Much of these were used throughout the 70s, 90s, and even into the 90s. In 1975 my computer programming class at UCLA required punch cards. Wing windows continued into the late 70s. My daughter and I both have turntables and you can still buy vinyl new (or go to a vinyl shop for unusual picks). Encyclopedias were widely used until the 90s. In the 80s and 90s mechanical pencils were still widely used in the office.
Being born in 1953 in Cleveland, Ohio,.....I remember the milkmen and the coal delivery men and their trucks. Our house was built in 1946. The house I purchased in 1993, at age 40, was built in 1905 and it had a coal room, and coal chute. There was canning room, for preserving fruits and vegetables, grown in one's own garden. There is a buried water cistern, in the backyard, which I learned was meant to collect "grey" water, from the home's gutters, to be used for watering the garden and other utility tasks,....not meant to be drunken.
Our dad had a manual lawn mower throughout the '60s, '70s. and 80s I don't think he ever purchased a power mower. He attached a catch sack to capture the clippings. Eventually, Dad relegated the lawn mowing duties to my brother, which was how he earned his weekly allowance. It was one of those devices that, as long as it continued to work well, he couldn't see shelling out the extra bucks for the power kind, which required gasoline, an additional expense.
Our next door neighbour did this and made his kids mow, boys and girls. My dad had a nice mower and my brother would mow. He also had a few accounts in the area.
Our family had a push mower, and I was stuck doing most of the mowing. I hated the thing. Everyone we knew had a gas or electric mower. But no, not us. Join the 20th century? No thanks!
I would rather have most of the things on the market then. Stuff was expensive, but you could actually FIX them. The stuff was built pretty well for the most part. I remember most of them.
We own not one but two stainless coffee percolators. We use them on a campstove when fishing or camping. Several of our friends make coffee every morning in their thoroughly modern homes, in a percolator. The percolator is certainly uncommon, but not dead yet.
@@johngrafton6868 A canner is a pressure cooker, but not all pressure cookers are canners. The type for canning is generally higher pressure to attain higher temperatures for preservation. Canners are sometimes called retorts.
Remember the flash cubes that rotated when a picture was taken so you could take four pictures before changing it? We had those, and they didn't always work properly. Sometimes, they wouldn't flash, or they wouldn't turn. Flash bulbs didn't always go off when they were supposed to, either. The most frustrating thing I found about using film cameras was loading the film and trying to wind it to the first frame. If it didn't load or wind just right, pictures would overlap. Sometimes, I couldn't get the winder to even move. And loading film always risked getting some light leaked into the first couple of frames. They really were a pain, especially the cheaper ones.
Kodak brought out the instamatic cartridges for that with 126 and 110 cameras. They also brought out the 4 shot magicube flash system on those cameras also. Kodak was one of the biggest sellers of the compact camera then in the 1960's. It still took a while though for roll film to disappear and many serious photographers still use it today in favour of the digital cameras and mobile phones cameras.
@@ednammansfield8553I should feel once in awhile. There's nothing wrong with digital photography but I just like film cameras partially because I grew up with them in the 90s. They're really cool pieces of the history of photography. Speaking of Photography mishaps I have a Kodak Pony 135 model B where advancing the film is a separate does not reset the shutter and do you use a different liver for that that's on the lens barrel. Put that camera it's very easy to take a multiple exposure shot if you reset the shutter without advancing the film. I got one picture that I really like to do to that black of Double Exposure prevention that I wouldn't have gotten with most of my other cameras. I would not have thought of mixing those two images on purpose.
I still prefer film and manual film cameras. Many people don’t realize how much detail is in the negatives and slides. A 24mp camera produces lower resolution and color depth than a 35 mm slide. You need a lossless scan of about 9000 dpi to get the full resolution of a 35mm frame, which is 36mm*24mm or about 1.5 sq inches. Which gives 121.5 mp. Which for reference is basically an 8k flatscreen. 24 mp is equivalent to a 4k screen.
Roger that; what old rig or rigs do you use? My last real tube was a set of Drakes R4A and T4XB. The only tube transciever I still have for HF is my 1965 HeathkitGW-12 CB that I tuned to 29.025
I was born in the 1950s and belonging to a large family we had some of these items right up to the mid to late 1970s. when I was in school we had a milk man delivering small glass bottles of milk, I was the milk monitor for our school, we also had a baker come to the school with fresh bread straight from the bakery these were delivered by horse and cart, the milk was cold and the bread was hot, loved it. Here in Australia we didn't get color TV until 1975. Great video, just subbed, Cheers.
I remember the data processing class in jr. high school. After we punched the data in the cards, we had to wire a board that instructed the IBM machines what to do with the cards. These were huge machines in a large room. You had one that read the cards, one to sort, one to do the calculations, and one to do printing. We had to learn how to wire the boards for each machine. That was high technology.
@@kiniburk Many of the Hollerith card decks, if they represented a static batch of data, would have a set of columns devoted to a sequence number, allowing them to be run through a collator to sort them back into their proper order. This could only be done with a card deck that was in its final, static form, as the sequence numbers would make it impossible to recover a deck that had been edited to insert new data between sequentially-numbered cards.
My grandparents had a wood stoked heater in Missouri of some type until they passed away in the 1980s. They did have a stove, oven and water heater which were powered by Propane which was delivered.
I had a manual lawnmower for my home I moved into in 2008. Mowed my lawn a few years that way. Loved the pattern it made in my lawn. Then I got an electric lawnmower. Now I have someone to do my lawn. I got lazier and lazier 😮😊
Just want to point out that the red rotary phone shown next to the TV throughout each of these videos is a 1970's "official" German post office issued phone.
I was born in 1941 and I remember these things very well. We had the first TV in our neighborhood. My parents purchased our 5" round Dupont TV for $500.00 in 1947. That was a huge sum of money for that time. We had total strangers knockin' on our door to see "IT". The TV antenna was the giveaway. I was a milk delivery kid in the mid 50's. I received $2.00 for the short early morning run before school and $3 for the longer weekend route. I cut laws with the reel mowers for spending money. A larger lawn could get you $1.00. I set bowling pins by hand, at the Elks club for $3.00 a night. Great times.
