I was at a museum today and now I feel really old

[NiceSkinHereICome]

Okay so I was killing time today as I was early for something and I decided to pop into the local museum/art gallery. Lots of interesting things.

However I just about choked when I got to the section that showed kitchens from various ages like the fifties etc. They had a bloody kitchen from the nineties - It looked just like the one I had in my first house (I'm in my fifties) and they had signs explaining all the new technology of the era. Bloody Nora, things from my era and in a museum!

Then they had another section with toys from yesteryear. There they had the fisher price garage my wee brother got when he was small. A rubix cube, a nokia mobile and other things that quite frankly I didn't consider really old enough to be in a museum.

It's hard to believe youngsters need this stuff in a museum because it now considered old/vintage/interesting enough.

I should have taken a photo of them both so you could have had a chuckle and I might go back and do that.

Anyone else in their fifties amused that we are now old enough to be featuring in museums.

Aggh Cannot edit

I meant Monarch Switchboard on my post.

When I was a little girl I remember my mother telling me about when she was a little girl. She told me how the 1st time she saw a gramophone someone was playing outside on a garden wall. She ran into her mother screaming she had heard a mans head singing in a box! I myself remember a wind up gramophone my mother had. She used it to play the old 78rpm records. I was terrified of it when the mechanism wound down and you got this horrible slow distorted voice,
I am the youngest of five and my eldest brother joined the merchant navy. On on of his trips home he brought a stereo record player that could stack a load of records on top of each other and dropped another record down when the previous one had finished. The lid of the record player split into the two speakers attached by long wires. He called me into the room where he had set it up and told me to listen to the 'Chipmonks'. It was Elvis singing Teddy Bear on a 45 single but played at 78 rmp. He also brought a reel to reel tape recorder. During my life i have used valve radios where you had to twiddle the dial to get radio Luxembourg and radio Caroline which were pirate radio stations on ships before the days of radio one. (it was the only way to listen to pop music).
Radiogram's, stereo record players with a stack system. A record deck and underneath an amplifier, a tuner, a tape deck. complete of course with Lp's (long playing records) 33rmp and 45 rpm single disks, only some of them were EP's with two songs on a side. all of these records were double sided.
Telephone boxes with push button A and push button B. Later phone boxes we used to put a sixpence in and dial 1, 6 dial a disk. Home rotary phones, Trim phones.
Hair dressers with the hoods you sat under with curlers in your hair.
I used to work in a shop with Lamsom tubes where you put money in it to the tills from the upper floor and the manager would sent the change back up
Our 1st television was black and white and only had two channels and you got the national anthem at the end of the evening and the test card. It was a square box with a tiny screen. Then we got CRT televisions with the huge back on them to accommodate the cathode ray and the valves. I have had transistor radios, portable cassette players, portable cd players, ghetto blasters, a twin tub washing machine, a vacuum cleaner with a cloth bag inside. An eye level gas cooker a chest freezer, An Amstrad pc with a tape deck. A desk top PC,and numerous laptops. There is so much more but I would be here all day writing it! So I must be the oldest relic following this thread! Also the historic stuff you have mentioned that your kids are studying for history I lived through them! I haven't mentioned the newer tech as you already know it

Oh I have just thought a few more. When i was little hardly anyone had a car. The kids in the street all played outside together, playing street games such as 'British bull dog, Statues, hide and seek, Sardines and king ball. We used to have skipping ropes across the street with a person at each end another child skipped in the middle. It was a treat when walking into town with my mother to stand on the railway bridge when the steam trains passed by and I was shrouded in the steam coming form the funnel.

That should carry a warning- be prepared to see evidence of how bad music got to at one point.

People who have never heard of 9/11?!

That's rather worrying.