If you've ever been in a house that had a single recessed outlet a few feet down from the ceiling, it was for electric clocks....not only for power, but to hide the cord.
I still dry clothes outside on my “umbrella” clothes dryer, have a fireplace, a console CRT T.V. and a turntable (record player). My house has popcorn ceilings and Formica kitchen countertops. Hooray!
As a kid, in our house we had an electric refrigerator, but my parents still referred to it as the "ice box" since that was what they had grown up with as kids.
Clotheslines aren’t obsolete. As budgets continue to become tighter due to prices going up, young families are using them again. In some areas they never went away.
I have always used a clothesline, it saves money and the laundry smells beautiful fresh and clean. As I child I would hang clothes on the line with my mother and grandmother so it always brings back sweet memories☺️great video! Thank you!
As someone from 1972, I remember rotary phones, wall paneling, & big wooden entertainment consoles that sometimes doubled as furniture, sure as hell looked like it in a way. So crazy BIG & heavy, it's a miracle the darn things could be moved...AT ALL. Good thing I was too young to be made to help move'em😪. I especially remember record players, such were a way of life & even got to use'em myself even before I reached my double digits. Despite using smart tech, I still use play records I mostly buy used or next to nothing or $1 & use a portable player with bluetooth receiver to link my smartphone with. Thanks for the nostalgia😌.
Talking about the prisms on the lamps made me think of the movie Pollyanna. When she hangs prisms in the window to make rainbows on the wall with that cranky, older gentleman.
I can still remember using the clothesline to hang clothes and sheets. And then when a storm would begin to pop up we’d run outside to get the clothes! I miss the record player and my portable one I had. And the old Coca-Cola bottles. So many good times and memories.
I never experienced having an actual Ice Box, but my mom and dad who were born in the early 30's did. Growing up in the 60's and 70's, my mom never called our fridge, a "fridge" or "refrigerator" she always called it an Ice Box. And you guess it, that's what I call ours. It's just what I learned from my mom. And I don't call a shopping cart, a "shopping cart," I call it a "buggy."
I used to love going to the meat market with my dad in the 60's and 70's. I remember at one time we went there and hamburger was 25 cents a pound. Now it's over $4 a pound.
What you don’t see any more is the can & bottle opener. The ”church key” as it was often called. Kept one int the car glove compartment for opening a can of motor oil and beer bottles and cans. Also had one in the cutlery drawer. An essential tool.
How about outdoor toilets? My folks house had one until the late 1950s. My grandparents lived on farms and they had outdoor toilets, complete with Sears catalogs, yellow jackets 🐝, air conditioning in the winter time. And other amenities. 😅
Not something you mentioned but my family's house still has a place in the bathroom wall where a crt tv could have been placed to watch tv while in the bath however we never used it and just have decorations there now.
We have a microwave but my wife still does old school popcorn, we have a dryer but we still do the old school closeline in the backyard, we just have to keep the squirrels off
My portable Smith-Corona was the tool that provided me plenty of pizza money back in college. And my ability to take notes in shorthand and retranscribe onto mimeograph sheets was another good source. I am so thankful that high school provided those courses. My final and most favorite typewriter was the IBM Selectric. When I had the rhythm I could easily type at 120 wpm. I wish Ibcould find a computer keyboard with that same feel. But now in 2023, I do all my word processing with voice recognition.
I still use a hot air popper. I think the popcorn tastes better. Almost all of my laundry is dried on the line. Love the way it smells. While I don't have a fireplace, I do have a wood stove with a glass door. It's my main source of heat.
i live in the uk and i can honestly say that washing lines are still used by most people , i hang my washing out on a line it's so much better than a dryer and eco friendly .. so if you can .. hang it out in the fresh air to dry
I also remember the manual telephone. No dialing. The caller would lift the receiver or handset. When the local operator responded with "Number, Please", the caller would tell the operator the number desired. Phone numbers would have the town or exchange name spelled out, like Dayton 423. Party line phone numbers had the suffix "J" or "W". sometimes followed by short number.
Rotary phones & extra long cords for the phones. I had to order a "newer" stir crazy popcorn popper for my hubby - still makes the best popcorn. I still use my crock pot, blender, perculator for coffee every morning, older model sewing machine (1964) and many older kitchen & household items because they were better than today's disposable crud.
My boo-jee suburban modern wife and I just bought a house. She asked the real estate agent what the poles in the backyard were for. He had to inform her that was for a clothesline.
My mother had to hang her sheets outside and baby cloth diapers. It would be mid winter. My mom put on her boots and walk over the snowbanks to hang laundry. The laundry would be frozen when she brought it in but she had to have the sun bleached fresh air. She hung clothes out until her mid 80’s.
There is certainly a lot of benefit to having a less complex lifestyle. I don’t think any of us would like to go back to a totally agrarian society where we spent 12 to 15 hours in the field However there’s a certain benefit to having little physical chores to be done. I like modern technology but I have kind of a test that I apply to it. Does it make my life easier or more complex? Does it enhance the relationships in my life or interfere with them? Does butter technology give us liberty or give the government more power to control? What does it do to our privacy? There is more to quality of life than simply increasing its speed and increasing your possessions. Someone once said that the real joy of life is learning to love people and use things not use people and love things.
My favorite thing... was the fact that the water heaters back then were complete crap, when I flushed the toilet the water would turn cold on whoever was in the shower, like an annoying relative perhaps, who has over extended their stay.
? What happened to the Americans? Before, a proud, God-loving, prosperous, intelligent and hard-working people. They were the best. The best civilization, the best culture, the best citizens. They were the best.