Never used an old radio, they say they had three batteries. One was charged once a week, one replaced or charged once a month, the last was small and lasted a year. Telegrams are basically texts today. I've seen the old washers at grandma's house when I was little. There's a good TV episode of Honeymooners involving an icebox. The one where they consider adopting. I remember the old metal filled bulbs. Full of a big wad of fine metal wire. I've heard that the vent windows were a security hazard. They can create a blast of air. They also had text versions of the city maps. I've never used one, but dad used one downtown. Learned programming on card punches. I see both 026 & 029 models. And others. Had a class on mechanical drawing. T-square, 45 degree triangle, 30/60 degree triangle.
I still use a vacuum tube radio as they look great and have a much warmer sound. Though most bands are going silent. I also still have doorstep milk delivery. A bit rare but quite convenient.
I also use tube radios but here in the UK there are few stations left so I play an MP3 through the gram sockets on the rear. Can still enjoy the wonderful sound .
Good video. During the summer my young nephews have a small lawn mowing business in their immediate neighborhood. They use a push mower, a manual edger and hand shears along with couple other manual tools that they transport in a small trailer towed by their bicycles. The neighbors like the noiseless job they do as compared to the racket a gas lawnmower, leaf blower and other devices the adult professionals use. The neighbors brag about how they contribute to the health of the environment and give a job of responsibility to the boys.
Ah, the ol' vacuum tube radio! If you're around my age (71) you probably remember taking the tubes out and taking them to a store where they had a tube "tester"- where you could check the "health" of each tube from your radio/tv - after it started acting up- to see which tube was causing the trouble. I'm the only person my age that I know who'd NEVER been in a drive-in theater. I always thought it was a bad idea to have to watch a movie through your windshield while listening to the tinny distorted audio through those little speakers.
Drive-in sound was not "tinny," but rather good quality, though not stereophonic. What's more, you didn't have to listen to commentary and conversation from the sorts of mannerless clods often annoying theater-goers in recent decades. Early baby-boomers, regardless of background, were taught certain standards of public behavior and personal presentation that are sadly lacking in modern America.
We all had refrigerators in the 1960s but it wasn't until the early 70s that they stopped delivering milk in the morning. When I was in middle school I was on the library staff, so I would run the film projectors when a teacher checked out a film.
I recall making money as a teenager, by delivering telephone books, to the houses in my neighborhood. It was sort of hard work,.....they weighed a lot, and you had t take them to each house. The weight of the books in your car would cause the springs to be pushed to their limit.
You're a wee bit off on the coal furnaces. By the 50's they were largely replaced by oil burners. Also the coal furnaces from the 20's and 30's were not the little freestanding parlor stoves (they were more a thing in the late 19th century). They were more typically a coal fired boiler that supplied the heat for a steam / hot water radiator heating system and had an automated stoker system that fed coal into the furnace. And by the 50's many of those older coal boilers still in service had been converted to burn fuel oil. Iceboxes were still in use in some areas in the very early 50's but as post war production ramped up they were quickly replaced by refrigerators. It was quite a matter of pride to have a refrigerator in those years. That was part of what made Jello so popular post war. You couldn't make Jello with an icebox. So being able to bring Jello to a church potluck was a subtle way of bragging.
Can remember having kettle chips delivered in 5 gallon cans. Once used up had to leave the empty can at door to get new delivery. We received a can every 2 weeks. We also recived milk in carton and butter wrapped in parchment paper.
My paternal grandmother had her washing machine with electric ringer well into the 1970's. She dried the clothes on a rotating clothes line that looked similar to an umbrella frame with two lines between the spokes. I thought it was really cool! Since the wringer put wrinkles into the clothes, they all had to be dampened and ironed. Then, there was my maternal grandfather, who took home movies indoors with a hand held row of bright, blinding lights!!! I was told to act natural, keep my hand down and not squint! (I can relate to that Frazier episode with the bright flash bulb photos at the bar mitzvah) My dad took movies mostly outside. I miss those reel movies, now. We used to watch them once a year, but they all turned to dust. 😢
lol vacuum tube amplifiers are still used and some of the most expensive audio equipment on the market are tube amplifiers McIntosh as an example This company is celebrating their 75 anniversary 1949 - 2024. So tube amplifiers are still sold and have a sound that cannot be replicated by a solid state amplifier
I recently saw someone using a "reel type" lawnmower and they still sell them. An interesting fact about reel type mowers is that they actually cut the grass better than a power mower, cleaner cut and more uniform. You can even put a bag attachment on them. Having a small lawn, i'm tempted to get one from Home Depot. No gasoline, and they're quiet, and fun to use.
I had a reel mower for my back yard where I had several raised garden beds. those actually _cut_ the grass rather than whack it. sharpening the blades was pretty dangerous and you go your workout for sure...
When I worked as a delivery driver for a florist, I found the Thomas Maps booklet very helpful. They were easy to use, and helped me located any address in any number of areas. Too bad we don't have printed Thomas Maps, anymore. In some ways they were more accurate and reliable than GPS. Today, if you go into a convenience store and ask for a map, they're likely to roll their eyes at you, rude though that is. Somehow, it's assumed that everyone has GPS and everyone knows how to use it. NOT SO! And Google Maps aren't that good, either. I find them hard to decipher.
That was a glorious trip down memory lane! I remember (and used and owned) most of these. They look quaint by today's technology but were cutting edge for their time. I think I probably have some of these items (and older ones, too) around here. I'm an antique myself. Looking back, those were happy, simpler times. It's easy to forget things like common diseases (polio & TB) and the threat of war with Russia. But we were young and fearless; I'm neither now but hopefully, wiser and thankful for these memories.
Yes. Punched cards were used into the late '70s. Drafting tools were used into the mid-'90s. Dial phones came in the late '50s. Push button phones weren't widespread until the '80s. Wing windows were around into the '90s. Coal wasn't used much in the west. There were sawdust burners and oil furnaces. When the dams were built in the '60s, everything went electric. There were plenty of other mistakes.
@@BlankBrain Like the fact that mechanical pencils are still being used today. Ballpoint pens might be good for some things, but they sure aren't useful if you want to actually erase anything.
