“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? 🙋🏻♀️
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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.
Pictures That Make You Feel Old
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.)
You got to go to the skating rink? I basically got told that no one was going to pay good money for ice skates so I could just bike myself off to the gloriously free entertainment at the library... XD
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Freedom at the skating rink, the movies, the bowling alley, the fun park. . . .
I remember one day when my aunt dropped my siblings, cousins, and me at the movies to see the original animated '101 Dalmations'. I was the oldest of the 7 of us at about 10 or 11 years old so I was in charge. It was a matinee so the place was filled with kids. We had popcorn, candy, and wax lips and sat in the very first row to watch it. I can still feel my sore neck!
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Anyone else's rink have the All-night Skate? I think our overprotective parents may have let me and my siblings go once.
Every Friday night!! It was the highlight of the week. We'd call boys we liked from the payphone at the rink. :)
Not mine!!!!! Mine got on ice-skates...with her handbag on her arm...and skated with me in Rockefeller Center. Mom was not a young mom either. I was probably 10 and she was probably around 40. Mom died at 51...a week before my wedding. I made this huge painting 5ftX6ft many years ago, You can see us in the center...skating. IMG_4397-6...b201bf.jpg 
We didn't have a skating rink in my town, but we did have 3 playgrounds, 2 parks, and over a dozen big grass fields within walking distance (anything less than 2 miles was considered walking distance) for the poor kids (of which I was one) and a bowling alley with a pinball machine and a Pac-Man cabinet for those with rich parents...
Umm no. Mass shootings everywhere make parents paranoid.
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My folks dropped us at the bus stop so we could go to the city to see a movie in a theatre. Before we were old enough to go into the city alone, we could ride the bus to the bridge that divided our suburbs from the big city. Get off and change sides and ride back home on a different bus . It was a common activity for kids in the summer. It was a great way to learn how to behave on public transit when there weren't as many people riding the bus to work.
I can't even remember how many times my mother and her bestie shoved $10 at us and sent us off to the Steel Pier so they could go gamble in the nearest casino.
I can remember my mother giving me a dollar bill to go to the movies, and reminding me to give back the change.
First! Yup, every Saturday night all my friends hopped in the back of the pickup! Yes, we all survived! Lol
Omg 😱 and your still alive to talk about it Today your parents would be put in prison for negligence
Yup. In North Pole, Alaska, drop offs were necessary in winter if you lived more than 1/2 mile away.
In the UK here, when I was about 8 or 9 there was a mini-bus from our small town to the city, about 25 miles away, on Sunday afternoons that we took to the skating rink. The driver didn't supervise us in the rink, just loads of kids having fun. Well it was until I cut the tip of my older brother's finger off.
Then they would forget to pick us up and we would stand around in a deserted parking lot in the dark.
yes and our rink had a swimming pool too where you could just spend all day skating and swimming
We'd get dropped at the lake without adult supervision. There was no lifeguard.
We would get dropped off at the movie theater, that cost $0.49, then walk 4 miles home
Some people still do that. Even drop them off at the library and go off shopping for hours.
My community does a once a month outdoor skate night (with a theme!) with a DJ playing dark wave music from the 80’s. It’s a blast!
My uncle used to have a truck and he would take me, my sister and 4 cousin's (his kids) to either roller skate or ice skate on Friday nights and would pick us up later and bring us home. We got to ride in the bed of the truck. I wish my kids could feel riding in the back of a truck. My friends mom bought a convertible and took us for a ride. It was magical to have no roof of a car. I really miss my childhood.
We walked to the local pond and skated outside. As long as the big kids didn't crack the ice, you were good.
Age 5+ we'd get up v early during long summer holidays, have creal in front the telly, then run out the door and only come back when Mam called us in for our tea (she'd have to yell out the upstairs back window). Everyone's Mam did the same thing, they didn't worry where we were.
Those were the days. I remember having a skate box covered in stickers
Best times of my life. I'm still pretty good on a pair of skates, if I do say so myself.
We didn't have a skating rink in my town but we had a pool, would spend pretty much all summer there just being dropped off with money.
Is that not a thing anymore? Do the parents just wait there? The whole time?
Had my first kiss at a skating rink in 5th grade. And with a 7th grader. Sorry but baller!
Parents still do this where my son used to work at an indoor adventure park, expecting them to watch their kids
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.
Pictures That Make You Feel Old
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
Hey Hey We're The Monkees!
Stairway To Heaven
Back when music was played by real musicians on real instruments. No AutoTune, no ProTools, no computers... You made it back then because you had talent and you worked for it.
Oh Yeah, And Calling After 11 Pm Was Even Cheaper
My Parents Had One Of These. When They Left Home I Cranked It Up
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Fisher Price Motion Ball Toy
Oh wow. I had one of these as a toddler. I honestly didn't know I could still hold memories from that far back.
Didn’t Get One. I’ve Been Working Since I Was 15
Whatever empty soda and beer cans my brother and I could collect, we split the money. 0.05$ per can went a lot further in the 80s.
