When I was just a kid, my mom bought one of these things. We had it until just before she died. It was always in the living Room/ It was also my first exposure to FM radio and an eight-track cassette player. It's so wierd to had little kids and young folks look at stuff that was so common back when I was a kid and not even know what it is. So, watch this thread over the next few days. I'm going to post pics of common household appliances from back in the day, and see if anyone can tell me what is.

Known over here as a Radiogram or Music Centre. My grandparents had one very similar to the one you posted.

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Here we go...

We had one of these too when I was a kid I even got my finger stuck in one. Hurt like hell.

I may have to sit this out, being an old git, I'll probably know 'em all.

My aunt had one similar to that, although square, rather than cylindrical.

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SamTherapy posted at 8:47AM Sun, 13 December 2020 - #4407352

I may have to sit this out, being an old git, I'll probably know 'em all.

My aunt had one similar to that, although square, rather than cylindrical.

You can enjoy the trip down memory lane and see how many youngsters play the game. Here's another one. We use to have one of these too. Kept it in our pantry, but I was scared of it. Of course I was only about five or six at the time.

This should be a toughie!

Not sure about the third one you posted but the last one is almost identical to one my mom used.

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EClark1894 posted at 9:31AM Sun, 13 December 2020 - #4407351

Here we go...

We had one of these too when I was a kid I even got my finger stuck in one. Hurt like hell.

I have scars on my left hand from doing that. I was playing with a wet sock, running it through the ringer a few times, then decided to see how far I could let it go in before I pulled it back out. I let it go just a bit too far and I ran my arm all the way up to the elbow in the rollers. Luckily there was a safety release, but the damage was done. I steered well clear of that old washer after that.

If I had a nickle for ever time a woman told me to get lost, I could buy Manhattan.

Got me on the third one. Yep, the last one was always mounted on the wall.

Here's an easy one. We used to have one of these until I was about 18 years old. I loved this thing. Too bad this particular one costs $450 or I'd buy it.

SamTherapy posted at 9:54AM Sun, 13 December 2020 - #4407358

Not sure about the third one you posted but the last one is almost identical to one my mom used.

Give you a clue. It would heat up to work.

The power cord is a dead giveaway.

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I may have to sit this out, being an old git, I'll probably know 'em all.

My aunt had one similar to that, although square, rather than cylindrical.

You can enjoy the trip down memory lane and see how many youngsters play the game. Here's another one. We use to have one of these too. Kept it in our pantry, but I was scared of it. Of course I was only about five or six at the time.

This one has me. But the small picture isn't helping either. I can't really see what I am looking at...

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EClark1894 posted at 11:39AM Sun, 13 December 2020 - #4407357

This should be a toughie!

Is this handheld? I've seen them mounted on counter tops

If I had a nickle for ever time a woman told me to get lost, I could buy Manhattan.

I thought this thread would make me feel old but it is giving me warm fuzzies instead. I can't figure out the yellow thing either, but I cannot really get a good look at it. Meat grinder?

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EClark1894 posted at 11:39AM Sun, 13 December 2020 - #4407357

This should be a toughie!

Is this handheld? I've seen them mounted on counter tops

No, they're usually mounted.

As for the third one, I'll give you another hint. Laundry.

The third one... A steam press... though it doesn't press, is it meant for steaming out wrinkles?

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Sunfire posted at 1:08PM Sun, 13 December 2020 - #4407390

The third one... A steam press... though it doesn't press, is it meant for steaming out wrinkles?

THAT'S it!! The ol' mangler! The hint about being afraid of it brought it back after you said that. I've only seen them mounted in their own table, never separate like that before. Cool!

Sunfire posted at 1:44PM Sun, 13 December 2020 - #4407390

The third one... A steam press... though it doesn't press, is it meant for steaming out wrinkles?

We never had anything like that, though I seem to remember my mother doing it with her iron. She just held it straight up near the piece of clothing from which she wanted to get out wrinkles.

We only had a handheld can opener when I was a kid. When I moved into this apartment back in the early 80's, I got a piece of kitchen equipment that had several purposes, and one of them was opening cans.

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You guys are good! The third one, as Minyassa pointed out, was called the mangler, but it's not a steam press, just a roller iron. I burnt myself on the one we had, so I rarely ever used it.

