26 Obsolete Objects That Quietly Disappeared!

[@RecollectionRoad]

Can you think of any other things that have disappeared, but used to be so common?

[@runninginharran]

The big, thick Sears and JC-Penny store catalogs, TV cabinets that made the TV look like it was furniture, cigarette lighters and ashtrays in vehicles, rolling down windows manually, missing children's photos on milk cartons, movie ads in newspapers, 8-track in cars, late at night the TV stations would stop broadcasting and all you saw was snow, REAL Arcades with pinball machines and full-sized arcade cabinets/coin-op cabinet, metal roller skates, toy caps guns with the red paper rolls caps (and the distinct smell when you fired the gun, lol), and of course reel 2 reel players, LPs, and 45s, the Walkman, Tab soda, the original Pearl toothpaste, Kools cigarettes, tv dinners in metal trays, and my all time fav- Drive-In Movies.

[@balaam_7087]

Common decency?

[@nancyholcombe8030]

Percolator coffee pots (stovetop and electric), electric frying pans, kitchen wax and stripper and, more recently, sponge mops! Apparently, everybody seems to think that these small microfiber pads stuck to a velcro-like mop can actually deep clean a floor. (FYI, they don't! I clean houses for a living.) I get that you can throw the pads into the washer and that is better, but they don't clean well at all! Shoe strings are becoming a thing of the past. Elastic doesn't work for everybody, though. Small sizes in ladies shoes are also a definite thing of the past. I used to be able to buy shoes anywhere that sold them! I now have to buy children's shoes because they start ladies shoes out at size 6 or 6 1/2, not a size 5. Smaller sizes are only available if you have lots of money now. PS. Hospitals are the number one user of vending machines, according to a friend of mine who recently retired from selling them, but drink machines are still around almost every large store. As the stores are starting to have drinks and snacks at the front of the stores, he thinks they may also die out.

[@nancyholcombe8030]

@@balaam_7087 we'll get that back when we start teaching it again! It starts in the home and should continue everywhere else! I started it at work. It was infectious! 😊

[@nancyholcombe8030]

Are you kidding? I still have an alarm clock, it just runs on batteries so I still get up on time if the power goes out! I miss reading the newspaper, though. It was a quiet way to get acquainted with the good things that happened that day as well as the bad! The nightly comic strips were a fitting end to the evening before dinner. 😊

[@marlenepearson3936]

I would go back to the 60's and 70's if I didn't have to go to school this time. 😂 Everything and everyone I loved was there 😢

[@patrick39432]

I think I would enjoy going to school again. I've actually never left school having taught for 30 years now.

[@lsr2937]

I would go back to school if I could remember all the stuff I now know.

[@julenepegher6999]

@@marlenepearson3936 I didn’t like school. Elementary with the nuns and high school was harder I just didn’t like to learn. 🤭But I also had the best time and great friends at school. I actually I loved every moment. We made it fun!

[@crominion6045]

'70s and '80s for me, but I concur.

[@rockymountainkitchen7834]

@marlenepearson3936 I hereby give you permission to go back to the 60's and/or 70's and not have to go to school...you're welcome...now all I want in return is for you to tell me HOW to go back to the 60's and/or 70's! :)

[@Lovejazz01]

I remember people having scruples ( Google if you don’t know what that is ) , so in newspapers machines, people put their money in and it opened , and people took one paper off the stack , and closed the door back. They could have very well taken more than one or all, but we were all taught not to steal and take only what we paid for. The good old days… 😁

[@runninginharran]

So true. Now, thieves would take all of them and sell them on the corner.

[@johnvsymons]

Definitely! Just another sign of the decline in morality in this country.

[@jamesmiller4184]

We would FEEL bad about doing such things; now, seemingly, this has reversed. It has been taught and learned generation to generation. (Not all of course; just way too many now, so as to promise ever-increasing destruction, promising of no surcease.)

[@jwb52z9]

@@jamesmiller4184 I don't know whether to lament the way you see the world or to applaud that you know the word "surcease".

[@runninginharran]

@@jwb52z9 The real grievance you should have is the swift erosion of morality, not only in this nation but globally as well. The prevalence of crime and the glorification of criminals-both real and fictional-can be seen in the success of true crime television programs. The disregard for the lack of humanity for individuals everywhere, not just in the good ole USA. Lament the idolization of politicians, athletes, musicians, and actors/actresses, as well as the popularity of people seeking their "15" minutes of fame on social media, regardless of whether it harms others and even themselves. Lament the fact that many students and young adults (and even the older ones) do not know how to write or speak proper English while mocking others who do know. Unfortunately, humanity has lost its humanity. Not all is lost, of course. However, the rise of artificial intelligence should concern everyone.

[@IamReallySanta]

The TV Guide Christmas edition that let you plan out your entire month of watching specials was a sure fire way to get you in the Christmas mood.

[@sandybruce9092]

I subscribe to the TVGuide right now and have for years -it was bi-weekly for several years but lately it is in 3-week increments! It does have lots of info and has added streaming sites which I usually dint care about as I stream what and when I want!!! It a,so doesn’t have daytime programs like the really old ones did - but still has crosswords!!! It is very difficult to find in grocery newsstands though - not sure about book stores.

[@fr2ncm9]

How about the fall preview edition?

[@IamReallySanta]

@@fr2ncm9 That was good for me later in life...but as a kid...ooooh that Christmas ediiton!

[@IamReallySanta]

@@sandybruce9092 wow, I didn't even know they still did a print edition. I am in Canada and they likely don';t bother with a Canadian edition

[@Paula-tf3zv]

@@fr2ncm9 That was the best!!!!

[@keithschultz4187]

This almost puts a lump in my throat. What i wudnt give to go back even for a day.

[@lancerevell5979]

I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s. If I could, I'd go back in a heartbeat. Better times indeed. 😢

[@pjimmbojimmbo1990]

I wish Pay Phones were still around, they provided some anonymity, which is lost without them

[@johnmat4678]

Great for calling in bomb threats!

[@althunder4269]

Smart phones can be set to not display the phone number. It shows "private number" on the receiving end.

