you were talking about?” I just sighed and walked away.😂 😂😂

[@Poppawoody420]

I don't smoke any more, but I miss cars with ashtrays and cigarette lighters.

[@RhettyforHistory]

They were great for storing change, gum and various other things. Thank you for watching!

[@t-gre7016]

Fun fact some of the fire departments in my area still use pagers as a means of notification for when there's a call.

[@RhettyforHistory]

Thank you for watching and letting us know t-gre7016!

[@ashleyparks1738]

Walkmans were awesome 😆