The last Sears Catalog was in 1990. The next year, the R. R. Donnelly plant that printed it in Chicago was demolished, & the McCormick Place Convention Center (or whatever they call it) was built there. Thus ended the Donnelly Job, a daily-except-Sunday switch job of paper for the plant that came up from Markham Yard for that purpose only. They usually used 3 little yard engines; the train was big enough for road power, but only switchers could squeak around the tight curves into the plant. I used to go to 18th St. to get the best pictures. Another backroom deal that wiped out good jobs & fun stuff.
Wow! Back when the holidays still had sparks of magic, I remember being excited for the Sears/JC Penny/Montgomery Ward Christmas catalogs. Thanks for another great video.
The only thing I can add is an empty Coke bottle...returning it to the grocery store for the 2 cent deposit. Collect 12 bottles..enough for one cold bottle of coke. Ironic, ain't it.
My brothers and I rode for miles on our bicycles in South GA with our eyes wide open for soda bottles..2 cents each..would cash them in at Piggly Wiggly..I saved up 45 dollars and opened my first savings account..that is after I bought my G. I. Joe and a few accessories.
With the exception of the straw hat, I have used, owned, played or still have ALL of these items ! You forgot POGO STICKS !! Great toy to break a leg with !
Add dictionaries,books on how to be responsible for your own actions, and books on how not be selfish ingrates, to the list of things they haven't touched
It's a generational thing. I was a child of the 60s & 70s. If you lived at that time, can you imagine what the old farts (like I am now) must have thought about the "out of control youth"? It's a perk of old age, sitting around exercising our priviledge to bash current youth. If you can't join 'em, beat 'em (figuratively speaking, of course).
@@daddyquatro we have one a short drive from us and the signal goes surprisingly far. I'm in Canada and the few left in my province do surprisingly well. 10 bucks for adult,3 or four for kids ans a carload is 20 bucks on Wednrsdays.
My dad did that twice! I eventually worked at a Drive In theatre in the 80's, When they switched over to radio transmitters, I took home one of the old speakers (exactly like the ones shown). I still have it somewhere. I think they're made of cast zinc. Heavy and rust resistant! Mine's probably original to the theatre (now gone) it opened in the late 50s.
I had almost all those items during my lifetime, and used some of the others.A bowtie, I never used.LOL.Our public library had those wooden file cabinets for filing all their books, and I used them.So glad I lived during every year since 1960!!!
As a gen Xer born in the late 60s, I appreciate and cherish most of these items. Would suck to be part “todays” youth. I’m thankful every day that I grew up in the 70s/80s, although I’d rather have been part of the silent or greatest generations if I had a choice.
You too, huh? I've been saying for 10 years that my generation (1965) was the last one where you could be a kid. People say "Oh yeah, because of 9/11!" No, that has dick to do w/it. I mean: going out & actually doing things, riding a bike w/o a helmet, no car seats, no one shit a baseball bat if we didn't wash our hands every 5 minutes... In the 70's, my granddad used to take me & my brother to the fairgrounds, & our favorite thing was to ride around the lake...on the hood of the car!! Once, I heard him calling out, "Hey kids, lookee here!!" We turned, & he took our picture w/his 1960 Voigtlander. He was looking through the camera, not at the road! No one who saw that print called Child Services, or anything! And I still have all my fingers & toes!
@@emilyadams5586 environment may still let kids live like it was the 60s a Friend of mine had his grandkid sitting on the passenger side door and legs outside the door as his hand held the airbag pillar area and windshield area as he cruises the dirt country roads in the 90s I my sister and I used to play around guns and I wondered if my pinkie finger would fit into the barrel one way to find out and I got stuck in the hole and swimming unattended and nearly drowning and then surviving it good memories where's the supposed emotional stress
Your creative genius once again at work. Another great vid. I'm an old man now so...I've seen or have had in my possession all those items. My children are in their late teens and probably know at least 10% of them. Yep.😊...the world has changed since I was their age. Many of those items can be found at flea markets, swap meets and antique shops. Great to look at and silently remember the old days. I pick it up and say to the kids ..."Let me tell you WHAT this is"..."I used to have one JUST like it". To me, this was one of your greatest vids yet.
A lot of young folks wear All Stars these days. I can remember in 7th grade, circa 1973-74 high top Chuck's (white, did they come in any other color then, maybe black?) were required foot wear for the basketball team at school. As players we had to buy our own shoes. The $10 cost was difficult for some families to fit into their budget.
Aye! The good ole days! When you wanted to be with your friends, you’d actually walk or ride a bike to their house and chat with them face to face! And play marbles, cops and robbers, cowboys and Indians, etc etc And you didn’t have to buy bottled water LoL
Leave the house at 9:00am with your ball glove and get back in time for dinner; mom never worried. Now, mom would get a visit from CWS and pay a fine. Sad.
@@FredFlix I hear you! Lol I DONT have a clue what they are going to do or how their going to make it when this older generation( baby boomers) are gone, Seriously!! I'm 60 years old and my Dad worked the living CRAP out of me and always said a little hard work will never kill you! Lol You know what ? HE WAS EXACTLY RIGHT!! RIP MOM & DAD!😢
Oh man you killed it with the drive-in speakers and black board erasers. Remember being the lucky kid who got to take them outside to clap them together to clean them?
Thanks so much for this. I caught myself smiling like a goofy kid seeing his first bra all the way through! (I was soooo in love with the dish on the cover of the Sears catalog.) And fantastic choice for Goodman's Sing Sing Sing for the soundtrack; yet another trip down memory lane as our 19-piece high school 30's Swing Band played that as well. Thanks again! Loved every second!
ok Fred... everyone that enjoys all your fabulous videos are sending you and yours some very good and positive thoughts that the damn thing doesn't hit close by
Great meomeries! What about a push mower and hedge clippers? A lot of kids and grownups don’t know what that is......I asked some kids about a Big Wheel and they just looked like what is that?!!
There’s nothing like the Sound of Vinyl Records, even with modern technology Vinyl records it’s the next best thing to the real Sound ,Fidelity .. back in the old days Vinyl was pressed right out the studio recording.
@@dperry19661 doug perry tbh, I didn't notice much difference. I just transferred about 100 old LPS to MP3s for portability, and except for the hiss and pops from the vinyl as opposed to a perfectly clean purchased MP3, they sound the same.
I'm more old school than that. As a child, I played with Grandma's stereopticon and listened to 78RPMs on a wind up Victrola. I used to know how to use a sextant. Pecked out short stories on an Underwood manual typewriter. Erector sets anyone?
