If You're Over 65, These 40 Photos Will Be Instantly Recognizable And Flood You With Memories

1.Mechanical wrist watches that you had to remember to wind every day:

a Mickey Mouse watch

2.Mother Nature in the Chiffon "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature!" margarine commercials:

Mother Nature
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3.The Ty-D-Bol Man, who wore a captain's hat and would drive around in a boat in the toilet tank in the Ty-D-Bol commercials:

Screenshot from the Ty-D-Bol commercial
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4.Choc-Ola soda that tasted like a more chocolatey Yoo-hoo:

Choc-Ola bottles

5.Delicious and sugary Hawaiian Punch that came in cans that you had to pry open:

Hawaiian Punch
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6.Metal roller skates that you would literally just strap to your shoes:

Old roller skates

7.Playgrounds that were constructed of metal and wood, and that you had a very good chance of getting hurt at whenever you played in one:

Kids at a playground
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8.Transistor radios that allowed you to listen to music anywhere:

A little girl listening to a transistor radio
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9.Mechanical typewriters, which had that distinct clacking sound:

A young man using a typwriter
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10.The Dick Cavett Show, which ran late at night on ABC:

Lucille Ball and Dick Cavett
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11.The Hollywood Palace variety show that aired on Saturday nights:

The Supremes on "The Hollywood Palace"
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12.And The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, which aired on Sunday nights and gleefully pushed the envelope:

The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour
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13.Stuffed celery (which was usually just cream cheese mixed with olives spread on celery sticks)...

stuffed celery
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14....and fondue as appetizers at every party:

People eating fondue
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15.Kinney Shoes as the go-to to get shoes for the entire family:

A Kinney Shoes story
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16.Nightstand books that featured racy covers that made no secret about what they were about:

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17.Metal garbage cans that had to be carried out to the curb (no wheels on those things) and that would eventually rust and get holes in them:

a woman lifting a garbage can
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18.Doilies under things like phones as not only a decoration but to protect tables from being scratched:

a rotary telephone on a table
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19.Kitchen appliances and countertop accessories that were all the same color and matched the color of the kitchen:

A hand mixer

20.And kitchen wall phones that were also the same color as the kitchen:

a wall phone

21.Toilets that came in avocado green, blue, harvest gold, or brown and matched the exact color of everything in the bathroom:

an olive toilet

22.Rabbit ear antennas, which you had to connect to the back of your TV's VHF and UHF input:

an old antenna

23.Necco Wafers, which were chalky and only old people liked:

Necco Wafers

24.Jiffy Pop, which was the easiest and most convenient way to make popcorn:

Jiffy Pop popcorn

25.Double-features at the movies. Though most of the time, one of the films was not so great:

A double-feature poster
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26.Ashtrays in the armrests on the chairs inside of movie theaters:

an ashtray
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27.And ashtrays at McDonald's — because basically everyone smoked everywhere:

a McDonald's ashtray

28.Marlboro Man and cigarette ads in general featured in every magazine:

A Marlboro ad
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29.Telephone switchboard operators that answered the phone to basically any large building or business you called:

Women operating a phone switchboard
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30.L'eggs pantyhose that came packaged in egg-shaped containers:

L'eggs pantyhose

31.Cushioned bathroom scales that I guess were supposed to make your feet feel good for the five seconds you stood on it:

a cushiony scale
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32.Wall-to-wall carpet (put over wood floors 😩) in either brown, avocado green, orange, or some shade of yellow:

an old living room
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33.Chenille bedspreads that made the bedroom look "fancy":

a chenille bedspread

34.This blue fan that everyone seemed to own in the 1970s:

an old fan

35.And the high back wicker rattan chairs that everyone seemed to own in the 1970s:

a man and woman clinking drinks
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36.Baby/child car seats placed in the front passenger seat:

a little boy in his car seat
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37.Kodak slides — which was an event whenever anyone pulled out the Carousel to share their slides:

A Kodachrome slide
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38.Drive-through photo development kiosks, where not only could you develop your photos, but also get film and other camera accessories:

A Fotomat
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39.Postcards that you would buy while on vacation to mail out to your friends and family to tell them how your trip was going — or buy them to keep as souvenirs:

An old postcard
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40.And lastly, The Joy of Sex and its very graphic illustrations!!!

"The Joy of Sex"

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