Everyday objects that have become OBSOLETE
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@Biden Hates America there’s no need to be derogatory. Sometimes you gotta put up or shut up.
Australia and newZealand still have many of these items.
It wouldn’t be bad to keep the old credit card swipers. Cause if the power goes out, you still have that method of payment by card.
@@steveperry3572 I miss the sound of authority those things had!
@@steveperry3572 Actually, you would just plug in your Square credit card processor into your phone and swipe the card.
Also, obsolete is the little horsey ride found outside of K Marts or grocery stores you had to put a quarter in and it would rock back and forth.
As well as the KMart itself.
I live in a rural area and know of a grocery store that has one still in use. It's in pretty good shape!
In the Chicago land area all of them little horsey rides and little 10 cent Kiddie rides we're all owned And controlled by the syndicate
The weight scales are missing too.
I have seen a few of these still in use at malls but there are far fewer of them than before.
Those old phones were so durable. You could slam them down as hard as you wanted when hanging up on someone ☎️
LOL
Yep
and they heard it too. I have one & love to slam it down on telemarketers
We still use the phrase "hang up the phone," but fewer and fewer people know where it came from.
I remember you leased them from the phone company and they easily last 20 years.
I noticed that a lot of what is missing required us to engage with each other. So many people are lonely now or having a hard time meeting potential friends or getting dates. Anyway, I just thought I’d put that out there.
Tell truth tell my brother same thing to world different . Now
It's ironic how social media has connected people, but on such a superficial level that nobody really knows anybody. And it fosters such adverse communication people are so angry with each other and so quick to step on other people's feelings.
So true . Had a debate 20 years ago with a friend and told him all this E-mailing and texting was going to ruin social interaction .
I miss how whenever you called a business on the phone how you talked to a person instead of automated answering services and when you applied for a job you'd go to the place, fill out a simple paper application and actually talk to a real live person.
I don't miss the "going places" to find a job thing... The entire reason I needed a job was so I'd have money so I could go places. Driving around town all day in the hope that you might find someone hiring was terrible.
Now you fill out a form online, have to set up an account with a password and your email address, answer a million questions for an hour, and *still* not hear back from the potential employer. Online applications waste far more time than the simple paper applications of the past.
@@cryanc the WORST is having to fill out the saaame applications over and over while still uploading your resume - it's soul-crushing after a while
@@cryanc don't forget how an Algorithm picks you based on 'buzzwords' included in your resume
I don't miss paper applications, but automated call lines are extremely annoying if sometimes the options they give you don't really match your intentions.
I grew up with all this , I miss the old world .....
Yes me too, I'm so glad I got to grow up back in those days.
RESIST AND RECLAIM THE GOOD OLD WORLD💯 HANDS DOWN A WAY BETTER PLACE ‼️
Bring back Columbus!
Same here @shannon newman. I grew up with all this and I miss the world back when and would go back in a heartbeat if I could.
Me, too
Finding forgotten coins in telephone booths was like winning the lottery. Back when coins had real value.
As a young child, I spent many nights, at a tavern, during the early 70's. Btw: there's a good reason.
Anyway, there was a jukebox in the corner of the 'dining' area. I always inspected the coin return slot. It was usually empty. One night, I accidentally discovered an additional coin return on the side - towards the rear. It was stuffed full of coins! What a score! Honestly, it probably amounted to $1.50. But back in 1973, that could buy something!!
I still don't understand why jukeboxes possessed those additional coin returns??
Same thing with a vending machine! Finding forgotten change in the return slot. Another thing that could have added was all the glass bottles that you could return for a deposit.
Remember when pennies existed xD
Back when a stray quarter meant you could get yourself a small snack
@@ImTheFatboy , Could get a McDonald's burger for $0.25 back when I was young.
The days take so long to get through. But the years just fly by.
Here's another one -- Remember the S&H Green Stamps we always got at the grocery store with our purchase? It was a kind of rebate program (like cash-back programs on some credit cards). You could save a whole bunch of Green Stamps over time and then take them back to the store to get a few free grocery items.
My family would sometimes spend the evening pasting the stamps into the booklets after dinner
I got a whole set of dishes that way.
You didn't say it, but I miss having a phone hanging on the wall in my kitchen the most. I was at an indoor pool with my wife and kids last weekend and I saw approximately 25% of the adults with cell phones in a watertight case in the pool. It amazes me that when I was a kid, in the 80s, we could go on vacation for a week or two and leave our phone hanging on the wall in the kitchen. Now, we can't even go swimming without it.
I feel your pain. Lol. I agree with you. I miss those days.
Back in the days when single celled organisms began to clump together they didn't know it but they were trading independence for security.
Yeah, but your wall phone wasn't also a computer with access to the entirety of human knowledge.
@@McPatMan124 I'd happily give up the advantages of a smart phone in lieu of the advantages of human interaction.
Do you miss the stretched out phone cords?
The Sears catalog just in time for Christmas. I spent many hours looking at all the cool toys I'd never get.
yep, and never get was the truth.
i'm surprised that wasn't on the list. hell even sears itself isn't around anymore.
@@tuseroni6085 I was surprised as well. I know we (I have 7 siblings) fought to get the catalog first. And Sears is where we all got our school clothes for the new year as well.
The Sears catalog was delivered in April and was the really thick one, the one delivered in time for Christmas was called Sears Wish book as in kids wishing, it wasn't just kids toys but very little else was looked at.
@@hommie789 that may be the official name but we just called it the sears catalog.
Waking up in the morning before sunrise and reading my newspaper and having my coffee was the most peaceful part of my day years ago. It prepared me for the workday. I miss it. The Sunday paper was especially nice. The "funny papers" were my favorite.
I'm with you! Remember when the "paperboy" would come around to "collect" payment? I had a "paper route" for a few years as a kid. I knew everybody on my side of town!