[@pjimmbojimmbo1990]

@@althunder4269 The Number(Landline or Cell) still appears on the Called Phone's Monthly Bill. I have gotten many #s that way from my Phone Bills

[@ranjittyagi9354]

@@althunder4269 Tbat code doesn't work in all countries. It works in the US though. I have seen only two countries in my life.

[@SiliconBong]

Most new zealand town/cities still have them; along with newspaper/vending machines and juke boxes.

[@Lilo-A]

We were totally reliant on most of these things just 30 years ago.

[@benjaminrush4443]

Curse of the Boomers.

[@richardr7947]

Yeah everything in this video is now on our smartphones.

[@dr.kenschmidt5726]

I miss the 70s and 80s so much. Sometimes, I get very saddened by the world of today.

[@catherineprice1613]

Ditto

[@veramae4098]

Remember the big wars, the assassinations, discrimination ...

[@lancerevell5979]

​@@veramae4098We have those fun things today, even more so. 😢

[@user-sm3ii5dk1u]

You forget that the 70s radio played mostly disco, and in the 80s that insufferable "tortured little boy" music. Cars turned into crap. Polyester leisure suits. And there was that ever present acknowledgement that however good your day was going, the sky could suddenly be crisscrossed with vapour trails of ICBMs as the "super"powers decide to have a fatal for most pissing contest.

[@jeannequist6589]

I miss the newspaper most of all. What a great treat to have a Sunday off and to sit at the table with a nice cup of tea and read the newspaper. Now the local Sunday paper is $5 and only a few pages, and not written or produced locally either.

[@Tomatohater64]

Enjoy them while you can. My local newspaper is at least 80% smaller than it used to be while costing quintuple the price. I can see them all gone for good within the next decade.

[@rufust.firefly4890]

I now read the newspapers at the library. Catch up once or twice a week. News stand price is $3. I still have some $2 bills. I still have an AM/FM clock radio. Magnavox, must b 40 yrs old. I have a wooden rolling pin from my grandmother and a ice cream scoop with a wooden handle and metal scoop. Used to have wooden checkers and I remember when there were wooden clothes pins.

[@glennso47]

The Rockford Register Star paper is now published in Milwaukee Wisconsin. 🤔

[@andygozzo72]

newspapers are still around, but not so many as before,

[@JohnPotts-kq7kk]

I miss the daily paper very much, The Joplin Globe, to which I use to subscribe quit publishing on Sunday, Monday & holidays, reducing content, hardly any local news coverage, daily content was thread bare with very few pages, while continuing to raise subscription rate! When I received my yearly subscription bill $429 (almost $2 per day) to receive nothing so after almost 45 years did not renew!

[@luckyotter623]

I still have my 1983 GE digital alarm clock radio and it still works. Those things were built to last.

[@JamesVaughan]

I have one from the 1960s that still works (an analogue clock radio)!

[@richardr7947]

I have a digital alarm clock from the early 90s and still use it and works to this day.

[@clydekimsey7503]

Me too.

[@JamesDavis-qv2ws]

Mine is Panasonic it's from 1982 - still working. Radio / dual alarm with lighting of high / low. I can listen for up to a hour and it will turn radio off - sleep, love it. Best part it was free for 5 years of work service.

[@user-sm3ii5dk1u]

My radio came from the early 60s and so did I, it is possible it works better than I do now.

[@aviatortrucker6285]

Blackboards in classrooms along with cursive letters on the wall. Pinball machines in candy stores and antennas mounted on top of houses.

[@tsm688]

We still have those, the antennas are just different now

[@Tomatohater64]

I'm only 61 but boy oh boy, do these videos ever make me feel old - more like 101. 😮‍💨😒☹️🥺😭😭😭😭😭

[@pj-fx7gx]

You and me both! (I’m 63) 👍🏻

[@markcollins2666]

You're not old, just well grown! I'm 67. My in laws, now, THEY'RE old!!! Seriously, here's the thing: As Baby Boomers, we've seen technology go from the Industrial Revolution, to the Nuclear Age, and beyond, more than any generation ever. Growing up, I had a neighbor who shoveled coal into the steam boilers of Navy ships. He lived to see nuclear submarines. And we have seen so much more.

[@dougsyms]

Same here [ 62 ]

[@flowerfaeri]

@@markcollins2666 Agreed - things are changing too fast - the introduction of smart(?) phones is where I truly began to fall behind. Interesting story, after an extreme weather event knocked out power, communication towers and tore up trees in nearby rural areas several years ago, many people felt literally helpless when they couldn't charge their phones, fill up with gas or "communicate" online. Everything in the surrounding area shut down for several days.

[@marthajean50]

See-saws, Walkmen, paper checks, drive-in movies, banana seat bikes, car batteries that needed water added regularly, microphones with long necks on the counters at the fast food places, glass soda bottles that required a bottle opener to get open, cars with wood-paneled sides, Green Stamps, food stamps, and postal stamps you had to lick, telephone operators (just dial zero!) who would happily tell you the correct time, neighbors' loose dogs wandering around the neighborhood every day, penny candy shops, coffee vending machines that dropped the cups down behind a little door and poured the coffee and cream into them, pocket-size transistor radios with telescoping antennae, toll booths that had a big plastic coin catcher you'd just throw your loose change into, Tupperware parties, emergency telephone posts alongside the highways every few miles to call for help if needed... I miss it all! 🥰

[@peggyl2849]

I had a banana-seat bike with the long handlebars - most comfortable bike I have ever owned for long trips, or just to ride around all day. And soda tasted WAY better from a glass bottle vs. plastic.

[@80cardcolumn]

Rabbit ears on tv-s, analog signal tv-s, cereal box prizes, curb whiskers on cars, wing vents on cars, blanket hanger cords in cars, Burma Shave signs, walking to and from school unattended, punched cards and green-bar paper, black and white TV, Saturday morning cartoons, slide rules, drafting tables/machines, various sizes of floppy discs, core memory, video laser disks, dedicated personal data assistants (PDAs).