And as Sa' raneth pointed out. The third one is a swing away can opener.

This should be really easy.

Here's one. It's a handheld model.

Hand mixer before they were powered and either a ricer or juicer for the two newest.

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Sunfire posted at 3:48PM Sun, 13 December 2020 - #4407407

Hand mixer before they were powered and either a ricer or juicer for the two newest.

Close. A juicer for the last, and an egg beater. The egg beater we had. I didn't get the juicer until I was a teen and someone gave that to us. Otherwise, we bought our juice.

EClark1894 posted at 5:04PM Sun, 13 December 2020 - #4407399

This should be really easy.

Still have one of those and one of the following pic, although not of that design. Ours is more your "cup with a spike" type.

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Hand mixer before they were powered and either a ricer or juicer for the two newest.

Close. A juicer for the last, and an egg beater. The egg beater we had. I didn't get the juicer until I was a teen and someone gave that to us. Otherwise, we bought our juice.

Yeah, I used ours for everything not just eggs. LOL

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EClark1894 posted at 5:48PM Sun, 13 December 2020 - #4407399

This should be really easy.

That there is a child hair tangler. I have it on good authority. Sadly. xD

We didn't have one of these when I was growing up... but my older sister did... and yep, I used it.

a chamber pot?

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RedPhantom posted at 8:27PM Sun, 13 December 2020 - #4407421

a chamber pot?

Aww, you must've peeked!

A little small for a chamber pot. I wager a sugar bowl.

EClark1894 posted at 9:53PM Sun, 13 December 2020 - #4407369

Here's an easy one. We used to have one of these until I was about 18 years old. I loved this thing. Too bad this particular one costs $450 or I'd buy it.

OMG ... we had one of those aluminum ones, very similar to this except it was shiny aluminum, and we had a color wheel that we set at the base and pointed it up to the top of the tree so that it would change colors. LOL

EClark1894 posted at 10:00PM Sun, 13 December 2020 - #4407399

This should be really easy.

I know what this is so I will pass. My mom had a few LOL

EClark1894 posted at 10:01PM Sun, 13 December 2020 - #4407401

Here's one. It's a handheld model.

On this I am going to guess a garlic press?

I've got a good one. My aunt had one of these and it scared the willies out of me.

I can't even begin to "think" what that could possibly be.

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Hint: She was a hairdresser. She was born in 1911 ... I think she was a hairdresser by the late 1930s. She still had it in the late 50s when I first saw it in her salon and got freaked out. LOL

Yeah I would just say that. For hair to frankenstein it. LOL

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We used to refer to a chamber pot as a 'gezunder' ... it 'goes under' the bed -

This one is a little older than the one we had.

hborre posted at 5:42AM Mon, 14 December 2020 - #4407430

A little small for a chamber pot. I wager a sugar bowl.

No, I don't think you'd ever want to use any sugar from that bowl.

I never knew my grandmother, but apparently she or my great aunt, left this to my mother. I only know what it is because my mother told me.

You don't see these much anymore.

the brown one looks like a radiant space heater. the black one is an iron. You put it on a hot stovetop to heat it up then iron until it cools and repeat. not sure what the third is

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A wall mounted soda bottle opener. I lived with my paternal grandmother after my father died in 1977. She was born in 1901, so she had several of the smaller items. what she didn't have (like the older open top washing machine, well, I saw items like that when we visited her relatives and friends. The "steam press" got me due to the small image and while I'd never seen one in person, the hair roller array was was fairly evident. The bottle opener had the "Coca-Cola" logo and we had the swing away crank driven can opener. Surprisingly, her radio was a relatively 'modern" (for the early 70s), a clock/radio combination. I'm sure she must have had a 'vintage" phonograph as she still had ceramic 78s, but I don't ever recalling it. Her daughter, my paternal aunt had the "console" style audio entertainment center.

Funny, when i saw the thread title, I immediately thought of the TARDIS console used during the William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton years of "Doctor Who". I thought for sure Sam Therapy would have made a comment along that vein. Silly me.

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EClark1894 posted at 8:27AM Mon, 14 December 2020 - #4407473

This one is a little older than the one we had.

