Another board I frequent has a running nostalgia thread where folks post pictures of things you don't see that much anymore. Here are a few favorites>
How did we ever make it out of the '70s alive?
Lol, bingo.
Old Tiger Stadium, strikeout, smeer the queer, good fireworks, radios and cassettes...
Smear the queer is still alive and well as of a few years ago in my nephews neighborhood!
What items, objects, places are gone from your childhood growing up?
Rotary Phone, Phone Booths, Red Barn, Sohio Gas Stations, Cap guns, just to mane a few
Thank God!
Tube testers...
At your local Drug Store, "5 and dime" or grocery store; TVs and radios had vacuum
tubes, if the device quit working,you took the back off, pulled the tubes and went to the
store and inserted each into the tester, adjusted the settings and pushed the test
button. A dial would indicate good or replaced. The store would have the most common
tubes for sale.
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Typewriter
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FREE AIR @ your local gas station,
and free road maps.
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shoe-fitting fluoroscope, put on a new pair of shoes at the local 'Al Bundy' placeof
employment. Slide your feet under the device and check out how they fit.
I remember seeing them in the early to mid 50-'s
They were eventually banned.
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TV Antenna tower/masts with a rotor to turn the antenna for better signal.
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Another board I frequent has a running nostalgia thread where folks post pictures of things you don't see that much anymore. Here are a few favorites>
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How did we ever make it out of the '70s alive?
I remember trying to win a radio contest using a rotary phone. The worst was when you were almost done dialing and slightly missed one of the numbers and had to start all over again.Speaking of rotary phones, if you haven't seen this, it is a hilarious must watch-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHNEzndgiFI
Speaking of rotary phones...
We had party at a local church conference room and in the kitchen there was one and the kids were perplexed with it and were surprised you could "hear something" when you put it to your ear without doing anything else.
Do kids still play whiffle ball? The good ole days of the summer whiffleball games and stuffing the bat with just enough newspaper was an art!
What about the "party line"? One step removed from , "One ringy-dingy, two ringy-dingy....."
The house I grew up in had a party line at first, but we got rid of that in short order. I wish I could remember what the price difference between a party line and a private line was. Probably saved $2.25 a month or something. My folks leased the same wall phone from Western Reserve Telephone for probably 30 years before one of us kids looked at the bill and said, "what the heck is this charge for ?" :laugh:
Twinsburg Parks has a two-person tournament every year. Strikes are called by hitting a metal target behind the batter.
The good ole party line! Used to listen into the neighbors calls, but they generally were so boring it didn't last long!
How about calling past 9pm. I know growing up you would NEVER call someone after 9pm and even to this day I wont do so. When any of our phones do ring after nine I wonder what is wrong!