What are somethings you just don't see anymore?
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Trolleys (in the USA, outside of San Francisco).
Overhead wires in cities: “telephone poles”.
Windows that open in high-rise buildings.
Women in dresses and skirts “as a rule”.
Men with hats.
Around here (Texas), rainy days.
full service at the gas station
Common decency.
It’s gone from “Pleasantville” to “Bitch, get your own ville!”
Shakey’s Pizza parlours. When I was a kid, Shakey’s were large, dark buildings crammed with people and a live piano player.
Kites. I never see kids flying kites any more.
Pickup baseball and football games. We played sand lot / vacant lot games all the time as kids. There was always a game on somewhere.
Kids playing outdoors in general.
Mr. Bubbles bubble bath. :(
Cigarettes inside of buildings.
Nekked pancake parties outside. That was a bad day…
I haven’t seen Tootsie-pops around. Are they still out there?
Yep, we buy them all the time. They have them at Walmart & Walgreen’s….Most of the stuff on this thread I see all the time ‘round here
Here in the UK I don’t see my all time favourite sweets, Nerds. I bought loads back from America though.
@SpatzieLover Thank you! I guess I don’t get out as much as I used to. I’ll get a bunch to give out on Halloween.
Oh, I hate to answer with these:
common sense
restraint
good manners
Great leaders
Rabbit ears/antennaes
UHF
Tube televisions
Typewriters
Politeness
Rotary phones
Channel “dials” on televisions
FM radios with analog tuning (and no digital display)
Eight-track tape players
Boom boxes (thank the FSM!)
Walkman radios and tape players
Tape players in general
Pussy willows. Crawdads after a rain. Door-to-door encyclopedia sales people. The station signoff emblem on the television. Doctors making housecalls. Milkman doing morning deliveries. Nurses in white uniforms with the traditional nurses cap. Men wearing hats and ties for nearly every occasion. ESSO gas stations. Garters for men’s socks. Those bicep garters for shirts.
Black and white televisions
Kids riding bicycles with playing cards in the spokes to make a noise.
Do they still make carbon paper?
Beanie babies
MAD Magazine
@Leanne1986 Oh man those rock. I always got those when I was a kid haha. Them, and Runts. Don’t see any of them around anymore though.
Answer; arcade stands, Beta, Game Over screens.
Yve’s St. Laurent
Loves Baby Soft
Sugar Shoes
Gass Shoes
Shoulder Pads
UHF channels
Halston Dresses
Well made Channel Bags & Suits.
Wordstar.
Wordperfect.
Lotus 1–2-3.
VisiCalc
Wang 1200 Word Processing
8” floppy disk
@CWOTUS My husband brought home an old-time, heavy, black rotary phone from his 87 year old dad’s house. He had it stored in the basement. It works. I’ve been bugging my husband to install it so we can use it! I was messing with it—the feel of the dial under my finger brought back memories of hours on the phone, stretching the crap out of the cords, being careful what you said because anyone in the house could hear you! Memories of freaking out when I couldn’t get to the phone before the caller hung up, wondering if that one-in-a-million shot had come true…Greg, my unrequited love in Jr. High had called… and I missed it! Arrrrghhh!
(Has anyone looked at the links?? The bottom one is freaking HILARIOUS!)
Ahhh, the cord stretched as tight as it could get, @Dutchess_III. I remember those days. My problem was in my house growing up, the phone set on a telephone table on a little landing going upstairs. My dad sat in his recliner at the foot of the stairs and watched television from the time Walter Cronkite came on until the local news signed off at 11 p.m. He monitored the stairs and the phone. Remember party lines?
No…came in at the tail end of party line. But something close…I remember some glitch that lasted for a couple of weeks, in which you would call a number and get that “beep….beep…beep” busy signal…but for about two weeks my sisters and I…and several other kids…. discovered that if you talked in-between the beeps….there were other people on the line! Other kids from the school! It would take about 20 minutes to figure out who you were talking to…you only had that ½ second interval between the busy beeps to communicate…but it was cool! It lasted two weeks. : ) It ran all around the school, and at the very end EVERYONE was calling busy numbers and trying to talk, because we were all on at the same time! Talk about Chat Gone Wild!
A milk bottle that is made of glass and has cream on the top.
@erichw1504 Pogs rock! I had some, but I was a fan of slammers. I liked those ridiculously thick ones, plus those shredders that you couldn’t really play with, since they aren’t called shredders for nothing lol.
Phone numbers that had letters in them.
Decent, loving, compassionate, intelligent, people. I do however see lots of people who believe they are. That’s like trending at this point in the game.
@erichw1504 Yeah…those suckers hurt your eyes after a while, too.
LOL! When I hired into the wireless industry in the late 90’s we were still selling those! And these Those bag phones were damn good phones, too.
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