All Of These
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Yes and the shag carpet. My mother even had a rake for the carpet
Yes And I Wish There Were Some Of Those Stations Around Now. Sometime Don't Feel Like Jumping In And Out Of The Car
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I'm this old, but the only "brand-name" cereal that my parents ever bought was Grape-Nuts, so no way would we get anything that cool...
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Cars were cool back then; real works of art with engines that go very fast!
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Having This Big Box Was Like Winning The Crayon Lottery!!!!
Sylvester Stallone 31 Years Later...wow
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Not Old, Just Wise!
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Those Really Were Some Happy Days
He Was Known As The Most Trusted Man On TV!!
I Still Like Caramels
This Woman Does Not Look Her Age. One Of The Prettiest Women That I've Ever Seen Growing Up.❤️ Jaclyn Smith, 77, And Her 40 Year Old Son, Gaston!
A Real Great Throwback Game
And Snap. And War. And a few others. Oh, and the original Yahtzee.
Wow! I Remember This Doll House With Some Furniture. I Loved It
A Rat In Tom's House Might Eat Tom's Ice Cream
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Bob's Big Boy
A Random Picture Of Kids Playing Back In The Day, 1970s. No Cell Phones. Your Thoughts Please:
Unfortunately I life that is COMPLETELY gone. I actually feel sorry 4 kids today. They will never know the IMMENSE pleasure & freedom we experienced!!
Saturday Night Fever!!!
What A Great Show. I Was So Scared Watching This With My Mom. I Loved It Even Though It Scared Me Real Good
Oh Yes It Was Fun Shopping With Grandma!
Back When We Had To Make Change Lol! I First Used One When I Worked In A Local Bakery During High School
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I look at this picture and wonder how many are still alive today and what their life in now compared to what they thought it would be.
I Loved These!! Grammie Would Give Me Money For Candy If I Was Good. Which I Always Was!
Nurses With Uniforms
They still wear uniforms. Just not these ridiculous ones.
The Archie Show (1968-69)
Then At 5oclock You'd Have World News Come On!
Johnny Mathis
Older Than Dirt And Proud Of It. We Lived The Good Life And Still Going Strong
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Her first big hit was “different drum” when she was a member of the stone poneys
Yup I Do And We Walked To School In All Kinds Of Weather!!
Loved A&w Frosty Root Beers!!! Throw A Scoop Of Vanilla In It Too!!
Lost In Space, My Fav Show As A Kid. Still Love It
Pete, Linc And Julie
Mr Whipple!!!
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I Loved This When I Finally Got It But It Was Short Lived
Glass Grapes... I Wonder If Anyone Still Has Some
I remember my great great aunt had these sitting on the coffee table.
The Pogo Stick Itself Was Created In The Late 1800s, But It Wasn't Until 1957 That The Two-Handle Version — Its Modern Iteration — Was Invented By George Hansburg
Two Brady Girls And Joe Namath
Even when he was young, Joe Namath had a s**t-eating smirk. He's still stuck on himself 50 years later.
'tennesee Tuxedo And His Tales' (1963-66)
When Us Girls Wore Boots Like These!!!
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50s Or 60s Era White Rubber With A Pretty Swirled Design
Adam-12 Was A Terrific Program
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True, But I Could Argue Ground Round!
Sitting On This In The Summer Is One Of Those Lasting Memories
I Remember Kiddie Land
They still have rides like this on boardwalks at various East Coast beaches. :)
Loved This In The 70s
We Had A Coal Stove, It Was Messy And Dirty. Hated Emptying The Ashes
A wood burning stove. And, I'm a millennial. I guess being rural poor and really old have many things in common.
An Old-Fashioned Horse Shoe Game
These were all the rage at my family reunions on both sides of my family!
My Mom's Wringer Washer!
The only washer my mom ever had. When her original one finally gave up on her, we thought, "oh good, finally we'll get an automatic washer!" Nope, she bought a new one like this, except hers had a square tub. She believed it got clothes cleaner and she'd put her favorite tunes on the old GE radio, and enjoyed her "alone time" while spending hours in the laundry room, washing clothes for a family of eight. With the exception of during winter, she always hung everything outside on the clothesline.
Shakeys Pizza
"The Keg In The Woods Nights…..hiding From The Police .." 🙌my Towns Spot Was Out By The Tracks Near The Edge Of Town. Lotta Hazy Memories!!
Father Knows Best - Elinor Donahue & Billy Gray...anyone Old Enough To Recall This Classic?
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Marlo Thomas Recently Posted This Wonderful Window Into She And Phil's Life...'on The Town For Our 43rd Anniversary. A Matinee And Then Dinner! A Happy Celebration! ❤️' What A Wonderful Photo!!
Chop Suey
Most Popular Aftermarket Wheel Ever. Prove Me Wrong. 🤷♂️ Cragars Was Super Popular Back Then
Didn't matter what car you had, these ALWAYS looked damn good on it. Have a 1977 Pinto wagon with the fake woodgrain decals on the side? Throw some of these on it and it was instantly bad-@$$...
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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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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