“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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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? 🙋🏻♀️
Actually, Nissan was an existing car company in Japan, who created the Datsun name when they started selling in the US car market. The idea was to slightly insulate themselves from what happened in America, so that if their attempt to break into a new market flopped it wouldn't hurt the reputation of their brand name.
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Nice, friend of mine has a 240 that is pristine
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Well, all of us born in Yugoslavia sure do😁some even have it still😁
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A cargo plane carrying car parts had a mid-air explosion. It was raining Datsun cogs.
Daewoo cars, still sell Them brand new here in Norway. They are a lot cheaper than most new cars, popular here. Looks good. Like not so big SUV
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In Norway we translated Datsun to "Datt sund" which means "Fall apart" as in breaking apart. Because that what "Datsun" sounds like in Norwegian... 🫣
Funny thing, GM had a similar problem in Mexico with the Nova. Apparently it means "no go" in Spanish.
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I should have taken a picture. I was parked next to the Datsun Z owners club at an event today.
One of the more interesting Datsuns: 240Z image_2023...d91d9f.png 
My stepfather had an old Datsun, then, when he could afford it, bought a brand new Nissan Sunny 🚙😃
Anyone else remember the (racist) joke about how Datsun got its name? It involved an Asian person saying "that soon?" as to when the new car brand would be ready. We all heard that one in the 80's at some point. Back when racist jokes were "acceptable". :(
The Asian carmaker asked the Germans for a car name, but they had to have it in a week. "Dat soon?", replied the Germans. It 's more a language/accent joke.
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I had a Datsun truck in high school AND a B210 in college. Everything in the interior was either plastic or vinyl.
When I was 16 I bought a lightly used '74 Datsun 710. That was a great car and I absolutely loved it. Literally cried when it got totaled.
I had a two door and a four door(The Wife's car) great Cars(Datsun 510s
Actually, the name came about when a Japanese automaker went to its German marketing company and said it needed a catchy name for its cars in two weeks. To which the marketing rep exclaimed "Daat Zoon?!"
After I was born, I was brought home from the hospital in a Datsun. It was red!
I do😃! My parents brought me home from the hospital in a Datsun after I was born☺️!
My first car, a Datsun 1200. Bought it from my brother for $750 in the 70's. I think I over paid.
They were Datsun in the USA only because the company feared that Nissan would drive away UAS buyers.
My dad had a cute little Datsun pickup truck, but the motor in my Ford Pinto was bigger!
Yeah!! My Mom had a Datsun B210 hatchback with an 8track player!
I owned a 1965 Nissan Patrol 4WD, it kind of looked like an old Land Rover.
My friend had a Datsun pickup truck and I saw many vehicles with a "Datsun/Nissan" badge for a very few years.
My first car was a Datsun, lowest of the line stick shift, no radio, no a/c, roll up windows 1973.
Had a Datsun truck with 3,000 original miles, finally traded it in the Nissan and they gave us $3,000 in trade in
Me. My brother had a Datsun he had bought from a neighbor. It was a good four door little car.
The first and only time I drove over 100mph (160kph) was in a Datsun. I've never been so terrified or so exhilarated in all my life.
We had a sky blue Datsun station wagon with genuine imitation wood grain paneling that we used fffffooooorrrreeeevvvveeerrr. It had plastic (vinyl?) seats that could blister your thighs in the summer and an engine held together with chicken wire and duct tape and a couple of my barrettes.
My nana and granda had a datsun sunny, there was more rust on it that paint, was only about 6 years old. Terrible cars.
Wasn't it something like a 280Z..., which was a super sporty model that everybody wanted?
When I was a teenager, my Dad had a Datsun 280-Z. His job was in Sales Management and he did a ton of driving for work everyday -- and unfortunately, he got quite a few tickets for speeding in that car. The ironic thing is that - in life - my Dad was a total and complete rule-follower. He was a sincere, honest man who always obeyed the rules of the road .. it's just that when he got behind the wheel of his 280-Z, he never intentionally meant to speed .. it's just that his foot seemed to turn into lead every time he was driving that car. Not long after his last speeding ticket, he sold the car because it was giving him "so much trouble" LOL 😂 He ended up getting a luxury Old-Dad-Car, and he never got another speeding ticket again.
My first car was a Datsun 1200 and the next was a 240K. Both great cars and have great memories around them. The 240K was a bit cool at the time!
Husband and I had a truck that the big letters shaped in the metal on the tailgate said Nissan and it had a little plastic Datsun on the bottom corner of the tailgate.
