I actually think the “furniture televisions” of the 50’s and 60’s are quite chic. They look a lot better than just an oversized flatscreen mounted onto the wall.
Yes, I've often thought there is a market for a stylish, well-built, wooden case, into which ANY "bought separately" flat-screen TV could be mounted. With a certain high degree of vertical and horizontal adjustability designed into it, the accommodate different sizes, and subsequent upgrades. And the speakers could be snapped into it as well on the sides. The heavy, quality wooden case could be especially designed and tuned by professionals to produce that booming, resonant, warm sound that, along with natural analog, sounded SO much better back in the day. It perhaps wasn't as technically accurate, but it was warmer and better sounding. I'm sure such a niche product could be built, and would be very popular within its niche. And as well, with people who couldn't afford it, but would still long for it.
I worked at Zenith at the plant that manufactured the cabinets (traffic dispatcher). They were beautiful and in all wood tones to match your furniture.
My grandpa in the 60's had a Zenith color t.v. with remote control. The t.v. was in a beautiful wooden cabinet with speakers on either side of the screen. Very high tech at the time.
@@thomastaylor6699 my husband and I worked at Zenith in Evansville IN, we made the beautiful cabinets. He was over assembly and I was the traffic dispatcher.
What would kids do without them nowadays?It has been ingrained into them and they have lost the art of conversation.They can not talk to you face to face.They only can communicate via phones texts etc.Sadly these "improvements" have poisoned the modern minds of today.
@@T.Z.M4N preach!!! I was born in 87. So I remember the time before the internet really became a thing and for me if I was lucky a privileged friend had the internet, but times was so much simpler back then. Don’t get me wrong. I love the convenience of having whatever I want to hear and watch at the palm of my hands but at the same time, I feel like I don’t appreciate the music because I’m not personally going out and buying them. Or buying a movie.
As a high-school teen we started with pagers, we invented text messaging using numbers as alphabets. We had to call the house if we wanted to speak to our friend. Sometimes their mom would answer and we needed to be polite in asking if someone was home. Everyone's mother knew every friend, there was a sense of community it was wholesome. We had to sit down in front of a TV at a certain day and time to watch our favorite show. Everything was just better in the 90's, the food, the friendships, the entrainment, the wonder.
So, I’m from New Zealand in the ‘70s, & we were 20 years behind everyone until the cheap international airfares of the 80s, but: many of us had 1920s toast one side at a time toasters, (at least in the country), and our oven/stove was one of those cast iron fire-powered classics. My job, as 70s kid, was to empty the ashes from the oven (onto the roses in the garden), then to light the fire in the oven coz that heated the hot water heater for all hot water plus the hot water kitchen tap. My parents had a hot water cylinder installed within a few years of moving there (into the mountains), but we still needed the fire-powered oven to heat the truly freezing house. One thing about cooking with a fire-powered stove/oven, judging temperature is really a gamble, especially to bake anything, but no problem for boiling water. People today would not tolerate any of this I know, but, we really had no choice!
You're right about the water temperature being a deal gamble. Those cast iron stoves are are really efficient at cooking as well as putting off heat for the house. I'm curious if you had cold winters where you are? Thank you for watching!
I use the toaster my great-grandparents got at their wedding in 1920! I brown only one side of the bread. I've been lucky enough to find four more exactly like it--they work, too!
As a kid the cottage had a wood stove along with electric stove. We used the woodstove more so in the winter to help heat and cook. It also came in hand for power outages.
The older TVs weren't perfect, but even if you had a weak signal,you could still enjoy a snowy picture and be entertained. New tvs no great signal, no entertainment. You are committed to a perfect picture or nothing at all.
And we still have our 1950s stove and oven, bought it in the 1960s for $15.00. Still in good shape today, even though one of the 4 burners stopped working years ago ...
I'm a Canadian born in 1972 and I learned to sew on an ancient black and gold Singer sewing machine, learned to type in high school on a non-electric typewriter and bought stale cigarettes from a cigarette machine in a mall. I really miss those days to be honest. Much as I enjoy today's conveniences, it was a different time back then.
I was a teen in the 80s and mostly remembered 80s as being pretty awesome. Probably the last generation to ride our bikes and went out exploring, looking for fun things to do.
Sometimes, the tips of the antennas would break off, and you'd have to jerry-rig a replacement antenna from an old wire coat hanger. The reception would never improve though.
I love the old wood burning kitchen stoves. I've lived in various cabins with stoves like these. My grandmother made some of the most fabulous meals in an old Atlantic Queen stove. It had two massive ovens, four burners with griddle, a tank to keep water hot, and a shelf for warming/drying footwear in inclement weather.
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 That insane ban won't last. The grid cannot, and will never, support more than a few single digit percentages of electric cars. Let alone commercial transportation. Commieforeignya is perpetually at the stage of electrical grid collapse due 100 percent to the single digit percentage of "just little cars" (not pickup trucks or vans in any percentage), plus their unsustainable and much more expensive, SUBSIDIZED wind and solar boondoggles. Commieforeignya is a pathetic joke!
I always find it funny how we hated some household devices when we used them but look back fondly on them today. Anyone over a certain age has stories of messing with "Rabbit Ears" or going up on the roof to "fix the antenna." It is our version of telling tales around the camp fire. Thank you for these great posts.
We had a rotary roof top antenna with a control box on top of the TV which you would turn a dial to point the antenna in the direction of the station you wanted to watch! I remember distinctly tuning in to Washington DC and Lancaster Pa from my parents home in Maryland. We were lucky as we prob Got up to 12 different channels not counting UHF! Cable came to Md. about 1986, but by then I had moved to south Central Pa. Where a kind of cable was available in the 1960’s at least according to my late in laws.
I remember seeing those mechanical shopping lists when I was a kid in the 70s. What makes the one at 4:47 painfully old is that it had a switch for cigarettes!
I absolutely love your videos, they take me back to my youth. I’m 57 and remember a lot of the older items at my Grandparents house. I love nostalgia, thank you for the memories.
Ha ha ha [choking on laughter] ha ha. Born in 1952. We though life was complex and hard and looked back too. I suspect every generation feels that past times were simpler.
I'm 50-truly an old soul. I was in an orthopedic waiting room because I had a knee replacement. As I sat in my chair, I watched many older than myself adults glued to their phones. I was the youngest and the only person not on mine. It's just sad. Even worse, I'll never date again because no one talks to each other and I plan on keeping my old-fashioned values. Your videos are like wonderful virtual museums.
We had a rotary antenna on the roof, that you turned with a control box on top of the TV. There were number stickers you put around the dial for the channels so you knew where to set the antenna for whichever TV station tower you were pointing the antenna at.
