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valerief

(53,235 posts)
Fri May 29, 2015, 01:08 PM May 2015

11 sounds your kids have probably never heard

Who knew that some noises could eventually become as extinct as the passenger pigeon? Depending on your age, you or your kids or grandchildren may have only heard some of the following sounds in old movies, if at all.

1. Rotary Dial Telephone

The formerly familiar swooosh as the caller rotated the dial clockwise to the "finger stop" and then the click-click-click as the dial returned counter-clockwise to the start position is now a novelty application that you can install on your iPhones for nostalgic yuks. Adolescents waiting in line nearby will wonder what the heck that sound is, while we older fogies will know you're poking fun at us and our ancient ways.


http://mentalfloss.com/article/29230/11-sounds-your-kids-have-probably-never-heard
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11 sounds your kids have probably never heard (Original Post) valerief May 2015 OP
He's dialing with the handset in place. drm604 May 2015 #1
Ha! Yeah. Still sounds the same, though. nt valerief May 2015 #3
maybe it has speakerphone Enrique May 2015 #11
Ha! Or mental telepathy. nt valerief May 2015 #14
I remember all of those. nt femmocrat May 2015 #2
I Live where self service is forbidden in gas stations. Wolf Frankula May 2015 #4
How about that dial-up sound from back in the day? Tipperary May 2015 #5
Here you go! valerief May 2015 #8
Oh my. Tipperary May 2015 #9
You mean, "You've got some leh-ers,"? valerief May 2015 #10
That is too funny! Tipperary May 2015 #12
I have a rotary phone cyberswede May 2015 #6
Ohh... I also have that same Bell & Howell projector at the link cyberswede May 2015 #7
awesome color for a phone Enrique May 2015 #13
We still have the gas station bell thingees here in Oregon (and they're probably still in NJ) Arugula Latte May 2015 #15
I was about to pump my own gas in Oregon Lionel Mandrake May 2015 #20
Well, you might get a salmon pelting, a lashing with a hipster's big beard, or a Arugula Latte May 2015 #34
I have a dial app on my smartphone. drm604 May 2015 #16
Phone Recording Archive kentauros May 2015 #17
Proud to say... LP2K12 May 2015 #18
The big memory jolt of the flash cube was the SMELL!! . . . . n/t annabanana May 2015 #24
Mmmmm, acrid AwakeAtLast May 2015 #26
All of them sarge43 May 2015 #19
The morning paper still plops on my front step, The Velveteen Ocelot May 2015 #21
The Polaroid (Land?) camera Motor Feed alphafemale May 2015 #22
The rumble of big block engines, Joe Shlabotnik May 2015 #23
Kids today could never truly appreciate this song csziggy May 2015 #25
Great clip. Another thing--kids today would let Liberace be out and proud and would never take valerief May 2015 #31
True - though I think Liberace was as out as he could have been csziggy May 2015 #32
Mimeograph machine. The Velveteen Ocelot May 2015 #27
!!! progressoid May 2015 #29
Bingo! nt valerief May 2015 #30
We had those in my childhood home, as well as a Singer treadle sewing machine IDemo May 2015 #28
The typewriter they have linked in the article is far too new! csziggy May 2015 #33
 

Tipperary

(6,930 posts)
5. How about that dial-up sound from back in the day?
Fri May 29, 2015, 01:36 PM
May 2015

Psshhhhh,woooorrrr...god, I can't even begin to replicate it. But I can still hear it.

 

Tipperary

(6,930 posts)
9. Oh my.
Fri May 29, 2015, 01:55 PM
May 2015

That brings back all kinds of memories. I remember you could pick celebrity voices to tell you that you had mail. I had Mick Jagger. I can't even imagine doing something like that now. Very funny.

cyberswede

(26,117 posts)
6. I have a rotary phone
Fri May 29, 2015, 01:39 PM
May 2015

I hated the chirpy electronic phones that were available in the 80s, so I hunted down a rotary model.

I had to buy it from the AT&T store - it was their last one (display model).

