Things you don't see anymore

[DblG]

I was looking through an old photo album at my mother's and saw this old photo. It was taken in the summer of 1966, a year before I was born. I vaguely remember 10 or 12 foot slides, but this one had to be 20-25 feet tall! Wonder how many kids had to fall off before they took it down to keep from being sued. I love looking at old pictures for things like this. They definately don't make them like they used to!
Anyway, feel free to post any old pics of things you don't see anymore.

[hover]

that's a shame, because there is an INCREDIBLE big long slide at an elementary school by my house....it's actually built into the slope of the land, it's terribly fast too. and 4' wide. LOVE slides.

I'd submit "full service" gas station attendant CREWS that would wash the windows, check oil and tire pressure...etc.

[Mike N]

Pay telephones.

[pondscum29]

Originally Posted by Mike N

Pay telephones.

That's a conspiracy so that the feds can track every call now. No more anonymous, "I'll call you from a pay phone deals." ;-)

[BassChuck]

Static noise on recording. The term 'broken record'. "Snow" in my TV picture. Only 3 or 4 channels on TV. (and I love my remote control). Snow tires. Only AM radio in the cars. Standard steering (non-power assised). Non-power brakes. Door cranks to lower car windows. Crappy long distance phone calls. Liquor stores closed on Sunday afternoon. Poluted rivers. Smog. Polio. Mumps. Small pox. Commies (today its just Socalists, kinder and gentler I suppose). Draft cards.

[geeza]

Church keys.



edited to add picture for you whippersnappers.

[Chadderz]

Would you like the younger generation to, perhaps, vacate your horticultural expanse whilst the nostalgia takes over?

[sleepytime]

Pepsi (made with sugar, not HFCS) in 16 oz. glass bottles
Beer in steel cans (can't say I miss that) Edit: see post #6
Cars with big block V8s
Rotary dial telephones
Kids playing baseball that isn't organized and adult supervised
Homemade go-carts
Sting-ray bikes
Milkman
People leaving their doors/cars unlocked.
Black and white TV
45 records
Flip windows and air vents on cars

[onosson]

Originally Posted by BassChuck

Static noise on recording. The term 'broken record'. "Snow" in my TV picture. Only 3 or 4 channels on TV. (and I love my remote control). Snow tires. Only AM radio in the cars. Standard steering (non-power assised). Non-power brakes. Door cranks to lower car windows. Crappy long distance phone calls. Liquor stores closed on Sunday afternoon. Poluted rivers. Smog. Polio. Mumps. Small pox. Commies (today its just Socalists, kinder and gentler I suppose). Draft cards.

I have snow tires on my van right now, and they are mandatory for all vehicles in parts of Quebec I believe. My last vehicle (sold last year) had manual windows.

[Richland123]

When I was a kid back in the 60s, we used to take a sheet of wax paper from the kitchen and use it to wax the metal slides to make them faster. Fun times!

[EBodious]

dear lord, isn't this a trip.

i remember having milk delivered to our door when i was a kid. and i did spend a couple of summers, when in college, being a full-serve gas attendant (we washed the windows as well). that is in my past. however...

i still have a rotary dial phone, a car with window cranks, and 45's. i used "broken record" the other day in a thread. i don't lock my house or my car (ah, small town livin'). and i believe the california folks here could verify that smog still exists (12,000ft mountains, what mountains? i don't see anything!).

btw, a friend told me this morning that the new iphones have a virtual rotary dial!

oh, and don't forget betamax...

[Selta]

Originally Posted by sleepytime

Pepsi (made with sugar, not HFCS) in 16 oz. glass bottles
Beer in steel cans (can't say I miss that) Edit: see post #6
Cars with big block V8s
Rotary dial telephones
Kids playing baseball that isn't organized and adult supervised
Homemade go-carts
Sting-ray bikes
Milkman
People leaving their doors/cars unlocked.
Black and white TV
45 records
Flip windows and air vents on cars

All of the bolded items in the list above are still out there. Perhaps some are not present for big city folk, but where I grew up they're still very present.

[jmattbassplaya]

Here's something you don't hear anymore - good rap music!

[sleepytime]

Originally Posted by Ray Salamon

All of the bolded items in the list above are still out there. Perhaps some are not present for big city folk, but where I grew up they're still very present.

Glad to hear about the kids playing ball. When I was a kid, games of pitchers hand/right field out were an every day thing.

[Richland123]

Everybody used to have one of these - a transistor radio.

[netface]

[FilterFunk]

Kids putting baseball cards in the spokes of their bike wheels to get that "motor" sound.

[hover]

Originally Posted by FilterFunk

Kids putting baseball cards in the spokes of their bike wheels to get that "motor" sound.

Just did that to my son's bike in the fall. used real-deal wooden clothes pins too.

[Richland123]

45 record adapters.

[Etienned]

Eight-tracks and dodos