I remember in high school being so proud of myself for typing 100 WPM on a completely manual typewriter. I still have my portable one. My Grandkids loved playing typing on it.
Other stuff: 1. Beepers 2. Sears Wishbook (Christmas) 3. Those small photo developing booths in the middle of a shopping center parking lot 4. Blockbuster
@user-rl7mt4gh3o I rather have a wire connected to my phone than a wireless phone with internet that destroys young people's lives every day Take me back to the seventies anytime I'm ready
I wish still able, I only take tablet with me when go out so if people want to call me has to be by home phone, I basically got annoyed from repairing my iPhone screen as touch stop working so gave up on them
I miss jukeboxes especially the little ones that were right above your table where you could reach it those were so cool I wish they would come back!! 🥰
@@baskervillebee6097 The Original person who thought of the character, was a Canadian When the comic was made He came, from the plant Krypton,to crash land on Earth.
OK, I'm old. I remember all of this. Another reason cigarette machines disappeared, was that they were often located outdoors and were a very easy way for younger kids to buy cigarettes. There was a little grocery store, located near my Jr. High School that had one just outside the doors. Lots of 7th-9th graders bought their smokes there. I've never smoked but I can remember cigarettes being 20 cents a pack. We were always told to make sure to have "emergency change" (usually 2-4 quarters) in case we needed to make a phone call. And of course, having some change for the jukebox, wherever you went on a night out. I've heard one, much younger person say, "I can't believe they use to give you a listing of everyone's assassination coordinates delivered to your home, for free." That's what he called a phone book. They also made handy booster seats.
There was the option of being unlisted in the phone book, but I think there might have been a charge for that. I grew up in Crookston, MN, and our phone book covered maybe about 1/8 of the area of that state, in the northwest part. I don't think it extended as far south as Moorhead nor as far east as Bemidji. It was about 1 inch thick. Not much of a booster seat. There were thick books from big cities in the public library.
I understand exactly what you're saying. Those old devices made things "feel" more "human". Electronic and digital technology de-humanizes the modern versions of these activities.
The only thing here that I didn’t use regularly is a cigarette vending machine, because I never smoked. I still have the manual typewriter I used all through college.
When Christopher Reeves made his first SUPERMAN movie, he has to change into his cape and runs to find a phone-booth. It was half-a-booth and he looks perturbed. Just about everyone in the audience was familiar with the reruns of the old TV show where 'changing in the phone booth' was used. Also, in 1977's HIGH ANXIETY (Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn), Mel is attacked in a phone booth and it's the killer who dies.
Jamel… It’s early morning on January 1st here so I’d just like to say “HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE” ✌️🥳🍾🥂. This video was a true nostalgia trip. We still have pay phones at my work location (a train station) but now, the government & phone service providers have converted them into free call options for those who forget their cell phones. I remember so many of these. We had $2 bills for many decades but now have a $2 coin (gold in colour) ✌️😁🇦🇺
Vending machines are not obsolete. There were several in the break room where I used to work, and they had things like sodas, water, milk, apples, fruit juice, sandwiches, yogurt, chips, all kinds of things. My current employer has soda and snack vending machines in the 2nd floor break room. In my current office we don't have a single fax machine. What we do is scan a document to our email, and then email it to whomever is supposed to get it. And Apple Pay and Google Wallet etc have almost rendered plastic credit & debit cards obsolete - and that is a scary thought.
Still need a physical card on hand even if one's using the digital payments as a backup. If the internet connection has issues or the phone needs a charge, you still have your card.
I miss TV Guide, especially the articles. They were always so interesting, at least to my developing mind. I always looked forward to getting the newest copy every week at the grocery store. I don't miss pay phones. Cellphones are so much better. With pay phones, there was always a chance of getting caught out and needing one, but there were none around. For instance, if you had a breakdown on the freeway, you had to walk to the nearest exit to use a pay phone to call for help. Cellphones make that a nonissue. ETA: I *don't* miss having to use carbon paper at ALL. What a pain in the ass, and you're right. It did slow everything down.
I remember when pay phones still had rotary dials. You can still get phone books but there's hardly any listings in the white pages because most people moved from land lines to smartphones.
The last time I used a pay phone was 2010, my mobile phone battery was depleted and my car broke down near a gas station that was closed on a stormy night. Called roadside service and got my car towed home. As a kid pay phones were always a good source for finding change in the coin return slot. I miss Juke Boxes that had real records in them, they got replaced with digital kiosks that are too expensive. I've had maybe 3x $2 bills given to me as change over the decades, they never caught on just like #1 coins. When I was in elementary school we were required to type reports on typewriters, there were no computers, we had a small one at home.
When my family went grocery shopping in the early 80s, my dad would give me 5 quarters for the cigarette vending machine. Nobody seemed to care that a 6 year was buying cigarettes. Obviously the cigarettes were for my dad, but I liked getting it for him. Standing in line at the checkout counter would suck if the person in front of you paid with a personal check, it slowed everything down.
