"Thirty Things that Need to Stage a Comeback"

[jamespowers]

They're going to replace the iron with a cat.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21356033

How foo foo of them.

 

[LizzieMaine]

We are both from the same neck of the woods , did they have " table talk pies" when you were growing up ?

Also I can remember when I was a kid the list of "man's" was long IE :: Ice man , Milk man ,Garabge man fruit vendor ( Fruit man) the guy who sharpened your knifes from a cart in the street .
The knife man , the Fish man (monger) and we even had a guy who came around once a year in the spring with a tripod camera and a pony and we all got our picture taken . Ah the good old days when they came to you like a doctor's house call.

All the Best ,Fashion Frank

We still have Table Talk pies, but only in the small lunch-box size. Still my favorite midday snack.

My father used to be a driver for Cushman's, a Table Talk rival, until a sad debacle involving his three-year-old daughter and a consignment of chocolate creams.

 

[jamespowers]

My father used to be a driver for Cushman's, a Table Talk rival, until a sad debacle involving his three-year-old daughter and a consignment of chocolate creams.

:rofl:

 

[LizzieMaine]

How foo foo of them.

See, that's a bad idea for Monopoly, because the Cat will always win.

 

[Feraud]

You'll get used to it.

That's what I'm afraid of!

 

[Feraud]

We still have Table Talk pies, but only in the small lunch-box size. Still my favorite midday snack.

Table Talk pies are great! Our supermarkets in Queens, NY sells them and I still put a few in the shopping cart. My son loves the pumpkin pie.

 

[jamespowers]

That's what I'm afraid of!

lol :cheers1:

 

[stevew443]

Also I can remember when I was a kid the list of "man's" was long IE :: Ice man , Milk man ,Garabge man fruit vendor ( Fruit man) the guy who sharpened your knifes from a cart in the street .
The knife man , the Fish man (monger) and we even had a guy who came around once a year in the spring with a tripod camera and a pony and we all got our picture taken . Ah the good old days when they came to you like a doctor's house call.

All the Best ,Fashion Frank

And we cannot forget the Fuller Brush man. In my home town the local dry cleaning shop would deliver and pick up, so we had the Dry Cleaning man also.

 

[LizzieMaine]

*Patience* needs to make a comeback.

 

[John in Covina]

Band was pretty much something every kid did when I was in school -- if you couldn't afford an instrument, the school kept a closet full of them that you could borrow. Admittedly, it wasn't a very good band, but what it did was create a consciousness that there's more to music than just slamming on a guitar.

Do grammar schools even teach "music" anymore? We used to have a regularly scheduled period every week where they'd wheel in an upright piano and the Music Teacher would teach us to sing old English ballads and Stephen Foster songs and World War 1 songs and campfire rounds and such things as that. Once again, it wasn't exactly conservatory education -- but it gave us a much better rounded sense of music in general than I think a lot of kids get today.

in my home town and many towns on Long Island the local schools worked with a number of nearby music stores that had very inexpensive instrument rentals for those learning and those that were in band. many music stores also handled used instruments that were much less than new...

 

[John in Covina]

I miss the over socks with the stirrups as part of the baseball uniform. When the guys don't wear them I feel like they are not into the sport and the pagentry that went with it.

 

[John in Covina]

The drinking lunch was great for discussions, it was tough to go back to work and be productive instead of just thoughtful.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I miss the over socks with the stirrups as part of the baseball uniform. When the guys don't wear them I feel like they are not into the sport and the pagentry that went with it.

It doesn't make sense to have the "Red Sox" and the "White Sox" if you can't *see* the socks. Pull those pants up and look like a real man.

 

[jamespowers]

The drinking lunch was great for discussions, it was tough to go back to work and be productive instead of just thoughtful.

Thoughtful is good.

 

[LizzieMaine]

More things that need to stage a comeback:

While-U-Wait shoe repair shops.

Uneeda Biscuits.

Diagonal parking.

Cartoonists who actually know how to draw.

Character comedy.

Downtown bus stations.

Root-beer Popsicles.

Cotton stockings.

Home-Ec class.

Dry goods stores.

Five-pound loaves of cheese.

Fifteen-minute radio news summaries at 830am, noon, six, and 11pm.

Lincoln's and Washington's Birthdays celebrated as separate national holidays, on the actual date on which they occur.

 

[jamespowers]

More things that need to stage a comeback:

While-U-Wait shoe repair shops.

Uneeda Biscuits.

Diagonal parking.

Cartoonists who actually know how to draw.

Character comedy.

Downtown bus stations.

Root-beer Popsicles.

Cotton stockings.

Home-Ec class.

Dry goods stores.

Five-pound loaves of cheese.

Fifteen-minute radio news summaries at 830am, noon, six, and 11pm.

Lincoln's and Washington's Birthdays celebrated as separate national holidays, on the actual date on which they occur.

Gee, I feel pretty good now since I can still find a few of those things locally. While U Wait shoe repair, diagonal parking, rootbeer popsicles, cotton stockings and five pound loaves of cheese are all available around here but let me tell you that cheese is expensive.

 

[ortega76]

More things that need to stage a comeback:



Downtown bus stations.

Travel by bus (Greyhound) has become so unsavory now. I'd like to see it cleaned up.

 

[jamespowers]

Travel by bus (Greyhound) has become so unsavory now. I'd like to see it cleaned up.

It is indeed unsavory. The buses aren't clean and some of the people on the buses need to be steam cleaned.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I think every twenty-year-old ought to be required to travel the country coast-to-coast by bus at least once. If you don't have "street smarts" before you leave, you'll have them when you get home.

 

[jamespowers]

I think every twenty-year-old ought to be required to travel the country coast-to-coast by bus at least once. If you don't have "street smarts" before you leave, you'll have them when you get home.

If you get home. lol lol