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50 Photos Of Things That Don’t Exist Anymore And People Who Saw Them In Real Life Feel Old (New Pics)
There’s a good explanation why many people, especially adults, feel younger than they actually are. It’s a phenomenon called ‘subjective age,’ which proposes that the way we feel inside is very different from the number of years we’ve walked this Earth. That said, no matter how young we feel, we can’t run away from our true age, and some moments in life ensure that we don’t forget that, like seeing a childhood toy in a thrift store or spotting an ‘80s artifact in the wild. People in this community have shared countless similar moments that made them say, ‘Heck, I’m old,’ which we compiled in a list below. Ready to embark on a bittersweet, nostalgic journey? To start, all you have to do is scroll down!
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#1
Tupperware Popsicles Anyone?
Soo Maertz 3 months ago
best pops EVER--mom put fruit cocktail in sometimes--miss you mom xoxo 💗💕💞💖
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Bill Swallow 3 months ago
Oh, we made Kool-Aid popsicles in the freezer, all right. But we used small plastic glasses that came in the sacks of nursing formula we got for calves (AFTER they'd been washed, obviously).
Janet Graham 3 months ago
My husband came with a full set of ancient Tupperware. Some came from his Mom's house. Most came from his ex, who was a Tupperware salesperson. I have managed to give most of it away, except for the dozen pieces we still use.
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#2
Pull Down Maps!
Tara Ntula 3 months ago
I have one of these, and it has candy bar advertising on it. From the 60s I think
Kim Kermes 3 months ago
Maybe if all elementary school classroom had these and left them down, we wouldn't be such ingorami about geography.
R1MV4Superleggera 3 months ago
When I come to power, I'm going to make you the indisputable ruler in the US!!
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Tyranamar Seuss 3 months ago
My child goes to a school where the teachers actually draw maps. It's great. And in 5th grade they start making the kids draw their own maps. Of the classroom, their bedroom, the campus, so that the kids really understand what a map is. I love it!
Stygtand 3 months ago
The cold war was still going on in my classroom in the nineties according to our map
otiose 3 months ago
That's not too out of date, considering the Berlin wall fell in 1989 and the USSR collapsed in 1991.
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Glenn Cuneo 3 months ago
HAd one in a classroom last year, kid pulls it down, and the map flaked off, all of it--- the ink used to make the map had become extremely brittle.
Mary Peace 3 months ago
If only getting rid of 'troublesome countries' was that easy! "If you don't behave, you will be flaked!"
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#3
Fun Times With Friends Back In The Day
Min 3 months ago
Our house was in between two street lights and one always turned on a good 15-20 minutes before the other. I had so many arguments with my mom about whether or not I was late home because of this.
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sturmwesen 3 months ago
stole cherries, jumped off haylofts 2 stories deep, petted kittens in the weird old farmers kitchen,...
Crystalwitch60 3 months ago
My jumping off hay bales lmao at 6 was on my farm a Dutch barn 12 or more bales high n landing on my back 🤦♀️thank god my gran I lived with was a matron of a hospital lol thankfully no major injuries ,(start of my back issue , n omg those trees we used to climb right lmao no care in the world x
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Nils Skirnir 3 months ago
Made rafts and poled across ponds with big branches. Rafts often fell apart, got dunked, and never told anyone.
Billo66 3 months ago (edited)
We had a bottle of whiskey stashed in the creek of an old rock quarry we played in. Once we were smoking cigarettes and didn't want our mothers to smell smoke so we did the most logical thing. Big mouthful of whiskey and gargle it. Well, ...They didn't smell smoke, until they heated up our äss. LOL
howdylee 3 months ago
Yup, best friend and I made a homemade raft, used it to float down the river, steered it with the pool skimmer (and I dropped it in the river when an earwig crawled off of it and onto me). After we somehow made it back to shore, we then climbed on the underside of the railroad bridge over the river. No safety anything, no adult around.
#4
This Was Our Virtual Reality
Bill Swallow 3 months ago
OOOOH! You had the *Light Up* version! Hey, everyone, lookit moneybags here!
bodhisayumi 3 months ago
There was a light up version? 😵 I'm calling my parents rn.
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BeesEelsAndPups 3 months ago
You can still buy these. I've taken family vacations that I turned into view master discs
T'Mar of Vulcan 3 months ago
I still have mine, plus the only 2 discs we could afford: an episode of Space 1999 and UFO!
Auntriarch 3 months ago
I also had only two discs: views of North American mountains, and dinosaurs which scared the daylights out of me and I couldn't bear to view
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Alexandra 3 months ago
Yes, I have too! And a few of those thingies you slide into them. I'm afraid to use them though: they're quite old and I'm afraid the plastic will disintegrate.
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Whose Kitchens Had This
Brandi Delph 3 months ago
Ours got heavy use, especially in the summer. Dad used it to filled freshly caught fish. My little kid self thought that was its sole purpose and was appalled to see the "fish cleaning knife" used on roast beef at a friend's
Sian E 3 months ago
Pretty much every Sunday in my dad's house. Sunday dinner!
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#6
You Are Not Old, Unless You Had A Car With One Of These Clipper Or Vent Windows
Bill Swallow 3 months ago
We called 'em 'No-Drafts'. Here's my first car - 1962-Impal...4f143b.jpg 
John Leavitt 3 months ago
1962 Chevy! I had a gold 62 Impala convertible.
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PeepPeep the duck 3 months ago
So do it, but they are insanely expensive to make and replace. I asked a lot of mechanics this question 😂 and why poppy uppy lights are no more
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DC 3 months ago
They're georgeous! If you happen to be a smoker ... don't judge, don't wanna advise it ... it's the most convenient way, just hold it in left hand and let the ashes be blowing in the wind...
Mike F 3 months ago
And, those old cars had heat that would bake cakes when turned on. You would open the wing windows to get things evened out.
Load More Replies... Stephanie Did It 3 months ago
I still remember my grandparents flicking their cigarette ashes out of the wing. It drew the smoke out, too.
R1MV4Superleggera 3 months ago
God almighty! My Dad when he started travelling to America (Mexico City to be exact) to expand the family business acrossthe pond, he bought a brand new pick-up truck in Mexico (DINA) who had those...things! I have a lot of pictures of that truck among a Dodge Ram Charger with the same things in it somewhere in my server
Dusty's mom 3 months ago
Our last car to have one was our 1980 Ford Escort Wagon. Had to order it special. They said they were phasing them out and my parents were appalled.
Moonie Pinkslip 3 months ago
I miss those. What purpose they had, I'll never know...possibly smoking oriented!!
#7
Always Wanted To Work One Of These
Jumping Jellyfishes 3 months ago
They would jam. And paper slips were flimsy.
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Sally Moen 3 months ago
Lots of gas stations still have these sitting around gathering dust, waiting for their chance to shine. All it takes is for the computers to go down for a while, but the business still needs to process credit card purchases. Ka-chunk and slide it across the carbon copies to make a physical imprint of the credit card, save the signed receipt in the bottom of your cash register drawer.
Glenn Cuneo 3 months ago
Most new card now you can't make an imprint so the numberss when needed, have to be hand jammed.
