Nostalgia What is missing

[Bob_VT]

There are alot of things missing (there is alot added too)......

Television/Radio Tube test stations in stores......
Oil can openers........
Drink Glasses at the gas stations.......
Pull tabs on cans.......
Bottle opener's outside small stores.......
The good old "church key" bottle/can opener has vanished too....
Lava soap is hard to find and brown soap even harder.....
Tach and Dwell meter.... still in the cabinet
Milk boxes by the front door.........



There are hundreds of items going by the wayside. I imagine I will be explaining these items to my grand children when they get older....

What can you think of? Just list the missing or soon to be missing......

 

[SpinnerBait_Nut]

Re: Nostalgia What is missing

Hula-Hoop
Pogo Stick
Stick Horse
Metal Ice Trays with the lever
Felons owning guns(hehehe)
Good ol 4 way lug wrench
Never having to put spark plugs in a 2000 model Dodge Ram Van again.

 

[BoatBuoy]

Re: Nostalgia What is missing

Pull tabs on cans.......Thank goodness
The good old "church key" bottle/can opener has vanished too....Still have one with a magnet on the fridge door
Lava soap is hard to find and brown soap even harder.....Got a bar of brown soap (Octagon) the other day, but had to hunt to find it
Tach and Dwell meter.... still in the cabinet....yep
Milk boxes by the front door.........Ours have always been on the road

Sausage in cloth bags.....
Heavy soldering irons you have to heat with a torch......
Sewing awl for repairing leather......
Steel beer cans that it takes a claw hammer to dent......
Window fans.....
Sythe's.....
And without Googling, who knows/remembers hames.......

 

[SpinnerBait_Nut]

Re: Nostalgia What is missing

I am old country, the olny Hames I know is a horse hame.
Sorry.

 

[ziggy]

Re: Nostalgia What is missing

respect for anyone. everyone is i, me, mine.....
the title, mr. mrs. or miss....
middle class people...
a plain and simple boat that don't have all the bells and whistles on it....
a telephone that has a dial and a cord on it...
music that has melody..... on a record, played by a phonograph...
free tv (soon to be)...
being entertained by friends and family instead of gizmos and gadgets.....
yard jarts......
wood boats with some oars...
land....
the idea of innocent until proven guilty. it's now the other way around...

as for the tach/dwell. mine is in the cabnet, but still in use....

 

[Limited-Time]

Re: Nostalgia What is missing

Metal lunch boxes
Yellow plastic "Rain Coats"
re-treaded tires
returnable long necks

 

[Windykid]

Re: Nostalgia What is missing

An outboard without reverse (spun all around)

Rotory phones

phonograph

skate keys

base stations (CB)

Manners

 

[Windykid]

Re: Nostalgia What is missing

Traveling knife sharpener

Diaper service

free fishing

map and compass

 

[Windykid]

Re: Nostalgia What is missing

Disney on sunday nights

family shows

 

[Bigprairie1]

Re: Nostalgia What is missing

How the (entire) family taking a Sunday drive? I remember that really well...and I'm just in my 40's.
(good point about the Sunday night disney...remember that too).
BP

 

[MikDee]

Re: Nostalgia What is missing

Glass bottles- Milk, Orange juice, Coca Cola

Heavy Duty Wooden milkboxes (metal reinforced) Man were they handy for working on the car, or boat

Cheap bottle oil- I remember it well

Getting the car "greased, & sprayed"

Paper grocery bags

Foil covered paper (keep cold) ice cream bags from the supermarket

Bells, on phones, & Alarm clocks

Respect for Elders, Teachers, Police, and other Authority figures

 

[angus63]

Re: Nostalgia What is missing

Accountability

 

[Limited-Time]

Re: Nostalgia What is missing

Drive in Theaters
Car Hops, and
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.36 cent a gallon gas....
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Sorry I had to throw that in......

 

[BF]

Re: Nostalgia What is missing

summertime road trip vacations
customer service
canvas tents that weigh > 60 lbs
bias ply tires (and the blowouts)
brush cuts
milkshakes served in the metal mixing cup
candy stores that serve stuff in paper bags
being able to buy something with a penny
"stubbies" (short canadian beer bottles)
hearing a gas station bell
having someone rush to your car in response to gas station bell
gas stations that fix cars
"3 on the tree"
people understanding what "riding the clutch" means

 

[INJUN]

Re: Nostalgia What is missing

Party line phone
Phone booths
$0.05 Popscicle
45rpm Records
Beating as punishment
Braided line was only thing available
Musicals
Bias ply tires

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The good old days.

 

[Tyme2fish]

Re: Nostalgia What is missing

6 ounce cokes in a glass bottle that cost 5 cents. They were cooled in a big metal "ice" box full of water. These were best to buy at the local sporting goods store where I could look at the baseball mitts and smell the leather and gun oil. Oh, and dream about one day having enough money to buy that nice new rod for $5.00

 

[SpinnerBait_Nut]

Re: Nostalgia What is missing

Go in the local drug store, sit on a stool, and get a cold bottle of Coca-Cola.

 

[Limited-Time]

Re: Nostalgia What is missing

BrilCream
Aqua Velva
Womens hair Nets
High Karate

 

[JB]

Re: Nostalgia What is missing

Yeah. The green glass 6oz. Coke bottles with the location of the bottling plant on the bottom, so you can each put a nickle in the machine and then compare.. . .the one farthest away wins.

Bashing Soldiers and Marines (thank goodness )

Studebakers, Packards, Hudsons, Kaisers, LaSalles, Deusenbergs, etc.

DeSotos and Oldsmobiles.

Segregation (Thank M.L. King, Jr. )

Most of the Greatest Generation.

Swinging dishcloth racks over the sink.

Clotheslines

But, I still have:

A "churchkey".
An outboard that swings 360*.
Free fishing.
A bar of LAVA.
A can of Boraxo hand cleaner.
A Daisy Red Ryder BB gun (well I gave that to one of my grandbuddys)
Respect for my elders (not many left) and my youngers (there are some real class gentlemen on here).
A phone that rings.
A Pickett 10-10 slide rule.
A diving mask and fins that I used on Kwajalein.
The model sailboat I built in 1947 and sailed on the pond in the park.

 

[PW2]

Re: Nostalgia What is missing

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be!