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If you remember most of these things, you're older than I am...

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My mom gave me a Toni perm 🤦🏻‍♀
Gibbon · 70-79, M
I remember all too much of this. The only issue I have is that old camera. I was born right at its manufacturing peak.
And sugar daddies. Oh man, who can forget them? They still survive though..
That glue was so messy.
And some people would almost set their houses on fire, replacing those fuses with coins.
Yeah, I'm old.
Lopaka55 · 70-79, M
@Gibbon
And I'm older than Disneyland. Plus I remember the Lepage's baby bottles.

What?! 😎
Gibbon · 70-79, M
@Lopaka55 Baby bottles?
Glue bottles, maybe.
Re-check the brand. 🤣
Lopaka55 · 70-79, M
@Gibbon
Don't worry... Warped sense of humor. Sometimes you just need to follow where it leads. 😎
AbstractWave · 61-69, M
Every last one of these I’ve at least seen new! Those cough drops were good 😊
Lopaka55 · 70-79, M
@AbstractWave Tried 'em but the Wild Cherry ones were crack. :)
WindTherapy · 61-69, M
Yeah I recognize most of them. 🤦🏻‍♂
Yes, 10 of them I do, I don't feel old
WormMan · 56-60, M
I remember most of them 🙂
JudyS · 51-55, F
@WormMan you're an oldie....
WormMan · 56-60, M
@JudyS hopefully a goodie 😂
Ben1000 · 46-50, M
You’re definitely right about them being older than you, those things look like there from the 40s
Teslin · M
I think I have seen and used most !!
Degbeme · 70-79, M
Yeah I remember all of those.
Midlifemale · 61-69, M
Yes, I confess. I remember all of that. Those were the days
badminton · 61-69, MVIP
I remember all that stuff.
JudyS · 51-55, F
@badminton you're very old...lol
badminton · 61-69, MVIP
@JudyS Yes I am. But I believe in living in the present, not dwelling on the past.
Munumbis · 46-50, M
A lot i do.
GoFish ·
i know the library cards and the magnetic hair thing .. i'm amazed at the 5 year diary
PHlover19701 · 56-60, M
Most all of them
JeNeSaisPas · 51-55, F
Northerner · 70-79, M
I'm very old so remember most of them.🙂
supersnipe · 61-69, M
Don't remember some of them because they are specifically American, but the things in the top picture are familar.. They are inserts for 45rpm vinyl records - and the ones with 'legs' (as opposed to solid) were sometimes referred to as 'spiders'. I once asked for 'spiders' in a record shop - the assistant was a good thirty years younger than me, and so didn't get it. 'Have you got any spiders?' 🕷🤔
Virgo79 · 61-69, M
I remember them all,lol
Pretzel · 70-79, M
I have a drawer with half of those things in it
JudyS · 51-55, F
@Pretzel you probably don't have a Toni Perm in that drawer...lol
Pretzel · 70-79, M
@JudyS nope. But I do have a plastic pencil sharpener and a transistor aAM radio
SageWanderer · 70-79, M
I remember them all and I am ancient.
eyeno · M
We're Old yet left with good memories of simpler times.

Fukfacewillie · 56-60, M
I got 11!
OutoftheGloom · 46-50, F
What's the top picture?
JudyS · 51-55, F
@OutoftheGloom they are called "spiders" and were used to hold 45 RPM records on a record player...
OutoftheGloom · 46-50, F
@JudyS interesting, I can't see what use they were though, I played 45rpms and never used them.
Fukfacewillie · 56-60, M
@OutoftheGloom If you didn't have the small disk/adapter to fill the larger 45 hole, you used one in the single itself.
Davis36 · 36-40, M
Don't think, you are old. There are people still older.
bowman81 · M
I remember all but two, and my house still uses those fuses.
Yeah, I'm a dinosaur.
bowman81 · M
@JudyS Late 50's.
Rabbit420 · M
@JudyS My house was built in 1900 and I have a 100 Amp Breaker Box, not a Fuse Box.
Maturebate · 70-79, M
@Rabbit420 may time to get earth leak detector safety switches in a new fuse box
pride49 · 31-35, M
5 things I recognize
syd03 · 41-45, M
I am not older than you , but I do remember the library borrowing cards and brown paper bags
Shakil · 31-35, M
I guess I'm a little bit younger)) 90s kid)
Longpatrol · 31-35, M
Born in 1990, we still had those cards for checking out books till about the mid 2000s.

