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Things you don't see anymore
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The "Dick and Jane" begining reader books that generations first learned to read with.
I typed "dick and Jane reader" into photobucket and got a message that they do not host adult content.
Sigh...
I typed "dick and Jane reader" into photobucket and got a message that they do not host adult content.
Sigh...
The Dolphins in the Super Bowl. Five times in the first 18 years, then...
The Bears in the Super Bowl.
They still happen, at least in Chicago. There was one right outside my office window last year for the Blackhawks, and they had one for the White Sox a few years ago.
We used to use playing cards for that.
And if you want to see liquor stores closed on Sunday, just come to Oklahoma. It's the law (which sucks).
Oh man, I used to get Dynamite magazine! I think I had a subscription three years running. Occasionally you would get a 3D poster in one. I remember one of my favorites was a 3D wolfman. Very cool!
Several things I saw listed that are actually still around.
Fizzies Drink Tablets are being made again.
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Bubblegum cigars are still made and we have mail drop boxes everywhere.
You don't see too many phone booths like this one anymore (complete with seat too).
Fizzies Drink Tablets are being made again.
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Bubblegum cigars are still made and we have mail drop boxes everywhere.
You don't see too many phone booths like this one anymore (complete with seat too).
Matchbox cars before Mattel bought them and made them just as wimpy and fake as Hot Wheels. Real Matchbox By Lesney cars/trucks looked like specific models, had real axles, and were rugged! The tanks and bulldozers had real rubber treads not a fake plate that looked like treads, and had moving parts made generally of metal. Great stuff and way better than Hot Wheels' imaginary cars with wimpy axles that bent and broke if you looked at them cross-eyed...
Revell 1/72 airplane models for just about EVERYTHING! Yeah, you can still find some of them, but the're freakin' expensive now and very hard to find. Plus they're pretty limited in selection now. I used to be able to find them at dime stores (those are gone now too), drug stores, grocery stores, and the coolest ones at the local hobby store. And that local Hobby Store had trains, RC airplanes, balsa wood and paper planes, very cool Japanese import models that were so detailed that you thought you might actually be able to fly one. None of this pre-cut balsa wood picture frame, scrapbooking, sewing notions, and fake flowers that hobby stores sell now...
Boy Scouts- when I think of the time that Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Nance, Mr. Carson, and Mr. Blazer invested in a bunch of arrogant, snot-nosed, rebellious teen age boys, I'm amazed that they didn't kill us all, or just walk away from us for easier things. I know BSA is still out there, but it's so diluted and so many districts have consolidated because participation is so low.
Paper routes- my brothers and I had paper routes- we had the responsibility to get up every day when it was still dark, pickup up papers, deliver them the way the customer wanted them, collect for them, and pay the bill. We had to manage the business and learned finances, book-keeping, customer service, integrity, and met a ton of cool (and downright weird) people in our neighborhood.
Peroclator coffee pots that sat on the stove. Sure, boiling the coffee and recirculating it makes a pretty nasty cup of coffee, but that hearing that percolator on the stove (and washing the tube and the basket every day) was part of my childhood.
Console Stereos- My dad bought the first one we had (it had SATELLITE speakers too!!!) because the cabinet looked likes something Mom would like. It was cool because it had a pair of RCA jacks so I could plug my $35 Sears portable cassette recorder (whic I bought with newspaper route money, and put on lay-away) into it and get my own (mono) recordings of songs off the radio (AM only, and I think the only station I listened to was WLS- "the big 89!! with Larry Lujack, Fred Winston, Chris Eric Stevens...) and from record albums!!
John
Revell 1/72 airplane models for just about EVERYTHING! Yeah, you can still find some of them, but the're freakin' expensive now and very hard to find. Plus they're pretty limited in selection now. I used to be able to find them at dime stores (those are gone now too), drug stores, grocery stores, and the coolest ones at the local hobby store. And that local Hobby Store had trains, RC airplanes, balsa wood and paper planes, very cool Japanese import models that were so detailed that you thought you might actually be able to fly one. None of this pre-cut balsa wood picture frame, scrapbooking, sewing notions, and fake flowers that hobby stores sell now...
Boy Scouts- when I think of the time that Mr. Mitchell, Mr. Nance, Mr. Carson, and Mr. Blazer invested in a bunch of arrogant, snot-nosed, rebellious teen age boys, I'm amazed that they didn't kill us all, or just walk away from us for easier things. I know BSA is still out there, but it's so diluted and so many districts have consolidated because participation is so low.
Paper routes- my brothers and I had paper routes- we had the responsibility to get up every day when it was still dark, pickup up papers, deliver them the way the customer wanted them, collect for them, and pay the bill. We had to manage the business and learned finances, book-keeping, customer service, integrity, and met a ton of cool (and downright weird) people in our neighborhood.
Peroclator coffee pots that sat on the stove. Sure, boiling the coffee and recirculating it makes a pretty nasty cup of coffee, but that hearing that percolator on the stove (and washing the tube and the basket every day) was part of my childhood.
Console Stereos- My dad bought the first one we had (it had SATELLITE speakers too!!!) because the cabinet looked likes something Mom would like. It was cool because it had a pair of RCA jacks so I could plug my $35 Sears portable cassette recorder (whic I bought with newspaper route money, and put on lay-away) into it and get my own (mono) recordings of songs off the radio (AM only, and I think the only station I listened to was WLS- "the big 89!! with Larry Lujack, Fred Winston, Chris Eric Stevens...) and from record albums!!
John
We had the same thing.
Jingling a keychain was the most successful thing I ever found at randomly making things happen.
I totally forgot about the Boy Scouts. Man, we had some really great times as kids because of a few parents that cared enough to take their time off and spend it teaching us all about the outdoors. Learned ALOT about life in the scouts.
This has got to be one of the best threads EVER on TB. Even if it does make me feel really OLD.
This has got to be one of the best threads EVER on TB. Even if it does make me feel really OLD.
You can still get those, but they are nowhere near the price they were!!! I remember my great uncle had a pet rock. He was a very weird man, even before he started talking to granite.
We got Life Magazine, and I remember a photo of a parade in New York which was led by Civil War veterans! They may have been drummer boys mostly.
Not only that, but school playgrounds used to be like neighborhood mini-parks after school and on weekends. We used to go there all the time to play basketball, football, baseball, etc., or just play. Now a lot of school playgrounds are totally off-limits when school's not in session. I'm sure they have their reasons, but
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Here's a childhood favorite: I think this was temporarily reissued a few years back, but it's gone again.
Awesome! My father was a designer at Mattel in the early 70's when these things were around. I remember having a box box full of Sizzlers tracks.
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