What 30 everyday things looked like decades ago (31 photos)

11 June 2025

Cleaning your home can feel like a trip back in time. You open a box and suddenly you're looking at an old DVD player or a dusty flip phone. It's amazing how quickly our things can become antiques. But today we're not just talking about technology. We've collected photo evidence of how much household items have changed, from subtle to radical. Furniture from grandma's living room, old vacuum cleaners, outfits - all of this is reminiscent of the past.





1. My grandmother saved the valentines she got in the second grade, around 1924



2. My hair salon still uses a 1904 cash register years





3. This framed wallpaper was hung in 1885



4. This is what a pharmacy looked like 100 years ago (Bucharest, Romania)



5. Our house still has door handles from 1928



6. A 1962 TV and its instructions



7. This the suit is 100 years old



8. The oldest operating McDonald's in the world and the only one that has retained the original design. It was the third restaurant in the chain



9. The first Barbie



10. My grandfather's farmhouse still has an old telephone



11. I found my old cell phone with removable keyboard



12. Large wooden table for 12 people. Bought in the Netherlands, made in 1893



13. We dug up a laptop with built-in backlight at work



14. The first Korzhik had teeth



15. A black wedding dress from the 1860s that belonged to a 20-year-old bride who tied the knot with an 83-year-old man



16. Found this calculator in the attic of my great-grandmothers



17. My mom has two vacuum cleaners from the same company, 100 years apart



18. A 1930s Shell gas station in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, USA



19. 1997 Thinkpad vs. 2011 Thinkpad



20. Dodge 3500 with a difference of 38 years



21. Mobile Phone Collection 1997 - 2009



22. National Geographic Magazines 1918 to 1932 year



23. Original 1992 Red Bull Bottle Found in Thailand



24. 1969 Fanta Bottle



25. Batteries 1945



26. Ken 1985 vs Ken 2018



27. Old Nintendo Game Console 1982 years



28. An old fire extinguisher, you need to throw it directly into the flames



29. My dad found a bottle of Old Spice in the walls of a building built in 1920s



30. 1981 Twix packaging

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