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Time to test your memory.
Take this quiz to find out how many old items you remember from the past.

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  • CharMaine Added What the hell is a button hook? LOL. I got 17 . . . some were just a little too much before my time. I don't know about that foot warmer contraption either. That looked dangerous.
  • Mary Jane Added This was a tough one, I missed 6 of them.
  • Little Bright Feather Added I got them all but 3
  • Patricia Added I remembered most of them, but couldn't remember their proper name. Fun to watch.
  • iotus2 Added I missed 8 of them! Tough quiz, Mel, but a good one!
  • Su B Added Some of these were regional. Growing up in New York City, I'd heard of most of them. Only missed naming 4 because I'd never actually seen one.
  • Sharyn Added Yikes!! I'm now 78 years old and I never saw any of these things and maybe only a few but couldn't name them.
  • Martin Added I got 15 right! But, in all fairness to me, there were a few things that I would have gotten right if it had shown the machine I USED to have. The answering machine and the laser disk player. I guessed a dictophone and a CD player. Fun though!
  • CHARLIE G. Added HI MEL . I ONLY GOT 15 .
    MY WEAKNESS WAS THE EARLY COMPUTER AND VIDEO GAME STUFF !!
    MOST OF THE ONES THAT I GOT RIGHT ARE HERE IN MY HOUSE LOL !!
    STAY SAFE ! C. G.
  • Mari Added I only got about 5 or 6 right and I'm 85. I thought I would do well, but I didn't get that right either. :heart_eyes:
  • Johnny Added I got very few, perhaps t'smy age!
  • Jackie Added I got 19 right. I'm old!
  • Ray Added I got 18 right, and yes it was a little harder than I thought. Lol
  • Andrea Added I got 21 of them. I'm 78, so lived through more than half of the 20th century (first of the baby boomers in 1946). I was surprised I missed so many of them!. I feel like I'm older than dirt! I don't have any recollection of a trouser press. I think my mother just did them with a damp press cloth and the sprinkler head on a glass soda bottle filled with water, to set the crease.
  • Nancy Added Not too many, but boy, did it bring back more than a few memories! As always - Thank you!
  • oldtom9 Added Good grief! I was stumped so many times and I am 81 years of age! One that fascinated me is the trouser press. As the son of a custom clothier, I never saw such a thing. My grandfather and father used a large, padded workbench and a sleeve press. To press pants or jackets, a piece of canvas was placed over the part of the clothing to be pressed. Then a real sponge was soaked in water and run over the canvas. Solid iron manglers (irons) were heated in a slotted gas-fired mechanism. The hot iron was grabbed with a thick disc pad (at least 1/4"), then run over the fabric to press it. After that, the canvas was removed and the excess steam in the fabric was removed by taking a 12" x 3" x 2" thick board with rounded corners and slamming it onto the fabric. And that's the way it was. I still press pant using a canvas or linen cover.
  • Kathy Added 15 for me....not as easy as I thought.
  • Clay Added 13 for me. I thought I would get more than that.
  • Marshall Added I knew 23.
  • dixie doodle Added WOW! Those were not as easy as I thought it would be.
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