My grandparents had one of those. :)

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A wall mounted soda bottle opener. I lived with my paternal grandmother after my father died in 1977. She was born in 1901, so she had several of the smaller items. what she didn't have (like the older open top washing machine, well, I saw items like that when we visited her relatives and friends. The "steam press" got me due to the small image and while I'd never seen one in person, the hair roller array was was fairly evident. The bottle opener had the "Coca-Cola" logo and we had the swing away crank driven can opener. Surprisingly, her radio was a relatively 'modern" (for the early 70s), a clock/radio combination. I'm sure she must have had a 'vintage" phonograph as she still had ceramic 78s, but I don't ever recalling it. Her daughter, my paternal aunt had the "console" style audio entertainment center.

Funny, when i saw the thread title, I immediately thought of the TARDIS console used during the William Hartnell and Patrick Troughton years of "Doctor Who". I thought for sure Sam Therapy would have made a comment along that vein. Silly me.

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Sorry to disappoint, old chap.

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I remember the days when I used to stay logged in on this forum.

Anyway, this one may fool some of you.

EClark1894 posted at 11:29AM Mon, 14 December 2020 - #4407505

I remember the days when I used to stay logged in on this forum.

Anyway, this one may fool some of you.

I wouldn't want to bet but it looks very much like a vintage guitar amp. Gibson used to make them in a similar style. Then again, it could be an old radio.

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Aww, you're probably older than God, Sam. You probably know everything he doesn't. :)

Deecey posted at 3:29PM Mon, 14 December 2020 - #4407461

Frankensteining is right! LOL

As soon as you mentioned hairdresser, I realized what it was. I was only perming my hair during the 1980s, and then only because my hair was so unruly and wild, I had to do something to tame it. Once we got to the 1990s, I didn't do it anymore. I don't think I've ever seen anything like that all the years I was perming my hair. ~cringe~

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EClark1894 posted at 3:09AM Tue, 15 December 2020 - #4407518

Aww, you're probably older than God, Sam. You probably know everything he doesn't. :)

Hehehe.

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I got the swing away can opener ... the clothes wringer ... but not the middle one. And the first ... I had one in my bedroom as a teen (Grand-parents weren't into stereos) and I recall that called a stereo cabinet. Mine looked very much like this one. I recall sitting in front of it just right to get the balance of stereo!! The hand mixer also called an egg-beater ... I've actually been looking for a new one cuz sometimes they work better than the electric ones.

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Boni posted at 6:10AM Tue, 15 December 2020 - #4407591

I got the swing away can opener ... the clothes wringer ... but not the middle one. And the first ... I had one in my bedroom as a teen (Grand-parents weren't into stereos) and I recall that called a stereo cabinet. Mine looked very much like this one. I recall sitting in front of it just right to get the balance of stereo!! The hand mixer also called an egg-beater ... I've actually been looking for a new one cuz sometimes they work better than the electric ones.

I agree. I hand one when I was a teen and I used to bake cakes all the time. My brothers thought there was something wrong with me, but I noticed they all ate the cakes. :)

Never had one of these, but I always wanted a modern one.

This one should be easy for an old git like Sam. :)

Let's leave this one for the youngsters. I want see if anyone under thirty knows what it is.

Extra point if you know WHAT it was used FOR.

A thirty year old might know this one. 15 to 20 years, forget it! :)

Final one for today.

EClark1894 posted at 7:25AM Tue, 15 December 2020 - #4407602

Let's leave this one for the youngsters. I want see if anyone under thirty knows what it is.

Extra point if you know WHAT it was used FOR.

I know this one. I never needed it. My pair was the next newer model that didn't need it. They had wingnuts instead.

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EClark1894 posted at 7:27AM Tue, 15 December 2020 - #4407603

A thirty year old might know this one. 15 to 20 years, forget it! :)

we had one of these on our house until a few years ago when the wind bent the piping it was on. It didn't work. We still have a modern digital version because it beats adjusting rabbit ears. I'm not saying a lot of these answers because hubby and I are older and we had a lot of contact with those who were seniors when we were young. If we didn't own these growing up, they did. But I figure anyone who knows what rabbit ears are, know this thing too.

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A nut chopper

A shoe "spoon" for guiding one's heel into footwear

A key to manually tighten "adjustable" roller skates that 'clamped" upon one's regular footwear

A rooftop TV aerial for VHF and UHF signals (no longer used)

a home "bonnet" hair dryer

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EClark1894 posted at 7:32AM Tue, 15 December 2020 - #4407604

Final one for today.

