Last evening I was at one of the local store, I wanted to buy some things for my home. This shop sells frankincense and different types of essential oils. It's a very old type set up with antiques all over the place. The way the world is galloping in technology, in another 50 years the generation then will consider these things as something from the stone age era. They have their own charm and it also makes us reflect on how far we have come in our civilization, and changed so much. We have progressed making things better and easier for us. Though the new technology imposes it's own challenges and threats, which in the past was not the case.
I clicked the pictures of these antiques to share with you all and walk you down the memory lane, specially for people of my age. And I am sure the younger generation has also seen these things, may be not in real but in museums.
The Telephone, a very old piece, I guess this type of models were used in the 70s. In my home, we had a telephone in 93, which was very much later then rest of the world. Till then we had to always go to our neighbor's home for any calls, which would be very restricted. I would receive a phone call once in a week or so, or not even that. Unlike today where all the time we are on the phone, that was not the case. If I had to make a call, I would go to a public telephone booth and make it from there, which costed so that was also limited. Life is easy now with the gadget in hand but I still prefer those times, when life was so simple.
A camera, I am not even sure which era it belongs to, but looks very old
Lanterns, till 10 years back we still found them in remote villages. I do not think now they are used any more in any part of the world.
A sewing machine and another camera
An old Gramophone. This is a very old one, there are new fancy ones also. These days I am seeing some people getting these things for home just as show items.
This looks like one of those first airplanes built by the Wright Brothers.
Some of the old transports
These were the old switchboards. We still find them in the old houses, and they are so sturdy and still functioning.
The beauty of these things were that they would last years and years and hardly anything got spoilt, very few repairs were needed. They were good quality and sturdy products then compared to now. If technology would have not upgraded and we would have continued using them then probably we would be using these things for years and years like a phone, which normally people nowadays change it once in 3 to 4 years.
Now it is the age of show and not quality.
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