Why are you showing pictures of coal STOVES when you are talking about coal FURNACES? Homes were not just heated by hot air coal furnaces (octopus), but coal fired steam boilers for steam heat were also very common. Some houses still were heated by one or more coal STOVES in various rooms in the house. These heated the immediate room they were in, and the heat passed through doorways to other rooms on the same floor, and through "heatalator" vents in the floor of the rooms above to allow the heat to rise and heat them too. My grandmother's house was heated by a wood / coal stove in the kitchen which also heated the water for hot water, and a pot belly stove in the living room. Upstairs, the bathroom and bedrooms were heated by heatalator vents in the floor.
26:50 What really killed record changers was the popularity of cassettes. Record changers were a near necessity when 3 minute 78s were the standard, but many people later enjoyed stacking 6, 8 or even 10 LPs, for up to 5 hours of continuous music. But a single auto-reverse cassette deck could give you up to 180 minutes of music and if you needed more, a double deck could bump that up to 6 hours, though 180 minute cassettes were rare and more jam-prone than the more common 120 minute ones. When CDs came out, changers came back into fashion, though in recent years, digital music has relegated them to the thrift shops for most people.
External lights for cameras haven't entirely disappeared. There are more modern light panels and flash attachments that go onto a DSLR or Mirrorless camera.
As a retired Draughtsman, I can assure you that manual drawing boards were used well in to the 1990s in the UK. It would be 1992 when I started using CAD programmes.
we still had door delivery of milk in glass bottles in the eighties in Australia, it was the discounted supermarket milk in cartons that killed it off, milkmen couldnt compete
coal furnaces, ice boxes in the '50s? Sorry but oil fired hot water heat and electric fridges along with going to the grocery store for milk and I'm from West Virginia You're talking about the 30s and 40s
The ninth generation of the Ford F-Series is a lineup of trucks that were produced by Ford from the 1992 to 1998 model years which came with vent windows on all years.
I never went to s drive-in theater where "clear" sound was a perk. It was usually a lot of static and lip reading. 😂 I was born in the 60s and a lot of these innovations were still widely used throughout the 70s.
Many of these so called obsolete items are still in use by the " Off Grid" type lifestyle. Wringer washers, Ashley Wood/Coal burning stoves, ice blocks stored in a root cellar covered with sawdust, and Manual or push mowers,
Funny story. I was in the army on tanks. The tank I was on was missing its target. They thought that maybe the bore was crack. We had a gunnery master come on board, and said. Let me check something before we pull the cannon out. He open the ballistic computer and found that, someone removed the punch card and made their own to replace it.
I grew up in the 1950s and several of these were already obsolete. Ice deliveries? Coal furnaces? Wringer washers? Never saw them (though we had a furnace that had long been converted to oil, as did my grandparents). Push mowers? We had a gas powered mower. Milk deliveries, though, were still a thing.
Me too, most of theses things were obsolete long before the 50s. I was born in 1950 and we had Panel Ray heating, not coal or oil. My Dad used a power mower and we had both a washing machine and a dryer.
in the '60's there were a lot of those old wringer/washers in peoples basements after they transitioned over to the more modern washer/dryer units. People held on to those for awhile, probably because they relied on them. And people still liked to hang their clothes outside on a clothes line, for freshness. Especially bed sheets
One of the other things that disappeared was connected to the milk delvery -- homes would have small cabinets in an exterior wall with doors on the inside and outside. The milkman would open the exterior door and put the milk and butter into the cabinet, where it would be protected from the sunlight, heat, and weather, and the occupants would be able to pick up the delivered milk and butter without going outside. With the end of milk delivery, these cabinets were no longer necessary.
Many of these items lasted well past the 1950s. Many were common into the late 1980s and even the 1990s. I remember when my mother got her first automatic washer in the early 1960s. We did not get our first color TV until 1972. Even today, I use a reel mower and I still use a stovetop percolator.
There were two basic methods of canning food. The pressure cooker mainly for veggies, and hot water bath for most fruits. In fact, it really wasn't safe to can veggies by the hot water method. My MIL canned cherries by the hot water method, and she always gave us some jars to take back with us after a visit. We were warned to pay attention to the lids when we retrieved a jar from storage. If the lid remained flat, the seal was intact. But if it bulged upward, it meant the food inside was spoiled and we were to discard it. I found the best way to break the seal was to run hot water over it, and if that didn't work, I banged the edge with a spoon all the way around the top of the jar. It always worked -- eventually.
In my street every week still the milkman comes to make deliveries. My neighbour used to buy her groceries at his truck. She moved to a beter place, but the milkman still delivers. He added other products to his list of products, like beer! In the other street every week he delivers a number of crates of beer. But there is also bread, but it is more expensive.
My Mom and Granny canned using a hot water bath. I never did because I didn’t have any place to store it. My sister-in-law still cans. I know a lot of people that do. It’s not a lost art.
@@thejourney1369 - I like to pickle/brine Jalepeno and Habanero peppers and use them throughout the year. I'm just a rookie, but I like to grow hot peppers. The squirrels don't eat them
Our milkman lived right up the street from us, which was convenient when we ran out. He had a big cooler in his breezeway where the milk was stored, and would sell milk from his home. If he wasn't home, and the stores were closed, there was a milk vending machine in town. My mother didn't trust the milk from the machine, so we never used it.
looking at the milk delivery. We had Milk, The Helms Bakery Truck, and Hamm's Beer Truck, among others. For rubbish pickup days, we had trash day (trash is not garbage), garbage day (edible used to feed pigs and whatnot), and can day.
I remember the 1968 Jobs section of major newspaper. There were pages and pages of job offers for keypunch operators. I mean 80% of the jobs were for keypunch operators and they were mainly for women. I remember at one job the operators would punch out the cards without looking at the keyboard and fast as lightning.
I was born in 1950, and we lived in a very rural area. My folks did have ice delivered, and they cooked on a multi-burner hot plate. Very primitive, but that was all they could afford. Eventually, our dad did the calculations and found it was cheaper to purchase a refrigerator and a real stove with built-in oven. So we eventually got those. And we also got a chest freezer, as the small freezer compartment in the fridge didn't hold very much. But I do remember the ice man entering our home and placing the ice into the box. I think I was around four or five before we got the larger appliances.
