@@joterry7928 Probably but even though the ditto machine was different than the mimeograph machine most of the teachers still called them “mimeographs.” At least where I went to school.
@@joterry7928 The great thing about dittos was that if you dittoed a ditto with too many levels of recursion, all the purple bits wold gradually expand to take over the paper.
btw, the 'washing paddle' is used to wash home churned butter. when the butter is finished, the pattern in pressed into it to identify the maker for selling at a farmers market
Ahhhhh......I was trying to picture in my mind how that would work on clothes. I thought cookie decorating thingy....Butter, huh? Okay, I was close, but no cigar.
These things are labeled with longer names than they were actually called; example: it was a pay phone, not a coin-operated public pay phone. Everyone knew you needed to put coins in to make it work.
It's not even a pay phone, it's a cheap inaccurate reproduction phone for people to put in their house. And it's not a very good one either. The rotary dial, and that type of coin slot didn't go with that style of phone. They didn't come out until well after that type of phone wasn't used anymore. The type shown was a cheap Taiwan, or Korean phone. It's been awhile since I last saw one of these, so I don't remember where they were made.
It’s a Carousel slide projector that Kodak came out with. It automatically advanced slides with the wired remote. Beats the slide sleeve holder, and load-it-yourself individual projector. A major innovation.
I didn't have that model. too pricey. saw them though. In fact I still have the manual guy along with color 35mm slides of the kids growing up. and those slides still look as good as the day I took them. key is where they're stored & how many times they were viewed because those projector bulbs were HOT! I also have super 8 movie rolls quite a bit of them with a Bolex 18-5 (1965) projector (which was ALL metal the thing weighed at least 10 pounds!). yep my ex still has it and it works.
it’s an old tool that lost favor with laced boots and shoes…it was common until the 1920s and probably lingered on with the military or private schools for another three decades
wow. magicubes. yep. they came with the instamatic. I had a brownie hawkeye 620 that used those huge flash bulbs that were so hot after firing you couldn't touch them for several seconds. yep the poor man's camera. most of these films back then were b/w color cost a small fortune and it took weeks to get them back (most of which didn't even turn out used to piss me off).
Missed a few. But what I really appreciate about this quiz is that it moved along. Too many of these quiz clips give waaay too much time to answer and I start fast forwarding or just quitting.
Yes there were a couple of things that may very well been standard for the century before the last one, or maybe very early last century, and I really doubt that there are many folks around that ever used one. Yet there was a lot of daily stuff that I used regularly.
In the high alpine region of New Mexico my mother used a laundry sprinkler in an old 1 quart 7-Up bottle to wet the ironing, then rolled up each piece and stuffed them in a zippered plastic bag to "marinte" for a day or two before ironing them.
When I got old enough my job was to iron the clothes sprinkled and rolled up of course every piece of clothes I sprinkled I also got a drink of water from the sprinkler kid stuff 😆
The mimeograph was called a Bandagraph in the UK. We had one at our school in the 70s. Loved the smell of the spirit used, but it made the letters bleed making it hard to read when the writing was small.
#7 Another song "Well, I got a brand new pair of roller skates, You got a brand new key" I had them...you used the key to tighten the metal roller skates you put on your shoes...
Got almost all right. I'm afraid a couple of them go all the way back to the 19th century though, although maybe still in use by the earlier twentieth.
@@MichaelClark-uw7ex foot warmers fell out of use when iron radiators took over, they lasted in old farmhouses for decades, buttonhooks fell out of favor when folks stopped wearing buttoned shoes snd boots in favor of laced shoes and boots
@@bostonrailfan2427 I know what they are and how they were used, if you reread my post you would see I said I personally never used those things. Thanks for playing though.
Finally one of these lists had a button hook. Your shoes had buttons and loops. The hook passed through the loop and went around the button. Pry away from the shoe and the loop passed over the button securing the shoe. Imagine a ladies ankle high shoe with six or eight buttons and loops to do up.
#21...I remember when you could smoke on an airplanes...as late as the 80's...it was always in the back, in the "SMOKING section"...but in reality, the smoke was in ALL sections...I fly a lot (again in three days)...and in some of the older planes you still see these...
Oh dear .. you think that all of these things are old ! I still use an 'old' balance scale in my kitchen (much more accurate) .. and the yellow pages !
Some are rather American, e.g. the skate keys. Never heard of them. I found the washing paddle hard to believe because of the carved designs which looked as if they should have a function.
@@evelynsutton4411 What I thought it was also. We made our own butter when I was a kid and we put a pattern on the blocks of butter with a butter press that looked a lot like that.
@@evelynsutton4411 That was my guess too as I know butter pats used to have little designs pressed into them and were served on a tiny individual serving butter pat dish. That was still in the days of individual bone plates etc. I have two bone dishes that are ornate for soap dishes.