The Recollection Road stuff is a lot of fun. I grew up in the 1960s and was a teenager/young adult in the 70s. A lot of things are so much faster and easier now, no question. Some things I don't miss at all. Some I miss from pure nostaligia -- a fondness for the way things were when I was young. Things may have been slower, but there was more human contact and interaction. We used to like that, mostly. And, yes -- a knock at the door was welcomed by most. Freaks me out now!
When I was a cashier at Emporium Capwell, I remember using the manual credit card imprinter. It made having a credit card "oh so special" because it was a real charge transaction. I also remember the charge send transactions when I ordered items from a store ordered by a customer, and sending them their stuff from a different store. Ah the memories.
I remember going to Papa Ginos and they had a juke box on every booth. I used to love having a pizza and listening to all the amazing music out in the 70s. And of course the cigarette machines. I believe cigarettes were 50 cents! Today they are at least 10.00 a pack, some as high as 13.00!!!!! Boy those were the days. And gas was about 30 cents a gallon. So as a teenager back then weekends were extremely affordable. Oh and if I remember correctly a joint was only 50 cents. So me and my sister would save our lunch money ( 35 cents) we would have a great weekend! ✌️❤️
Thought it was funny when they showed a snack vending machine picture that was apparently in a gym because there were weights next to it. Seemed a bit counter intuitive. 🤣🤣
Those old phone booths was cool. A person could get out of the rain if needed. They also had things like seeing how many people could fit in a phone booth. We also did the same thing in Volkswagen Bugs. These are things we did for fun.
@user-rl7mt4gh3o didn't seem like germs and bird shit did anything to us. Human safety wasn't a big deal. Did you ever see a bicycle helmet back then? How about a pick-up with a bunch of people in the bed? It was different back then for sure. The Safety Police didn't exist.
I miss jukeboxes- there's a diner a few miles away, that closed during COVID and never re-opened, that had the last jukebox I've seen. My sister-in-law and I both have, and use, fax machines. Carbon paper is quite handy for transferring embroidery patterns onto fabric, but I don't know if it's still available for that purpose, as I've not had the need to do that for a couple decades. Happy New Year, Jamal! Happy New Year, everyone!
I'm pretty sure in the second photo featuring typewriters, that's Jackie Kennedy, and yes, that's Dave Letterman in the last typewriter photo. As with Keithdean's comment, cigarette vending machines disappeared from my state when the legal age restrictions were enforced more severely. I remember seeing them in gas stations, convenient stores, grocery store entryways and restaurants. I remember fetching a pop from a machine by putting my dime in the slot, opening the tall, narrow glass door, and pulling out the glass bottle, the metal 'flappers' allowing only one bottle to be yanked out. The college I work at still has pencil sharpeners near the door of most classrooms. They must be 20 to 40 years old.
In NYC there are a couple of spots where the payphones were converted to charging stations. There are also a few government agencies that still use fax machines.
A fax is a more secure way of sending a document. It goes straight to the other fax machine, whereas an email passes through several servers before it gets to the recipient.
@@brianbradburn that depends on the office. That's true if the person has a dedicated fax machine. Some offices (especially state and federal) use a common fax number that more than one person or departments have access to. Faxes have been lost, inadvertently taken by another office worker, fallen behind cabinets, etc. I worked for a government agency for 16 years and I know the B.S. that goes on behind the scenes.
I'm 51 and I remember all of these things. Videos like this are a fun reminder of the way things were, once upon a time, but I don't miss any of these things. I don't want to deal with pay phones, typewriters, carbon paper, newspapers that got ink all over your hands, etc. I like the convenience of the way things are done today. I like the minimalism that a smart phone makes possible. Once upon a time you needed a radio and stereo system, TV and VCR, a library full of books, a closet full of board games and a video gaming system, a personal planner, a wall calendar, a calculator, a road atlas, and more - just to do SOME of the things we can do with a smart phone. When I was a kid, when the family went on vacation, I packed a suitcase full of books. LOL. I LOVE having my library in my pocket. What I miss isn't the old tech, but that time of my life. I see videos like this, and I get homesick for my past - for friends and relatives who have transitioned, for my youth and all of the possibilities that lay before me then, when life was new and fresh and exciting.
5:26 Vending machines are often found at rest areas as well these days. 8:03 The gas station I used to work for still has a credit card machine in case the power goes out in the store so people can still buy items inside.
