Ever caught in a moment of nostalgia when you see an object that reminds you of a fun memory?
Reminiscing about the past is not always a sad thing, most of the time, it brings us to our carefree childhood!
The fifties was referred to as the “boom” era. It gave us the post-war vibes where people were just starting to recover on anything. After two decades of economic depression, people started moving to the suburbs to start again. This period introduced us to the booming economy and the booming suburbs. As people started creating small communities, suburban life came to exist. Malls were built, drive-in restaurants became popular, diners opened up 24 hours. It was during this period when women stayed at home and took care of the kids while the man works 24/7 to bring food to the table.
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Silly Putty
Silly Putty was introduced to the public by Peter Hudgson. It is sold in little, plastic, egg-shaped containers which keep the stuff from running wild. This classic 1950s toy provided fun to the kids and even adults back in those days. Aside from a perfect stress reliever, Silly Putty was also used to reproduced the comic printing of a newspaper or pictures.
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Tabletop Jukebox
Tabletop Jukebox that was present in most diner back in the days. Jukebox works when the customer inserts a coin and makes a selection, the wall box sends a series of pulses down a pair of wires to the diner’s jukebox and a device called a stepper decodes these into a record selection and adds the song to jukebox queue. Who was the jukebox queen in your family?
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Cassette Tape
The Compact Cassette or Musicassette (MC),is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback. The cassette dominated the music market for decades, as most households owned at least one cassette recorder or Walkman.
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Troll Dolls
The Troll dolls were originally known as Leprechauns, and were also known as Dam dolls, Gonks, Wishniks, Treasure Trolls and Norfins. A Troll Doll (Danish: Gjøltrold) is a type of plastic doll with furry up-combed hair depicting a troll, also known as a Dam doll after their creator Danish woodcutter Thomas Dam.
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Bread Box
A breadbox or a bread bin is a container for storing bread and other baked goods to keep them fresh back in the days. Breadboxes are still used by many people now to store commercially purchased bread, but are used more especially by people who bake bread at home.
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VHS Tapes
VHS (short for Video Home System) is a standard for consumer-level analog video recording on tape cassettes. Developed by Victor Company of Japan (JVC) in the early 1970s, it was released in Japan on September 9, 1976, and in the United States on August 23, 1977.
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Aladdin Hopalong Cassidy Lunch Box
Aladdin Hopalong Cassidy Lunch Box
Hopalong Cassidy Lunch Box is a heavy-gauge steel lunch box was made by Aladdin Industries in 1950. It was the first lunch box to bear a licensed image, and helped Aladdin Industries launch a new product line that would last for decades.
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Rare Vinyl
A phonograph record (also known as a gramophone record, especially in British English, or simply record) is an analog sound storage medium in the form of a flat disc with an inscribed, modulated spiral groove. The groove usually starts near the periphery and ends near the center of the disc.
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Clothespin
A clothespin (US English), or clothes peg (UK English) is a fastener used to hang up clothes for drying, usually on a clothes line. During the 1700s laundry was hung on bushes, limbs or lines to dry but no clothespins can be found in any painting or prints of the era.
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Vintage Kellogg Hand Crank Wall Telephone
Rotary Phone
A component of a telephone or a telephone switchboard that implements a signaling technology in telecommunications known as pulse dialing. It is used when initiating a telephone call to transmit the destination telephone number to a telephone exchange.
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Lava Lamps
British manufacturers Mathmos invented the lava lamp in 1963, and up until the early 00s, these vibrant, playful objects held a fond place in our hearts and our homes. Available in a wide variety of colours, shapes and sizes, lava lamps were top sellers throughout the 70s, 80s, and 90s, when children and adults alike snapped up their eye-catching designs.
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Glass Bottles
A glass bottle is a bottle made from glass. Glass bottles can vary in size considerably, but are most commonly found in sizes ranging between about 200 milliliters and 1.5 liters.
