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I became ten feel tall and bullet proof after using these as a child.
It's an honor, Robocop.
Find me the super hero uniform. As hard as I e tried to keep my hands clean.
I remember when they were pulling them out because kids were hanging themselves (allegedly) and even at that young age my first thought was "how stupid would you have to be to hang yourself on that?"
We got them at one of our shops so they are not all gone
Is this the three sea shells from demolition man
Lol
How well I remember the good old days. I'd gladly use one again if I had too. Amen
How do you Call it? I’ve seen it only once in the airport and had no idea how to use it
It's a hand towel to dry your hands with. You pull down the dirty part until you see clean, then wash your hands and dry them. However kids did it backward, wash their hands, grab dirty part of towel, then pull down.
LOL! I never knew you were supposed to pull the towel down first, then dry your hands. It must be why I rarely ever get sick. :-P
Okay, now I'll be Paul Harvey. AND NOW YOU KNOW THE REST OF THE STORY. Heh heh heh.
Wow, you found a clean one!
What the hell is that?
Public restrooms had these infinity towels that you dried your hands on
It wasn't an infinity towel, it was a 100 foot towel on a roll. When it got to the end it stopped. When it stopped just the dirty part showed and continued to be used.
I haven’t seen one for at least 30 years. I was just a little kid. And every one I saw was nasty. I didn’t know how the inside worked.
Wowwww...
That sounds disgusting.
It totally was. I was born in 82 and I was a little kid the last time I saw one. Usually they were pretty slick with dirt. I’d rather just dry my hands on my pants.
usually in older gas stations is where I recall them.
They used these long before paper towels became a thing. A diner that my parents used to take me to as a kid had one of these in the restroom. It's the only place I can remember using one. You pull down the towel in the front to get a clean section and the dirty part of the towel gets pulled up from behind. It all works sort of like a conveyor belt.
That's disgusting
When that's all you've got...
lol ikr i wondered same
Took me a moment to realize that was an actual towel. You still see something similar in public restrooms from time to time, though it's criminally rare.
Gonna guess the premise was you would have washed your hands thoroughly before you touched the towel, and it would be replaced regularly, so the chance of spreading germs would be essentially nil.
Shame reality entered the chat, lol.
I still use one of these every day. It looks a bit diffrent but basically you put a long cloth rolled up into the lower compartment, it then feeds back up into the top and starts another roll which is the dirty end. Its essentially how a cassette tape works except you wipe your wet hands on it. You never use the dirty parts and it gets replaced with a new roll when the clean parts run out.
Duhhh... uh... um... uhhh---what's a... um.. cassette? :-)
It's like an analog dial clock but you don't tell time with it.
Wait really? Blows my mind people dont know what a cassette tape is anymore.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassette_tape
honestly vinyl sounds a fuck ton better
I thought so, but I wasn't sure. I've seen them before, lol.
We used to have these in school.
When were these used? Im 50 and remember the brown paper dispenser from the 70s and 80s.
You're too young! I remember these in the 60s. By the 70s they'd been rotated out when someone finally started to understand that germs were spreading. LOL what a memory. I remember being excited if I stumbled on a clean one. Otherwise, even as a 7 year old kid I knew enough to dry my hands on my shirt.
Not everywhere. I was still using these all over in the late 70’s to early 80’s in elementary school. How old am I? Well, old enough but not as old as some of you here.
My son was lobbying me last year to get a smartphone. His older brother got one at 16 and he and his sister (12 and 13) at the time were arguing that they shouldn’t have to wait until 16 because ‘all their friends had them’. They were winning the argument right up until he foolishly asked, “Well, how old were you Dad when you got your first cell phone?”
I laughed and laughed and told them that small personal devices like that didn’t even exist when I was in high school. I remembered my Dad, who was a salesman, having a bag phone with a 10’ antenna magnet on the top of his suburban. After some deep thought I realized that when I got out of college at 23 my company gave me a Motorola pager, but that when people pages I needed to pull over at a gas station and find a pay phone. I then had to explain to them what a pay phone was and google up some images. Turns out I was 27 yrs old when I got my first giant cell phone. They were astonished at how I could have survived without one that long..!
So, I guess I’m not that old, but surely old enough.
A buddy of mine dug out his Atari when his son was playing on a PS3. His son told him yall must have been poor. Kids nowadays have no idea of a time without cell phones and video games.
Early 90s, still around at a bowling alley I went to.
Had this exact exchange with my 13yo son yesterday! Older siblings have them but received them when they turned 16. When I told him I got my first cellphone when I was 24 a fear washed over his face cause now he saw the leverage shift. Yes, we establish at 16yo you “might” get a phone BUT It could be as late as 24yo! Funny how the conversation ended when he realized he needed to reevaluate his strategy.
Awesome this exact thing happened to both of us. I still remember the look on his face when I said 27...!
It was in the places that couldn't afford to upgrade to brown paper. Non-franchise gas stations and grocery stores, etc.
I'd bet they were more expensive than brown paper. You had a contract with a commercial laundry that supplied clean rolls and picked up the dirty ones.
Bold of you to assume they replaced the dirty ones!
You're saying a business would continue to pay for a service they weren't getting?
I'm saying there's a good chance they didn't continue paying and then just left it with the dirty one (or rerolled the dirty one)
I remember them back in 50's and early 60's!
Ohhh yeah I remember these at turnpike rest stops LOL!!!!!
We had these in the ghettos of Miami in the 70's and 80's. Saw them again in Thailand, Hong Kong, and of all places, Japan, in the 90's.
Gross. I’d bing my own towel everywhere. Lol.
Handkerchiefs were the rage those days for a reason.
LOLOLOLOLOLOL
Wtf is that 💀 I'm 18 so...
Now I am curious about how the device supposedly cleaned the used section of towel.
It didn't. When you pulled the last of the clean section down, they were supposed to replace the whole roll. Didn't always happen.
Ah, I see. So after the whole roll was used, did it roll back onto dirty sections, or did it simply stop rolling any more until a new towel was installed?
It stopped rolling. Then we just used the last (dirty) section until they changed it! Lol - how times have changed!
Green New Deal toilet paper! Now with red stripes
They were considered a great idea at the time! As long as they remembered to change the roll when it ran out. Otherwise, eeuuww …
used them in dirty gas station bathrooms and rest stops and occasionally when they were at the end of the roll
I always liked the racing stripe down the middle. It was like the hot cars of the same time!
Thank you, Dairy Queen, for my full immunity.
These are called CRTs, Continuous/Cloth Roll Towels. They are still made and used some places. From what I've read, they're cheaper to maintain and more hygienic than paper or warm air for drying hands. I thought about getting one for my kitchen in the past. 🤔
http://www.dberkhoudtarchitect.com/2012/03/new-research-proves-cloth-roll-towel-systems-crt-more-hygienic-than-air-dryers/
Im over 35 years old and what is this? A belt sander for your hands?
Lmfao thank you fren! I really fucking needed this one hahahah
Yup, I remember those.
omg i totally forgot those existed!
What the fuck is that?
I had forgotten about those.
I encountered these a lot at bars in college. College bar bathrooms are definitely NOT examples of cleanliness, Lol
Honestly, if you hit this thing with UV as it rolls through, it'd be highly effective. UV can and does sterilize. I don't want to give "green" psychos any ideas though. They'll find a way to screw it up.
Hey, at least it is “green” ;-)
Ha lol yes those would get pretty dirty ugh.
You kids in here are cracking me up.
Note: photo depicts a time when deprived students lacked access to free "condom dispensers".
Except BS......
WWG1WGA
1990'er checkin' in with absolutely no idea what this was.
Correct!