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Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

LizzieMaine

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I have them on my bike.

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Shangas

I'll Lock Up
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It looks so beautiful! Why the HELL would someone want to throw out such a wonderful machine!?

You should get one of those old dynamo headlamps and clamp it on the front...
 
I have whitewalls on two of my cars, too. You just don't see them on new things anymore, not like you used to.

I have them on a few of mine too. :p Red lines on My mustang. :D I should have sent the link to Diamondback Classics instead. The other place is kind of wonky.
I think you can order new cars with any kind of tire you would like---it just costs more money.;)
 

caul

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Kansas
you guys are gonna laugh but I drive a 2005 prius and I was looking at getting whitewalls for it!
 

caul

New in Town
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Kansas
yeah, they would definitely need to be the fat ones! That's my dad always had on his truck, which probably why I like them so much.
 

Miss Moonlight

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San Diego
These:

I was actually trying to think of what a certain kind of counter was called, when I came across this image.

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I recall seeing these in a number of places when I was a child - I was born in 1970- and I always thought they were the niftiest contraptions. I haven't seen one in a long time.

This might be from the 60s/70s- anyone know if they're from earlier? I'd like to have one with dollars included for a trip to the grocery store. Instead of writing it down or dealing with a calculator that can get erased with one accidental press. It's the hand counter I was looking for.


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LizzieMaine

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Those are actually descended from the ball-strike indicators that baseball umpires had been using since the twenties, but the grocery-counter idea really didn't catch on until after the war, when self-service supermarkets fully supplanted the neighborhood store where the clerk picked the items of the shelf for you. We always had one around the house when I was a kid, and if I behaved myself I'd get to carry it when we went to the store.

There were also calculator-counter gadgets that used a metal stylus to move gears in a metal frame to add up the totals -- those predated the plastic indicator gadgets, and were in use as far back as the thirties.
 

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