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Dusty's mom 3 months ago
They were notoriously hard to move over some cards, and the copies and carbon paper could get all wrinkled. Had to tear everything up and try again. Same process if the copy came out unreadable. Had to tear them tiny for fear of someone going thru our trash.
Moonie Pinkslip 3 months ago
At least it made a satisfying noise representing you parting with your money! Now it's a simple tap and you're gone
#8
If You Played This Game, You Belong Here…
Sally Moen 3 months ago
I visited the neighbor kid's home alot not to play with him but to play Mouse Trap
Data1001 3 months ago
Did any of you actually play the game, or just set it up and watch the action happen? Because I have no memory of how the game was played at all, lol.
mikentx57 3 months ago
I had a few friends that had one of these. Some insisted on playing the game. Others just wanted to set it up.
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Laserleader 3 months ago
It took so long to set up, I think I only once ever played the game part and it was really dumb, but the complex trap set up was the best part.
Frances Pitchoune 3 months ago
What a boring game! Nothing happened unless the mouse hovered over THE square (but that was a 1 in 100 chance) and once it did, the cage would block. Yay.
#9
Going On A Trip? Better Get Some Travellers Cheques!
Apatheist Account2 3 months ago
I haven't been away for a while, but had no idea that these weren't a thing any more :(
Bill Swallow 3 months ago
Took those along on my trip to Scotland in 1980. I was installing software and training the operators.
kissmychakram 3 months ago
I found some I hadn't used the other day! They were AmEx and I cashed them in (after jumping through a few hoops) online. Nice bonus cash.
Robert T 3 months ago
Stopped using those decades ago. Use credit card for purchases and debit card to withdraw cash in the local currency at an ATM. If possible I try to get some local currency ahead of time so I'm not immediately looking for an ATM. I nearly got caught out in the States as I tried to get some cash at the airport and my bank refused it (despite my telling them I was going). Bank then phones me with an automated check at 2am, because yes, I really am in the ****ing States.
T'Mar of Vulcan 3 months ago
A friend of mine (we live in South Africa but we're both British although she's from England and I'm from Jozi) tried to pay for something in New York at the Post Office with traveller's cheques. They wanted two pieces of photo ID and she only had her passport and driver's licence from, like, the Karoo. Eventually she did convince them.
Agfox 3 months ago (edited)
Many years ago my wife signed 2 x $AUD100 in Singapore but the money changer wouldn't accept them because her signature wasn't a 100% match to the signature in her passport, which was issued 6 years previously. We had to go to a bank where they exchanged them without question after we explained why they were pre-signed
#10
Folding It Back Up Was The Hardest Part Of Using These
Dorothy Smith 3 months ago
So annoying sometimes as they were wide, Small print, etc..ugh
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dan gerene 3 months ago
22 years ago we crossed the whole United States with mainly an all state atlas and what state maps we could pick up at welcome centers at state birders.. Nowadays younger people would be confused when the map didn't tell them to turn right at the next intersection.
Thee8thsense 3 months ago (edited)
If you had AAA, you could plan a road trip anywhere in the US, and they would provide all the maps you needed, with suggestions for interesting places to visit along the way.
Mike F 3 months ago
Trip-tik! Heaven help you if there was some construction along the way that wasn't covered on the map.
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Agfox 3 months ago
Any other really old people remember an episode of F Troop when Captain Parmenter failed map folding?
Ariom Dahl 3 months ago
Not sure that I actually saw that episode, but I did see enough to be able to visualise it in my mind. Hilarious show. Thank you for the reminder. :)
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quentariel 3 months ago
I could read the map when I found where we were, but finding the right part from the huge "map carpet" was the hardest job.
Shelley Dawson 3 months ago
I still prefer maps. Seeing the whole journey as one makes it easier for me to find my way.
#11
When The Power Went Out
The Other Guest 3 months ago
::glances over at the one on the small side table by the TV:: No fuel for it, though.
Kate Johnson 4 weeks ago
Ours have fuel, I just never really use them and can't recall where they currently are.
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Bill Swallow 3 months ago
We had a couple of those up the attic, but when the power went out, we turned to the Coleman Lantern, with gas mantles that really lit up the kitchen.
nottheactualphoto 3 months ago
Same! And I've only lightly charred one of my kitchen cabinets.
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Philly Bob 3 months ago
I still have my 2 lamps. I used to be able to buy the scented oil (I loved the pine and the bayberry) and now it's just plain oil.
geezeronthehill 3 months ago
That hasn't changed much. Power sill goes out and where's that freaking flashlight?
otiose 3 months ago
The batteries are dead. And I forgot to charge the rechargeable batteries!
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If You Recall Walking Into Your Classroom And Seeing This Set Up, You Are Definitely Old
Lotekguy 3 months ago (edited)
It was a welcome sight. It meant no lectures or questions from the teacher.
Geoffrey Scott 3 months ago
And if she was REALLY nice, she'd run it backwards too.
Load More Replies... Sally Moen 3 months ago
You got out of class early if you joined the A/V club, which was the nerds who could operate the movie cameras and could do film splicing.
Judy Reynolds 3 months ago
I was in high school before they replaced the mimeograph! Remember inhaling the fresh ink?
Load More Replies... Janissary35680 3 months ago
And the anti-smoking films with the operating room scenes of lungs being removed.
Load More Replies... Janissary35680 3 months ago
I was one of those who wheeled it into the classroom, set it up, ran it, and wheeled it out.
Dusty's mom 3 months ago
And those lucky BOYS who got to schlep those from class to class. We all envied them!
Dusty's mom 3 months ago
My sister still has the family's old Bell and Howell 8mm projector. HEAVY!
Loggers Ink 3 months ago
my mum worked in the film department of a tv network in the 60s and used one of these
nottheactualphoto 3 months ago
At my station, we had 1960s-vintage RCA telecines. They play 16mm film, but they don't look anything like a school projector. Yes, these things: tk60__tele...8cd499.jpg 
#13
Who Doesn't Know This Guy?
Sally Moen 3 months ago
I would pay money for someone to teach me how to snicker like this dog
Moonie Pinkslip 3 months ago
Oh, Mutley, he was my favourite...."fussin' wussin'" and cursing under his breath....
Caroline Overill 3 months ago
My dad was a huge fan. He got home from work early on Wacky Races day
#14
This Is How Freakin' Old I Am
Inigo Montoya 3 months ago
Yes, one right by my house does. It hasn't changed since the late 50's
Load More Replies... R1MV4Superleggera 3 months ago
Never, ever seen one of those in person, only in movies, how do they work?
Multa Nocte 3 months ago
You just flip through the stacks, choose a song, put in your money, and punch the song you want.
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Our local pub had a great juke box. One day the "record man" came in and said he had been told to remove a Guns and Roses track because of the swearing. He removed Knocking on Heavens Door! Which has little/no swearing and left Get In the Ring, which has, loads. It got played endlessly.
Janet Graham 3 months ago
I loved getting to choose the music without getting up. But they never had plastic baskets for the condiments.
