“Do You Remember When”: 50 Pics That Might Not Make Any Sense If You’re Too Young (New Pics)
A walk through one’s old bedroom or visiting a mall you used to go to can hit you with a wave of nostalgia and memories that you often didn’t even know existed. Without these reminders, it can be hard to sometimes remember how things have changed.
The “Do You Remember When” Facebook page is dedicated to images, memes, and even ads that might jog some deeply buried memory. From plywood furnishings to pogo sticks, these posts are a real blast from the past, so get comfortable as you scroll through, be sure to upvote your favorites and comment your thoughts below.
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Pictures That Make You Feel Old
Gum And Comic For A Penny
Love It!
“Getting old” can be a pretty relative term. While most of us would agree that pensioners are “old,” you can also be hit by a wave of “oldness” when you first realize that you aren’t quite as up-to-date with popular culture. Or perhaps you overhear the younger generation (whose existence is already a sign) refer to the films you watch or music you listen to as “retro.”
Despite our best efforts, there is no escape from getting older. Of all the processes on this planet, the passage of time is the one we can’t even start to influence. Realistically, people need to make peace with the fact that every second they fight aging, they age regardless. Instead, images like the ones in this post serve to remind and perhaps educate beyond anything else.
I Have Several, Two Of Which I Inherited From My Parents!
It's also where we keep the restaurant menus, scotch tape and batteries. 🫣
Had A Datsun B210
Who just learned that Datsun became Nissan, and that they’re not mutually exclusive car brands? 🙋🏻♀️
Pictures That Make You Feel Old
I remember when we first got a phone that had a speakerphone function. That was groundbreaking.
In much of the world, aging is actually celebrated. In Korea, when one turns 60, they will have a special party called a hwangap. Part of this celebration’s history comes from the fact that many people in the pre-modern era did not even reach the age of 60. As a result, Koreans have also started to celebrate “Gohi” or “Chilsun” when they turn 70 and “Palsun” when they reach the venerable age of 80.
Pictures That Make You Feel Old
Division Was Goesinto
Pictures That Make You Feel Old
One reason to make your peace with aging is that it can actually help you live longer. A positive self-perception of health in old age appears to be directly correlated with longer lifespans. So if living as long as possible is really important, then it’s almost as vital to believe it will happen. Worrying just wastes time for little-to-no gain.
This Brings Back So Many Memories (Of Getting Thorned)
It was not like they disappeared with the great millennial berry bug.. [🎱🐻y]
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I didn't learn to do this until just recently, ie. 25 years ago. Still do. I forage in the street and in parks.
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I’m a teenager and this applies. The blackberry brambles near my house are a hybrid wild/domestic type, so they’re extra big and good
I'd visit my grandparents for two weeks every summer in Northern CA, and every morning my grandfather would pick red raspberries, We'd have a huge bowl each. One of my best childhood memories. Also, corn on the cob from his garden. My grandma would start the water boiling, and we'd pick the corn, shucking them as we raced back to the house to have the freshest ear of corn ever.
This needs more context. I don't think people stopped eating berries off bushes.
me, too! Picked a few more blackberries today to use in a cobbler this week. They're growing in my moms' backyard, she planted them 20 years ago. :-)
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Yep, when it's a good crop and the local wildlife doesn't get them. They grow wild around some of the stations I tend to. My wife told me if I can get enough, she would make me a cobbler. 😃😁🥰
My husband and I still go picking blackberries now and we still eat some straight off the bush.
Omg !! In the woods down the street , there was an area full of them , they were always one of the best parts of summer growing up ! We’d eat tons of them , and guess what !? No one ever got sick and we’re all still alive today to talk about it
I still do at 55, I have some that grow at the edge of the woods in my backyard. They make a great homemade cobbler.
I wait anxiously for the flowers to appear, then every single day go out to see how they're doing and how many have ripened overnight-- then I eat them!