Wow! That sounds really nice. I remember some people getting on the roof and trying to move it. That didn't happen a lot because it was clearly not easy. What you had seems like a great idea. Thank you for watching and sharing that with us.
Yes, rabbit ears, old irons, push pedal sewing machines, hand crank mixers! I remember them all from my grandparents and parents house. Oh, and the console stereo too! As always God bless you and yours and thanks again for all you do!
@@CarsandCats I remember that on the canned goods and the fruits. I wish they'd bring it back, at the factory level rather than the store level, for the fruits. I hate those paper stickers that replaced them. The ink was tasteless and edible. The paper isn't, and is a minor nuisance.
There are a number of inaccuracies in this: 1 Even Radio had roof top antennae, home television started for the Very Rich in the late 1930’s, and Required antennas. 2. Toasters go back at least to Colonial times, being leaned against a heat source to warm or toast bread. 3. Fire Grenades also go back to at least Colonial times, I have seen examples at Colonial Williamsburg and at Hampton Mansion in Md. 4. Vending machines were invented before 1000 B. C, the earliest known ones dispensed “holy water” as either an offering or to wash one’s hands at a temple. 5. Game pieces have been found in Babylonian graves, Egyptian tombs ( not pyramids which weren’t tombs as no bodies were ever found in any) and game pieces were recently found in a grave in the Steppes of Russia, thought to be from 4000 B.C! On a side note this was interesting, the nice pictures of Color TV consoles brought back fond memories as over the 1950’s into the 1980’s my parents had severance different ones, and yes, Color was available starting in 1954! Extremely expensive though! A different type goes back to 1951, but was impractical!
Speaking of TV antennas! When our next door neighbor got one of those rotating aerial kinds I was totally fascinated by it! He managed to convince my dad to get one and it was great fun just to play around with! Outside the antenna would be making grinding turning noises while inside the selector would be making a "Kachuck! Kachuck! Kachuck!" sound!
I'm really surprised that those haven't made more of a comeback. If you mowed more frequently and they were sharp it wasn't too bad. Of course it can depend on your yard being level and what kind of grass you had. Thank you for watching!
@@RhettyforHistory I was the push mower when I was a kid in the 70s and 80s. My parents would push me out the door, and tell me to go mow the lawn. The mower itself ran off of a combination of gasoline and oil though.
Rabbit ear antenna are still useful today. I visited my parents old house in Canada a few months ago and stayed there with no telephone nor cable hook up. There was electricity and a digital tv. I used some old rabbit ears and picked up six channels.
They do not work were I am. At least not the original rabbit ears. There is a need updated version that picks up the digital stations. We don't have the old broadcasters. Thank you for watching and sharing how things are in Canada.
@@RhettyforHistory I actually live in Australia and use an old rooftop antenna coupled to a modern LED tv. I can pick up in excess of 20 free to air channels...all digital. We used to have a couple of UHF analog channels which are now long gone. Older analog tv's require a set top box convertor to function. The digital tv in Edmonton, Canada picked up six free to air channels using the old rabbit ears. I still had to adjust the ears just like this video stated. Happy days.
I'm in Canada on L. Ontario and my neighbour spent $5 and a wire and block of wood attached above his garage. He pulls in about 14 channels including all the Canadian and American networks. A bit blurry at times depending on weather or a flock of low flying geese. (We blame geese for all reception problems.)😂 Cable and satellite got stupid expensive here and most people under 40-50 have abandoned it in favour of streaming. I have a good TV package now for $20/month. My fiber optics internet is $89 though but it is amazing. $20🇨🇦 is 14.70 USD
My father had a very large shed in our 1st house, everything in it was amazing, one thing that comes to mind is a petrol powered soldering iron, yes, just think about that for a bit, thanks for taking the time to do this video, you could have gone non stop for days & it would still have been interesting.
Thank you, very interesting. I still love old things like type writers, antiques and such. Who knows a retro revival could happen? About 2 years ago I gave away my electronic typewriter and was surprised that about 15 people wanted it!
I regularly use the flip-flop toaster that my great-grandparents got at their wedding in 1920. I prefer to toast only one side. The bread stays moist and has a great crunch, because it heats so fast! I've been lucky enough to find four more exactly like it--they all work, too!
I love this channel!! Memories and cherished times of days gone by. I had to always mess with the bunny ears on shag carpet! ZAP!! I can still feel the electric shock. 😬 Thank you!! 😊
Those old TV's could really deliver a shock of you were walking on carpet and then touched the power button or channel dial. Thank you for watching and sharing a memory!
My Grandmother and Great Grandmother had wood fired cookstoves. I remember it was always very hot even in the winter. My friend's family used a cookstove up until the late 1990's.
Rhett, I enjoyed your video about some of the everyday items people used years ago. I remember some of these items, but some that you showed I wasn't familiar with at all. I grew up in a house that was built in 1906, and there was an old fashioned stove in the basement, similar to the one you showed in your variety of photos. Have a fantastic weekend. Take care 🐎
Sounds like you had a nice house thqt you grew up in. I prefer the older homes because they had character and weren't cookie cutter styles. They also seemed to be easier to access plumbing as well as anything else. Having to go thru concrete slabs is more difficult. Thank you for watching Brenda!
Really enjoyed the channel. Honest commentary, no childish remarks, does not ask you to subscribe. If a channel is good you don’t need to keep asking to subscribe. I hope this starts a trend. Ps. I subscribed
I remember rabbit ears…I’m a 90’s baby, but in rural Vermont back then some folks of the older generations, like my grandparents, were still doing TV the old way.
3,5,8,19 and 43 were the only channels we were able to obtain with rabbit ears and tin foil in the '80s that I had while I was a kid in Chardon ,.Ohio.Now at 44 yrs of age . Id give up every channel on cable TV to have these channels back with the original lineup that we had then I say💯.Best Decade Ever 80s
I think those shower are cool! Wish they still made them like that today. Yeah, they might look creepy but having water splashed at you from all sides sounds kind of relaxing to me. Must have felt nice.
Fifty years ago, if someone told you that one day there will be a device small enough to put in your shirt pocket where you can watch movies, listen to music, instantly communicate with anyone in the world, and has more power than the biggest supercomputer, you would think them insane. Now, we all take our smartphones for granted.
Hey the shower one has been brought back, it's just now updated. My sisters house has a shower like the one in the video where water shoots out in all directions. Honestly it's pretty cool!
The Amish still have those wood burning ranges. Lehmans out of Ohio is a supplier to the Amish. I was in the market for one of those oven ranges which is I how happen to know.
Cable definitely changed the TV experience for most of us. We didn't even have it in our area until the early 80s. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories in NJ!