0:36 At least in the USA, coal furnaces were mostly a thing of the past long before 1950; I've never seen a building built after 1910 that had any evidence that there was ever a coal furnace in it. Nearly all the new U.S. houses of the 1950s had oil, gas, or, toward the end of the decade, electric heat, with Ronald and Nancy Regan featured in GE's famous "Gold Medallion all electric home" commercials, some of them even explaining how a heat pump works.
Most of these things (from 75 years ago) can still be operated today. Can't say that about anything made these days, lucky if it lasts 5 years (and only then if you bought the extended warranty). The sound quality from valve radios was/is brilliant. 👍
call it whatever but at least when an apple was a fruit and not a hipster must-have thing, those gadgets kept the community closer and more humane and PEOPLE working and not the generations we have nowadays...
it came form your generation that these young people are so screwed up where did the people come from kids have to be raised right and sadly most were not and where did it come from?! Who can we blame? Your generation, on a large scale not to blame everyone. To tell me I'm wrong would be a lie. Me, I don't even care for social media other then the fact everyone is using it, I liked the way it was before, if that was a good while later in the later 20th century. It is hard to say who can we blame even as once you are dealing with an adult then it is out of your control.
Also an iPhone, having been around long enough their was no Internet etc. That's just a tool, sure did I like the way the world was before YES. My electronics are tools to me the way a 1970's calculator is a tool.
You are 100% right! When I see how everyone walks around constantly clutching this plastic electronic device and pausing every few minutes to look at makes me feel as if I have entered The Twilight Zone. I personally refuse to drink the Kool Aid!!
@@mrcommonsensefairness5608 my kid, we are low on gas and he is looking for a gas station on his phone, I could see the sign (NIG ONE), and his shows 30 km away... I should have kept on going and made him walk to it once we ran out of it...
Like the 1960s; the majority of technology during this time already feels so antiquated compared to the 1970s and 1980s and those decades aren't that far apart.
Anything with tube switched to solid state but I sit here at age 71 watching this video and sitting at my old tube powered Lowery organ. No electronic keyboard can touch the sound .
Car wing vents continued into the 1980s. They did not stop in the 50s. Take the VWs & Mustangs of the 60s, for example...and, even further, for another 2 more decades. Please do your research more thoroughly!!
I use a manual mower today. It gives your grass a better cut, like a golf course. You can cut your grass anytime without disturbing your neighbors. You just have to cut regularly and not let the grass get to high.
The fresh milk being delivered to the door step should have continued to this day. i still don't see the reason how refridgerators made it more convenient. Having someone deliver your food and milk is a lot more convenient and opens up your schedule rather than having to travel to go buy it. Storing your milk in a fridge shouldn't eliminate the job of the milk man! Let's bring back the milk man! Let's also go back to glass bottled milk. Having our milk in plastic jugs is bad because we ingest micro plastics every-time we drink milk stored in a plastic jug! Again Bring back the milk man! I also remember key punch machines. I worked in a library as a kid in the 1990s and we still did stuff like manually filing documents in file cabinet and using punch cards to check out library books. The punch card really didn't disappear where Iived until 2000.
Record players/turntables are not useless. The vinyls never really went obsolete, as everyone had expected them to. THANK GOODNESS!!🎉🎉🎉
I still have HUNDREDS of LPs at home!
@ 70 years old I went through all of those things. But life didn't seem harder it seemed easier.
Simpler for sure - somethings were harder people (most) are much softer - myself included....
@@Pete4875 soft padding absorbs hard punches. Ask Mike.
It was easier. I did not have 89 different pronouns to remember and they did not change at a whim!
Remember when you had phone numbers stored in your head and not your phone ☎
Pepperidge farm remembers
@@Pete4875 70! Wow! Ancient
Much of these were used throughout the 70s, 90s, and even into the 90s. In 1975 my computer programming class at UCLA required punch cards. Wing windows continued into the late 70s. My daughter and I both have turntables and you can still buy vinyl new (or go to a vinyl shop for unusual picks). Encyclopedias were widely used until the 90s. In the 80s and 90s mechanical pencils were still widely used in the office.
Being born in 1953 in Cleveland, Ohio,.....I remember the milkmen and the coal delivery men and their trucks. Our house was built in 1946. The house I purchased in 1993, at age 40, was built in 1905 and it had a coal room, and coal chute. There was canning room, for preserving fruits and vegetables, grown in one's own garden. There is a buried water cistern, in the backyard, which I learned was meant to collect "grey" water, from the home's gutters, to be used for watering the garden and other utility tasks,....not meant to be drunken.
Our dad had a manual lawn mower throughout the '60s, '70s. and 80s I don't think he ever purchased a power mower. He attached a catch sack to capture the clippings. Eventually, Dad relegated the lawn mowing duties to my brother, which was how he earned his weekly allowance. It was one of those devices that, as long as it continued to work well, he couldn't see shelling out the extra bucks for the power kind, which required gasoline, an additional expense.
Our next door neighbour did this and made his kids mow, boys and girls. My dad had a nice mower and my brother would mow. He also had a few accounts in the area.
Our family had a push mower, and I was stuck doing most of the mowing. I hated the thing. Everyone we knew had a gas or electric mower. But no, not us. Join the 20th century? No thanks!
I would rather have most of the things on the market then. Stuff was expensive, but you could actually FIX them. The stuff was built pretty well for the most part. I remember most of them.
We own not one but two stainless coffee percolators. We use them on a campstove when fishing or camping. Several of our friends make coffee every morning in their thoroughly modern homes, in a percolator. The percolator is certainly uncommon, but not dead yet.
I still use a percolator. Dripolators don't make the coffee hot enough, and I don't like instant.
A pressure ‘cooker’ is for cooking food. A pressure ‘canner’ is for preserving food. They are not generally interchangeable.
Same thing, Canners tend to be larger
@@johngrafton6868 A canner is a pressure cooker, but not all pressure cookers are canners. The type for canning is generally higher pressure to attain higher temperatures for preservation. Canners are sometimes called retorts.
Remember the flash cubes that rotated when a picture was taken so you could take four pictures before changing it? We had those, and they didn't always work properly. Sometimes, they wouldn't flash, or they wouldn't turn. Flash bulbs didn't always go off when they were supposed to, either.