Paul, how cool! We had some old 78RPMs (that I still have & used to play when I had a turntable), and an Underwood manual typewriter that I played on. I remember erector sets and sextants, and a few more things from my grandparents' storage barn. :-)
Pick-up-Stix. 5 cent popscicles. 25 cent Saturday matinees with cartoons and the same Three Stooges you saw on TV the day before. Pick up ball games with no adult in sight. Do your homework.
I have to say that the old hard-copy Yellow Pages was a hell of lot more useful than the current on-line version. The on-line version search results are all over the map and often not much related to the search inquiry. And with the old Yellow Pages book, you could get info on dozens of merchants at a glance instead of having to slog through web page after web page. A lot of hipsters are into some of the stuff you show here, maybe because they like antiquated stuff, like vinyl LPs (no 45s, not yet at least) and black high-top tennis shoes. I have a 45 year old Schwinn ten-speed, which I guess would be hip with hipsters, but it doesn't say the same thing when the guy riding the bike is older than the bike.
4:10 Laughing soooo hard.... I use a clothes pin to pin everything.... Everyday all my mail... letters etc... I pulled a clothes pin out of my purse the other day and someone said, "Oh my gosh, I haven't seen one of those in years!" I even paint mine with gold glitter... "Fancy"
Even better: I use clothes pins to hang film up to dry after processing! Wood only, rolls have weighted clips at the end so they stay unrolled & plastic clips don't grab the wet film. All my 4x5 plates have wood-grain clip imprints on one corner!
Chip clips. My late wife had me put up a clothes pole in the 1990's - wanted the clothes to be as fresh as they were in the 1950's. Still have the pins.
Here in Canada, the Eatons catalogue went extinct before the Sears one. I remember the Eatons catalogue being delivered to *every* house on the street, whether or not the people there had accounts with the store. In rural western Canada, many immigrants learnt their first English from it. My nephews have never touched a 45 rpm record, but when cleaning out the basement, we found the little disc that went I the centre of the record. We asked them what they thought it was and laughed at their responses. These were the kids that had earlier referred to LPs as "really big CDs". They did, however know about clothespins, because we made them help with pegging out the wash and with bringing it in. Cruel, weren't we?
kids to day don't know how good they got it 50 years ago life was hard and you had to make your entertainment toys didn't require batteries and our parents came from the dark ages 1890s when the automobile was just invented imagine a world where there is no such thing as cars and a lot of other things and the roads that did exist were very crude or just a dirt path AND A C before air conditioning all you could do to cool off on a hot summer day was jump in a creek or lake
You think a kid has it good walking around looking at his phone ignoring the World around him ? being dumbed down ? My second batch ain't gonna end up like that, my first batch ain't too bad either now in their 30's, they grew up with all this new crap
LOL I was keeping a list of items I was guessing you'd "forget", and the 1st one was..... SLIDE RULE! The others were: rolls of caps, hula hoops, $2 bill, open-reel audio tape, tv antenna rotor, candy cigarettes, 8-track tape cartridge........
Two dollar bills are still with us. I get them monthly at the credit union and use them as tips. Sometimes I pay with combinations of @]those and dollar coins and/or half dollars. I encourage people to spend the bills but suspect that most are tucked away. Nearly all thatt I get from the cu are mint condition.
We could use slide rules or log tables for maths. Electronic calculators were only starting to make an appearance. Texas Instruments were the ones to get but they cost the earth.
A horse with no name - a double sided slide rule is far faster than a calculator (and with even a little practice, accurate to around 4 sig. figures). I collect them (and should the World as we know it grind to a non-electronic halt, I'll still be able to perform useful calculations :-) )
Yep! - My next door neighbor used to try to blabber sweet nothings into the earpiece of the girl in his life, but wound up getting me instead! Ah, the cherished memories of our threesome, and he never found out that it was me critiquing his flattering jibberish!
@@TurtleFrack ...Yes, those "party lines" were sure a weird concept by the phone company. We kids were always told to hang up the receiver if we heard someone else engaged in conversation (it was actually my neighbor, I believe), but, looking back, I could see if someone wanted to eavesdrop on the entire conversation, it would have been a "no brainer". Guess we relied on alot of others' trust back in those days...still think it was weird, though...
It still amazes me how much Sears missed the boat, they were arguably the most internet ready retail company out there with the Sears Catalog sales and not only don't they leverage this at all, they actually abandoned it! I remember seeing the first remote control TV at my grandfathers house, the remote had a cable to the TV. I asked my dad if we were going to get one and he said he had 4 of them. I look at him funny and he said that is what I have kids for, put on channel 7 and adjust the rabbit ears...
Instant cameras are still around as sort of a gimmick/trend with kids. I get stuck buying my daughters fim for theirs and it works out to about a buck a picture and they're tiny.
They want everything to be one thing (phone), & then whine that they're bored. Well, maybe if they hadn't erased the variety & magic from the world... Let's hear from anyone who ever saw a b&w print develop in a tray, played reel tapes, used an 8mm or slide projector, shot film w/a pre-Auto Everything camera (Nikon F or F2, Hasselblad, Mamiya C-type, etc.). There's still a lot of fun & interesting things in the world, just don't cave to a whole generation that can't even make a goddam baloney sandwich.
@@emilyadams5586 lol. Point and click is too hard for mellenials. When we got bored we played in creek or pond or city pool or built forts in woods and made booby traps. Or road bicycles around town. I must have put 10,000 miles on bikes as a kid.
I'm with you, I remember my Uncle Bud, with his rack of lights so he could film a family event.. Then we watched it back. No sound, maybe a screen but usually we showed it on the wall. How about the KODAK cameras, that developed a picture in 3 mins. & you had to rub that smelly chemical on it or the picture disappeared.
WONDERFUL! THANKS SO MUCH! I went to karaoke and so many "young people" didn't know what an 8-track or a "45" was! Or what a NCR or a cassette tape recorder was! TOO BAD! In 1972, I built a electrical motor out of paperclips! I got an A on my project!
Loved the Drive-In! Parents used to let us wear our pajamas there so if we fell asleep while watching the movie or on the way home, we wouldn't have to change when we got home and could go straight to bed.
Fred, you have the incredible ability to invoke so many nostalgic memories. The pictures are flashbacks to another time and space. Only codgers like me can truly appreciate the experience. 😷
I had some, & we'd play w/em on occasion, but invariably, 1/2 of 'em would wind up strewn about the house, in various game boxes & in the bottom of my toy box, soon to be forsaken.
True. It took me forever to gather up/organize all my son's game parts when we moved. When I was little, my Chinese Checkers was a round tin w/a checkerboard on the opposing side, & Aggravation had the usual board-game w/box, both offering storage options for marbles/checkers/playing pieces. My Tiddly-Winks were either cheap w/insufficient plastic packaging that soon fell apart, or I broke/misplaced their container; hence, their propensity to scatter/get lost. But for whatever reason, we played the other games more than we did Tiddlywinks, & tho not those original ones, I still have Checkers, Chinese Checkers, & Aggravation, but now there's nobody to play 'em with.
