oh, and I recognized all 32!
Thanks for much needed laughter! Lol. I’m ancient. Older than dirt.
Ok, I’m assuming I can exclude the car heating and AC, since cars still have those controls, although mist are knobs, not levers.
If so, I recognized 3 IRL. My parents still have a similar alarm clock. Restaurant smoking was still allowed until recently, and cigarette machines can still be found, although age restricted
Well, ski, the rule stated in the article is recognition of any one…
so welcome to the “mature crowd”!
On #5 about how heavy the car doors used to be may be deceptive. Cars today are heavier for their size compared to decades ago. But they are also better engineered so that their heavy doors with bigger crash beams do not feel as difficult to open and close.
On #8 about the cap gun… toy guns that look like real guns went out of favor after some kid pointed one at a police officer and got shot in response.
On #26, cars still have the 12V sockets that those plugged into… but they are mostly used for things other than those cigarette lighters.
On #27, that old car had AC, which was more likely to be an option back then. That HVAC control panel looks like the same pattern of controls found on 1970s-1980s GM cars and other cars that got HVAC from GM.
Most of them!
Our kitchen wall phone (rented from the phone company) was black and had a dial, not buttons. It was the only phone in our house.
To talk privately one had to slip into the boiler room, adjacent to the kitchen. Not very private, but the best we could do.
I still have my tomato pincushion!
So, @ucbalumnus, is that a tacit admission that you recognize at least one? 
Speaking of cap guns, I used to be a fanatic as a kid (have gladly grown out of that). One of my prize possessions was this when I really felt the need to pack the heat:
Again, I’m really glad to have outgrown this!
I think the author of this article mistakes “timeless” for “old”…my mom had one too!
The word is “mature”!
I too recognized most of them, as did my husband. But we already knew we were old 
Remember when a “10-speed” bicycle had 10 total gear ratios (5 rear, 2 front):
instead of 10 gears just in the rear?
I don’t hang with anyone who doesn’t recognize all 32. I still have a set of 10. I watched 20, but not when sick/all day.
#11. At least 100mph. 
#1. I’m soon to be 50, and I still have a triangular indentation scar between my eyes from turning around and running smack into the corner of the consul television while mom was playing
Peekaboo with me.
I recognized all but two of these pics. Thanks for the memories! 
Well dang, I’m young and I grew up with most of those. I don’t appreciate the actual old people who pulled that article together trying to age me. lol
Well, according to the author, recognition of one is enough to make you “old.”
Welcome to the club! 
I already knew I was old (73), probably one of the oldest CC members. Not surprisingly, I recognized most of these. I had a kitchen floor just like #3 at some point in my early married years. I have 2 sizes of #10 that I’ve had since ~1970 and still use regularly. My oldest son (now 52) loved his #15. Amazing how many of us early baby boomers survived #12s and cars without seat belts.
Well, crap; I knew all 32. I still have some of the items in my house right now.
I recognize all of these, but I don’t consider myself old, I am in my early 40s.
Well, it is survivorship bias. Those who did not survive car crashes without seat belts (or other hazards like polio or measles before vaccines) are not here on these forums talking about the good(?) old days.
I told H this afternoon that I want my next car to be a dumb car. I hate all those smart features, and especially the stupid heat/AC. I just want the simple levers back!!!
Yeah I knew them all. If I was home, I’d take a picture of our pin cushion like that in our medicine cabinet.