I still use them to store pics & even video. they're forever as long as you take good care of them. in fact I use K3B out of linux to make my own audio CD's. I download the songs off of YT and burn them to CD.
Not only remember, but had several of several categories(office/home/homeoffice/barn/vacation shed😅. Also, quite familiar w/ butter "patter"(your "washing paddle"). We (Granny, Sis,& myself)churned butter/traded @town store for coffee/sugar/& "Velveeter" cheese, Granny's comfort food) Processed 6 chickens Fri night/ traded @ town store Sat a.m. Monthly, traded chickens/chicks @ Purina Feed store for hog feed/cow feed/chicken feed & vitamin supplements. Sold eggs, milk, chickens, hog-on-pole, hams, shoulders, "fat back", "smoked/salted "country hams/shoulders". Life was one busy corperation!!
my school had slide projectors like that into the early 2000s since they weren’t able to upgrade to VHS in the 80s and 90s last time i experienced one in use was April 2001 in my college World History class
Problem is, many things are from before my grandparents time [ie from the 1800s] such as the foot warmer while others such as the public payphone or the answering phone are totally different from those I knew/know and used/use [and yes, public phones are coming back here in Ireland at last, but now they do more than just make phone calls]. And those I do know you give different names to eg: the chip maker you call a french fry maker, the laundry paddle looks more like the butter paddle. Strange to see how things differ between countries and hopefully someone from the US got more answers right than I did.
That answering machine is much more modern than the one I use every day. Also, most of us who remember all these items cannot pull their names out of our nearly full internal hard drives (our brains) in the time allotted. And, the Yellow Pages is much in use still - otherwise there wouldn't BE a Yellow Pages. Oh, and you have to admit that showing us an image of a square plastic box & expecting anyone to guess what device it is, is ....well, kind of silly let's just say.
Apparently the things you complained about didn't hamper us "Old Farts". I'm 72 and had no problem acing this quiz without pausing (so there was ample time).
@@AFmedic I don't believe you. But then, I am a skeptic in general, and 80 years old. Perhaps I am too old to have used any of the tings that simply appear as a plastic box?
Still have my answering machine … purchased in 1987. Greatest invention ever in my mind … afterwards no one could take me by surprise . Leave a message and I may get back you ! Did not see a transistor radio on the list . Still have the one I bought in 1972. Only has an AM band tho and all the AM stations seem to have disappeared .
I got most of them. The one that I was surprised to know was the button hook . I grew up in the 60's and 70's never used or remember seeing one. Past life???
Memory lane....thank you 😊 100% accuracy...definitely programmed from my past....😉 I think times n people were happier back then....😂 my thoughts only.... 😅😅
Got 15 of 25 right. The ones I got wrong were from the depression era and earlier, or that time versions of things that were still around in modernized form.
I remember when I was in high school we had a "film strip projector." Or something along those lines, it was a bit like a film projector with an extremely low frame rate to go along with the audio.
Filmstrip. Overhead projector that could light up a classroom, for transparencies. Opaque projector for non-transparencies. 16mm film projectors with the big film reels on the folding arms. And don't forget those tall television carts they wheeled into the classroom.
I got most of them right. But about a fifth of them, I just had to say "Something for getting stones out of horses hooves?" And then, I would follow it up with, "A nutcracker. In case you want to crack someones nuts." 😂 My apologies to Downton Abbey, and Lady Violet, and Mrs Crawley, lol.
Oh, you sweet summer child. Look at the picture again. You slid the plastic thingie down to the letter of the alphabet you wanted, and it opened up. Like the book it was.
The Disc player needs to be closer as have see it, at the distance you have it, you can not tell unless you had that particular one at home.....It could dvd, video tape, or a receiver/amp..... also slow down are you in a hurry to fool us, yes!!!You are not getting any more money fast or slow...
I got 20 out of 25 but seriously trousers & meat press & laundrey sprinkler. Who, even in the day, used those? Wtf is a laundry paddle, musta been real early last century, I'm an Aussie so we never needed foot warmers lol 😂
#11...How we had to constantly buy these when we need light for photos...and there was no guaranty the pictures would come out until after a week later when they were processed...Flash bulbs were NOT economical...
Oops, most things were a bit too modern for me. Actually they were the American objects mostly. Just shows how different we used to be before wall to wall tv and the internetty. As for the ‘French fries’ cutter! Noooo, that thing was for cutting CHIPS !!!🇬🇧🤣🍽️🥔
Can't get all correct as the answers are not the same everywhere. eg in Australia it was the Rotodex not Rolodex and so on. Yellow pages is still delivered in Australia thus question the inclusion.
