Material Things of Which the Younger Generation Has No Idea

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The "can" mic in the recording studio is of a type no longer in use, at least that I know of. Auntblabby probably knows more.

But the square-looking one during their stage performance was likely some flavor of an RCA 44. That, and its progeny such as the RCA 74, is no longer used except in the odd case when a vintage-style sound is desired.

When I was a small boy I was fascinated by those. I told my mother that I wanted to be an elevator operator when I grow up.

Can't answer your question, but I love that movie, one of my favorites.

THEE Jimmy Carter?

I love those old cars!! These cars, nowadays, should have either "Campbell's" written on the side, or "Rub-a-Dub-Dub"! ! LOL

I loved them, TOO!! I can remember going in one when we went downtown, shopping. I thought that was really classy, and can remember thinking that I thought it was so cool----all that fancy-ness.

With everything going digital now, filming movies on actual film has been kept at a minimum.

Pudding once came in cans instead of plastic cups. I guess that's not a big deal, though. In fact it was annoying when the ring came off the lid when I tried opening it. I usually got it open using a spoon or a butter knife, though.

My mom used to buy canned pudding for my brother and me to put in our school lunches. We always had to bring our lunch to school because there was no cafeteria. Unless we lived a short distance away, then we could walk home for lunch. And get to watch the cartoons that were on at noon.

This thread has been quite challenging to the memory cells in the brain. But is there anyone brave enough to admit they still have a Leisure Suit somewhere in their attic, waiting for that great fashion marvel to come back?

I remember wearing a turquoise colored Leisure suit in High School (75 or 76).

I didn't have a leisure suit, but it pisses me off to no end that I no longer have my bell bottom/elephant leg pants and platform shoes from circa 72-73. I would love to show up at a family event wearing my 2-inch platforms just to freak out my nieces and nephews. I still think they were cool.

The female equivalent, was polyester dresses----which was my prom dress, AND I still have it! At-the-time, I thought I looked FABULOUS----now, when I look at it, I'm like: "WHAT, were you thinking?" LOL It was powder-blue, with a lace and fringe jacket----YIKES!! LOL

I loved bell-bottoms, and platforms, as well----and, I, TOO, wish I still had mine!

My aunt finally gave-in, and bought me a pair of platforms----then, when she got them home, my grandfather sawed-off an inch of them!! LOL They still had "the look", though.....

It's funny cuz my aunt used to always tell me: "Be PROUD you're tall----lots of people WISH they were tall....." (5'11"), until I started wanting to wear heels----then she said: "Take those shoes off, you're too tall!".

When I mentioned those clothes to my daughter, she had no clue until I reminded her of the great styles at the end of the movie Mama Mia.

Back in Trinidad & Tobago we kept the mosquitoes at bay by burning mosquito coils.

To open the windows we had to prop them open with a long piece of wood.

Since we had no running water we kept an oil barrel near the house to catch water in.

We had our own chickens and, when it was time, slaughtered one for dinner.

On every full moon, when crabs came to the beach to spawn, we went down there to catch them as they tried to bury themselves in the sand. We knew where they were because they made a "V" formation in the sand.

Lol, I am located at the foot of Appalachia. My father in law grew up in a dirt floor house that used to be slave quarters. When it snowed he said he could track his brothers and sisters, INSIDE the house.

Using a search engine (Netscape, Dogpile, Ask Mama) in the 90s and coming up with ZERO results.

How about the polyester pantsuit for women? I had a purple one in the early 1970s. It was very uncomfortable.

Trinidad and Tobago, huh??

Guess I'll have to give my hubby partial points for saying rural West Virginia is like a Third World country.

We had electric and central heat and all that happy crappy, but I knew people who didn't.

It wasn't a daily feature of my life, but I remember outhouses, washboards, carrying water, fiber mattresses, sadirons, treadle machines, picking up firewood (and also burning garbage in a coal furnace both for waste disposal and home heating purposes).

Other than maybe the fiber mattresses, I'm damn glad I remember those things. Glad I know how to use them and how to make them, and sometimes sorely tempted to pack up the kids and the spouse and go live that way. I would miss indoor plumbing and my automatic washer. Central heat really is a nice convenience.

Our "wealthier" life is easier (or more convenient anyway), but I'm not sure it's healthier (other than the abundance of food if we make the right choices with it). I KNOW it's not better for the planet or humanity as a whole.

I think we're spoiled by all the crap we have, and even though I have the skills to do things like use a sadiron and work a treadle and launder on a washboard and dig/maintain an outhouse and cut and heat with wood, we would be extremely hard pressed to find the time or the energy to do them if we had to.