Things you just don't see anymore

[underpants]

I can't remember the last time a shoelace snapped-it used to happen alot when I was a kid or at least I remember it happening.

People sitting at a red light and NOT taking a right (BTW left on red is legal on a oneway street turning onto a oneway street)

Having to stir up KoolAid with a wooden spoon everytime you want some.

Blue laws

A desk without a computer on it

[raccoon]

1. People sitting on porches.

Screens on windows.

Screened-in porches.

[AllegroRondo]

9. My wife and I still do that

we got the house with a big porch just for that purpose. We sit out there in the evening, read the paper, and keep an eye on the neighborhood kids.

[underpants]

10. We used to

when we lived in the city. Loved sitting out watching the comings and goings in the neighborhood. The weekends featured lots of "walks of shame" which was fun.

[AllegroRondo]

18. we live in the suburbs

so no "walks of shame" yet.

just lots of kids playing ball and people walking their dogs.

[Left Is Write]

65. I see people on porches all the time. And all of our windows have screens....

Where are you that people don't have screens on windows?

[raccoon]

92. Upstate SC.

You may be right. Maybe I'm thinkng more of office building. Most everyone I know lives in an older home.

[barb162]

155. You don't have screens on windows?

DOesn't anyone open windows in your state?
There are plenty of screened in porches and windows here.

[matcom]

2. Andy Gibb posters

x(

[RetroLounge]

3. My Ex-Wife...

:applause:

RL

[bicentennial_baby]

41. ...

:spray:

[commander bunnypants]

4. yep but The Blue Laws are still on the books

CB

[rug]

5. Bloodless patriotism.

[Deep13]

6. paper napkin dispensers in restaurants

[Bassic]

53. Oh I still see those in diners and greasy spoons. nt

[Manifestor_of_Light]

145. McDonald's is too cheap to put paper towels in the restrooms.

I was in one not too long ago and picked up a whole napkin dispenser, put it under my arm, and hauled it into the bathroom and deposited it between the sinks. I was yelled at by some female employee "Ma'am!!! You need some towels??". She followed me into the rest room.

I ignored her and went into a stall and did my business. She went in a stall too. I waited until she was out of there before I came out and washed my face, my glasses, my hands, and used the paper towels.

Damn cheap bastards. God forbid you should want to dry your hands, or wash your face or your glasses.


:banghead: :banghead: :banghead:

[av8rdave]

7. A pay phone (they're out there still, but hard to find)

[Throwing Stones]

19. they now cost fifty cents for a local call

I lost my cell phone a while back and had to use a pay phone (the horror) - fifty cents and the quality was horrible. I think the one I found was probably off the radar of the company that owned it.

[av8rdave]

26. I know...they're awful to use. If you're ever looking for one in an airport....

just find the public address speakers. The pay phones are always right below them.

[qnr]

68. Telephone books are even rarer n/t

[commander bunnypants]

8. soda fountains.

Last one I know of is a liquor store

CB

[LibDemAlways]

49. There's a good old fashioned one in Orange, CA

called Watson's. It's been used in several movies. Only drawback is the chimp once stopped there on a campaign appearance and the owner touts that like it's something to be proud of instead of a source of shame and embarrassment.

[Zoigal]

107. Drat

was all set to drive down and order a chocolate soda,
until i got to the comment about the owner's pride in
having the Chimp visit. No way would i even darken his door.
There used to be one in Independence, Oregon. May still be there.

[shanti]

169. ahh, watson's!

an orange institution! :hi: i used to eat breakfast there when i worked downtown one time...

[Adsos Letter]

165. A great soda fountain in Grant's Pass, Oregon

I believe it is in the drugstore there...every time we visit the in-laws, we make a stop. 25 cent phosphates, old-fashioned milkshakes and malts, flavored cokes...yum!

:D

[1gobluedem]

11. Kids playing outside

Riding their bikes and roaming the neighborhood.

[Zuiderelle]

25. I saw a couple of boys a few weeks ago riding their bikes

in a very busy area of town. One looked to be about 10 and the other a few years younger. I remember thinking how unusual it was, and how worried about them I was, and how sad it was that those thoughts went through my head.