I still do this, there's a few that grow wild on one of my usual dog walk routes.
my parents removed ours because my siblings and I with the neigbours kids 'painted' their pure white bull terrier. He got a big B on his head coz his name was Buddy lol
my ex's uncle gave his wife some thornless bushes for her garden, he then strung the for her on barbed wire
The bottom of my feet were a constant hue of purple from running around barefooted, we had 2 mulberry trees.
I still had these up to a few years ago. How come the biggest ones grow on steep banks?
And then got terrible diarrhea for their troubles. Still delicious, though.
As an adult, actually. My husband at the time liked blackberry pie. I didn't
I grow them in my yard! They came with the house and come back every year.
Brother and I would often be given a container by mum after dinner and sent over the back fence to collect blackberries to have for dessert.
Bush ? We went on the side of the road in Georgia. Black berries grow everywhere here but mostly on the edges of fields and roads.
There was a huge patch near the swimming hole we went to. Paths worn among the canes by many years of doing the same thing. I convinced my little sister the red ones were for girls.
Still do this, so do my children and grand daughter. Only way to eat them.
Yep neighbors bushes and picked their flowers that stuck thru the fence.
Hey ! Where are the gooseberries or even the choke cherries ? Oh course no one could eat the chokecherries without a boatload of sugar lol
Every chance we could and trying to clean off the stains from your hands or clothes was almost unheard of...my mom was relentless and almost always got all the stains out of our clothing and definitely from our hands and faces
I had very fine, waist-length hair and my brother pushed me into a blackberry bush. Took forever to get me out of it and all the briars out of my hair.
My mam would send me out with an ice cream container to pick them for her
I did, until I washed my own fresh batch from the garden. Half a sink of water, plenty of salt. You won't believe how many bugs surfaced 🤢 But really, so so many. After a second wash I just gave up. Still so many tiny bugs floated between those gorgeous berries... I couldn't get over it.
Fun fact: The Dutch word for "boy" is "jongen". The j is pronounced like a y.
The word youngin identifies your age and point of origin even more than eating the berries.
There's a massive busy of these at my bus stop. I made them into crumble. It was delicious.
We still head down to the park at the bottom of our subdivision, every year, to pick them
I did until I saw how many bugs came out when my gran soaked them before making jam.
I ate them off the bush last spring. Still have some in the freezer for pancakes.
I still take my nephews and nieces out to get blackberries in late August.
Me! A bush down the block and a tree on the way to school ~1973 or so...
I still do, found a patch recently by one of the nearby bus stops. Far enough away to be hidden, but close enough for a walk. So dang good.
My stepmother had a driveway about a quarter mile long, and one side was raspberries the whole way. I could stay out there for two hours picking and eating
We still do. However, this is how my dad died last year on 5th August. Picking blackberries. Very dangerous! We still don’t know if it was a fall that caused a heart attack or whether it was a heart attack that caused the fall. We searched but he’d fallen into really thick undergrowth. We were inches away from him but couldn’t see him. One of those ‘What If’ brain worries.
One of my best memories as a kid was "accidentally" discovering raspberry bushes at camp. We just happened to go on a nature walk, and just happened to find the bushes...and the camp kitchen just happened to have all the ingredients to make pies...
Still do ... there were a couple years during the mass government Paraquat spraying on Marijuana -- which meant spraying everywhere from the air
It does not take 3 year olds long to learn that the blacker they are the better they are. I stopped harvesting them because it was too nice watching the neighbor twins come over and think they were stealing them. Now they are 4 and have an open invitation.
Have a few mulberry trees in my back yard... The neighbors look at me weird when I got outside in the morning with coffee and stand around eating off the tree...
I even got permission from the railway company to harvest their blackberries from besides the tracks. I think the guy on the phone may not have gotten the full picture, as I need to cross active tracks at least three times to reach the most harvestable bushes, but then again, I have those things called eyes, ears, ... it's not really dangerous, I don't hang out ON the tracks, but cross them after looking both ways, ... anyway, they're delicious!