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Silk Shawls
Silk shawls with fringes, made in China, were available by the first decade of the 19th century. Ones with embroidery and fringes were available in Europe and the Americas by 1820.
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Beaded Curtains
The beloved beaded door curtain was a staple in the households of yesteryear. In the 1960s and 70s, Bohemian and psychedelic styles were big, with natural materials such as wood, shells and bamboo entering our interiors.
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Fedora Hat
Fedoras became widely associated with gangsters and Prohibition, a connection coinciding with the height of the hat’s popularity between the 1920s and the early 1950s. In the second half of the 1950s, the fedora fell out of favor in a shift towards more informal clothing styles.
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Saddle Shoes
The classic black and white saddle shoes are a symbol of the 1950s bobby-soxers, but the iconic footwear actually debuted in the 1920s. These shoes, adapted from a style popular among golfers of the 1910s and were intended for men. However, women quickly took this shoe style because if was very comfortable to wear.
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Packard Bell
Packard Bell PB 250 was a general-purpose computer introduced in 1960 by the Packard Bell Corporation. It later found success in the military electronics industry. It was one of the last users of magnetostrictive delay lines as part of its memory. The PB250 used a Flexowriter as a console.
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Motorola’s DynaTAC 8000X handset
The Princess Telephone
The Princess telephone was introduced by the Bell System in 1959. It was a compact telephone designed for convenient use in the bedroom, and contained a light-up dial for use as a night-light. It was commonly advertised with the slogan “It’s little…It’s lovely…It lights”, which was suggested by Robert Karl Lethin, an AT&T employee.
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8-Track Cartridge Player
The 8-track tape (formally Stereo 8; commonly called eight-track cartridge, eight-track tape, and eight-track) is a magnetic-tape sound recording technology that was popular from the mid-1960s to the early 1980s, when the Compact Cassette tape, which predated 8-track, surpassed it in popularity for pre-recorded music.
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Bell Bottoms
Bell-bottoms, pants with legs that become wider below the knee, were an extremely popular fashion during the 1960s and 1970s. The belled or flared legs on bell-bottom pants were originally a functional design, worn by those who worked on boats since the seventeenth century.
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Stamps
A postage stamp is a small piece of paper issued by a post office, postal administration, or other authorized vendors to customers who pay postage (the cost involved in moving, insuring, or registering mail), who then affix the stamp to the face or address-side of any item of mail—an envelope or other postal cover (e.g., packet, box, mailing cylinder)—that they wish to send.
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Chopper Bike
They were introduced at American trade shows in January 1969 but it was not until April 1969 when Raleigh Choppers were available for public to purchase. The bike featured a choice of a single-speed coaster hub, or a 3-speed or 5-speed Sturmey Archer gear hub, selected using a frame-mounted console gear lever.
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Navy Brass Telescopes
A telescope is an optical instrument that makes distant objects appear magnified by using an arrangement of lenses or curved mirrors and lenses, or various devices used to observe distant objects by their emission, absorption, or reflection of electromagnetic radiation.
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Nintendo NES
The Nintendo Entertainment System (NES) is an 8-bit third-generation home video game console produced, released and marketed by Nintendo. It is a remodeled export version of the company’s Family Computer (FC) platform in Japan, commonly known as the Famicom, which was launched on July 15, 1983.
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Soda Fountain
A soda fountain is a device that dispenses carbonated soft drinks, called fountain drinks. They can be found in restaurants, concession stands and other locations such as convenience stores.
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Hot Wheels Mechanical Watch
Hot Wheels Mechanical Watch
A few decades before the Apple Watch, and even before digital timepieces, kids were wearing watches with their favorite toy’s face plate. There were a lot of watches from this decade that hold some value, but this Hot Wheels mechanical watch is one of the best-sellers. The accessory was a must-have for the popular Hot Wheels line of toys and tracks.
