I also remember all 14 + the 78 records and the frozen milk bottles which if you were unlucky sometimes burst the bottle and left the glass lying around but then I am a true baby boomer born in 1947. Another one was the man who came around on his bicycle to sharpen knives, garden shears, lawnmowers etc etc.

Those were the good old days weren’t they??

Richard
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I do indeed remember those toasters. You used to cook not only the toast, but also your fingers if you touched the wrong bit when opening the wings and the heady aroma of burnt toast wafted through every neighborhood at breakfast time.

I guess that’s the answer to why modern toasters have a setting that burns the toast so badly it’s impossible to even save a thin crispy bit in the middle when scraped with a knife. It’s so the neighbors will know you’re cooking toast.

I also remember those electric jugs which had a coiled wire element at the bottom which needed to be replaced occasionally. Fancy buying an electrical appliance these days which could actually be repaired?

My Aunt was a little eccentric. She used to boil the breakfast eggs in the jug and then use the water for making tea or coffee.She also had her own chickens. What’s a little chicken poo in your daily heart starter between friends?:-)

Well, I’m at least as old as Hal, because I remembered all 14 of them too, as well as a few more that aren’t on the list. Besides 78 rpm records, do you remember those toasters with the sides that folded in with the bread? No pop-ups, those. And actually, the test patterns didn’t usually stay on TV all night. The set went blank after a while, and I’d watch the screen shrink into the little white dot and then that would eventually fade away.

I’m sure there are many more of those fun little bits of trivia. Oh, one more… if you lived in a cold climate, some mornings when you went to the back door to bring in the milk bottles, they would be sporting columns of frozen milk and cream above the lip of the bottle, about 2-3 inches up, with the little cardboard stopper on top!

The good old days? Well, I kinda like today’s conveniences. The only things I miss are the wholly nutritious foods that weren’t the result of the food processing industry today that gives us food with more chemicals in it than a kid’s chemistry set (which used to really be a chemistry set!). Today’s kids would probably blow up a federal building with one.

Thanks for posting this fun list, even though it’s certainly been around the email venue for a while, too!

Roberta

PS – I was devastated last year when I was told I’m not a true Baby Boomer… I’m too old. I was born *during* WWII.

Isn’t this pathetic, I remembered all 14, plus I remembered 78 rpm records! That makes 15 out of 14! What is older than “older than dirt”?

Hal
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That is a moighty foine name you ave there, so it is

Well I scored to 09………ok up to 10……..oh well, but I can’t remember them completely lol!

Will keep in touch

Sean

The wringer was attached by an axis on the side of bowl which enabled it to be swung in a 360 degree radius. The idea was to wring the old dirty water back into the bowl so it could be reused while the wringer was in it’s “home” position and then turn it around so that it was sitting over what was usually the kitchen sink or laundry tub in which the clothes had been rinsed to either save the water or let it drain.

On the earlier models, the bottom roller was attached to a handle and geared which was used to crank the roller and thus pulling the clothes through the 2 rollers to “wring em’ out”.
Later the rollers were also driven by an electric motor.

They were dangerous contraptions in that it wasn’t uncommon for the lady of the house or the maid to have her hair or loose parts of her clothing caught in the ringer sometimes resulting in severe injury. Hence the expression: “It/he/she looks like it’s been through the ringer”

They were also notorious for breaking buttons, zips and bra stiffeners etc. If you’d left something perishable and of value in a pocket, it usual meant it’s ultimate demise while if you’d left something with sharp edges like a screw for example it would cause damage to the rubber rollers as well as your clothing.

I scored 9 out of 14 in the quiz, but I’m in the UK so a couple of things have different names if we had them, no idea what a’Wash tub wringers’is.

We only had a black and white TV until I was 12 and it was often in pieces on the floor while my Dad replaced the valves

Thanks

Keith