12 everyday items from the past

[Praktica]

When I worked for the post office, back in the 1970s, there were still manual telephone exchanges - in fact, when we moved north in the early 1980s the house we rented in a small town had a phone on a 12 party line - you cranked the handle to call up the exchange to make a call. There was a fisherman on the line who would get calls at 4am...