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Things You Don't See Anymore Part 3
- Thread starter Richland123
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You don't see hotel lounge bands playing six nights a week anymore.
Thank goodness! Back in the '70s, you couldn't take one step anywhere near a picnic table without stepping on those.
Those stay-put pull tabs are a great invention. No more tabs littering the parks.
Jimmy Buffet even wrote a lyric about that.
I blew out my flip flop,
Stepped on a pop top;
Cut my heel, had to cruise on back home.
But there's booze in the blender,
And soon it will render
That frozen concoction that helps me hang on.
How 'bout something I'd Never seen before...(and I've been to Rue Bourbon...)
How 'bout what happens when you drop a beer 2 ft from the top of the BEER VENDING MACHINE?
How 'bout what happens when you drop a beer 2 ft from the top of the BEER VENDING MACHINE?
I haven't looked at all the pages in this thread, so this may have been mentioned, but you don't see a circle of kids on a playground playing marbles anymore. Remember steelies?
That is a very cool photo. Looks like the kid in the striped shirt might be wearing engineer boots. I can't quite tell.Like this?
Another cool thing in the photo are the trash barrels behind the houses. We had one when I was a kid. Everyone would just burn their garbage in the barrel. We called it the burning barrel. There was no garbage service in small towns back in the fifties and sixties.
You also don't see people coming back from the dump with things that someone else had thrown away.
Dad: "Those are perfectly good podiums."
Mom: "We don't need any podiums!"
Dad: "We do if you're going to lecture me about it!"
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And I don't know if I've ever seen an app for that.
I actually had the Incredible Stretchable Hulk. I pulled his arm too far one time and it ripped off. Man, was I devastated
Vintage cannabis remedies.
Available in your local apothecary at the turn of the twentieth century.
Outlawed in 1937, these are making somewhat of a modern comeback in many states.
Available in your local apothecary at the turn of the twentieth century.
Outlawed in 1937, these are making somewhat of a modern comeback in many states.
BOOMBOX and people carrying it on their shoulders and having it at the beach.
I am guilty myself of doing this. I got mine at a drug store.
I am guilty myself of doing this. I got mine at a drug store.
