50 Obsolete Things To Show Just How Much The World Has Changed (New Pics)

O Captain, my Captain.

I'm Gen Z and I remember this

Ahh, the 21st Century. When a guy burned you a CD if he liked you

The sound of the click as you push open the magnets

..and you actually had a chance of winning something too

That looks cool.

I still use them

In the US, the average new car is $47K, average annual income $53K. We wouldn’t mind manually rolling down the windows in affordable vehicles.

I spent all of grade five in a portable. It was so cold in the winter. :(

ahaha still do this sometimes when I’m on bike rides

I know if you choose the one at the end sometimes an ace would shoot out of his sleeve. And if you choose the one with the castle the bats will move and the one with the robot some of the dials would move

I remember how these books smell

75 cents at the pizzeria. You had to run in quickly while the guy was busy or lie & say it was for your mom

I don't even think there was age restrictions for smoking back then. I always felt very satisfied when I pulled the k**b and you heard the 'thunk' and the pack of smokes fell out. :) I miss smoking :(. **** BP edited out the word "k**b" very strange****

They had one at the local bowling alley (remember THOSE?) where anyone could buy cigarettes as long as the employees weren't watching. They also used to let you buy them at the grocery store with a note from your'parents'. And that's the story of how I started smoking at 13. 2 years quit now

👋 Or you go in a store, at least in small towns, and say they were for your parent....

I used to take change out of the fountain at the mall to get a pack from the machine.

My family owned a restaurant. Daddy had them stop filling the machine when my sister (4years old? at the time) bought a pack & ate them. She was sick for weeks. He broke the lock & filled it with candy boxes. Think Lemonheads & Spree. This was 1988 or 89. We renovated & tossed out all the old vestibule machines in 91.

..cause no one cared how old you were. I was buying smokes for family members starting at 3-4 years old. Seriously. Sometimes, you needed a note from the adult, mostly not.

There were a few of these in German bars I went to in the mid 2000s and they were a God send if you were a smoker.

THIS is how I was able to start smoking in middle school!

We still have these in hole in the wall bars... My fave! The bars not the smoke

In 1978, they were 65 cents from the machine upstairs in Sears at Sunrise Mall. Nobody ever paid attention to us kids as we nervously inserted 13 nickels (time-consuming). I'm happy to say that I finally quit smoking in February of 2021. I have no idea how, but I did it!

Worked at a department store as a stock clerk as a teen in the 1960's. One of my jobs was to go to the drug store across the street with $5 given to me by the office manager and purchase two cartons of Winston cigarettes for the Store Owner. He'd already lost a half a lung to cancer, but still smoked like a frieght train. And, if I didn't bring back the 50 cents change, there was hell to pay. The joker lived into his eighties - somehow!

Remember them at bars and bowling alleys.

I can still find these in old bars. They're even functional. They check ID at the door.

Remember when your parents sent you to buy them a pack?

There was one at Liberty Drug (a bar) in Norman Oklahoma as late as 1992 or 93

They were $3.00 when Newports were 1.60 at the store but we snuck in to the auto repair shop to buy them xD as if the mechanics were going to bust us!

theres a bar where i live, that still has 1 of these.

I know some places that still have then but the prices are outrageous.

When I moved to a really rural area when I was younger there were still three different places in town that still had these in use.

In 1989 when I started working in a hospital, there was a machine next to the cafeteria.

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Used one in Prescott Arizona last November.

That's how I started smoking at 9 years old.

Nah! 25 cents a pack and 25 cents a gallon of gas in the first VW bug

I remember when the price went from 20 cents to 25 they knew a 25% price rise wouldn’t be taken kindly so they added 2 or 3 pennies inside the pack’s cellophane wrapper.

I haven't smoked since before then, so no way to know. Thank goodness,

I remember when they were $10 a carton

Yep, I remember sneaking into the side door of a place called Poncho's and going to a machine like this to get cigarettes for my friend

They cost 50 cents a pack here in South Carolina.

Ah, the honor system. Those were the days.

We've Demonized cigarettes but Booze is more acceptable than ever--

25 cents everywhere, 35 by the time I was in college. Everybody smoked everywhere except the sanctuary at church.

My mother used to send me across the street to the fire station to get her a pack of cigarettes from their vending machine upstairs. All the firemen knew who we were.