Few kids would have an alligator purse; that was something that adults would have. And they do still make them today. Alligators are bred and the population is controlled so there's no danger of extinction.
I was born in '02 and I've touched and know most of these things. Plus, I'm one of your subscribers and when will you do a Day In The Life Of A, for 1966 and 1973? Keep making these wonderful videos.
Sparky, that was fabulous, I have to admit I have no idea what the big puffy ball (metalic wrap) thing is? maybe I am younger than I think LOL cause I for sure have never touched one of those!.....may I also add that many kids today have never touched an iron, a broom and dust pan, a vacuum cleaner, a washing machine, washing powder, a scrubbing brush, a dishcloth and a kitchen towel an iron or an ironing board. I could go on but I will not bore you.........winks ox
+SillyNa Cannada, thank you, I was still not 100% but assuming the word "pop" had something to do with popcorn I looked up Jiffy Pop on Google, and well there is was in full colour....Ok we did not have Jiffy Pop here so I never touched it in my youth hahaha....we had metal stovetop pans for popping corn....thanks for taking the time to tell me what it was :)
You could never bore me, Miss Melly. (btw, you're the spark and I'm the plug. hee hee). But you're right about many kids not knowing about brooms and such. I guess they figure when they grow up they'll use robot vacuum cleaners. Also, I see below your question about Jiffy Pop was answered. xoxoxo
Bagged kernel popcorn was more cheap, so mainly used the Dutch oven for popping popcorn at home with mom and dad. However, we had the “cool” aunt that would treat us to the movie of our choice and spend the extra money for Jiffy Pop on our birthday. Albeit, I’m pretty sure she had fun with it as well, and loved the excuse to spoil us with it. 😉 A bit of advice, remove the cardboard lid and have a back up plan for handle failure. It’s funny now...
I'm 21 years old and have touched well over half of these, I own 2 instant cameras, many fountain pens, a record player, a typewriter, a sewing machine, camera film. i have gone to a drive in theatre, I have used cassettes and still do. In school there was still chalk boards, Used plenty of coupon saving books taking over my dad, Used payphones, had a yoyo, ate jiffypop stove popcorn, made my now husband wear a bowtie on our wedding day with suspenders, have played chinese checkers, used a phone book, have been in cars with window rollers, again on my wedding day me and my husband wore converse sneakers instead of fancy shoes. i mean sure there are some i havnt used like a pager (gone out of style way before i was even old enough to read) but i do love and still use alot of these items today.
My kids and their friends have those Fuji Instamax cameras, and they like using my old Leica film cameras..and my record player. Not to mention there is a drive in theatre 15 minutes from the house. Edit:for the record my kids get a kick out of this stuff but it's more of a curiosity factor of how things were done in the Dark Ages......
nI'm 69 years old today, and I remember every one of these. I still have all the openers, 8mm movie projector, sewing machine, Pick-up-Stix, and several others shown here. I cried a little when you showed the file cards in the library,
Why thank you, Meh Jones. Check out my other videos. I don't think you'll mute the music on any of them (except the Ed Sullivan one, which was made intolerable on purpose.)
I remember my step father paying big money for a 23 channel c.b. just to see them go for almost nothing a few months later when the 40 channel radio came out.
John Harris My brother got a Realistic 23-channel model about a year before "Smokey & The Bandit", and then CB really exploded, with the extra 17 channels. Even GM offered car audio with built-in CB for a few years.
@@ChristopherUSSmith I still have the old man's J.C. Penny pinto 23 channel and the last time I hooked it up, it still worked great. Maybe it was worth the money.
This is very nice, and in a way, very sad. At 2:49 there is a.... I'll just call it a litho thing, still in our Library, still in use. But we have an old Library. The thought of our children not knowing what most of the items are is..... kind of sad. I agree with many of the other people below, many memories here ! And, thank you for posting !!
Thank you, that helps me alot. My wife used it (years ago) doing research for her classes. But in all honesty, I did not know what it was, thank you again !
Randall Sage A lot of old magazines and newspapers were microfilmed for and by libraries in the day. Auto manufacturers and other companies (even DoD supply catalogs) used microfiche.
I saw a couple of things that kids could’ve possibly touched today like: grandpa’s old CB radio, or grandma’s old wooden clothes pin lol! Or that old fashioned can opener...but everything was so true! Great video 👌👍😎✌🏻
What generation is this supposed to be for? Unfortunately I’m in the millennial generation but I have or I’ve use almost all these things.... I collect old records, books, radios, record players, cameras, tractors, phones, motors, tools, a couple CB radios, and almost anything old. The oldest thing I have is from 1880. Id rather watch old movies and shows like Adam 12, Emergency, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, The Riflemen, The Andy Griffith Show or Hogan’s Hero’s. I have almost nothing new except important things like a car or cell phone because almost everything today is junk. Old things were built to last. I’ve driven a 1955 Oldsmobile Rocket 88 Convertible. My last 2 old trucks had crank windows. I’d rather drive a Ford model A or a 65 Ford F-100 pickup
You're an anachronism, kid. Unfortunately, a lot of those things are getting harder and harder to find. My brother has said that he should have made sure to keep all his old Matchbox cars. His sons did play with them but like so many things, they got lost over the years. They'd likely be worth something now, far more than the 39 cents Mum and Dad used to pay.
Look how simple and fun those things where and how creative you had to be. Oh yeah one more very important thing kids know will never be able to touch again common sense and respect
Wow, what a great video and memories. I certainely remember it all and still have about 50% shown in boxes! Wax paper was great for the metal slides as it made them really slick and fast. In 70 I was 16 and remember going to the drive in on a date and cutting two of the speakers off and wireing them to my 8 track. Sounded terrible but it was cool..lol !
DrumWild LoL that’s actually funny! Last year, I got a part time job at a restaurant, and after seeing my nice handwriting (not boasting) they asked me to write the specials. I even said to them, “wow feels like I’m back in school. This is my first time using chalk since the 80s! 😄
I still have a Motorola pager myself, Also a moto Razor phone from back in the day, That's one you forgot to list. I just bought ANOTHER tape recorder from Walmart last week, It looks exactly like the one in the video! I have tons of cassettes from back in the day and childhood that I still enjoy listening to! This is STILL the good stuff! And yes.... Walmart CURRENTLY sells old school tape recorders. At Least the ones in Austin Texas does, Not sure of the Walmart elsewhere. I also still have a Simon game, speak and spell, and a slinky. Many collections. Thanks so much for sharing this video! 👍
How to cripple an entire generation in 10 years? Cursive writing, manual transmission and encyclopedias. Let the games begin. C’mon Starbucks, you know what to do. Try looking at where you’re going, while on your phone and how to use an apostrophe. Crap, my retirement rests on them....
