Have You Ever Seen One of These?

[seavixen32]

Does anyone remember Lyons Tea Rooms?

If my memory serves me right, the waitresses were known as Nippys.

 

[Francis93]

He also has this old school TV and you have to twist its controls to change channels.

The first TV I can remember my family having was a 12-inch black & white. The screen was a circle, not a rectangle like today. == When the TV was getting old and ready to go out, the sound would suddenly go really loud. Who ever was watching would have to jump from their seats and race over to manually turn it down with the knob.

Old school TV's have enormous antennas Today, most TV's are antenna-less.

 

[Trucidation]

Thanks for the pictures Hopalong, it looks like what my dad had were those large LPs. Apparently my mom threw them out last year, along with the old turntable, in a fit of spring cleaning. Oh well.

 

[bigmck]

Old school TV's have enormous antennas Today, most TV's are antenna-less.

My Granddad lived out in the country about 50 miles from three cities that had TV stations. Of course he had the big attenna on the roof but his had a motor where he could turn it from inside the house and pickup whichever city that had the channel he wanted to watch.

 

[noobvious]

Old school TV's have enormous antennas Today, most TV's are antenna-less.

My Granddad lived out in the country about 50 miles from three cities that had TV stations. Of course he had the big attenna on the roof but his had a motor where he could turn it from inside the house and pickup whichever city that had the channel he wanted to watch.

My grandfather had the big motorized antenna too....the cable company would not run all the way to their house(and still won't to this day).

 

[livingvirtual]

Yup I've seen all of them..although some of them are still with me

 

[rubyrubyroo]

1 = A phone with a dial, not buttons.
A blind friend of mine had one, as did my parents in my younger days - since they swore that "they always dial touchtones too fast and mess up the number (I swear to god their cave-people)

2 = A black and white TV.
Again the visually-unresponsive friend listened to shows, and why upgrade to a color model? Yes she had the huge antannae, although I "reassigned" the moter unit to my own type of experimental concepts

3 = A car without power steering.
I sat in one and pushed the wheels a bit.

4 = A 45 rpm record.
had em as a child and got a free banana box of hit promos/demos, and ebayed them for several benjamins.

5 = A needle for a turntable.
I kinda needed one for #4 right? My buddy is a DJ and I also got a lot of hands-on (even tryed isolating the diamond from about a doz needles, before realizing diamonds are an allotrope of carbon that most ofthen resembles soot, without high temp/press)

6 = Ever been to a double feature movie. (that's two movies for the price of one)
Just at a local drive-in (still have a nearly matching pair of the speakers from the drive-in - i was bad and wanted unique car speaker system...kids!)

7 = Ever been to a record store where you can play the record before you buy it.
I think "Bananas" did that, but eather way, I spent hours at a DJ record shop w/ that same spinner, and broadend my musical appreciation to include some techo/trance

I thought I had more of these, but I can't think right now. Do any of you other "Mature Adults" know of any thing that they had 40 years ago that is gone now?

What about Pong, coleco, intellivision, atari 2600/5200/7800, the vic-20, commadore-64 (three of which ran the apollo-13!), Heres one...A CHEMISTRY SETS WITH CHEMICALS INSIDE, "DIRTY" fuel:devil:, payphones, cellphones tethered to a briefcase module, single flash camera cubes, or single use flash bulbs, the civil war....wait,...yeah thats a bit too far back I think.

That's about all i have to say about that,
MIKE

 

[Darcy Peal]

1) Chewing wax (for kids)
2) Nuclear attack drills
3) Unpaved roads everywhere
4) ENIAC

 

[bigmck]

1) Chewing wax (for kids)
2) Nuclear attack drills
3) Unpaved roads everywhere
4) ENIAC

I had forgetten about chewing wax. When I was a kid you could buy these little two inch high wax bottles that had a flavored liquid in them. Just bite off the top and drink the liquid and chew on the wax. == OH YEA, nuclear attack drills. We would crouch down under our desks when the alarm went off. The theory behind that was if the bomb went off a good distance away, the desk would protect you from the nuclear fallout..............WHAT. Wasn't there anyone in our government who thought this might not work?

 

[rubyrubyroo]

SURE! back then the desks were made out of pure lead, so great alpha/beta/gamma ray protection....but poor morbidity/motrality rates per class for the normal uneventful days!

 

[fseal]

I remember when this guy would come around once a week and deliver fresh milk to your doorstep exactly as needed!

Also the bread man would come by once a week with fresh bread.

Drive through produce stores.

 

[rubyrubyroo]

Ive "Heard of" the milk man, but bread man must be the organism the milk man evolve from, so I'm thinking wow!

