What has become obsolete

[mcdirector]

Every school I've worked at used walkies - including the current one.

I used a slide rule . . .

We had dairy delivered for the first ten years we were married.
We also used a mom and pop pharmacy that delivered.
My dad used a pocket protector.
I was at a school about 15 years ago that had mimeograph machines. That was the last time I've seen or used them.

 

[NaasPreacher (C4K)]

Are they cell phones with push to talk function, or separate devices?

Separate devices. Quite in inexpensive, free communication at short range. Great for outdoor pursuits or driving somewhere in a couple of cars.

 

[padredurand]

Cassette tapes. VCRs. Carburetors.

 

[Jim1999]

I saw something absolutely stupid to-day. Two people in my village talking to each other on cell phones, side by each on the main street!!!!!

Cheers,

Jim

 

[Jon-Marc]

My 5-year-old computer that died and was thrown out. :BangHead:

 

[David Lamb]

By the way, in the Americas, men always walk on the outside of sidewalk (pavement) and in London men walked on inside. They used to dump water out an upper window. They didn't always look first......or did they?
Jim

I remember being taught as a boy that it was good manners for a man to walk on the outside of the pavement, and that the custom had its origin in the idea of protecting the lady from the smells and splashes of the horse-drawn transport.

The dumping of water (and sewage!) out of upstairs windows happened centuries ago, as far as I know, not when you were in West Ham!

 

[Melanie]

I recall nursing a very elderly lady who as a baby was going to church in her mother's arms and the rest of the family in the family horse drawn wagon which shied at a snake, mum and bub were tossed out. Mum died and left the family motherless.

 

[Melanie]

In nursing.....

weights,pulleys for traction....hideous pins sticking out of limbs and heads. (They may exist, but I cannot remember when I last saw them).

some really gruesome surgical instruments...like the tongue grabber. It was shaped like a pair of scissors and one end was a spike to grab a tongue if it was "swallowed". The trepine which looked exactly like a bit and brace.

The red line painted on a ward floor....the infectious cases were at one end and the red line told the germs not to step over it:tongue3:.

Rolling bandages from the laundry. Making cotton balls and swab sticks. Gentian violet, the red stuff put on scrapped knees.Iodine.

Nursing caps, vicious matrons.

Prolapses in women. Huge bottles of spirits etc. Glass syringes. red rubber hoses in nursing practice, glass IV bottles (still have a scar from one).

Ward inspection from Matron. Thermometers in disinfectant at each bed, shaking the wretched things down, mercury on the floors.

Lethal water sterilisers in the pan room.

Really horrible fungating wounds.

 

[padredurand]

Phone booth and pay phones.

 

[blackbird]

Fuler Brush man making sales "door to door"

 

[Salty]

Fuler Brush man making sales "door to door"

add to that Electrolux

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common sense