Still do. I grow my own right outside my back door. I'd also have blueberries and blackberries if my cat Boo didn't chew them down to nubs.
We have wild ones right next to train tracks. If we use the pedestrian tunnel they are hangig above our heads. Every year I debate if one can eat them safely or if they are unhealthy because of trains and cars.
I Remember Swinging So High That The Poles Came Out Of The Ground. What Do You Remember?
It Was Much More Rewarding. I Miss Researching And Enjoy Reading My Encyclopedias!
After my parents bought me a set of Encyclopedias at the age of 11, I announced that I would no longer be going to school since I could now look up anything I needed to know!
Memory plays just as important a part. We tend to have a lot of what scientists call “flashbulb” memories, itself a reference to older cameras that would provide lighting with a bright flash from a lightbulb. These are instances, moments, and events that feel “burned” into our memories. Traumatic or important events are often featured, particularly if it was something shared with many people. Witnesses of 9/11 would be an example of “flashbulb” memories.
And When A Person Gets Older.....you Lose Them, In More Ways Than One! Lol
Tin Kaleidoscope Toy
That's my favorite toy. I enjoy all the colors and shapes and the way they change.
Yep, And My Dad Would Criticize My Teachers Handwriting For Being Illegible!
We do tend to remember our firsts, as they set the standards and expectations for most events. First kisses, first days of school, and first day on a job all feature here, even though subsequent ones will often be forgotten very quickly. Try to imagine a specific day in fourth grade in November and most of us will draw a blank, even though in the abstract we have an idea of what could have happened and what the classroom may have looked like.
Hey Boo Boo!
I Did It Way Back When When I Was In School And Then Made Them For My Kids!
Pictures That Make You Feel Old
You got dropped off? We would take ourselves there by bus or bike. (From about 10 years old.)
That being said, memories do degrade with the passing of time. Most “unimportant” memories disappear after the first couple of days unless there is a reminder or we convince ourselves to keep track of something. So if many of the things seen here are the first time you’ve thought of them in years, that’s a normal function of how our memory works. This “whiplash” of seeing something the brain has purposefully forgotten is also why these images might make someone feel “old.”
Pictures That Make You Feel Old
"I'm Strong To The Finich, Cause I Eats Me Spinach, I'm Popeye The Sailor Man!"
Drying My Hands In A Public Restroom, 1975
Of course, a lack of attention also plays a part. If you stop to carefully look around you, there are a lot of dates. Colors, shapes, textures. Remember, every place you have ever gone has an abundance of information that, thankfully, our brain filters out. It’s enough to know in the abstract that most walls have some sort of coat of paint without systematically categorizing every wall you have ever seen. It could be a cool party trick, but realistically you would just get overwhelmed.
Remember These Days ?
Eugene Levy, Dan Aykroyd, Gilda Radner, Rosemary Radcliffe, And John Candy, 1974, Sctv Cast
The Good Old Days Puts A Big Smile On My Face
Plus, as you age you take in a lot of new memories and information. Like building on top of a ruin, new memories “push back” older ones and make them harder to retain. The deeper these ideas are buried, the “older” one feels when they are rediscovered through the images here, or visiting a once-familiar place after a long time.
And The Sound Of Music Too!!
Just A Random Question
Can still find cans that open like this now. Corned beef comes to mind.
Pictures That Make You Feel Old
What also causes these feelings of “being old” is the fact that, despite what we often think, our memories are not actually recordings. We can misremember all sorts of details, falsify memories, and remove or add things that never actually happened. This only becomes apparent when we encounter images such as these that serve as a reminder that a lot of things we think we remember don’t actually look the way they did.
