Material Things of Which the Younger Generation Has No Idea

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Just yesterday I saw a typewriter, a really old board game of Sorry!, and some other stuff on a table because the grocery store I was shopping at is having some 50's-60's theme of some kind going on this Saturday. Sounds like it might be kind of fun, but there will be a thousand more people there than usual, maybe a million, what with back-to-school shopping and other junk.

Heh, typewriters. I still remember those... they were a real pain to use because the ink and correction fluid kept drying out, among other things. I'm glad we use keyboards now.

Stamps you had to lick for it to stick.

s and h green stamps

Has anyone mentioned flash cubes yet?

dunno, but no harm

hand-crank starters on cars

Remember these things?



Also flexi-discs and cassettes attached to music magazines.

Coloured vinyl and picture -discs.

Those "Top of the Pops" albums from the 1970s. I don't know if there was a US equivalent - they were cheap albums of chart hits sung by someone other than the original artists and usually featuring a pretty girl on the cover. In this example she seems completely confused as to why she's been given a fur bikini to wear and an umbrella to hold:



The whole idea of a "record shop" is on the way out. I guess kids no longer go on record buying trips on a Saturday,

I think I'm going to cry...

...On pages 20 and 21 of this I cover something similar to these " for the hole in the middle or 45s " thing you put up the pix of , however , I mention things that went onto the record-player's turntable , not within the record itself .
Actually , I thought that UK 45s by the mid-/late-70s universally had LP-style small holes in the mddle , actually , I get import UK 45s in the 70s occasionally and IIRC they were always like that , and images I've seen in more recent yyears of 70s Brit 45s always show small holes .
There were some US LPs similar to those " TOTP " budget cover version LPs you show but I guess that they weren't as prominent as the TOTP albums (And they didn't have the girlie covers ! !! !! !! !!) ~ From the mid/late 70s , again , I recall low-priced double LPs with artist credit for the likes of " The Dynamic Sounds " that would be TV-advetised & sold for a while in chain stores such as Woolworths' (And , speaking of " Remember that gone thing " ??????????? , and LPs covering some of the songs from big movie soundtrack LPs with very similar cover art (Like , Star Wars or the Bee Gees-Frampton " Sgt. Pepper " movie .)which appeared to be there to and fool grandmas/aunies/parents that they were getting the real thing ! !! !! !! !! ! As far as thse artist credits on the COVER version LPs I recall a friend of mine , who grw up in a different part of the US , sweaing to hearing adscover version LPs as being " by " The Original Artists ! !! Right , so they could say " all songs played by The Original Artists " ! !! !! !! !! !
The flexi-discs& cassettes attached to music mags thing , & picture disca=s and colored vinyl as a gimmick things happened here too , but to a lesser extent .

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="Falloy"]Remember these things?



Also flexi-discs and cassettes attached to music magazines.

Coloured vinyl and picture -discs.

Those "Top of the Pops" albums from the 1970s. I don't know if there was a US equivalent - they were cheap albums of chart hits sung by someone other than the original artists and usually featuring a pretty girl on the cover. In this example she seems completely confused as to why she's been given a fur bikini to wear and an umbrella to hold:



The whole idea of a "record shop" is on the way out. I guess kids no longer go on record buying trips on a Saturday,

I think I'm going to cry...[/quote]

^ My apologies ASS-P - I missed your post about the record spiders. Were they to try and stop people stealing the records or was it something to do with juke boxes?

Either way, they made ideal ninja throwing stars for cosplaying cats.

25 years is enough time passed that the younger generation will not know of the eight Crayola Crayon colors retired in 1990- green blue, orange red, orange yellow, violet blue, maize, lemon yellow, blue gray and raw umber. I miss them.

8 track audio players.

...That's alright , if I (I don't have time to reread our earlier posts on this now...) didn't write about those things , as you (Cleverly !) called them , the " record spiders " , I & another wrote about things that you put on the turntable's spindle , to let the turntables easily accommodate big-hole records , the record spiders were put in the record itself ~ Sometimes premanently , left in the center of the record forever , sometimes taken out when you were finished and putting it in another one , I guess .



te="Falloy"]^ My apologies ASS-P - I missed your post about the record spiders. Were they to try and stop people stealing the records or was it something to do with juke boxes?

Either way, they made ideal ninja throwing stars for cosplaying cats.[/quote]

Rotating cloth towel dispenser in public restrooms.

triangular vent windows in cars.