I feel ancient thinking about how many young people today don't know how to write in cursive or use a hard-cover encyclopedia... or use a card catalog! I guess since I'm just a few months away from turning 40 I'll soon be considered an old fart, so it makes sense.
ladyi7609 40 isn’t old. We ate enough preservatives in the ‘80s to keep us in our late 20s till 2029. Then Kool Aide will keep us there for, hell, at least another 3 years.... 😂
Thanks not only for the collage. Lots of chuckles. But, perhaps even more so, thank you for the chance to hear Benny Goodman’s simply great “Sing, Sing, Sing”. Though a great piece of swing music, being from the 1930’s, it was a kind of an awkward audio juxtaposition with the images of Walkmans, tape decks and floppy disks.
Out of all of that, I miss the Sears catalog the most. It was always exciting to go through it and make our Christmas wish list.
The last Sears Catalog was in 1990. The next year, the R. R. Donnelly plant that printed it in Chicago was demolished, & the McCormick Place Convention Center (or whatever they call it) was built there. Thus ended the Donnelly Job, a daily-except-Sunday switch job of paper for the plant that came up from Markham Yard for that purpose only. They usually used 3 little yard engines; the train was big enough for road power, but only switchers could squeak around the tight curves into the plant. I used to go to 18th St. to get the best pictures. Another backroom deal that wiped out good jobs & fun stuff.
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Wow! Back when the holidays still had sparks of magic, I remember being excited for the Sears/JC Penny/Montgomery Ward Christmas catalogs. Thanks for another great video.
You're welcome, Merc60201.
Those catalogs were a kid's fantasy world.
The holidays still have magic...you're just not a kid anymore.
JC Penney’s was my favorite at Christmas time. Huge toy section.
Oh yes the Sears Catalog, especially the lingerie section
The only thing I can add is an empty Coke bottle...returning it to the grocery store for the 2 cent deposit. Collect 12 bottles..enough for one cold bottle of coke. Ironic, ain't it.
That would be the glass bottles. Almost all are plastic now.
Too bad they don't bring that back since then there must be millions more on the ground.
@@writerpatrick soda tasted better in glass than plastic.
My brothers and I rode for miles on our bicycles in South GA with our eyes wide open for soda bottles..2 cents each..would cash them in at Piggly Wiggly..I saved up 45 dollars and opened my first savings account..that is after I bought my G. I. Joe and a few accessories.
Thank you for the trip down memory lane it reminds me of a time gone by when life was good.
You're welcome, Allen.
Simple, but GOOD!
With the exception of the straw hat, I have used, owned, played or still have ALL of these items ! You forgot POGO STICKS !! Great toy to break a leg with !
Add dictionaries,books on how to be responsible for your own actions, and books on how not be selfish ingrates, to the list of things they haven't touched
Something else kids today have never touched: Common Sense.
My dad was saying the same exact thing about 50 years ago.
@@dzaster3434 and his dad as well ha ha!
yeah true
It's a generational thing. I was a child of the 60s & 70s. If you lived at that time, can you imagine what the old farts (like I am now) must have thought about the "out of control youth"? It's a perk of old age, sitting around exercising our priviledge to bash current youth. If you can't join 'em, beat 'em (figuratively speaking, of course).
Got that right
Thanks for the memories, especially the cassette player. Cassettes got me through the US Marine Corps 1973 to 1977
You're welcome, MGPB.
and dont forget your Vaseline
They'll also never know the connection between Cassettes and pencils.
@@jokerz7936 yes you are right
Jokerz 79 or pens. :)
I love the video. I'm an old timer 70 years old. My kids and 9 grand kids don't have a clue.
Thanks, Wallace.
I remember dad pulling out of our spot at the Drive-In and forgetting to take the speaker off the window.
Yikes!
Me too.
There's a drive in not too far from my house but nowadays they broadcast the sound and you tune it in on your car radio.
@@daddyquatro we have one a short drive from us and the signal goes surprisingly far. I'm in Canada and the few left in my province do surprisingly well. 10 bucks for adult,3 or four for kids ans a carload is 20 bucks on Wednrsdays.
My dad did that twice! I eventually worked at a Drive In theatre in the 80's, When they switched over to radio transmitters, I took home one of the old speakers (exactly like the ones shown). I still have it somewhere. I think they're made of cast zinc. Heavy and rust resistant! Mine's probably original to the theatre (now gone) it opened in the late 50s.
I had almost all those items during my lifetime, and used some of the others.A bowtie, I never used.LOL.Our public library had those wooden file cabinets for filing all their books, and I used them.So glad I lived during every year since 1960!!!
As a gen Xer born in the late 60s, I appreciate and cherish most of these items. Would suck to be part “todays” youth. I’m thankful every day that I grew up in the 70s/80s, although I’d rather have been part of the silent or greatest generations if I had a choice.
You too, huh? I've been saying for 10 years that my generation (1965) was the last one where you could be a kid. People say "Oh yeah, because of 9/11!" No, that has dick to do w/it. I mean: going out & actually doing things, riding a bike w/o a helmet, no car seats, no one shit a baseball bat if we didn't wash our hands every 5 minutes... In the 70's, my granddad used to take me & my brother to the fairgrounds, & our favorite thing was to ride around the lake...on the hood of the car!! Once, I heard him calling out, "Hey kids, lookee here!!" We turned, & he took our picture w/his 1960 Voigtlander. He was looking through the camera, not at the road! No one who saw that print called Child Services, or anything! And I still have all my fingers & toes!
Go outside and see a kid riding a skateboard. 9/10 he/she has no helmet.
Jonsey 1969: Well, you still ARE part of today's youth, because I am, and I was born in the '60s!
Emily Adams: So a 1960 Voightlander is a camera? I've never heard of that brand before!
@@emilyadams5586 environment may still let kids live like it was the 60s a Friend of mine had his grandkid sitting on the passenger side door and legs outside the door as his hand held the airbag pillar area and windshield area as he cruises the dirt country roads in the 90s I my sister and I used to play around guns and I wondered if my pinkie finger would fit into the barrel one way to find out and I got stuck in the hole and swimming unattended and nearly drowning and then surviving it good memories where's the supposed emotional stress
Your creative genius once again at work. Another great vid. I'm an old man now so...I've seen or have had in my possession all those items. My children are in their late teens and probably know at least 10% of them. Yep.😊...the world has changed since I was their age. Many of those items can be found at flea markets, swap meets and antique shops. Great to look at and silently remember the old days. I pick it up and say to the kids ..."Let me tell you WHAT this is"..."I used to have one JUST like it". To me, this was one of your greatest vids yet.
