Yes, rabbit ears, old irons, push pedal sewing machines, hand crank mixers! I remember them all from my grandparents and parents house. Oh, and the console stereo too! As always God bless you and yours and thanks again for all you do!
I absolutely love your videos, they take me back to my youth. I’m 57 and remember a lot of the older items at my Grandparents house. I love nostalgia, thank you for the memories.
We had a rotary antenna on the roof, that you turned with a control box on top of the TV. There were number stickers you put around the dial for the channels so you knew where to set the antenna for whichever TV station tower you were pointing the antenna at.
Wow! That sounds really nice. I remember some people getting on the roof and trying to move it. That didn't happen a lot because it was clearly not easy. What you had seems like a great idea. Thank you for watching and sharing that with us.
I’m 43 and I think Gen X was probably the last generation to actually call someone on the telephone and ask them out on a real date and to spend all night talking to one another. I feel grateful to have gone through my first serious adult relationship without email, texts, or embarrassing photos.
Also we were the last generation to grow up without the internet. We didn't realize it at the time our parents thought video games would fry our brains like cell phones to kids now. I had never hear of a website until I was in college. I'm 45.
My first boyfriend was born in ‘76. When we met, he was about to finish college for computer programming. We didn’t even email, though. The landline phone at my house was tied up with the internet, so my dad had to pay about $65 for a cell line for me in ‘99. I was a little surprised when my boyfriend got a cellphone too because it wasn’t really the type of thing he would have spent money on and he hardly used it with me. I think RU-vid is where all the men between late 30s & early 50s must be.
Things were changing in the 80s but it changed even faster in the 90s and the following decade. Everything seemed to change and it's really never been the same. Thank you for watching!
Speaking of TV antennas! When our next door neighbor got one of those rotating aerial kinds I was totally fascinated by it! He managed to convince my dad to get one and it was great fun just to play around with! Outside the antenna would be making grinding turning noises while inside the selector would be making a "Kachuck! Kachuck! Kachuck!" sound!
Rhett, I enjoyed your video about some of the everyday items people used years ago. I remember some of these items, but some that you showed I wasn't familiar with at all. I grew up in a house that was built in 1906, and there was an old fashioned stove in the basement, similar to the one you showed in your variety of photos. Have a fantastic weekend. Take care 🐎
Sounds like you had a nice house thqt you grew up in. I prefer the older homes because they had character and weren't cookie cutter styles. They also seemed to be easier to access plumbing as well as anything else. Having to go thru concrete slabs is more difficult. Thank you for watching Brenda!
I still use modern rabbit ears. The grocery list device. I actually have a distant memory of seeing one. My Dad had a calculator that had the same type of workings. Had a stylus that you would roll the number tape until the equation was solved. It was all metal. Great video Rhett - Thank you!
You're welcome and thank you for sharing your memories. I always have to laugh when kids get mad because something is buffering on TV for 20 seconds. If they only knew!
@@RhettyforHistory the hanging of fabric on trees apparently started with Yoko Ono. The hammering of pennies into live trees started way long ago but in the 17th century. The national trust asked people to stop hammering them into live trees. So the only ones I've seen have been trees that have been knocked over by storms.
When you mentioned the "rabbit ears" TV antennas, I thought you would mention rooftop antennas after that. We had one of those, but my Dad put ours on top of a 50-foot tower which he put up next to our detached garage. We had the best reception ever. When we got cable, sometime around 1979 or 80, our reception was actually worse than it had been with the antenna, so we ultimately cancelled the cable and went back to using the antenna.
I think those shower are cool! Wish they still made them like that today. Yeah, they might look creepy but having water splashed at you from all sides sounds kind of relaxing to me. Must have felt nice.
I'm 50-truly an old soul. I was in an orthopedic waiting room because I had a knee replacement. As I sat in my chair, I watched many older than myself adults glued to their phones. I was the youngest and the only person not on mine. It's just sad. Even worse, I'll never date again because no one talks to each other and I plan on keeping my old-fashioned values. Your videos are like wonderful virtual museums.
There are a number of inaccuracies in this: 1 Even Radio had roof top antennae, home television started for the Very Rich in the late 1930’s, and Required antennas. 2. Toasters go back at least to Colonial times, being leaned against a heat source to warm or toast bread. 3. Fire Grenades also go back to at least Colonial times, I have seen examples at Colonial Williamsburg and at Hampton Mansion in Md. 4. Vending machines were invented before 1000 B. C, the earliest known ones dispensed “holy water” as either an offering or to wash one’s hands at a temple. 5. Game pieces have been found in Babylonian graves, Egyptian tombs ( not pyramids which weren’t tombs as no bodies were ever found in any) and game pieces were recently found in a grave in the Steppes of Russia, thought to be from 4000 B.C! On a side note this was interesting, the nice pictures of Color TV consoles brought back fond memories as over the 1950’s into the 1980’s my parents had severance different ones, and yes, Color was available starting in 1954! Extremely expensive though! A different type goes back to 1951, but was impractical!
