58 Photos That Show Things From The Past That Are So Nostalgic

I have a few in my home shop for sorting tooling bits/inserts

Dialing emergency 999 on a rotary phone took long enough for your house to burn down.

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I loved these!

Now that's pretty old

you got a phone that prints?

Wish I still had mine. I do know a couple of folks that still have theirs.

Yeah, teacher is hung over

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ODL lol

OMG, I'd completely forgotten about these.

I’m even older. My main toy source was the Sears Christmas catalog and Sears store

Before I could buy shoes online this place was my go-to for many years. The store is virtual now (through Amazon), so you can still get shoes from them. If you're looking for comfortable flats the Comfort Plus brand is amazing!

I was too poor for this...I had a cheap dog version

I miss videostores

You have died of dysentery. You can still play it as a browser game.

My first job as a bookseller was at a B. Dalton’s in San Francisco. I stayed in the book business for almost 45 years.

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You gotta love the old land yachts!

I loved the rainbow one, I had my name printed in that font taped on my bedroom door 😅

Mine was Schwinn Typhoon, and yes, with the obligatory banana seat.

You can still get these.

I got sony betamax. I got it from my children's home. I emailed sony and they fixed it for free!

I had a very talented Grandmother who made me Cabbage Patch look alike. It fit in to all the clothes too. The only difference was that it didn't have a plastic head. I had a few regular Cabbage Patch dolls too, but hers was my favorite.

As a kid in the 80's I ended up with a thumb injury from playing so much Atari. At the time they called it "joystick thumb". 😂

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Tetris was king! Tetris was the one game that ruled them all.

VHS rewinder for those too young

I think that's fake, the battery couldn't run out at all.

I admit it, I have recently watched many of these movies. Oldies but goodies.

What is that?

Old? You're barely out of diapers, the iPod Shuffle was introduced in 2005!

OMG. When I mention Telex to youngsters, they either look at me blankly like I don't know what I'm talking about, or they look at me as though I'm making it up.

The phone, the goatee, the blockbuster name tag... Definitely past times

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Bought out by - became Adobe

naaa... too fancy for my school

"Pizza, Pizza", is all I hear due to Little Caesars

No idea of what this is.

No, but I remember looking under these caps to see if I won a free soda.

This bottle could come straight out of the freezer and somehow still not taste cold.

Oh, yes, bought a lot of LPs there. But I didn't know they were a national chain.

My god, when the Spice Girls were at their height you could NOT get away from them. There was Spice Girls EVERYTHING. The official perfume is the one I remember most. Sister was a huge fan and bough the merch. I enjoyed their music but found the mech annoying, probably because it was quite girly girly and I was the kind of girl who preferred mud and rats and climbing trees and such.

If I recall correctly these only had 2 songs on them. I'm old, so we had 45 records instead - one song on each side and you had to pull up that thing in the middle of the record player so the 45 would fit.

Still have mine but it would always stay on lock even though the lock button was turned to lock

I can just barely remember these. I felt like such an old fogey when I went to our local KMart which has been there for at least 30 years (but completely remodelled of course) and told some youngster working there "y'know, there used to be a café right here on this spot. I remember my mum bought me and my sister a frog in the pond for a treat" and the kid was like "holy sh1t really??" This is what happens when you live in the same town your entire life.

Forgot about this chain

Well, it says "Retro" right on the lid.

Like everyone else at the time I assumed Mavis was a real person and it was some kind of celebrity endorsement! Nope, she's entirely fictional.

Yup.

We had one computer when I was at school in the 70s. They had to turf the headmaster out of his office to make room for it. It probably had 4k of RAM.

Thats from the 90's, it came out when my kids were little.

Nowadays Facebook doesn't care about inappropriate content being posted there. Animal cruelty videos are a-okay! I reported so many but was told "this doesn't violate terms of service blah blah blah". They were happy to give me a temporary ban for jokingly telling a friend "I'm gonna bonk you over the head", though. The Facebook of today is only interested in pushing AI on its users as aggressively as possible. So glad I quit using my account.

These are from about 15 years ago.

I have never seen this but it looks similar to the Papa's Pizzaria etc games from Cool Maths Games (which are actually still around)

And after all you’re my…

Do people think anyone doesn't remember Cars?

Anybody remember Kellog's Corn Crackos? I think the name "Cracko" might not have been the best choice, all things considered.

What’s that?

The Papa John's Winners Circle would be comprised of the patrons of other pizza places.

Whoa! I haven't thought about these in decades! I had a bunch of Micronauts right around the time the original Star Wars came out. After that, it was all about the Star Wars action figures.

Yep, they are still in stores. I saw some today in Hamrick's.