Remember when?

[detmatt]

When visiting your friends actually required knocking on the door to see if they were home.
Rear seat facing backwards.
Fold out paper maps.

 

[66Newyorker]

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It’s not a movie it’s a test pattern!

 

[Davea Lux]

My grandma still "starches" her clothes in the sink, she said it was commonplace before the 50s. She does all her laundry by hand, washing, starching, ironing, and hanging on a clothes line to dry. Her clothes always look perfect, but feel like cardboard. Does anyone else remember shirt sleeves sharp enough to cut bread?

Also does anyone remember other things like this that were once part of everyday life that are now forgotten?

I remember getting military tidy whites back from the quartermaster that had so much starch that they tore when you tried to pry them apart. OD greens used to do the same thing.

Dave

 

[cm23uoc]

And this is all I can picture of you taking that stroll.

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I always had a soft spot for Plaid Patterns, they were popular in the second half of the 60s for furniture and lampshades as well. Got a few items as well.
Also fascinating is the more or less opposite to this thread: Things that are around mostly unaltered for decades as the Baracuta jacket for example, I think this was even a 30s creation. That's me wearing it. ;)

 

[66Newyorker]

Bathing in a cast iron kitchen sink, using an outhouse.

 

[Davea Lux]

Bathing in a cast iron kitchen sink, using an outhouse.

Writing Sears to request a new catalogue because you were down to the index.

Dave

 

[66Newyorker]

Writing Sears to request a new catalogue because you were down to the index.

Dave

My mom would tell me about her being the youngest of seven and trying to hide the Sears catalog index from the rest of her siblings so she would have the soft pages.

 

[Davea Lux]

My mom would tell me about her being the youngest of seven and trying to hide the Sears catalog index from the rest of her siblings so she would have the soft pages.

Berry field out houses had either Sears catalogues or old phone books in rural Oregon.

Dave

 

[Big_John]

Small town parades.

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They do them in my town.

 

[Davea Lux]

Hillsboro, Or does a 4th of July Parade every year, about 5 mi away. Your usual small town parade, Dairy princesses and all that.

Dave

 

[LeBaron1973]

The days of stuff being home delivered, leaving money for the milk and bread people, newspaper on the lawn every morning, records, cassettes, 8-track cartridges.

 

[cm23uoc]

Luran plastic breakfast dishes.

 

[MoPar Maniac]

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I use that same focus chart at work every day to check focus on cameras.

 

[jct]

 

[Carmine]

Small town parades.

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I'm driving a Vietnam vet in one tomorrow. So few convertibles around anymore that they have to settle for t-tops. Of course, it's still better than using a Mercedes to drive around WWII vets, which personally disgusts me.

 

[polarus]

TV antennas, free TV, full service stations, phone booths, road signs with reflector buttons, concrete guardrails with metal cables, passing zones.

 

[commando1]

 

[commando1]

"Downtown" aka "intown".
Where you bought EVERYTHING.

Food, shoes, dungarees, bakery, eyeglasses... Everything.

 

[GregG48203]

plastic dishes

We grew up with a product called "Daileyware". I was still using it up until just a few years ago. It wasn't really designed with microwaves in mind.

 

[Carmine]

We grew up with a product called "Daileyware". I was still using it up until just a few years ago. It wasn't really designed with microwaves in mind.
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We're using the 5lb avacado green stoneware plates I grew up with. Probably not designed for microwave either, but they were around at the same time. (Microwave in background)

P.S. I guess you can add Coppertone Frigidaire appliances to the list.