[@peggyl2849]

@@80cardcolumn Yes to most of them! LOL, we grew up on the south side of Chicago, but became Cub fans (north side team, as opposed to the White Sox on the south.) The reason? Our tv didn't have a UHF antenna, and the Cubs were on channel 9/WGN, while the Sox broadcast on either 32 or 44, I can't remember. Anything higher than 13 was UHF and you had to dial one dial to "U" and then dial the number of the station on the second dial. And, people used to make wreaths out of old IBM punch cards and spray them gold.

[@rustbeltrobclassic2512]

the quarter baskets existed on route 80 at the Delaware water gap up until 2023.

[@laubknight]

My dad erected a huge steel antenna that stood two stories high to get TV signals. Hasn't been used in probably 30 years, but it's still standing.

[@Ckom-Tunes]

What a joy it would be to go back to those times. I’d go back in a second.

[@waynemontpetit8181]

You forgot common sense, self-respect, context, good music

[@ronniesnakehissiii9413]

Manners

[@johnp139]

The ability to drive properly.

[@NickyLindolls]

😂💯

[@starmnsixty1209]

👍👍👍👍

[@Dorthy-wx9fq]

I agree with that.

[@keithwilson6060]

On a professional note, before spreadsheets came out, accountants used to have to work with huge ledger sheets, with numerous columns and rows to keep track of customers and accounts. It was very cumbersome and a nightmare to close the books.

[@pjesf]

And they had the rubber fingertip thing! I remember our Accountant (Shirley) was quintessential Aunt Bea with the sweaters, the reading glasses on a chain, and the sandals like Carol Burnett wore as Eunice 😂

[@jons.6216]

One of my former bosses actually wrote out paper spreadsheets in our office!

[@sandybruce9092]

I started college back in 1965 as an accounting major - realized very early in my sophomore year this wasn’t what I wanted to do - but we had to do everything with a pen - pencils were never allowed, even in high school accounting classes! I still miss those ledger sheets😁😁😁

[@tsm688]

@@sandybruce9092 missing a ledger sheet sounds like missing an abusive relationship

[@rogertemple7193]

I'm 59 I remember all of these i miss a lot of them thanks for the memories.☎️📻📺📷

[@gcbranger1189]

even farther back, tube testers and the battery a month club at radio shack.

[@thomasadrian9854]

It’s a damn shame when the things we grew up with disappear- like our nearest Baskin-Robbins just closed!!

[@stevenelmore7773]

In 67-68 my part time job in high school was working in a tv repair shop and everything was tubes.

[@chrislj2890]

@@stevenelmore7773 Back in the '50s I saw the tv repairman more than my dad, and was amazed at that big tool box that unfolded to expose all of those RCA tubes. I think that influenced my recent purchases of vacuum tube integrated amps for my hifi setups. I have one going as I type and spinning an LP on the turntable. There are a few ways to relive the past.

[@SSN515]

Tube testers and tubes at the drug stores, too

[@psidvicious]

Yes the local 7/11 or U-Totem or whatever type of convenience store you had, had the tube testers right there as a self serve kind of convenience. The actual tube tester on top and drawers full of the different tubes below.

[@DavidLS1]

I still use a digital alarm clock. The time is always displayed and I don't have to reach for my phone.

[@larryk731]

I also use an (approximate) 30 year old digital alarm clock radio.

[@RatKindler]

Me too. Then again, I don't have a smart phone and still have a land line with an answering machine.

[@DavidLS1]

@@RatKindler You should replace your landline with a Nettalk Duo. It works like a landline only through your computer router. Instead of thirty or more dollars a month, it only costs about four. I have one phone with a built-in answering machine and three extension phones.

[@gcbranger1189]

i sill use a Heathkit digital clock i put together 47 years ago.

[@gogreen7794]

I have a three story townhouse. I don't always have my cell phone with me, so I have digital clock radios in two bedrooms so I can check the time. It's easier than always carrying my cell phone and at times, it's being charged on another floor.

[@tfrank2103]

Milk delivery, oil furnaces, Beta VCR, transistor radios, walkie talkies, CB radios, video stores, 8-track players, unbiased news reporting

[@mikezylstra7514]

Our milkman was a hunk and a real nice guy. The company was bought out, (those routes were owned by the milkmen who always assumed that route was an asset) and, well, home delivery was discontinued and those routes became worthless overnight. As a result, our milkman popped himself as did my buddy's milkman dad. Poor things.

[@MarvMattison]

Way less tv commercials 😢

[@brianvuinovic4252]

My clock radio is now 30 years old. I will use it until it dies.

[@JWimpy]

Same here.

[@frankburau2517]

Which ever dies first

[@DannySettle-yi2ef]

I Concur 👍 Thank's

[@pamelamays4186]

One thing I miss. The Yellow Pages. When I was a young kid, I'd spend hours reading them.

[@marika8642]

Why?

[@hollycossin5614]

"Let Your Fingers Do The Walking"

[@peggyl2849]

@@hollycossin5614 Yes, there was a big legal to-do when one of the independent publishers starting using that "walking fingers" logo.

[@robertd9850]

@@marika8642 No friends.

[@psidvicious]

The strongman that was able to rip a phone book in half is just not a thing anymore, is it?

[@julenepegher6999]

I Loved my 70’s! I would give up all luxuries of today to go back! I still have a digital alarm clock. Buying smokes from the vending machine.😊and I could read all about my soap operas in the T.V. Guide, when I started working.

[@20Unknown]

I still have my digital alarm clock, as well!

[@MoonFairy11]

I would go back in a second!

[@beadyeye2312]

@@MoonFairy11 I just watched the Twilight Zone episode where the guy (NYC executive) goes back in time to his hometown and sees his younger self. He tries to tell his younger self to enjoy every minute because it'll be the best time of his life. I can relate to that, it was the best time of my life. Still, it is what it is and I try to enjoy every minute I get but if I had the option... I'd go back.

[@karatalley1987]

​@@MoonFairy11me too.

