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

[wardaddy]

Oh I’d be dead then....heart....likely mid 40s

[Fresh Wind]

Open wide!

[gogeo]

Timing light. Still have one, Craftsman in chrome.

[gogeo]

Points and condenser.

[nascarnation]

Me too...I’ve got a 67 Chevy with a distributor.
Although I don’t think I’ve done a tune-up since I rebuilt the engine in 2012...couple thousand miles a year LOL.

[Fledermaus]

I believe it was manufactured right here in Franklin TN.

The old factory is now a shopping/restaurant venue with an auditorium.

Of course it’s called Thd Factory.

[gogeo]

I inherited a 1979 Ford F-250 from my FIL. Especially toward the last 15-20 years he wasn't physically up to maintaining it. I made a list the first time I drove it and I've been working the list.

The last few days I've been replacing the heater core and blower motor...and everything else I find along the way. Having to figure out the way it was supposed to work and go together...before he 'fixed' it. I understand that technology, horrible as some of it is.

[Arones]

Timing strobe.

[gogeo]

I LOVE rolling pins!

I try to keep my distance.

[GOPJ]

Looks like a stove designed by people who cook - or love someone who cooks. The stuff we have now assumes 4 kids, dinner parties or a visiting chef.

Why can’t people who design kitchen appliances geared toward family size? It’s not like new stoves last 30 years... sometimes not even 8 years...

[gogeo]

Fembots today are truly clueless what actual strong women prevailed over aren’t they ..

Probably a good thing. Just one more example of toxic patriarchy.

[GOPJ]

It’s the same with built-in obsolescent in stoves, dishwashers and refrigerators. If our appliances are only going to last 8 years - design them for family size and use. No reason to go with ‘one size fits all’ if a stove only last 8 years.

The antique stove in the pictures (with a few safety modifications) would be perfect for a senior. Air fryer to the left - warming box, small over and a few burners.

Or as you point out - they could give us quality that last a lifetime. My Dad had a central AC unit that lasted almost 40 years. I’m lucky if mine last 12 years. I mentioned that to an AC repairman and he said, ‘yeah, but those systems didn’t have all the bells and whistles...’ Fine. Offer both. Let the customer decide. I would happily do without all the ‘bells and whistles’... for a unit that would last 40 years - not 12...

[BoringGuy]

What the heck is this stuff for??

So you have something to curse at as well as to figure out you cannot correctly use a dwell tachometer

[Ezekiel]

Did you get the t-shirt?

[Albion Wilde]

My grandmother’s rolling pin handles still have faint traces of that light green paint they used to use on kitchenware in the 30s and 40s. There’s also a scorch mark from resting it too close to the stove burner. Those old maple pins are hard as rock.

[Daffynition]

When we sold my mom’s house, after she passed, her Kelvinator was still running like a charm; I think it was 60 y/o; and ran flawlessly 24/7. Also a 50-60 y/o GE chest freezer in the basement. Another dinosaur that refused to die. :)

They surely don’t make ‘em like they used to.

[Daffynition]

Also, my mom’s.

When I look at that rolling pin, I think of the hundreds of pie crusts she rolled out, for her delicious apple pies, that she shared with everyone!

Somehow, her talent for making flaky pie crust was never, sadly, automatically handed down to me. But I keep trying. :)

[Elsie]

We had one in the 80’s!

[Elsie]

I will; when the time is right.

[Elsie]

Wolverines!