Our local paper stopped delivering them to your door and made you put a tube at the end of the driveway. At my age, I wasn't about to go out in the snow and ice at 5 AM. I sadly cancelled my subscription.
I grew up with all these things and the think I miss most is the civility we had when we had these items.
As long as you were of the same race and ethnicity, that is 😂
@@kjsdpgijnThat's such a great point. It really puts a big question into place when the statement of everything was better once upon a time!
@@kjsdpgijn so woke
@@themookshit He’s telling the truth. These boomers don’t miss that old tech. They miss homogeneous societies.
As we get older and reflect we find the good ol’ days were not ALL that good. Just like everything…there was good AND bad. To brush the past too positively OR negatively is a mistake we all make. An honest, thoughtful reflection is needed personally and societally. With ALL of that said…I remember fondly much of these items…though not very fondly of not being able to get away from cigarette smoke while eating, or in a car or airplane!
I am 70 years old so I remember using shoe polish to shine my shoes. Can’t remember the last time I did that.
Growing up my dad had a wooden shoe shine kit. Loved watching him take care of his shoes.
Boys on street corners and in train stations and airports used to chirp, "Shine Your Shoes, Mister?" The "shoeshine boys" of yore.
I miss VHS cassettes and going to movie rentals.
I miss buying cassette tapes to play on my Walkman
Browsing was the most fun , whether Blockbuster or Family Video .
@@kdub2229oh the nostalgia.
The heartbreak when a new release was out of stock, hard pass.
Oh how i would love to go back into time of the 70s and 80s the good ole days.😢
What I really miss from that time with the '80s arcades in the malls. A pocketful of quarters would go a long way back then in the arcade.
Little did we realize that the "good ole days" of Thatcher and Reagan were actually good. How things have changed for the worse.
*LOL! I got such a kick out of this. I remember as a kid on vacation on Lake Sebec in Maine, the town of Bowerbank ( population 17) two spinster sisters were the post office, town clerk, tax collector , Magistrate and phone switchboard operators. Our cabin on the lake had a hand crank wall phone, our phone number was "7". Those were the days.*
Another one that should be on the list is music stores. They were everywhere when vinyl, tape and CD were the typical music formats.
Yep! I remember going to Tower Records a few times a month to look for new cassettes. There was another music store, can’t remember the name, that would make custom mix tapes. Just take in a list of your favorite songs and for a reasonable price they’d make the tape.
Many Walmarts now are carrying vinyl records again. And sometimes the selection is quite large. Like in the 80s.
@@DardanellesBy108 I found this list looking around.
1. Camelot Music · 2. Coconuts · 3. Peaches Records & Tapes · 4. Strawberries · 5. Sam Goody · 6. Tape World · 7. Tower Records · 8. Turtle's.
We had one, maybe more regional, that was record town or something close to that. It was in several malls.
@@duckduckgoismuchbetter Yeah it used to be every major store like Walmart or Kmart at least had a music section of CDs and tapes.
And movie rental stores
Phone booths were essential for Superman.
Those days were sooo much better and happier.
Judy Judy Judy !!!
If you were anything other than a middle - upper class white man sure.
Lots of similar values and things we could appreciate more today sure.
However, we forget about racism homophobia, the stigma around mental illness etc: Areas like medicine have advanced much further too now.
We can’t look back with rose coloured glasses.
@@Doodlebirds1 I think you are looking at today through those glasses. You have no idea what happened back then, because if you did, you would feel differently. Actually was quite the insult.
@@Doodlebirds1 Judy and domenic are correct. You are woke. Cognitive dissonance is a helluva drug
@@domenicv7962have to have lived those days-
Imagine what Frank Costanza's collection of TV Guides is worth now!
When clicked on this video, I didn't realize it was going to make me as sad as it did. I miss the old world.
I remember my mom buying the TV guide for the week when she did the weekly grocery shopping on Friday....I read it cover to cover and circled the "must see" shows for the upcoming week....did anyone else do that?
TV Bible
Mine too my mom and granny would buy TV guide for the week lol on Saturday 😂😂😂😂❤❤❤❤
It was one of the high points of my week as a kid...getting the guide, reading through the nightly TV schedules, looking for holiday special shows, beauty pageants, etc. and reading the descriptions for the weekly episode of your favorite shows, then circling them so you wouldn't miss anything( long before the days of vcr's and digital recorders; if you missed your favorite show, maybe you'd catch the rerun). Now with hundreds of channels, that charm and anticipation is gone (and half the time nothing good to watch)!
Absolutely!!
we want the old size of,TV guide,NOT like now!/. looks like, regular magazine! 😔😠🙏
I probably miss telephone booths the most. I worked in Yellowstone for the summer in 1995. I absolutely amaze my kids by telling them that I traveled across the country with only a calling card & an atlas.
@@Rick-S-6063 Where in Mid Michigan? I am from Onsted
As for carbon paper, if I'm not mistaken, when we send someone an email and ":cc" someone, that refers to the old way of sending someone a "carbon copy." When actual paper was used, a piece of carbon paper (or sometimes more than one) was used to make a copy of the original document.
c.c. is correct . Just explained that very concept to my 39 year old daughter last week . Ha ! She had no idea about this .
what about b.c.c., blind carbon copy - not sure how that works in the olden days.
@@zephyrcalm9717 I don't know if there was a blind carbon copy option in the old days. Good point. That hadn't occurred to me.
Typing any correspondence you’d use one piece of carbon paper between the original sheet and a second sheet, with the second sheet being your file copy. If your letter was going to Person A and you wanted Person B to get a copy of it, you’d add another piece of carbon paper and another sheet of paper.
If Person B’s copy is going WITH Person A’s knowledge, you’d add a notation such as “cc: Person B” at the bottom of the letter. Everyone knows what’s going on.