We still have vending machines and cigarette machines in Ireland. I still have my late mothers old typewriter. Happy New Year to you Jamel and all your family 👍🇮🇪🎊
I remember the little stand that you could test or buy replacement tubes for your TV. It was close to the end of the tube era, but they were still available. Also when pay phones went from a dime to a quarter. Damn! I'm old! What happened to that feeling of I can't wait to get older? :)
While most jukeboxes were of the large variety, some places had minitaure versions of the jukebox. One restaurant I frequented in the '70's had wall mounted jukeboxes at every booth. When you entered the booth, you would see them. On each side of the jukebox, there would be a type of wheel that would allow you to scroll through all the songs that the main jukebox in the restaurant had. When you found a song, you would put your money in the tableside jukebox, and press the letter and number of your selection. Depending on how many people were using their jukeboxes, it would take maybe a couple of songs before the one you selected would come on over the restaurant's speaker system
It's true what you are saying that things have become waaay to easy. It's like the scenario if you had to work and save for your first Car. You treat it with care and pride more than you would if your Parents bought it for you.
My parents had the flat Rolodex on the kitchen counter by the wall phone through the 70’ , 80’s and 90’s , with every phone number they needed, and my mother always kept an ongoing updated grocery list right beside it. Both my parents were very organized.
And I still see these every once in awhile...!!! I have to agree that the older ways were better because of accountability- making things not as easy...
The $2 bill was a good way to tell how much impact a business or a military base had on the local economy by paying people with them and noting how the bills showed up in area businesses. Fax machines are still a big thing in businesses.
This plays off of your other video that younger generations won’t understand. My friends who worked in a grocery store as checkers had to know the price of every item in the store and its location
When it comes to photography, i don't miss not knowing if my pictures were gonna turn out, but the waiting for your pictures to come in sure did build anticipation! 😂
Worked in the field in the 60s and 70's and had to call the office hourly. Phone booths were a neccesity and they were everywhere. All the convenience stores had phones on the outside. Had to make sure you always had change. --- Also some kind of cleaner and tissues.... the phone receivers were disgusting.
To put your question in perspective. How would the world look like, and how many of these things would we start using again, if we lost the help from electricity ? Electricity is doing almost all the work for us now. But it also get us in a state, where we don't need to educate us selves to be able to know many of these things by heart. Using a typewriter - you need to be able to spell, paying bills with cash money, you need to be able to calculate, and so on.
Here in Australia we still have telephone booths which are free to use and are available just in case of an emergency or your mobile phone battery runs out. You can also still a phone directory here but they are a lot smaller than they used to be.
I still get people using $2 bills at work on occasion. They still startle the younger kids when they pop up because they're not sure about them. Usually $2 bills would turn up at the racetrack a lot.
I am 62 years old and I can remember getting cold milk delivered to your door every morning you leave the empty glass bottles at your doorstep and the Milkman will replace them with cold milk
I would like to add airport lockers. You used to be able to put in a quarter and have a 15 x 15 place to store stuff while you waited for your flight. Of course they had to get rid of that potential future bomb - sadly.
Vending machines and fax machines still are used today. Less than before, of course. However, they are still kicking around. The telephone book has all but disappeared. We used to use them as bumper seats at the dining table, when I was a kid.
One thing they didn't mention was the fix-it shops. Stuff like your washing machine or vacuum cleaner would brake and you'd drop it off for a few days and get it fixed. Things were made in the USA and meant to last for decades. Now you just throw it out and buy a new one.
They still have updated versions of jukeboxes that can be accessed from your phone by linking to it's ip address in whatever particular bar you're in, and you pay on that app
I used to love the jukebox... I still love 'em when I find one, especially one that doesn't use CDs, but uses vinyl. The credit card machine... I used to love the loud sound it made when they did the imprint from the Chargex card... Chargex was the credit card that became VISA.
The last one, the credit card machine: I had to use that when working retail. We had to lookup the card numbers in little books that arrived several times a month. If the number was in the book, we had to refuse the transaction. Thankfully that never happened on my shifts!
Heya, I'm from Malaysia. We still have F&B vending machines @ hospitals & post offices (probably other spaces as well, but haven't been exposed to those spaces). We even have more modern & premium coffee machines (for example) @ some petrol stations. I know a local vending machine provider that serves-up hot food @ hospitals.. order & pay on your phone via QR. It has a built in microwave to reheat the frozen foods.
Who else used to call collect, and not pay, to your parents for a ride home after sports practice? There was a commercial a few years ago. "Wehadababyitsboy" is what they used for the name. 😂
One of the aspects of 'digital' purchasing is that the instant you make that purchase, THOUSANDS of advertisers, manufacturers, and so forth know your name, all the personal information associated with (and available/easily shared or sold) that name, what you bought. what store you bought it from, the location of that store, how often you buy what you bought, what time of day you bought it, how much you were willing to pay, etc. Did you ever notice, if you looked up an item on the internet, you started getting advertising for that and similar items? 'They' couldn't do that with the old carbon-paper system. Sure the carbon paper method is more cumbersome but it preserved a lot of privacy....
Yes, in Italy you can still find public phones and phone booths - and they work! But unfortunately, they're going to be phased out. Here in Poland, where I live, public phones disappeared years ago. It would still be nice to have closeable booths that one can go into in order to make or receive a cellphone call when you're outside walking (maybe this more applicable to Europe and a few US cities like New York).