Kurt Russell And Goldie Hawn...40 Years Together
Instead of talking about how they look ... consider that they have loved each other for 40 fckn years. Most of you have NO idea what it is like to be with someone that long. ( been with my hubby 46yrs)
What A Truly Incredible Snapshot To A Simpler Time
The Flavor Only Lasted For Like A Second.. But It Was Super Delicious
But don’t despair, just because you can’t recall the precise model of a neighbor's car doesn’t mean that this memory is lost forever. Somehow, somewhere, you will probably come across something that will jog your memory into place, and you’ll get that little rush as a bit of your past rematerializes in your head. So if you are trying to unlock as many memories as possible, Bored Panda has got you covered, check out our other articles here and here.
Pictures That Make You Feel Old
I mean, anyone who camps or backpacks still mows what a percolator is.
Pictures That Make You Feel Old
WRONG! Ozzy and Harriet did it first and the stars were a real married couple and they insisted they were shown in bed together in 1952. So not animated but definitely "otherwise".
Pictures That Make You Feel Old
I Love The First Three Seasons Of The Show The Most. The Writing Was Really Sharp And Funny
I Absolutely Loved These!! Forgot About Them! The Tropical One Was My Favorite!
Look Out!!
Cue the coughing if somebody clapped these together and you were standing fairly close to that person for any reason!
Esp The All You Can Eat Buffet -- Absolutely The Best Bread Sticks In The World
Pictures That Make You Feel Old
Pictures That Make You Feel Old
Heck - This Was A Snack When I Was Growing Up
I Wonder What Happened To Mine
Meanwhile, my Norwegian grandparents had the old fashioned trolls...and I never fully recovered.
Childhood In A Jug! They Were Essential To Camping And Picnics!
Accurate As Heck
We Remember Baby Cribs That Looked Like This
U Only Had To Remember 4 Numbers The First 3 Were The Same Everywhere Near
My Mama Made Some Of The Best Fried Chicken Ive Ever Had In This Baby!!!
Cheech & Chong.... What Comes To Mind?
'scooby-Doo, Where Are You' (1969-75)
Only until Scrappy came along. Scrappy ruined Scooby Doo. If they ever make a Roger Rabbit 2 I hope Scrappy gets the DIP.
Never Seen This In My Life, Definitely Never Put Any In Any Toilets
My Husband Got Me One As I Was Always Cutting Up My Legs
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A lot of these are still around. Should change the title to nostalgia or something.
Yeah. I could do without the age baiting. I'm here for the memories, not the put-downs for the whippersnappers.
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I'm Gen Z and I've done/had/seen most of these??? Hello?? I don't get these articles
To be fair, most of them has become pop culture icons, so yeah of course most people would've done/had/seen them. Like the Flintstones, it's not aired anymore, but everybody knows them. Or the stupid alarm clock, it's not being sold anymore, but since EVERYBODY had them, the chance that you've seen them is pretty huge.
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It was a delight to see examples even 5 to 10 years older than I am. I'm not so old after all. Also a delight that most of these are international, not just limited to the USA.
Well, this was a waste of time. Did you mean: when I see these things, I think back to my youth? Or did you mean things that don't exist anymore (because epic fail)? Or, like the pictures of Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell and Cheech and Chong make me feel old? I don't get it: I looked at the FB page from which the "writers" compiled this mess, and there were so many choices that were actually true to the theme--how hard did they have to search for this mess?
The best part about a lot of these is they span a decent amount of generations. I’m a millennial and some of the older stuff (rotary phone, the crib, the electric counter top grill) were a regular part of my childhood because those products lasted so long. Also my dad worked for the phone company which explains why we had a working rotary phone at home into the 90’s.
Not my parent's house. Never one spec of paneling. Ever. Way to go, mom and dad!!!
I understand this post is just supposed to be nostalgic but I think it's funny that I understand/relate to over half of these and I'm only 17
61, and remember almost all of these. Life was better in many ways back then, but not in all ways.
