Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

[V.C. Brunswick]

Why you young Whippersnapper. I started working for GM in Jan '66. I've never had a cell phone. Don't want one. Nope..just won't do it..!

You're better off without the Electronic Leash.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

You're a bit harsher of an individual than I am, though.

I am older than you. I could shame him into it.

lol I rest my case.

Why you young Whippersnapper. I started working for GM in Jan '66. I've never had a cell phone. Don't want one. Nope..just won't do it..!

January, 1966, eh? You know, my mom was only about six months old lol lol lol

 

[HoosierDaddy]

You're better off without the Electronic Leash.

Abso freakin lutely VC.
I gotta answering machine. If I'm not in..leave your number. I just don't need to let anyone know that: 'now I'm traveling down the bypass...now I'm stopping for gas...now I'm getting an ice coffee at Starbucks...now I'm getting ready to scratch my nose...I may to this or I might do that(what would you recommend?)...OK now I'm here but might go there'....
....and I sure don't need to talk so damn outloud for all to hear and sicken everyone with my boring cellphone conversation of trivial nonsensical blusterous ramblings....:eusa_doh:

 

[HoosierDaddy]

January, 1966, eh? You know, my mom was only about six months old lol lol lol

Yeah '66, eh? You know,my oldest Daughter was born in November of that year.
So..what are you trying to say..Whipper?

 

[DonnaP]

Abso freakin lutely VC.
I gotta answering machine. If I'm not in..leave your number. I just don't need to let anyone know that: 'now I'm traveling down the bypass...now I'm stopping for gas...now I'm getting an ice coffee at Starbucks...now I'm getting ready to scratch my nose...I may to this or I might do that(what would you recommend?)...OK now I'm here but might go there'....
....and I sure don't need to talk so damn outloud for all to hear and sicken everyone with my boring cellphone conversation of trivial nonsensical blusterous ramblings....:eusa_doh:

Exactly. I can't imagine anything so important that you need me RIGHT NOW. had a cellphone for about 6 months maybe 6 years ago, couldn't remember to take it with me, couldn't remember that I had it when I did remember it, couldn't remember how to even use the damn thing. I figure I live in the city, there's not a whole lot that is going to happen to me where I can't get to someone pretty quick. I have two kids, 14 and 9, maybe when they are older I'll want one--that's the biggest reason why people I know gasp when I say I don't have a phone, they want to be attached to their kids. I do admit, I rely on my husband having a phone, in a true teen emergency they'll have someone they can reach, and the 14 year old has a phone, so if we are out somewhere and the car breaks down, she can call for help. If I lived alone, I probably would have caved in and gotten one.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

January, 1966, eh? You know, my mom was only about six months old lol lol lol

I was fourteen months old in January 1966

 

[AtomicEraTom]

I think you just implied it for me, there, sir.

Yeah '66, eh? You know,my oldest Daughter was born in November of that year.
So..what are you trying to say..Whipper?

 

[green papaya]

the ability to go for a walk in the evening without getting police harrassement / questioned

they always want to know where Im going, why Im walking, etc

the crime is so high these days anybody walking the streets is a suspect

 

[MissMittens]

the ability to go for a walk in the evening without getting police harrassement / questioned

they always want to know where Im going, why Im walking, etc

the crime is so high these days anybody walking the streets is a suspect

That's so true........I've had that a few times while walking at night when I can't sleep, and I live in the equivalent of Mayberry, lol.

 

[Stanley Doble]

the ability to go for a walk in the evening without getting police harrassement / questioned

they always want to know where Im going, why Im walking, etc

the crime is so high these days anybody walking the streets is a suspect

Buy a dog. I am not joking or jesting. I got the idea from a very wealthy Hollywood producer in the forties who had to buy a little dog so he could take his after dinner constitutional in Beverly Hills without being stopped by the police.

 

[Earl Needham]

Standing for the National Anthem at the cinema.

That absolutely INFURIATES me when I see people ignoring the National Anthem.

Earl
USMC 77-81
USAF 83-99

 

[Flicka]

Wow. I can't imagine that. Don't people walk where you live?

If the police would do that here, people would be queuing for hours in order to be questioned even if they allocated all of the police resources to that one assignment.

 

[jamespowers]

Wow. I can't imagine that. Don't people walk where you live?

If the police would do that here, people would be queuing for hours in order to be questioned even if they allocated all of the police resources to that one assignment.

No. This is California. We drive everywhere because we can.

 

[jamespowers]

That absolutely INFURIATES me when I see people ignoring the National Anthem.

Earl
USMC 77-81
USAF 83-99

It does me too and I have never been in the Military.

 

[MissMittens]

It does me too and I have never been in the Military.

It's disrespectful in the highest regard

 

[Earl Needham]

When I was a kid I used to wonder if Superman ever forgot where he stashed his Clark Kent clothes. I mean when you're saving runaway school buses from going off the cliff into a molten lava flow you tend to forget those things in all the excitement. And besides, if he had my luck, somebody would have probably nicked them while he was off doing his deeds of derring do.

lol

As I recall, he had a pouch in his cape where he stored his "civvies".

 

[Flicka]

No. This is California. We drive everywhere because we can.

The truest sign of modern folly I know; people driving to the gym to exercise.

 

[1961MJS]

the ability to go for a walk in the evening without getting police harrassement / questioned

they always want to know where Im going, why Im walking, etc

the crime is so high these days anybody walking the streets is a suspect

HI

What do you / did you usually tell them? I'd have probably mentioned none of your bleeping business. 3AM walks are a little more suspicious, but them my Mom's neighbor and a couple of Friends go running every morning at 5 AM in Small town Illinois. Would "none of your business" have gotten you hauled in?

later

 

[LizzieMaine]

To be fair to California, when I lived there, I never owned a car -- I had a bike for about two hours, though. I rode it down to Thrifty's to buy a lock, and when I came out it had been stolen. So the rest of the time I was out there, I walked.

 

[Stanley Doble]

Wow. I can't imagine that. Don't people walk where you live?

If the police would do that here, people would be queuing for hours in order to be questioned even if they allocated all of the police resources to that one assignment.

They don't arrest people for walking. They stop them and question them as suspicious characters. If you have some form of ID and some legitimate reason for being there, such as taking a walk in your own neighborhood, they don't bother you further.

It is just that in some areas walking is so unusual it looks suspicious. It can also be that they are looking for a suspect or witnesses of a crime that took place.