I remember phone booths being a hang out spot you would bring a boom box and chill and most new the number for all the phone booths in case so and so was there different groups at different booths
I have a feeling some other things are going to go by the wayside, too, in the coming decades. Some later than others. Gas stations, for instance. Paper cash & coins. Movie theaters. Cattle ranches. Car ownership. Menial labor jobs. Gas stoves. Uber/Lyft drivers. Who knows? Not saying it’s for the better. Just saying things will continue to change. I’m glad I grew up in the 60’s & 70’s. People seemed to be less divided then. More willing to help each other. Days gone by….
Quite a number of pay phone booths have been kept in here Australia, small towns have at least one. You can make free phone calls from them. I thought it was a waste of money concept until earlier last year when I needed to use one.
If you purchase an “all-in-one” printer, the device should have the ability to send and receive faxes if they are connected to a landline telephone wire.
The pay phone that usually didn't have a phone book or work, don't miss them - and you normally didn't have enough quarters to use them. You also were out on a busy street so couldn't hear anything either. A lot of them were in sketchy neighborhoods too. Yeah on the cigs, this is where teens got their smokes, so once they passed legislation on age, they took them away. Used to have the small table top jukes too. How many trees got cut down to print those phone books? They have $2 bills, were mostly used at the race tracks...I have a few, Jefferson was my fav older president. Had to have a lot of quarters back then, LOL!! Michael Nesbitt's mother created White Out with typewriters. I still have my film cameras too, places are still out there to develop film and do prints as well as digital. I remember the first fax machine, it stunk, that was back in the 80s. People would staple business cards to the Rolodex too. Carbon paper for credit cards that were left on tables for payment, talk about trust. Never had CC info stolen back then. Don't miss any of them really but jukeboxes were fun.
Late at night after being out on the town, Would stop at a diner to get some food. Sitting in a booth we would select songs on the juke box selector device that each booth had .We then would start at the front of the pages with the songs on them. We would read the song title and then add Under the Sheets, made for some funny titles. You do not see many road maps anymore people use GPS and programs like Map Quest.
Ubiquitous? Lol You mentioned the guy that looked like David Letterman. Didn't the guy smoking the pipe and holding the Yellow Pages look like John Belushi? Keep the great vidz coming!
I remember in high school being so proud of myself for typing 100 WPM on a completely manual typewriter. I still have my portable one. My Grandkids loved playing typing on it.
We were also taught shorthand!
Best part these kid's they can maneuver a computer! But, they can't type! Period! 😢😢😢😢😢😢
Other stuff:
1. Beepers
2. Sears Wishbook (Christmas)
3. Those small photo developing booths in the middle of a shopping center parking lot
4. Blockbuster
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I spent so many hours on those payphones when I was a teenager talking to my boyfriend who became my husband so my mother wouldn't know
@user-rl7mt4gh3o I rather have a wire connected to my phone than a wireless phone with internet that destroys young people's lives every day
Take me back to the seventies anytime I'm ready
I wish still able, I only take tablet with me when go out so if people want to call me has to be by home phone, I basically got annoyed from repairing my iPhone screen as touch stop working so gave up on them
These were in the good ole days! ❤
I miss jukeboxes especially the little ones that were right above your table where you could reach it those were so cool I wish they would come back!! 🥰
Triple X Root beer in Issaquah Wa, still has them. 🤫
They can still be found in a lot of family style restaurants and diners.
Without phone booths, Superman has to wear his tight costume under his Clark Kent clothes 24/7. 😵💫
hahaha peace and love from Canada. Superman is Canadian!
@@poutine57
Not from Krypton?
@@baskervillebee6097 😂🤣
@@baskervillebee6097 The Original person who thought of the character, was a Canadian When the comic was made He came, from the plant Krypton,to crash land on Earth.
@@andynieuwenhuis7833
Maybe Krypton is a province???
OK, I'm old. I remember all of this. Another reason cigarette machines disappeared, was that they were often located outdoors and were a very easy way for younger kids to buy cigarettes. There was a little grocery store, located near my Jr. High School that had one just outside the doors. Lots of 7th-9th graders bought their smokes there. I've never smoked but I can remember cigarettes being 20 cents a pack. We were always told to make sure to have "emergency change" (usually 2-4 quarters) in case we needed to make a phone call. And of course, having some change for the jukebox, wherever you went on a night out. I've heard one, much younger person say, "I can't believe they use to give you a listing of everyone's assassination coordinates delivered to your home, for free." That's what he called a phone book. They also made handy booster seats.
also they sold cigarettes at Sonic
I think cigarette machines went away because they were twice the cost of buying them inside a store or gas station.
There was the option of being unlisted in the phone book, but I think there might have been a charge for that. I grew up in Crookston, MN, and our phone book covered maybe about 1/8 of the area of that state, in the northwest part. I don't think it extended as far south as Moorhead nor as far east as Bemidji. It was about 1 inch thick. Not much of a booster seat. There were thick books from big cities in the public library.