Also If anyone is "seasoned" enough to answera Q: I always hear the whole " I remember when candybars were a nickel" (which by the way was actually the element nickel back then) - so back when candy bars were a nickel, what did people say about when they were young???

"I remember when candybars were a tenth of a cent" or "free" or maybe "they'd give ya' a nice shinny nickel to tak one"???? Maybe candy hadn't been invented yet.?? any insight?

 

[fseal]

Well I do remember that there was an entire shelf of penny candy... At that point you just got more and more and more for your penny as you go back in time

 

[Bongo]

Well I do remember that there was an entire shelf of penny candy... At that point you just got more and more and more for your penny as you go back in time

At the local neighborhood store there was also two pieces of candy for a penny, if you spent part of the day collecting pop bottles you could end up with a small bag of candy.

 

[rubyrubyroo]

guess that proves the time-machine paradox, since once someone made one in say the year 37,0098, they'd just go back to when your more and more reached all the candy in the world and buy it for a penny return to eat/sell it....yet we clearly have candy today, so there will never be a time machine.... thanks for the physics lesson, indirectly of course!

Mike

 

[fseal]

guess that proves the time-machine paradox, since once someone made one in say the year 37,0098, they'd just go back to when your more and more reached all the candy in the world and buy it for a penny return to eat/sell it....yet we clearly have candy today, so there will never be a time machine.... thanks for the physics lesson, indirectly of course!

Mike

Haha... that is so true. That and a million other scams...

Very few authors ever touch on the /reality/ of having such things as teleportaion, time travel and holodecks (Weather they are actually possible without paradoxes or not). In reality... those things, if they exist ever, would be badly abused with potentially horrific consequences.

Larry Nivin did a teardown of teleportation that was pretty good. He even predicted the "Flash Mobs" that we have today through a different mechanism (internet/cellphones)!

 

[bigmck]

SURE! back then the desks were made out of pure lead, so great alpha/beta/gamma ray protection....but poor morbidity/motrality rates per class for the normal uneventful days!

I grew up in Atlanta, GA and our desks were wood. Even if they were lead it would not do any good. Having a 3 ft by 3 ft piece of lead above your head would not do a thing to protect you.

 

[bigmck]

Ive "Heard of" the milk man, but bread man must be the organism the milk man evolve from, so I'm thinking wow!

Also If anyone is "seasoned" enough to answera Q: I always hear the whole " I remember when candybars were a nickel" (which by the way was actually the element nickel back then) - so back when candy bars were a nickel, what did people say about when they were young???

"I remember when candybars were a tenth of a cent" or "free" or maybe "they'd give ya' a nice shinny nickel to tak one"???? Maybe candy hadn't been invented yet.?? any insight?

When my step-dad was a kid (late 1930's), he worked for the "Ice Delivery Man". They had these 50 pound blocks of ice that were delivered because people didn't have refrigerators, just the metal boxes to put ice in to keep their food cold. == I remember "nickle candy". The candy bars we have today were a nickle. I remember that Almond Joy and Mounds were a dime. Movies were a quarter for kids and 50 cents for adults. Mom used to give me 50 cents to go to the movie. 25 cents to get in, popcorn five cents, coke a dime and I would save ten cents to buy candy during the second show of the double feature. Pretty cheap way for parents to get rid of their kids for an entire afternoon.

 

[SledgeDG]

How about a car with trafficators instead of indicators? These were semaphore type illuminated flags mounted just behind the front doors (or in between the front and rear doors), and the relevant one would swing out and illuminate when you wanted to indicate that you were intending to change direction.

I remember those on my dad's VW Beetle (the original one with the separated rear window Later on when the directionals became law in GE he had to mount a plastic strip on each side either to cover the hole or to prevent them from popping out
Those were the beetles that would start up even in the coldest winter (6V battery
But the first few miles you drove blind since the heat for the passenger room was taken from the exhaust system. So it was quite normal to trip over electric wires in the parking lot. (People used radiators to heat up the passenger room)

-DG

 

[seavixen32]

Does anyone remember windscreen (windshield across the pond) wiper blades that were operated by a vacuum pump instead of an electric motor?

They were fine until you had to accelarate up through the gears when the blades would slow to a crawl, and then thrash madly across the windscreen when the clutch was disengaged.

In those days a car with an automatic transmission in the UK was a rarity as most cars had a manual gearbox that was controlled by use of a clutch and a gear lever (stick shift).

Even today there are relatively few cars with automatic transmission in the UK so that when I visit the US and rent a car I find myself wondering what to do with my left foot!