[@debrakildau9288]

Amen❤❤❤❤❤

[@DylansPen]

I remember as a kid the Sunday newspaper was HUGE. There was always a three or four page section of just color cartoons like Garfield and Andy Capp and I sat at the table every Sunday morning reading the cartoons. When I got a paper route the Sunday edition was so large I had a load of newspapers to deliver that weighed me and my bicycle down like a boat anchor, and I had to make two or three trips back to the house, refill, and then go again.

[@astralclub5964]

I remember getting off a flight and hurrying to try and grab a pay phone in the airport before they were all taken!

[@2DogsVlogs]

I like it how where I live we now get free phone calls on pay phones. Makes it a good safety blanket for kids who don't carry coins. Also handy to have so many as they put them at popular spots like corner stores, shopping centers, airports.

[@LynnGreen-i4l]

When I was a kid I loved looking through telephone books and mail order catalogs from Montgomery wards

[@cdfreester]

We still get woken up on weekday mornings to my 1989 GE clock radio. Still works after all these years.

[@sandybruce9092]

So many things that are considered I,d still work very well - opposed to just about anything made recently that lasts maybe 3 years if your lucky - thus includes kitchen appliances. Washers, dryers, etc. My 25 year old refrigerator is going strong and the one in my in-law’s noise (which we inherited) was there in 1976 when I first visited. Unfortunately the washer there has decided to die after probably about 50 years!😢😢

[@frankeasterling3402]

@@sandybruce9092 We have a upright, Kenmore freezer that is pushing 40.

[@footballlvnlady]

We got TV Guide for many years! My dad always did the puzzle.

[@1954shadow]

Me too!

[@jerryt4053]

I felt good if I could at least get two words correct.

[@flowerfaeri]

I LOVED doing the puzzle!

[@whatsit2ya247]

Fun fact, I still have a working VHS player that can convert and record to DVDs, sorry legacy box 😎

[@BakedRBeans]

I have a VCR attached to my system, so I can play a tape at a moment's notice. And....I bought about six more at Goodwill, cause they were low-priced.

[@pjesf]

I remember when I was a cashier at Target in 1978 (first job) and we had those credit card imprinters. And for checks it was “Can I please see your DL?”

[@sandybruce9092]

Those credit card printers!!! Sometimes they would slightly jam when the cashier was running with whatever that thing was called - my credit cards don’t even have raised numbers anymore!

[@richardhoehn9922]

And who writes paper checks any longer?

[@tsm688]

@@richardhoehn9922 Small businesses still deal with cheques all the time.

[@susanmurphy4093]

These bring back memories of good times, better times, safer times. Thanks

[@JohnYoung-js1bl]

Crime was higher in the 70s.

[@tsm688]

ah yes, the second world war, the cold war, how safe and serene

[@susanmurphy4093]

@@tsm688 not interested in you and your negative Nancy ways

[@tsm688]

@@susanmurphy4093 Same to you. The world turned upside down several times inside those years. We're just hyper-aware of everything that happens now.

[@jonathanmcvay4499]

It was an illusion, Susan.

[@Rick-S-6063]

I can remember being a high school freshman in 1969 - 1970 when guys were griping "Can you believe it? Cigarettes are now 45 cents a pack! I swear, when they get to 50 cents a pack, I'm quitting smoking!" Any bets that if those same guys are still alive today they're griping (between oxygen cycles and coughing spasms) "Can you believe it? Cigarettes are now $6 a pack! I swear, when they get to $6.50 a pack, I'm quitting smoking!" On a lighter (no pun intended) note, there was a jukebox in a room off the gym in my high school and it contained quite a selection of music in 1969 - 1970. "Hot Sand" by Shocking Blue. "Whole Lotta Love" by Led Zeppelin. "Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)" by Sly And The Family Stone. "More Today Than Yesterday" by the Spiral Starecase. "Memphis Underground" by Herbie Mann. What a great time to be alive.

[@user-ol6lw3yh1c]

Some are $70AUD a packet in Australia 🇦🇺. It’s illegal to display cigarettes and they have to be locked in cupboards and no advertising is allowed including brand names on the boxes. They all have to have gory pictures of diseased body parts on them caused by smoking.

[@1954shadow]

Class of ‘73, here!

[@frankeasterling3402]

Most of us quite smoking a long time ago.

[@jdstep97]

I didn't even know Led Zeppelin went back that far. I like them.

[@user-sm3ii5dk1u]

Before 10yo I would be handed a $10 bill and sent to the corner store to get 2 cartons (not packs) of smokes for my dad, and 1 carton for my mom. I was allowed to spend $0.25 on candy (bulk) or buy a bar $0.30 from the change. Also, the station wagon with the huge tank would barely fit $10 worth of gas. Last time I filled a wagon it was $105. and that was before the price got "expensive." LOL

[@pcojedi]

I used to collect $2.00 bills since 1976 and I had over 40 of them. Around 1982 the envelope I had them in went missing and I had shared a room with my older brother. In 1984 I would sit with my sister in law until my brother got to their house because someone tried to break in when my brother was at work and she was home alone. My sister in law and I would just talk for hours. One night she said when her and my brother were dating he paid for the entire date with $2.00 bills. They are divorced now, good for her.

[@robmatlock7675]

They still use $2.00 bills and Susan B's in overseas military BX's, they are trying to wear them out; to get a little return on the money it took to make them.

[@balaam_7087]

I think you should have ended that story by saying that after the divorce it turned out your brother was queerer than a $3 bill

[@davinp]

I have a $2.00 bill that I am keeping. They can still be used, but a rarer

[@michaelbarfield528]

There is a bank here in Sumter,SC called First Citizens Bank where I can still get $2.00 bills, Kennedy Half Dollars and Sacagawea Dollar and occassional Ike Dollar...

[@jamesmiller4184]

@@balaam_7087 Hey, they really had both, $3 bills + gays, back in the wildcat banking days. They were really quite nice and are collected like crazy now, the bills I mean.

[@hakanhellgren]

I am 63 years old soon 64 woriking in the IT industry. I still have a telephone landline 2 daily newspapers delivered to my home, an alarmclock radio beside my bed to wake me up every morning, not all stuff are obsolete. Today if you lose your cellphone or it gets flat battery you will be stranded.