@@fionnmaccumhaill3257 IDK about where you lived, but I think they were the same price where I grew up.
@@keithdean9149Roughly. They might be a quarter more, fifty cents extra in a bar though, lol..
I understand exactly what you're saying. Those old devices made things "feel" more "human". Electronic and digital technology de-humanizes the modern versions of these activities.
Manual and analog devices have a more visceral feel to them.
At one point in my youth I worked as a proofreader...😂
I worked as a legal proofreader for decades until I retired 10 years ago.
@@alicerudolph8106 I worked for a publishing company back when they did the typesetting on film. Everything was very labor intensive.
The only thing here that I didn’t use regularly is a cigarette vending machine, because I never smoked. I still have the manual typewriter I used all through college.
When Christopher Reeves made his first SUPERMAN movie, he has to change into his cape and runs to find a phone-booth. It was half-a-booth and he looks perturbed. Just about everyone in the audience was familiar with the reruns of the old TV show where 'changing in the phone booth' was used. Also, in 1977's HIGH ANXIETY (Mel Brooks, Madeline Kahn), Mel is attacked in a phone booth and it's the killer who dies.
Wow shows my age, I remember all of these things
Me too! 😊
Same!
I worked at toysrus way back when, and a customer picked up the charge imprinting machine and threw it at me. I don't miss those at all.
Jamel… It’s early morning on January 1st here so I’d just like to say “HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE” ✌️🥳🍾🥂. This video was a true nostalgia trip. We still have pay phones at my work location (a train station) but now, the government & phone service providers have converted them into free call options for those who forget their cell phones. I remember so many of these. We had $2 bills for many decades but now have a $2 coin (gold in colour) ✌️😁🇦🇺
I remember all of this! The good ole days.
Recollection Road don't miss. They literally have captured every detail of growing up in the 70s and 80s. Even I forgot some of this stuff.
Vending machines are not obsolete. There were several in the break room where I used to work, and they had things like sodas, water, milk, apples, fruit juice, sandwiches, yogurt, chips, all kinds of things. My current employer has soda and snack vending machines in the 2nd floor break room.
In my current office we don't have a single fax machine. What we do is scan a document to our email, and then email it to whomever is supposed to get it.
And Apple Pay and Google Wallet etc have almost rendered plastic credit & debit cards obsolete - and that is a scary thought.
Still need a physical card on hand even if one's using the digital payments as a backup. If the internet connection has issues or the phone needs a charge, you still have your card.
I miss TV Guide, especially the articles. They were always so interesting, at least to my developing mind. I always looked forward to getting the newest copy every week at the grocery store.
I don't miss pay phones. Cellphones are so much better. With pay phones, there was always a chance of getting caught out and needing one, but there were none around. For instance, if you had a breakdown on the freeway, you had to walk to the nearest exit to use a pay phone to call for help. Cellphones make that a nonissue.
ETA: I *don't* miss having to use carbon paper at ALL. What a pain in the ass, and you're right. It did slow everything down.
I remember when pay phones still had rotary dials.
You can still get phone books but there's hardly any listings in the white pages because most people moved from land lines to smartphones.
The last time I used a pay phone was 2010, my mobile phone battery was depleted and my car broke down near a gas station that was closed on a stormy night. Called roadside service and got my car towed home. As a kid pay phones were always a good source for finding change in the coin return slot. I miss Juke Boxes that had real records in them, they got replaced with digital kiosks that are too expensive. I've had maybe 3x $2 bills given to me as change over the decades, they never caught on just like #1 coins. When I was in elementary school we were required to type reports on typewriters, there were no computers, we had a small one at home.
When my family went grocery shopping in the early 80s, my dad would give me 5 quarters for the cigarette vending machine. Nobody seemed to care that a 6 year was buying cigarettes. Obviously the cigarettes were for my dad, but I liked getting it for him. Standing in line at the checkout counter would suck if the person in front of you paid with a personal check, it slowed everything down.
The Recollection Road stuff is a lot of fun. I grew up in the 1960s and was a teenager/young adult in the 70s. A lot of things are so much faster and easier now, no question. Some things I don't miss at all. Some I miss from pure nostaligia -- a fondness for the way things were when I was young. Things may have been slower, but there was more human contact and interaction. We used to like that, mostly. And, yes -- a knock at the door was welcomed by most. Freaks me out now!
When I was a cashier at Emporium Capwell, I remember using the manual credit card imprinter. It made having a credit card "oh so special" because it was a real charge transaction. I also remember the charge send transactions when I ordered items from a store ordered by a customer, and sending them their stuff from a different store.
Ah the memories.
And there was the book we'd get sent from the bank where we had to look up the card number to make sure it wasn't stolen.
