Nostalgia

[Kulindahr]

 

[Kulindahr]

 

[Kulindahr]

 

[Rickrock]

What post #9 called a laundry mangle we called a wringer on our old washing machine. You would run clothes through it to squeeze the excess water out before you hung the clothes on the clothes line to dry.

Below is a crank to open or close a car window instead of buttons.

 

[Dargelos]

Buying cigarettes;
I had to walk to the shop to get my mother's cigs.
" 20 Embassy please"
"Are you sure you're old enough, son?"
"They're for me mam"
"Here you are, What a helpful boy you are"
If the shop was closed, there was a machine outside, but that was only as a last resort.
These machines would often take your money but not put out.

 

[smokeshadow]

You're really old if you know what this thing was used for

 

[me203]

These machines would often take your money but not put out.

I think I've heard straight guys make that complaint about a date...

 

[me203]

The cigarette vending machine photo above reminds of the vending machines I saw many years ago, although they were much different looking. The other thing that is long gone--at least in my area--are open shelves of cigarettes at grocery store checkout.

 

[me203]

" 20 Embassy please"
"Are you sure you're old enough, son?"
"They're for me mam"
"Here you are, What a helpful boy you are"

I have a vague sense there was a scene in a Hardy Boys book when one of the characters (one of the Hardys' friends, I think) is in a store buying cigars "for my father." (I can't remember what book, but I'm pretty sure it was 1959 or later book. I also can't remmeber if he was actually sent to buy cigars, or if it was a cover to get into the store to search for clues. In either case, that scene wouldn't fly today.

I think there was a scene, too, in a Three Investigators book where someone sneaks into a place selling alcohol whiile investigating the current mystery. Again, someting I don't think you'd see today if that series was still around.

 

[Kulindahr]

 

[Kulindahr]

We used to do that when visiting cousins were almost arriving and dedicate a song to them.

 

[Vannie]

How about Rock em Sock em robots.

 

[Kulindahr]

 

[rareboy]

All of these things I am old enough to remember.

But I am also old enough to remember when US soldiers fought to defeat fascism and totaliatarianism.

 

[unloadonme]

All of these things I am old enough to remember.

But I am also old enough to remember when US soldiers fought to defeat fascism and totaliatarianism.

WWII?

 

[Kulindahr]

 

[me203]

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I remember this approach for checking out library books, although it was only something used in school--up through junior high. Other paper-based places used other methods. I remember a system that used cards like this, but as I recall only had ID numbers stamped on them using some machine that would take the library card (which had raised printing of ID numbers, like credit cards used to have). I think one library I remember just had slips of paper that one would fill out. I'm not sure how those slips were processed.

Antoher old fart memroy: library card catalogs using real cards. I saw that everywhere growing up, except for one library system, which had the catalog on microfiche.

 

[LilBit]

If I had to use a microfiche machine to find a book, I'd walk the hell out of that library and never return.

 

[Rickrock]

I do remember library cards like that, but it is such a faint memory.

 

[PalacePaul]

I know at least 2 libraries that keep those real cards in small drawers as a tribute to their long history.