[Arugula Latte]

55. We were just talking about that --

We are lucky in that we live in an area that is part of Portland, but has a woodsy feel to it and also access to streams. We're on a cul de sac and our kids and the neighbor kids have a great time running around, digging in the dirt, riding bikes, making forts, etc. But too few kids are getting that kind of childhood anymore because the parents are afraid to let them play outside because of kidnapping fears, etc. As a result, they've coined the name "Nature Deficit" to describe the sedentary video-game-filled lives of too many U.S. kids.

[Kali]

113. or if it's not sedentary it's over-organized and hyper-scheduled

and of course, WELL supervised.:puke: future repuke robots or psychopaths is all I can think of when I see some of these families (or was that redundant?)


hey did you know repuke gets flagged in spell check? seems like that would be regular vocabulary in the DU dictionary:evilgrin:

[LibDemAlways]

93. Yesterday my 14-year-old daughter went to visit a friend

approximately two blocks away. I walked her down and went back and picked her up to walk her home when she was ready. The odds are, of course, that she would have made it safely there and back by herself with no problem. But I'm not about to take that small chance that she wouldn't. It's a damn shame, but you can't be too careful these days when it comes to your kids.

[barb162]

156. They are always outside around here.

And I mean always.

[spinbaby]

12. Rotary phones

Typewriters

Carbon Paper

Tang

Giant shoulderpads

[ghostsofgiants]

101. A former roommate of mine drinks a lot of Tang.

[appal_jack]

105. i've got the first two...

...in my house (rotary phone and manual typewriter that is...).

I geek-out for old, classic stuff, and I managed to find the phone (a desk model rotary in basic black) and the typewriter (a portable Royal) both at thrift stores for around $4 each.

-app

[Manifestor_of_Light]

146. I type too fast to use a manual.

Besides, my fingers get stuck between the keys and it hurts.

I can make a Selectric burp. Finally, when they made real computers (NOT the luggable Kaypro) I finally found a computer that was fast enough that I couldn't lock it up when I type.


But of course I can't get a job with these wonderful skills.

[Sequoia]

143. I still have my powder blue Princess Phone.

In fact my kid was trying to plug it in and use it last week. A couple of years ago I had it in my home when the neighobr boy wanted to use it to call his dad. He looked at it and then asked me how to use it!

[crim son]

13. Pale green pants with nobody inside them.

It's been years.

[mikeytherat]

50. That one always freaked out Mrs. Rat as a child.

mikey_the_rat

[crim son]

52. Me too.

We had the story on a record, along with the Sneetches and other classics. I could never stand to listen to that one alone.

[Arugula Latte]

56. Me too.

:scared:

[begin_within]

14. Chemistry Sets that you could actually do something with

[datasuspect]

109. millineries and realistic toy guns

i don't care what picture of an urban street scene from anywhere in the US up to the late 60s, they had a millinery in that pic.

[begin_within]

15. Reel-to-reel tape decks actually being used

[begin_within]

16. People just "taking a walk," without any dogs, earphones or baby strollers

[CBHagman]

166. Believe it or not. we still exist.

I was out on my evening constitutional and crossed paths with a co-worker and her friend. All of us were out on our evening walks.

But you're right; the sidewalks seem to be dominated by the cell phone talkers, iPod users, with or without baby or dog.

[matcom]

17. accurate, online Hurricane updates

x(

[underpants]

20. Had a hurricane surprise you recently?

HATE when that happens

[Midlodemocrat]

35. *sigh* I miss those. I'm ready to perish.

I even have a disaster supply kit ready. :cry:

[commander bunnypants]

38. Whats in it?

CB

[Midlodemocrat]

40. My son has to do one for a science project.

So, I followed the information on ready.gov


One thing to get for sure, is the Costco food pail. It has something like 120 meals in it.

[bertha katzenengel]

21. Plymouth Valiant

[AllegroRondo]

23. and AMC cars

[bertha katzenengel]

47. Pacer!

Magnificoooooo!
I'm just a poor boy; nobody loves me
He is just a poor boy from a poor family
Spare him his life from this monstrosity! :rofl:

[LibDemAlways]

96. My husband bought a Gremlin in 1973. Kept it only

18 months. Biggest piece of crap ever.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

147. Ah yes, Ramblers, biggest pieces of crap on the road.

Next to anything by Chrysler/Plymouth/Dodge.

My family only drove GM cars in the sixties.