Those so-called "beard trimmers" were not. They were regular hair cutters. I have one as a knick-knack in my living room that still can cut hair to this day. My aunt still used them till I was in junior high. Occasionally when we visited them I would get a free hair cut with one.
Loved the video Rhetty it was a good look to my youth Sadly the one's i really wont to watch are members only so iam gutted :( Hopefully you release them soon to the poorer folks :) Thankyou for sharing
When my great grandparents died back in 2010, they had all kinds of cool old stuff. My great grandma was 88 and my grandma 95. The only bad thing is that everything was covered with roach eggs, poop, and body parts. Just FILLED with roach material that accumulated over the years. I couldn't help but look at at least one Better Homes and Gardens magazine from the 40s, but that was hard to do, as I am very afraid of and disgusted by roaches. So I really didn't even get to check it all out but it would have been cool to see everything. Some of the stuff shown here might have been in there. The TV for sure was that one surrounded by wood.
Those old TV's were some of the nicest furniture you would have in the living room. They were tough and durable but super heavy. Thank you for watching and sharing some of your memories of what your great grandmother had.
@@RhettyforHistory They went really nicely with all the wooden decor too. Now everything is shiny plastic or chrome material, I loved the look of wooden decor that used to be everywhere.
We were in Alaska five years ago and one of the guys (who was in college and this was his job while in college) giving us a tour at the Heritage center had a pair of snow goggles that he made out of walrus tusks.
That old stove was similar to my grandma's one that she used until it died and was pretty much forced to modernize the kitchen, and that old tank of a fridge, that stuff was built to last.
I actually got to see some of those showers in Hot Springs Arkansas at the old bath house. I definitely haven't seen a toaster like that before or the beard trimmers. I have seen some of those old ovens in antique stores they are pretty expensive I have seen them 500 to 800 dollars not restored.
I'm curious if those showers were something you could try out? I've never seen any available to try. Thank you for watching sharing a little about where you can find them.
Hey now! since broadcast TV has now gone digital everywhere, rabbit ear antennas bring in TV signals that are just as good and clear as cable, if not even better. Also no cable bill at all. My $15 Wal-Mart special set of rabbit ears brings in 82 crystal clear tv channels, in Wichita Kansas. i HAVE CUT THE CABLE CORD.
I am 60 years old and I recall going to my dads office in the very early 1970's he used a Comptometer do do calculations. I was fascinated by it. My dad was super proficient with it. They even had a few in the office that looked as vintage as the model in this video. In just a few years the first electronic calculators replaced these mechanical devices. Those also were facinating to me because they seemed so modern and different.
I’m probably the only one to say this but I WISH we had the technology in the 80’s that we have now. In the early 80’s my fiancé and I were long distance and our phone bills were off the charts. We memorized Ma Bells weekend and late night rates and called only then. If you spent more than 30 min on the phone you could expect huge bills-they charged by the minute. I remember feeding quarters into the pay phone at the dorm just to talk to him. It sucked. It would have been great to have texting and Skype with no rates per minute-sigh
The first vending machine actually dates back to the inventions of Heron of Alexandria, who created a holy water dispenser vending machine. The idea was that you would insert a coin which would fall onto a lever, lifting a valve and dispensing water until the lever had descended enough from the weight of the coin. Then the coin would fall off the lever, closing the valve. As coin weights were moderately standardized, the amount of water dispensed was fairly consistent.
We lived so far out away from everything that we had to extend our "rabbit ears" with long pieces of coiled up aluminum foil - and then that didn't always work 100% of the time. We'd get "flop over" and static quite a bit. However, when they DID work, it was fantastic reception!
Use to have my antenna outside the window.. stick your arm out and twist the pole to get the best reception. nobody needed a remote... that's what kids are for.
The only reason why we no longer need rabbit ear antennas is because with digital broadcasting, it is even harder to get a good signal, meaning we now need larger rooftop antennas to do the same job, and because they are not as easy to maneuver, we need multi-directional antennas.
I remember rabbit ears on the TV sets when I was a little girl in the 80s. My grandparents had a console TV and stereo. I’d never seen a computer noise like the one in the video, but I have a funny memory from early 90s computer class when the boys would remove the balls from the mice before the end of the session. The teacher was so mad!
Actually there are companies that still make wood burning cook stoves take them. Granted they're not as in demand as they used to be but there are people that still use them.