#15
Still Rocking Out
Sally Moen 3 months ago
8-track cassettes were the best. They played continuously, running from one song to the next, over and over until you ejected the cassette. Sometimes there was the background music of another song playing in the current song. It happened when you played the heck out of a cassette, like I did of Toys In the Attic album of Aerosmith
Data1001 3 months ago
Or occasionally they'd have to fade out a song in the middle, then the track would change, and the track would fade back up. Because they had to have the exact same amount of time on all 4 tracks.
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Cassettes, I can still remember the sound they made when you pressed FF. 😆
Raymond Core 3 months ago
I was the neighborhood 8-track repair guy. If they got too tight, I would re-spool them. If the tape broke, I would splice it. If one of the rollers broke, I would replace it. I also installed players, amplifiers, and speakers. I felt like a vital cog in the machine.
Sue User 3 months ago
I did a really stupid thing and asked a convience store if they still gave out matches.
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B.M.G.1 3 months ago
Sam Cooke and Lou Rawls duet: 'Bring it on home(to me)' !
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#16
Way Back In The Day
Jerry Jacques 3 months ago
Just about any place that had chairs had ashtrays then.
Load More Replies... Frances Pitchoune 3 months ago
Aaaaw. Those good old days when you could get a tumor to go with your pizza or burger.
nottheactualphoto 3 months ago
My McDonald's had the stamped steel ones, like the Burger King one shown here.
Dusty's mom 3 months ago
My Micky D's used aluminum ash trays. I hated wiping them out. Too many glass ones ended up as souvenirs or shattered on the tile floors.
#17
Those Baby Dolls Were Thirsty!
Sally Moen 3 months ago
I had questions from day one of feeding my baby doll. Why was baby getting orange juice and not milk?
camomooey 3 months ago
My baby doll had a miniature bottle that actually fed her, but she peed out of her back, right above her buttcheeks, lol.
Roxy222uk 3 months ago
Typical male misunderstanding of the female body . . .
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Upstaged75 3 months ago
My niece currently has one with milk for her Bitty Baby. (American Girl Doll baby)
CP 3 months ago (edited)
It was a clever trick. It was a two walled bottle with all the liquid between the walls. Most of the bottle was filled with air except the very outer layer. That little amount of liquid just disappeared into the cap, creating the illusion.
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Huddo's sister 3 months ago
They still sell these and kids are still trying to figure out how they work! I had a couple of girls at after school care a couple of weeks ago who were working it out. It was funny seeing the sudden realisation come across their faces.
#18
These Were All The Rage In Grade School
Min 3 months ago
Turning your head too fast when you had them at the ends of long pigtail braids was painful, too. I managed to whack myself in the face all the d**n time.
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oneLmichele 3 months ago
They weren't, however, the rage when it slipped out of your mom's hand when she was putting it in and it hit you on the head!
#19
Who Owned A Mood Ring In School?
Robert Beveridge 3 months ago
Partner still does. You can get 'en in the Akron Art Museum's gift shop.
Michael Largey 3 months ago (edited)
I wouldn't deny I was a bit toxic in high school, but my mood ring was seized by the EPA.
Huddo's sister 3 months ago
Still very popular, one of my students had one last week. I liked mine, but once I put it under the hand drier and realised it was just heat changing, I didn't think it was as amazing.
#20
These Were In Every Comic Book Back In The Day
to old to care 3 months ago
These and rock growing crystals. You had to have the mandatory moon shaped fish bowl though
bodhisayumi 3 months ago
I'm that dumb kid who actually thought I was growing the little people that appeared on the front of the box. 🥴 Imagine the disappointment.
Tyranamar Seuss 3 months ago
It was so disappointing. I expected little people. Nope. Shrimp. So Lame.
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B 3 months ago
Oh my word, I grew up reading comic books (in South Africa these were rare commodities) and saw this ad all the time. I wanted these so badly, mostly (at 5 years old) because I thought they'd look exactly like the ones depicted here. Ah, the power of false advertising. These creatures and Hostess products (also on back covers of comic books) created a mad longing to live in the US. Now, not so much...
Moonie Pinkslip 3 months ago
I had these and I'm pretty sure, too, that I believed they were real and they'd "grow." What the...!!!
Christos Arvanitis 3 months ago (edited)
The owner, Harold von Braunhut, despite being Jewish was a member of the A.ryan Nations and an avowed racist. A bizarre and not so nice of a guy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harold_von_Braunhut
Shelli Aderman 3 months ago
https://www.splcenter.org/resources/reports/hitler-and-sea-monkeys/
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Who Remembers Using These In The Library???
Frances Pitchoune 3 months ago
Have you noticed that in old mystery or horror movies, it was super exciting to see the hero researching the mystery/murder/ghost at the library or city archives with this kind of tool? We saw old articles with SHOCKING titles! "Entire family killed", "House burned down, only one survivor". It was EXCITING and INTRIGUING! Now, people go to Google in their homes. It's curious, it's less exciting.
Harlsen Chesterton 3 months ago
I remember having a lesson on how to use them on my first day of high school at library orientation. At my university library Orientation I was shown how to sign up for a Hotmail account. At my library orientation for my Masters we had a compulsory lesson on how to use Google.
Dusty's mom 3 months ago
I remember the reel-to-reel microfilm viewers. Easy way to get seasick, scrolling way too fast. Librarians would refuse to let kids use them if they reeled so fast they started unrolling off the reels.
Mike Price 3 months ago
Microfiche was what you might call "early modern." The traditional way was a card catalogue; I remember these from many libraries in the 50s-60s and even early 70s, kept in small drawers in beautiful varnished cabinets, all Dewey Decmal indexed of course . . . . the card catalogue for a typical municipal or college/university library would fill a good-sized room . . . .
#22
Old Enough To Have Seen This Commercial When It First Came Out
Cindi Beauchamp 3 months ago
i was 8, & because of this commercial i know it takes 426 licks. coincidentally, i was also 8 when i learned i had what would become known as OCD.
Data1001 3 months ago
And oddly enough, I never wondered at the time why the little boy was naked.
Upstaged75 3 months ago
I literally just saw this commercial last week! I was so excited that they brought it back. (It was on my Amazon TV, one of the live channels)
Twidder Sux 3 months ago
They did a remake of this commercial a few days ago. This time, the kid is NOT naked. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M4heoZVzhKI
#23
The “Urgent Care” We Had Back Then
Graham_Illegal 3 months ago
Meanwhile, other developed countries already had universal healthcare :C
#24
For Some Reason, I Really Liked This Table As Kid
Patsy Robins 3 months ago
It’s a phone table! The phone st on the top shelf, the phone directory on the shelf under it. The one we had, the larger section was a padded seat.
Glen Ellyn 3 months ago
End tables like this were great. We put a lamp on the top shelf and there was still plenty of room for books, magazines, and whatever.
Inigo Montoya 3 months ago
I used one as a nightstand . Incandescent lamp on top, books/magazines underneath.
Load More Replies... Geoffrey Scott 3 months ago
Got one like this between our recliners. Handed down from my folks. Wife refinished several years back to bring out the Maple grain again.
Tara Ntula 3 months ago
You put your plate on the shelf and sit criss cross apple sauce on the table, in front of the TV.
nottheactualphoto 3 months ago
What a bizarre expression, "criss cross apple sauce."
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They Still Exist!
