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02 Jul 2015, 9:39 pm

vinyl records, 8-track tapes.



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02 Jul 2015, 10:32 pm

Citizens' Band Radio
Tinder, Flint, and Steel
Magnetic Compasses
Thomas Guide Mapbooks
Dog Whistles
Cursive Writing
Drugstore Lunch Counters
Dollar Movie Matinees on Saturday
Girls that could blush
Women's clothing that left something to the imagination



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03 Jul 2015, 3:58 am

Overhead Projectors where the teacher would circle things in read grease-pencil, and you could see it on a large screen, at the front of the class.











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03 Jul 2015, 6:23 am

Making a mixed tape (especially from the radio)


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03 Jul 2015, 5:38 pm

Trading Stamps - I THINK that's what they were called. You got them at the grocery store, and put them in a book, and then you could get things like a blender, or some other small appliance, gadget, or whatever.











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03 Jul 2015, 6:26 pm

Record players
Metal-wheeled skateboards and roller skates
Betamaxes
TV/stereo consoles
Teletype machines

I haven't seen a cuff link in a while



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03 Jul 2015, 6:47 pm

School filmstrips, the kind that were basically slide shows. Preferably with an LP record of narration that sounded a BEEP whenever the teacher was supposed to advance to the extent picture.

Ice cube trays that had to be manually filled and emptied.



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03 Jul 2015, 7:09 pm

That's funny----I was just thinking about those old ice cube trays, just the other day----the ones that were metal, and you pulled-up the handle to release the cubes.











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03 Jul 2015, 10:29 pm

A lady told me how her grandkids once saw her filling ice trays, and they just could not grasp the idea that cubes have not always just magically popped out of the refrigerator door. :D



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04 Jul 2015, 8:03 am

When we did math, we used to use abacuses.

They were the calculators of the world for thousands of years.



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06 Jul 2015, 6:37 pm

Campin_Cat wrote:
Overhead Projectors where the teacher would circle things in read grease-pencil, and you could see it on a large screen, at the front of the class.
I hated when it was too close and the image wasn't a perfect square shape or if the teacher had a sheet of paper hiding part of the gel sheet and it was squint. :lol:
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Trading Stamps - I THINK that's what they were called. You got them at the grocery store, and put them in a book, and then you could get things like a blender, or some other small appliance, gadget, or whatever.
Over here in the UK they were called Green Shield Stamps. I think my mum saved up for a new teapot. Probably 20 years to get it. 8O


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06 Jul 2015, 6:43 pm

Campin_Cat wrote:
Movie Projectors (school, or the theatre) - where the film would sometimes break, and you'd have to wait for the projectionist to splice it back together.

Most knowledgeable projectionists learned quickly how to "mark" the break and repair it during an intermission, thereby decreasing the "downtime" to about 15 seconds.


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06 Jul 2015, 6:46 pm

While it is still widely marketed, most Americans have lost their interest in wearing perfume and cologne. I suspect it has become a victim of the dead discretionary economy.


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06 Jul 2015, 6:50 pm

I used to love the abacuses whose beads look like buttons.

Red for the 1's place

Blue for the 10's place

Orange for the 100's place, etc/



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06 Jul 2015, 6:51 pm

Cars that offered "optional in-dash" AM radios. Now, that was some conspicuous consumption for its time.


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06 Jul 2015, 6:52 pm

Glass soda bottles which needed to be "returned" to the store for reuse.


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