[LibDemAlways]

98. My mom had a 61 Valient. It lasted 6 years and was literally

depositing parts along the road the day we finally went to trade it in. The dealer gave my dad $300 for it, and he was lucky to get that. Total piece of junk.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

22. Blue Law

In MI, can't buy alcohol on Sundays before noon.

I'm sure the reason is lost in antiquity.

[CottonBear]

90. Blue laws are alive and well here in Georgia.

We can't buy beer, wine or liquor on Sundays.

A few years ago, the state law changed to allow local communities to decide if they would want to allow restaurants to serve alcohol on Sundays. In my city, the restaurant must derive more than 50% of it's income from food. Thus, no bars or clubs are open on Sunday here in my city.

I'm OK with the blue law as it stands. We have a longtime tradition of buying "Sunday beer" on Saturday night before 11 PM when sales are legally ended.

Not all cities and counties in Georgia allow Sunday restaurant sales and many counties are "dry."
An adjacent county only allows beer and wine sales in stores Monday-Saturday from *am to 10pm. Restaurants can allow BYOB and charge a pouring fee.

[SacredCow]

115. And here in Baton Rouge....

On Sundays, you can't buy liquor, except beer (but only after noon... :wtf: )

Oh, and if you're at a restaurant, you can order as many drinks as you want ( :wtf: :wtf: )

And, yes- it's legislated "morality." It's been a hot issue as of late, as many Baton Rouge merchants are complaining (and rightly so) of losing revenue on Sundays since everybody just drives outside of the parish to make any Sunday alcohol purchases. The population gets to vote on the issue soon, and hopefully it will be a thing of the past...

[CottonBear]

119. How are things down there in LA? My in-laws live in Lacombe near Slidell.

They were out of theri home for months. Fortunatley, they are back home and the town is rebuilding.

I'd love to be down in NOLA drinking a cold beer at my favorite restaurant while eating grilled oysters! :)

I didn't realize Baton Rouge had those blue laws. Hopefully, things will change for y'all.

[SacredCow]

138. Baton Rouge is pretty backwards much of the time...

I guess it explains the presence of Jimmy Swaggart and Bethany (Those giant crosses by the interstate still freak me out, sometimes...)

I passed through Slidell 2 weekends ago- The Northshore is doing quite well with rebuilding. Orleans Parish, however, is going to remain a zone of devastation for some time, I'm afraid. I know I'll probably get flamed for saying so but Blanco and her administration have been grossly inept at dealing with the problem. To be blunt, she has been more concerned with redecorating her offices and the Governor's mansion, and appointing her friends to cushy state positions than actually working.

The cold beer sounds great, but I'm not a fan of oysters myself (one too many zoology class- too much knowledge of filter feeders!). I'll have some grilled redfish...

[last_texas_dem]

130. TX still has that same law, too

But I spent most of my life unaware of it... When I was working as a cashier in a grocery store I tried to ring up this guy's 12-pack of beer on a Sunday morning (though it was probably something like 11:45 AM) and the register made this strange sound I'd never heard before and wouldn't let me sell it to him. Apparently they've even rigged up the cash registers where we heathen cashiers (working? on a Sunday morning?!?) can't get around the "blue laws"!

[Manifestor_of_Light]

148. Texas still has dry counties and dry cities too.

Grocery stores in wet areas can only sell beer and wine.

If you want to buy hard stuff, you have to go to a liquor store.

[AwakeAtLast]

168. Illinois does, too!

I grew up in one. The wetest dry county around anyway. There was more booze carted in that county! If the county would repeal it, they would make a killing off the taxes. But no, they go to the surrounding counties. :eyes:

[pagerbear]

24. I've had shoelaces snap many times!

And stirred Kool-Aid with a wooden spoon.
And a few years ago lived in a part of Westchester Co. just over the state line from CT where folks would come for their alcohol on Sundays.

[rug]

30. Shoelace flamewar!

[Sanity Claws]

27. Clotheslines, clothes pins, kids playing outside on the street

I grew up in a city and we really did play on the street. We had enough sense to stop for cars coming down the street.

[CBHagman]

167. You can still see clotheslines in New York City.

Yup, with clothes flapping in the breeze and all. I think the same is true in Baltimore.

[bicentennial_baby]

28. People obey the "No Right on Red" here...

For the most part :)

And MA still has blue laws, some of which are stil in effect.

