It is called a Brannock device. I found a children’s size one at a thrift shop when I had little kids and it was great for measuring and then ordering on Zappos.
This is something that should come back. So often, we just try on a pair of shoes, say, "yeah, good enough," and then keep buying that same size for years afterward. The problem is that feet tend to stretch and flatten over the course of the day, so we often end up buying a half a size too small. I was buying 10½ work boots for years and years, wondering why my feet were always so sore at the end of the day, until about a month ago, I tried a size 11, and problem solved.
I haven't been to a shoe store recently, but a dedicated shoe store will measure your feet if you don't quite know your foot size. The problem with modern foot measuring, is that only the length of the foot is measured. Then depending on your foot length you try on shoes and if your foot, or heel is wide, you try on the wide version or vice versa. I think that works in general, but there is so much more to a foot, than length and overall width. I personally have a narrow heel, but long toes and a wide toe bed, which is unusual, but that means 99% of shoes don't fit me, and custom shoe stores are rare and very expensive.
You could smoke in most places in the 1980s in the UK including upstairs on buses, work places like offices and yes even in hospitals, no-one really thought anything of it, then the 1990s started seeing more places restricting it and then of course the law changed in 2007 banning smoking anywhere indoors in a public place including pubs and nightclubs.
I remember going to the doctor with my mother as a child. There were ashtrays in the waiting room and we would go back and he and my Momma would have a cig and chat in his office before either of us had an exam. Our doc knew my Momma was kind of doctor phobic and he would tell her “Sit down and let’s talk. I’ll have one of your cigarettes and you have one of mine. Let’s trade up and talk about what is going on”. If we were there for Momma, I would sit with his wonderful nurse. If I had to be examined and had to have a shot, he convinced me that his nurse gave shots that didn’t hurt, and I believed him. They treated us so well that wasn’t a bad thing to get to visit them, no matter how sick you were. I miss that!
In the 70s, bubble gum was a penny a piece. We were OUTRAGED when the price doubled to 2 cents. I remember when I was in HS (class of ‘80), a guy glumly looked out the second floor window and said with resigned disgust “Gum’s 3 cents now.” First world problem all the way, but all these years later I can still remember how bummed out the guy was. Coke machine was 15 cents a can, and we were shocked and stunned when they raised it to a quarter.
Have you noticed at 5:56 on the first 5 coins all the faces (Eisenhower, Kennedy, Washington, Roosevelt, Jefferson) are facing towards the left. Only Lincoln is facing right.
I remember when payphones in the UK had a 2 pence and 10 pence slot with an actual dial, 2 pence was a quick call and you could talk for ages with 10 pence if it was a local call at an off peak time. There was 3 call distance rates within the UK, local calls to the same dial code, regional calls which extended to the dial codes surrounding you and national calls beyond that. On top of this if I remember rightly this was combined with 3 different rates for the time of day, morning (most expensive), afternoon (medium) and then evenings/weekends. If you were making a national call at the morning rate you'd need quite a few 10 pences lined up, you wouldn't get long before you'd hear the pips and you couldn't stack them in advance.
Oh boy can’t believe the X-ray machine was still in use in the 70’s. All the things we grew up with are already obsolete. When I occasionally worked on a Sunday I knew a guy who would put in his $.50 to buy a paper and empty the whole machine then sell the other papers throughout the work area. He’s one of the reasons the paper machines are gone. Loved the old TV guide.
Although foot x-ray machines aren't used any more, some shoe stores do have a device that you stand on to measure your feet, but I think those use infrared or ultrasound.
I recently saw a pay phone on a wall outside a corner store, and it surprised me so much to see it that I took a picture of it. A few weeks later I saw that it was gone, so I took another picture of the blank wall where it had been.
They use to have cigarette machines inside hospitals, and I use to think that was quite odd. Out here in Seattle Washington we still have news paper machines throughout the state. The last time any news papers were in them, was back in 2010. I haven't seen a phone book since 2006, and phone booths the last one I saw here in Washington state was in 2016 and yes it still worked.
My folks have been watching old Perry Mason reruns. In every episode, there is a scene where they all light up a cigarette. I guess it didn’t seem so obvious in 1957, but now the product placement sticks out.
@@jbrou123 Oh yes I'm quite aware of that there, and I thought that to be odd as well. My grand folks told me all sorts of stories. Most, I thought were tales and when I found out they were true I was flabbergasted.