I still use modern rabbit ears. The grocery list device. I actually have a distant memory of seeing one. My Dad had a calculator that had the same type of workings. Had a stylus that you would roll the number tape until the equation was solved. It was all metal. Great video Rhett - Thank you!
You're welcome and thank you for sharing your memories. I always have to laugh when kids get mad because something is buffering on TV for 20 seconds. If they only knew!
@@RhettyforHistory the hanging of fabric on trees apparently started with Yoko Ono. The hammering of pennies into live trees started way long ago but in the 17th century. The national trust asked people to stop hammering them into live trees. So the only ones I've seen have been trees that have been knocked over by storms.
I’m probably the only one to say this but I WISH we had the technology in the 80’s that we have now. In the early 80’s my fiancé and I were long distance and our phone bills were off the charts. We memorized Ma Bells weekend and late night rates and called only then. If you spent more than 30 min on the phone you could expect huge bills-they charged by the minute. I remember feeding quarters into the pay phone at the dorm just to talk to him. It sucked. It would have been great to have texting and Skype with no rates per minute-sigh
Wow Rhett, that coin tree was really something else I just ❤️it You know when I had my very first part time job, the first thing I bought with my savings was a tv for my parents (the timber encased on 4 leg type one) even though they already had one. I WAS A VERY GOOD GIRL and it didn’t hurt to have 2 tv’s. ❤️Jodie🇦🇺
It really was a big deal to have two TV's at one time. When they became more affordable it seemed like everyone did that. Thank you for watching and sharing some of your memories!
When you mentioned the "rabbit ears" TV antennas, I thought you would mention rooftop antennas after that. We had one of those, but my Dad put ours on top of a 50-foot tower which he put up next to our detached garage. We had the best reception ever. When we got cable, sometime around 1979 or 80, our reception was actually worse than it had been with the antenna, so we ultimately cancelled the cable and went back to using the antenna.
You only had to use the rabbit ear antennas if you didn't have the kind of antenna that you put on your roof. It was motorized so you could change the direction of it from the control box inside your house. I haven't thought about those in years and it's just funny to remember.
Thanks for another great video. We didn't have one of those fancy, new-fangled electric toasters and had to use a truncated metal pyramid which sat on top of a stove burner. My mother was an account skilled in using the comptometer and could do addition, subtraction, multiplication and division faster than one could push the buttons on an electronic calculator.
There really was a skill to using those comptometers and old adding machines. Those that used it got really efficient. Excel and other programs have really made those disappear. There really were some older types of tosters that were pretty good. Thank you for watching and sharing anl little more!
Speaking of the rabbit ears antennae, I remember as a kid, my father used to add some aluminum foil to the antenna. Sometimes that worked; a little. And of vending machines; when I was in high school, we could buy a pack of cigarettes from vending machines. 55 cents per pack in 1977. I was only 16, and my buddies and I would buy cigarettes that way at our local bowling alley. I'm sure glad I quit smoking a short time later.
1:39 Sara Roosevelt was deadly afraid of fires and had these in every room of her Hyde Park house. 5:43 I would love to have a range like that. Been a dream of mine for many years. 8:26 I remember those rabbit ears, couldn't afford the first group. Adjust the screen, get a clear picture, sit down and it would go screwy again. Get up, re-adjust, sit down, same thing.
Quite interesting it’s about the fire Distinguisher‘s that was very interesting that time. That shopping apparatus was unique. Oh boy that calculator was crazy🤔😂..
Another thing that comes to mind that's changed significantly over the years is school buses. Think about it. Back in the day, they all had manual transmissions, no seat belts on the passenger seats, and were mostly the dog-nose style with the nose of the bus sticking out from the front that housed the engine. Now, most school buses have automatic transmissions, seat belts on every passenger seat, and they're snub-nosed models with the flat fronts and rear-mounted engines.
I definitely do not see standards and they are all automatic. However I have not seen the seatbelts. They are certainly more aerodynamic and lightweight compared to what they used to be. Thank you for watching and mentioning buses!
Hey, I'm a school bus driver for one of the 20 largest districts in the USA. EVERY YEAR, when the "Einstein" administrators start school in EARLY AUGUST(!), some kid (virtually ALWAYS a 3rd grade boy) will ask me- "Mr. J! Will you PLEASE turn on the A/C?!" My response is always the same- "Buddy, buses don't HAVE A/C. (Stunned look). "WHY, Mr. J?!" "Because A/C is EXPENSVE, and the School Board HATES kids and bus drivers"!! The kid's response is always something along the lines of- "Hm- That makes sense".
Children are statistical safer riding in a school bus than riding in a private car. Seat belts reduce bus capacity. Want your tax dollars buying 2.5 more busses to haul the same amount of kids? Commercial and city busses don't have seat belts. How is the driver going to enforce compliance ? Kids will use them as weapons.
TY for sharing this presentation. I always find your videos fascinating. It's neat to see these items and how they've evolved. God Bless You & stay safe
Loved the video Rhetty it was a good look to my youth Sadly the one's i really wont to watch are members only so iam gutted :( Hopefully you release them soon to the poorer folks :) Thankyou for sharing
We were in Alaska five years ago and one of the guys (who was in college and this was his job while in college) giving us a tour at the Heritage center had a pair of snow goggles that he made out of walrus tusks.
I remember adding aluminum foil to the rabbit ears or even using a wire hanger for better tv reception. Getting up and manually changing the channel and checking the tv guide book to see what would be on tv. I miss watching the late night movies with my mom and sister.
I remember my grandpa who was an electrical engineer. When Texas Instruments came-out with it’s scientific calculator he had to challenge it. Got one and went to work trying to beat it. Mechanical calculator, slide rule and paper and pencil. After 4 days he threw in the towel. It was more accurate then he could be. 😂😂😂
When I went to high school, all us kids in the freshman and sophomore years had slide rules. Midway thru my sophomore year, Casio introduced the first pocket calculator (4 functions plus square root).
My father had said a few choice words about things that did your "thinking" for you back in the 1970's. Today I come across people who can't give back change!
1:09. A few months ago I stumbled across one of these toasters in a thrift store for $20. I wish I had bought it. I knew it was a toaster, even though it was wayyy before my time. 😀
When my great grandparents died back in 2010, they had all kinds of cool old stuff. My great grandma was 88 and my grandma 95. The only bad thing is that everything was covered with roach eggs, poop, and body parts. Just FILLED with roach material that accumulated over the years. I couldn't help but look at at least one Better Homes and Gardens magazine from the 40s, but that was hard to do, as I am very afraid of and disgusted by roaches. So I really didn't even get to check it all out but it would have been cool to see everything. Some of the stuff shown here might have been in there. The TV for sure was that one surrounded by wood.