The most frustrating thing I found about using film cameras was loading the film and trying to wind it to the first frame. If it didn't load or wind just right, pictures would overlap. Sometimes, I couldn't get the winder to even move. And loading film always risked getting some light leaked into the first couple of frames. They really were a pain, especially the cheaper ones.
Kodak brought out the instamatic cartridges for that with 126 and 110 cameras. They also brought out the 4 shot magicube flash system on those cameras also. Kodak was one of the biggest sellers of the compact camera then in the 1960's. It still took a while though for roll film to disappear and many serious photographers still use it today in favour of the digital cameras and mobile phones cameras.
@@ednammansfield8553I should feel once in awhile. There's nothing wrong with digital photography but I just like film cameras partially because I grew up with them in the 90s. They're really cool pieces of the history of photography. Speaking of Photography mishaps I have a Kodak Pony 135 model B where advancing the film is a separate does not reset the shutter and do you use a different liver for that that's on the lens barrel. Put that camera it's very easy to take a multiple exposure shot if you reset the shutter without advancing the film. I got one picture that I really like to do to that black of Double Exposure prevention that I wouldn't have gotten with most of my other cameras. I would not have thought of mixing those two images on purpose.
I still prefer film and manual film cameras. Many people don’t realize how much detail is in the negatives and slides. A 24mp camera produces lower resolution and color depth than a 35 mm slide. You need a lossless scan of about 9000 dpi to get the full resolution of a 35mm frame, which is 36mm*24mm or about 1.5 sq inches. Which gives 121.5 mp.
Which for reference is basically an 8k flatscreen. 24 mp is equivalent to a 4k screen.
I still heat with coal in a outdoor water furnace . My ham radio gear some is still tube type and I still use Morse code at times .
Roger that; what old rig or rigs do you use? My last real tube was a set of Drakes R4A and T4XB. The only tube transciever I still have for HF is my 1965 HeathkitGW-12 CB that I tuned to 29.025
@@martincvitkovich724 i still have and use my johnson vikings
I was born in the 1950s and belonging to a large family we had some of these items right up to the mid to late 1970s.
when I was in school we had a milk man delivering small glass bottles of milk, I was the milk monitor for our school, we also had a baker come to the school with fresh bread straight from the bakery these were delivered by horse and cart, the milk was cold and the bread was hot, loved it.
Here in Australia we didn't get color TV until 1975.
Great video, just subbed, Cheers.
Things aren’t obsolete they have just evolved.
I remember the data processing class in jr. high school. After we punched the data in the cards, we had to wire a board that instructed the IBM machines what to do with the cards. These were huge machines in a large room. You had one that read the cards, one to sort, one to do the calculations, and one to do printing. We had to learn how to wire the boards for each machine. That was high technology.
And gawd forbid you dropped a tray 😂
@@kiniburk Many of the Hollerith card decks, if they represented a static batch of data, would have a set of columns devoted to a sequence number, allowing them to be run through a collator to sort them back into their proper order. This could only be done with a card deck that was in its final, static form, as the sequence numbers would make it impossible to recover a deck that had been edited to insert new data between sequentially-numbered cards.
I still get milk delivered from Smith Brothers Dairy in Kent Washington on my doorstep once a week.
It would be even better if it came in a bottle
That's awesome!
The milk man yet another NTR profession
My grandparents had a wood stoked heater in Missouri of some type until they passed away in the 1980s. They did have a stove, oven and water heater which were powered by Propane which was delivered.
I had a manual lawnmower for my home I moved into in 2008. Mowed my lawn a few years that way. Loved the pattern it made in my lawn. Then I got an electric lawnmower. Now I have someone to do my lawn. I got lazier and lazier 😮😊
I remember the little flash cubes!! It was a pretty big deal to own a C-110 trimline camera with a built-in flash, like Vivitar.😮😂🎉
Video is wonderfully done, I witnessed most of the things spoken of since I was born in 1949. THANK YOU!!!
I just bought a mechanical pencil. They are still around and plentiful.
Just want to point out that the red rotary phone shown next to the TV throughout each of these videos is a 1970's "official" German post office issued phone.
I was born in 1941 and I remember these things very well. We had the first TV in our neighborhood. My parents purchased our 5" round Dupont TV for $500.00 in 1947. That was a huge sum of money for that time. We had total strangers knockin' on our door to see "IT". The TV antenna was the giveaway. I was a milk delivery kid in the mid 50's. I received $2.00 for the short early morning run before school and $3 for the longer weekend route. I cut laws with the reel mowers for spending money. A larger lawn could get you $1.00. I set bowling pins by hand, at the Elks club for $3.00 a night. Great times.
Born in 59’. I’ve been there and done that.
Never used an old radio, they say they had three batteries. One was charged once a week, one replaced or charged once a month, the last was small and lasted a year.
Telegrams are basically texts today.
I've seen the old washers at grandma's house when I was little.
There's a good TV episode of Honeymooners involving an icebox. The one where they consider adopting.
I remember the old metal filled bulbs. Full of a big wad of fine metal wire.
I've heard that the vent windows were a security hazard. They can create a blast of air.
They also had text versions of the city maps. I've never used one, but dad used one downtown.
Learned programming on card punches. I see both 026 & 029 models. And others.
Had a class on mechanical drawing. T-square, 45 degree triangle, 30/60 degree triangle.
I still use a vacuum tube radio as they look great and have a much warmer sound. Though most bands are going silent. I also still have doorstep milk delivery. A bit rare but quite convenient.
I still have radios, and we still have all the stations on over here.
I also use tube radios but here in the UK there are few stations left so I play an MP3 through the gram sockets on the rear. Can still enjoy the wonderful sound .
@@ry491 They are shutting radio stations down in England? I am lucky, as here in California, we still have a wealth of radio stations.
Good video. During the summer my young nephews have a small lawn mowing business in their immediate neighborhood. They use a push mower, a manual edger and hand shears along with couple other manual tools that they transport in a small trailer towed by their bicycles. The neighbors like the noiseless job they do as compared to the racket a gas lawnmower, leaf blower and other devices the adult professionals use. The neighbors brag about how they contribute to the health of the environment and give a job of responsibility to the boys.