[My Good Babushka]

29. Bars for entertaining guests with alchoholic beverages

in one's home.

[Burma Jones]

36. I have one of those.........

[Left Is Write]

44. We have a portable bar.

But in our old house in Minnesota (dang, I miss that basement!), we had a full built-in bar. My husband had just finished finishing it when we moved.

[kwassa]

131. many new houses have them ...

optional at extra cost

[My Good Babushka]

142. well then I stand corrected.

I just seem to remember them as more of a shag carpet, and beaded curtain, wicker furniture era installation.

[Ptah]

31. Gasoline powered washing machine

My grandparents had one of these.

[My Good Babushka]

32. Hand cranked car windows and

full service gas stations, wing windows and bench seats. Children being made to sit on the backseat "hump" or flying aimlessly and unrestrained around the car.

[underpants]

43. I know of two full service stations here in Richmond

A Texaco and a BP in a really ritzy part of town

[LibDemAlways]

48. I miss the hand cranked car windows. The

electric ones are a high failure rate item and expensive to repair. It's a racket.

[Kali]

140. I used to think that too, untill I tried to fix a broken hand cranked window

they are both a bitch to fix. Everthing is made with cheap plastic clips - I expect the failure rate may be similar, I am sure the labor on fixing is the same, parts MIGHT be cheaper for hand crank, but it wouldn't surprise me if they weren't. Especially if the vehicle were a Dodge. Oh sorry just a little aggravation resulting from the $180 water pump we just put in. :wtf:

[Le Taz Hot]

69. My 1998 Ford F-150

has hand-cranked windows. Hand crank windows are not all that uncommon.

Sorry. Carry on.

[Wcross]

75. My 2003 chevy has hand cranked windows.

It was cheaper than the ones with electric.

[CottonBear]

91. Both of my 1993 vehicles have hand cranked windows. No electric parts to break. n/t

[Sequoia]

144. I still have hand cranked windows in my car.

And I like them better because those electronic ones if your car is turned off you and the driver takes the keys while you're waiting you can't roll down the window.

[RogueSpirit]

33. Typewriters!

Found one at my parents the other day. A 1980's model Brother Electric typewriter. My 14 year old son commented that it looked like a real old computer and wondered what kind of games I used to play on it. I kind of just laughed it off.

BTW...How does one explain Ultima to the WoW generation?

[My Good Babushka]

34. I LOVE typewriters!

I got a big metal office one at a church rummage sale, ribbon intact and still working. I call it the Clark Nova.

[RogueSpirit]

39. Same here, problem is...

...Getting replacement ribbons.

I am a writer and I love the sound of a typewriter when you get into a thought groove and want to bang out some pages.

[Nikia]

154. I hate typewriters

A couple times when the secretary was not at work, I had to fill out my own export and delivery forms with it. I had trouble typing everything right the first time and lining everything up correctly.

[mzteris]

37. You must not have kids -

their shoelaces still break all the d*mn time.

And yes, there are still "Blue Laws" of a sorts in the South. No alcohol sales after midnight on Saturday nor before noon on Sunday.

[alkaline9]

42. old cigarette machines where you pull the handle...

...and out pops the pack. I guess it's in an effort to prevent kids' access to cigarettes.

[lost-in-nj]

45. Not sure what they were called

but when they did road construction they used to put these black, round things that burned
and made black smoke.
And they smelled. They weren't very big maybe the size of honeydew melon...
They put them up when they were finished for the day so you would know the road was being worked on.
Then they just covered the holes with wood!


lost

[bikebloke]

46. The watermelon man

A guy would drive slowly around the streets in his truck yelling "Cannnn-a-LOPE! Watermelon!". People would come out and buy fruit off his truck.

[Writer]

51. Toys that could possibly hurt children...

also, children riding bicycles without body armor.

[Left Is Write]

63. You mean like Johnny Switchblade and Bag O'Glass?

[AllegroRondo]

82. Jarts, anyone?

sure, lobbing heavy pointy objects into the air cant be that dangerous!

[bif]

54. Junket

It was kind of like a combo of Jello and pudding. I used to love that stuff when I was a kid.

[LibDemAlways]

57. I remember that stuff. As I recall, I

liked the butterscotch flavor. That's something else that's a thing of the past - butterscotch.

