Still have some, including a pickup truck with window cranks, Pyrex dishes exactly like those pictured, and a pencil sharpener.

I remember using a phone much older than the one pictured. Oy.

I recognized every single one of these and did most of them!

Child of the 50s. I actually used a telephone on a stand.

Forgot to add: I still sleep on water. I have a tall one on a pedestal, otherwise it would present some difficulties

I feel like I should win a prize or something.

I loved my Spirograph and I have that exact Corning Ware now. I remember all but a couple of these.

At a thrift shop and bought it. I play around with it just for fun. In fact , I may just get it out later and play with it. So much fun for $1!

Good for you. I’m always on the lookout for anything considered vintage.

LOL her mother has an Amazon list for her which includes lots of toys as well as a good assortment of educational things.
She knows I will send the educational stuff, and that the inlaws will take care of the toys and new clothes.

I am older than dirt.

although I never had that particular camera and flash and our wall phone was beige/bandaid colored.

and still have too much of that stuff

My sister wore out 4 of the numbers.
She must have called her friend a dozen times a day until the contacts were worn down.

And I really want to pick up that receiver and stretch that cord out more evenly. There's another three or four feet in those tight new coils of phone cord, says the telephone man's daughter!

I didn't recognize the glue (used goggle lens), but should have. We did use those in crafts when I was a kid.

The cigarette lighter took a minute.

Yikes! I'm old.

Looking through this group of images is like one of those marvelous old movies that begin with a calendar fanning the months backward to show the story is in the past, and particularly, when

Thanks. I smiled BIG on this one.

And I’m almost, but not quite retirement age. I remember it all. Had that Spirograph, have a crank pencil sharpener and that Corning Ware, too. Did the Silly Putty and have an inactive phone like the one shown, but beige.
And, no. Blazing Saddles couldn’t be made today. Which is too bad.

You didn't just flip through the records, if you were interested in one, you went into a little room and listened to it (John Wade records, Cleveland, Ohio)! And I actually have one of those coin holders now! They are still handy!

I still have my blue flower Corning Ware and a manual pencil sharpener.

Now where’s my Tip Top Lucky Cake ?


Sorry, not too swift at cut & paste.

The writing the sentences was the standard punishment in my grade school!

And today I saw an old Princess phone on a job where I was moving a woman into a senior center and I remembered my blue one that I had in high school,

I never liked the Spirograph just couldn’t get it to work!

Blazing Saddles could never be made today!

I had a boyfriend that had a waterbed and I didn’t like being on it, let alone sleeping on it!

Even at age 25!

I had to write, I will bring my beanie to wear at Mass on every First Friday. I always lost, misplaced, or forgot stuff, the beanie, or the yellow clip on tie, that was part of my Catholic school uniform.

I enjoyed the Spy vs. Spy, in the Mad magazines, and the movie, "The gods must be crazy".

Fun stroll down memory lane.

I was just thinking about Bandaid strings the other day. "Sterile unless opened" was like a magical mantra to six-year-old me.

Best regards,
Sorghum Crow

My mom’s favorite.
Hysterical movie.

It was really funny, but also illuminating.

Youtube.

Sadly, my kids never made the grade....

and hated fancy-ass ‘95. It took a while to adjust.

But Windows II was renowned for crashing with the blue screen of death.

You could hear the screams of horror and outrage echo across the floor as people lost all their work.

As always, MS let Apple do their R&D then "Created" barely functional knock offs.

Yes, I'm so old that I'm shouting at clouds.

P.S. How do you write the plural of OS?

A “computer consultant” coming to our offices to tell us about what “Windows” was!

There was one other thing he said that has stuck with me all these years. He said (explaining what his job was about), “if you’ve got a computer, you’ve got a problem.”

Little did we know ….

We made coin purses in Shop in middle school, and I can still taste the zappy-tingle end of the flash cube stick on my tongue, and hear the satisfying crinkle when squeezing the rubber top of the glue.

Guess I’m old now. Yay.

of her and Grandpa’s latest trip. As a kid I was bored to tears. But I would give anything now to hear Grandma tell us about some dusty cathedral, Grandpa interrupting with some correction or extra fact about the stained glass work and a description of whatever ice cream or gelato he had in that town. I miss them.

AThe slides are any good anymore?

There isn’t one these that I don’t recognize. Silly Putty lifting up an image of the Sunday funnies? Check. Manually changing channels? Check? Wallphone with manual dial? Check. Won’t go on and on. But I can still drive a stick.