@@RhettyforHistory I'll also point out that the hardware stores and factories that still sell them will also give you the option of a side burner type thing and most times people go for a gas burner and I was disappointed at the time I remember because I wanted an Electric.
My parents had a portable black-and-white TV.... Which could plug in the outlet in the house or the cigarette lighter in the car.... with an antenna on the back just like radios used to have that you pop out and extend..... But when kids would rough-housed and then channel will break good old-fashioned metal hanger would be stuck in the back so you would have some TV reception signal besides the aluminum foil trick.... Don't forget about the first cordless phones they were so big and heavy very cumbersome.... I don't know if anybody remembers that receptionist used to have that Arch piece of foam that would stick onto the receiver the phone so they can rest the phone on the shoulder so they could write down messages and or notes....
Hahaha I was cleaning out one of my rental properties like a month ago and the old tenants left a bunch of junk in the basement. One thing I found besides their 80s wedding photos and books was an old pair of trimmers just like those. I checked to see if they hair worth but it seemed not. I did However keep this old and I mean old machanical bull thing. It’s like a saddle on a device ran with a huge belt to simulate a horse or bull it’s crazy and I have not researched it yet
That's interesting that they had all that and left it behind. I've never understood why people do that. That mechanical bull think sounds interesting too. Thank you for watching.
Human technology makes a huge advancement for the last 50 years. I prefer the simple life back then when we can meet our friends in person. Nowadays people were dependent on internet which lessen our interaction with others
I'll take analog tv signal and their antenna any day over the stupid digital signals that only work at a closer range and do not give a picture at if you are in a valley or not in line of sight.
,Rabbit ears for TV antennae. After awhile they never wanted to stay in the position you placed them and kept falling over. Combined with an aluminum "flag" on each antenna to try improve reception. The good old days of black and white and early colorized sets.
Nice video. I wasn't expecting to see ancient artifacts on here. The kind of die you mentioned, perhaps that is what the Romans used when they gambled over Jesus' clothes during the crucifixion.
Those crt tvs had horizontal and vertical hold buttons at the back. If the picture on screen started rolling or flipped to the side you had to spend ages fiddling with one of those to get the picture back. Meanwhile you could only follow the program in sound. Very frustrating. Also not everyone had a telephone so neighbours would sometimes call in and ask to use yours but it was good form for them to leave 10p for the call by the phone.
Most of these technologies still worked. We had an old toaster that was open and you turned the toast. You could see the toast and brown it exactly as you wanted it.
Actually from what I've heard vending machines date back to ancient times. You would put your coin in and get a set amount of water for use in the local temple.
When I was a kid in school all I carried with me was a paper note book and a pen and pencil. Weekends and summer vacations we roamed like feral dogs with absolutely no adult supervision "all day" Had 3 channels on a black and white TV, smelled tobacco smoke "everywhere" we went.....even in doctors offices. Got my first job at 13 years old at the minimum wage of 75 cents an hour. Our school teachers were allowed to bash us in the head. There were no leash laws for pets. In my city groups of dogs would just roam the business district. If I missed church on Sunday I was definitely going to HELL......and the only businesses open on sunday were churches, gas stations and pharmacies.
Those fire grenades were not that practical. However, they were a lot better then that new-fangled one that got blocked or was later out of pressure when you had to use it!
I IMAGINE IN 50 YEARS WE'LL BE DOING ANOTHER VIDEO OR ANOTHER WAY TO SHOW HOW PRIMITIVE WE ARE IN "THIS" ERA. LET'S JUST HOPE OUR WORLD SURVIVES PAST IT!! BUT ONE THING IS CERTAIN, IT WAS A LOT MORE FUN DOING MANY THINGS WITH OBSOLETE APPLIANCES THEN. LIKE OUR OLD CONSOLE STEREO/TV SET. THE SOUND WAS TERRIBLE COMPARED TO TODAY'S BUT A LOT MORE ENJOYMENT PLAYING OUR FAVORITE RECORDS ON IT. PERHAPS IT WAS JUST THOSE TIMES WHEN THINGS "WERE" REALLY SIMPLER!!!
Vending machines weren't even new in the 19th century. Hero of Alexandria invented them in Roman Egypt during the 1st century CE. His machine accepted a coin and dispensed holy water in exchange. Fast-forward to 1615, when English taverns had coin-operated machines that dispensed tobacco. These machines were portable and made of brass.
We lived in the northern burbs of Philadelphia as I grew up in the 70's and 80's we had an electric antenna on the roof with a large pole, pressing a button either left or right to make the antenna rotate, use to pick up NYC late at night, HOR.... Some people called it whore TV 🤣