I look forward to your uploads!! I remember most of these. I never knew about the shoe x-ray machine. We stepped on those metal rulers for new shoes. Thank you my friend!!😊
Funny... There's a waffle house just outside of my town, that STILL has a cigarette machine, a payphone, AND a jukebox. The cigarette machine has been empty for a few years... But I remember buying many packs of smokes out of it 30+ years ago... When I thought I was looking cool setting there puffing a stinking cigarette in front of all the "cool" kids. 😂
The cigarette DOES look kinda cool, and some people even find it attractive. The device, not the addiction. The scruffy looking Sherlock looking guy with a longcoat leaning on a vintage Indian Knucklehead, looking at you sideways while puffing on a Marlboro. Now if only it was a null aesthetic device instead of a deathstick.
I really miss the TV guides! Loved the articles in them and the crossword puzzle in the back! Phone booths should be brought back IMO and in the UK they still use them or did when I was there in 2011. Great video! Thank u Rhett!
Sacagawea coins spritzed with a touch of glitter hairspray were what the tooth fairy brought.......no one else really used them so they really believed the coins were from the fairy. ♡
Lol, that's not what the tooth fairy brought me. I was lucky to get a quarter; I think that it was a nickel the 1st few times, then dimes, and the last one or two were quarters. Meanwhile, that fairy was dropping $5's on my peers 😡. Oh well 😂
I still have a TV guide in a closet somewhere it was for the year 2001. each time I scroll through the pages of the magazine I felt nostalgic and also laughing my ass out since almost 98%of the channels on the magazine no longer exist😂
I live in a tiny rural mountain town where we still have a pay phone on the main road (because you don’t have reception in a lot of our area) and we also still have a couple newspaper machines! I love buying our little local paper just to see what’s going on in our area, even though I can read it online. The thing I miss most is film and manual cameras, although I do still have one. It’s been decades but I can still remember the smell of the darkroom and developing film and prints. I would love the chance to be able to do that again!
My husband had these huge speakers for his component stereo system. They were 3 feet tall and heavy. His component system was simply a receiver and a multi - disc changer. Plus huge headphones 🎧 with a very long coil cord.
@@kimbrey65 the speakers I have now are 5 feet tall and weigh 200 lbs each! They cost $8k new as well, I got them used for a fraction of that. Big stereo is still around, but it’s extremely expensive, the mid fi of the 70’s and 80’s has faded away, the old receivers from those days can be found restored and sell for big money! And record players have made a big comeback, new vinyl records sell for $25 each, and are very well made. High end stereo is now a thing for the wealthy or dedicated, I’m not wealthy but I’ve got $10 grand in my system, collected over a number of years, and mostly all used. I can’t believe that kids today are content with their cell phones and ear buds, they do sound amazing but it lacks something that the big stereos have.
Spielberg put a typewriter joke in _Saving Private Ryan._ Knowing Hanks was a typewriter enthusiast, there was a small scene where Private Huppam wanted to take a typewriter on the mission. Hanks' character suggested a pencil would be more practical.
I remember seeing and using basically every vintage item in this video, including the foot xray machine. I used to have an extensive collection of 35mm film equipment that in my opinion offered superior results when compared to the present digital age.
My parents would probably never have met without some of this stuff. I remember seeing cigarette machines at places like Denny’s into the late 80s. Kids today wouldn’t know what a flash cube is. I am grateful I can send messages and photos to a cute guy who lives 700 miles away, though!
When I was a lad and the city supplied us with the latest White Pages, we used to look enthusiastically to see if my parents' names and address was still in there! ☺️
Same here,I’m ashamed to admit this,when I was 16 in 1988 I bought a pack of Marlboro 100’s from a Cigarette Machine & now I am glad they are obsolete so kids won’t make the same mistake I did.
Microfiche is still used in any industry that handles documents, as it can last well up to a hundred years. The insurance industry comes to mind as one such place that uses microfiche for long-term document storage.
I remember the year 2011. It was the first year that phone books in our area were discontinued. I wasn’t aware of it, and when our phone book didn’t come, I called the phone company to tell them I didn’t receive my new phone book yet. The lady laughed and said I wouldn’t be getting one anymore, and asked if my name was Fred Flintstone. Then she hung up on me.
There was not a single item in this video that I don't remember. I really don't miss any of them with maybe the exception of the TV Guide. I liked being able to see everything on one page for the day and not have to scroll. I do remember having to step into the shoe x-ray machine a few times but not all stores had them and we often went where they didn't have one. I really love how you come up with your videos and the research you have to do for them. Another interesting one today.
I really liked the tv guide, I enjoyed flicking through and I actually miss it. I also still buy and read from real books 📖 I don’t like e books and don’t have one. I miss my mums old typewriter, ( I wish I had it ) I was so impressed with how quickly she typed. That brought back fond memories of her. ❤️Jodie 🇦🇺
I prefer real books as well. I enjoy the feel, sound and especially the smell. Plus I don't have to worry about having something charged or reception. I also love to go shopping for new ones and finding some gems I didn't expect to see. Thank you for watching and sharing your memories Jodie!
