Things You Don't See Anymore Part 3

[turf3]

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Yeah, nothing says "1970s hip" like waiting for a Greyhound bus wearing pastel colored pants with NO ROOM for your balls with a couple hookers.

Man, I was never so happy as when the pipestem pants of the 1970s gave way to pleated pants in the early 80s and my boys down there could finally breathe free, free at last, thank God Almighty free at last!

 

[turf3]

What did it smell like...?





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Either unburned gas, or weed.

 

[dwm74]

Yep. It's that west central Pennsylvania brain-wavelength thing going on!

We also had King's, Mason's Value City, Zayre, Hess's, Jupiter, and I worked for Gee Bee supermarkets when I was a teenager. Glosser Brothers in Johnstown, PA was the parent store of Gee Bee and my mother worked there.

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Ooh, forgot about Zayre! I remember seeing a Hess in SW PA but never recalled ever going in.

 

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[Michedelic]

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Teisco by any other name…still see many of those models in vintage-ish guitar stores.

 

[Michedelic]

Yeah, nothing says "1970s hip" like waiting for a Greyhound bus wearing pastel colored pants with NO ROOM for your balls with a couple hookers.

Man, I was never so happy as when the pipestem pants of the 1970s gave way to pleated pants in the early 80s and my boys down there could finally breathe free, free at last, thank God Almighty free at last!

Pleated pants just meant that you were an old man. As for that ad…Wranglers were never cool, those colors were never cool, and that guy on the right, that’s a leisure suit jacket, worn only by dorks; I’d place that pic at about 1970/71, maybe ‘72. The berets on those girls look like a holdover from the Faye Dunaway/“Bonnie” look. All I remember was “baggy” pants coming in about that time, sorta like elephant bells, but a straight line down instead of a taper. Sort of a 30’s glam thing reborn.

 

[Michedelic]

I don’t know if maybe line dancing/boot scootin’ replaced it, but I used to see these kinds of sticker on vehicles, not alot, but often enough…

Maybe that crowd faded away/died off, but I hardly ever see that.

 

[Michedelic]

That's not a real toy? How disappointing.

Seriously? You into the Addams Family or something?

OK this one is real.

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What’s with the electric chair obsession?

 

[darev]

I don’t know if maybe line dancing/boot scootin’ replaced it, but I used to see these kinds of sticker on vehicles, not alot, but often enough…
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Maybe that crowd faded away/died off, but I hardly ever see that.

Thank God that's over with. I grew up with square dancing and don't miss it one iota.

 

[2strings2frets]

Sitting on the front porch with neighborhood friends and aquatints. It was the informal, relaxed meeting place. The dinner table inside was reserved for family or truly close,lifetime friends by invitation only.

 

[Richland123]

I don’t know if maybe line dancing/boot scootin’ replaced it, but I used to see these kinds of sticker on vehicles, not alot, but often enough…
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Maybe that crowd faded away/died off, but I hardly ever see that.

Annual Pennsylvania Farm Show square dancing competition.

 

[osv]

I remember my grandpa having a chrome one on his dashboard.

 

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[zontar]

Teisco by any other name…still see many of those models in vintage-ish guitar stores.

Well, yes, pretty much, but they don’t make them like that anymore…
but how often do you see a catalog like that, or the kind of department and mail order stores these days.
That picture has several things in it for this thread.

 

[zontar]

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[Michedelic]

Well, yes, pretty much, but they don’t make them like that anymore…
but how often do you see a catalog like that, or the kind of department and mail order stores these days.
That picture has several things in it for this thread.

Yes, department stores, catalogs, and that sort of thing went away a looooooong time ago for the most part, but Eastwood certainly has revived that aesthetic and many of those models. I have no idea how many they’ve actually sold, and how they stay in business, but I came across used 6-string bass of theirs, a recreation of that “Spectrum 5(?)” pictured at the bottom of that ad, at a GC, and it was a formidable instrument, nothing like the old ones that I remember.

 

[Michedelic]

I think I’ve posted this before, but the above mentioning of disappeared regional variety chains reminded me of one that was very much like Target(before they came along)…Venture stores. Then I remembered this list…

List of defunct department stores of the United States - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[GwenOnBass]

I think I’ve posted this before, but the above mentioning of disappeared regional variety chains reminded me of one that was very much like Target(before they came along)…Venture stores. Then I remembered this list…

List of defunct department stores of the United States - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

They forgot Wanamaker's?

 

[Richland123]

 

[Michedelic]

They forgot Wanamaker's?

I looked closer at that list… not only are national names compiled, but it’s also broken down by state, and they are listed under Pennsylvania.