Oh, I still have a Corningware covered baking dish. Not sure how old it is, but it has been moved at least 6 times.

Ah memories

I miss all of the above and didn’t even know it.

And since my daughters were born here in Germany, I taught both of them (born 1983 and 1985) to drive a stick shift. I don’t know if they remember! I even taught my wife, who is my age, to drive a stick shift, and she’s German. They were already using automatics for driver’s ed here in 1969. My car (year 2013) is a stick shift. I had to order it! The brand we drive doesn’t hardly make them any more.

I laughed at the part where he said they had overcome the problem with the Spirograph, and that was that it doesn’t work!

I don’t know how I missed it.

...but I haven't thought about most of it in years! So yeah. I'm that old!

everything else rings true.

Cuz you have a kitty! You would end up in a puddle on the floor.

changing the sheets.

Been there, done that, no t-shirt about it and there was no puddle on the floor, thanks to the liner. But I gave up on kingsize waterbeds after that.

sleep under the covers tucked in at the foot of the bed. I had that bed for over ten years, and they never put a hole in it (thick mattress pad). The bicycle-type repair patch cracked me up, but was never needed.

I never had a Spirograph, and we didn't have to write "I will not . . . "

I still have a rotary phone but the phone company is all digital now, so I can't use it. Cell phones are definitely not an improvement. Not everything new is an improvement.

And stay off my lawn you whippersnappers.

We should have gotten rid of the lawns and kept the phone lines!

Windows 3 is kind of old.
DOS 3.0 is old.
The Osborne 1 is old
TRS-80 and Commodore Pet are really old.

I still have (and use) those blue and white Corning casseroles.

I remember living in two houses with phones that didn't even have rotary dialers. You picked up the receiver and an operator came on the line and asked, "Number please?" When our town got rotary dials and 7-character phone numbers (BEachwood 45789), we had classes in school to learn how to use them.

Stick shift: I always drove stick shifts until recently. I once left a car salesman speechless when his company didn't even have any stick shift models. I said, "When I'm on a steep and twisty one-lane dirt and gravel road on the edge of a 3000 foot cliff in the middle of a rain, wind, fog, and hail storm, I don't want a machine deciding to shift gears for me." (A real experience I had had.) The salesman just looked at me with his mouth open.

Fun thread.

Twisty, windy, hail …

going downhill, hit the hairpin, the road would start a steep incline, and you'd need to clutch into first to negotiate the uphill. I was glad i had a synchro 5-speed.

Later on, we hit some coastal pea-soup fog and decided it's saner to abandon the Coast Highway and head inland instead of hanging our wheels over the drop-off to the Pacific.

…in your car.

I even have it on DVD and, apparently, DVDs are now also on the list of "Old stuff."

Realized some years back that pretty much everything I liked was either vintage, classic, or retro.

...that there is, and always will be, only one group of humans, throughout all of our human history, who will have known life through both an "analog", non-digital experience of the world, and the digital human experience that has now erased that prior life.

And it is us, who are the only group who will ever know both sides of that bridge.

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thick frosted-over little freezer compartment. In my family, we called it the ice kretcher. Then you had to manipulate the lever on top of the ice cube trays to loosen them to get them out. It was quite a procedure. Frost-free freezers were way off in the Space Age future.

And then, there were these:

Upgraded to Linux soon after.

the mid-1980s.

This trip down memory lane may not even come with a seat belt.

Hold on, it may leave a mark. Thanks Bayard.

I still feel seventeen…

Thank you for all these!

of the grumpy TV guys (no TV in my house growing up), but yes to everything else...

Put in a quarter and you get a cigarette sized box with a drawing or some thing else arty.

By the way this theater was founded by Wendy Davis's father. Stage West if you are ever in Fort Worth

I love this idea so much!

I still remember that phone #

Without a hard drive but had two 5 1/4 inch drives.

Every. Single. One.

and some of them are younger than your child(ren)

on this sub-reddit:

https://www.reddit.com/r/FuckImOld/

...I never had a Spirograph. But my sister, who is 11 years younger than me, had one. So, I didn't have one, but I did get to play with one.

That's great.

Really.

I don't think I'm too young for those but too old for them.

Gen X probably remembers all of them.

I loved Spirograph! And I loved the Spy Vs. Spy cartoons in MAD Magazine. I was a Black Spy supporter.

I'm officially ancient.