Wow, I'm flattered by your praise, Larry, and I enjoyed reading your comment.
Converse All Stars? I saw kid yesterday with a pair on
They've been my standard shoe since 1980 (age 14). Still $55.
A lot of young folks wear All Stars these days. I can remember in 7th grade, circa 1973-74 high top Chuck's (white, did they come in any other color then, maybe black?) were required foot wear for the basketball team at school. As players we had to buy our own shoes. The $10 cost was difficult for some families to fit into their budget.
Those are pf flyers.
@@alexthelizardking i got a couple pairs of those
Fred you've done it again ! I was just about in tears. I wish there was a time machine I would gladly leave the present and go back
Drive in movies were great. I steamed my car windows up many times with dates at drive in movies. Great times.
Hot in La. We'd make big brown bag popcorn at home & sodas in ice chest then set in front of car on lawn chairs to get breeze. Good times.
Actually, they still sell Jiffy Pop. My kids think it's fascinating. A peek into the old days.
This young generation don't know what fun we had back in the day. They can't even tell time if it's not digital
You know some of the bright ones can.
Hey, we're not all bad
I now feel so old, thanks
Aye! The good ole days! When you wanted to be with your friends, you’d actually walk or ride a bike to their house and chat with them face to face!
And play marbles, cops and robbers, cowboys and Indians, etc etc
And you didn’t have to buy bottled water LoL
Yes, drank the water right out of the garden hose.
RudeDude2140 I did that once and was on the pot for two days bad idea
@@leejackson4724 I wouldn't do that now, knowing what I know now. When we were kids, we didn't know any better.
Leave the house at 9:00am with your ball glove and get back in time for dinner; mom never worried. Now, mom would get a visit from CWS and pay a fine. Sad.
Or meet at the neiborhood park. Remember those?
I COULD HAD LISTED HUNDREDS OF THINGS KIDS ( MILLIENALS) HAVE NEVER TOUCHED!
ANY TYPE OF TOOL THAT HAS TO DO WITH MANUEL LABOR!! Just saying....
My 17-year-old has never driven a nail. It's my fault. I plan to introduce him to a hammer when/if he leaves.
I mean at 7 years old I helped my parents completely rebuild our house so guess I'm not a millenial
I was just thinking the same thing
@@FredFlix I hear you! Lol I DONT have a clue what they are going to do or how their going to make it when this older generation( baby boomers) are gone, Seriously!!
I'm 60 years old and my Dad worked the living CRAP out of me and always said a little hard work will never kill you! Lol
You know what ? HE WAS EXACTLY RIGHT!! RIP MOM & DAD!😢
Manuel?
A virtual tour of "ancient technology". Thanks, FredFlix! 🔎
You're very welcome, Luis, and thanks for not telling me what i missed.
Oh man you killed it with the drive-in speakers and black board erasers. Remember being the lucky kid who got to take them outside to clap them together to clean them?
Thanks so much for this. I caught myself smiling like a goofy kid seeing his first bra all the way through! (I was soooo in love with the dish on the cover of the Sears catalog.) And fantastic choice for Goodman's Sing Sing Sing for the soundtrack; yet another trip down memory lane as our 19-piece high school 30's Swing Band played that as well. Thanks again! Loved every second!
FANTASTIC video as usual Fred - and God with you and your family during this horrible hurricane about to hit the Carolinas and Georgia.
Thanks, Hank. I'm still watching to see if it will dip south to Charleston, SC.
ok Fred... everyone that enjoys all your fabulous videos are sending you and yours some very good and positive thoughts that the damn thing doesn't hit close by
I appreciate that, Hank. Even if it hits, it'll be reduced to a tropical storm. I think.
Great meomeries! What about a push mower and hedge clippers? A lot of kids and grownups don’t know what that is......I asked some kids about a Big Wheel and they just looked like what is that?!!
You still can buy both off E-Bay
My eight year old great niece was playing with a yoyo just last week.
A lot of these things are coming back in style! My son and his wife buy new LP's and listen to them on their record player!
There’s nothing like the Sound of Vinyl Records, even with modern technology Vinyl records it’s the next best thing to the real Sound ,Fidelity .. back in the old days Vinyl was pressed right out the studio recording.
vinyl reproduces the sound, CDs are just a digital rendering as flat and lifeless as CGI.
some say that the first play on vinyl is better than digital
@@dperry19661 doug perry tbh, I didn't notice much difference. I just transferred about 100 old LPS to MP3s for portability, and except for the hiss and pops from the vinyl as opposed to a perfectly clean purchased MP3, they sound the same.
I gave a friend two old LP's for Christmas one year - he owns a bar and I got free drinks for a month.
Another Home Run Fred.Great Music!
Nice of you to say, Anna.
Wow I must be older than dirt, because I remember all of these things. plus my siblings and I were the TV remote control for my dad .
So true and funny...
I was cracking up watching it..loved the popcorn pic. Thanks for the memories!
Yep!
Dear old dad took us to the
Drive In theatre and drove off with the speaker still attached to the window! 😱
I'm more old school than that. As a child, I played with Grandma's stereopticon and listened to 78RPMs on a wind up Victrola. I used to know how to use a sextant. Pecked out short stories on an Underwood manual typewriter.
Erector sets anyone?
i still get up to change the channel on the tv in my bedroom no crime in that
Paul, how cool! We had some old 78RPMs (that I still have & used to play when I had a turntable), and an Underwood manual typewriter that I played on. I remember erector sets and sextants, and a few more things from my grandparents' storage barn. :-)
Pick-up-Stix. 5 cent popscicles. 25 cent Saturday matinees with cartoons and the same Three Stooges you saw on TV the day before. Pick up ball games with no adult in sight. Do your homework.
A lot of memories there, thanks for posting.
You're welcome, Nick.
I remember marbles. I had a bagful collection of them. I grew up in the 60s/70s when we kids actually enjoyed simple games. Thanks for these memories!
You're welcome, Ariel.
I have to say that the old hard-copy Yellow Pages was a hell of lot more useful than the current on-line version. The on-line version search results are all over the map and often not much related to the search inquiry. And with the old Yellow Pages book, you could get info on dozens of merchants at a glance instead of having to slog through web page after web page.
A lot of hipsters are into some of the stuff you show here, maybe because they like antiquated stuff, like vinyl LPs (no 45s, not yet at least) and black high-top tennis shoes. I have a 45 year old Schwinn ten-speed, which I guess would be hip with hipsters, but it doesn't say the same thing when the guy riding the bike is older than the bike.