[bif]

58. I was big on strawberry

Check this out. They still make it:

http://www.junketdesserts.com/

[LibDemAlways]

61. Thanks for the link. Looks like the Junket Company

is stuck in a time warp, which is kind of nice. I'll have to look for it at my local market.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

149. We had a little plastic crank machine that you made it in.

I remember that stuff!! Geez I'm getting old!

[LibDemAlways]

59. Candy cigarettes. Those suggary white sticks with

the pinkish tips. Also those little plastic bottles where you bit off the cap and drank the little bit of colored sugar water inside. Also plastic lips. The colorful little dots stuck to the wax paper. Pixie sticks. Those little squishy orange peanuts. All the junky candy of yesteryear.

[RubyDuby in GA]

62. Ah - you speak of my childhood. We would have been BFF

:)

[Left Is Write]

70. My kids got Pixie Stix for Halloween this year...

and my MIL sent them those candy dots on paper for Valentine's Day.

Circus peanuts? You can keep those. ;)

[LibDemAlways]

85. I've seen some of the stuff around, too. Considering what

a trip to the dentist costs these days, it's no wonder most of that crap is no longer popular except for its nostalgia value.

[AllegroRondo]

84. you can still find a lot of that stuff

except the cigarettes, at Cracker Barrel.

[RubyDuby in GA]

60. Blue laws - come on down to GA

You can't buy beer/alcohol on Sundays.

[Wcross]

78. Come to Tennessee- we have entire counties that are dry. n/t

[RubyDuby in GA]

89. I went to college in a dry county. We knew exactly how long it took to get to the county line

Excluding Florida and Texas, I truly believe GA is the most F'ed up state in the nation. Unless someone proves to me otherwise, I will continue to tell people we hold this title.

[Mr. Blonde]

129. In Oklahoma

only 3.2 alcohol can be purchased in convenience stores. To get the normal strength that everyone else does you have to go to the liquor store to buy it and it will not be chilled. Liquor stores close at 9 pm. Restaurants and bars can serve normal strength beers as "premium beers", but not on Sundays when liquor stores and bars are also closed.

The only that is really bad is the 3.2 law. It says we don't care if you drink, we just want you to drink more so you are fatter.

[Left Is Write]

64. Jarts!

BTW - if I am inclined to make Kool-Aid or Countrytime or some such, I do use a wooden spoon to stir it.

[MorningGlow]

81. Hee--we still have ours!

Tons of dangerous fun for the whole family!

[Left Is Write]

83. My best friend and her family have a set too.

They bought it at a garage sale.

My parents had Jarts - I wonder if they're still sitting in the garage somewhere.

[Wcross]

106. Jarts?

Is that the game you try to hit your opponents with those large darts with fins on them? Didn't you get extra points if you hit them in the eye?

[trackfan]

66. Trading stamps.

Half the junk we owned came from the Blue Chip Stamp redemption center. Among the things that come to mind:
Bowling Balls; a "Kook-a-la-lee"; a cheesy, vertical, 3-coned lighting fixture; "Golden Surf", a giant painting by one Robert Wood.

[LibDemAlways]

73. I loved going to the Blue Chip stamp store and

eyeing all the merchandise. My practical mom, however, would always come out with a toaster or cookware set.

At home we had a drawer in the kitchen set aside just for the stamps and books. It was a fairly big deal.

[1gobluedem]

122. Ah, yes, a trip to the Green Stamps store was so exciting

I loved it when my grandmother would take us there.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

150. We had pink Big Bonus stamps.

Instead of Green S&H stamps.

[Left Is Write]

67. The ice cream man dressed in a crisp white uniform, wearing a white hat.

Ice cream truck selections that include some actual ice cream rather than mostly bomb pops and character crap.

[LibDemAlways]

76. You should see the condition of the truck (and driver)

that occasionally makes its way through my neighborhood nowadays. The truck is beat up, badly in need of a paint job, sports some graffiti, and the guy driving it looks like he hasn't bathed or washed his hair in a very long time. My daughter knows better than to even ask.