Happy new Year, J🎉🎉
I think it's fun to teach the chirren the old ways😂😂😂
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I remember going to Papa Ginos and they had a juke box on every booth. I used to love having a pizza and listening to all the amazing music out in the 70s. And of course the cigarette machines. I believe cigarettes were 50 cents! Today they are at least 10.00 a pack, some as high as 13.00!!!!! Boy those were the days. And gas was about 30 cents a gallon. So as a teenager back then weekends were extremely affordable. Oh and if I remember correctly a joint was only 50 cents. So me and my sister would save our lunch money ( 35 cents) we would have a great weekend! ✌️❤️
Thought it was funny when they showed a snack vending machine picture that was apparently in a gym because there were weights next to it. Seemed a bit counter intuitive. 🤣🤣
Those old phone booths was cool. A person could get out of the rain if needed. They also had things like seeing how many people could fit in a phone booth. We also did the same thing in Volkswagen Bugs. These are things we did for fun.
@user-rl7mt4gh3o didn't seem like germs and bird shit did anything to us. Human safety wasn't a big deal. Did you ever see a bicycle helmet back then? How about a pick-up with a bunch of people in the bed? It was different back then for sure. The Safety Police didn't exist.
@user-rl7mt4gh3o l think l haven't rode a bicycle since I got my driver's license. I have rode a lot of motorcycles.
I miss jukeboxes- there's a diner a few miles away, that closed during COVID and never re-opened, that had the last jukebox I've seen.
My sister-in-law and I both have, and use, fax machines.
Carbon paper is quite handy for transferring embroidery patterns onto fabric, but I don't know if it's still available for that purpose, as I've not had the need to do that for a couple decades.
Happy New Year, Jamal! Happy New Year, everyone!
i think you're right. lots of these things used to be more personal. i'm old enough that i used to use quite a bit of this.
I'm pretty sure in the second photo featuring typewriters, that's Jackie Kennedy, and yes, that's Dave Letterman in the last typewriter photo.
As with Keithdean's comment, cigarette vending machines disappeared from my state when the legal age restrictions were enforced more severely. I remember seeing them in gas stations, convenient stores, grocery store entryways and restaurants.
I remember fetching a pop from a machine by putting my dime in the slot, opening the tall, narrow glass door, and pulling out the glass bottle, the metal 'flappers' allowing only one bottle to be yanked out.
The college I work at still has pencil sharpeners near the door of most classrooms. They must be 20 to 40 years old.
In NYC there are a couple of spots where the payphones were converted to charging stations. There are also a few government agencies that still use fax machines.
A fax is a more secure way of sending a document. It goes straight to the other fax machine, whereas an email passes through several servers before it gets to the recipient.
@@brianbradburn that depends on the office. That's true if the person has a dedicated fax machine. Some offices (especially state and federal) use a common fax number that more than one person or departments have access to. Faxes have been lost, inadvertently taken by another office worker, fallen behind cabinets, etc. I worked for a government agency for 16 years and I know the B.S. that goes on behind the scenes.
There is still a working pay phone with a booth at the NW corner of 90th street and West End Avenue
@@gotham61 really!? I thought they were all gone
I'm 51 and I remember all of these things. Videos like this are a fun reminder of the way things were, once upon a time, but I don't miss any of these things. I don't want to deal with pay phones, typewriters, carbon paper, newspapers that got ink all over your hands, etc. I like the convenience of the way things are done today. I like the minimalism that a smart phone makes possible. Once upon a time you needed a radio and stereo system, TV and VCR, a library full of books, a closet full of board games and a video gaming system, a personal planner, a wall calendar, a calculator, a road atlas, and more - just to do SOME of the things we can do with a smart phone. When I was a kid, when the family went on vacation, I packed a suitcase full of books. LOL. I LOVE having my library in my pocket. What I miss isn't the old tech, but that time of my life. I see videos like this, and I get homesick for my past - for friends and relatives who have transitioned, for my youth and all of the possibilities that lay before me then, when life was new and fresh and exciting.
5:26 Vending machines are often found at rest areas as well these days.
8:03 The gas station I used to work for still has a credit card machine in case the power goes out in the store so people can still buy items inside.
We still have vending machines and cigarette machines in Ireland. I still have my late mothers old typewriter. Happy New Year to you Jamel and all your family 👍🇮🇪🎊
This was fun to watch. Thanks! The old V.H.S. video stores is what i miss.
I remember the little stand that you could test or buy replacement tubes for your TV. It was close to the end of the tube era, but they were still available. Also when pay phones went from a dime to a quarter. Damn! I'm old! What happened to that feeling of I can't wait to get older? :)
Back then we did have to worry about people taking our shit
Another great video about the way things used to be. Thumbs up. You keep making these and I'll keep watching them
I remember, and have used, everything in this video. I love all this nostalgia stuff. Keep it coming!
Wishing you and your beautiful family and all your followers a very Happy New Year from B.C, Canada 🎉❤😊
Happy New Year my dear Sir. I always enjoy what you do please keep it up..
