(ash tray in the car on the door)
(Speakers to hang on your slightly rolled down car window
to hear the sound of the movie at the local drive-in theatre)
(GUM! Above and below)
(on the driver's lefthand side - on the floor,
you could push this with your foot and
the windshield wiper would work once.
If you kept your foot pressed on it, it would continue)
I still have mine!!
(Made of wax, these had little drinks inside.
You could chew on the wax!)
(These are "flash bulbs" - you put them on the top of your camera if you needed a flash.
After each flash, the camera would turn the bulb to the next flash. All four sides flashed.
You had to remove it and add another one to the top of your camera.)
I had one - we all did!!
True story - This would have been in the 90's
A guest at my child's birthday party needed to call their parent for a ride home.
We had a toddler who kept breaking our hanging wall unit phone and my brother
gave us one of these very sturdy (and heavy) old phones with the dial.
We pointed to it sitting there on our desk. She looked at the thing. My husband says,
"Do you know how to use that".
Her reply - and I wish I could somehow put the inflection in this response,
but I'm sure you can imagine it. - "NO!"
(Once upon a time we had to replace transistors in our TV -
so we had these testing stations to check them out)
(Top left - road map
Top right - the yellow pages
YES - we all used these - that's what was available!
Bottom right - knobs on the TV - NO REMOTE!
Bottom left - you had to use this to crank your window up/down in the car,
actually though, you can still find these on the really cheap cars at the car lot)
A LONG time ago, they gave out free maps at the gas station.
Then you had to pay for them. But not much)
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