How Many of These Vintage Household Items Can You Correctly Name? It’s Harder Than You Might Think!

tiphero.com ^ | 2.1.2021 | staff reporter

[Daffynition]

My how times have changed in our households. Modern appliances and other inventions have afforded us conveniences that our predecessors didn’t have. Don’t you sometimes wonder what things were like a century or two ago?

Explore the past by looking at these vintage wares and try to figure out what they were used for. Some of these objects were more common during certain historical periods, or in particular parts of the world. Though they all share the same status of being antiques, you may find one or two of these items still in use.

[Fresh Wind]

That's easy.

How about this:

[Elsie]

If I ever figure out the way to post pictures...

Today's your day!!!

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I don’t know how to post a pic.

 

You do NOW!!

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Merely paste the address ( like THIS one) http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc70/tpjdmm/knock-knock.gif

 

between the QUOTES, and you're good to go!

 

 

<img src="">

 

Here's how it works:  <img src="http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc70/tpjdmm/knock-knock.gif">

 

giving you...

 

 

 

 

 

If you want your cursor to display a message when on the picture, than add THIS

 title="" between the img and the src text with your messge inside the quotes like this:

 

<img  title="Here's Johnny!" src="http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc70/tpjdmm/knock-knock.gif">

 

...or at the end....

 

<img  src="http://i217.photobucket.com/albums/cc70/tpjdmm/knock-knock.gif" title="Here's Johnny!">

 

 

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But be sure your picture is already on the web somewhere. You CANNOT post directly from your home computer.

[Fresh Wind]

Skate key.

[Clay Moore]

Sync multiple carburetors. Oh what fun to sync 4 with one tool.

[Elsie]

Couldn’t they just roll the wooden wheel over the strip of iron directly?

[Elsie]

Skate key for the old skates that clipped onto your shoe.

[Elsie]

Before the CLAW vending machine; there was...

Copper hot water bottle: for them COLD winter nights!

[Hot Tabasco]

Back in the 1950's I remember my mom having one of these things......LOL!

[central_va]

When it is explained to you; you’ll get the point.

Could you condense your answer and not dwell on it?

[Southside_Chicago_Republican]

That’s the one, but mine was from 1958.

[wardaddy]

That’s amazing

[Daffynition]

PFFT! Easy for you to say, when I'm being invaded by the Red Army! :)

[Daffynition]

I've seen those too, used by police at an accident scene

https://www.alternateforce.net/measwheelwit.html

[Daffynition]

[Fresh Wind]

Yep. I think I still have one somewhere in the garage.

[Fresh Wind]

Yeah, there was a fat family that lived up the street from me. They had one of them, but even better, they had a horizontal bench with a center section that would vibrate, so they could snooze while they reduced.

It was a losing battle, though, they had a restaurant-style deep fat fryer installed in the kitchen so they always had freshly made French fries available.

[Daffynition]

Yes! A reminder of: having a peaceful, free-range childhood

[Daffynition]

Before Waist Watchers and South Beach, Keto, NutriSystems and
Marie Osmond. :)

The VITAMASTER! :)

https://www.skinneymedspa.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/10/vintage-weightloss-skinney-medspa.jpg

[Daffynition]

You are close! That is a claw apple picker.

And a bed warmer. More often, I’ve seen them with a long handle to slide on the bed, under the covers.

Some contained hot water, others [vented], embers from the fireplace.

[Daffynition]

Can you imagine the stories she could tell?

Must have been fun times.