At least in my school library.
IM5688 · 70-79, M
All but 2 of them.
bhatjc · 46-50, M
Some of these things
Yep, older than dirt. 👍
Celt50 · 51-55, M
Maybe half of them
Quimliqer · 70-79, MVIP
Sadly, every one of them!!
Birdbox1986 · 31-35, F
How do you remember them ?
sben4200 · 56-60, M
I'm only slightly older than you and I remember a number of them.
I'm not sure if that's funny or sad.

I loved the Wooly Willy but I'm thinking that name wouldn't market so well today.
That's not the wooly willy's I know
JudyS · 51-55, F
@HijabaDabbaDoo should I ask...what "woolly willy's" do you know....lol
@JudyS it's okay Judes, let's not scare the kids
ChipmunkErnie · 70-79, M
Everything but that turquoise camera.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
Some of those are American brands and I live in the UK so don't know them, but ....

Various plastic itemsIf memory serves me right those in the first photo were adaptors that allowed vinyl records whose centres had been removed for juke-box use, to be played on standard record players.

Cough Drops I suppose a British equivalent is the Fishermen's Friends - those have been produced for decades and still are. What I do recall from when I was very young, were an orange-syrup tonic fortified with vitamins, and called Minadex; and an also-fortified malt-extract called Virol .

Letters chart. My primary-school form-teacher used a similar letter chart for teaching "joined-up" writing. That was in the early-1960s. When I first learnt to write, in Infants' School, in the late 1950s, we used paper ruled with extra lines in a different colour, to guide the tops and tails of the letters, at that stage printed not cursive. (My handwriting was never good and is terrible now!)

The photograph also shows a rolled map. I don't recollect those in my schools, but we were issued with atlases. (I find my atlases help me understand world events both human and natural.)

Stationery items: Pocket and other size diaries, both one-year and five-year, are still made; as are address-books. So too, ring-binder page reinforcers and modern equivalents to that glue. I remember one adhesive sold in a very similar glass bottle with rubber valve / spreader, in fact hazy memory makes me think it was Lepages'.

Lamps? Are the things with threads and stamped numbers incandescent lamp-bulbs, the number being wattage? Most mains-powered lamps here have always used bayonet fittings but the Edison-screw fitting (as photographed) was normal for low-powered hand-lamps and the like. Or something else?

I don't recall seeing a Camera equivalent to the "Beacon" but in the dying days of flash-bulbs there was the "Magicube"; a transparent plastic cube holding four flash-bulbs. I think it fitted a small, basic camera holding a mechanism that indexed the cube to the next setting.

I well recall Lending-Library Cards and the date-list on a form pasted inside the book cover; although ours did not give the borrowers' names. The library staff knew who had borrowed the book, but no-one else did. I regret to say I've not used my local library for a long time so I don't what system it uses now.

How big is that Portable Radio? There was a bit of a fashion in the UK, in the early-70s I think, for tiny radios. Sinclair produced one not much larger than a matchbox. A bit of a gimmick really.

Paper Bag. What's in the paper bag? They have not disappeared! Indeed they are becoming more common as people shrink away from polythene ones. I recently bought groceries in a branch of the Booths' supermarket chain, and the two carrier-bags were both paper with string handles. My local bakery shop seals loaves and larger cakes in Cellophane but otherwise uses paper bags. Our local fish-and-chips shop issues the food in cardboard boxes and offers paper carrier-bags.

[Edited to correct a formatting error.]
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@sben4200 Ah - thankyou! I take it in the home's mains wiring? The old-style equivalent in the UK, prior to miniature circuit-breakers, was the "rewireable fuse". This was a ceramic block supporting an open length of fuse-wire threaded between two screwed terminals. The wire was sold in three or four ratings, wrapped round a card. (Probably still is as I expect there are homes about still with the older wiring.)
sben4200 · 56-60, M
@ArishMell yes, they were screwed into the main wiring box. The clear body or window allowed you to see when the fuse was "blown" or burnt out.
ArishMell · 70-79, M
@sben4200 I see. Thankyou. A neat design. At work much of our industrial electronic equipment used miniature cartridge fuses inside glass tubes, on the same principle.
BacktobeingFrank · 61-69
Wow. I recognize all of those except the camera and the 'five year' diary. One of my sisters had a regular diary like this one, and she would lock it and slide the key in between the pages. Bad idea. Real bad idea.
JudyS · 51-55, F
@BacktobeingFrank oh my...sounds like dad would have punished her...
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BacktobeingFrank · 61-69
@JudyS @JudyS I did read it all. I don't remember when I stopped.
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Gibbon · 70-79, M
@rinkydinkydoink she was definitely not flat. She was a bathing suit babe in her time.
Birdbox1986 · 31-35, F
Noooooo I don’t know any of that stuff
They don't use cursive guides or fuses no more?

 
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