If Person B’s copy is going WITHOUT Person A’s knowledge, you wouldn’t add any notation when typing the original letter. When it was finished, you’d take the whole lot out of the typewriter, then put just Person B’s copy and the file copy back in. Now you add “bcc: Person B”. Thus Person B knows that they got the copy without Person A’s knowledge. And in both cases the notation is on the file copy.
Anyone remember checkbooks and bank savings books?!
The teller would add the interest and amounts manually in the book!
checkbooks are still pretty common. I work construction where credit card payments cost a fortune (3% on a $50k remodel is $1,500) and even many younger people still have checks, bank will even send you a single check if you dont have a checkbook. I think something like 90% of our transactions are via check and most of the remaining being money orders, EFTs, and stuff like that.
I don't miss standing in line for half an hour just to see how much is in my bank account
I opened my first savings account at age 12 . 1966. I can still visualize the passbook.
I still have one
How about s&h stamps
I can remember the photo booths they used to have at malls and amusement parks in the 70s, 80s and 90s.
And 1950s! Grandma Fay and me as a little kid together. !
I still see those photo booths sometimes. A mall in Saratoga NY had one as recently as 2017
Remember the drive-thru photo booths.
And sometimes in the 2000s
WOOLCO
It's sad to see all of these things that I grew up with now noted as obsolete.
What's really bad is when the stuff you played with as a kid turns up on Antiques Roadshow. Sadly, I remember everything on this list.
@@howardsmith9342 And then you REALLY feel as old as dirt :)
That means you are getting old and will soon also be obsolete
Your next.
🤪
@@greghomestead8366 You already are.
Does anyone remember when you had to get a paper bus ticket and they would punch a hole in it? I remember my mother getting tickets at the booth in perforated sheets. Also the card sleeve inside a book from the library. The librarian would stamp the due date on a card and slide it in the sleeve inside the book's cover. Card catalogues to help one locate a book in the library are obsolete too. Microfiche (I think that was the name) where you could look up some old paper or documents on a huge machine with a projector screen at the library! So many memories are coming back! Oh, and tv dinners when they were in aluminum foil before microwaves! They went in the oven. You had to peel the desert section back to brown it.
There's a weird feeling of sadness that comes from this. Like the life you knew is over. I understand one day we'll look back at current items with that same feeling though. Everything is relative. Yet I can't help but reflect with a bit of sadness about days long gone. I'm only in my 30s, so I imagine someone older feels it even more.
That's why we collect things such as gas pumps, jukeboxes, vending machines, as adults that we couldn't have when we were kids or that are now obsolete. Brings back memories and preserves the past.
As a person who will be 68 in about a month, I can concur that we old shits feel that sadness even more!
Who knows what crazy stuff we'll have in another 30 years. World is always changing in strange new ways.
I'm in my early fifties and I definitely feel the sadness. I miss flash cubes!
You have to keep in mind all the stuff we have left behind that very few of us alive remember. Horses for transportation, outdoor plumbing, home made ice cream machines, butter churns, just a few that I can think of off hand. It's always changing.
I miss the phone number you could call for time and temperature. And alerting your parents to pick you up at the library by calling home collect and them refusing the call so it was free!
You sneaky little devil…😀😀
Born in 79, I remember most of these stuff, I wish i could go back, I miss the payphone and pin ball machines
I remember as a kid we use to go around checking payphones for left change, sometimes we would find a broken one full of change
I was playing pinball on the nes. It was 1983. My mom had it still and I got to borrow it
I still have an electric typewriter in my office and use it occasionally to fill out paper forms and documents. It looks better than writing by hand, and it's fast and easy.
When our TV set would act up, my dad would remove some vacuum tubes and head down to the Piggly Wiggly grocery store and use the TV Tube tester just inside the store. If you found a weak tube, they had a replacement for sale right there.
Why is there not a store called Piggly Wiggly now?
Good one! I completely forgot about those tube testers.
@@heidibonjour I think they still exist in the Southern States, and have been around for many years.
@@Abitibidoug I LOVE that name! If there was one in my city I would shop there! "😂Piggly Wiggly!"
@@heidibonjour I was at one in Myrtle Beach, SC in 1996 and another in Lafayette, LA in 2010 and possibly others.
Of all the things that have been lost over the years, it's my mind I miss the most!
You ain't the only one
Ozzy Osborne?
I miss my virginity. Lost to a hooker on one drunken night.
Joe Biden
A Yellow Pages phone book was delivered to me in late 2022. Within 5 minutes, I found a listing for a business that closed 5 years ago. A restaurant opened there 4 years ago and is not listed there. That book landed in the recycle bin immediately.
But the online listings are inaccurate even more commonly.
I miss drive-in movie theaters. They were fun and you could go with the whole family.
I worked at one in the 70's. The indoor concession stand was very bright, and all the stoned people would be squinting and grinning as they ordered their treats. It was SO obvious and funny!
Yes, but you would probably get robbed at a drive in these days 😢
I live in a small East central Illinois community and we have a twin screen dive -in, they play first run movie, digital, with 2 separate FM 's for the sound. Have been busy for years!
Used to love getting the newspaper, especially on Sundays. Sunday funnies! Phone books would be delivered every year and had coupons for anything you were looking for and you would write numbers all over the cover of it. Good ol'days.
The 'Parade' magazine was my favorite inside the Sunday paper. Did you have that as well?
American made news paper disposal machine in public place that using honest system can not stay in business since people a free to taok more than one copy of news paper then most case, vandalized the machine to take the money!
People still get newspapers all the time.
@@22ergie We did get Parade every Sunday. My parents had a subscription to "The Rocky Mountain News"! Miss that little newspaper insert!!
I think you can track the decline in informed voters with the decline in newspaper readers. Not only were newspapers more common back then, but they were also much more professionally written and had better journalistic standards. Not nearly as many snarky or sensationalistic headlines and partisan hackery. Just the fact, ma'am. And yes, the 'funny papers' as my grandfather called them, were a treat on Sundays.