Those old TV's were some of the nicest furniture you would have in the living room. They were tough and durable but super heavy. Thank you for watching and sharing some of your memories of what your great grandmother had.
@@RhettyforHistory They went really nicely with all the wooden decor too. Now everything is shiny plastic or chrome material, I loved the look of wooden decor that used to be everywhere.
I have rabbit ears from a dollar store on my newer TV, and they bring in about 14 channels just fine. I haven't paid for cable TV for years. I also have a cheap Roku device that's great and am able to bring in a ton of free programming that way, including you tube on the TV screen. I will never again visit a movie theater or pay to watch movies.
Now days it seeks like theaters are not getting the quality movies they once were. They appear on many of the different streaming services. Thank you for watching!
That old stove was similar to my grandma's one that she used until it died and was pretty much forced to modernize the kitchen, and that old tank of a fridge, that stuff was built to last.
I'm 65 and I lived in Queens New York and we had antenna on the chimney and then we moved to brand new house on Long Island New York in 1964 and my father put our antenna in the Attic.. fast forward to today the house we bought 24 years ago, a 1920s Dutch Colonial had an antenna in the attic too! Never had rabbit ears anywhere I have ever lived!
I do remember that and we tried it all sorts of ways. What seemed to help most was me standing there and touching the antenna while kept watching. Thank you for watching Cynthia!
I'll take analog tv signal and their antenna any day over the stupid digital signals that only work at a closer range and do not give a picture at if you are in a valley or not in line of sight.
Memories of the good old days bring tears, because of missing all the people who made those days golden for us but are now no more.
Thank you for watching and sharing your memories and thoughts!
I actually think the “furniture televisions” of the 50’s and 60’s are quite chic. They look a lot better than just an oversized flatscreen mounted onto the wall.
Yes, I've often thought there is a market for a stylish, well-built, wooden case, into which ANY "bought separately" flat-screen TV could be mounted. With a certain high degree of vertical and horizontal adjustability designed into it, the accommodate different sizes, and subsequent upgrades.
And the speakers could be snapped into it as well on the sides. The heavy, quality wooden case could be especially designed and tuned by professionals to produce that booming, resonant, warm sound that, along with natural analog, sounded SO much better back in the day. It perhaps wasn't as technically accurate, but it was warmer and better sounding.
I'm sure such a niche product could be built, and would be very popular within its niche. And as well, with people who couldn't afford it, but would still long for it.
@@DUCKDUCKGOISMUCHBETTER Yes a big screen stuck up on a wall is non decorative.
I worked at Zenith at the plant that manufactured the cabinets (traffic dispatcher). They were beautiful and in all wood tones to match your furniture.
My grandpa in the 60's had a Zenith color t.v. with remote control. The t.v. was in a beautiful wooden cabinet with speakers on either side of the screen. Very high tech at the time.
@@thomastaylor6699 my husband and I worked at Zenith in Evansville IN, we made the beautiful cabinets. He was over assembly and I was the traffic dispatcher.
I am nostalgic for anytime before the internet, smart phones, and social media. Life was so much richer before these "improvements".
For real though
Still is for some ppl, i barely use it
What would kids do without them nowadays?It has been ingrained into them and they have lost the art of conversation.They can not talk to you face to face.They only can communicate via phones texts etc.Sadly these "improvements" have poisoned the modern minds of today.
@@T.Z.M4N preach!!! I was born in 87. So I remember the time before the internet really became a thing and for me if I was lucky a privileged friend had the internet, but times was so much simpler back then. Don’t get me wrong. I love the convenience of having whatever I want to hear and watch at the palm of my hands but at the same time, I feel like I don’t appreciate the music because I’m not personally going out and buying them. Or buying a movie.
As a high-school teen we started with pagers, we invented text messaging using numbers as alphabets. We had to call the house if we wanted to speak to our friend. Sometimes their mom would answer and we needed to be polite in asking if someone was home. Everyone's mother knew every friend, there was a sense of community it was wholesome. We had to sit down in front of a TV at a certain day and time to watch our favorite show. Everything was just better in the 90's, the food, the friendships, the entrainment, the wonder.
I really liked that old shopping list and wouldn't mind having one over the app. Sometimes technology over-complicates things.
Yes it does and in some buildings reception is not always the best. Thank you for watching!
I have tried keeping lists on my phone, but if it takes a while to find something the phone turns off. So I went back to paper.
I was going to post the same thing. I don't like my shopping app.
I still write my list in cursive. Especially useful with unlocking whilst wearing a mask!
App for the shopping list? What about some use of brain?
So, I’m from New Zealand in the ‘70s, & we were 20 years behind everyone until the cheap international airfares of the 80s, but: many of us had 1920s toast one side at a time toasters, (at least in the country), and our oven/stove was one of those cast iron fire-powered classics. My job, as 70s kid, was to empty the ashes from the oven (onto the roses in the garden), then to light the fire in the oven coz that heated the hot water heater for all hot water plus the hot water kitchen tap. My parents had a hot water cylinder installed within a few years of moving there (into the mountains), but we still needed the fire-powered oven to heat the truly freezing house. One thing about cooking with a fire-powered stove/oven, judging temperature is really a gamble, especially to bake anything, but no problem for boiling water. People today would not tolerate any of this I know, but, we really had no choice!
You're right about the water temperature being a deal gamble. Those cast iron stoves are are really efficient at cooking as well as putting off heat for the house. I'm curious if you had cold winters where you are? Thank you for watching!
I'm from Canada and we never had antennae or rabbit ears for TV in the 60's.
We had Cablevision.
If y’all had a choice, y’all would not have tolerated it either.
I use the toaster my great-grandparents got at their wedding in 1920! I brown only one side of the bread. I've been lucky enough to find four more exactly like it--they work, too!
As a kid the cottage had a wood stove along with electric stove. We used the woodstove more so in the winter to help heat and cook. It also came in hand for power outages.
The older TVs weren't perfect, but even if you had a weak signal,you could still enjoy a snowy picture and be entertained. New tvs no great signal, no entertainment. You are committed to a perfect picture or nothing at all.
Such a gem of a channel, glad I stumbled upon it
Thank you for watching and I'm glad you stumbled on it too!
And we still have our 1950s stove and oven, bought it in
the 1960s for $15.00. Still in good shape today, even though one of the 4 burners stopped working years ago ...
I'm a Canadian born in 1972 and I learned to sew on an ancient black and gold Singer sewing machine, learned to type in high school on a non-electric typewriter and bought stale cigarettes from a cigarette machine in a mall. I really miss those days to be honest. Much as I enjoy today's conveniences, it was a different time back then.