My grandfather had one of those push mowers. I loved it, and volunteered to mow when we would visit. It was so much fun at 12 years old. 👍😉
You can still buy them brand new to this very day.
Ah, the ol' vacuum tube radio! If you're around my age (71) you probably remember taking the tubes out and taking them to a store where they had a tube "tester"- where you could check the "health" of each tube from your radio/tv - after it started acting up- to see which tube was causing the trouble.
I'm the only person my age that I know who'd NEVER been in a drive-in theater. I always thought it was a bad idea to have to watch a movie through your windshield while listening to the tinny distorted audio through those little speakers.
They were in. All drug stores and were always out of order but they had that hot transformer and wire insulation smell😊
Drive-in sound was not "tinny," but rather good quality, though not stereophonic. What's more, you didn't have to listen to commentary and conversation from the sorts of mannerless clods often annoying theater-goers in recent decades. Early baby-boomers, regardless of background, were taught certain standards of public behavior and personal presentation that are sadly lacking in modern America.
@@psmith2234 OK, well like I said, I've never been to one- so I guess I stand corrected.
We all had refrigerators in the 1960s but it wasn't until the early 70s that they stopped delivering milk in the morning. When I was in middle school I was on the library staff, so I would run the film projectors when a teacher checked out a film.
I recall making money as a teenager, by delivering telephone books, to the houses in my neighborhood. It was sort of hard work,.....they weighed a lot, and you had t take them to each house. The weight of the books in your car would cause the springs to be pushed to their limit.
Our drive-in still had the old speakers as of a few years ago when I last went.
You're a wee bit off on the coal furnaces. By the 50's they were largely replaced by oil burners. Also the coal furnaces from the 20's and 30's were not the little freestanding parlor stoves (they were more a thing in the late 19th century). They were more typically a coal fired boiler that supplied the heat for a steam / hot water radiator heating system and had an automated stoker system that fed coal into the furnace. And by the 50's many of those older coal boilers still in service had been converted to burn fuel oil. Iceboxes were still in use in some areas in the very early 50's but as post war production ramped up they were quickly replaced by refrigerators. It was quite a matter of pride to have a refrigerator in those years. That was part of what made Jello so popular post war. You couldn't make Jello with an icebox. So being able to bring Jello to a church potluck was a subtle way of bragging.
Can remember having kettle chips delivered in 5 gallon cans. Once used up had to leave the empty can at door to get new delivery. We received a can every 2 weeks. We also recived milk in carton and butter wrapped in parchment paper.
Tube amplifiers are still very much alive!
My paternal grandmother had her washing machine with electric ringer well into the 1970's. She dried the clothes on a rotating clothes line that looked similar to an umbrella frame with two lines between the spokes. I thought it was really cool! Since the wringer put wrinkles into the clothes, they all had to be dampened and ironed. Then, there was my maternal grandfather, who took home movies indoors with a hand held row of bright, blinding lights!!! I was told to act natural, keep my hand down and not squint! (I can relate to that Frazier episode with the bright flash bulb photos at the bar mitzvah) My dad took movies mostly outside. I miss those reel movies, now. We used to watch them once a year, but they all turned to dust. 😢
lol vacuum tube amplifiers are still used and some of the most expensive audio equipment on the market are tube amplifiers McIntosh as an example This company is celebrating their 75 anniversary 1949 - 2024. So tube amplifiers are still sold and have a sound that cannot be replicated by a solid state amplifier
I had a guitar amplifier that had both tubes and vacuum tubes. If I remember, it was called a transtube.
@@donnisraines what brand
Vending mashines is still in use. They have improved alot since 1950s. Some even gives u hot food...
I recently saw someone using a "reel type" lawnmower and they still sell them. An interesting fact about reel type mowers is that they actually cut the grass better than a power mower, cleaner cut and more uniform. You can even put a bag attachment on them. Having a small lawn, i'm tempted to get one from Home Depot. No gasoline, and they're quiet, and fun to use.
I had a reel mower for my back yard where I had several raised garden beds. those actually _cut_ the grass rather than whack it. sharpening the blades was pretty dangerous and you go your workout for sure...
My mother inlaw still uses a Maytag ringer wash for all their laundry today
When I worked as a delivery driver for a florist, I found the Thomas Maps booklet very helpful. They were easy to use, and helped me located any address in any number of areas. Too bad we don't have printed Thomas Maps, anymore. In some ways they were more accurate and reliable than GPS. Today, if you go into a convenience store and ask for a map, they're likely to roll their eyes at you, rude though that is. Somehow, it's assumed that everyone has GPS and everyone knows how to use it. NOT SO! And Google Maps aren't that good, either. I find them hard to decipher.
I just listen to the directions. Only one time has Google been wrong in all the years we’ve used it. Always taken us right where we needed to go.
That was a glorious trip down memory lane! I remember (and used and owned) most of these. They look quaint by today's technology but were cutting edge for their time. I think I probably have some of these items (and older ones, too) around here. I'm an antique myself. Looking back, those were happy, simpler times. It's easy to forget things like common diseases (polio & TB) and the threat of war with Russia. But we were young and fearless; I'm neither now but hopefully, wiser and thankful for these memories.
This video needs some fact checking for dates.
Yes. Punched cards were used into the late '70s. Drafting tools were used into the mid-'90s. Dial phones came in the late '50s. Push button phones weren't widespread until the '80s. Wing windows were around into the '90s. Coal wasn't used much in the west. There were sawdust burners and oil furnaces. When the dams were built in the '60s, everything went electric. There were plenty of other mistakes.
@@BlankBrain Like the fact that mechanical pencils are still being used today. Ballpoint pens might be good for some things, but they sure aren't useful if you want to actually erase anything.
@@BlankBrain well stated - someone just wanted to make a video without the effort to fact-check. 80-column cards and 96-column cards.