VCRs and cassette tapes immediately came to mind when I saw the title of this video. Neither were featured, so a "Part 2" is definitely required.
I remember having an argument in high school with another guy who claimed that CD's would make LP's obsolete. And now CD's are obsolete and LP's are highly collectible and often specially printed for new releases.
I just digitized all my home movies from VHS and Hi-8 tapes…..
@@lanceash I still have all my LPs and cassettes that I started buying back in 1974….
@@Bernz66 How did you do it? Because I've got a pile of home movies on camcorder tapes that I need transferred to digital.
@@lanceash CDs are obsolete? I had planned on getting a player in the near future.
I miss the old (in line) coke machine that you had to pull a bottle out of a hole. Very retro, and very cool, you never see them anywhere.
Coke in a glass bottle taste much better than Coke in a can.
I miss cameras that used film, dropping the film rolls off to be developed at a store and picking up the photos. It was fun to look forward to seeing the photos. Was special.
True but it wasn't that much fun when you needed a photo you had just taken for an event and then either had to waste the rest of the film or wait for another two years for the film to be full before you'd have it.
I feel so old since I remember EVERY one of these every objects. Time flies far too fast.
Same here. I'm nearly 60 and watching this video makes me feel old, as if I didn't already feel old enough! When I was a kid here in the UK, you had to purchase your bus ticket from a conductor who walked up and down the bus. Train carriages still had a corridor that ran along the side of the carriage, with separate compartments for passengers. Telephones still had rotary dials. The TV only had 2 or 3 channels and you had to get up and walk over to the TV to change the channel. I can remember when telephones first got buttons. I can remember when TVs first got remote controls. I can remember changing all my vinyl records and cassette tapes for CDs. Life back then was far simpler and in many ways more innocent.
@@revdan4853 I cant imagine how my grandparents felt. Grandma was born in a North Dakota town so rural she grew up speaking Norwegian more than English since the tiny town was mostly immigrants. She didnt have indoor plumbing or electricity and traveled by horse drawn cart more than by truck. When she died it was in a house with an LED TV, smartphone, wifi, wireless security cameras connected to my phone so i could keep an eye on them, with a powered recliner that could stand her up for her.
@@revdan4853 I remember when push button phones came out. I never did figure out how to press one for English on my rotary.
Absolutely 😊
If you give your life to Jesus, then you will have no ending of time.
One thing that I miss from the past are pin-ball machines.
@Kevin Hanz
Pinball machines are alive and well at the myriad old time amusement arcades throughout the country.
tilt
There's a pinball machine at my family's favorite restaurant. Ironically, it's "Back to the Future" themed. My kids (7 & 9) love it. It makes me happy to see them playing it.
Next time you're in Vegas, go to the Pinball Hall of Fame.
Yes and video arcades too
Small town living provides most of these "lost/forgotten" items fairly easily. Some places are so isolated that getting rid of these items would actually make things more difficult than modernizing everything.
I think of the days when I bugged my parents for change $$ to play those great tunes back in the late 70's and early 80's.... more often it seems these days. I thank God my mom is still here to reminisce about those days with me 😊🙏
My older sister would buy a forty five every Saturday for a dollar. She had quite the collection.
I remember going to NYC on a train when I was around 13 in 73 with my father to watch a baseball game. I remember going through what seemed like hundreds of phones in the train station to see if there was change that someone forgot to grab.
and????? did you find any?
@@nomadbrad6391 I believe so
So did I.
Phone banks
reminds me of when i would do the same in the 90's for vending machines as a kid so i can get myself either a soda for "free" or even play a arcade game without begging my parents for change
I miss public telephones. If someone doesn't have a cell phone, or is in an area without service and needs to make a call urgently, public telephones including payphones are a literal godsend. Imagine being trapped somewhere with no car, no bus service, nobody else around and its -20C or colder outside!
That is why you need to wear clothing that can withstand that cold! always plan your trips eliminate your single point of failure.
I agree; especially when in remote areas, where there are no cell phone towers, a payphone would be literally lifesaving. Or imagine you get robbed. Making an emergency call via a phone booth costed nothing(where I live). Some places still have emergency phones, clearly signaled as such, but they too keep on disappearing
Since everyone carries cell phones now, you could always ask someone. Especially since most calls are cheap/free now.
@@cattysplat Not everyone carries cell phones. Not everyone can afford them. Cell phones and cell service where I am are very expensive. It can happen quite easily that there is simply nobody around when you really need to use a phone. Seriously, would you let a random stranger in a slightly sketchy area of town use your cell phone?
A crazy location for pay phones was on the platforms in the NYC subway system. The noise was incredible. Those old ones had separate slots for different coins.
I just remember the cigarettes in vending machines often being stale but I remember the feeling of pulling the knob and hearing the sound.
Things I miss are taking a date to a Drive In movie like back in 70s & 80s. The walk in phone booths that were at every grocery store or shopping center complex. I also remember cigarette vending machines in bowling alleys. Rotary Telephones.
I still use a rotary phone. Got a yellow one on the wall in the Kitchen, and the other in my computer room. Both work great! They still have cigarette vending machines in casinos, but they look like a regular vending machine so not as cool as a old timey one.
One thing that wasn’t mentioned was the old ditto machines I used to love being the teachers helper smelling the ink and filling the warm papers right off the machine…….
Purple ditto ink got all over your hands, too
Mimeograph.
carbon copy haha@@Adogslife54
I remember all these things when I was a kid. Miss those days 😔
me to people had imagination back then they had IQ's they knew the difference between someone lying and someone telling the truth, even a monster movie was meant to scare people not gross them out!
The milk man disappeared too. I remember as a little kid in the 70's one of my chores was to put the empty milk bottles outside for pickup, we also had a ordering note if we wanted something different, like chocolate milk.