Of all your items, the only one that I didn't grow up with was the shoe fitting xray machine. This seems like it definitely would have been a more orthopedic type of method then others and I definitely would have used it given how as I have gotten older I have developed foot problems no doubt from poor fitting footwear. I don't understand why it has gone the way of the dinosaur given that we still take xrays for other things today.
Because you rarely take an x-ray, and when you do it just lasts a second to get the picture. With these devices, you put your foot in there, and the salesman is looking at it through the viewer, so it's a very long exposure to radiation. Not to mention it's exposing everyone around the machine to radiation. Also as mentioned in the video, imagine you're doing this with every pair of shoes you're trying on, every time you're going to buy new shoes. That's a lot of radiation exposure.
I remember in the early 2000's I would go with my dad to his bowling league, and at one end of the building sat a cigarette machine. I also remember one time my dad had got his hands on a metal cigarette carton and gave it to me. I then put my colored pencils in it and took it took school one day in elementary, completely unaware of what exactly I was carrying. Teachers were not very happy with me that day, needless to say.
Add on those geeky little white three ring binder paper reinforcements, that we used to make smiley faces out of and stick on school desks in the 1980s.
I really enjoy watching these videos of the past .It brings back so many good memories. I grew up in the 70s there's so many things I miss .but life goes on I can share memories with my grandbabies
Back in the 1970's someone in my family bought a book on the history of the TV Guide, it was basically just portions of old TV Guide magazines compiled into a book but I found it interesting. It had the snippets where it would tell you about a show that was going to be on that week, their famous guide, etc.
I still own two film cameras, and I really enjoy taking pictures with them. Film photos, even after being digitized, look different from pictures from a DSLR.
We had Yellow Pages too in the UK. We still have TV guides though, which are great! We get them in our Saturday newspapers. Used typewriters at work for 30 years.
I still have a landline too, we live about 20 miles outside of a small rural town and everyone around here has landlines. I'm outside of cell range, so no cellphone.
This video made me sad😞 realising this items are long gone and will never be back again. Though they were not very advanced but they were all amazing ❤ 😞 will always miss that era❤
1. Shoe-Fitting Fluoroscope - Never encountered this, but my Dad (RIP) was a physician & he knew how to run the full body analog x-ray machine as well as process the x-ray films. 2. Cigarettes - Never smoked but indeed vending machines are gone but not the cigarettes themselves. 3. Newspapers - There are still a few paper vending machines around today & I still read newspapers every now & then. 4. Payphones - There are still some around & I had used them myself back in the day but thank goodness cellphones are so much more convenient now, except you do mostly have to pay for cell service on a monthly basis compared to a payphone you don't have to pay regularly for. 5. Phonebooks - They are still around too & we still have some ourselves at home. 6. Jukebox - Still around too & I actually have a toy of this that plays radio & fixed songs, batteries required. 7. Cash - Definitely still around & I use it if I don't want to use my credit card, but yeah, much less required I supposed. 8. Coins - Same as above, I actually had to use many of my quarters up in the 2015-2017 timeframe & went to the bank to get those paper roll wrappers for them. 9. Rolodex - We actually still have at least one of these from our old business, since 1980, & it's one with a security key/lock. 10. TV Guide - We subscribed to this back in the day for decades & we probably have a few old stray editions left at home somewhere. 11. Carbon Copy - We also used this a lot at the aforementioned old business & we still have a few piles of carboncopy paper left around at home. 12. Film Camera - My Dad was a camera buff so we still have a few of his film cameras left, with piles & piles of photo prints of our life at home since the early 1970's. It would be nice to scan them for digital backup but there are so many. Never got into film cameras myself, I started off with digi-cams 2 decades ago, so I don't know how to work them, or repair them. It also does require a pay service to process the film if you don't have the knowledge & resources yourself. I will keep my dad's film cameras, the piles of photos & a few blank film rolls left over, for sentiment due to his passing. 13. Typewriters - We still have many of these left over, from our mentioned old business etc. We have around 10 typewriters, iirc. My favorite is my old heavy Royal 10 (circa 1914) bought from an old couple in 1980, but right now it is seized up due to rust. As with everything, today's technology will also become obsolete in due time.
Who remembers the TV guide jingle "when your bored and blue with nothing to do just look inside that tv guide there's something wonderful waiting for you" or something like that. Ahh the good ole days
I remember these things of the past very well. When I started work in an office there were no computers. I had to use an electric typewriter and shorthand in order to be able to take down letters. I also had to use an adding machine.