Why are you showing pictures of coal STOVES when you are talking about coal FURNACES? Homes were not just heated by hot air coal furnaces (octopus), but coal fired steam boilers for steam heat were also very common. Some houses still were heated by one or more coal STOVES in various rooms in the house. These heated the immediate room they were in, and the heat passed through doorways to other rooms on the same floor, and through "heatalator" vents in the floor of the rooms above to allow the heat to rise and heat them too. My grandmother's house was heated by a wood / coal stove in the kitchen which also heated the water for hot water, and a pot belly stove in the living room. Upstairs, the bathroom and bedrooms were heated by heatalator vents in the floor.
26:50 What really killed record changers was the popularity of cassettes. Record changers were a near necessity when 3 minute 78s were the standard, but many people later enjoyed stacking 6, 8 or even 10 LPs, for up to 5 hours of continuous music. But a single auto-reverse cassette deck could give you up to 180 minutes of music and if you needed more, a double deck could bump that up to 6 hours, though 180 minute cassettes were rare and more jam-prone than the more common 120 minute ones. When CDs came out, changers came back into fashion, though in recent years, digital music has relegated them to the thrift shops for most people.
External lights for cameras haven't entirely disappeared. There are more modern light panels and flash attachments that go onto a DSLR or Mirrorless camera.
As a retired Draughtsman, I can assure you that manual drawing boards were used well in to the 1990s in the UK. It would be 1992 when I started using CAD programmes.
we still had door delivery of milk in glass bottles in the eighties in Australia, it was the discounted supermarket milk in cartons that killed it off, milkmen couldnt compete
coal furnaces, ice boxes in the '50s? Sorry but oil fired hot water heat and electric fridges along with going to the grocery store for milk and I'm from West Virginia
You're talking about the 30s and 40s
And 20s!
My mom's grandmother had an ice box, outhouse, no running water, and did not get electricity until the late 50's. Rural people exist.
@@borrisg4972 There are still areas where that is the norm, despite what the elitists think.
The ninth generation of the Ford F-Series is a lineup of trucks that were produced by Ford from the 1992 to 1998 model years which came with vent windows on all years.
I never went to s drive-in theater where "clear" sound was a perk. It was usually a lot of static and lip reading. 😂
I was born in the 60s and a lot of these innovations were still widely used throughout the 70s.
Many of these so called obsolete items are still in use by the " Off Grid" type lifestyle. Wringer washers, Ashley Wood/Coal burning stoves, ice blocks stored in a root cellar covered with sawdust, and Manual or push mowers,
It was expensive to take photos, plus you had to learn how to use an exposure meter!
Funny story. I was in the army on tanks. The tank I was on was missing its target. They thought that maybe the bore was crack. We had a gunnery master come on board, and said. Let me check something before we pull the cannon out. He open the ballistic computer and found that, someone removed the punch card and made their own to replace it.
Ahhh the milkman, fresh delicious milk in glass bottles. I still make perked coffee every morning, nothing tastes better.
I grew up in the 1950s and several of these were already obsolete. Ice deliveries? Coal furnaces? Wringer washers? Never saw them (though we had a furnace that had long been converted to oil, as did my grandparents). Push mowers? We had a gas powered mower. Milk deliveries, though, were still a thing.
Me too, most of theses things were obsolete long before the 50s. I was born in 1950 and we had Panel Ray heating, not coal or oil. My Dad used a power mower and we had both a washing machine and a dryer.
You'll remember that the Honeymooners still had an ice box.
That was not true for the Midwest. Homes built in the 30’s and 40’s still used coal and we had a coal chute that delivered the coal into the coal bin.
in the '60's there were a lot of those old wringer/washers in peoples basements after they transitioned over to the more modern washer/dryer units. People held on to those for awhile, probably because they relied on them. And people still liked to hang their clothes outside on a clothes line, for freshness. Especially bed sheets
25:35 My parents would make coffee in a percolator each morning while on camping trips back in the 80’s.
One of the other things that disappeared was connected to the milk delvery -- homes would have small cabinets in an exterior wall with doors on the inside and outside. The milkman would open the exterior door and put the milk and butter into the cabinet, where it would be protected from the sunlight, heat, and weather, and the occupants would be able to pick up the delivered milk and butter without going outside. With the end of milk delivery, these cabinets were no longer necessary.
Many of these items lasted well past the 1950s. Many were common into the late 1980s and even the 1990s. I remember when my mother got her first automatic washer in the early 1960s. We did not get our first color TV until 1972. Even today, I use a reel mower and I still use a stovetop percolator.
There were two basic methods of canning food. The pressure cooker mainly for veggies, and hot water bath for most fruits. In fact, it really wasn't safe to can veggies by the hot water method. My MIL canned cherries by the hot water method, and she always gave us some jars to take back with us after a visit. We were warned to pay attention to the lids when we retrieved a jar from storage. If the lid remained flat, the seal was intact. But if it bulged upward, it meant the food inside was spoiled and we were to discard it. I found the best way to break the seal was to run hot water over it, and if that didn't work, I banged the edge with a spoon all the way around the top of the jar. It always worked -- eventually.
My Mom and Granny only used the hot water bath for canning veggies and fruits. Never had any problems with them.
In my street every week still the milkman comes to make deliveries. My neighbour used to buy her groceries at his truck. She moved to a beter place, but the milkman still delivers. He added other products to his list of products, like beer! In the other street every week he delivers a number of crates of beer. But there is also bread, but it is more expensive.
What country is that?
@@dannydaw59 The Netherlands!
My grandmother said she never got fat until she got a washing machine. This machine was a washtub with an agitator and a wringer attached to the side.
My Mom and Granny canned using a hot water bath. I never did because I didn’t have any place to store it. My sister-in-law still cans. I know a lot of people that do. It’s not a lost art.
Not everything can be water canned! Make shure you look up and see what needs to be Presure canned.
@@berteisenbraun7415 everything was water canned when I was growing up. No one in our family even owned a pressure cooker.
@thejourney1369 low acid food items should be pressure canned do to botulism.
@@thejourney1369 - I like to pickle/brine Jalepeno and Habanero peppers and use them throughout the year. I'm just a rookie, but I like to grow hot peppers. The squirrels don't eat them
Add my wife's mother to this list.
Our milkman lived right up the street from us, which was convenient when we ran out. He had a big cooler in his breezeway where the milk was stored, and would sell milk from his home.
If he wasn't home, and the stores were closed, there was a milk vending machine in town. My mother didn't trust the milk from the machine, so we never used it.