I was a teen in the 80s and mostly remembered 80s as being pretty awesome. Probably the last generation to ride our bikes and went out exploring, looking for fun things to do.
I'm also a 1972 baby as well. Happy 50th. I'm from Toronto. What I wouldn't do for a time machine. Even summer days seemed different back then.
@@rickylow1655 I was born in 1964 and am glad I was young in the 1970's and 80's. Everything has changed so much since then.
I remember those tv rabbit ears, had aluminum foil them too. Awesome video Rhetty as always
Have a wonderful day ❤
Sometimes, the tips of the antennas would break off, and you'd have to jerry-rig a replacement antenna from an old wire coat hanger. The reception would never improve though.
Yes! I remember the aluminum foil too! It was the first thing I thought of when I saw the rabbit ear antennas. Lol
Not sure why, but I still have a set of rabbit ears.
I still use rabbit ears on my HD TV. I will not pay for cable when I can get more channels than I can watch for free.
I love the old wood burning kitchen stoves. I've lived in various cabins with stoves like these. My grandmother made some of the most fabulous meals in an old Atlantic Queen stove. It had two massive ovens, four burners with griddle, a tank to keep water hot, and a shelf for warming/drying footwear in inclement weather.
@Anti SJW
The whole “you can’t buy gas powered cars anymore in California” soon chops my hide the most.
My grandma made some dam good tortillas on a wood stove.
Absolutely!!!
@@anti-ethniccleansing465 That insane ban won't last. The grid cannot, and will never, support more than a few single digit percentages of electric cars. Let alone commercial transportation.
Commieforeignya is perpetually at the stage of electrical grid collapse due 100 percent to the single digit percentage of "just little cars" (not pickup trucks or vans in any percentage), plus their unsustainable and much more expensive, SUBSIDIZED wind and solar boondoggles.
Commieforeignya is a pathetic joke!
Those lasted basically forever too. Things were built to last and not need constant replacement.
I always find it funny how we hated some household devices when we used them but look back fondly on them today. Anyone over a certain age has stories of messing with "Rabbit Ears" or going up on the roof to "fix the antenna." It is our version of telling tales around the camp fire.
Thank you for these great posts.
We had a rotary roof top antenna with a control box on top of the TV which you would turn a dial to point the antenna in the direction of the station you wanted to watch! I remember distinctly tuning in to Washington DC and Lancaster Pa from my parents home in Maryland. We were lucky as we prob
Got up to 12 different channels not counting UHF! Cable came to Md. about 1986, but by then I had moved to south Central Pa. Where a kind of cable was available in the 1960’s at least according to my late in laws.
I remember seeing those mechanical shopping lists when I was a kid in the 70s. What makes the one at 4:47 painfully old is that it had a switch for cigarettes!
I absolutely love your videos, they take me back to my youth. I’m 57 and remember a lot of the older items at my Grandparents house. I love nostalgia, thank you for the memories.
This was alot of fun to watch, I love looking back to when times were simpler
Ha ha ha [choking on laughter] ha ha.
Born in 1952. We though life was complex and hard and looked back too.
I suspect every generation feels that past times were simpler.
The old rabbit ear antenna I remember as a child back in the 70s. Those were the good ole days. Thanks for sharing these great memories of the past.
You're welcome and thank you for watching Michael!
I'm 50-truly an old soul. I was in an orthopedic waiting room because I had a knee replacement. As I sat in my chair, I watched many older than myself adults glued to their phones. I was the youngest and the only person not on mine. It's just sad. Even worse, I'll never date again because no one talks to each other and I plan on keeping my old-fashioned values. Your videos are like wonderful virtual museums.
We had a rotary antenna on the roof, that you turned with a control box on top of the TV. There were number stickers you put around the dial for the channels so you knew where to set the antenna for whichever TV station tower you were pointing the antenna at.
Wow! That sounds really nice. I remember some people getting on the roof and trying to move it. That didn't happen a lot because it was clearly not easy. What you had seems like a great idea. Thank you for watching and sharing that with us.
@@RhettyforHistory they were more common than you think.
We had that when I was growing up in the '80s. We didn't get cable until the 90s.
In Canada I never saw an antenna on a roof or rabbit ears on a TV, growing up in the 60's. They might have had them in the 50's though.
@@rosssmith8481 in the 70s Chicagoland fixed and rotary antennas were on just about everyone's roofs.
Yes, rabbit ears, old irons, push pedal sewing machines, hand crank mixers! I remember them all from my grandparents and parents house. Oh, and the console stereo too! As always God bless you and yours and thanks again for all you do!
Who remembers those mechanical counters you took to the grocery store with you to add up prices as you put stuff into your cart?
Yeh...I remember those.
They were fun! Remember prices being stamped with ink on canned goods?
@@CarsandCats Not so sure about the canned goods, but I do remember the guy with the price sticker gun!
@@CarsandCats I remember that on the canned goods and the fruits.
I wish they'd bring it back, at the factory level rather than the store level, for the fruits. I hate those paper stickers that replaced them. The ink was tasteless and edible. The paper isn't, and is a minor nuisance.
There are a number of inaccuracies in this: 1 Even Radio had roof top antennae, home television started for the Very Rich in the late 1930’s, and Required antennas.
2. Toasters go back at least to Colonial times, being leaned against a heat source to warm or toast bread.
3. Fire Grenades also go back to at least Colonial times, I have seen examples at Colonial Williamsburg and at Hampton Mansion in Md.
4. Vending machines were invented before 1000 B. C, the earliest known ones dispensed “holy water” as either an offering or to wash one’s hands at a temple.
5. Game pieces have been found in Babylonian graves, Egyptian tombs ( not pyramids which weren’t tombs as no bodies were ever found in any) and game pieces were recently found in a grave in the Steppes of Russia, thought to be from 4000 B.C!
On a side note this was interesting, the nice pictures of Color TV consoles brought back fond memories as over the 1950’s into the 1980’s my parents had severance different ones, and yes, Color was available starting in 1954! Extremely expensive though! A different type goes back to 1951, but was impractical!
Speaking of TV antennas! When our next door neighbor got one of those rotating aerial kinds I was totally fascinated by it! He managed to convince my dad to get one and it was great fun just to play around with! Outside the antenna would be making grinding turning noises while inside the selector would be making a "Kachuck! Kachuck! Kachuck!" sound!
We never had one of those but they sure seem like they were the way to go. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories of the time.
Oh wow! The days of the “Kachuck” sound! Makes me smile!
Definitely remember the rabbit ears for sure. Anybody own push mowers? No gas or electric, just good ol human strength.