[@glennso47]

Except you can’t use a landline phone during a power outage.

[@Bob-1802]

@@glennso47 Yes you can, phone central offices have their own backup power during blackouts.

[@peggyl2849]

@@glennso47 You absolutely can; analog phone lines don't depend on electricity. The things they call "land lines" today, internet-based, are the ones that are useless in a power outage.

[@peggyl2849]

When I moved to Wisconsin in 2012, they no longer offered an analog land line in the area I moved to, only those internet-based things.

[@Bob-1802]

@@peggyl2849 So it seems that in case of serious emergencies shuting down public communications, we only got walkie-talkies/CB/HAM 📻 left to communicate.😐

[@vvvggg1718]

Aww wow this one hit me hard, every item on here was something i have so much familiarity with...i feel old af! 😂 99% of this technology was wiped out by one item 📱

[@peggyl2849]

Take heart, if you're using 'af' you're not that old :)

[@tsm688]

I predicted this back in the early 90's, that a small portable computer could replace a lot of what we do. But nobody, **NOBODY**, was willing to make a small, decent display. They could have... They just never saw the point. That, and wifi, held back the smartphone 20 years.

[@7passionstar]

From this list I miss the classifieds and TV Guide the most. 😢 Thank you for another trip back to sweeter times. ❤

[@peggyl2849]

Yes, I remember looking for an apartment in the Classifieds.

[@7passionstar]

@@peggyl2849 - It was wonderfully easy. These days it's not easy at all.

[@panderjitsinghvv8199]

I can still smell TV Guide. That cheap pulp paper and cheap ink that came off on your fingers.

[@peggyl2849]

I remember when a version of a tv guide used to be included in the Sunday paper.

[@DaleRunningbear]

😂 smells like 💩 I bet mmm

[@alexcitron5159]

In senior year of college, my father wasn't sure whether to get me a microwave or portable TV. The TV won out, and I can remember watching Star Wars on the tiny B/W screen -- fun! Thanks for all YOUR fun content

[@sandybruce9092]

We couldn’t even bring a small TV to college when I started (65) - we have a TV Room in our dorm! Guess I’m older than you because I wouldn’t even have known about microwaves back then😢😢

[@Luke-hs3bf]

I used traveler checks when i was in the military. I recently asked about them while at a bank. The assistant manager said that most banks phased them out more than ten years ago.

[@waleyefish9026]

The last time I used traveler's checks was 1973.😮

[@agencequebecpresse7427]

same happened to me. now it cash or outragous credit card fee when you travel

[@flowerfaeri]

I "inherited" a stash when my father died but can't find a bank that will cash them.

[@mayorb3366]

The "QWERTY" keyboard was arranged on typewriters to help prevent the letter hammers from jamming together when typing.

[@peggyl2849]

I did not know that!

[@sandybruce9092]

Yes absolutely. Someone years ago tried to rearrange the keys to supposedly make it easier - nope it didn’t!

[@user-sm3ii5dk1u]

My mother could type over 110 words per minute on the old manual upright typewriters, mistake free. She was sought after in the typing pools in government offices where you needed to make "original copies" that were mistake free. When they brought in the IBM Selectric (electric) typewriters she hated them because they made her type slower than the manual. She only decided she liked them when they brought out the correcting selectric that lifted mistakes off with a sticky ribbon. That is the keyboard they copied for computers later.

[@Jack-xo2zp]

In 100-200 years from now, there will be a similar program, which will begin, "Remember before the days of androids when human beings actually had to interact with each other....

[@jhonsiders6077]

At the rate we are going now humans will not last another 200 years if that . Wars civil violence will take us out the city’s will fall first looted and burned ! I live on 300 acres out here away from large city’s with diverse people , pandemics will get worse we will be gone before the earth is unfit to live on . The final days will be a mad max scenario of warring gangs . Fighting over the last fuel and food

[@ScottHill-w3v]

When my father passed away I came across a mult function portable TV with a telescoping antenna. It also has a AM/ FM radio, gives weather updates and has a built in flashlight in the handle. Works but is very dim. I still use the radio function when working in the garage.

[@JackTorrance333]

The smart phone has replaced half of your list. Unreal.

[@lorenschwiderski]

And Microsoft was sure it would never sell.

[@user-wi8nc9wo3x]

It is quite amazing. I was just thinking about that yesterday

[@davidjackson2580]

I do have a smart phone, but it's only really used for phone calls and the occasional text. I wouldn't say it never used for internet access, but it's rare. I have a PC for that. I have a camera (well two actually) for photographs, so don't need the camera on the phone. As I understand it, more and more people are going back to simple mobiles, so with a bit of luck the days of the smart phone are numbered.

[@asprinklingofclouds]

The Windows Phone didn't sell so they got that bit right.

[@flowerfaeri]

I hate smart phones. I don't use half the apps and I find hem kinda bulky. I miss the flip phones. They did everything I needed and were more durable.

[@jerrysharpnack4010]

I want to say thank you, please keep this up, really enjoy watching this

[@bridgetmccracken1381]

I miss the old days!!

[@participantparticipant506]

When Mom & Dad bought cigarettes from a machine, sometimes they had a side section with chewing gum for the kids. Our local phone book also had "blue pages" with every possible government agency and office listed. Some phone books even had a red/pink section with coupons, usually in the middle of the yellow pages restaurant section. Many rest stops with minimal facilities, Michigan for example, have multiple vending machines, including a coffee/hot drink maker.

[@Lkydo8165]

We used a microfiche machine for microfilm to look up customers account balances whenever the CRT machines were down, also people had passbooks for their savings accts that we had to stamp for the savings and loan bank that I worked at in the late '80s early '90s

[@atsirk8756]

I lived for TV Guide to come every week as a teenager with its tiny pictures of my favorite actor like David McCallum from Man from Uncle 😊

[@jenniferhansen3622]

I remember in the 80s I would read the TV Guide and I would highlight all the shows I wanted to watch during the week. 😊

[@1954shadow]

I loved doing the crossword puzzle, in the back.

