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You would know.
But you are older
You would know.
But you are older
But you remember waaaayyyyyyy back then.
and YOU remember even farther back
About two seconds.
More like 6 months
oooooohhhhh! Like I remember anything from when I was 6 moths old.
Sterling silver telephone dialers have disappeared ... even Tiffany & Co. doesn't sell 'em anymore. "Where have you gone, Holly Golightly?"
Now and then you'll read about people bringing in old devices and items into a class room for grade school kids to look at and try to figure out what it was for with interesting results. A rotary dial phone is something of a defining item since they have been replaced by push button dialing phones and for quite a while so that many kids have no clue how they work. So an item used for saving your finger nails when using a rotary dial phone is even more remote from todays life.
Now and then you'll read about people bringing in old devices and items into a class room for grade school kids to look at and try to figure out what it was for with interesting results. A rotary dial phone is something of a defining item since they have been replaced by push button dialing phones and for quite a while so that many kids have no clue how they work. So an item used for saving your finger nails when using a rotary dial phone is even more remote from todays life.
Isn't that awful? When I was a kiddie, maybe 8 or 9, a younger teacher brought in a turntable for show-and-tell intending to show the class how it worked. She was having some trouble, so I approached, took the record from her hand, and did it with ease. She and the class looked at me like I had 3 heads!
My parents don't live in a time warp, but they had old things around the house. One of them was a rotary phone manufactured in 1948 that sits on my desk beside me as I type this. I always knew how to use it, and spent a few weekends with my dad getting it to work again (it hadn't in some time.) I was maybe 16 when we did... Wasn't that long ago. I get my contemporaries to play with it whenever I can, because its funny to watch them try and figure it out.
They can't figure out how to use a rotary phone?! lol lol lol Can they open Ketchup bottles?
I kid you not! They usually start by pushing on the numbers, then try to wiggle the dial back and forth instead of pulling it over to the finger stop. I don't let them touch my turntable or gramophone, but their faces when they see me do it are priceless.
As for ketchup, we always bring a guy along, just in case
I kid you not! They usually start by pushing on the numbers, then try to wiggle the dial back and forth instead of pulling it over to the finger stop. I don't let them touch my turntable or gramophone, but their faces when they see me do it are priceless.
As for ketchup, we always bring a guy along, just in case
Does ketchup even come in glass containers anymore? All I see are those upside-down plastic squeeze containers.
In many restaurants here they still come in glass containers.
There's another thing that's a lost art (it's probably somewhere in this thread already, but...) - Glass bottles! I love the ones I need a bottle opener for. Seeing someone these days try to open one reminds me of Marty McFly lol