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Bar Stools
Bar stools are a type of tall chair, often with a foot rest to support the feet. The height and narrowness of bar stools makes them suitable for use at bars and high tables in pubs or bars. … There are bar stools with and without armrests, backs, and padding or upholstery on the seat surface.
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Vintage Fondue Pot
A type of cookware that consists of a pot with a heat source such as a portable cooking fuel or an electrical heating element placed directly below the pot that is used for a food preparation process known as fondues. … The word fondue is a French term meaning “to melt.”
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American Girl “Molly” Doll
American Girl “Molly” Doll
The Molly McIntire doll was released in 1986, along with Kirsten Larson and Samantha Parkington. They were American Girl’s first three Historical Characters. Molly was retired along with Emily Bennett in 2013. Molly was rereleased for BeForever in 2018, exclusively via Costco.
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Sony Triniton KV-1210
Trinitron is Sony’s brand name for its line of aperture-grille-based CRTs used in television sets and computer monitors. This first model of Sony Triniton KV-1210 was the first truly innovative television systems to enter the market since the 1950s. It is the first colored television set of the era.
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Game Boy
The Game Boy is an 8-bit handheld game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo. The first handheld in the Game Boy family, it was first released in Japan on April 21, 1989, then North America, three months later, and lastly in Europe, nearly a year after.
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Ice Crusher Ice-o Matic
This classic vintage Ice crusher became popular in the 50s. It comes handy by simply setting it on the table , putting an ice on the hole and manually cranking the handle which will then produce the ice on the drawer.
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Sony TPS-L2 Walkman
Sony TPS-L2 Walkman from 1979, you might be hearing a sweet new song. This original walkman player surely was a hit when it came out on the 70s era. This metal-cased blue-and-silver Walkman TPS-L2 is the world’s first low-cost personal stereo that came out on sale in Japan on July 1, 1979, and was sold for around ¥33,000 (or $150.00).
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Kodachrome Slides
Kodachrome was a brand introduced by Eastman Kodak in 1935. It was the first product of Kodak that help in producing the first successful color for both cinematography and still photography. For many years, photographers and print media would use storing their files using Kodakchrome for publication.
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Dial Typewriter
The Dial Typewriter from Louis Marx and Company is a classic example of the type of tin lithograph toy. It is fully functional and is fabricated using thin sheets of steel covered (or plated) with a thin coat of tin.
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Polaroid Vintage Model 95 Camera
Polaroid Vintage Model 95 Camera
This is a Polaroid Land Camera model 95 which was designed by Dr. Edwin Land, and was the first successful implementation of a self-developing ‘instant’ film camera. Although other companies successfully marketed and sold instant cameras, the name “Polaroid” became synonymous with instant photography in the second half of the 20th century.
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Motorola’s DynaTAC 8000X handset
Sculptura Vintage Phone
The Sculptura telephone was a quintessential 1970s phone. Produced by Western Electric in a choice of three colour (yellow, brown or white), it was available as either Touchtone or rotary dial. It is also often referred to as the donut phone on account of its distinctive shape.
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Coonskin Cap
A coonskin cap is a hat fashioned from the skin and fur of a raccoon. The original coonskin cap consisted of the entire skin of the raccoon including its head and tail.Beginning as traditional Native American headgear, coonskin caps became associated with American and Canadian frontiersmen of the 18th and 19th centuries, and were highly popular among boys in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Australia in the 1950s.
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Stoneware Jugs
American Stoneware is a type of stoneware pottery popular in 19th century North America. The predominant houseware of the era, it was usually covered in a salt glaze and often decorated using cobalt oxide to produce bright blue decoration.
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Kenner’s Starwars Figures
Kenner’s Starwars Figures
The Kenner toy company produced a line of Star Wars action figures based on characters in the original Star Wars movie trilogy. Over 100 unique action figures were produced and sold from 1978 to 1985, during which time over 300 million Star Wars action figures were sold.
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