Here are some of the responses that might leave you feeling nostalgic or genuinely confused:
1.
“We smoked everywhere I mean EVERYWHERE.
Also, does anyone remember the mimeograph machine?
oddwolf64
3.
“I remember whenice creamcame in a square container, and we used to have to slice it.”
That was in the late ’50s, and I was about 4 or 5.
There was also a man who would come around and sell waffles.
Best waffles ever!”
deadpancadet63
5.
“Home fax machines.
They were kind of like instant messaging…only not as instant.
“I remember when telephone numbers consisted of letters AND numbers.
For example, I lived in a city called Globe.
My phone was GL7-2242.
The next town over was Diamond, so everyone’s phone number in that town started with DI.”
thompson_ginger
7.
“My almost 5-year-old recently asked me what kind of phone I had when I was 5.
It blew her mind when I told her that I didn’t have a phone.
That blew her mind even more.”
“In Melbourne, Australia, we had a dedicated ‘book of the roads’ called ‘Melways.’
The damn thing was stupidly heavy and confusing to read.
ricmauger
9.
Nowadays, all glass bottles are disposable.”
“Need to write a school paper?
Pull out the typewriter.
Need to choose a font?
Surprise you only get one!
Did you make a mistake?
itsallinallston
11.
“I showed my 19-year-old coworker a cassette tape.
She had no idea what it was and didn’t believe me when I told her.”
They lived in a very rural area.
vibrantjellyfish31
13.
Nobody kids or grown-ups was allowed to take items off the shelves because the grocer did it for everyone.
At the time, there was no such thing as a grocery cart.”
Anonymous
15.
“In junior high, girls could only wear dresses.
“Listening to the radio and hoping they would play the song you liked.
Because if you didn’t own the record, that was the only way to hear the song.
artf423c67d40
17.
“People who traveled on airplanes dressed up.
Men wore dress shirts and suits or sport jackets, and women wore nice dresses and heels.”
“It’s not an exaggeration whenever we say that smoking was allowed everywhere.
Also, planes used to have bars in them.
candyshoop
19.
“Back in the 1970s and 1980s, owneddogswere allowed to roam around a lot.
I grew up in a city, and owned dogs were everywhere unchained and unfenced.
Our dog would visit the neighbors every day and catch some sun in their backyard.
Sometimes he would go visit the vet hospital, which was about eight blocks away.
(He was car and street savvy.)
I feel like dogs nowadays are generally safer, but they’re also more bored and less social.”
“Whenever you went shopping for new shoes, there would be an X-ray machine in the store.
You could wiggle your toes and see the bones move.”
“In the ’50s, my mother had to have my father’s permission to use birth control.
“The house I grew up in had an incinerator in the basement.
Bud, 65, Arizona
23.
“I remember making clay ashtrays in my second-grade art class in the early 1980s.
etconner
25.
“Kids either walked to school or took the bus.
It was rare for a parent to take their child to school.”
As part of our war drills, my class would practice hiding under our desks and covering our heads.
As if doing that would matter amid a nuclear war.”
