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:

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

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:

4.Choc-Ola soda that tasted like a more chocolatey Yoo-hoo:

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

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

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:

8.Transistor radios that allowed you to listen to music anywhere:

9.Mechanical typewriters, which had that distinct clacking sound:

10.The Dick Cavett Show, which ran late at night on ABC:

11.The Hollywood Palace variety show that aired on Saturday nights:

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

13.Stuffed celery (which was usually just cream cheese mixed with olives spread on celery sticks)...

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

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

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

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:

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

19.Kitchen appliances and countertop accessories that were all the same color and matched the color of the kitchen:

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

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

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

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

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

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

26.Ashtrays in the armrests on the chairs inside of movie theaters:

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

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

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

30.L'eggs pantyhose that came packaged in egg-shaped containers:

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

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

33.Chenille bedspreads that made the bedroom look "fancy":

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

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

36.Baby/child car seats placed in the front passenger seat:

37.Kodak slides — which was an event whenever anyone pulled out the Carousel to share their slides:

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

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:

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

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