This one I'm going to guess on because hubby and I are in disagreement on it. I think it's a hairdryer, hubby thinks it's a table lamp.

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I see Red Phantom beat me about the "key" and the antenna as I was composing.

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I wanted to add a picture. The egg beater reminded me of it. In my mind, they sort of go together, one for the Mrs., one for the Mr, at least for most back at the time both were the common option

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I was about to identify it, but then I remembered EClark wants the younger member to try guessing.

Again, my grandmother had one (which i believe just her husband used), but it wasn't really needed when I moved in with all my father's stuff which included a 1960s electric model (which i still use).

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Redfern posted at 8:25AM Tue, 15 December 2020 - #4407608

A nut chopper

Food Chopper.

A rooftop TV aerial for VHF and UHF signals (no longer used)

Actually, they are in rural or mountain areas.

In case anybody is wondering, I'm 58 years old.

And RP posted a pic of a drill. I think we had one in our wood shop class in high school.

Btw, tell your hubby, you were right about the hair dryer.

I meant the signals. Haven't the VHF and UHF bands been reassigned by the FCC to other functions, meaning if one does not want to deal with 'cable" or "satellite", one now needs a special "convertor" box connected to the VHF screws to get an "over the air" or "rabbit ear" signal?

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Redfern posted at 8:40AM Tue, 15 December 2020 - #4407620

I meant the signals. Haven't the VHF and UHF bands been reassigned by the FCC to other functions, meaning if one does not want to deal with 'cable" or "satellite", one now needs a special "convertor" box connected to the VHF screws to get an "over the air" or "rabbit ear" signal?

No. They're still used mostly by television stations, most of whom still broadcast signals using those frequencies. But they ALSO broadcast using digital signals. It was these signals that the FCC mandated that all TV stations had to broadcast in by a certain date.

RedPhantom posted at 12:05PM Tue, 15 December 2020 - #4407611

I wanted to add a picture. The egg beater reminded me of it. In my mind, they sort of go together, one for the Mrs., one for the Mr, at least for most back at the time both were the common option

My dad had one of those, and AFAIK, my stepmom still has it.

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We still have an aerial antenna. They have digital ones now so you don’t need a converter box. We can pick up channels from cities a couple of hours away. The signal is usually good. There’s not much on, but I find the same thing with cable and this is free.

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Since I posted the key this morning, thought I might as well post the skates too. I had a pair of these when I was about twelve years old. After a while, we took them apaart and made a skateboard out of them. If I can find one of those, I'll post it too.

Here's what we did with old rollerskates.

My dad had one of those, and AFAIK, my stepmom still has it.

Well I'm not ashamed to admit to grumpy old fart status :)

I bought a new one of those, also got the 1st one above. Plus I'd love to own a vintage (not modern) 2nd one. The 3rd, complete with original 1942 "Big Dick" logo, (the name of a dog, honest guv) is currently in a tub of oil as it was rusted solid.

Pinky - you left the lens cap of your mind on again.

To replace @4407600, I recommend a Trumpeter Paint Mixer, through that doesn't squeeze the teabag and I've never figured out why my tea tastes of Humbrol enamel.

And for @4407601, I trust an erstwhile gentleman would get his manservant to pull his boots on and not resort to such modern frippery:)

Pinky - you left the lens cap of your mind on again.

EClark1894 posted at 8:34AM Sun, 13 December 2020

When I was just a kid, my mom bought one of these things. We had it until just before she died. It was always in the living Room/ It was also my first exposure to FM radio and an eight-track cassette player. It's so wierd to had little kids and young folks look at stuff that was so common back when I was a kid and not even know what it is. So, watch this thread over the next few days. I'm going to post pics of common household appliances from back in the day, and see if anyone can tell me what is.

Blimey, I remember these but completely forgot about them until now. Amazing how much has changed, where electrical appliances were more hidden away and discrete. Now electrical appliances are in your face every corner you turn.

What a cool idea for a thread, so many things here jogging memories of different times now gone.

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I figure everybody knows what this is, an stove and oven. Yes, youngsters, before the microwave, even before the toaster oven, there was the full size model. All electric. I didn't remember before I saw this pic. but the oven was Huge. You could literally climb inside if you were stupid and a child. There were four electric burners on the oven. Two large and two small. I don't remember why, I DO remember that I burned myself on one of those burners when I was small. I still have the burn mark on my wrist but I don't remember HOW I burned myself or when.