How about soymilk, too? Involvement by women, too? Imagine a new job term "The soymilk people"!
@@shiroibasketshoes Nope, it was clearly mens work. Nothing wishy washy back then. Men had defined roles, women had defined roles.
@@Workdove As a feminist, I was aware of the unfortunate sexism and discrimination regarding job opportunities and gender that existed back then. Lots of women could do traditional men's roles, but were not allowed to do so. I knew that many men were reluctant to do "women's work."
@@shiroibasketshoes Although you are correct about that, will you rewrite history? Force the 70's to be the 2020's ? What is your point
@@Workdove I know no one can turn back time. I miss much about the past, but I also feel it was far from perfect in terms of many social fairness and equality issues. My point was to express those type of things, and initially to try to use a bit of humour to try to make a serious subject more palatable to some readers here.
It's amazing to see how practically all of these obsolete objects have been condensed into one little cell phone...
And then some others to boot.
not if you dont have one ;)
Yep, the list is very long!
And most peoples brains condensed into a Thimble.
It's kinda why Radio Shack went out of business.
I miss each and every one of these! Life didn't zip by, people were not in such a hurry. What I wouldn't give to go back!
And people weren't nearly as crazy as they are now
Yes me too, we were blessed to have experienced those days. I definitely would go back in a heartbeat.🤔
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*@bridgetmccracken1381* - I second this!
I agree with you 100%. Would love to go back. Life was so much more enjoyable then for sure!
Sometimes I have to refrain from getting too lost in nostalgia for times gone by. But your videos allow me a quick trip down memory lane and I so appreciate them! Thank you!!
It's barely worth it to indulge in nostalgia for a mythical good old days. Humans persist in believing that nothing changes, that everything that's here today will be here tomorrow. Everything changes, quickly, slowly or imperceptibly. Think about it - does it look like the 1950s now? Even the 199i0s? What's around today may well not be around in the future.
@@413smr Unfortunately some things never change such as racism and hatred of one another. Actually the good old days were over when Adam and Eve were removed from the Garden.
@@glennso47 🙄
@@413smr Why are you here.
@@413smr At least back then people had half of a brain and quality was used in most products. Now consumerism has completely ruined us as a whole. Not only that, but jobs paid a living wage when you could get it. I can't even afford an apartment while my mother at least had one when she was my age, and she was working one full time job. I can't afford that at 15 an hour even. There's clearly no such thing as the 'mythical good old days' when clearly us Gen Z knew they had it good, and we want a slice of it too.
Relating to travel, I also remember the paper airline tickets and some of the airlines having their own ticket offices not just at the airport but in storefronts in downtowns of major cities. And American Express travelers cheques, road maps and atlases were very popular.
And getting to go to the airport gate to see off family or friends
I don’t know if these really fit into this category or not but How about the weekly readers or the Highlights magazine we would get from school, i remember getting one every week from school these memories are priceless
You know that lil pamphlet we would get every week at school where you could order books magazines and posters of your favorite characters but unfortunately, I never got to order not one thing, but ALWAYS wished I could😞
I was just thinking about weekly readers and wondered if they were still around.
yea i miss those little mags, i still try to get my wife to believe that readers in the 70s said the best ways to lose weight and get in shape was sex 3-5 times a day but she doesn't believe me
"Highlights" is still available and has ones for different age groups. I gifted a subscription to my little granddaughters.
I remember Weekly Readers in school. We could also order books from the back by filling out an order form and mailing it in with the payment. Miss those days.
I miss film the most. I managed a camera store from 1992-2013 and saw the emergence of digital. I do love that younger generations are shooting film again. Kodak can’t keep up with the demand and people are paying steep prices for this medium. It makes me happy to see the art continue. There’s nothing like film.
Yes, Agreed!
My first SLR was a Pentax ME Super. I had that camera for 30 years before the film rewind died. Now I have a Nikon D 90 and N90. The N90 is a film camera with a faster shutter speed than the digital version.
I used to work at CVS, back in the 90s. At the time, we had to send film out to the Kodak lab (and, later, the Fuji lab) to be processed. One thing I dreaded: dealing with missing film orders and mixed film orders (i.e., when a customer would get another customer's pictures). What a pain.
I think the big difference with film photography is that we took time to plan our shot. We had a limited number of pictures a roll of film could take, so we didn't want to waste a shot. With digital you can take 100 pictures and hope that one or two are good enough to use, and delete the rest. Digital is great for its convenience, and affordability, but for many the trade-off was the skill it took to get a good picture. Now you just take pictures until, purely by luck, one satisfies you.
@@fr2ncm9 The ME Super is a classic! How amazing that it lasted 30 years! I shoot with a D90 too & my main film body is my N80. Cheers!
There was a huge collection of phone books, both domestic and international at Grand Central Terminal, NY. Next to them were banks of phone booths with lighting, small fans, and seats.
I worked as a commercial printer for most of my life until about 2010 when business died out. I printed Sears, Radio Shack etc. and many other catalogues as well as telephone books for Bell Telephone. To think we would produce about 50,000 copies a shift really makes you think how many trees were consumed just for those purposes alone. Although it did employ a lot of people at the time there were many years without recycling programs so all those resources were either burned or buried after they were used.
I remember that.
I miss catalogs, Sears, J.C. Penney, Spiegel, Victoria's Secret. Also really miss pay phones and the Sunday paper (printed on paper), sections scattered all over the house on Sunday.
I discovered a cache of old office supplies at work: adding machine paper, typewriter ribbons, stamps with date rolls ending in 99, fax paper. I had fun explaining to the young people what each thing was, I felt like an archeologist!
Ha, I forgot about those stamps where you could change the date. Yeah played with one as a kid.
I don't miss any of these objects but they bringing back great memories and I'm grateful to have lived through these times.
I remember all these things. We still still have fax machines at work, although now they are bundled as Multi Function Printers.
