In this age of fast fibre comms and our modern throwaway ( or rapid recycle) society, who still regularly uses or even depends on technology or household and leisure stuff from the 60s / 70s or earlier?
Aside from my few vintage amusement artefacts - vinyl 60s jukebox , em pinballs and a few odd slots, some of which I cherish owning, what takes you back to the mid 20th century PERHAPS EVERY DAY?
I have several just list your quaint ye olde English hand me downs you still have to hand and appreciate .. ‘future antiques’
In spite of the coal ban last May we still have an open fire (now smokeless ovals and dried logs used) which also heats our hot water with a ‘back boiler’ tank pipe system and this winter has been our daily essential heating but no electric emersion water heating bills required to amass and we don’t have gas supply to our house anyway
On a plus side we incinerate some food waste & lots of things that would be landfill !
We cook almost daily on an electric cooker with an EYE LEVEL GRILL was already second hand when we bought it in 1985 still like new , tho we do have toaster, kettle, microwave and air fryer etc less primitive?
While we have a modern bathroom upstairs our ground floor loo has a high level flush tank with a pull chain and we acquired a nice ceramic Victorian handle for the chain says “PULL” in a blue Delph art scroll on white glazed stoneware
Above our fire we have a LAVA LAMP not used so often but it’s there on the mantelpiece. Other old ornaments and books occupy shelves throughout the home
I use hammers and some hand tools I have owned all my life and odd ones may have been my dad’s ? and had a 1967 Land Rover for a long long time
Maybe you drive a pre 1980 car or truck?
Use an ex military oscilloscope or test gear
Play on machines taking pre decimal 1d coins or three penny bits or sixpenses? Such as machines from the 60s or older perhaps kit-kat or chewing gum venders?
Collect Dinky cars Hornby train sets etc.
Maybe other toys/collectibles or furniture.
Or get really locked back with older stuff?
Maybe you are just modernists praying one day you will find a grail item you remember?
Tell us about it, if it even still exists today?
Easy for me to recall as I lived the sixties!
It seems less people chat their hobby on the forum than a while back when I joined ? I know it’s video arcade mainly here but get talking
List below make this a fun discussion topic?
I probably have many more but just those few above are in our daily life 50+years on!
Many of us collect/ hoard a variety of items.
Pictures would be great if you have them ?
Aside from my few vintage amusement artefacts - vinyl 60s jukebox , em pinballs and a few odd slots, some of which I cherish owning, what takes you back to the mid 20th century PERHAPS EVERY DAY?
I have several just list your quaint ye olde English hand me downs you still have to hand and appreciate .. ‘future antiques’
In spite of the coal ban last May we still have an open fire (now smokeless ovals and dried logs used) which also heats our hot water with a ‘back boiler’ tank pipe system and this winter has been our daily essential heating but no electric emersion water heating bills required to amass and we don’t have gas supply to our house anyway
On a plus side we incinerate some food waste & lots of things that would be landfill !
We cook almost daily on an electric cooker with an EYE LEVEL GRILL was already second hand when we bought it in 1985 still like new , tho we do have toaster, kettle, microwave and air fryer etc less primitive?
While we have a modern bathroom upstairs our ground floor loo has a high level flush tank with a pull chain and we acquired a nice ceramic Victorian handle for the chain says “PULL” in a blue Delph art scroll on white glazed stoneware
Above our fire we have a LAVA LAMP not used so often but it’s there on the mantelpiece. Other old ornaments and books occupy shelves throughout the home
I use hammers and some hand tools I have owned all my life and odd ones may have been my dad’s ? and had a 1967 Land Rover for a long long time
Maybe you drive a pre 1980 car or truck?
Use an ex military oscilloscope or test gear
Play on machines taking pre decimal 1d coins or three penny bits or sixpenses? Such as machines from the 60s or older perhaps kit-kat or chewing gum venders?
Collect Dinky cars Hornby train sets etc.
Maybe other toys/collectibles or furniture.
Or get really locked back with older stuff?
Maybe you are just modernists praying one day you will find a grail item you remember?
Tell us about it, if it even still exists today?
Easy for me to recall as I lived the sixties!
It seems less people chat their hobby on the forum than a while back when I joined ? I know it’s video arcade mainly here but get talking
List below make this a fun discussion topic?
I probably have many more but just those few above are in our daily life 50+years on!
Many of us collect/ hoard a variety of items.
Pictures would be great if you have them ?
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I certainly have a passion for that period that I can't shake and it's something I have ruminated on - most of my friends have a fleeting affection for those times, but they don't seek to collect artifacts of the period like I do.