I went to Reno, Nevada last year and they still had the old cigarette vending machines on the casino floor. Each pack cost anywhere from $15 to $20. I was very surprised to see one in today's day and age. I had myself a little laugh at it.
I always thought those newspaper machines were a strange idea that thieves would take advantage of. We had the "paperboy" with his metal trolley here in Australia on weekday afternoons and Sunday mornings. Walking around the streets blowing his whistle and a leather pouch full of coins.
We used to call those credit card devices "knuckle busters" because if you weren't careful, you could painfully scrape your knuckles when swiping the card!
We have a cigarette machine in our bar/restaurant because it's the only way we can prevent theft if they were kept behind the counter. Since it's an ancient machine no longer in production and there are no repairmen available, it's constantly glitching but our manager insists we keep using it, whenever it glitches (which is almost always), we have to open the cash register, refund customers, leave notes regarding every customer we refund, and wait until the manager is back on site for her to open the machine to give customers their cigarettes. I hate the machine and how many times I snark at customers to just quit their cigarette addiction so we wouldn't have to deal with this anymore.
OMG, when I finished college and was not making alot of money back in the 80's I remember, when you could "float" a check. We knew we were getting paid on Friday...so Wednesday night before that Friday we would go and write essentially a hot check because it wouldn't clear before you got paid. These days they can tell you right now whether or not you have money in your account. I saw this older lady writing a check at the store and updating her check registry. The cashier put the check through the machine and gave the check right back to her. I was floored the way it works now. I haven't written a check to a business in God only knows when. Banking has totally changed as well. I can't tell you the last time I physically went into a bank. I think it was 2 years ago before I went out of the country and needed that country's denomination. Wild.
One thing I love about film is enlargement scaling. Digital images start to become pixelated a lot sooner than film will become too grainy for "quality" use. However, there are styles out there that purposely pixelate their images. All this said, while film has the advantage when it comes to enlargement, there is less you can do in the dark room for editing what you captured, giving a substantial edge to digital images when it comes to what you can do with an image after it is captured. That is just my take on the processing of images. There is a lot more I could say when it comes to capturing images as more and more people are shifting away from dedicated cameras in favor of the camera on their phone.
IT WAS A BETTER TIME ! I cannot think of a SINGLE service, or product that has improved our lives. Only made it more complicated and restrictive of what is available to us. Not only are the products gone . . . but the motavation to do anything. These days are not that far in the past. What has improved ? Society=pulled apart, Trust/Honesty=rare, Choices=either limited or vanished, Transportation=restricted or expensively prohibited, Entertainment=dull or dangerous, Education=a dwindling resource, Medical=an insultave joke, the Legal system= beyond complicated.
@@lingcod91 Yeah, it was certainly better. For me turning 60 in a few days (boohoo) my kids are only 18 & 20 and we're really close. They can't stand this era and really wish they had grown up when I did. Despite any issues of that era, they can plainly see the contrast between then and now, and really dislike the complete lack of people skills of their generation in addition to a ton of other stuff.
In our area of the Santa Cruz Mountains of California phone books have been replaced by yearly printed directory of all the businesses and organizations, jukeboxes have been replaced by requesting to add a song to the streaming audio play list. Newspaper vending machines are still in use but not for paid papers, we use them for free local papers to keep them dry. Locals and tours alike can take a copy and then only those who want to read it gets it delivered to them as well as it being available to the very important tourist / customers of our businesses keeping our local economies going.
I miss seeing pay phones. As a kid I used them alot. One time as I was talking to a girl from school, for no reason, the phone started to empty all its change out. I was amazed and expected to hear the operator butt in and say please redeposit the coins but nothing happened and I talked to her way longer than my quarter should have lasted. It was obviously malfunctioning but I still checked that phone every time I passed it to see if it did it again. It never did.😅
I remember getting a bill for something I didn't purchase because one of those credit card imprinters didn't make a good enough copy so apparently they guessed what the last few numbers were and I got billed for the item . It took awhile to get that all straightened out .
Cash register at Circle K I worked at in Phoenix was supposed to have $35.00 or less. The last drawer on the right hand a " Bait Bill" $5.00 bill. When the robber snatched it with the other cash, it activated special cameras, provided by The Phoenix Police.
Ahh, checking in with mom via the pay phone. I was a free range kid, when I left for the day, mom would tell me to check in at a certain time. Before that time, I would find a pay phone, had a pocket full of dimes and quarters (arcade games), and call in. Would get a new check in time. And it would go on like that the whole day til I was told to come home. Usually i checked in about every two hours or so.