You forgot rotary phones ... I still remember having one with a 30 foot cord in the kitchen at my parents house.
I remember the daily newspaper would have a section showing what would be on tv that day, for local broadcast and bigger cable channels, along with a few entertainment articles.
If you got a Sunday paper it would have a book with everything to be on tv for the following week. My dad kept that on top of the tv and we’d use it to figure out if anything good would be on. Commercials and all.
"I remember the daily newspaper would have a section showing what would be on tv that day"
Soon, the daily newspaper will belong in one of these videos.
We still have the daily newspaper here in my area of Eastern Oregon.
@@renmuffett there’s a daily paper her in Chattanooga, TN. It’s the two big newspapers combined into one: The Chattanooga Times, and The Chattanooga Free-Press.
They used to be the morning paper and the evening paper. Now it’s just the one a day, and a few people in my neighborhood still get them delivered.
I haven’t read a newspaper since maybe 2009. I get everything online now
Love your user name, @ Honky Tonkinson
I used to spend hours going through every page of the Sunday paper after my dad was done with it
Anyone remember slide rules? They performed mathematical functions, including the calculation of trigonomic functions. Their use was tricky to master. Our year in school spent two years learning to use the damn things only for the rules to change allowing for what were called "scientific calculators" to be used in our GCE exams in 1979. Oh, and the calculator recommended by our school was made by an obscure electronics company called Commodore.
I was so mad at them for not building a network of enthusiasts for the Commodore 64. Yes, the other computers had better graphics but the games were so much fun.
I still have a slide rule around someplace. We put men on the moon with slide rules.
Sold by Radio Shack!
In 73 there was a freshman course on how to use one. By 76/77 they were almost gone. I still have a few, includuing a 4 foot training one.
I have a BS in Engineering, and I'm *just* old enough to have never used a slide rule. I did take a mechanical drawing class as a Freshman in 1992, using triangles, compass, and drafting paper.
These videos really bring to light the vast amount of change that has happened just in the last 60 years. It’s astonishing.
Film and 35mm cameras have returned in popularity, retro and kitch fun, like a Polaroid.
I stayed in a hostel a few years ago and they had a repurposed cigarette machine that sold toiletries for people staying there. It was so cool!
in the 70s a few states if you knew where to look had vending machines that sold pot nothing great every label different yet in reality you were paying 50-100 for the name and maybe $5 for the weed!
that's awesome! They were so much cooler looking than regular vending machines - guess because they never got updated after the 60s lol
I once saw a cigarette vending machine repurposed to sell mini works of art!
@@jenniferburchill3658 back in 73 cigs were .60 a pack and a carton was $3-$5.00 depending on where you were, went the lawsuits started is when the jacked the prices, so instead of the manufacturers paying up to this day the smokers are the ones actually paying for the lawsuits! as for the manufacturers they haven't paid out one blood covered penny, yet they profit each time a pack is bought, before i quit 30 years ago i was a 4 pkg aday smoker, i knew a distributor who would give me box's of outdated brands most of which were stale but smoke able, that is until i found out he was a thief and i turned him in,
@@tooldog5062 FOUR packs a day????? DAMN! 🤯
The post office and stores at one time had postage stamp vending machines.
Barney Fife refused to use them.
I miss those because I didn't have to wait in line for stamps
@@garyfrancis6193 😄
Out here in California, you can buy a postage stamp or multiple postage stamps at any 7-Eleven convenience store just by asking the cashier.
Barney Fife was a man of principle.
Juke boxes are still a thing in most bars I've been to, although they are now internet based. Vending machines are not that uncommon either, and most even come equipped with card readers for credit/debit card payment.
Another reason for the decline of the $2 bill is that in places that used cash registers there was no space for them. I remember rolling my eyes when I heard about them coming back (for the second time!) Saw that coming. It's like someone once said "I know this failed before but let's try it again. There's a saying about doing something, failing, and doing it again and expecting different results.
TV Guide was a NECESSITY for the fall and spring previews. Another awesome video.
I looked forward every year for the fall preview guides!
I used to read TV Guide last pages about movies, directors and stars of cinema when I was too young to watch films like The Godfather or foreign arthouse films.
Vending machines are still very common in public buildings and spaces. Not sure how they're "obsolete".
The analog coin vending machines for soda and snacks I remember decades ago are more or less still in the same spots but now accepting dollars and credit transactions. I don't think they've decreased, but may have increased in number where you can buy other things too like electronic goods and weaves/eyelash vending machines seems to be popping up lately.
Every street corner in Japan and often rows and rows of them. High population density, melting pot of beverage selections and low vandalism rate made this possible. Worst thing could happen is vending machines get covered in graffiti.
Vending machines are still common at Hotels, Motels, employee break rooms, offices, university campuses, and other places.
Yea if something that I would remove from the list is vending machines. I see those everyday and far from being gone.
Agreed, I see vending machines all over the place, not sure why they are in this video.
I love your channel! The thing I miss most is public pay phones. Because you never know when your phone is going to die or you can't get service inside of a particular building due to firewalls.
Loved my tv guides, especially the fall preview, I even collected them, they had great cover art.
Hold on to them. They're probably worth money now.
I'm 65 and I remember all these things. I took typing in the 10th grade, and when computers came, that turned out to be the best skill I ever acquired from high school.
My dad said to me in grade 9, why are you taking typing? You will never be a secretary! And then just a decade later when we had those first Macintosh computers, he said, you were smart to learn to type!! LOL
@@susanfaulkner2304 I was a late computer adopter myself, but use youtube a lot to trouble shoot the numerous problems I encounter so I don't have to ask others for help all the time! :)
I'm 76 and I took typing in 9th grade. It's served me well all my life.