Mimeograph! Microfiche! Card catalog! Dewey decimal system! Pop-o-matic bubble! "Calgon, Take me away!" "Ancient Chinese secret huh?" Lawn Darts! Mean Jo Green! "Where's the beef!?"
Horseshoe games that were actually horseshoes. Transistor radios! Ball and jacks, those were some great times for me! (We actually had a chance to attend church while in school; not sure if everyone was given this opportunity-I was raised in the Midwest)
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This is a wierd article - you can still do these things, and you are better than someone else because you did them and they didn't/ couldn't...
Typical gen z.... Offended because they feel left out 😅
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If you drank from a water hose in the US as a child your probably still doing OK today because of it.
Some young person who just discovered these, thinks no one else has never seen them either.
I l’île thinking about today’s kids looking at an article like this in 40 years. “Remember when we all carried a phone in our POCKETS?! How crazy was that!? And we had drones hat delivered our orders! It seems insane now, but people really lived like that!”
I'm not American, and I remember most of these things from my childhood (except the bubblegum and the TV ones). I grew up in Africa and spent childhood holidays in England.
Load More Replies... A lot of these are still around. Should change the title to nostalgia or something.
Yeah. I could do without the age baiting. I'm here for the memories, not the put-downs for the whippersnappers.
Load More Replies... I'm Gen Z and I've done/had/seen most of these??? Hello?? I don't get these articles
To be fair, most of them has become pop culture icons, so yeah of course most people would've done/had/seen them. Like the Flintstones, it's not aired anymore, but everybody knows them. Or the stupid alarm clock, it's not being sold anymore, but since EVERYBODY had them, the chance that you've seen them is pretty huge.
Load More Replies... It was a delight to see examples even 5 to 10 years older than I am. I'm not so old after all. Also a delight that most of these are international, not just limited to the USA.
Well, this was a waste of time. Did you mean: when I see these things, I think back to my youth? Or did you mean things that don't exist anymore (because epic fail)? Or, like the pictures of Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell and Cheech and Chong make me feel old? I don't get it: I looked at the FB page from which the "writers" compiled this mess, and there were so many choices that were actually true to the theme--how hard did they have to search for this mess?
The best part about a lot of these is they span a decent amount of generations. I’m a millennial and some of the older stuff (rotary phone, the crib, the electric counter top grill) were a regular part of my childhood because those products lasted so long. Also my dad worked for the phone company which explains why we had a working rotary phone at home into the 90’s.
Not my parent's house. Never one spec of paneling. Ever. Way to go, mom and dad!!!
I understand this post is just supposed to be nostalgic but I think it's funny that I understand/relate to over half of these and I'm only 17
61, and remember almost all of these. Life was better in many ways back then, but not in all ways.
Mimeograph! Microfiche! Card catalog! Dewey decimal system! Pop-o-matic bubble! "Calgon, Take me away!" "Ancient Chinese secret huh?" Lawn Darts! Mean Jo Green! "Where's the beef!?"
Horseshoe games that were actually horseshoes. Transistor radios! Ball and jacks, those were some great times for me! (We actually had a chance to attend church while in school; not sure if everyone was given this opportunity-I was raised in the Midwest)
Load More Replies... Sorry, I just glanced before I posted the last. Of course Sunbeam made them too!
This is a wierd article - you can still do these things, and you are better than someone else because you did them and they didn't/ couldn't...
Typical gen z.... Offended because they feel left out 😅
Load More Replies... If you drank from a water hose in the US as a child your probably still doing OK today because of it.
Some young person who just discovered these, thinks no one else has never seen them either.
I l’île thinking about today’s kids looking at an article like this in 40 years. “Remember when we all carried a phone in our POCKETS?! How crazy was that!? And we had drones hat delivered our orders! It seems insane now, but people really lived like that!”
I'm not American, and I remember most of these things from my childhood (except the bubblegum and the TV ones). I grew up in Africa and spent childhood holidays in England.
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