[AllegroRondo]

86. and he would actually scoop ice cream into a cone

rather than just sell pre-packaged crap

[Left Is Write]

100. Yes. That's what I'm talking about!

:thumbsup:

[Left Is Write]

71. Seven-ounce big-ass candy bars. The big-ass candy bars are now five ounces.

[Iris]

79. but our asses are bigger now! n/t

[Left Is Write]

80. And we pay more for the privilege!

:P

The reason I noticed this trend is that I have a recipe for a milk chocolate Bundt cake that calls for a 7-ounce Hershey bar. Sometime in the last few years, that Hershey bar shrank by two ounces. Last time I made the cake, I wound up buying the 5-ounce bar plus a one-ounce regular bar.

[Iris]

141. oh, I hate, hate, hate when recipe ingedients call for packages that

either no longer exist or never existed in the first place!

I could use a nice piece of milk chocolate Bundt cake right now, but, unfortunately, I'm on a diet!

[Left Is Write]

72. Uniformed Boy Scouts helping little old ladies across the street.

[Left Is Write]

74. Kids out in big groups playing Kick The Can, Hide And Seek, Spud or Red Light/Green Light.

[LibDemAlways]

95. "Spud" Now there's a game that's fallen

by the wayside. Haven't heard that word in many years.

[Pendrench]

117. We (my brother, sister, and brother-in-law) actually played SPUD with our kids the other day.

They had a blast! Of course, even after all these years, I'm still my brother's favorite target. :)

Tim

[Left Is Write]

77. Captain Kangaroo.

[sakabatou]

87. Those twisty shoelaces

Good dubbed anime

[LibDemAlways]

88. If you grew up in the Los Angeles area in the

50's and 60's you may remember the Helms Man. The Helms bakery sent out fleets of trucks stocked with fresh baked goods to roam suburbia. The donuts were especially delicious.

[jilln]

94. frogs and toads

[Downtown Hound]

97. Shoes with velcro laces

I remember as a kid there was a big flirtation with those. I always thought they were great. Just pop your foot in, pull the velcro over it and you're done! The fad didn't last long though.

Other things you don't see? Gun stores in shopping malls, or at the very least in the sporting goods store at the mall. That's another thing I remember as a kid.

Computers that ran on command line only.

Black and White television. Even in the 80's you could still find stores selling them as cheap alternatives. Now the cheap alternatives are old-fashioned tube TV's next to LCD's and plasmas.

Arcades. There's still a few around but they're becoming more and more rare all the time. I remember when every pizza joint had a Ms. Pac Man machine and every mall had an Aladin's Castle.

Television news that was actually informative and reasonably balanced. Not flag-waving, jingoistic propaganda.

Classic Volkswagen beetles. The original ones, not the generic remakes they have running around now. There used to be so many of those on the road even 20 or 30 years after they were released. Many hours were spent on long road trips when we were kids playing "Slug Bug."

And of course, drive-in theaters. Wish they still had those, they were great.

[LibDemAlways]

104. One of my favorite childhood memories is of summer

nights at the drive in. We'd get into our pajamas. Put blankets and pillows in the back of the Ford wagon, and off we'd go. Then, upon arrival, we'd have to look for a working speaker. The sound was awful, but nobody cared. Good times.

[Inchworm]

99. 16oz RCs in glass bottles

The best soda on the planet. I know one drink machine that has them around here, and I stop there specifically to get one.

Don't forget to open it at the machine.

:hi:

[Manifestor_of_Light]

151. Delaware Punch.

Do they still make the stuff???

[DainBramaged]

102. Car keys without computer chips in them

[LibDemAlways]

103. Kids wearing orthodontic headgear in public.

I remember when kids wore it to school. I think the average kid nowadays would rather die.

[Joe Fields]

108. Blacksmith shops and Coopers (barrel makers)

[trackfan]

110. The Milk Man

I actually didn't see him then either, because he came before I was awake. But we had glass bottles of milk delivered. Later, with five kids living at home, we had the "cow", which was a big - maybe 3 gallon - box that fit in the refigerator, with a spigot from which you drew your milk.

[Abies]

112. We have a milk man!

He delivers our milk on Tuesdays and Fridays. The milk box is a cooler and they use 1/2 gallon glass containers.

[Abies]

111. Trains with a caboose (n/t)

[Shell Beau]

114. Candy cigarettes! I still can't beleive they made those!

And that my mom let me buy them!! Crazy, I tell ya!

[Hugin]

121. I still see them around occasionally...

and the gum type, too.

Ever see those? The game was to blow through the paper wrapper and the corn starch looked like
smoke.

