25 Photos Of Nostalgic Things That Will Be Instantly Recognizable To Anyone Over The Age Of 35

1.This exact alarm clock in your parents had in their bedroom and gave a bright red glow:

old chunky alarm

2.This VHS edition of the Star Wars trilogy:

vhs box set

3.And the wild amount of The Phantom Menace toys that were on the shelves when the movie was released:

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4.These water bottles that had the thick plastic straws that made everything taste plasticky:

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5.Cherry Coke that came in this can design:

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6.Vending machines that had the large buttons to push:

old vending machine options

7.The Forrest Gump soundtrack, which was a double-CD and your boomer parents listened to on repeat:

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8.Anne Geddes books, which your mom or grandma would display on their coffee table:

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9.These acrylic cube photo frames that usually sat on your parents' dresser and had photos that were at least a decade-plus old in them:

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10.Pizza Hut when it was a sit-down restaurant:

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11.The massage chairs inside of The Sharper Image store at the mall:

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12.KB Toys and their distinctive blue checkout counters:

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13.When the homepage of iTunes looked like this:

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14.The bike aisle in Toys "R" Us and the strong smell of rubber that you would get if you walked through it:

aisle of bikes
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15.When Subway restaurants had subway maps as wall paper:

inside of a subway
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16.The giant toaster that would warm up your subs at Quiznos:

large oven
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17.NES, SNES, and N64 cartridges that were usually grey and would give out a warm plasticky smell after you played with them:

pile of the game cartriges
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18.Boomboxes that looked like this and made you feel like you had the HEIGHT of technology:

large boombox

19.The phenomena that was Wonderbra and seeing billboards for it everywhere:

store with a large wonderbra ad
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20.Spacemaker pencil boxes, which would literally explode if you accidentally dropped it:

plastic container box

21.The neon lights at the back of Target stores:

inside of a target
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22.The microwave popcorn you'd get while checking out your videos at Blockbuster:

popcorn package

23.School milk that came in those always hard to open paper cartons:

opened carton of milk

24.Lunchables, which made you feel so gourmet whenever you brought one to school:

lunchable
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25.And lastly, TVs that were like 18-inches, had terrible resolution, and somehow weighed 35 pounds:

large chunky tv
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