Below you will find 12 objects that you will make you remember your childhood and those beautiful years when technology, wifi, and smartphones weren’t around.
When children loved to be children and get dirty while making their fantasies into reality through their games with their friends. When in order to get something done, you couldn’t just press a button. Sit tight and enjoy the ride down into memory lane!
1. If you’ve ever played on one of these…
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Who born in the 1980s and 1990s hasn’t ridden on this kind of swing set? These could actually become quite dangerous as the children liked to compete, making the swing literally “fly”!
2. If you’ve ever played with one of these…
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This was part of nearly every boy’s childhood, growing up in the 1950s and 1960s. Which boy hadn’t played cowboys vs Indians, or policemen chasing the bad guys? And, of course, carrying a gun was a MUST for your disguise. You could buy the caps, put them in the barrel, and raise some mayhem with the incredible noise and smell, produced after firing the gun.
3. If you really know what was this for…
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These might be more familiar to women than men, as they were usually used mainly by women. This is an old portable mini make-up mirror. The mirror frame had at the sides very bright lamps that provided the woman all the necessary light to apply her make up!
4. If you know what was this for…
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Can you guess what is this? I will give you a clue, it is definitely not some kind of scientific device. This was actually an address book! It might look a bit shabby now but back in the days, these were quite popular!
5. If you can program one of these…
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As it’s pretty much obvious from the picture this is an old car radio that you could found in all the cars back at a time that not even cassettes were used. This kind of device might seem ancient in our eyes, but this is how our grandfathers used to listen to music in their cars. Basically, nothing was automatic back then, you had to set up all the radio stations manually, by turning those round buttons.
6. If you know what these numbers are for…
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If you know what these numbers stand for then you were definitely a music lover, these numbers could be found on old record players, which used to be present in nearly every household in the past. And, the numbers represent the speed your record/ vinyl was recorded!
7. If you’ve ever made popcorn like this…
This was long before microwaves made their appearance in our lives and in our households. For those who cannot imagine how popcorn can be made this way, the kernels are inside the foil and once they start popping due to the heat, the foil/ bag expands, containing your ready to consume now popcorn.
8. If you’ve know what these films are for…
These were actually films that you could put in a special device, usually portable, and you could see the films like people used to back in the days when moving pictures weren’t a norm just yet!
9. If you’ve ever used one of these…
If you were a child in the 90s or earlier, you would remember these stools in places like train stations and airports. These were actually payphones where you could make a call in exchange for money. They were quite successful and usually, you would see people queuing to make a call.
10. If you’ve ever had a cake wrapped in foil…
Long before your chocolate treats were wrapped in colorful plastic, you would find cakes like these, wrapped in foil. This was back in the late 1960s and early 1970s, what a cute little vintage chocolate surprise!
11. If you can recognize the origin of this…
This definitely isn’t an item dating back to the Civil War, although to the fresh eyes of a child it might justifiably look like it! This isn’t but a pull tab from an old soda can. The older version of cans used to have little tabs that you could pull off and throw away. And, as people were a bit less ecological conscious back then, they used to throw them on the ground.
12. If you’ve ever used this in your classroom as a child…
These were often used by teachers in the classroom when they wanted to have straight lines on the blackboard. This was back in the day when whiteboards and projectors hadn’t made their appearance!
What a beautiful journey back in time! Truly amazing how things that we experienced as children, used or played with, now they are nearly disappeared. At least we can claim that we have our memories to remind us how it was back in the good old days.
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