Some Millennials are "cord cutting" and in addition to streaming services, over the air TV antennas (rabbit ears) are once again "a thing"!
I'm a baby boomer and I cut the cord years ago. Love my Roko streaming device
4:10
Laughing soooo hard....
I use a clothes pin to pin everything.... Everyday
all my mail... letters etc...
I pulled a clothes pin out of my purse the other day
and someone said, "Oh my gosh, I haven't seen one of those
in years!"
I even paint mine with gold glitter... "Fancy"
Even better: I use clothes pins to hang film up to dry after processing! Wood only, rolls have weighted clips at the end so they stay unrolled & plastic clips don't grab the wet film. All my 4x5 plates have wood-grain clip imprints on one corner!
Emily Adams
OMG... That is right...
My first camera 1976
Canon AE-1 (film)
Chip clips. My late wife had me put up a clothes pole in the 1990's - wanted the clothes to be as fresh as they were in the 1950's. Still have the pins.
Big sparkly ball? Jiffy Pop! Get some today!
Here in Canada, the Eatons catalogue went extinct before the Sears one. I remember the Eatons catalogue being delivered to *every* house on the street, whether or not the people there had accounts with the store. In rural western Canada, many immigrants learnt their first English from it.
My nephews have never touched
a 45 rpm record, but when cleaning out the basement, we found the little disc that went I the centre of the record. We asked them what they thought it was and laughed at their responses. These were the kids that had earlier referred to LPs as "really big CDs". They did, however know about clothespins, because we made them help with pegging out the wash and with bringing it in. Cruel, weren't we?
Not only never touched - you would probably have to tell today's kids what half of them are.
Randy She ncr national cash register co.
kids to day don't know how good they got it 50 years ago life was hard and you had to make your entertainment toys didn't require batteries and our parents came from the dark ages 1890s when the automobile was just invented imagine a world where there is no such thing as cars and a lot of other things and the roads that did exist were very crude or just a dirt path AND A C before air conditioning all you could do to cool off on a hot summer day was jump in a creek or lake
omg! sounds like fun
You think a kid has it good walking around looking at his phone ignoring the World around him ? being dumbed down ? My second batch ain't gonna end up like that, my first batch ain't too bad either now in their 30's, they grew up with all this new crap
Another great video Fred! Thank you for remembering the good old days.❤️
Fred? Nailed it again. Great video. Some of those things in the vid I'd forgotten about and I'm 62.
I appreciate that, Michael.
I feel old now. I'm 41 and have used most of this stuff.
LOL I was keeping a list of items I was guessing you'd "forget", and the 1st one was..... SLIDE RULE!
The others were: rolls of caps, hula hoops, $2 bill, open-reel audio tape, tv antenna rotor, candy cigarettes, 8-track tape cartridge........
Two dollar bills are still with us. I get them monthly at the credit union and use them as tips. Sometimes I pay with combinations of @]those and dollar coins and/or half dollars. I encourage people to spend the bills but suspect that most are tucked away. Nearly all thatt I get from the cu are mint condition.
We could use slide rules or log tables for maths. Electronic calculators were only starting to make an appearance. Texas Instruments were the ones to get but they cost the earth.
A horse with no name - a double sided slide rule is far faster than a calculator (and with even a little practice, accurate to around 4 sig. figures). I collect them (and should the World as we know it grind to a non-electronic halt, I'll still be able to perform useful calculations :-) )
At the end of the video, he said he was going to include a slide rule; however, his 17-year-old said he'd used one in school.
You got me with "the roll of caps" and those candy cigarettes...used to buy both at the little variety store around the corner from our house.
i had one of those speakers from the drive in...stole it back in the 70's...used it as an external speaker for my home cb
You could not have picked better music!
Bravo! Standing ovation!
Why thank you, Jack.
I used to have a Polaroid Swinger camera back in the day.
I had a Polaroid sx-70 land camera. I'm 52 yrs old. I still have some pics from that 📷 from 1980 or so
Oh the memories. 😁
Rotary dial phones...does anyone remember households sharing "party lines" in the 1960's?
Yep! - My next door neighbor used to try to blabber sweet nothings into the earpiece of the girl in his life, but wound up getting me instead! Ah, the cherished memories of our threesome, and he never found out that it was me critiquing his flattering jibberish!
@@TurtleFrack ...Yes, those "party lines" were sure a weird concept by the phone company. We kids were always told to hang up the receiver if we heard someone else engaged in conversation (it was actually my neighbor, I believe), but, looking back, I could see if someone wanted to eavesdrop on the entire conversation, it would have been a "no brainer". Guess we relied on alot of others' trust back in those days...still think it was weird, though...
It still amazes me how much Sears missed the boat, they were arguably the most internet ready retail company out there with the Sears Catalog sales and not only don't they leverage this at all, they actually abandoned it!
I remember seeing the first remote control TV at my grandfathers house, the remote had a cable to the TV. I asked my dad if we were going to get one and he said he had 4 of them. I look at him funny and he said that is what I have kids for, put on channel 7 and adjust the rabbit ears...
Instant cameras are still around as sort of a gimmick/trend with kids. I get stuck buying my daughters fim for theirs and it works out to about a buck a picture and they're tiny.
It's amazing how many of these have been replaced by smartphones.
I know. I use smart phones to hang my laundry out to dry all the time
Smart phones equal dumb people
They want everything to be one thing (phone), & then whine that they're bored. Well, maybe if they hadn't erased the variety & magic from the world... Let's hear from anyone who ever saw a b&w print develop in a tray, played reel tapes, used an 8mm or slide projector, shot film w/a pre-Auto Everything camera (Nikon F or F2, Hasselblad, Mamiya C-type, etc.). There's still a lot of fun & interesting things in the world, just don't cave to a whole generation that can't even make a goddam baloney sandwich.
@@emilyadams5586 lol. Point and click is too hard for mellenials. When we got bored we played in creek or pond or city pool or built forts in woods and made booby traps. Or road bicycles around town. I must have put 10,000 miles on bikes as a kid.
I'm with you, I remember my Uncle Bud, with his rack of lights so he could film a family event.. Then we watched it back. No sound, maybe a screen but usually we showed it on the wall. How about the KODAK cameras, that developed a picture in 3 mins. & you had to rub that smelly chemical on it or the picture disappeared.
probley should have added a broom, cleaning products, trash, mop, a conversation only thing that they hold is. a cellphone, a super lazy generation
Wow thanks for making my Fri night.....we grew up in a great time. I feel sorry for today's kids.Connie
WONDERFUL! THANKS SO MUCH! I went to karaoke and so many "young people" didn't know what an 8-track or a "45" was! Or what a NCR or a cassette tape recorder was! TOO BAD! In 1972, I built a electrical motor out of paperclips! I got an A on my project!
