Hint: I’ve got some of 'em by my turntable.
How many? 45?
No, no, it doesn’t. A satisfying slam is better for you and tells me I can stop talking. I have lousy lungs and have only so many words in me per day. I need to husband them effectively for that rare sort who wants what I’m selling. FT
R, no restaurant, bar, or motel on the Jersey Shore Friday afternoons.
Then, in the Fall, I have to start taking Local Sunset into account. If I could i’d change programs so i’d only call tye Goyim on Fridays.
OOooooooh, yeah
I had a 45 rpm adapter, but it came with the record player and didn’t look anything like that. It was just a solid plastic disc with a rim and a hole in the middle.
My best friend’s adapter was a rectangular stick that was supposed to load multiple 45’s. Never worked very well. You had to pluck at it with a fingernail to get it to drop. Useless, really.
My flat solid adapter lasted through three turntables.
Well, now I understand the reason behind the big hole.
These came in umpteen different designs. The only ones I ever saw were the cylinder-shaped ones like the top left and bottom left figures, and those worked just fine.
Around 2010 my then teenage nephew purchased a boombox from a retro store. He then wanted to know how many albums he could get on one cassette - Aww bless 
But how cool were these things!?
Didn’t have one quite like that, but our washing machine did have a hand-crank wringer attached to it.
We lived in a pretty old house.
Better check again.
These are fast-changing times.
When Ma Bell decided to get out of the phone renting business around 1980 they offered that you could buy the one you had for $10. I took them up on it, figuring it would be sturdier than anything manufactured expressly for sale, and last forever. It was even that color. I was right about lasting forever; it’s out in the store room now, even though I no longer have a land line.
About the same time a friend at work approached me and said his twelve-year-old son had suddenly developed an interest in slip sticks and I was the only one he could think of that might have one. I wasn’t sure to be flattered or not but I gave him my Pickett in a holster and the quarter-inch thick instruction book.
Remember when the teacher asked to help make copies on one of these? The smell of the ink was strong!
We still have one:)
A funny sequel to this is that when we built our last house the builder told us that one of his recent clients insisted that at least one drawer in her kitchen did not have the soft close feature. She wanted one drawer she could slam shut when she was pissed off.
I have not seen any Superman movies – certainly not the more recent ones – but there is one meme I am familiar with: can anyone tell me where Clark Kent goes to change into his flight suit these days?
And, having seen panache45’s family TV, I missed out on that. We did not get a TV until I was seven years old. Somehow we managed (two picnic benches, some tarps, an inner tube and a garbage can lid made a great submarine). When TV went digital, my mom put hers in the closet, and eventually recycled it. These days, a home without a television is all but unthinkable.
Oh, those things sucked. As a child, I was stereoblind, due to a lazy eye thing. In HS, my parents got me good (hard) contacts and suddenly I could use both eyes in binoculars and see two-frame 3D images. I guess I missed out on a lot.
Lightweights.
My mother’s 1950s kitchen was a palimpsest of even older generations’ technologies (part native thrift, part postwar shortages):
Ah, the keuffel and Esser slide rule.
They made great instruments.
I have the one pictured, and i know how to use it, so back off or calculator here gets it.
There was a time when THIS was the epitome of instant home photography.
The digital camera of it’s time so to speak.
Hmm the lovely smell of the pink stick of fixing solution.
Dont forget to set your timer!!
The more things change, the more some things stay the same though
This does not look much different then to now.
THis One is kind of awesome though
Back in the day, the good old refrigerator had both STYLE and FUNTIONALITY
It also probably weighed 1200 pounds empty
High Definition Audio was a thing, sort of 
And if you had the cash, You too could have a state of the art home entertainment system.
I used to love buying cabinets like that from yard sales etc, nice solid wood, tube amps, just reload the speakers and add a line-in for a cassette desk and boom, 16 year olds entertainment heaven.
Hey, Pong looked awesome in B&W, which is what you got for home video gaming when it finally came out
And tools were made to actually last longer than 6 months.
And they did, i actually have the saw pictured, and other tools like it. 40+ years old and they still work like day 1
If you were out and about and suddenly felt the urge to call someone, THESE were very popular
That looks a lot like my bamboo Post, which is small and basic, but it gets the job done. I came into possession of a Pickett that has like 16 scales on two sides and exceeds my current grasp of usage. But it has a nice leather case.
Yeah? Our first dishwasher looked like this.
I had one of those in 1971, and a girl in chem class made fun of it: “A wood slide rule, how quaint!”
She had the Log Log Duplex Decitrig, in some precurser to formica, no doubt.
And how many of us used a calculator like this one? I practically wore mine out.
I’ve never seen a calculator like that before. We seemed to go straight from the slide rule (before my time) right to this calculator.
