Ah…Tom Ferguson!
cool article. (Is ‘cool’ still cool?)
That more or less aligns with what I did. I “one strapped” through middle and high school, around 1992-98. Because that’s what everyone did. I might have continued one strapping for a while as a freshman in college, but at some point I started using both straps. Probably because I started noticing that at least some other people were doing it, and it no longer seemed to be considered uncool. Also it’s a lot more comfortable to use two straps when you have to walk across a large state college campus as opposed to just walking at most to the next building in high school.
Things that were once cool, but today scream “old geezer/ette”
Note that the word “geezer” is itself a word only geezers use.
So what do the e.g. teens, 20-somethings, or 30-somethings call the gray-haired set? Besides “Irrelevant”?
Boomer
Homeowners. Hey-OH!
That joke retired in 1992.
(Not saying isn’t a good joke, just something that screams old geezer.)
Think about it. The last child conceived between the monologue and the first guest is 33 years old!
I was just at a baby boomer’s home and she still has an ash tray on her coffee table.
I have not see one in a home in years…
Technically, I have an ash tray on my coffee table. It’s a vintage Holiday Inn ash tray I found in an antique store a few years ago. It’s old enough that it’s got their old “Great Sign” logo on it. I do not intend for anyone to actually use it for smoking, though. I just think it’s a neat tchotchke.
My elderly parents still smoke (maybe a total of 3-4 cigarettes a day, each), as do my sister and her boyfriend, who live with them (the two of them are probably more of a half-pack a day, each).
A few years ago, my sister convinced my parents to only smoke in the garage, so there are three ashtrays out in the garage: two are probably 1970s or 1980s vintage glass ashtrays; the third was an old plastic one of a similar vintage, which was dropped and broken recently. We actually found a replacement on Amazon.
They still make buggy whips. Ashtrays for cigs will be with us awhile yet. I suspect cigar ashtrays will outlive them though.
My previous house had wood paneling on one wall of the living room. It was installed by the previous owner as part of a major renovation. I guess he thought it was an improvement but I didn’t really like it but put up with it for a while. The intricate structure made it impractical to remove. I got the “brilliant” idea to cover it with a grasscloth type textured wallpaper, which turned into a disaster because of the unevenness of the surface. I finally came up with a real solution – I hired a couple of Iranian brothers* in the construction business to just put drywall over the whole damn thing, and repaint the living room. The result was so bright and beautiful I was sorry I hadn’t done it long ago. As a bonus, the thick multi-layered wall provided extra sound insulation between the living room and the adjacent bedroom.
* Apparently the predecessors of the Ukrainian brothers who’ve bailed me out of various predicaments in the current house! 
We still have wood paneling in the basement.
Yes, I feel like wood paneling was pretty much mandatory on houses built in that era. My 1973 house has it in the dining room, although it had been painted by some previous owner before I bought the place. And the house I grew up in had it too, which was also mid-1970s construction.
Isn’t it good?
Norwegian wood