I'm 59. Lol, I took typing in the 10th grade also. The typing skill I learned in that class has actually stayed with me all these years, as I've probably typed 10 million words since. My teacher's name was Mrs. Wadsworth. Every time she wanted to test our speed, she'd have us place our fingers on the correct keys and then she'd say, "Alright students. Eyes on copy." Then she'd tell us to start. I also remember that dangerous paper cutter at the side of the room. We'd use it whenever we needed to turn in a smaller sheet of paper. I'm surprised no kid ever chopped a finger off using that thing.
I'm 59 also & took typing in 10th grade. I worked on Computers in the 80s & was glad I learned to type. The class had 2 electric typewriters & the rest were manuals.
I miss the Phone Booths, the Juke Box and the Phone Books a lot 😔
Cops still use phone books for confessions
Remember when there was a little personal juke box in every diner booth. You could have your lunch and listen to your favorite song for a nickel.
Phone book delivery trucks.
There was a pay phone at our post office & I remember back in 1977 I engraved my name on it.Juteboxes were fun.This video brings back so many great memories.
I grew up in the Sixties, and my tiny little village had three pay phones, four if you count the one at the high school.
The local restaurant had tiny little boxes on the wall that were connected to the juke box in the bar. You wanted music, pop money in the box and pick your song. My grandfather had a juke box in his bar that was very elaborate---lots of neon.
Making collect calls to home from a pay phone during basic training as an Airman comes first to mind when I see the pay phones. Hard but good times.
During the '50's, my mom preferred using enclosed green phone booths in dept. stores with the attached stool inside & small counter to place her purse.
I remember those at our local bowling alley ☺️
I loved the old wooden ones you’d find in places some times.
You gave me a nice memory image. 🙂
Trucking we had them in truck stops
I recall the banks of payphones at airports near baggage claim and ground transportation as well.
Ahhh, memories. I was waiting to see the library card catalog, too.
My grandma used to tell my younger brothers and I to call her collect and when the operator came on we were supposed to say it’s George then she would tell the operator she didn’t know anyone by that name but that was the code word for we are ok. If we needed something, we would say Bill Jones then she would know something was wrong, and a couple of days later she would be at our house.She used the codes because if she said I don’t know that person, they couldn’t charge her for it. Oh jeeeeez I remember all of these
I remember and have used about everyone of these things. One thing that used to be common was the "microfiche." That of course went away with the computer. I had all these 8-tracks and a box for them I sometimes carried around with me especially in my car and I always ended up needing to keep a doubled over piece of cardboard handy to slip in along side of the tape to get it realigned with the head to play properly....Later you needed a pencil handy so your regular cassette tape could be rewound when it came out while playing, that is if it was salvageable.
I remember all of these - including the little post office stamp machines that looked like a letterbox. I particularly liked the sound the mechanical sound the cigarette and candy machines would make when you pulled the tab.
chunck- ka-shunk.....
In school we had a machine you put a few quarters in and get a decorative pencil or another had notebooks.
I bought a Lance vending machine and love it so much 😍😍😍
Those pulls on the cig machines was oddly satisfying and unnerving. The way the long shafts came out. Made you think are they supposed to do that? Will this even work or will it jam up?
@@jjryan1352 they were like pull chords on lawnmowers. Sometimes they would just decide nope I want to eff your arm up I’m only coming out 2 inches then I’m stopping
We still use fax and rolodex in the law office! Believe it or not, some clerk's offices don't accept documents via email, and a well-maintained rolodex is the easiest way for everybody in the office to have access to the same set of contacts. Funny how some of these objects still have their niches.
It’s crazy that some govt agencies require a fax for requests. Imagine these people running healthcare.
How about Wordperfect?
Haven't used my FAX in years (my neighbor use to come over & have me fax insurance claims for her). I still have & use my rolodex
I had to contact the IRS and we can never get each other on the phone and there was no way to email her so I said faxes back and forth this was in 2021 and the IRS is still using fax machines to communicate I finally did get the person on the phone and she turned out to be quite nice but it was so silly that I had to fax things and wait for the confirmation and hope to God she got it
Fax machines are still common in eastern Asia, because it's not easy to type out correspondence on a computer when you have thousands of characters to deal with in Chinese and Japanese.
I remember all of these. I went to a business high school. We had key punch and bookkeeping machines. The first car my husband bought had an eight track player.
I grew up in the 70s and 80s,and I SO remember the cigarette vending machines and also the coffee vending machines.Jukeboxes were a huge part of my youth.I see them at Mel's Diner in Hollywood and Encino, CA as well as The Great Grill in Burbank CA(a 50s themed restaurant).
You know why the candy vending machines had a mirror on the front? So you could see the look on your face when the candy didn't come out.
Ah the days of rocking the machine.
When the snack vending machine took your money you lean it forward to get what you paid for and maybe a few extra for the next customer. You only took what you paid for, all else was the price unpaid that accidently fell for the failures of dispensing what is owed.
As a little kid I remember sitting on the phone book as a booster chair at the dining room table. In Chicago the phone books were VERY thick.
I remember that; I also remember my West Virginian mother-in-law laughing at the very idea. Her "big" phone book was barely as thick as the Detroit Free Press Sunday edition. 😁. Thanks for the fun reminder!
my sister was 5'0" and drove a 69 Dodge Charger back in the day. She used a phone book to sit on so she could see over the dashboard. Not sure if it was a Brooklyn or Manhattan phone book....LoL
Ditto sheets! That milky, funky blue ink and that smell of it, right off the hand cranked press! Memories of school days.
One of the greatest innovations in the 20C was the point of sale machines where you can use a debit card, or credit card for your purchases, especially in supermarkets. No more having to pay with paper currency. The digital scanner to add up your items in supermarkets is way superior to the manual cash registers where the clerk had to hit the numbers on the machine, but look at the price tag first.
