Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

[scottyrocks]

Post a picture. I need proof.

Ya can't prove an opinion. I like a lot of those '70s car colors. Everything today is so gray, silver, black or white.

 

[ScottF]

What a cool thread! Things I miss:

- readable signatures
- Levis made in the USA
- chewing gum in packs of baseball cards
- white t-shirts
- only 3 t.v. channels
- cherry phosphates at the drugstore soda fountain
- Mickey Mantle, Juan Marichal, Don Meredith, Tom Landry, Vince Lombardi
- cartoons before the Movie
- Sean Connery James Bond movies
- small towns co-existing with highways

 

[Miss Moonlight]

Mustangs that don't have a plastic interior. :/

 

[YETI]

cigarette vending machines, designated smoking pits in high schools, $.75 pack of smokes

former smoker

 

[jamespowers]

Ya can't prove an opinion. I like a lot of those '70s car colors.

Sounds like someone is dodging. lol lol
Ugly yellow:

Ugly tan/brown with hippie top:

Ugly Orange color:

and a 70s car in its natural environment:

 

[AtomicEraTom]

I as well. Have had a couple green ones from the seventies. My favorite of the choices.

Ya can't prove an opinion. I like a lot of those '70s car colors. Everything today is so gray, silver, black or white.

 

[DiverAdam]

Personally I like that shade of orange, but the firebird would have to go

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

When I think of '70s orange...

 

[kiwilrdg]

Ya can't prove an opinion. I like a lot of those '70s car colors.
Sounds like someone is dodging.
Ugly yellow:

I would prefer the "ugly yellow" to the drab car,truck, or mini van in the background.

 

[this one guy]

Ya can't prove an opinion. I like a lot of those '70s car colors. Everything today is so gray, silver, black or white.

I as well. Have had a couple green ones from the seventies. My favorite of the choices.

I would definitely like more colors. The options don't even vary much among the various manufacturers. And body styles have few distinguishing characteristics from brand to brand too. They're the same shape but with different grill ornaments.

And speaking of body styles, what ever happened to basic round or rectangular headlights?

 

[jamespowers]

I would prefer the "ugly yellow" to the drab car,truck, or mini van in the background.

Those modern cars are just ugly. They don't do anything justice. lol lol

 

[jamespowers]

I would definitely like more colors. The options don't even vary much among the various manufacturers. And body styles have few distinguishing characteristics from brand to brand too. They're the same shape but with different grill ornaments.

And speaking of body styles, what ever happened to basic round or rectangular headlights?

Miore colors would be fine but the car manufacturers of today save tons of money running lines of so many this color and so many that color. It isn't like the old days where they actually had painters on hand who could paint special colors or two or even three tones. That is what we are lacking. Computers and robots pain them and it looks like it.

 

[Giftmacher]

Are milk bottles and milk polytene bags enough vintage?

 

[jamespowers]

Are milk bottles and milk polytene bags enough vintage?

Glass milk bottles---nothing else.

 

[Giftmacher]

I ask, because I have both in my collection. I like it as part of my youth

 

[kiwilrdg]

I still get my milk delivered in glass. It really does help the flavor of the milk.

 

[Giftmacher]

Lucky you, we have only PET bottles and tetra-packs.

 

[ScottF]

You guys reminded me of another thing I miss: lactose-toleration

 

[Salty O'Rourke]

In my lifetime, things people used to take for granted that are long gone:

"Colored Only/White Only" drinking fountains, waiting rooms, libraries, hotels and schools
Iron Lungs
Poll taxes
TB sanitariums
TV and radio tobacco advertising - "Scientific Proof in Support of Smoking!" (real ad copy from a 1950s Chesterfield radio spot)
DDT
HUAC

As a Virginian with strong Scots-Irish roots and a history major with a scholarly love of the middle period I've got a healthy appreciation for old things and old ways - my folks and I will sit around till all hours discussing family members who died before my parents were born - but I swear if someone invented a one-way time machine and offered to send me back to any time I wished, I think I'd shoot them.

 

[sheeplady]

Well, DDT is gone from the U.S., but not everywhere in the world.