Lotekguy 3 months ago
I guess the days of reporters rushing to them after a verdict comes in are long gone.
Russell Bowman 3 months ago
except in ludicrous comedy movies ... yep looking at you Leslie Nielsen (RIP)
Load More Replies... Greymom 3 months ago
Wish we could bring these back minus the actual phone and require people to use them who simply MUST have extra loud conversations on their cell phones ( bonus points if it’s on speaker so you can hear both sides of the conversation).🙄🙄
Anne Roberts 3 months ago
I remember those awful Nex-Tel cell phones that were like a walkie Talkie.
Load More Replies... Grumpy old man 3 months ago
This looks like the phones in the LBJ Library in Auustin. They have the Lincoln limo, a statue of LBJ, and a giant Olmec head out front
Frances Pitchoune 3 months ago
They still? GREAT! Superman still have a place to change! (I was a little worried about that)
nottheactualphoto 3 months ago
This looks like a job ... [switch to deep voice] ... for SUPERMAN!
Load More Replies... Ann Kapoxeet 2 months ago
I spent so many hours in college talking to my dad on these phones. It makes me smile just seeing them! I really miss him!
Janet Graham 3 months ago
I needed a pay phone badly in 2010. Couldn't find one anywhere. Not even at the 7-11 or grocery store.
#26
Trees Were Our Toys
Auntriarch 3 months ago
Even now if I see one, I have to suppress the urge to climb. Even though I probably couldn't.
Load More Replies... Raymond Core 3 months ago
The trick was to twist the rope so tight that when you climbed in and it unwound, you would get crazy dizzy.
Huddo's sister 3 months ago
I have a photo of myself at about 18 months, climbing my favourite tree. I couldn't climb very high then, but it wasn't long before I climbed to the top (and teased my brother for not being able to). When I was 8, we moved to a house that had a creek and eventually wetlands next door. There were so many good trees to climb, especially the weeping willows. There was one that hung over the creek and had a rope for us to swing across. There was also one that someone had built a hut around the base of out of sticks that was so well made it was basically watertight.
Tyranamar Seuss 3 months ago
My child would not climb our amazing trees in the new house. He looked at me like I had 2 heads for suggesting such an activity. I started him at a new school. First thing I saw was a kid climbing a tree in the quad. Made my heart so happy. Hope my son picks up on it and gets to enjoy the joys of climbing a tree.
#27
Who Remembers?
Aileen Grist 3 months ago
Then someone poisoned Clarence the cross eyed lion - he was wonderful too
Tracy Garvin 1 month ago
We loved it as kids but I tried watching it recently and it's pretty bad and the attitudes are almost shocking.
#28
If You Didn't Have One Of These End Tables You Probably Knew Someone Who Did
PenguinEmp 3 months ago
Yup and a scar on my forehead from it. Tripped and smacked my head. 4 stiches.
#29
Fotomat
PenguinEmp 3 months ago
There is still one where I live. It's all boarded up but the mall people use it for storage for road salt and stuff like that.
Mary Gaynor 3 months ago
I actually worked for fotomat. I think I was in the kiosk for over a year. I read a book about every 2 days
Anne Roberts 3 months ago
There was one in my town years ago. Now it is a drive through coffee place.
#30
When These TV Dinners First Came Out They Looked A Lot Like This And They Were Delicious, And What A Help To My Mom Working The Night Shift And Feeding Our Family With Us Two Kids
As time went on the Big Corporate mentality took over and they got cheaper in quality and higher in price
Fluffy Cat Sleeps 3 months ago
I could taste the aluminum from my fork scraping across the tray. I did not like that one bit! I've also never heard anyone else say that so maybe I'm just weird.
Lotekguy 3 months ago
You are not alone. You may still be weird, but you are not alone.
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Sally Moen 3 months ago
They cooked best in those aluminum trays cooked in the oven. It was pretty easy to make dinner. Only issue was getting the one you wanted
#31
Used To Use One Of These Date Stamps
Dusty's mom 3 months ago
Librarians used them right up until the digital age. CHA-THUNK! "Don't forget to bring this back in two weeks! Next!"
Mary Peace 3 months ago
Yes I remember that. But the local library (here in UK) was the 1st place I saw bar codes used.
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Duane Ringlein 3 months ago
I used something like this for pricing when I was a teenager in the 60s and 70s and worked in a 7-11
#32
Did You Have A Set? Almost Every Kid Did
Sally Moen 3 months ago
The BOYS received Lincoln Logs and Tonka trucks and Erector Sets and Chemistry sets.
Duane Ringlein 3 months ago
I had Lincoln Logs and an Erector Set, I couldn't really use either of them very good
Smeghead Tribble Down Under 3 months ago
I always wanted to have a go at these but we never had them here. (I know, I was deprived ;)
Otto Katz 3 months ago
You probably have your own money now, you could buy them for yourself! https://www.ebay.com/itm/297622788638?itmmeta=01K5KSE05V5K7G1RGEAFQ1JP55&hash=item454bb35a1e:g:T0MAAeSwRUlofnnA&itmprp=enc%3AAQAKAAAAwMHg7L1Zz0LA5DYYmRTS30navZBepmJwsrWcbunrJfytyiBpKxtben2OSJNGBF8J8NgnTYuQo4zTUeW1m1LG69JsaCxeNeMrodbngR170DqKKwRURntDgR%2BqJOL5GVLHYKhk9dNeP4m%2BNbKipBAoYq%2BLocjs%2BVYtCXrJna1kXh--l6Z8IeH3ov%2BH59gZsx4TF%2Febq5vq2jRhyRGAscg3HaNeA9bf2DJSQgsiYzJtmYVn7%2Fzd54h0oQ65APDaiOJOTw%3D%3D%7Ctkp%3ABk9SR4SDuPmsZg
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StrangeOne 3 months ago
Interesting. Did you find you just couldn't think of anything to build? Or did you just quickly wander onto something else quickly?
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Who Else Went…
Spocks's Mom 3 months ago
Franklin, TN had an old theater that would play it too. It was back in the day when you could still smoke indoors. Haha good times.
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Frances Pitchoune 3 months ago
Do you dress up, have umbrellas, water guns, toilet paper, and confetti? It's so much more fun!
Load More Replies... Moonie Pinkslip 3 months ago
oh please---who DIDN'T go and see it!!!! And who didn't dress up, and who didn't dance in the aisles, and and and and....
#34
I Thought Today's Watercolor Belonged Here
Gingersnap In Iowa 3 months ago
Who else heard the theme song when they looked at the picture?
Khavrinen 3 months ago
Couldn't show Barbara Eden's belly button, because that was just WAY too explicit to be seen on network television!!
Dorothy Reiser 3 months ago
My nickname was Jeanie. Kids asked me to make the teacher disappear.
#35
I Got This For Christmas When I Was About Ten. I Tried, But I Just Couldn't Have Any Fun With This, It Was So Limited. Anyone Else?
Robert Beveridge 3 months ago
Like Legos of the time, you really needed five or six sets to really get going...which is what turned much of my generation into garage salers.
Huddo's sister 3 months ago
The best garage sale find I had as a kid was a box of mixed Lego, some from as early as the 60s I think. I cost $50, and my brother and I had to pay for half each. I stupidly let him have 'my share' when I moved out.