I'm really surprised that those haven't made more of a comeback. If you mowed more frequently and they were sharp it wasn't too bad. Of course it can depend on your yard being level and what kind of grass you had. Thank you for watching!
@@RhettyforHistory And size of lawn. You wouldn't want those things for some of the lawns my friends had.
Yes, my husband and I bought one of those when we first got married😆
@@RhettyforHistory I was the push mower when I was a kid in the 70s and 80s.
My parents would push me out the door, and tell me to go mow the lawn. The mower itself ran off of a combination of gasoline and oil though.
Rhetty - Rabbit ears are still in use today with ATSC 1.0 in 2009 and even in 2023 with NextGen TV.
We used to have rabbit ears I remember putting foil on the ends just so we could get a clear signal 🤣
Foil sometimes worked and then other times it seemed nothing did. Thank you for watching!
It's great to see things evolve over time. Our lives have improved and become easier as one invention is made in a new form.
Rabbit ear antenna are still useful today. I visited my parents old house in Canada a few months ago and stayed there with no telephone nor cable hook up. There was electricity and a digital tv. I used some old rabbit ears and picked up six channels.
They do not work were I am. At least not the original rabbit ears. There is a need updated version that picks up the digital stations. We don't have the old broadcasters. Thank you for watching and sharing how things are in Canada.
@@RhettyforHistory I actually live in Australia and use an old rooftop antenna coupled to a modern LED tv. I can pick up in excess of 20 free to air channels...all digital. We used to have a couple of UHF analog channels which are now long gone. Older analog tv's require a set top box convertor to function. The digital tv in Edmonton, Canada picked up six free to air channels using the old rabbit ears. I still had to adjust the ears just like this video stated. Happy days.
I'm in Canada on L. Ontario and my neighbour spent $5 and a wire and block of wood attached above his garage. He pulls in about 14 channels including all the Canadian and American networks. A bit blurry at times depending on weather or a flock of low flying geese. (We blame geese for all reception problems.)😂 Cable and satellite got stupid expensive here and most people under 40-50 have abandoned it in favour of streaming. I have a good TV package now for $20/month. My fiber optics internet is $89 though but it is amazing.
$20🇨🇦 is 14.70 USD
Oh and 15% tax. I think analog broadcast stopped here about 12 or more years ago.
My father had a very large shed in our 1st house, everything in it was amazing, one thing that comes to mind is a petrol powered soldering iron, yes, just think about that for a bit, thanks for taking the time to do this video, you could have gone non stop for days & it would still have been interesting.
Thank you, very interesting. I still love old things like type writers, antiques and such. Who knows a retro revival could happen? About 2 years ago I gave away my electronic typewriter and was surprised that about 15 people wanted it!
We put alumnum foil on the antennas of our rabbit ears. It actually helped the signal.
I do remember doing that. Thank you for watching Linda!
I regularly use the flip-flop toaster that my great-grandparents got at their wedding in 1920. I prefer to toast only one side. The bread stays moist and has a great crunch, because it heats so fast! I've been lucky enough to find four more exactly like it--they all work, too!
Would love to see a picture of that! I started making toast in a cast iron skillet. It's really good.
what a geek
This is really interesting, I love seeing how things evolved over time
I'm happy to know you enjoyed this one. Thank you for watching!
I love this channel!! Memories and cherished times of days gone by. I had to always mess with the bunny ears on shag carpet! ZAP!! I can still feel the electric shock. 😬 Thank you!! 😊
Those old TV's could really deliver a shock of you were walking on carpet and then touched the power button or channel dial. Thank you for watching and sharing a memory!
Those "beard trimmers" were non or pre-electric hair clippers. I have a couple, and they do work.
Jail for bread, lol. 🍞 Love the content of this channel. Incredibly interesting!
Thank you for watching Audrey and I'm glad to hear you are enjoying the channel!
My Grandmother and Great Grandmother had wood fired cookstoves. I remember it was always very hot even in the winter. My friend's family used a cookstove up until the late 1990's.
They are very good for heating the home. To me they are essential if you are in an area with harsh winters. Thank you for watching!
That wishing tree is new to me. How weird to come across one in the wild!
It is strange. Most of them I see now have ribbons or tags on them. A few might just have some sort of jar. Thank you for watching!
Rhett, I enjoyed your video about some of the everyday items people used years ago. I remember some of these items, but some that you showed I wasn't familiar with at all. I grew up in a house that was built in 1906, and there was an old fashioned stove in the basement, similar to the one you showed in your variety of photos. Have a fantastic weekend. Take care 🐎
Sounds like you had a nice house thqt you grew up in. I prefer the older homes because they had character and weren't cookie cutter styles. They also seemed to be easier to access plumbing as well as anything else. Having to go thru concrete slabs is more difficult. Thank you for watching Brenda!
Really enjoyed the channel. Honest commentary, no childish remarks, does not ask you to subscribe. If a channel is good you don’t need to keep asking to subscribe. I hope this starts a trend. Ps. I subscribed
I remember rabbit ears…I’m a 90’s baby, but in rural Vermont back then some folks of the older generations, like my grandparents, were still doing TV the old way.
Unique and fascinating content well made as usual. Great video!
I used a 1920s one-slice bread toaster for many years...it made a beautiful filigree pattern on the bread(at the expense of evenly-toasted bread).
3,5,8,19 and 43 were the only channels we were able to obtain with rabbit ears and tin foil in the '80s that I had while I was a kid in Chardon ,.Ohio.Now at 44 yrs of age . Id give up every channel on cable TV to have these channels back with the original lineup that we had then I say💯.Best Decade Ever 80s
I love this channel. It's informative and wholesome and badly needed. Thank you. 😊
You're welcome and thank you so much for watching! I'm happy to hear you are enjoying the channel!
I think those shower are cool! Wish they still made them like that today. Yeah, they might look creepy but having water splashed at you from all sides sounds kind of relaxing to me. Must have felt nice.
This was so cool to watch. Love the stoves/ovens that were used back then. Simpler times. Thankyou for sharing.
Fifty years ago, if someone told you that one day there will be a device small enough to put in your shirt pocket where you can watch movies, listen to music, instantly communicate with anyone in the world, and has more power than the biggest supercomputer, you would think them insane. Now, we all take our smartphones for granted.
I remember my dads first remote control for the telly was attached to the telly with a wire. It seemed so high-tech.
That is how our first vcr my family got in 1985 was. We really thought we had arrived.
The rib cage shower actually seems fun, as long as you can adjust the water pressure.
“Jail for bread”! Hated when my mom would put a bunch of bread under the broiler & only toast one side on Sunday breakfasts. Until we got the 4 slicer
It's definitely better with both sides toadted. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories!
