What items do you recall that were once....but are no more?

[John Turney]

Then there’s all the stuff in Tom’s house (ducks and runs);

Hand-cranked printing press

Butter churn

Ice Box ala Honeymooners

Hand-cranked wall phone (black)

Oil burning stove

Kerosene Lanterns

Scrolls reportedly from the library of Alexandria.

Mattress stuffed with straw

Cast Iron kettle over an open hearth.

Jars of Leeches

I remember when my parents decided to give up on their ice box and get a "fridge." My Mom said "I don't want a 'fridge', I want the whole refrigerator."

 

[GregW]

Have to chuckle - sadly - when friends say "Look at the great pictures of Sarah's graduation". Then have to scroll through hundreds of tiny images, find what they want, and show them to friends on a 3x3 screen, sliding left and right, up and down. Like dumping the old family albums on the floor, and trying to find the photos they want from ten feet away.

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You ever try to find a slide in a carousel? Way worse than a cell phone.

 

[NutmegCT]

wow - a slide in a carousel. Wonder how many people know what a 35mm slide is, much less a carousel projector!

 

[mikephillips]

My long gone maternal grandmother was a slide taking person, she used them to do presentations to Women's clubs, church groups and such for many years. She had been a teacher and from the later 40s after the war till she retired they had a group of teachers that took a week or two each summer and went somewhere, round Europe, North Africa, South America and so on. So she had tones of them, most not of people but of sights and of course unlabeled. But I do have, and need to get transferred to computer so I can make actual photos, a box of them from 1964 when she took me as a kid to New York and the World's Fair for a week. Even after all this time, I still remember doing the skyride, the Disney Small World ride and other stuff. We stayed in a cousin's kind of dingy hotel in Brooklyn so rode the subway and went for an afternoon to his home on Long island. So I don't want to lose the memories the slides have but do want them in an easier to use format and printed so they aren't lost someday.

 

[NutmegCT]

Mike - get those slides digitized asap. Colors on film fade over time.

I still have the slides I took on my 1967 college trip to Europe. What memories those bring. Example:

Fraulein Gabrielle Hoeltl, our tour guide. One look and I was in love. Hoo boy - was I ever in love.

TM