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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?
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#2
Pull Down Maps!
Tara Ntula 2 months ago
I have one of these, and it has candy bar advertising on it. From the 60s I think
#3
Fun Times With Friends Back In The Day
#4
This Was Our Virtual Reality
Bill Swallow 2 months ago
OOOOH! You had the *Light Up* version! Hey, everyone, lookit moneybags here!
#5
Whose Kitchens Had This
#6
You Are Not Old, Unless You Had A Car With One Of These Clipper Or Vent Windows
Bill Swallow 2 months ago
We called 'em 'No-Drafts'. Here's my first car - 1962-Impal...4f143b.jpg 
#7
Always Wanted To Work One Of These
#8
If You Played This Game, You Belong Here…
Sally Moen 2 months ago
I visited the neighbor kid's home alot not to play with him but to play Mouse Trap
#9
Going On A Trip? Better Get Some Travellers Cheques!
#10
Folding It Back Up Was The Hardest Part Of Using These
#11
When The Power Went Out
The Other Guest 2 months ago
::glances over at the one on the small side table by the TV:: No fuel for it, though.
#12
If You Recall Walking Into Your Classroom And Seeing This Set Up, You Are Definitely Old
#13
Who Doesn't Know This Guy?
#14
This Is How Freakin' Old I Am
#15
Still Rocking Out
Sally Moen 2 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
#16
Way Back In The Day
#17
Those Baby Dolls Were Thirsty!
Sally Moen 2 months ago
I had questions from day one of feeding my baby doll. Why was baby getting orange juice and not milk?
#18
These Were All The Rage In Grade School
#19
Who Owned A Mood Ring In School?
Robert Beveridge 2 months ago
Partner still does. You can get 'en in the Akron Art Museum's gift shop.
#20
These Were In Every Comic Book Back In The Day
to old to care 2 months ago
These and rock growing crystals. You had to have the mandatory moon shaped fish bowl though
#21
Who Remembers Using These In The Library???
#22
Old Enough To Have Seen This Commercial When It First Came Out
#23
The “Urgent Care” We Had Back Then
#24
For Some Reason, I Really Liked This Table As Kid
Patsy Robins 2 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.
#25
They Still Exist!
#26
Trees Were Our Toys
#27
Who Remembers?
#28
If You Didn't Have One Of These End Tables You Probably Knew Someone Who Did
#29
Fotomat
PenguinEmp 2 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.
#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
#31
Used To Use One Of These Date Stamps
#32
Did You Have A Set? Almost Every Kid Did
#33
Who Else Went…
#34
I Thought Today's Watercolor Belonged Here
Gingersnap In Iowa 2 months ago
Who else heard the theme song when they looked at the picture?
#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 2 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.
#36
We Used To Absolutely Fry "Laying Out" Covered With Baby Oil. How We Have Lived This Long Is Beyond Me (Knocks On Wood)
#37
Lipton Instant Ice Tea!
#38
Pink Bathrooms
to old to care 2 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.
#40
Time To Break Out The Tin Foil
#41
Found My Old Kite
#42
Are You Old Enough To Have Seen In Person The USPS Mail Jeep Classic Edition?
#43
What Was Your Favorite School House Rock?
#44
Who Grabbed A Drink Out Of One Of These
#45
Montgomery Ward?
Bill Swallow 2 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.
#46
If You Had One Of These In Your Car, You Just Might Be Over The Hill
Zig Zag Wanderer 2 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.
#47
If You Recognize These Curtains, You're Old
#48
Before There Was Mastercard, There Was Mastercharge
#49
If You Think It's A Phone, You Don't Belong Here
#50
Ok Who Else Has These Laying Around The House Growing Up?
#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 2 months ago
This was one of my favourites! Loved the Pat Benatar theme tune, too, and still listen to it now.
Lara Verne 2 months ago (edited)
I saw it recently. It wasn't very realistic, but still pretty enjoyable.
#52
Digital Clock Pens. Once The Pinnacle Of Sophistication
#53
I Know You Can Hear This
#54
Ours Was Red. What Color Was Your Chrome Dinette Set?
#55
What The Hell Was A Grape Nut Anyway?
#56
When's The Last Time You Saw A Lineup Like This?
#57
Did Anyone Else Ever Pay To Watch A Coin Operated TV In A Bus Station Or Airport?
Sally Moen 2 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
#58
The Things We Did With Our Phones!
#59
If You Watched This You May Have A Touch Of Grey
Bill Swallow 2 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!
#60
When Only Part Of The Cup Was Disposable
#61
I Just Turned Into A Pile Of Mummy Dust
#62
The Older I Get, The More True This Becomes!
#63
Before LCD, The Cool Kids Had LED
#64
You're Old If You Know What One Of These Are For
#65
The Old Cable Box
#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 2 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.
#67
Alright Who Can Guess The Movie
#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 2 months ago (edited)
♫ I'm alright... Nobody worry 'bout me... Why you got to gimme a fight? Can't you just let it be? ♫
#69
I Used To Love This Show. Thanks Sid And Marty
#70
Fisher Price Movie Viewer
#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 2 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 
#72
They Sounded Just Like The Record, Too
Alli Marston 2 months ago
LOL I saw them that July. Seduction, Young MC and someone else (can't remember) were also on the bill.
#73
Anyone Else Required To Take A Bath Towel To Kindergarten To Sleep On During “Nap Time”?
Beak Hookage 2 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.
#74
The Best Kitchen Device Inventor Of All Time, Anyone Else Recall What The Device Is Named?
#75
Anybody Miss This Show?
#76
Straight, Left, Right…
Bill Swallow 2 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.
#77
What Happened To Dads Handing Out Cigars In The Hospital After Birth Of Child?
Michael Largey 2 months ago
Gone because fathers wanted to still be around to celebrate the birth of their grandchildren.
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Paul C. 2 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.
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Dusty's mom 2 months ago
I was a tax-paying adult in the 80s. Not so fun anymore.
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Rick Murray 2 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 2 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 2 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. 2 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 2 months ago
I was a tax-paying adult in the 80s. Not so fun anymore.
Load More Replies... Rick Murray 2 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 2 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 2 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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