Hey the shower one has been brought back, it's just now updated. My sisters house has a shower like the one in the video where water shoots out in all directions. Honestly it's pretty cool!
Dead Egyptian child in the afterlife: “I love playing with my ball”
Archeologist finds and takes it
Egyptian kid: “aww man!”
We had those stove / ovens in New Zealand, they were called Coal Ranges and were amazingly effective!
Love the retrospect of these items.
The first mouse is so cool! Love these walks down memory lane. Thanks Rhetty. Hope you have a great day!
Thank you for watching Tricia and I hope you have a great weekend!
A WOODEN mouse?! LOVE IT!
The Amish still have those wood burning ranges. Lehmans out of Ohio is a supplier to the Amish. I was in the market for one of those oven ranges which is I how happen to know.
Pretty cool to see how far we have from some of these original inventions.
It is amazing to see and think about. Thank you for watching!
I have my grandfather's Beard Trimmer it's in beautiful condition 💕
I still use Salt for putting out fire's in my oven 💕
That's really neat that you have your grandfathers beard trimmer.
TV reception was a nightmare for us. We were in NJ @ 60 miles from the big antenna in NYC. Wasn’t until cable that we could see clearly.
Cable definitely changed the TV experience for most of us. We didn't even have it in our area until the early 80s. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories in NJ!
@@RhettyforHistory Same here, all the lines were underground. The cable guy saw the looks on our faces when he hooked it up. Magic 😂
I love your channel. Kinda glad you switched over to these type of videos but do miss when you would go to local spots and talk about them
I still use modern rabbit ears. The grocery list device. I actually have a distant memory of seeing one. My Dad had a calculator that had the same type of workings. Had a stylus that you would roll the number tape until the equation was solved. It was all metal. Great video Rhett - Thank you!
You're welcome and thank you for sharing your memories. I always have to laugh when kids get mad because something is buffering on TV for 20 seconds. If they only knew!
My mother had the grocery thing.
I think what your Dad had was called a type of mechanical slide rule.
WANT that needle shower- would be awesome
Thanks for sharing! I definitely remember rabbit ears and color TV’s. Everything else was before my time!
Thank you for watching and sharing what you remember.
That stove is beautiful. I also remember my dad getting one of the first computers. He gave me the type writer. 😂
I love it!! You went WAY back, awesome 👍. Tons of wishing trees here in Scotland 🏴. Thanks for the fun upload ✌️💙
I'm curious how the wishing trees are there. Most of them that I see have tags or ribbons on them. Thank you for watching Tammie!
@@RhettyforHistory the hanging of fabric on trees apparently started with Yoko Ono. The hammering of pennies into live trees started way long ago but in the 17th century. The national trust asked people to stop hammering them into live trees. So the only ones I've seen have been trees that have been knocked over by storms.
I’m probably the only one to say this but I WISH we had the technology in the 80’s that we have now. In the early 80’s my fiancé and I were long distance and our phone bills were off the charts. We memorized Ma Bells weekend and late night rates and called only then. If you spent more than 30 min on the phone you could expect huge bills-they charged by the minute. I remember feeding quarters into the pay phone at the dorm just to talk to him. It sucked. It would have been great to have texting and Skype with no rates per minute-sigh
Wow Rhett, that coin tree was really something else I just ❤️it
You know when I had my very first part time job, the first thing I bought with my savings was a tv for my parents (the timber encased on 4 leg type one) even though they already had one.
I WAS A VERY GOOD GIRL and it didn’t hurt to have 2 tv’s. ❤️Jodie🇦🇺
It really was a big deal to have two TV's at one time. When they became more affordable it seemed like everyone did that. Thank you for watching and sharing some of your memories!
@@RhettyforHistory I was curious about where those coin trees were located? I don't think that was covered.
When you mentioned the "rabbit ears" TV antennas, I thought you would mention rooftop antennas after that. We had one of those, but my Dad put ours on top of a 50-foot tower which he put up next to our detached garage. We had the best reception ever. When we got cable, sometime around 1979 or 80, our reception was actually worse than it had been with the antenna, so we ultimately cancelled the cable and went back to using the antenna.
Hey, I use a pocket size grocery list. It's on my cell phone!
You only had to use the rabbit ear antennas if you didn't have the kind of antenna that you put on your roof. It was motorized so you could change the direction of it from the control box inside your house. I haven't thought about those in years and it's just funny to remember.
Yeah, it was very common to have a permanent roof or attic mounted antenna.
Glad to be living now! Thanks for the memories Rhetty
You're welcome and thank you for watching my friend!
Good Morning Rhett 🙋🏽 this is really cool ‼️😎👍🏽 thank you for sharing this with me ‼️😃
Good morning Carole! Thank you for watching and I hope you have a great weekend!
@@RhettyforHistory THANK YOU RHETT 🙋🏽.I hope you have a great weekend ALSO ‼️😃👍🏽
Thanks for another great video. We didn't have one of those fancy, new-fangled electric toasters and had to use a truncated metal pyramid which sat on top of a stove burner. My mother was an account skilled in using the comptometer and could do addition, subtraction, multiplication and division faster than one could push the buttons on an electronic calculator.
There really was a skill to using those comptometers and old adding machines. Those that used it got really efficient. Excel and other programs have really made those disappear. There really were some older types of tosters that were pretty good. Thank you for watching and sharing anl little more!
We had several antennas over the years. The only time we used rabbit ears was when the wind blew the antenna down off the roof.
Thank you for watching and sharing your memories.
Speaking of the rabbit ears antennae, I remember as a kid, my father used to add some aluminum foil to the antenna. Sometimes that worked; a little. And of vending machines; when I was in high school, we could buy a pack of cigarettes from vending machines. 55 cents per pack in 1977. I was only 16, and my buddies and I would buy cigarettes that way at our local bowling alley. I'm sure glad I quit smoking a short time later.
I do remember those cigarette vending machines. I enjoyed pulling those rods. Thank you for watching and sharing some more memories!
Very well done. Great old memories and life style. Slow,fun, family and love.
1:39 Sara Roosevelt was deadly afraid of fires and had these in every room of her Hyde Park house. 5:43 I would love to have a range like that. Been a dream of mine for many years. 8:26 I remember those rabbit ears, couldn't afford the first group. Adjust the screen, get a clear picture, sit down and it would go screwy again. Get up, re-adjust, sit down, same thing.
Sometimes I was the “signal booster”. Sometimes it was tinfoil.
Anyone else remember “Don’t move! Don’t move!” 😂
Absolutely! Thank you for watching and sharing your memory!