While most jukeboxes were of the large variety, some places had minitaure versions of the jukebox. One restaurant I frequented in the '70's had wall mounted jukeboxes at every booth. When you entered the booth, you would see them. On each side of the jukebox, there would be a type of wheel that would allow you to scroll through all the songs that the main jukebox in the restaurant had. When you found a song, you would put your money in the tableside jukebox, and press the letter and number of your selection. Depending on how many people were using their jukeboxes, it would take maybe a couple of songs before the one you selected would come on over the restaurant's speaker system
Rolodexes can still be bought at office stores. I bought one because computers and cell phones can eat your phone numbers.
You are so amazing to watch videos of the people and the past
It's true what you are saying that things have become waaay to easy. It's like the scenario if you had to work and save for your first Car. You treat it with care and pride more than you would if your Parents bought it for you.
Growing up in the 80’s, i remeber “pay phones” but never think i saw a booth
I remember phone booths, when they were actually booths with a folding door, and you could go in to get out of the rain to make a phone call.
My parents had the flat Rolodex on the kitchen counter by the wall phone through the 70’ , 80’s and 90’s , with every phone number they needed, and my mother always kept an ongoing updated grocery list right beside it. Both my parents were very organized.
And I still see these every once in awhile...!!! I have to agree that the older ways were better because of accountability- making things not as easy...
Excellent video, thank you for sharing!
Thank You for sharing, I remember all that stuff. Wow how things have changed 😮
The $2 bill was a good way to tell how much impact a business or a military base had on the local economy by paying people with them and noting how the bills showed up in area businesses. Fax machines are still a big thing in businesses.
This plays off of your other video that younger generations won’t understand. My friends who worked in a grocery store as checkers had to know the price of every item in the store and its location
When it comes to photography, i don't miss not knowing if my pictures were gonna turn out, but the waiting for your pictures to come in sure did build anticipation! 😂
Oh Lord I remember all this.😂Privileged to live in the same time. Happy New Year brother 🎉❤
Film is still the best way to take pictures. I thought the $2 bill was a special for the bicentennial in 1976.
Worked in the field in the 60s and 70's and had to call the office hourly. Phone booths were a neccesity and they were everywhere. All the convenience stores had phones on the outside. Had to make sure you always had change. --- Also some kind of cleaner and tissues.... the phone receivers were disgusting.
I remember most of these. We still have those newspaper machines here in our town.
To put your question in perspective. How would the world look like, and how many of these things would we start using again, if we lost the help from electricity ? Electricity is doing almost all the work for us now. But it also get us in a state, where we don't need to educate us selves to be able to know many of these things by heart. Using a typewriter - you need to be able to spell, paying bills with cash money, you need to be able to calculate, and so on.
Here in Australia we still have telephone booths which are free to use and are available just in case of an emergency or your mobile phone battery runs out. You can also still a phone directory here but they are a lot smaller than they used to be.
I still get people using $2 bills at work on occasion. They still startle the younger kids when they pop up because they're not sure about them. Usually $2 bills would turn up at the racetrack a lot.
I am 62 years old and I can remember getting cold milk delivered to your door every morning you leave the empty glass bottles at your doorstep and the Milkman will replace them with cold milk
J you’re awesome Happy New Year to you and your family! 👍 keep it up…
At 6:10 that was a photo of Jackie Kennedy at the typewriter. Must have been sometime in the 1950's. Am I the only one who recognized her?
I recognized her
I would like to add airport lockers. You used to be able to put in a quarter and have a 15 x 15 place to store stuff while you waited for your flight. Of course they had to get rid of that potential future bomb - sadly.
Vending machines and fax machines still are used today. Less than before, of course. However, they are still kicking around. The telephone book has all but disappeared. We used to use them as bumper seats at the dining table, when I was a kid.
They showed vending machines but who remembers an automat?
Let your fingers do the walking was a yellow pages slogan.
I miss the satisfaction of hanging up the phone on the cradle.
I would gladly trade the inconvenience of the non-digital world for all of the intrusiveness of the mega corps and the government overreach.
One thing they didn't mention was the fix-it shops. Stuff like your washing machine or vacuum cleaner would brake and you'd drop it off for a few days and get it fixed. Things were made in the USA and meant to last for decades. Now you just throw it out and buy a new one.
They still have updated versions of jukeboxes that can be accessed from your phone by linking to it's ip address in whatever particular bar you're in, and you pay on that app
I used to love the jukebox... I still love 'em when I find one, especially one that doesn't use CDs, but uses vinyl. The credit card machine... I used to love the loud sound it made when they did the imprint from the Chargex card... Chargex was the credit card that became VISA.
The last one, the credit card machine: I had to use that when working retail. We had to lookup the card numbers in little books that arrived several times a month. If the number was in the book, we had to refuse the transaction. Thankfully that never happened on my shifts!
