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But you remember waaaayyyyyyy back then.![]()
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?"
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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 A rotary dial phone is something of a defining item since they have been replaced by push button dialing phones and for quite a while so that many kids have no clue how they work.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 A rotary dial phone is something of a defining item since they have been replaced by push button dialing phones and for quite a while so that many kids have no clue how they work.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