Things You Don't See Anymore Part 2

[rtslinger]

For any of you older NJ guys out there

 

[The Owl]

 

[shadowtippy]

these

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Is that from Sprint? I can't see a logo.

 

[Richland123]

Is that from Sprint? I can't see a logo.

I think is from Campbell's Cellular.

 

[Richland123]

Quaker State Gas Stations and Pennzoil Gas Stations

 

[Trayster2]

People hangin' out talkin' on the stoop.

 

[Stinsok]

You know i have one still ha ha ha

When I was a kid, I wanted one so bad! My parents were not into it.

 

[Joe Nerve]

I love this thread!

We've been at it for a while so this might be a repeat, but i'm going for it anyhow...

I remember one year really wanting this:

Yet my parents got me this:

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I was slightly disappointed because the dune buggy was the one on the commercial, but I secretely liked this one more. My parents knew better than me.

 

[Chris Fitzgerald]

I love this thread!

We've been at it for a while so this might be a repeat, but i'm going for it anyhow...

I remember one year really wanting this:

Yet my parents got me this:

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I was slightly disappointed because the dune buggy was the one on the commercial, but I secretely liked this one more. My parents knew better than me.

Man, those things were LOUD, and I can smell the fuel from here. Good one.

 

[Richland123]

Fred Flintstone and Dino battery operated toy. I still have the one I got when I was 5 years old and it still works.

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[rtslinger]

this the test of the American broadcast system

 

[Joe Nerve]

this the test of the American broadcast system

Those were also the most boring TV shows ever. And they were like 6 hrs long. From midnite till 6AM on some channels.

 

[rtslinger]

Circus

 

[MEKer]

Jewel Tea trucks going city to city, door to door, selling their wares. Big in the '50s.

 

[rtslinger]

these baseball banks

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[rtslinger]

OH NO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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[Richland123]

this the test of the American broadcast system

Why was there an Indian Chief on this TV test pattern? Here is the story.

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[Richland123]

Something you don't see anymore.

A Cappella singing groups on street corners.

 

[rtslinger]

this stuff Carbon Paper

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[ArtGuy9516]

^ you can still get a similar product--Saral paper--use it to transfer drawings/images onto another surface