Key punch cards were common. The common warning was “do not fold, spindle, or mutilate “.
Shouldn't knock this technology to much the fridges from this time will not die
looking at the milk delivery. We had Milk, The Helms Bakery Truck, and Hamm's Beer Truck, among others. For rubbish pickup days, we had trash day (trash is not garbage), garbage day (edible used to feed pigs and whatnot), and can day.
I remember the 1968 Jobs section of major newspaper. There were pages and pages of job offers for keypunch operators. I mean 80% of the jobs were for keypunch operators and they were mainly for women. I remember at one job the operators would punch out the cards without looking at the keyboard and fast as lightning.
Life was nicer before Internet as convenient as it may be, but at least I was not living so early on we had to have an ice box.
I was born in 1950, and we lived in a very rural area. My folks did have ice delivered, and they cooked on a multi-burner hot plate. Very primitive, but that was all they could afford. Eventually, our dad did the calculations and found it was cheaper to purchase a refrigerator and a real stove with built-in oven. So we eventually got those. And we also got a chest freezer, as the small freezer compartment in the fridge didn't hold very much. But I do remember the ice man entering our home and placing the ice into the box. I think I was around four or five before we got the larger appliances.
My dad always called our fridge the icebox lol. Old habit I guess.
Fridge is old habit too,as it was name brand refrigerator i is name of appliance fridge is short for frigidaire companys@@Barbarra63297
We used to call car wing vents "fly windows." Not sure why.
I'm the grandpa that pushed those miserable manual mowers. It killed me, and I'm still dead
0:36 At least in the USA, coal furnaces were mostly a thing of the past long before 1950; I've never seen a building built after 1910 that had any evidence that there was ever a coal furnace in it. Nearly all the new U.S. houses of the 1950s had oil, gas, or, toward the end of the decade, electric heat, with Ronald and Nancy Regan featured in GE's famous "Gold Medallion all electric home" commercials, some of them even explaining how a heat pump works.
We didn't get a color tv until 1981. 😅
Most of these things (from 75 years ago) can still be operated today. Can't say that about anything made these days, lucky if it lasts 5 years (and only then if you bought the extended warranty). The sound quality from valve radios was/is brilliant. 👍
Actually Hornstra farms in Ma still does local milk delivery. It's so good too. 😋😋
Our local Dairy still delivers milk... I think it only once a week now. But many people still use the service...
call it whatever but at least when an apple was a fruit and not a hipster must-have thing, those gadgets kept the community closer and more humane and PEOPLE working and not the generations we have nowadays...
it came form your generation that these young people are so screwed up where did the people come from kids have to be raised right and sadly most were not and where did it come from?! Who can we blame? Your generation, on a large scale not to blame everyone. To tell me I'm wrong would be a lie. Me, I don't even care for social media other then the fact everyone is using it, I liked the way it was before, if that was a good while later in the later 20th century. It is hard to say who can we blame even as once you are dealing with an adult then it is out of your control.
Also an iPhone, having been around long enough their was no Internet etc. That's just a tool, sure did I like the way the world was before YES. My electronics are tools to me the way a 1970's calculator is a tool.
You are 100% right! When I see how everyone walks around constantly clutching this plastic electronic device and pausing every few minutes to look at makes me feel as if I have entered The Twilight Zone. I personally refuse to drink the Kool Aid!!
@@mrcommonsensefairness5608 my kid, we are low on gas and he is looking for a gas station on his phone, I could see the sign (NIG ONE), and his shows 30 km away... I should have kept on going and made him walk to it once we ran out of it...
@@mrcommonsensefairness5608ya, you have to see it for what it is, a convenience and use it as such.
I use a stovetop percolator for my coffee to this day.
I was born in 1963. We had a refrigerator but we also has a milk man for many years.
Like the 1960s; the majority of technology during this time already feels so antiquated compared to the 1970s and 1980s and those decades aren't that far apart.
That radio comms sounded like the school of the air in Australia lol😂
Anything with tube switched to solid state but I sit here at age 71 watching this video and sitting at my old tube powered Lowery organ. No electronic keyboard can touch the sound .
Do you suppose there is a direct correlation between the decline in the birth rate and the decline in milk delivery?
Lot of the kids belonged to the milk man.
Car wing vents continued into the 1980s. They did not stop in the 50s. Take the VWs & Mustangs of the 60s, for example...and, even further, for another 2 more decades. Please do your research more thoroughly!!
15:09 That window flap is *correctly* referred to a a *Quarter-light!*
I use a manual mower today. It gives your grass a better cut, like a golf course. You can cut your grass anytime without disturbing your neighbors. You just have to cut regularly and not let the grass get to high.
How about that backyard or basement incinerator? Many homes were built with them.
Born in 1940, these things are more 40’d than 50’s.
The milk man. A grand parent and great grand parent of many today.
There is one TV shown off and on through the video that has channels "2" and channel "2A"...don't see those often, especially in the U.S..
I miss my set of encyclopedias. Now, I have to search the internet, and half of it is true.
Coal furnaces are still in use in many homes, and in camping, as well. So, yeah...not obsolete, either.😂
The fresh milk being delivered to the door step should have continued to this day. i still don't see the reason how refridgerators made it more convenient. Having someone deliver your food and milk is a lot more convenient and opens up your schedule rather than having to travel to go buy it. Storing your milk in a fridge shouldn't eliminate the job of the milk man! Let's bring back the milk man! Let's also go back to glass bottled milk. Having our milk in plastic jugs is bad because we ingest micro plastics every-time we drink milk stored in a plastic jug! Again Bring back the milk man!
I also remember key punch machines. I worked in a library as a kid in the 1990s and we still did stuff like manually filing documents in file cabinet and using punch cards to check out library books. The punch card really didn't disappear where Iived until 2000.
The IBM punch cards produced confetti…
My dad was a sales man. So him and my mom used Criss Cross address book. To fine clients.
My grandpa was an ice man. Five cents a cake. Sometimes he walked up 6 flights of stairs!
You forgot the slide rule.
Digital cameras in the 1970s?
In Paris you wouldn't be able to get milk delivered daily but they did deliver wine.
The woman at 5:30 is beautiful.