I remember when Toyota’s were considered to be junky cars. Now we have a 2005 Camry that runs like a top. Sure, you’ve got to repair stuff every year - this year it was a new gas tank, but $1k in repairs a year is better than monthly car payments. I also remember when Volkswagen Beetles were common enough that we played Punch Buggy on family car trips.
Datsun 1200. like a tin can and got awesome mileage. Loved that car in the early 70's
I do! I learned to drive in a Datsun Cherry and my first car was a Nissan Micra, I totally knew they were the same company
Our second car was a Datsun, my parents sold both cars to buy an 86 Commodore
My grandfather had a Datsun when I was very little. He would make it backfire to amuse me
A chap went outside and was instantly showered with bits of machinery. He immediately went back indoors and said 'Don't go out there, it's raining Datsun cogs.'!
We had a B210 that the horn honked if you had the blinker on and the lights on and you turned left. They never were able to fix it.
Ummm, considering the simple fact that Datsun was a subsidiary of Ford and Nissan actually had cars on the road for 2 years before they BOUGHT Datsun, this is slightly inaccurate...
Who remembers when Datsun, was DAT. It was then Datson because the compact cars were "the son of DAT. It was changed later to Datsun because to japanese speakers son means loss.
My father had a '79 Datsun 210 sedan. I hated that car. Tinny, noisy, slow and uncomfortable. He put 250,000 miles on it
My dad had three Datsuns; many fond childhood memories with them! He had a tear in his eye when his B210 died and they towed it away :(
What I remember about Datsuns is that they rusted like crazy. Not made for Canadian winters, I guess.
Yep. My dad had a mean, green Datsun Machine...that my mom wouldn't let him drive me in because she didn't trust it. I was four, and had no opinions. lol
I had an 1986.5 Datsun/Nissan Truck. Right when the shift was happening. I loved that truck.
We had a Datsun "king cab". School bus orange. Was right around the time they were changing over to Nissan so dad got a deal. I miss that thing. Also, Nissan tried to sue a computer company for using the name. But Nissan was the family name.... Don't remember how that turned out.
My family of 5 took a camping vacay in my Datsun station wagon. The two teen boys were crowded by their sister's car seat for a 4 year-old, and the oldest always had to ride in front bc he was so big.
My husband and I had an orange 240Z. Loved that car! But it had suspension problems.
My mum had a bright yellow Datsun Sunny. Built like a tank. She hit black ice in a car park. The engine had been turned off already, but the initial momentum slid the car slowly towards a new model Vauxhall Cavalier parked nearby, and we watched in horror as, in slow motion, the Datsun's bumper edge crushed the driver's door like tissue paper. They don't make cars like that any more, lol.
My dad had a Datsun in the mid 80s. I wasn't around yet but I've seen the family photos.
My Dad used to make fun of my Uncle's love for Datsuns. Meanwhile he was driving a Chrysler (Mitsubishi) Lancer.
In 1976, I took Drivers Ed in a Datsun B210. The logo had a honeybee in it.
I remember. I wrecked a Datsun and have never physically been the same.
My parents had a Datsun 100a in a charming toxic greenish yellow. Although I was very young, I remember hating that color. Still when I look at old photos I wonder who thought that was a great color for a car, or anything else ever.
My first car was a 1973 Datsun GX Coupé, 1200 cc engine, 4 speed gearbox, 2 Nikei side draft carburetors, rear wheel driven that would just swerve anywhere on muddy roads.
Me too. That cat was AMAZING!! JUST KEPT DRIVING....& DRIVING....& DRIVING! DAMN REALLY KIDS THAT CAR!!
I remember hearing years and years ago about a new car that was about to be debuted, and they spoke with their marketing manager, saying they needed a name for the new car, and they needed it by the next day. The manager replied ... "dat soon?" I don't know if this was a joke, or for real.
Datsun didn't become Nissan. Datsun was a wholly owned subsidiary of Nissan which has owned the name since 1934.
A team of Japanese investors wanted to start a car company. They hired a prestigious German advertising agency and explained that they had a very tight deadline and needed a name for their company within 30 day. The account executive who had been assigned to this account heard the deadline and exclaimed "DHAT ZOON?!" The rest is history.
Executives at Nissan where unhappy with the company's name. They hired a consultant to come up with a new name. The Nissan executives also required the new name within one week. The consultant said "Dat soon?" The rest is history.
Old Joke, warning kinda racist: We need to come up with a name for our cars in America that sounds American in the next ten minutes... Dat Soon!?! That said I'd buy Nissan before anything from the USA these days.
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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.
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Division Was Goesinto
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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)
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!
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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.”
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"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.
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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.
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I mean, anyone who camps or backpacks still mows what a percolator is.
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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".
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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
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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)
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 😅
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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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