[Shell Beau]

123. Yeah!! I loved those! It was like the smoke!

:)

[LynneSin]

116. I remember having co-workers who could smoke in their office

I hated going to those offices.

Now, when I go home I pass a hospital where the smokers have to go completely off the hospital property (and they have some land to the place) just to have a smoke

[LibDemAlways]

134. When I was a student teacher at a high school back in

1975, the faculty lounge was so smoke-filled, I never ventured in there. Today I was noticing the sign outside my daughter's school that reads "No Smoking on School Grounds." Times have changed - for the better.

[Blue Diadem]

118. The Charlie Chip man, the Jewel tea man, the insurance agent

that comes to your home to collect the premiums. I think the two insurance agents my parents used stopped their quarterly home visits and went to mail sometime in the late 60's.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

152. the Watkins vanilla man, the Fuller Brush man.

[Book Lover]

120. Still can't buy booze in NYC on Sunday, nor can you make a right on red

So visit and you can feel like you're back in the old days!

[HEyHEY]

124. Sanity on DU

[m_welby]

125. just repealed the blue laws last year and..

for alcohol anyway, the liquor stores owners actually were kind've unhappy because they have to open on sunday now or they'll lose business.

..and we do have a drive in, 3 screens, it runs all summer, and it is packed every friday and saturday night (unless its raining).

...and I now have 2 typewriters in my house. Apparently they're really cool in a beatnik sort of way. My son loves to write with one. Especially when he's away at his college dorm. It drives the other kids nuts.

[lost-in-nj]

126. A paper boy or girl

now my paper gets delivered out of a jeep
and I get my bill in the mail.....
It actually has a spot on the bill where you can add
a tip....

On the subject of Ice cream men
I miss the bells....
Now the truck plays some kinda crazy music
either Turkey in the straw or the theme from The Hustler


lost

[Nikia]

164. A bill in the mail is a good thing

I think that they (the newspapers) ripped off a lot of children paper carriers who were expected to collect from dead beats to make any money. I only made about half the money that I was supposed to make because I had to collect from people who were unable or unwilling to pay, but got really upset if I cancelled their paper.

[NoGOPZone]

127. Spats

This kind, not a lover's spat

[Lars39]

128. I can't buy beer on Sunday where my father lives.

[kwassa]

132. Dot matrix printers, 5 1/4 floppies

Ancient technology.

Those boxes of dox matrix paper with the perforated edges that never seemed to go away.

[Javaman]

133. real news. nt

[leftofthedial]

135. Well, I was gonna say

Neighbor Stalked By Man Dressed In Lingerie, Wig Urinating On Her Porch

but I guess I can't say that now.

[quiet.american]

136. Big, cast-iron frying pans like my Grandma had. n/t

[Left Is Write]

157. You can see a couple at my house and a couple at my mom's house.

[quiet.american]

158. That would surely bring back some memories. :) n/t

[Left Is Write]

159. One of mine was purchased at a garage sale.

An older couple in our neighborhood was selling off everything to go see the country in their RV (this was eight years ago or so), and I bought their 12-inch cast iron skillet for just $2. It had 40-plus years' worth of seasoning. The man said it made "perfect" bacon and that he was going to miss it.

My mom's have 40-plus years of seasoning too.

I have a newer one with only a couple of years' worth of seasoning, and it really is not the same.

[MistressOverdone]

137. dogs running loose

[Jed Dilligan]

139. Phone booths

The all-the-way-around kind with a door that worked as rain shelters, too.

Butter Brickle ice cream.

Independent diner-type restaurants with naugahyde booths.

Fat cops.

Peg-leg jeans and Vuarnet sunglasses.

[mitchum]

153. Quaaludes

okay, maybe that's a good thing...since I had to go back and edit a one word post. One word.

[underpants]

161. :)

:Rofl:
Trust me I know the feeling

[CBHagman]

160. People getting embarrassed when their underwear showed.

Remember people saying, "Your slip's showing?" Oh, how mortifying.

Now your buttock cheeks could be visible to everyone on the No. 70 bus and no one would say a word.

[DainBramaged]

162. Mr. Salty pretzels

[idgiehkt]

163. Paris Hilton threads

'cause I hid em all.

:rofl:

[u4ic]

170. Encyclopedia salespeople