Ahh. The drive in speakers.. I remember them well. Lol
Loved the Drive-In! Parents used to let us wear our pajamas there so if we fell asleep while watching the movie or on the way home, we wouldn't have to change when we got home and could go straight to bed.
0:13 Fuji brought back instant photographs in the past few years.
Very cool video, all of these things I know of and love, the music is wonderful too xoxo
Fred, you have the incredible ability to invoke so many nostalgic memories. The pictures are flashbacks to another time and space. Only codgers like me can truly appreciate the experience. 😷
Glad you're a codger, schallrd1.
1:08 I never played Tiddlywinks. Nobody in my neighborhood did. LOL
Then that almost certainly means today's kids haven't touched them.
I had some, & we'd play w/em on occasion, but invariably, 1/2 of 'em would wind up strewn about the house, in various game boxes & in the bottom of my toy box, soon to be forsaken.
TheSWolfe A lot of games ended up like that, especially card and marble games like Chinese Checkers and Aggravation.
True. It took me forever to gather up/organize all my son's game parts when we moved. When I was little, my Chinese Checkers was a round tin w/a checkerboard on the opposing side, & Aggravation had the usual board-game w/box, both offering storage options for marbles/checkers/playing pieces. My Tiddly-Winks were either cheap w/insufficient plastic packaging that soon fell apart, or I broke/misplaced their container; hence, their propensity to scatter/get lost. But for whatever reason, we played the other games more than we did Tiddlywinks, & tho not those original ones, I still have Checkers, Chinese Checkers, & Aggravation, but now there's nobody to play 'em with.
Neither in my old neck of the woods (Savannah, Georgia)
I kept waiting to see one I hadn't touched, but you know your stuff! I've touched em all, although the alligator purse wasn't mine😉 born in 1965
Kids are missing out today.
Few kids would have an alligator purse; that was something that adults would have. And they do still make them today. Alligators are bred and the population is controlled so there's no danger of extinction.
I remember using all those things up until the 1990's , kids today have it way to easy you know.
I was born in '02 and I've touched and know most of these things. Plus, I'm one of your subscribers and when will you do a Day In The Life Of A, for 1966 and 1973? Keep making these wonderful videos.
Sparky, that was fabulous, I have to admit I have no idea what the big puffy ball (metalic wrap) thing is? maybe I am younger than I think LOL cause I for sure have never touched one of those!.....may I also add that many kids today have never touched an iron, a broom and dust pan, a vacuum cleaner, a washing machine, washing powder, a scrubbing brush, a dishcloth and a kitchen towel an iron or an ironing board. I could go on but I will not bore you.........winks ox
Miss Melly Vee popcorn. Jiffy pop.
+SillyNa Cannada, thank you, I was still not 100% but assuming the word "pop" had something to do with popcorn I looked up Jiffy Pop on Google, and well there is was in full colour....Ok we did not have Jiffy Pop here so I never touched it in my youth hahaha....we had metal stovetop pans for popping corn....thanks for taking the time to tell me what it was :)
You could never bore me, Miss Melly. (btw, you're the spark and I'm the plug. hee hee). But you're right about many kids not knowing about brooms and such. I guess they figure when they grow up they'll use robot vacuum cleaners. Also, I see below your question about Jiffy Pop was answered. xoxoxo
Bagged kernel popcorn was more cheap, so mainly used the Dutch oven for popping popcorn at home with mom and dad. However, we had the “cool” aunt that would treat us to the movie of our choice and spend the extra money for Jiffy Pop on our birthday. Albeit, I’m pretty sure she had fun with it as well, and loved the excuse to spoil us with it. 😉 A bit of advice, remove the cardboard lid and have a back up plan for handle failure. It’s funny now...
Some lovely memories there for you SillyNa :)
I'm 21 years old and have touched well over half of these, I own 2 instant cameras, many fountain pens, a record player, a typewriter, a sewing machine, camera film. i have gone to a drive in theatre, I have used cassettes and still do. In school there was still chalk boards, Used plenty of coupon saving books taking over my dad, Used payphones, had a yoyo, ate jiffypop stove popcorn, made my now husband wear a bowtie on our wedding day with suspenders, have played chinese checkers, used a phone book, have been in cars with window rollers, again on my wedding day me and my husband wore converse sneakers instead of fancy shoes. i mean sure there are some i havnt used like a pager (gone out of style way before i was even old enough to read) but i do love and still use alot of these items today.
I'm glad you're keeping in "touch" with the past.
you sir and or ma'am know the odd yet pleasing scent of a typewriter... is it the ink ribbon, or the grease, or a little of both?
My kids and their friends have those Fuji Instamax cameras, and they like using my old Leica film cameras..and my record player. Not to mention there is a drive in theatre 15 minutes from the house.
Edit:for the record my kids get a kick out of this stuff but it's more of a curiosity factor of how things were done in the Dark Ages......
beeannie Bow ties and suspenders are cool, so says the 11th Doctor. Does he have a fez or Stetson around the house? ;)
sportster1988 LOLOLOL
nI'm 69 years old today, and I remember every one of these. I still have all the openers, 8mm movie projector, sewing machine, Pick-up-Stix, and several others shown here. I cried a little when you showed the file cards in the library,
Finally! A wonderful eye fest I didn't have to mute to watch! Very clever collection!
Why thank you, Meh Jones. Check out my other videos. I don't think you'll mute the music on any of them (except the Ed Sullivan one, which was made intolerable on purpose.)
I don't know whether to laugh or cry...
Both 😄😢
I hear you. I couldn’t sleep so here I am on my iPad and now I’m depressed. Pitiful!
A broom a mop, a book??? Lol
moon glow Kids do use brooms... At least the ones cleaning off home plate. ;)
moon glow great additions😊
Man I dig that Benny Goodman..."Sing Sing Sing"...1937...damn...
Man...do I feel old now...Thanks Fred...!🎈🎈🎈I was expecting to see an iron , a transistor radio, and a soda machine.
Dag, Fred ! Batting a 1000 on this one' Have, had, have used or have been in the household. Some I still use. Fred you are the ginchiest daddy-o !
I've never been called that, stendec, but I kinda like it!
ginchiest? ed cookie byrnes 77 sunset strip
You know it, Hot Cakes !
My CB radio was the analog 23-channel one, and not the new-fangled digital 40-channel version.
I always assumed cb radios were only for truckers, and most people used regular radios.
Nowadays the only kids who use CBs are the kids of truckers and mariners.
I remember my step father paying big money for a 23 channel c.b. just to see them go for almost nothing a few months later when the 40 channel radio came out.