Load More Replies... Ace 3 months ago
Had to check, but Erector was a US copy of Meccano, created in England 12 years earlier. Still going today, it seems, but the Erector brand was eventually bought by Meccano.
Load More Replies... Bill Swallow 3 months ago
Yeah, that looks just like our set. I later graduated to the Kenner Girder and Panel Building Set.
#36
We Used To Absolutely Fry "Laying Out" Covered With Baby Oil. How We Have Lived This Long Is Beyond Me (Knocks On Wood)
Moonie Pinkslip 3 months ago
omg for the "blonde streaks" in our hair!!!! Never used peroxide...we would just put lemon juice in and it'd work, out in the sun...
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R1MV4Superleggera 3 months ago
Isn't the same oil some cRapper used and got him in so much trouble in the US (apart from the oil?)
#37
Lipton Instant Ice Tea!
Sue User 3 months ago
Still can buy it https://www.kroger.com/p/lipton-unsweetened-iced-tea-mix/0004100000753
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Kate Johnson 4 weeks ago
Sweet Lipton iced tea ruined me on regular iced tea and now I only really like that sugary stuff. (This needs to go on the grocery list, despite it currently being fourteen degrees Fahrenheit!)
#38
Pink Bathrooms
to old to care 3 months ago
I am 66 yrs old, my Grandmother had this exact bathroom. Sink with the two separate facets. the crocheted tissue box and sea shell dish with little sea shell soaps.
Benign Human 3 months ago
In 2017 we bought a house that was built in 1962, it came with a all pink bathroom. The toilet ,bathtub and sink all in pink. We kept it! The Master bath is the same all blue.
Graham_Illegal 3 months ago
Great job keeping it! I’ve seen too many ʞɔnɟ-ugly renovated bathrooms in houses that definitely had one of these.
Load More Replies... Smeghead Tribble Down Under 3 months ago
You'd need Inspector Gadget arms to get some toilet paper!
rullyman 3 months ago
We moved into a house in 1997 that had a turquoise bath and sink (but white toilet as it was in a separate room). I loved them because it made bath time feel tropical. My mum hated them because they felt outdated to her, and she finally got her wish for a white suite in 2009
Load More Replies... Upstaged75 3 months ago
My brother and his family live in an old Craftsman house. Their bathroom looks just like this. I love it!
#39
I Can't With This
Billo66 3 months ago
We had silly names for people. Molly Ringworm, Alanis Monistat, Barely Manenough (Barry Manilow), John Cougar Menstrual cramp.
nottheactualphoto 3 months ago
John Cougar Melon Ball. I like yours better.
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Crissy Newbury 2 months ago
Didn’t realise there was such an age difference in these teenagers.
Jnausicaa 3 months ago
Where? What character? I thought Haley Joel Osment's role was great.
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Lara Verne 3 months ago
I remember Ally Sheedy from Short Circuit ( it was one of my favorite movies, when I was kid). and it's more popular than Breakfast Club here.
#40
Time To Break Out The Tin Foil
Dusty's mom 3 months ago
Always the kids' job. Dad adjusted the volume and NO ONE dared touch that dial!
Load More Replies... Stephanie Did It 3 months ago
Sometimes the person adjusting the antennas had to keep holding on because the static came back if they let go.
mikentx57 3 months ago
That is the kind that my rich cousins had. We had just a simple set of very plain rabbit ears. When we changed channels I had to go to the tv and start moving the antennas around till we had a clear picture. That took nearly 1-2 minutes of fine adjusting. Then when the picture was clear and I let antennas go. The picture messed up.
Janet Graham 3 months ago
Fancy set up! It has both UHF and VHF and dials to tune it in. Does it say K-Tel? They were one of the big 'sell it on TV only' guys.
Forrest Hobbs 3 months ago
I'd love to know more about this. Comments suggest that this is a TV aerial - only, umm, everyone I knew had a proper UHF dipole TV aerial either in the loft or on the roof.
#41
Found My Old Kite
nm 3 months ago
A bought kite? Ha! We made our own and installed shaving razor blades at the tails, to cut the string of other's kites.
Lotekguy 3 months ago
Tough neighborhood. We never thought of it. But, in all honesty, my kite experience more closely resembles Charlie Brown's.
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Janet Graham 3 months ago
We always made our own out of newspaper. I thought I was a rich kid when we got our first plastic kite!
#42
Are You Old Enough To Have Seen In Person The USPS Mail Jeep Classic Edition?
marianne eliza 3 months ago
Ours had bought their own right-hand driver seat model. A Subaru.
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nottheactualphoto 3 months ago
Our mailmen went on foot, with a goofy-looking wheeled thing. Here's a stock photo, since it's BP. postal_car...f762a3.jpg 
Rebecca O’Donnell 2 months ago
This contraption really took a lot of strain off your back and carried a lot more to expedite delivery.
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The lady that brings my mail drives a rt side drive jeep. It's tan/gold color with magnetic US MAIL signs and a magnetic gold flashing light on top. I love Melissa, if we have anything that's 2 big for my large mailbox she puts it at the door or on my van seat if it's raining. I always do a goodie box for the (small) post office at Christmas.
#43
What Was Your Favorite School House Rock?
Jumping Jellyfishes 3 months ago (edited)
He even has the nerve to tax our of cup tea. To put it kindly, King, we really don't agree...
Stacie Zuniga 3 months ago
We had to recite the preamble in civics class and this song was how I memorized it. I'm 60 and can still say it . 😀
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WookiesMaMa 3 months ago
Does, "Don't drown your food" count? I still go by that when I eat because of that.
Soo Maertz 3 months ago
carefully poke the toothpicks through the plastic and in a few hours, STACKS OF SNACKS!!!!
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Janet Graham 3 months ago
My younger siblings would run around singing the ditties until I was ready to strangle them.
#44
Who Grabbed A Drink Out Of One Of These
Jerry Jacques 3 months ago
And I bet good money it still does its job like it's new.
Load More Replies... Rich Black 3 months ago
today's YETI coolers continue the tradition. Starting at $299.99 . . .
Janet Graham 3 months ago
Those old original Coleman coolers still work better than the new ones!
#45
Montgomery Ward?
Bill Swallow 3 months ago
I just finished reading 'Surely You Can't Be Serious - The Making of Airplane!', by Abrahams, Zucker, and Zucker. The book is as funny as the movie.
Geoffrey Scott 3 months ago
Tell me what happened from the beginning..."Well the dinosaurs, but they got fat and old, then died, then the Arabs bought Mercedes Benzes."
ManuelQue 3 months ago
Johnny! "Well, it's a really pretty plane...it looks like a big Tylenol."
Load More Replies... T'Mar of Vulcan 3 months ago
We have to get these people to a hospital! - A hospital! what is it? - It's a big building with patients, but that's not important right now.
Shelley Dawson 3 months ago
My favourite film of all time. I still watch it once every couple of years and find something new in it every time. Loved Lloyd Bridges!
Cole Earnhart 3 months ago
It's the little room at the front of the plane where the captain sits but that's not important right now.
