Retro Photo (Anything Retro)

[trencherman]

I still use one, now I guess I will have to see if there is a new kind of flour sifter. I also use the potatoepeeler.Wow I am behind the times.

Mother lead a cooking class for young housewives in the sixties and was presented with an array of baking tools among them a spring action flour sifter with two tiers of screens. Never saw her use it. Remained devoted to her drum sieve which she claimed was more efficient.

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[waistingmytime]

I still use one, now I guess I will have to see if there is a new kind of flour sifter. I also use the potatoepeeler.Wow I am behind the times.

I still have my sifter and my vegetable peeler like those too.

Most of the cooks at my place of employment are using sifters similar to this



or battery operated ones like this



Their vegetable peelers look something like this one

 

[trencherman]

Before heated car seats, there were actual bun warmers.

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[gorgik9]

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I don't remember that I ever saw my mum or my granny with any kind of special flour sifter, but the potatoe peeler - that's entirely another ballgame!!! I remember from my childhood we had precisely this kind of peeler.

And in my teens I transubstantiated myself into the family photographer, but I didn't use my portable film screen for home movies; I used it for showing colour slides!!!

 

[trencherman]

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For the longest time, that was the universal default peeler anywhere. Until this came to the scene. You can sell any kitchen tool to cooking amateurs as long as you modify it with “French.” And the truth is they seem to work better since they have been tested by artisans that have been disciplined to consistently turn out traditionally codified dishes.

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Comparable quality at much lower price point. Well-made and what matters most, keeps its cutting edge sharp for a long time. I bought three of this some fifteen years ago and I still haven’t gotten to using the other two:

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[haiducii]

The Beatles (1964)

The Beatles photographed by John Launois for “The Saturday Evening Post”, June 1964.

 

[jeanlouis]

 

[jeanlouis]

I remember the time when we had to overtake several times the same truck.
We drove faster but we stopped more often than them, the opposite with motorbikes. (long journey before the age of the motorways)
I remember the time where we had fun to drive !!!

 

[W!nston]

And that's the way it is ...

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[Stonecold]

Dinah Shore "See the USA in your Chevrolet" - 1953

 

[Stonecold]

Shocking 1950's cosmetic ad

 

[Stonecold]

 

[Stonecold]

 

[Stonecold]

Sega Game Gear

 

[Stonecold]

Sega Game Gear 2

 

[gorgik9]

I find this winking at the masturbation-makes-you-blind mythology in this old advertisement absolutely detestable - masturbation is possibly the only type of pleasurable fun that is a) totally democratic : everybody can do it, always, and it doesn't cost a single cent; b) totally harmless: OK, if you wank a lot (let's say more than twice a day) your pecker can get a wee bit sore, but if you just put some olive oil or some vaseline or even some of your own saliva on the pecker, you can happily wank along.

The idea that buying expensive hi-tech crap instead of having your daily wank sessions with your friends is horrible!

 

[W!nston]

 

[W!nston]

Earth Shoes from the 1970s

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I wore Earth Shoes for much of the 70s. They were very comfortable ... once your calves and ankles adjusted to them. Don't know how well I could wear them these days

 

[trencherman]

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I wore Earth Shoes for much of the 70s. They were very comfortable ... once your calves and ankles adjusted to them. Don't know how well I could wear them these days

Roots, the Canadian retail chain that has kept a pervasive presence in Toronto since the seventies started out as a licensed manufacturer of this shoes so I too was seduced by its ads for the earth shoes. I found them comfortable and unrestrictive but once I wore out my pair, I wanted to go back to my old reliable Clark’s Wallabee and it was in the store where I was getting a new pair of this that the old owner reprimanded me for wearing Earth shoes. He warned me that it ruins the shape of your feet. My feet were indeed wide but that was from wearing flipflops in the Tropics for all of my twenty years but I thought he might have been right about it although it could have been also just black propaganda from an imperilled competitor.

 

[gorgik9]

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I wore Earth Shoes for much of the 70s. They were very comfortable ... once your calves and ankles adjusted to them. Don't know how well I could wear them these days

Ah, the Earth Shoes!, - in Swedish they were baptized "Jordskor" - this is so damn 70s!!!

I never bought any & I didn't like the look of them - I guess I've always been a bit suspicious when something is blown up as "the new great thingy", the thing "everybody has to get"!