11 Sounds your kids probally don't recognize

[Bruce Wayne]

http://www.mentalfloss.com/blogs/archives/106713

 

[Retro_GI_Jane]

My mother still has her stereo (looks like a huge oak hope chest) with her record player and 8-track player in it. I remember her brother always coming over and messing with the needle taping either a penny or dime on it so that it would balance right! And I'll never forget sneaking up in the middle of the night and turning on the tv once and seeing the test pattern and hearing the loud beep...it scared me enough to wonder if a monster was in the tv and I listened to my folks and stayed in bed after that! A lot of local stations around here still conclude their broadcast day the same way and the test pattern never fails to give me the heebie jeebies after all these years.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Geez, "remembering those from your past?" Most of those I remember from this morning.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

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I'd add to that the sounds of clip-clopping hooves and rumbling wagon wheels on cobblestones ... and the sound of a large ice block being slid into an icebox ... and the hum of a vacuum tube radio warming up.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Geesh, I remember ALL those sounds! :eeek:

8. TV Station Sign-Off

Before infomercials were invented, television stations actually went off the air for a few hours each night. Some of us TV-holics experienced physical withdrawal symptoms when we heard the announcer intone, “We now conclude our broadcast day…” around 2AM or so. The format varied little from station to station across the country; first a few technical details were announced (broadcast frequency, physical address of the station, etc.), then a reading of “High Flight” followed by the National Anthem, and then the steady beeeeeeeeeeeeeep tone of the test pattern.

Now there's a familiar voice when I was growing up! Though I never knew his name until now.

[video=youtube;NBkateT20kg]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NBkateT20kg&feature=player_embedded#![/video]

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Geesh, I remember ALL those sounds! :eeek:

So do I. (Spent some childhood summers in rural Belgium with my uncle. His kitchen water came from a large 100-year-old brass handpump connected to a well. Once a week, bottles of Coca-Cola were delivered to him in wooden tray crates. It was a very retro life.)

 

[I Adore Film Noir]

We had that green phone when our number ended in a W

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

9. Cash Register

Those chunka-chunka push buttons were clumsy, but (unlike the fellow in this video) veteran cashiers could check you out just as fast with these old-style machines as their modern counterparts do with today’s scanners.

As a kid I was always fascinated by the different colored buttons on those old cash registers. Years later when I worked at an electronics surplus store we had one of those machines sitting in the back room which we used to play with. I should have offered to buy it even though it weighed a ton.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I doubt there's anyone under 40 who knows what a mechanical dial tone sounds like -- it's nothing like the electronic tone you hear today.

 

[scottyrocks]

Yep, I remember all that stuff. I want to get an old rotary desk phone, but it would go over like cement shoes in my house.

 

[Gene]

At the service station right by my house, you drive up and hear a "ding ding" and someone comes out to ask if you want your oil and tire pressure checked. They wash your windows while they pump your gas too. I used to work there a couple summers ago, and it's still in full operation today!

 

[Talbot]

The bakelite rotary dial phones here would briefly 'bell' when you picked up the reciever. It was the first thing you heard when you called one and they picked up.

 

[Connery]

The sounds of the seltzer-man and the fizz of the bottle

Seltzer Man Is Out of Action, and Brooklyn Thirsts~~~A nice story with a great video, "The Last of the Fizz Business"
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/26/nyregion/26seltzer.html

I can go for an Egg Cream right now!

 

[1930artdeco]

I am just barely 40 and I remember all of that stuff. Do I hear shopping spree?

Mike

 

[Atomic Age]

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I'd add to that the sounds of clip-clopping hooves and rumbling wagon wheels on cobblestones ... and the sound of a large ice block being slid into an icebox ... and the hum of a vacuum tube radio warming up.

Not just the hum but the smell too.

Doug

 

[Atomic Age]

I doubt there's anyone under 40 who knows what a mechanical dial tone sounds like -- it's nothing like the electronic tone you hear today.

Here is the classic mechanical switching system dial tone.

http://www.telephonetribute.com/audio/dialtone.wav

Doug

 

[Atomic Age]

Yep, I remember all that stuff. I want to get an old rotary desk phone, but it would go over like cement shoes in my house.

I own 5 or 6. Why would it go over badly? They don't take up much space and you can pick them up fairly cheap.

Doug

 

[scottyrocks]

THe sound of the endless food trucks rolling down my block. Mr Softee, Freezer Fresh, Bungalow Bar, , Ruby the Knish Man, Chow Chow Cup, Pizza Truck. The ride trucks - The Whip, King Kong . . . The smell of the diesel. The roar of the large motors in the rear of these vehicles as they powered the devices that kept ice cream cold, and pizza and Chinese food hot, and moved mechanical rides.

 

[Shangas]

I've heard...

1. My parents used to have one.
2. I grew up learning how to type on a typewriter (not exactly like that one, but the sounds were similar).
3. Oh yes. I remember this one. Gran happened to be a big coffee-drinker.
4. Yes. I remember this from my parents' old cameras.
5. I don't think I ever heard this.
6. See above. Dad did have a record-player, but it broke before I was around.
7. No.
8. No.
9. Yes.
10. No. At least, I don't remember it.
11. No. See #6 for why.

 

[rue]

I remember every single one of those things and in fact the percolator and the broken record can still be heard at my house. I'm working on getting a rotary dial phone or two .....