Full-service gas stations are obsolete! I remember as late as 1986 or so pulling into a gas station and telling the attendant to fill up the tank. Then you would simply hand them the money through the window, and they would provide change if needed. Sometimes they would even lift the hood and check your oil and other essential components for you for free. Or even clean your windshield!
We still have full-service gas stations in New Jersey.
. Isn't it against the law to pump your own gas in NJ ?
I honestly miss all of these things. Seems like many of them the internet killed off, but having grown up throughout all of 80’s and 90’s, I was around to see both ways be the norm. Yes, the ways today are much more convenient overall. But I miss the world being more of a physical and tangible place with things like in this video. To me those things made it more interesting and colorful. Not just “in the ether” so to speak.
Perfect comment. I have seen many changes in my 56 years, some things are better and some worse.
Michael, you’re so right about the physicality of things. For example, going to the local video store was a common Friday activity and marked the beginning of a restful weekend. It was fun to browse through the collections and plan part of the weekend. That is gone. Now you just create a playlist and it’s not special.
@@thihal123 Agreed. Could tapes or discs at your local video store be out, or damaged when you got them? Yes. But you were out interacting with people. And you didn’t always have instant gratification if something was out that you wanted. When you did find it back in, it was more of a treat. Today we just sort of expect to have whatever we want, whenever we want it. And I admit, I’ve gotten used to that myself, from streaming content to Amazon deliveries sometimes within the same day you order them. But things feel a little less special today to me than they used to.
The internet is a disease. It’s amazing how once it’s gone and run it’s course how quickly all this stuff will come back. :)
@@Mike1064ab The internet is not a “disease”. In the grand scheme of things for human existence though it’s still just a baby. The same even more so with social media. We just haven’t yet learned how to use it like adults on so many levels, control what’s out there, or understand some of its psychological implications. It may have temporarily caused us to lose our way in terms of some physicality, but it’s completely opened up the world to so many people, and has the potential to be an even more powerful and legitimate learning tool once we can filter out the fallacies from the truths. Sure at times I miss the simplicity of when I was growing up without it. But just the same I sure wish I had had it as a resource growing up. Using a 10-20 year old set of dated encyclopedias or old school books as opposed to say current accurate scientific knowledge? Or having online access to things like the National Archives, Smithsonian, Louvre, or even government court reports? I’ll take online resources any day.
Having been born in November of 1981, I had the great honor of seeing and in some cases using all the objects featured in this video!
HONORABLE MENTIONS:
1) Green Stamp machines at the local supermarket
2) Stationary cigarette lighters fixed onto a businessman's desk. Insert the tobacco end into a slot, and... SNAP! A quick trigger strikes and automatically lights up the end!
3) 1st generation American Steel refrigerators without built-in handels. Kids used to get trapped inside, unable to open from the within. Congress actually mandated fridge companies to create doors that can open from both sides.
4) Toy Viewfinders with round discs that, once inserted, showed scenes from cartoons and kid toy characters. Click the orange trigger, the disc moves to a different scene. Point the Viewfinder up towards a light source.❤
🎉 retro greetings from coastal Mississippi. I remember all these things, used all of these items, still have some of the items😂. Old yes, obsolete never❤
The decline of the $2 bill had zero to do with digital currency. Cash drawers didn't have a spot for them, so businesses did not like to receive them. Some down right refused to accept them, despite it being illegal to do so. There was no way to redesign the cash drawer to fit another bill without having to build new cash registers.
The only way that could have been fixed would have been to eliminate $1 bills and make dollar coins. Then also eliminate pennies.
@@johnp139 they got rid of half pennies, the 1 cent penny days are numbered but the USA's tax racket of percentages that the decimals matter as the cost goes up means we'll still have the coins, even though a penny barely has any copper in it. Even then it still costs more than it is worth.
@@johnp139 There are dollar coins...
ha. $1, $2, $5, $10, $20. With the $50 or higher being under the drawer. Once the $2 bill went out style the $2 slot was used by what was most convenient for the location.
@@RottenRogerDM "ha. $1, $2, $5, $10, $20. With the $50 or higher being under the drawer. Once the $2 bill went out style the $2 slot was used by what was most convenient for the location."
Usually Paper Checks, and those carbon Charge Slips.
When I was a kid, I couldn't wait for the new fall TV guide schedule. Looking for the new shows and reading the latest in news about what is next up for television and programming. 😊❤️
Ah yes... The payphone. When I was growing up (the 1990's to early 2000's), we didn't have a phone in the house as we couldn't afford the service. Whenever we needed to make a call, we would take a looooooooong and potentially dangerous walk (the nearest payphone was across a fairly busy highway where the speed limit was barely acknowledged).
Wow. I hope things are far, far better for you now. :)
@@whatifschrodingersboxwasacofin I have a landline but no cellphone, and no cable. I have internet and use a laptop. I might be considered mid-aged in today's standards :).
Vending machines are still widely in us. Rest areas in interstate highways, factories , and some parks, jukeboxes are coming back with internet access for 1000+ songs
I miss them all. I miss the world I grew up in. It was safer, saner and seems to me a lot happier.
I was born in 1962. It was a much better place growing up then. It's gotten so bad, I tell people, I'm happy I'm getting old. That's sad.
@@jamesp13152 my dad was born in 69 and said he hated growing up during that time due to the all the terrorist attacks,bank robberies, plane hijackings, and constant mass poisonings in toys due to lead paint, im not sure how it was ever "Safer".
@@notjimpickens7928 Things like what are happening right now in Nashville didn't happen growing up. at least 3 grade school children dead! Buildings weren't hit by jets killing thousands in an instant. Never had to worry about being shot going to school. Believe what you want, I know. Your Daddy is delusional.
@@notjimpickens7928 I was born in 1963 and I didn't experience any of that where I live it was a lot safer then
@@notjimpickens7928 When I grew up in the '60s, I don't recall ever having to be instructed in grade school about what to do if someone started firing an AK-47 on the playground.