If you've got one of these, you are OLD! (or a collector)

[GolfGeezer]

25 Head-Scratching Photos Of Once-Popular Kitchen Tools That Basically Disappeared Over The Past 50 Years (yahoo.com)

[STEbbq]

I am fairly sure we had a hand-crank mixer at one point growing up. I ran across a toaster from the 50s several months back. I would have bought it if it actually worked. The other problem is that today’s bread slices wouldn’t have fit or cooked properly. I am sure for 58limited this is probably more of a
challenge to find something he doesn’t have already!

[58limited]

I have 14 or 15 of those items, different versions than pictured but the same things.

I have one Toast-O-Lator from the 1940s and two Sunbeam toasters: A T-9 from the 1930s and automatic from the 1940s. Modern bread fits all perfectly.

Of the other things pictured I also have: a nut grinder, Daizy Juicer, Farberware Food Processor, cookie gun (it was my mom's - I don't use it), 1957 Sunbeam Mixer (but I use a modern KitchenAid now - more powerful), a couple of hand mixers, an old meat market scale, an egg poacher, wall mount can opener, Sunbeam vacuum coffee maker (makes some of the best coffee ever), a newer version of the coffee mill pictured that I bought in Holland in the early 1990s (same picture on the front), and a 5 head Malt Mixer. My 1950 O'Keefe & Merritt stove has a baking scale on the backsplash and imprinted on the inside of the oven door.

The Toast-O-Lator is really cool:

https://youtu.be/ogfwFXQqovk?si=rcu0dkkZkNup6uD_

[58limited]

STEbbq Are you talking about one like this? https://img0.etsystatic.com/060/1/93...70974_gm6z.jpg

[STEbbq]

Yeah, that is the design!

[58limited]

STEbbq They made a couple of different sizes, I have one that a modern slice of bread will fit. They are great for toasting bagels.

[CaptainMike]

Many of us remember those times as "The Good Old Days"

[texastweeter]

While I may not be as wise as many of you, we had a lot of those things growing up as we were poor enough most of our stuff like that came from garage sales, members of the church, or my grandparents. I DO miss the wall mounted can opener, hand beater, and our coffee grinder was manual.

[Draznnl]

That’s my childhood you just posted. I don’t remember a nut grinder, but that doesn’t mean there wasn’t one. Most of the others, I grew up with.

[Jfrosty27]

My mom had the #15 and#16 nut choppers. I have the modern version of the #20 hard boiled egg maker which works perfect every time. About $19 on Amazon.

[Michael_in_TX]

Heh, I have some very early memories of that Mary Proctor toaster. Wow. And yes, that metal nut grinder? We had that, too....I remember playing with it a lot for some reason.

[Donw]

My hometown had the Proctor and then the Proctor-Silex factory so everyone seemed to have their products in their homes. Each year one of our school trips was touring the factory.

[RonB]

My Mom had a numbero f those things, but I don't.

[randy.56]

This brought back memories.

[Santamarina]

As a child I used a hand mixer and wall mount can opener. And I have a distinct memory of an oven with the pull out timer sheet…but I don’t recall who had it or where it was. I’m guessing a family friend I visited with my grandparents.