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Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• whaleross@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  I remember nurses in white and doctors with a mirror on a headband when I was a kid in the 70s.

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  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I guess I’ll own up to it. I remember soda fountains. The ones at Woolworth’s would sometimes have a string of balloons above the counter. If you ordered a banana split you would pick a balloon; the soda jerk would pop it and you paid the price on the slip of paper inside the balloon. According to a search the stores lasted until 1997, but they were gone from my area long before that.

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    • MrJameGumb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      I remember going to Woolworths in the late 80s and early 90s! They didn’t have soda fountains by then, but they always had fun toys I would convince my dad I needed lol

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• MrJameGumb@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The technical term is “stick and bindle”

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  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Bindlestiff can refer to the person or the luggage.

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• hperrin@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Head mirrors were a thing.

  en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Head_mirror

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• brygphilomena@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  My mother still has her white nurses hat and I took my father’s mirror headband. It’s out of style, but it was once normal.

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• roguetrick@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Nurses in white dresses…

  You can still find that in some pinning ceremonies, particularly in the South.

  http://seahawknation.keiseruniversity.edu/keiser-university-miami-students-celebrate-pinning-ceremony/

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• DessertStorms@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Nurses in white dresses

  The Towering Inferno was on the other night and there was a nurse, not at the hospital, but one at the scene in a white mini dress, having to bend down to care for people on the floor. That shit is so impractical, but gotta feed that male fantasy I guess.. 😂🤦‍♀️

  Doctors with a mirror on a head band

  I have seen doctors use them, but never keep them on unless they are.

  Hobos with their belongings hanging off a stick

  does me running away from home as a toddler count? I actually did this because I saw it in the cartoons.. 😂

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  • Dagwood222@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    I did an image search an apparently short nurse dresses were a thing back in the 1970s. According to my unscientific poll, dresses started being replaced by scrubs and pants suits around the mid 1980s. Anecdotally it was older nurses who were the ones who were most resistant to the change.

    live.staticflickr.com/…/30663795175_64fc92ba45_b.…

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• ThisIsNotHim@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  The bag suspended from a stick is called a bindle was also real. I suspect these were just replaced by backpacks that were cheap/ubiquitous enough.

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• moistclump@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Lump sugar is very much a thing! More sugar in packets now but still at work stuff there’ll be a bowl of lumps.

  Or is there. Yknow now I’m doubting myself. Look at what you’ve done!

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