List things that had a "golden age" and are no longer any good now.

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Obviously, rock music had its golden age (1964 to 1974 in my opinion) but what other things had a "golden age" and are still happening now but are spoiled or just a shadow of what they were in their golden age?

For me, chemistry sets and science kits in general.







The American Basic Science Club has to be the best educational toy of all time. A series of monthly kits covered a wide range of science topics, and you built the projects yourself, using what they sent you in the kits. Many items were re-used ingeniuously from one kit to another kit. The manuals alone are priceless. I learned more from this series of kits than I ever learned in science classes in school.

[JVS]

1. Colonic irrigation according to Monty Python

[Aristus]

2. Movies.

No question that the Golden Age is over.

[Hawkeye-X]

3. Two things comes to mind.

and..

[Duer 157099]

18. Oh screw you! Why do you pick on the TWO items I chose to collect last decade??

And still have, in boxes, just waiting for their value to appreciate??

Talk about missing the mark, eh? :banghead:

[Adsos Letter]

4. The lasagna in the back of the fridge...

I'm pretty sure it's past it's prime...

[redwitch]

5. me.

:-(

[PassingFair]

6. Ahem...

My husband SWORE they were an investment.

Oh well, it gave him something to do with
our oldest daughter.....

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16. What is it, Pokemon or something?

[PassingFair]

28. Yup.

He spent a LOT of money on those cards,
building the "perfect deck".

:eyes:

[sniffa]

7. Wrestling dolls

They were only good in the 90's and a few, last gasp editions after 2K. :cry:

[Texasgal]

8. candy cigs

they just don't make'em like they used to! :P

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[WinkyDink]

9. Television cartoons. News magazines. Mr. Potato Head.

http://www.loti.com/mr_potato_head.htm

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

10. Me, pretty much.

:(

[Inchworm]

26. heh

that was my first thought too :P

:hug:

[pokerfan]

11. Everything: comics, science fiction, TV, radio, porn

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Comic_Books

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Science_Fiction

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old-time_radio

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Television

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Golden_Age_of_Porn

[femmocrat]

12. The Middle Class.

Post-WWII to about 1980 (when Reagan was elected).
(At least according to Thom Hartmann, although I might have the dates incorrect.)

[SoxFan]

13. John McCain

[TommyO]

14. Damn, you got here first!

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15. lol

[Duer 157099]

17. I recently found one of those vintage Chemcraft kits at the thrift store!

It was the kind I had when I was a kid, you know, the kind with all the *real* chemicals and a real bunsen burner, stuff you could do real damage with (in a good way, I mean, lol)

Then I checked ebay and sure enough, you can still find them there, too.

[XemaSab]

19. Toilets

The low flow kind are worthless. x(

[jobycom]

20. Outlaws

[qnr]

21. I'm posting to it n/t

[crimsonblue]

22. JESUS.

[Bucky]

24. RVs. Shock jocks. Disco. The Abolitionist movement. Jackass videos. Manpurses.

Betty Ford

[Ikonoklast]

23. Major League Baseball

Not the same for me anymore.

Money ruins everything.

[regularguy]

30. That's what I was going to say.

I still like it, though. I figure that MLB had a pretty long golden age, 50s-70s IMO, pretty impressive really.

[YankeyMCC]

25. The NHL and Science Fiction story telling

(not that there isn't excellent even better work being done today but there was clearly a 'golden age' in the late 30's through early 60's)

[Alexander]

27. Metallica.

[raccoon]

29. Movies, TV, rock music. nt