John Harris My brother got a Realistic 23-channel model about a year before "Smokey & The Bandit", and then CB really exploded, with the extra 17 channels. Even GM offered car audio with built-in CB for a few years.
@@ChristopherUSSmith I still have the old man's J.C. Penny pinto 23 channel and the last time I hooked it up, it still worked great. Maybe it was worth the money.
As great as usual. Thanks, Fred.
You're welcome, merce10554.
as always thanks for the stroll down memory lane!
Monkey wards had a sting ray type bike little front wheel cheater slick and.....wait for it butterfly handle bars
This is very nice, and in a way, very sad. At 2:49 there is a.... I'll just call it a litho thing, still in our Library, still in use. But we have an old Library. The thought of our children not knowing what most of the items are is..... kind of sad. I agree with many of the other people below, many memories here ! And, thank you for posting !!
Randall Sage That's a microfilm machine, BTW. I used that in my college library, and at work I used microfiche up through 2000.
Thank you, that helps me alot. My wife used it (years ago) doing research for her classes. But in all honesty, I did not know what it was, thank you again !
Randall Sage A lot of old magazines and newspapers were microfilmed for and by libraries in the day. Auto manufacturers and other companies (even DoD supply catalogs) used microfiche.
My wife said they had 2 upstairs (at the newspaper) they used for reference on older material.
You're welcome, Randall. The others answered your question about microfilm.
I saw a couple of things that kids could’ve possibly touched today like: grandpa’s old CB radio, or grandma’s old wooden clothes pin lol! Or that old fashioned can opener...but everything was so true! Great video 👌👍😎✌🏻
There's a reason I subscribe to you...in this time of trouble I want to feel good again
Glad to hear that, SAG Brady.
Love your vids !
Thanks, Janet.
kids still wearing converse only in a hundred different colors. zippo lighter?
Awesome! Thanks for the memories!
Hey ,Fred, I was in class of 74,at G.C. probably knew each other. Thanks for all the great memories. Keep it up
You're welcome, Roger. I graduated in '72, the best year of my school life.
What generation is this supposed to be for? Unfortunately I’m in the millennial generation but I have or I’ve use almost all these things.... I collect old records, books, radios, record players, cameras, tractors, phones, motors, tools, a couple CB radios, and almost anything old. The oldest thing I have is from 1880. Id rather watch old movies and shows like Adam 12, Emergency, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, The Riflemen, The Andy Griffith Show or Hogan’s Hero’s. I have almost nothing new except important things like a car or cell phone because almost everything today is junk. Old things were built to last. I’ve driven a 1955 Oldsmobile Rocket 88 Convertible. My last 2 old trucks had crank windows. I’d rather drive a Ford model A or a 65 Ford F-100 pickup
Now you're a millennial with taste!
You're an anachronism, kid. Unfortunately, a lot of those things are getting harder and harder to find. My brother has said that he should have made sure to keep all his old Matchbox cars. His sons did play with them but like so many things, they got lost over the years. They'd likely be worth something now, far more than the 39 cents Mum and Dad used to pay.
Thanks for taking in these goodies.My nephew is the same way.You guys will keep it and pass it long to the next generation.
metv carries those classic shows without cable or satelite
I salute you. I mean that. You will keep the actual world alive.
Touched it all..thanks
We were lucky, Eli.
Look how simple and fun those things where and how creative you had to be. Oh yeah one more very important thing kids know will never be able to touch again common sense and respect
Thanks for the Benny Goodman background music!
You're welcome, Bill.
Wow, what a great video and memories. I certainely remember it all and still have about 50% shown in boxes! Wax paper was great for the metal slides as it made them really slick and fast. In 70 I was 16 and remember going to the drive in on a date and cutting two of the speakers off and wireing them to my 8 track. Sounded terrible but it was cool..lol !
Ha! I have an actual drive-in speaker from the '70s in my bedroom. Just as a nostalgic ornament.
Do classrooms really not have chalkboards and erasers anymore?
Not really. Today, most of them have interactive white boards. Restaurants buy the majority of chalkboards today.
Michael P. Dawson They're all mostly dry erase now.
DrumWild LoL that’s actually funny! Last year, I got a part time job at a restaurant, and after seeing my nice handwriting (not boasting) they asked me to write the specials. I even said to them, “wow feels like I’m back in school. This is my first time using chalk since the 80s!
😄
How, pray tell, does a whiteboard interact with anyone?
It's likely they switched out of cost. A proper chalkboard is made from a slab of polished stone. Dry erase boards are made from sheets of plastic.
Way to go! Another great video...
I still have a Motorola pager myself, Also a moto Razor phone from back in the day, That's one you forgot to list. I just bought ANOTHER tape recorder from Walmart last week, It looks exactly like the one in the video! I have tons of cassettes from back in the day and childhood that I still enjoy listening to! This is STILL the good stuff! And yes.... Walmart CURRENTLY sells old school tape recorders. At Least the ones in Austin Texas does, Not sure of the Walmart elsewhere. I also still have a Simon game, speak and spell, and a slinky. Many collections. Thanks so much for sharing this video! 👍
you left out reallity .
How to cripple an entire generation in 10 years? Cursive writing, manual transmission and encyclopedias. Let the games begin. C’mon Starbucks, you know what to do. Try looking at where you’re going, while on your phone and how to use an apostrophe. Crap, my retirement rests on them....
Nice comment.
Don't get old. 😮
I feel ancient thinking about how many young people today don't know how to write in cursive or use a hard-cover encyclopedia... or use a card catalog! I guess since I'm just a few months away from turning 40 I'll soon be considered an old fart, so it makes sense.
Cyprus Kill You’re only as old as you allow yourself to feel 👨🎤
ladyi7609 40 isn’t old. We ate enough preservatives in the ‘80s to keep us in our late 20s till 2029. Then Kool Aide will keep us there for, hell, at least another 3 years.... 😂
Loved This!!!!!
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I knew them ALL. Which made me happy and depressed at the same time - LOL!!!!!
The rabbit ears worked great on our first tv that had only channel NBC network back in 1954 in fort Wayne, Indiana. Wkge.
those same rabbit ears can still be used on tv today
Nominate your retro study to Smithsonian.
Cool!
The choice of Music in and of itself deserves a Like.
Thank you.
Thanks not only for the collage. Lots of chuckles. But, perhaps even more so, thank you for the chance to hear Benny Goodman’s simply great “Sing, Sing, Sing”. Though a great piece of swing music, being from the 1930’s, it was a kind of an awkward audio juxtaposition with the images of Walkmans, tape decks and floppy disks.
I meant it to be so, RC.
Thanks for another great video! It must've been a great time back then lol