Quirky Items That People Once Used

1 Apr 2015


1

The Poker Face Mask


2

The Dog Squeezer (a restraint), 1940


3

The Dimple Maker, 1936


4

The Baby Cage let city kids get fresh air... by hanging out of a window


5

Robot answering machine


6

The flying bicycle


7

The personal submarine


8

The Japanese "war tuba" which was used to locate enemy aircraft by sound prior to the invention of radar.


9

The motorbike powered boat.


10

The 1961 Buick "Flamingo" with a rotating front seat. Who needs seat belts?


11

One of the first bullet proof vests, 1917.


12

The lay-down side car.


13

The Viophonograph


14

Amphibious bicycle


15

The family bicycle equipped with a sewing machine for mom


16

An icemask which promised to beat hangovers, 1947


17

Portable sauna


18

A vibrating rubber finger that massaged your gums


19

The Isolater which helped writers focus by blocking out all sights and sounds, 1925


20

A toilet mask that bleached skin to remove "imperfections"


21

A terrifying swim mask from the 1920s


22

The Cone Face which protected makeup from the elements


23

This "beauty micrometer" let users know where makeup needed to be applied, 1937


24

The Baby Dangler


25

Scrumptious bacon that cooked in a toaster


26

The People Scooper - an attachment for your car


27

The Scalp Molester - a massager made up of 480 articifical fingers


28

The Pack Smoker, 1955


29

The Egg Cuber for turning regular eggs into square eggs


30

Clamps that helped to teach your kid to walk


31

The Orgy Shower


32

A box that blasted your head with ultraviolet rays in hopes of curing diseases


33

Bikes for your feet


34

Motorized roller skates, 1961


35

A depressing hair growth hat that supposedly cured baldness


36

A massive automatic hair dryer


37

Revolver that took a photo every time it was fired


38

Tiny umbrella for smoking on a rain day


39

TV glasses decades before Google Glass, 1960s


40

Venetian blind sunglasses


41

Mouse scaring machine that made cat noises


42

Tanning vending machines, which provided people with a 30 second spray for ten cents, 1930

If you thought today's spray on tans are bad, think about how bad these must have been.

43

Pipe for two, 1949


44

Pain free paddle, 1950


45

The single-wheeled motorcycle


46

Motorized surfboard


47

Hair permer, 1930


48

A pram to protect babies from a toxic gas attack


49

The 2 inch television


50

Inflatable life vests made from old tires


51

The turkey blaster



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ArxFerrum 8 year s ago
#4 - It's hard to imagine a parent putting their child in such a location, even way back when.
#7 - Got to take a ride in one of those... way back when.
#25 - Worked pretty well but still messy as hell.
#45 - Featured in MiB 3
       
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nefus 8 year s ago
There is a car museum in Nashville that has two of the single-wheeled motorcycles.
       
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