There are still some merchants that won’t bend to electronic payments barbers ice cream shops,debit card fees eat up there profit margin. So in some places cash is still king 😊
The news paper machines are still used all over my town. There are two in front of my post office. I do live in a small town though. I just recently found ur channel I love seeing these old items/ I was a kid of the 80's :)
I worked in a hospital laboratory when I was 17-20 while in college before going to nursing school. The lab break room was so full of smokers and smoke billowing out that I refused to go in there. This was 1989-1992. I can’t even believe that was a thing.
I miss public telephones (PCO) so much, Because I used to work in the company, which was contracted to fix these if something goes wrong or these things breake. I was quite happy with that job.
Great video. Here in Australia we went from paper $1 & $2 paper money to coins in 1984. We scrapped completely 1 and 2 cents in 1992. You can still see phone booths, mainly near train stations. They're all free now, so no coins required. Phone books are Obsolete. So are cigarette machines (I remember at an office Christmas party in the 80s of a few very drunk guys stealing one of these machines. Jukeboxes, wow. Haven't seen one in ages, same with the iconic pinball machines
The cigarette vending machine is something that had faded from my mind. In Maine they were mostly in bars and other places where children weren’t allowed. My uncle had one in his bar up until the early 2000’s. My my how life has changed
i miss going to the time machine stations. there was something really great about talking to people there to compare when they were going when they're from
Speaking of newspapers I used to work in the pressroom add a newspaper here in the Seattle area right at the tail end of the 90s and into the early 2000s. The owner built huge new building with brand new state-of-the-art press machines I think right around 2001-2002 maybe and then the newspaper industry started declining rapidly due to the internet. The pressroom that was built is now a gym.
2:15 Newspaper vending machines. Worked 2nd shift back in the mid-80s. 4 PM to 12:30 AM. Was driving home on a gravel road & saw a bunch of objects in front of me. Turned out to be 6 or 7 newspaper vending machines. The thieves must've took them out to the country, tore them apart to remove the money, then dumped them.
One thing I can tell you from working at Fuji.......there's still plenty of people from several countries using film. Lol. It's been extremely busy lately. I'm a bit surprised considering the use of cell phones. I didn't think so many people still used film.
I miss the 50 cent piece as much as the Susan B. Anthony coins. I so LOVE Juke Boxes, but my Generation did not grow up with them, except seeing them in the 1980s at 1950s style Diners with hamburgers🍔 and shakes🥛!!! And I so miss the Pudding Cans from my Childhood😞, but I am grateful for the lactose free products of today😃😃 because I am lactose intolerant. Although I really prefer the smart phones and computers to Rolodex and Credit Card Carbon copiers, I do miss the T.V. Guides😔. I also so miss the Toy Stores such as Kay Bee Toy and Hobby Shop😪😢 as much as Toys R Us😢😢. Thank you for sharing things from my Childhood🧸💜🦄!! I do LOVE nostalgia😃🤗💜💜💜💜💜 , but I also embrace technology of today, like the computer🖥💻 and smart phone📱😃😃!!!
@1:59 I'm so intrigued by the Black Cat lighted cigarette machine! I don't remember those, but I certainly remember sneaking into the Bar on the corner to buy cigarettes from the other vending machine!!😂😮
And, up into the early 80s, medical clinic waiting rooms contained ashtrays, because smoking was allowed. Heck, even doctors smoked, during appointments, into the early 1980s.
I do remembered some stuff from the 1970’s,80’s, and even 90’s. I remembered using a camera with film, pay phone, and putting a dime in a jukebox in the early 80’s. I never cared for cigarettes in those machines since that I never smoked one in my lifetime.
Being born in rural Germany in 1997 a lot of these items are normal to me still. Germans love cash for example like up until a few years ago paying anything in cash was still legal.We also didn't have anything better than 54K internet until 2010. Cigarette vending machines were never phased out they only got a ID card slot now and in my town of about 2500 people there are still about 25 cigarette vending machines. At pharmacies you can get the pharmacy newsletter for free still with a TV guide probably because more older people need medication more often.
I remember all except the xray shoe machine. I did not like the contraption that held the newspapers for sale. They would take your money without giving you a newspaper.
I remember pay-phones use to be around my town now It's like they were taken and ripped off. Pay-phones can be useful or maybe replace it with public charging stations would be nice. Cool video. ^_^
My grandma subscribed to TV Guide in the 80s/90s and the new issue would come in the mail early and I would always grab that thing and read it to know what I could miss or what I needed to record on VCR or what I couldn't miss.... It's so weird but it's totally obsolete now