Load More Replies... Russell Bowman 3 months ago
How do you like your coffee? Black and strong ... like I like my men. Best line before it was cut out due to public out cry
#46
If You Had One Of These In Your Car, You Just Might Be Over The Hill
Zig Zag Wanderer 3 months ago
This NEEDS to be reintroduced! Why was it ever dropped? We have an unused left foot, and it's so fricking useful to dip the lights.
Robert T 3 months ago
I still drive a car with one. It is supremely awkward to dip the lights when in the middle of a gearchange. Your foot is on the clutch and takes longer to move than it does to get your hand off the gearlever and onto to a stalk on the steering column, and even less so in a left-hand drive car.
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Lee Gilliland 3 months ago
This switched your low beams and your high beams at night, before that was moved to the steering wheel.
Mary Peace 3 months ago
Thank you. I'm old enough but in UK, never seen this before.
Load More Replies... Stephanie Did It 3 months ago
I was totally mystified as to how the grownups changed the lights without seeming to move a muscle!
nm 3 months ago
How many of you is old enough to have seen a Trafficator? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trafficators
Michael Largey 3 months ago
I'm so far over the hill that if I turn around I can't even see it anymore.
Load More Replies... Dusty's mom 3 months ago
I am very short, and had to streeeeeeetch my left leg to reach it, causing my nose to drop below the top of the dash. I don't miss this at all!
#47
If You Recognize These Curtains, You're Old
Glen Ellyn 3 months ago
And visualize his colorful attire! The Tonight Show Band was fabulous!
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Moonie Pinkslip 3 months ago (edited)
And if we don't, it could simply be that we're NOT AMERICAN
Dorothy Reiser 3 months ago
Only got it on radio, Armed Forces Radio, Tokyo. Finally got to see it when I went to college in the States.
Dusty's mom 3 months ago
Yep. Wouldn't have recognized the curtains except for repeats decades later.
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#48
Before There Was Mastercard, There Was Mastercharge
Sue User 3 months ago
Anyone else remember how you had to check if the atm took your card because they were not all on same network ?
Huddo's sister 3 months ago
In Australia that was still the case until about 5-10 years ago. You can still get a fee if you use certain cards at a different atm, though most are free.
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If You Think It's A Phone, You Don't Belong Here
comfort the lame 3 months ago
It called Merlin. It played a lot of different games. And it didn't suck. As a kid that didn't get a whole he11 of a lot of cool toys I treasured mine
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Jerry Jacques 3 months ago
If I remember it was call merlin of something like that. I played it for hours but now I can't remember what the point was.
Bill Swallow 3 months ago
I always though they should have added an outrigger on each side to make it look like a Battlestar.
#50
Ok Who Else Has These Laying Around The House Growing Up?
Mary Peace 3 months ago
A stack of coasters with one out. To stand a drink on.
Load More Replies... Frances Pitchoune 3 months ago (edited)
We had one! The box was shaped like an English clock! The coasters were the dial, which indicated different times.
#51
This Movie Is 40 Years Old. Wasn’t A Big Hit, Probably Because It Didn’t Follow The John Hughes Formula For 80’s Teen Movies, But I Liked It. Plus Helen Slater
Martha Winwood 3 months ago
This was one of my favourites! Loved the Pat Benatar theme tune, too, and still listen to it now.
#52
Digital Clock Pens. Once The Pinnacle Of Sophistication
Auntriarch 3 months ago
Which is the sole reason for me acquiring one. Oh and a Silver Cross pen. Which put my mother in a panic when I announced I had a Silver Cross because in her world it was a posh pram.
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#53
I Know You Can Hear This
Kate Johnson 4 weeks ago
Dang this doesn't even have enough room for my medications. I really miss being young and immortal (if only for a limited time.)
Load More Replies... Stephanie Did It 3 months ago
We played with a lot of these. The secret is larvae inside the bean, which is a seed pod. When you warmed them in your hand, they would jump.
Frances Pitchoune 3 months ago
The truth is, there was an insect inside, feeding on the bean. That's why they were moving. Please do not consume.
Der Kommissar 3 months ago
We used to buy these in Tijuana, along with fireworks, horseshitt cigarettes and switchblades. Good times.
#54
Ours Was Red. What Color Was Your Chrome Dinette Set?
Nils Skirnir 3 months ago
They were practical and great for small spaces.
Load More Replies... dan gerene 3 months ago
Had something like that when we got married in 1968. Bought used table and chairs for $5.00
Dusty's mom 3 months ago
Mom insisted on a solid maple trestle table and settees. But Grandmas' was white and red enamel, with the little drawer for silverware. The chairs were slippery plastic-like stuff that stuck to our legs. It was way cooler than the maple table and chairs.
Bill Swallow 3 months ago
Never had one of those sets - all our furniture was *much* older. But some of our family friends did.
#55
What The Hell Was A Grape Nut Anyway?
Philly Bob 3 months ago
It was tough trying to get their little legs apart to tell.
Load More Replies... mikentx57 3 months ago
I still eat them. They are my favorite cereal. I once gave the to my 9yo son to try. He instantly had a look on his face like I had just fed him sand.
CaliPanda 3 months ago
Me, too. I sprinkle them on my yogurt and blueberries for breakfast.
Load More Replies... TheLuggage 3 months ago
They were (are?) delicious. Unfortunately no longer available in my country (ZA).
#56
When's The Last Time You Saw A Lineup Like This?
Frances Pitchoune 3 months ago
We have a bar that still offers these games. You pay for a beer and the games are unlimited. No tokens required. Every 80s kid's dream, plus beer.
Doug Moyer 3 months ago (edited)
Every brewery in Long Beach, California, has vintage video games and pinball machines now.
#57
Did Anyone Else Ever Pay To Watch A Coin Operated TV In A Bus Station Or Airport?
Sally Moen 3 months ago
It was a weird concept, the only available empty seats at the bus terminal were these coin-operated tv sets attached to the seats. The thing is the bus terminal was noisy as heck, and the TV's were noisy, so I never understood the appeal of watching TV. Or paying money to sit down
rullyman 3 months ago
I lived in a place with coin operated showers in 2019 in Japan. It was a 1970s building set up as a "dormitory" for young single female students and workers. There was a free bath/shower downstairs but it was only open from 18:00-22:00 and I worked in a bar so I either took cold showers, forked out 100 yen for 5 minutes of hot water, or went to the public bath up the road.
Janet Graham 3 months ago
No, but I did stand behind a paying customer's chair and watch the news with him.
Frances Pitchoune 3 months ago
Me, once, when I was six. I begged my parents to give me money for it. It doesn't last long!
#58
The Things We Did With Our Phones!
Ace 3 months ago
Unless the caller added 141 before dialling your number. And of course only available after you'd taken (or missed, mor usually ) the call.
Load More Replies... Der Kommissar 3 months ago
My friend; She has star 69. Me; I don't care how good in the sack she is
#59
If You Watched This You May Have A Touch Of Grey
Bill Swallow 3 months ago
If you get a chance, find the 'Dexter's Lab' parody of Speed Racer. It was 'Mock 5'. It might be up on YouTube. They absolutely nailed it!