[@andygozzo72]

still get tv guide magazines

[@jenniferhansen3622]

@@andygozzo72 They're different though. The size is different too.

[@andygozzo72]

@@jenniferhansen3622 different 'size'? current ones are standard 'magazine' size,

[@louettesommers8594]

My husband absolutely had to have his TV Guide delivered every week. I still have a two dollar bill in front of me now.

[@carlavision6143]

Thanks for the memories!

[@JWimpy]

Bob Hope suddenly comes to mind.

[@stevedaniell7643]

Great video. So many memories!

[@eekamouse-js8lr]

Can remember when a 6.5-oz. bottle of Coca-Cola was 10 cents. You were expected to leave your empty bottle in the rack, but I always took mine with me for the return on the two cents deposit.

[@michaelmcenery7515]

Yes and the bigger size got you a nickel,which you could buy a full size candy bar with & no tax

[@eekamouse-js8lr]

@@michaelmcenery7515 👍🏼

[@luckylambdin8269]

When I was in college in the mid-1970s, I used to steal entire rackfuls of empty coke bottles that sat next to the vending machines all over campus to take them to stores for a 5 cent return on the deposit. While cumbersome, It was a quick way to make a couple or few bucks - enough for a movie or a combo meal at McDonald's. If the back of my car was pretty full, it was worth about 12 bucks - about $70 nowadays.

[@aaronlopez492]

110 mm cameras, restaurants and theaters filled with smoke. [TV Guide is still a soft cover magazine sold.]

[@tekman196]

Had a 35mm Cannon AE1 . I remember all the pictures I took and dropped off at the photo mat booth to be developed. Having someone else develope and print all your pictures sure kept you respectable 😂. Every now and then we get them out and laugh and cry looking at them . Wonderful memories for sure .

[@dead2selfShema]

​​@@tekman196Amazon has negative and slide scanners.

[@glennso47]

Except it’s printed on larger format

[@keensoundguy6637]

Smoking was allowed on flights too. I don't recall exactly when, but I think it wasn't until the late 80's or early 90's when it was finally banned.

[@aviatortrucker6285]

It’s gonna be something for these young kids to be able to look back at the 2020s when it’s up to the 2070s of what once was. We will be long gone, but the nostalgia lives on.

[@jwb52z9]

I'll be in my 90s then, ugh!

[@cindytrayer4279]

Nothing today is worth looking back on.

[@pompasduris]

@@cindytrayer4279 We all used to say the same thing about the 1970s. Here we are today doing exactly that.

[@cosmostrek2001]

the problem with no more phone booths. all the movies with greats scenes that happened in and around phone booths.

[@davinp]

London may still have some, but mostly gone in the United States

[@kenbrown2808]

that's the real reason crime is skyrocketing. Superman has nowhere to change clothes.

[@peggyl2849]

Ha - Jumping Jack Flash, very funny scene involving a phone booth.

[@stillwaters2121]

Where does Superman change now ? ? ?

[@NightBazaar]

@@stillwaters2121 Superman has to change in dark alley dumpsters these days. Some people have complained about indecent exposure. They suspect a grown man with underwear on the outside of his blue body suit is up to no good. Nobody knows why he wears a cape.

[@woodwaker1]

I saw an interesting piece of history in the TV Guide clip. Phil Donahue was highlighted and he just passed at 80 + years. A lot of this audience is getting to the same age.

[@michaelbarfield528]

RIP....Phil Donahue.

[@sandybruce9092]

I thought he was 90? I’m almost 77 and I’m sure he was more than 3 years older than I am!

[@woodwaker1]

@@sandybruce9092 I think they said 88, but wan not sure that is why 80+

[@louiseshepardson8068]

@@woodwaker1 I read last week when he passed that he was 88.

[@nancyjaplon4909]

I still miss old fashioned home phones and the phone booths.

[@t200b-i7k]

There were alot of pay phones around. We always checked them as we walked by for change that may have been left! Sometimes we got lucky and found a quarter, dime or nickel! Our local diner had a cigarette machine, 50-75 cents a pack! I still use a small electric alarm clock, not for the alarm, but for the green numbers to see time in the dark. My grandma had a green, rotary dial desk phone installed in her new house in 1957. It was there till she passed in 2001. Weirdly, as so many things began to change all around us, by the 90's, walking into her house & seeing and or using that phone gave me surprising comfort, that at least something from my childhood was still the same.

[@maisies927]

We did the same.

[@user-sm3ii5dk1u]

At the turn of 1999 to 2000 I drove around in a dreadful blizzard to get copies of the last paper of the 1 millenium and the first paper of the 2 millenium. I found most boxes were empty, except 2 facing into the heavy, wet snow. They were both jammed, and a combination of dropping in quarters and pushing the coin return finally broke the jams and yielded over $10 in coins (we have $1 coins in daily use). I finally found the 3 daily papers from 1999, and then within half an hour got the "new" 2000 papers. I still have the sets, and the first editions of 2 of the local papers. Not sure they are worth the cover price anymore though lol.

[@battlestar6364]

I had to use one of those credit card slider things once a couple years ago when the systems went down at my job at a small jewelry store. It was fun! 😂

[@BTURNER1961]

I had completely forgotten they existed, despite the fact I actually had to use one at my very first job in a small pet store. The ink on one's fingers, that sound as the top part was run over the card and the copies! Haven't given those a thought in decades!

[@rf159a]

Ah, some of the numbers on a pay phone wall!!

[@2DogsVlogs]

I have to check if they still do that. There is a payphone just up the road from me and I pass 2 others on my morning walk.

[@daymoonfarm2903]

I really miss telephone directories.

[@hollycossin5614]

"Let your fingers do the walking"

[@lorenschwiderski]

Why?

[@Dadofer1970]

They still give out white pages in my old hometown.

[@tsm688]

I still have one.

[@Novocastrian-wp4ll]

Australia still has them, although they’re getting smaller as residentials ditch landlines (which were listed by default) in favour of mobile phones (which aren’t)

[@MeadowFarmer]

In the 70s, I had one of those flip-style mechanical digital clock radios. It made so much noise I had to get rid of it.