@@RhettyforHistory thank you for the memories!
Quite interesting it’s about the fire Distinguisher‘s that was very interesting that time. That shopping apparatus was unique. Oh boy that calculator was crazy🤔😂..
I think I would have been doing math by hand rather than that old calculator. Thank you for watching!
@@RhettyforHistory 🤣🤣
I haven't seen one of those for a long time. I think it would confuse me now, having to keep track of the ones, tens, hundreds etc. columns.
He forgot to mention TV remote controls. Remember those? Yes, it was us kids. Dad would say “Go change the channel.”
Another thing that comes to mind that's changed significantly over the years is school buses. Think about it. Back in the day, they all had manual transmissions, no seat belts on the passenger seats, and were mostly the dog-nose style with the nose of the bus sticking out from the front that housed the engine. Now, most school buses have automatic transmissions, seat belts on every passenger seat, and they're snub-nosed models with the flat fronts and rear-mounted engines.
Thank God there are, at least, seat belts now in school buses. Many a kid have died in school bus accidents before that.
I definitely do not see standards and they are all automatic. However I have not seen the seatbelts. They are certainly more aerodynamic and lightweight compared to what they used to be. Thank you for watching and mentioning buses!
Hey, I'm a school bus driver for one of the 20 largest districts in the USA. EVERY YEAR, when the "Einstein" administrators start school in EARLY AUGUST(!), some kid (virtually ALWAYS a 3rd grade boy) will ask me- "Mr. J! Will you PLEASE turn on the A/C?!"
My response is always the same- "Buddy, buses don't HAVE A/C.
(Stunned look).
"WHY, Mr. J?!"
"Because A/C is EXPENSVE, and the School Board HATES kids and bus drivers"!!
The kid's response is always something along the lines of- "Hm- That makes sense".
@@jasonrodgers9063 I like Einstein. May he rest in peace.
Children are statistical safer riding in a school bus than riding in a private car. Seat belts reduce bus capacity. Want your tax dollars buying 2.5 more busses to haul the same amount of kids? Commercial and city busses don't have seat belts. How is the driver going to enforce compliance ? Kids will use them as weapons.
TY for sharing this presentation. I always find your videos fascinating. It's neat to see these items and how they've evolved. God Bless You & stay safe
Loved the video Rhetty it was a good look to my youth Sadly the one's i really wont to watch are members only so iam gutted :( Hopefully you release them soon to the poorer folks :) Thankyou for sharing
It looks like the snow blindness goggles are still somewhat used, with modern materials like 3D printed plastic.
That's interesting. I know there are more modern ones that are much better. Thank you for watching!
We were in Alaska five years ago and one of the guys (who was in college and this was his job while in college) giving us a tour at the Heritage center had a pair of snow goggles that he made out of walrus tusks.
I remember getting our first TV 👍💕 it was so awesome 😎 Thank you God Bless 🙏
Thank you for watching and sharing a memory of your first TV.
I remember adding aluminum foil to the rabbit ears or even using a wire hanger for better tv reception. Getting up and manually changing the channel and checking the tv guide book to see what would be on tv. I miss watching the late night movies with my mom and sister.
Very nice video. That is so cool to see all of the things that people are actually making retro/modern versions of now.
I remember my grandpa who was an electrical engineer. When Texas Instruments came-out with it’s scientific calculator he had to challenge it. Got one and went to work trying to beat it. Mechanical calculator, slide rule and paper and pencil. After 4 days he threw in the towel. It was more accurate then he could be. 😂😂😂
When I went to high school, all us kids in the freshman and sophomore years had slide rules. Midway thru my sophomore year, Casio introduced the first pocket calculator (4 functions plus square root).
The John Henry of human calculators laid his slide rule down. What a legend. Thanks for sharing your grandpa's story with us.
My father had said a few choice words about things that did your "thinking" for you back in the 1970's. Today I come across people who can't give back change!
good finds of different items and how they changed
Thank you for watching Greg!
I was just thinking how beautiful the first toaster was, when he called it a "jail for bread"...lol!
1:09. A few months ago I stumbled across one of these toasters in a thrift store for $20. I wish I had bought it. I knew it was a toaster, even though it was wayyy before my time. 😀
When my great grandparents died back in 2010, they had all kinds of cool old stuff. My great grandma was 88 and my grandma 95. The only bad thing is that everything was covered with roach eggs, poop, and body parts. Just FILLED with roach material that accumulated over the years. I couldn't help but look at at least one Better Homes and Gardens magazine from the 40s, but that was hard to do, as I am very afraid of and disgusted by roaches. So I really didn't even get to check it all out but it would have been cool to see everything. Some of the stuff shown here might have been in there. The TV for sure was that one surrounded by wood.
Those old TV's were some of the nicest furniture you would have in the living room. They were tough and durable but super heavy. Thank you for watching and sharing some of your memories of what your great grandmother had.
@@RhettyforHistory They went really nicely with all the wooden decor too. Now everything is shiny plastic or chrome material, I loved the look of wooden decor that used to be everywhere.
I have rabbit ears from a dollar store on my newer TV, and they bring in about 14 channels just fine. I haven't paid for cable TV for years. I also have a cheap Roku device that's great and am able to bring in a ton of free programming that way, including you tube on the TV screen. I will never again visit a movie theater or pay to watch movies.
Now days it seeks like theaters are not getting the quality movies they once were. They appear on many of the different streaming services. Thank you for watching!
Kids used to go outside and play.
They sure did! Thank you for watching!
That old stove was similar to my grandma's one that she used until it died and was pretty much forced to modernize the kitchen, and that old tank of a fridge, that stuff was built to last.
Cool! We like to watch Rhetty for History before bed- fun!
1:40 Oh cool, anti-fire grenades!
2:00 Oh no, carbon tetrachloride, that's going to screw up your groundwater for a long while.
I'm 65 and I lived in Queens New York and we had antenna on the chimney and then we moved to brand new house on Long Island New York in 1964 and my father put our antenna in the Attic.. fast forward to today the house we bought 24 years ago, a 1920s Dutch Colonial had an antenna in the attic too! Never had rabbit ears anywhere I have ever lived!
Remember putting aluminum foil on the rabbit ears? Didn't help..... but we thought it did. 😂
I do remember that and we tried it all sorts of ways. What seemed to help most was me standing there and touching the antenna while kept watching. Thank you for watching Cynthia!
@@RhettyforHistory right! The antenna sentinel. Pressed the youngest into service.😁
Our parents told us it works. I think it was a joke like looking for snipe😜
I'll take analog tv signal and their antenna any day over the stupid digital signals that only work at a closer range and do not give a picture at if you are in a valley or not in line of sight.