It has a real bell ringer, too. My kids love it - it's a novelty.

cyberswede

(26,117 posts)
7. Ohh... I also have that same Bell & Howell projector at the link
Fri May 29, 2015, 01:44 PM
May 2015

I video taped all our family home movies from the 50s-70s a couple years ago (then converted to DVD). I kept the projector sound as the soundtrack of the DVDs, since there was no other sound.

 

Arugula Latte

(50,566 posts)
15. We still have the gas station bell thingees here in Oregon (and they're probably still in NJ)
Fri May 29, 2015, 02:25 PM
May 2015

because you can't pump your own gas in those states.

Lionel Mandrake

(4,076 posts)
20. I was about to pump my own gas in Oregon
Fri May 29, 2015, 07:03 PM
May 2015

when I noticed a sign threatening a $500 fine for doing so. Being from another state, I thought I discretion would be advisable.

There's no telling what these crazy Oregonians might do to me.

 

Arugula Latte

(50,566 posts)
34. Well, you might get a salmon pelting, a lashing with a hipster's big beard, or a
Sat May 30, 2015, 07:31 PM
May 2015

sentence of cleaning up Bigfoot droppings, depending on how serious of an infraction it is.

drm604

(16,230 posts)
16. I have a dial app on my smartphone.
Fri May 29, 2015, 05:01 PM
May 2015

It's a picture of a phone dial. You dial with your finger by touching each number and dragging it around to the finger stop. When you hit the stop it does a short vibration to simulate hitting it. When it spins back it makes the authentic clicking sounds.

You can actually make call with it although I rarely do; how often do you even call using a number anymore?

sarge43

(28,942 posts)
19. All of them
Fri May 29, 2015, 06:58 PM
May 2015

Some more

A hand crank adding machine

Short wave radio static

Steam train whistle

The plop of the morning paper on the front step

The rattle and clank of glass milk bottles being delivered

Prop driven airplane, especially an old low flying gasper like a crop duster

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,827 posts)
21. The morning paper still plops on my front step,
Fri May 29, 2015, 07:04 PM
May 2015

and prop-driven airplanes are still everywhere. Crop dusters are usually turboprops these days, though.

 

alphafemale

(18,497 posts)
22. The Polaroid (Land?) camera Motor Feed
Fri May 29, 2015, 07:04 PM
May 2015

And the woppitywoppity of us flapping the pic in the air because we thought it made them develop faster.

Joe Shlabotnik

(5,604 posts)
23. The rumble of big block engines,
Fri May 29, 2015, 07:09 PM
May 2015

with no pollution control at every intersection, being driven by housewives to get groceries.

valerief

(53,235 posts)
31. Great clip. Another thing--kids today would let Liberace be out and proud and would never take
Sat May 30, 2015, 11:00 AM
May 2015

him for straight.

csziggy

(34,137 posts)
32. True - though I think Liberace was as out as he could have been
Sat May 30, 2015, 11:27 AM
May 2015

Not just because of the times but because of his own personality.

The Velveteen Ocelot

(115,827 posts)
27. Mimeograph machine.
Fri May 29, 2015, 09:42 PM
May 2015

Clackcklackzzzz, clackcklackzzzz, clackcklackzzzz, clackcklackzzzz, clackcklackzzzz. Although the most memorable aspect of that thing was the smell of the fluid.

IDemo

(16,926 posts)
28. We had those in my childhood home, as well as a Singer treadle sewing machine
Fri May 29, 2015, 11:11 PM
May 2015

and an pedal-powered antique air organ


csziggy

(34,137 posts)
33. The typewriter they have linked in the article is far too new!
Sat May 30, 2015, 11:35 AM
May 2015

I learned to type on one very similar to this one:



Dad did have one that was nearly as new as the one in the article that he used for his business, but the one I was allowed to use for schoolwork and for transcribing old wills and deeds for Mom's genealogy research was very similar to the Oliver in the YouTube clip. Mom found it at some junk or thrift shop for a few dollars. I couldn't type fast with it - the keys would entangle and lock up - but it was a great machine and I liked it a lot. It was also a lot easier to clean than the newer machines since all the keys were right out in the open.
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