[@MoonFairy11]

Portable TVs. I forgot about those.😂

[@matrox]

TVs? I forgot about those.🤣

[@Washougalite1]

I got one for Christmas as a kid. I think it was a 9" screen

[@sherylcrawford8201]

😢I miss the old days.

[@corettejones]

Born 1958. Each and every gone forever and have personal recollections to prove. Gone but Not forgotten!✔️✔️✔️👍🏽👍🏽👍🏽🥰🇺🇸💙

[@johnbethea4505]

Most vending machines disappeared because thieves would break into them. Even the penny bubble gum and the 5 cent pack chewing gum machines didn't stand a chance. People would also break into the newspaper machines got broke into. It is too bad that the thieves couldn't have disappeared.

[@jamesmiller4184]

I'd bet that it only became more a problem as social mores decayed. Earlier folks would feel bad about misrepresenting a fact or doing something wrong. Our society has been MADE more-and-more criminal minded and favorable to lying, and so as cancerous to the social fabric which results we now live.

[@chuckwadnofski7147]

Same reason most car washes take cards

[@glennso47]

Cigarette machine in a cancer clinic.

[@johnbethea4505]

@glennso47 most people never knew about cancer back then. Even doctors and nurses may have smoked back then. Even in the hospital or court rooms.

[@johnp139]

As a kid, we would trace coins on cardboard and would use them for those “gumball machines”, and often they wouldn’t fall out and would go round and round!

[@toddbehrends1373]

Two things I noticed and need to comment on. First, my wife, who lives in a nursing home, has a subscription to TV Guide delivered to her. Second, my dad buys $100.00 worth of $2 dollar bills regularly to use as tips when he goes out to eat. He gets them at a local bank. When the bank orders them they have to buy $250.00 worth of them at a time.

[@Scott-gx4rc]

My grand dad liked tippin with $2 bills as well.

[@starmnsixty1209]

You're right on these things, though to be honest, TV Guide is a ghost of itself. Even a waste of paper in many ways to be blunt.

[@sandybruce9092]

I have saved $2 bills - just can’t bear to use them😁😁😁. Most people thunk $2 bills are counterfeit because they are too young😁😁😁🫢😁

[@frankeasterling3402]

I have lawyer friend that tips with 2 dollar bills. Hw also wears a bow tie everyday.

[@DragonBlue68]

New tech eventually becomes old tech as time moves on... Took a test drive in a near showroom condition 1973 Chevy Caprice today. It even had a functional 8 track player and stock stereo. Brought back memories of younger days.

[@sandybruce9092]

We have a box of 8-tracks somewhere in storage (climate controlled!!). My 2017 CR-V didn’t come with a CD players and I’m still bummed!

[@safepetproducts]

Two dollar bills are no more or less common than ever.

[@SingleDaddyDean]

Actually, if you ask for them ahead of time, your local bank might be able to get one/some for you. I did that as recently a couple of years ago as birthday gifts for younger family members.

[@johnp139]

@@SingleDaddyDeanThat’s the POINT of the comment!!!

[@larryk731]

Fax machines are still used in legal, medical and financial applications because of security - anything sent is an anonymous telephone call.

[@frankeasterling3402]

Retired LEO, 41 years. Used the Fax inn the District Attorney's office for legal items.

[@tsm688]

That hasn't been anonymous since the 70's, and routinely faked since the 90's.

[@darylwhitty]

So watching carefully you missed the recording or cassette tapes , which I used to do every week listening to top 10 or yearly top 100 on New Years Eve in Canada . Keep up the amazing videos

[@pj-fx7gx]

I remember waiting and waiting and waiting for a song (after having dialed and re-dialed and re-dialed the request line) only to have the DJ talk up to (and sometimes past) the point where the vocals started - same with the outro. I absolutely love the fact that I can download individual songs and listen to them sans DJ

[@JWimpy]

Me too, I love cassette tapes. They are still my favorite audio format. I don't even own a CD or a CD player.

[@dougsyms]

Oh yes , I remember sitting by the radio making mix cassettes .

[@turbofanlover]

I still own and use most of these items. Oh, and I still have never used nor owned a cell phone.

[@gcbranger1189]

you're not missing a whole lot. my dad was a Pratt and Whitney field rep. for 30 years. he's 99 y.o. now.

[@richardr7947]

You can still use your old stuff theres but nothing wrong owning a smartphone. But these days you need a cellphone.

[@matrox]

4:45 Yes! I remember when a bottle of soda was just 10 cents! And a candy bar was a nickel! Today a candy is a $1.75 or more!!!!! WTF!!!!

[@johnmadow5331]

I was the last person who went to the typewriter shop in Stratford ,Connecticut for typewriter repair before the store close its door in June 2015

[@susan4337]

When I left work 8 yrs ago, we had typewriters, a fax machine, and time clocks. There was no internet service, and these were town offices. The mayor didn’t believe in the internet being safe to use. He was the mayor for about 35 yrs!

[@peggyl2849]

LOL, at one job by the time we finally convinced the boss to get a fax machine, they were nearly obsolete because of email.

[@tsm688]

Punch clocks (nowadays, printing clocks) are still used by lots of businesses. Sometimes they're the only way to avoid time fraud. Inside them lives perhaps the only remaining impact printer made in the 21st century.

[@MarleneTrujillo-uc8bj]

I miss the thick phone books they were so much more accurate

[@Calibeachgtl1024]

I frekkin hate change and things are the worst they've ever been

[@robertd9850]

People who were slaves or in concentration camps beg to differ as do the young men charging into battle to help them.

[@tyronejackson832]

Just stay under your rock and never interact with the outside world

[@Calibeachgtl1024]

@@tyronejackson832 whatever fuck you ive got 23 people that agree with me

[@mmg8823]

Without change, we would still be living in caves, sleeping in bear skins, and hoping we can find enough food.

[@richardr7947]

I have a buddy that is still in the 70s & 80s. He never learn how to run a computer or smartphone. Knows nothing about the internet or apps. I have had to help him out a lot because he does not own a cellphone. Change is a good thing.