Ha! That's nowt! When I were a lad, there were 150 of us in a cardboard box in t' middle o t' road.

But anyway, we moved into a place that still had an old Yorkshire range fitted. They were once the primary cooking appliance, particularly in the north of England, hence their name. Most people took them out - as did my dad - but they're fashionable again.

They were basically an oven and hob system built into and around a coal fireplace. Common in cottages, country houses and working class homes in the 19th and early 20th century. Many survived in poor areas until the 1960s.

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Okay, time to be truthful. I've never actually used one of these things, but I know about them because I saw them used on tv in some of my favorite tv shows and movies.

Here's a more modern one. Anyone over thirty may have actually used one in the last twenty or twenty five years.

Remember these? They may look a little different from the ones in your country.

EClark1894 posted at 10:28AM Fri, 18 December 2020 - #4407880

Remember these? They may look a little different from the ones in your country.

Can't even see what they are, other than teeny, tiny pictures. Some kind of ad for car stuff, but that's all.

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EClark1894 posted at 10:28AM Fri, 18 December 2020 - #4407880

Remember these? They may look a little different from the ones in your country.

Can't even see what they are, other than teeny, tiny pictures. Some kind of ad for car stuff, but that's all.

It's the inside of a certain book. I didn't want to show the outside because you'd get it for sure. I don't know if you had them in the UK. You probably did, though. Hint: It might be inside a fake TARDIS. :)

It's either a Sears & Robuck Catalogue or a phone book.

EClark1894 posted at 1:59PM Fri, 18 December 2020 - #4407877

Here's a more modern one. Anyone over thirty may have actually used one in the last twenty or twenty five years.

Geeze, does that bring back memories, especially the ones in the outdoor phone booths. The phone booths went out of style when everyone started getting cellphones, and didn't need them anymore.

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EClark1894 posted at 1:59PM Fri, 18 December 2020 - #4407877

Here's a more modern one. Anyone over thirty may have actually used one in the last twenty or twenty five years.

Geeze, does that bring back memories, especially the ones in the outdoor phone booths. The phone booths went out of style when everyone started getting cellphones, and didn't need them anymore.

Speaking of phone booths. This one's on sale for $3,800. I'm nostalgic, not rich or crazy. :)

I liked the look of our old red phone boxes. The handsets inside were cool, until they changed to a really drab utilitarian design in the 1970s.

I'd show one but for some reason, uploads are misbehaving.

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I tried to find one like this before. Our console had an eight track cassette tape player in it..

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I tried to find one like this before. Our console had an eight track cassette tape player in it..

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Ah, Steampunk Karaoke.

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Remember these? They may look a little different from the ones in your country.

Hard to tell from pic, but could be the US equivalent of a Hayne's "manual". Which for those less blessed was "officially" a book that showed you how to dissemble/reassamble your vehicle. such as by year, model number etc. Reality? despite owning several an oil and blood stained copies you'd never manage to get all the bits back into the gearbox.

In the 21st century they do versions for anything from the USS Enterprise to Tardis's. Which probably explains why my Tardis never works :)

Pinky - you left the lens cap of your mind on again.

It was the interior of a phone book. Those were white, but I've always known them to be Yellow pages.

The picture I posted above I took in The Dalles, Oregon last summer. It is a Sears Silvertone wire recorder from around 1948. Wire recorders were the predecessor to tape recorders...

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Our B&W tv set from the 60s.

Pic reminds me of my Christmases in Walnut Terrace when I was around 5 to 8. We had the tree until we moved to the house I'm living in now. It stayed with us until I was around 15 or so. No, that's not me.

We used to have our Christmas Parades at night. Then they moved them to the daytime and I stopped going. Wasn't as fun as before.

WandW posted at 5:32PM Wed, 23 December 2020 - #4408212

The picture I posted above I took in The Dalles, Oregon last summer. It is a Sears Silvertone wire recorder from around 1948. Wire recorders were the predecessor to tape recorders...

http://www.antiqueradio.com/May10_Curiale_Silvertone.html

Well, I wouldn't have guessed. I've only ever seen pro/military wire recorders, never a domestic model.

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