Changing - Items Fading into History
Not just the many everyday items used by our parents or grandparents (60 to 100 years ago), but even for anyone over the ages of 45-50, many of our daily household items are disappearing. Not until you take the time to stop and recall what was common place and now no longer used, do you better understand the same situation faced by your ancestors. True, innovation does seem to move faster now-a-days, but it did change for your relatives also. If your grandparents were born about 1930, there was no television, there was barely radio then.
So put together here to refresh your memory are some daily items rarely found or used in 2015. At the holiday time, start a conversation with family members to see if additional items can be recalled and the dates those items were mostly used. That can spark a fun and lively family get-together.
No special order or time frame, just a list:
paper checks
TV antennas on rooftops
overhead transparencies and projector
typewriters
video rental stores
phone booths
drive-in movie theaters
handwritten letters
record stores
landline telephones plugged to the wall
floppy discs
35 mm slides
milkmen to the house
rotary dial phone
clotheslines
S&H green stamps
set of encyclopedias books
slide rulers
bank book
shoe polish kit
pant stretchers
spinner knobs for auto steering wheels
pay phones
classroom blackboard using chalk
fountain ink pen and ink well
transistor radios
stamped check-out library cards
cigarette ads on TV
mood ring
camera flashbulbs
yellow correcting tape used with a typewriter
Photos: floppy disc, overhead projector, phone booth, clothesline, and pen and ink well and mood ring.
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