It's wonderful that generations of people are appreciating I Love Lucy. The show was definitely a product of the 1950's, featuring clothing, references and settings of that time. I've been watching since 1961 and some things are mysteries to me not having grown up with them.

I was thinking how a young person nowadays would view ILL. Here are some examples that would make a person under 40 say "what's that?!"

What else can we add to the list?

Bowling ball cleaner
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Washer; cooler with evaporator
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Permanent wave machine
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4-finger baseball glove; dial payphone
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Movie projector; dial telephone
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Steam reducing machine
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Reel-to-reel tape recorder
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That steam bath thing was actually pretty popular back then. What I always wanted to know was how did Lucy get it to make steam? When Ethel opened it up, there was only a light bulb in there. It was like an Easy Bake Oven! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:

This is a really cool thread!!! The screenshots are so clear!! :D

That steam bath thing was actually pretty popular back then. What I always wanted to know was how did Lucy get it to make steam? When Ethel opened it up, there was only a light bulb in there. It was like an Easy Bake Oven! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol:
There were actually 8 bulbs, if I remember correctly. Four bulbs on each side. I don't feel like pulling my DVD's out to check.

Let me add:

The record player we see a few times, one of which is seen when Lucy dons that beard.

The radio by Lucy's bed, which we see when she and Ricky make that bet abt his anger.

Oh poo I got the number of bulbs incorrect. I just said "a light bulb". :( Oh well my point was that you needed more than a light bulb in a box to make a steam bath. :lol: :lol: :lol:

Seriously though, what was up with that? If it is a steambath, why are there BULBS inside? :lol: :crazy: That was ridiculous.

If you add water to the box with the light bulbs you may not make steam but you get a great home permanent if you sit on a metal chair in there! omg:

OUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This isn't much, but the typewriter was featured in some episodes!

very cool thread, with interesting pictures!
i always wondered what that machine was that lucy put on ricky's head to help grow his hair. lol.

The telephones. Black with a cord. The norm for the phones from that era. As a matter of fact, in 1984 when both my grandparents passed away, we went to their home to start clearing out their belongings and they still had that kind of black phone in their home. ;) I remember when the phone man came to remove it, since it was not hooked up by a jack, and the look on his face was pure astonishment.

Do people still use waffle irons?

Awesome thread/pics, Stacy!! Irene and I missed having you in our Salt Sisterhood. We now have a few Salt Brothers as well. :D

Larry, I believe people still use waffle irons. I seen them a lot in hotels in the breakfast area for guests to use. I just buy the frozen ones. :lol:

Yes Monika, you are so right. Great to have Stacy back in the sisterhood and just to let you know Stacy, Jude is a pepper brother. Or pepper bro. :lol: ;)

Yes, I just get the frozen waffles and eliminate the middle man. :rofl:

Do people still use waffle irons?

:lol: Yes Larry. If you've ever had a freshly made waffle they're delicious and can't be compared with the hocky puck garbage you stick in the toaster. I like to think of waffles as a "conduit to get gobs of butter and syrup into my mouth". :happyface :happyface :happyface

My homemade waffles......well, I'll just say I'll leave the waffle making to the Waffle House down the road and get them there!

:lol:

I don't even eat waffles. My son likes them, which is why I buy nothing but the best...FROZEN. ;) :lol: I love to make homemade pancakes though. Mmmmmmmmmm.

Yes Monika, you are so right. Great to have Stacy back in the sisterhood and just to let you know Stacy, Jude is a pepper brother. Or pepper bro. :lol: ;)

It's great to be back at it and thanks for introducing Jude. I know all about pepper people. The men in my family come from a long line of pepperers. I have those genes, too. I don't mind them waiting in line to conceal their plates in pepper dust; it gives me a chance to use the salt shaker without competition! ;)

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When they were cutting Lucy out of the cruise ship's windows with a blow torch they draped an asbestos blanket over her.

LOL! Did they really?

Same here, did they really????? :eek:

The coverlet over Lucy's butt says "asbetos" on it.

I have to pop in my dvd. :eek:

I have to pop in my dvd. :eek:

Well I'll await your "approval". :lol: :happyface :lol:

Oh I believe you and Larry. I am just wondering if I had seen it and I just forgot abt it because the lettering is small or what. I hate when that happens. :crazy: :lol:

Yeah, ok now I remember why I forgot abt that ASBESTOS on that blanket. The whole word is not visible. It would be different if the whole word were visible and in LARGE PRINT as if to be obvious or noticeable, but asbestos was not the scary thing back then that is obviously is now. :eek:

Hey, don't kick yourself Irene. I didn't see it either!

There was an episode (where Lucy got a job & Ricky did the housework) in which Ricky ordered breakfast from the drugstore. I never heard of doing this, outside of this Lucy episode.

Drugstores weren't the same back then as the giant "CVS" kind of things we've got now. They often had soda fountain counters and breakfast and lunch counters too. I guess it gave you something to do while waiting for your prescriptions to be filled.

Yes, that's a bit of nastalgia, now long lost. Most drug stores were independent, prescriptions were not as varied or as costly; so to have a business that could survive needed more than medicinal products, so they added many more products (and this was also before the big discount chains, too), the soda fountain, often including lunch (sometimes breakfast) counters, some even had jukeboxes and dance areas, and they were the main camera and film handlers and developers. Modern drug store chains have even more varied types of merchandise, but it's hard to find a drugstore soda fountain any more. Most of them still develop film, but obviously there is less of that facet with digital cameras and Wal-Marts.

In my town, there is a restored soda fountain in combination with a large antique shop, but that's the only thing around our 'town square' that resembles the days of the drug store soda fountains. And they charge more for ice cream products than Braum's or Baskin Robbins.

Lucy having her hats delivered straight from the store. Having the grocery store deliver your groceries. I am sure there are some grocery stores where this is still done. And I don't mean by ordering online. I mean being able to walk into a store and having the item delivered the same day to your door.

Has anyone mentioned housecalls from Doctors? There were several Dr. visits at the Ricardo's.

Has anyone mentioned housecalls from Doctors? There were several Dr. visits at the Ricardo's.
That seemed to be the "norm" on 50's sitcoms. :lol: Try and see if some doctor would do that NOW! :crazy:

The only time I remember a doctor coming over on ILL who was legit, was when Ricky had laryngitis. The other "doctor" was a phony who told Lucy she had to have her zorch removed. :rofl:

Yep. The doctor who came to the Ricardo's and examined Ricky when Ricky was having his "sympathy pains" during Lucy's pregnancy. Then there was Little Ricky's pediatrician Dr. Gettleman. Wasn't there a real psychiatrist, too who came to see Lucy? The friend of Ricky's?

Well, that psychiatrist was a friend of Ricky's and started out doing that as a favor to Ricky. Until Ricky became jealous and then ticked the doctor off, who then said something abt Ricky getting his bill in the morning. :rofl:
But you are right abt Little Ricky, I had forgotten abt that one. ;)