Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

[V.C. Brunswick]

Intelligence :doh:
even I can't believe this woman is for real

[video=youtube;1FEm5VwrgQY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FEm5VwrgQY[/video]

 

[jamespowers]

Mine turned out beautifully!

I am glad it worked out for you! Good to know the old recipe still works. Now send a piece to.......

 

[jamespowers]

Intelligence :doh:
even I can't believe this woman is for real

[video=youtube;1FEm5VwrgQY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1FEm5VwrgQY[/video]

Obviously you never watched that Idiocracy intro I posted around here. A dystopian society based on dysgenics is just around the corner.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Obviously you never watched that Idiocracy intro I posted around here. A dystopian society based on dysgenics is just around the corner.

This one's even worse.
Warning: Listening may result in the loss of brain cells.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScgFIKXKFkc

 

[jamespowers]

This one's even worse.
Warning: Listening may result in the loss of brain cells.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScgFIKXKFkc

I think I saw her in Idiocracy. All I can say to that is: smoke dope much? Vegetable trees?!
Time to get the hippie :laser::laser::hippie:

 

[Touchofevil]

This one's even worse.
Warning: Listening may result in the loss of brain cells.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScgFIKXKFkc

:eeek:

 

[Touchofevil]

This one's even worse.
Warning: Listening may result in the loss of brain cells.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ScgFIKXKFkc

[huh]
That was the most stupidity I think I have ever heard verbalized in two minutes and thirty-five seconds ever!

 

[jamespowers]

[huh]
That was the most stupidity I think I have ever heard verbalized in two minutes and thirty-five seconds ever!

Another example of dysgenics. Goodness! They are breeding! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

 

[SHOWSOMECLASS]

Drive inn theatres.
All are gone here in Des Moines, Iowa. Although I think Marshalltown and Fort Dodge still regularly operate theirs.
I know you think we are way behind but land w/ in the city has been gobbled up quickly since 1980. Sadly many very old brick family daireys and farms have fallen to McDonalds, subdivisions and wealthy speculators.

 

[Touchofevil]

Another example of dysgenics. Goodness! They are breeding! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Most likely, but if that is not it, then what else could produce such inane ramblings?
:confused2:

 

[jamespowers]

Most likely, but if that is not it, then what else could produce such inane ramblings?
:confused2:

I am not sure---you are more qualified to assess what is wrong---teaching and all that stuff.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Another example of dysgenics. Goodness! They are breeding! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!

Kinda makes you glad to be in California instead of the East Coast where "they have slaves and believe in slavery." :rofl: BTW, am I the only one who was counting how many times Dumbalina said "um"?

 

[jamespowers]

Kinda makes you glad to be in California instead of the East Coast where "they have slaves and believe in slavery." :rofl: BTW, am I the only one who was counting how many times Dumbalina said "um"?

In that short amount of time, I don't think she can count that high.

 

[Stanley Doble]

Walmart has them out here too. My boys love the crazy things. I almost feeling like buying one to save money.

You are lucky. Take advantage while you can. Never again will you be able to give such delight to someone you love, so easily and at such low cost.

 

[jamespowers]

You are lucky. Take advantage while you can. Never again will you be able to give such delight to someone you love, so easily and at such low cost.

What? Hugs don't count?

 

[ThemThereEyes]

What comes immediately to my mind is outdoor theaters and those salve applicators that were a fabric ball dauber on the end of a thin twisted stem of metal.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Whitewall tires.

 

[JFriday]

We only just deactivated our fire boxes last year -- we hosted a charity auction at work the other night and one of the boxes was auctioned off to benefit our local Main Street Association. Sold for $125 with a fresh coat of red enamel. Meanwhile I was looking out the window at the box still mounted on the building across the street, all "X-d" out with tape, and thinking about the hacksaw and the bolt cutters in the trunk of my car.

Not that I could condone the use of the hacksaw, but there seem times that that is one of the few options left to preserve fading bits of history. Glad to hear that the one was auctioned off for a good cause. Hopefully they will continue to transfer the remaining ones into an honourable retirement in similar fashion. I think the other reflection I have on the passing of these and like devices is the loss of communal focus that has developed in society. I am a rather private individual, but in some ways mourn the loss of a freestanding option to summon aid for the public good, where now the responsibility is mine to carry a telecommunications device to summon the authorities where needed.

Tango Yankee points out the emergence of the call stations for Police service, and they have arrived here as well in limited numbers, similarly in parking lots and a few remote parks and recreational areas. The change there is the switch from complete community coverage to a more targeted system, and that the structural elegance and the likely longevity has diminished rather severely, most of our old police (patrol officer oriented) call boxes and fire boxes stood guard for decades with little maintenance, these new stations seem out of service as often as in functioning mode. Just reflections, glad to hear that some others still share both recollections and current interest.

Stay safe,
Friday

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Tango Yankee points out the emergence of the call stations for Police service, and they have arrived here as well in limited numbers, similarly in parking lots and a few remote parks and recreational areas. The change there is the switch from complete community coverage to a more targeted system, and that the structural elegance and the likely longevity has diminished rather severely, most of our old police (patrol officer oriented) call boxes and fire boxes stood guard for decades with little maintenance, these new stations seem out of service as often as in functioning mode. Just reflections, glad to hear that some others still share both recollections and current interest.

Slightly Off Topic but in Victorian times, before the advent of modern communications, it was standard police practice to assign officers to fixed point duty. Stationed at strategic points throughout a city such as London, the fixed point men served as a kind of human call box or telegraph. When a member of the public needed police assistance he or she would seek out the nearest fixed point man who would then summon help with the aid of his whistle or bullseye lamp from officers on the beat or relay the call to the next fixed point man. Strangely, under no circumstances was the fixed point man allowed to leave his post, even to render assistance himself!

 

[LizzieMaine]

The American pre-callbox version of this was for a policeman to pound his club on the sidewalk in a fast rhythmical pattern -- this clattering sound would bring any other officer within hearing distance to his aid.