Heya, I'm from Malaysia. We still have F&B vending machines @ hospitals & post offices (probably other spaces as well, but haven't been exposed to those spaces). We even have more modern & premium coffee machines (for example) @ some petrol stations.
I know a local vending machine provider that serves-up hot food @ hospitals.. order & pay on your phone via QR. It has a built in microwave to reheat the frozen foods.
Who else used to call collect, and not pay, to your parents for a ride home after sports practice? There was a commercial a few years ago. "Wehadababyitsboy" is what they used for the name. 😂
One of the aspects of 'digital' purchasing is that the instant you make that purchase, THOUSANDS of advertisers, manufacturers, and so forth know your name, all the personal information associated with (and available/easily shared or sold) that name, what you bought. what store you bought it from, the location of that store, how often you buy what you bought, what time of day you bought it, how much you were willing to pay, etc. Did you ever notice, if you looked up an item on the internet, you started getting advertising for that and similar items? 'They' couldn't do that with the old carbon-paper system. Sure the carbon paper method is more cumbersome but it preserved a lot of privacy....
I remember all these things,I don’t really miss any of them .
Yes, in Italy you can still find public phones and phone booths - and they work! But unfortunately, they're going to be phased out. Here in Poland, where I live, public phones disappeared years ago. It would still be nice to have closeable booths that one can go into in order to make or receive a cellphone call when you're outside walking (maybe this more applicable to Europe and a few US cities like New York).
I did a Secretarial Course and learnt typing on a manual typewriter . That is how everyone should learn.
I want the old things back
Especially home town markets and cash register.
@patsymonger6420 SO DO I !!!!
I remember phone booths being a hang out spot you would bring a boom box and chill and most new the number for all the phone booths in case so and so was there different groups at different booths
I have a feeling some other things are going to go by the wayside, too, in the coming decades. Some later than others. Gas stations, for instance. Paper cash & coins. Movie theaters. Cattle ranches. Car ownership. Menial labor jobs. Gas stoves. Uber/Lyft drivers. Who knows? Not saying it’s for the better. Just saying things will continue to change. I’m glad I grew up in the 60’s & 70’s. People seemed to be less divided then. More willing to help each other. Days gone by….
Quite a number of pay phone booths have been kept in here Australia, small towns have at least one. You can make free phone calls from them. I thought it was a waste of money concept until earlier last year when I needed to use one.
I would still use the yellow pages. There was a lot of information on each page
If you purchase an “all-in-one” printer, the device should have the ability to send and receive faxes if they are connected to a landline telephone wire.
Boy do I feel old. Everything they talked about, I remember using or having.
I work for a vending machine company. Vending machines are literally everywhere. It’s a multi million dollar business.
Yes, I don't understand why they are saying they are obsolete, they just look different now.
We still have a telephone booth that works in our little tiny town a boulder Creek California. It’s just the post office.
Thirty five cents for a pack of cigarettes in vending machines.
FAX machines are used for very important legal documents with signatures.
I took photoshop in high school, then a scant 5 years later, digital cameras showed up. Then a few years after that, everyone could afford one.
The pay phone that usually didn't have a phone book or work, don't miss them - and you normally didn't have enough quarters to use them. You also were out on a busy street so couldn't hear anything either. A lot of them were in sketchy neighborhoods too. Yeah on the cigs, this is where teens got their smokes, so once they passed legislation on age, they took them away. Used to have the small table top jukes too. How many trees got cut down to print those phone books? They have $2 bills, were mostly used at the race tracks...I have a few, Jefferson was my fav older president. Had to have a lot of quarters back then, LOL!! Michael Nesbitt's mother created White Out with typewriters. I still have my film cameras too, places are still out there to develop film and do prints as well as digital. I remember the first fax machine, it stunk, that was back in the 80s. People would staple business cards to the Rolodex too. Carbon paper for credit cards that were left on tables for payment, talk about trust. Never had CC info stolen back then. Don't miss any of them really but jukeboxes were fun.
Not sure if its Australia wide or not but in Western Australia the public phone booths operate free of charge for all local calls .
Phone books were also used as make-shift booster seats for small children.
Late at night after being out on the town, Would stop at a diner to get some food. Sitting in a booth we would select songs on the juke box selector device that each booth had .We then would start at the front of the pages with the songs on them. We would read the song title and then add Under the Sheets, made for some funny titles. You do not see many road maps anymore people use GPS and programs like Map Quest.
Jackie o Kennedy on typewriter
$2 bill is still part of circulated currency just no one gets them anymore. in the 2020's we need them since you can't buy anything with a $1
The first woman shown with a typewriter was future First Lady Jackie Kennedy, who worked for a Washington, DC, newspaper before she got married.
Ubiquitous? Lol
You mentioned the guy that looked like David Letterman. Didn't the guy smoking the pipe and holding the Yellow Pages look like John Belushi?
Keep the great vidz coming!