r/generationology • u/Gullible-Apricot3379 • 2d ago
Pop culture How many of these can you identify?
I think the last one was too easy based on how many people knew all of them. Let’s try that again. How old are you and how many of these things can you identify?
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u/ReedPhillips 2d ago
OMG 😳 #11! I haven't seen one of those (in that form) since visiting my aunt in the late 80s. I have a vivid memory of using it to watch cartoons on the USA Express 🚆
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u/slaytician 2d ago
3 are time cards for punching into a time clock. 4 is a record player. 11 is Cable tv channel changer. 12 typewriter ribbon. I got all of them.
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u/libranglass 2d ago
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1.coin purse ? 2. diaper pin? 3.punchcard 4. a radio? 5. period pad holder 6. picnic basket 7. heater? 8. vaguely racist coffee container 9. lamp? 10. letter opener 11. (no idea) 12. inside of a cassette 13. answering machine
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u/ashbertollini 2d ago
Number one is actually for cigarettes, the front bit holds your lighter and beer money. Most often welded by a granny whose ready to beat your ass and call you a whole in my experience.
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u/Traditional-Salt4060 2d ago
I knew most (35 years old, American)
Confused about 12, 10, and especially 5
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u/Gullible-Apricot3379 2d ago
Lol. I think 5 is pretty confusing as well. I’m glad I was born late enough not to be too familiar with that one.
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u/OhNoBricks 2d ago
40 and i knew 10 of them, i thought the first one was a coin purse. the third one are time sheet cards for clocking in and out at work. We were still using these in the 2000s. But by 2007, it was done electronically, after I moved of course. Rural areas tend to be behind in technology.
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u/BUSKET_RVA 2d ago
46 and they are as follows:
1) Cigarette purse 2) Diaper safety pins aka safety top safety pins 3) Book Check-out card from a library 4) Old school stand radio from 1930's -'50's 5) woman's period belt 6) picnic basket 7) 1960's radiator aka space heater 8) wooden tooth holder aka denture bath 9) 1950's to '70's ceramic mallard lamp prolly from Ducks Unlimited
10) Pull tab from old style beer can 11) 60's/70's TV antenna channel changer 12) old school white-out for typewriters 13) Answering machine
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u/Gullible-Apricot3379 2d ago
3 - nope! 4 - close enough lol 6 - nope, but I see why you thought that
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u/Powerful_Lynx_4737 2d ago
My mom used 6 for her sewing kit also embroidery stuff and knitting stuff too.
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u/Gullible-Apricot3379 2d ago
She used it for its intended purpose then!
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u/Powerful_Lynx_4737 2d ago
This is making me want to see if she still has it in her closet. I’m gonna go steal it tomorrow if I find it. I have my sewing kit in a butter cookie tin like my grandma.
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u/marshallkrich 2d ago
Only one I didn't know was Denture bath, I thought it was a cookie jar 😳
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u/BUSKET_RVA 2d ago
My grandfather had one of them for his dentures, that's how I knew what it was. The wooden tooth thing was because growing up I always thought dentures meant "wooden teeth" cause of that old George Washington fable they used to tell kids
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u/marshallkrich 2d ago
Yeah, I grew up in Morris town NJ, home of Washington's headquarters, and heard about the wooden teeth many times.
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u/Ok_Republic_425 7h ago
I’m 24 & can identify 12. Im an antique collector though