Robert Beveridge 3 months ago
There was a period a year or two ago where YouTube had a channel that showed the original on an endless loop. I'd fall asleep to it every night.
Beak Hookage 3 months ago
Joke's on you, I have premature greying so I've been sporting grey highlights since my early twenties.
#60
When Only Part Of The Cup Was Disposable
#61
I Just Turned Into A Pile Of Mummy Dust
Janet Graham 3 months ago
I knew a contractor who got the job to remove this entire playset from a McDonald's that was remodeling. He set them up in the large yard of his country home for his grandkids to play on. I was a bit envious!
#62
The Older I Get, The More True This Becomes!
#63
Before LCD, The Cool Kids Had LED
Data1001 3 months ago
Absolutely! And you had to keep the button pressed with your fingers until you could read it. I remember when LCD watches came out (replacing the LED kind above)... I thought they were so cool.
Load More Replies... Rick Murray 3 months ago
I had a Casio databank watch with a whole ENORMOUS 1K of memory. A small wide display with a really fiddly little "keyboard" underneath. A quick Google, I think it was a DBC-61? Mine was all black with a rubber strap.
Load More Replies... Zig Zag Wanderer 3 months ago
Yup! I remember my mate at school had one. So exciting. So fleeting as LCD whooshed past it within months...
Doug Moyer 3 months ago
In the mid 70s, I went to school (in Saudi Arabia) with a Saudi boy that was from one of the minor branches of the royal family and he had a calculator watch and I was insanely jealous...
#64
You're Old If You Know What One Of These Are For
#65
The Old Cable Box
Frances Pitchoune 3 months ago
It was so noisy when you pressed the buttons! On Saturday mornings, when cartoons came on, my parents would yell at me about the noise. I had to find a way to reduce the noise: keep one finger on the button and press the other at the same time.
mikentx57 3 months ago
Yep we had one in middle 70’s to early 80’s. We had HBO. But this was before they made their own content. And has so few movies that you would see the whole month’s offering everyday. I am sure that I saw “A Challenge for Robin Hood” a dozen times. Each time to see scenes where you could see cars in the background.
#66
Young Woman Training Our Office On Our New Phone System Today Said “This Is Your Voicemail Button. It’s An Upside-Down Pair Of Glasses”
Laserleader 3 months ago
For those who arent as old... it is an image of magnetic tape in a cassette, like the kind used in original answering machines. It just doesn't show the cassette plastic casing.
TheLuggage 3 months ago
Early magnetic tape did not come in cassettes, just on spools.
Load More Replies... Bill Swallow 3 months ago
It's the button Jim Phelps used before the self-destructing tapes came out, and he had to trigger them manually.
#67
Alright Who Can Guess The Movie
Rick Murray 3 months ago
Yeah, but Sean Connery was also in Zardoz, so......
Load More Replies... Scott Rackley 3 months ago
Dear Benson, you are so mercifully free of the ravages of intelligence.
#68
Caddyshack. July 25, 1980. Cinematic History
On this date in 1980, "Caddyshack" was released.
"Scum... slime... menace to the golfing industry. You're a disgrace and you're varmints. You're the lowest members of the food chain and you'll probably be replaced by the rat."
After filming ended and the rough-cut came in it was too long, and over two hours had to be cut. This also included key parts of the main plot, and the film made no sense, so more money had to be spent on a mechanical gopher to add extra comic relief and to tie the picture together. Writer/producer Douglas Kenney was adamantly against the final addition of the gopher to the film.
Director Harold Ramis suggested that a live animal play the gopher. Rusty Lemorande had been a professional puppeteer through his college years and convinced the team that only with the kind of control you had with a puppet could the quantity of material be filmed. He searched for a suitable creature builder. Companies such as The Henson Company (which became the premier creature builders in the 1980s) did not yet take outside assignments, so Lemorande contacted friends at Walt Disney Imagineering for help. One of the Disney theme park creature designers, Jeff Burke, was willing to create the character but only on a moonlight basis. Lemorande drew a simple sketch, indicating the range of movement the puppet would require and Burke fleshed out the remainder of the creature's design with further input from Lemorande. The gopher rod and hand puppet sat in Lemorande's office for weeks. During that time producers Kenney, Jon Peters and Ramis would come into the office to play with the creature, trying to figure out how to integrate it into the film.
The noises that the Gopher makes are actually vocalized by a dolphin, and the dolphin sound effects used are the same ones that were used for the television series "Flipper".
The reason the scenes of Mr. Gopher's underground world look better than the rest of the film is because they were filmed on a sound-stage with better quality film stock and cameras rather than on-location, like the majority of the film.
Fun fact: In real life gophers usually stay away from golf courses. The biggest menace to a course is a mole. (IMDb)
Jumping Jellyfishes 3 months ago (edited)
♫ I'm alright... Nobody worry 'bout me... Why you got to gimme a fight? Can't you just let it be? ♫
Billo66 3 months ago
Ahh. I'd rather be rickrolled than Logginsed. Footloose broke me.
Load More Replies... Janet Graham 3 months ago
We have the anamatronic gopher. It looks like a stuffy and twists and sings the song. Very funny and the dogs hate it.
Beak Hookage 3 months ago
My parents watched that movie. I remember one of them saying "the scenes with Bill Murray and the gopher were the only funny bits; the rest was awful".
Pferdchen 3 months ago
Really!? No reaction to Rodney Dangerfield ribbing Ted Knight or the preacher playing golf in a thunderstorm? The golf course was under the approach to FLL International Airport. The unapproved massive explosion scene prompted a pilot to tell the control tower that he thought an airplane had crashed!
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I Used To Love This Show. Thanks Sid And Marty
Data1001 3 months ago
Sid & Marty Krofft had to be taking hallucinogens when they came up with their shows, but man did I love 'em.
Billo66 3 months ago
They were puffing stuff. Couldn't do a little and couldn't get enough.
Load More Replies... Sally Moen 3 months ago
YouTube has episodes of this TV show, H R Pufnstuf. Very trippy to adults but very amusing to kids
Tracy Garvin 1 month ago
My sister called me "Tracy-p*o" throughout her life because of that show. The Krofft's had a short-lived indoor amusement park above the ice rink in the Omni hotel in Atlanta. It had just closed when we visited one time, everything was still there.
Huddo's sister 3 months ago
My mum's favourite show. I had seen a video of it from the library before I went on school camp to Canberra, so I was able to recognise the memorabilia they have at the Australian Sound and Film Archive. My friends had no idea what I was talking about :)
Gregg Levine 3 months ago
The actor played the Artful Dodger in the Oliver film, (a musical) and perhaps the staged one.
#70
Fisher Price Movie Viewer
Frances Pitchoune 3 months ago (edited)
YES! Oh my god, that was such a great concept! Imagine that when we were kids, the internet and Netflix didn't exist! Even VHS or DVDs didn't exist! You went to the cinema with your parents: it was a special event! So having this toy was exciting for a kid! A cartoon at your fingertips!
#71
Did Anyone Else Intrepidly Brave The Perils Of An Interstate Adventure Aboard One Of These Seedy Dens Of Iniquity Amidst The Stench Of S**tty W**d, Urine, Flatulence, B.o., And Questionable Characters?