[@robertpalmer5599]

Coke machines and vending machines are found at laundry mats and also in the break room at many jobs.

[@sonyafox3271]

Apartment Buildings and Department Stores!

[@jarekstorm6331]

Not the ones with the glass bottles though. Those were awesome.

[@peggyl2849]

@@jarekstorm6331 And the machines had the little bottle opener you stuck the top of the bottle in to get the cap off.

[@c.rutherford]

The one thing that was so great about using a pay phone is your call could not be traced.

[@estherstephens1858]

So many great memories. ❤❤

[@rf159a]

Still have an alarm clock!! I'm old school!

[@pj-fx7gx]

I got rid of mine a couple of years ago to lighten the load for a move out of state. I now miss waking up and not having to fumble for the phone to know what time it is

[@dougsyms]

Same here . I have three .

[@lorenschwiderski]

@@pj-fx7gx Siri, time? Hey Google, time? The digital servant will gladly tell you from afar, unless still in the silent mode.

[@jelleroggen]

I still use keys, I feel old.

[@broederbond60]

I remember when grown men were physically fit and didn't dress like children.

[@theodorerelic2718]

I remember being in study hall back in 1979 and one of the girls would bring in their little portable black & white TV so she and her friends could watch their soaps :)

[@julenepegher6999]

@@theodorerelic2718 haha! I love it!

[@sonyafox3271]

Me and friend would get a pass given to us from another teacher so, we could go to her room to do just that, go watch the soaps together in her class. Besides my last year, we were doing this, I only had a few months of school left to go! 0:10

[@glennso47]

The picture was a bar of soap.😅

[@glennso47]

The song One Token Over The Line? 🙄

[@glennso47]

Woken up with Sonny and Cher singing the song that was playing in Groundhog Day? Every day? 😂I Got You Babe.

[@keithdean9149]

Cigarette Vending Machines, how underage smokers got their cigarettes.

[@NightBazaar]

When I was young, there were small mom and pop grocery stores every couple of blocks or so. Kids would buy cigarettes by saying their parents sent them to the store to buy a pack for them. I'm pretty sure, the store owners knew they weren't buying cigarettes for their parents.

[@SpotandLes]

OMG. Reminds of so much I forgot. Thanks for the travel back.

[@mrnosaj71]

I was 28 when the 20th century ended, so I fondly remember every one of these.

[@jwb52z9]

I was 22, but I'm right there with you.

[@user-wi8nc9wo3x]

I'm with you, +1yr. We kind of got the best of it. We got to grow up free from social media and now we can appreciate the convenience. And we can survive without it.

[@richardr7947]

I was 20 when it ended.

[@dave3657]

In 2002 I was at the DMV and needed to make a call. I didn’t have a cell phone yet, and they had removed all the public phones. I had to go next door and buy a flip phone at Target. That’s when missing public phones really hit home. I used to go through the TV guide when I was younger, underlining and planning out the week. Some places still have jukeboxes, albeit it digital.

[@dougsyms]

I bought a cell phone in 2012 and could not find a pay phone to activate it. I had to go to my parents house to use their land line .

[@sandybruce9092]

I still go through my delivered TV Guide and underlying or circle programs I’m interested in - some even get a little star when it’s really what I want to watch!!!

[@rf159a]

Spent many of hours in my darkroom developing film and printing pictures.

[@northmaineguy5896]

The real reason cigarette machines disappeared was because they gave minors easy access to cigarettes.

[@robmatlock7675]

That's where I got mine when I was 14

[@northmaineguy5896]

@@robmatlock7675 I used to bring a piece of paper and act like I'm reading it as I bought the cigarettes to look like I was reading a note from my mother.

[@robmatlock7675]

@@northmaineguy5896 Cool, ,my dad used to send a note with me to the store, so I could buy his Chesterfields, I would get an extra pack, then trade it for Winstons later. I worked hard for my habit, lol

[@runninginharran]

I grew up in the '70s and my mom would send me to the store to buy her cigs. I was maybe 10 or 11 and had no problem. That was 1975. The person at the register would ring up the cigs along with the rest of the stuff on a manual register and never ask questions, lol.

[@julenepegher6999]

@@northmaineguy5896 those were the days, me and my friends would pitch in 50 cents and get a pack from the machine at the pizza shop and split them between us. 😆

[@CM-sm6rs]

Wonderful picture of a young Jackie Kennedy.

[@henryechezabal758]

Bean Bag Chairs, Shag Carpet, Wood Paneling, Bead Curtains, Shell Steak Knives, Clothes Lines, Attic Fans, Kerosene Heaters, Antenna Balls, Turtle Necks, Telegrams, Portable Bars, Ubiquitous Ashtrays, Deposit on Soda Bottles, Steering knobs, Road Maps, and Curb Feelers.

[@DW3010]

Am I the only one who paused the video to read the entire TV Guide listing?

[@pjesf]

I remember when FAX machines first came out. I was a Junior Programmer and was “in charge of” the FAX (aka FAX cop) due to privacy concerns. I read EVERYTHING before distributing the curly documents 😂👍🏻 That was before anyone knew that over time they became invisible so those sensitive documents in the private archives pretty much secured themselves 😂

[@user-vr6xm8lm1o]

I still miss the tube testing machine that was in the grocery store everyday. 😢😢

[@420GratefulHippie]

Cigarette vending machines weren't banned because of health risks. They were banned to prevent underage persons from buying cigarettes easily and without having to show ID.

[@rf159a]

TV Guide crossword!! Forgot that one.

[@MrSanford65]

As a Mailman, I can tell you TV guides are still in print . And I also remember Phone booths always smelled like urine

[@peggyl2849]

A combo for me - my first job out of high school was working for Donnelley, a big yellow pages publisher in the Midwest. I edited some of the info that went into an address-based directory. We had a whole department of contractors who had routes where they went to pay phones, inspected the phone books, and replaced missing or damaged ones. Phone books in pay phone booths, LOL. (and restaurants, stores, etc. )