R1MV4Superleggera 3 months ago
That first bus..pff! My Old man took a lot of pictures of a beautiful bus that blew his mind while travelling Mexico, sultana buses if anyone wants to know, their story is very interesting 888f2cb6bd...2b210a.jpg 
Janet Graham 3 months ago
I took several bus trips. It wasn't too bad. It took forever because it stopped at every tiny town. But that did give a chance to use the restroom and have a smoke.
Marvin Gardens 3 months ago
My Mother was a stewardess before I was born in the late 1950s. At some point in my early childhood I figured out she work on long haul busses. Think it was Continental trailways. Her route was from Dallas to Chicago and back.
Michael Largey 3 months ago
My high school girlfriend and I went to different colleges, so yeah.
Mark Hastings 3 months ago
Rode a Trailways bus from San Diego to Phoenix and back in 1979. When I got off I swore that would be the last time I would ever ride a bus like that again.
#72
They Sounded Just Like The Record, Too
Alli Marston 3 months ago
LOL I saw them that July. Seduction, Young MC and someone else (can't remember) were also on the bill.
Seadog 3 months ago
Foreigner 4 tour performed the album word for word, note for note, zero stage show, second worst concert I ever attended. The worst you ask? Van Halen (1981) Sell out crowd. Bryan Adams opened for them and 10 minutes into VH's set, the entire crowd was calling for Bryan to come back out. VH was terrible.
Snackmachine 3 months ago
I was living right down the street from the Cajundome back then. Glad I managed to miss that show.
#73
Anyone Else Required To Take A Bath Towel To Kindergarten To Sleep On During “Nap Time”?
Beak Hookage 3 months ago
At that age I was like "ugh, I hate this, I'm not tired!" As a teenager and then an adult, I'd have committed mvrder if it meant bringing back Nap Hour.
Sally Moen 3 months ago (edited)
No, but I do wonder if 1st graders still have a nap at school?
Upstaged75 3 months ago
Nope. Not in Kindergarten either. And they go to Kindergarten all day! When I went you had a choice of the morning or afternoon class.
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Dusty's mom 3 months ago
We had to take some weird mat that Mom bought at Sears. Crazy to have kids in for less than 4 hours, feed them a snack, make them sleep for 20 minutes, then go home. The very next year they went the whole school day, which were 8 hours in my district. I don't remember learning anything, but do remember Mom being mad that the teacher refused to believe I knew how to spell my name. She insisted I was wrong because some school secretary wrote it wrong. Mom made sure the teacher knew I could spell my full name, and apparently gave the secretary an earful as well. Ouch!
Oskar vanZandt 3 months ago
No. But then I went to school in Europe at that age and took naps at home...
Huddo's sister 3 months ago
At kindergarten in Australia, they had a set of covered foam mats for each of us. They still use very similar ones in childcare centres, but sessional (publicly funded, shorter hours) kindergartens/preschools no longer have nap times. They do have rest times, where they will do yoga or quiet activities, and children can nap if they want, if it is a longer session.
#74
The Best Kitchen Device Inventor Of All Time, Anyone Else Recall What The Device Is Named?
Peeka_Mimi 3 months ago
I never understood his appeal. He was always on HBO, breaking watermelons. I just never understood why this was entertaining.
Marvin Gardens 3 months ago
Did you know that he he had a brother. They both went on tour but never at the same time in the same location. They dress alike. Two brothers pretending to be the same person.
Der Kommissar 3 months ago
The brother, Ron, stole the Gallagher act from Leo Gallagher.
Load More Replies... Janet Graham 3 months ago
I loved Gallagher! I saw him before he got into the slop humor of sledge-o-matic. He wanted us to shoot sticky darts at the bumpers of bad drivers. When they got 3 darts, the cops would pull them over and give them a ticket for being a bad driver.
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Anybody Miss This Show?
Faelwolf 3 months ago
I remember the original Space Ghost Saturday morning show, I'm really old I guess!
Bill Swallow 3 months ago
Space Ghost, Dino Boy, the Herculoids, the Galaxy Trio... I had a thing for Gravity Girl back then.
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Der Kommissar 3 months ago
Sonny Sharrock did the soundtrack for Space Ghost; Coast To Coast. Some of the most insane guitar playing you've ever heard.
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Straight, Left, Right…
Bill Swallow 3 months ago
Back in college, I bought one of those as a birthday present for a buddy of mine, a Comp Sci major. But that was the original gray version, before they changed it to white. We had a ball programming it.
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What Happened To Dads Handing Out Cigars In The Hospital After Birth Of Child?
Michael Largey 3 months ago
Gone because fathers wanted to still be around to celebrate the birth of their grandchildren.
nm 3 months ago
Actually to celebrate as many as possible of their birthdays.
Load More Replies... Robert Beveridge 3 months ago
Well, not being able to smoke in hospitals any more probably has something to do with it...
Tara Ntula 3 months ago
My grandma, when asked why she quit singing, told me after the birth of her third child, the NURSE made her a cigarette, and it just didnt taste right, and she just never smoked after.
Marsha Hultberg 1 month ago
Lip, tongue, throat, and lung cancer. It was a sweet gesture/tradition while we were sleeping... Thank go🙏d 'woke up' as Buddhists say. 😎🙏🏼
Janet Graham 3 months ago
I do remember the local Walgreen's selling the gender specific cigars.
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Paul C. 3 months ago
My school desk had Keith Emerson's signature inside, which explains why there was an unnatural number of kids being Nice/ Emerson Lake and Palmer fans in our locality. Late sixties, Worthing UK.
Load More Replies... Dusty's mom 3 months ago
I was a tax-paying adult in the 80s. Not so fun anymore.
Load More Replies... Rick Murray 3 months ago
Very American, I recognised half of the stuff on this list from seeing it on TV programmes rather than in real life.
Beak Hookage 3 months ago
Amusingly, as I did not grow up in America, some of this stuff was nostalgic because I remember it from watching old episodes of The Simpsons. Those awful out of date educational films Springfield Elementary kept hauling out were some of the funniest stuff in that show.
Frances Pitchoune 3 months ago (edited)
😂 Troy McClure "Fuzzy Rabbit has grown up. His voice has changed. And he has fur where there wasn't any before." 🤣🤣🤣
Load More Replies... Paul C. 3 months ago
My school desk had Keith Emerson's signature inside, which explains why there was an unnatural number of kids being Nice/ Emerson Lake and Palmer fans in our locality. Late sixties, Worthing UK.
Load More Replies... Dusty's mom 3 months ago
I was a tax-paying adult in the 80s. Not so fun anymore.
Load More Replies... Rick Murray 3 months ago
Very American, I recognised half of the stuff on this list from seeing it on TV programmes rather than in real life.
Beak Hookage 3 months ago
Amusingly, as I did not grow up in America, some of this stuff was nostalgic because I remember it from watching old episodes of The Simpsons. Those awful out of date educational films Springfield Elementary kept hauling out were some of the funniest stuff in that show.
Frances Pitchoune 3 months ago (edited)
😂 Troy McClure "Fuzzy Rabbit has grown up. His voice has changed. And he has fur where there wasn't any before." 🤣🤣🤣
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