Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

[V.C. Brunswick]

Saturday morning cartoons.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Is there someone outside, which still refurbishes his carpets with (canned)shaving foam, from time to time? I mean, brushing it out with the good smelling foam.

I never saw someone doing this, but I heared that the now middle-aged still knows this, which seems to be still highly recommended, today. Especially for your car-carpets.

 

[Inkstainedwretch]

Spinning off from the Worcestershire sauce discussion on the unchanging things thread, one product that I really miss is pickled walnuts. Here in the States you used to be able to get them in "gourmet" shops i.e., imported foods shops. They came in small (about 4 oz.) jars and you ate them as a relish with meat, particularly beef, and with charcoal-broiled steaks they were fantastic. I haven't seen them since the '70s. The best were made by Lea & Perrins.

 

[Fading Fast]

Spinning off from the Worcestershire sauce discussion on the unchanging things thread, one product that I really miss is pickled walnuts. Here in the States you used to be able to get them in "gourmet" shops i.e., imported foods shops. They came in small (about 4 oz.) jars and you ate them as a relish with meat, particularly beef, and with charcoal-broiled steaks they were fantastic. I haven't seen them since the '70s. The best were made by Lea & Perrins.

Never heard of pickled walnuts - googled them, they still exist - and now want to try them. If it helps you, you can buy them through Amazon (along with everything else in the entire world).

 

[dh66]

I've never heard of that either.

Living where I live, though, I have heard of, and occasionally tried, a good many pickled products that would be fine with me if they did disappear.

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[HudsonHawk]

Is there someone outside, which still refurbishes his carpets with (canned)shaving foam, from time to time? I mean, brushing it out with the good smelling foam.

I never saw someone doing this, but I heared that the now middle-aged still knows this, which seems to be still highly recommended, today. Especially for your car-carpets.

Never heard of that, and it doesn't sound too good for the carpet. Shaving foam contains things like stearic acid or lanolin, or some other oily saturated fat. I use it as a leather conditioner, but I don't think I'd like it as a carpet cleaner.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I don't have any carpets, but I take my rugs out to the back yard every spring, drape them over the clothesline, and beat the crap out of them with a Louisville Slugger. Very cathartic, too.

 

[tonyb]

Now that I'm residing in a climate conducive to it, I've taken to snow-cleaning my Persian rugs, which involves thoroughly vacuuming them front and back and then rolling them out in fresh snow and slapping 'em all over with a broom and sweeping a bit of snow into them before hanging 'em up outside (draped over the deck railings) so that the snow "sublimates," meaning that it goes from a solid to a vapor, so the fibers never get wet.

Judging by the dirt left in the snow, I'd say it really works. My favorite rug peddler endorses this method. She says that's how it's done in the old country.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

I've never heard of that either.

Living where I live, though, I have heard of, and occasionally tried, a good many pickled products that would be fine with me if they did disappear.

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That and some sheep's eyes and, wella! A DIY Mr Potato Head!

 

[LizzieMaine]

And don't forget a couple of those gas station pickled sausages made from "beef lips."

 

[Trenchfriend]

I will hold on Rollmops.

 

[dh66]

That and some sheep's eyes and, wella! A DIY Mr Potato Head!

One you can eat!

I know what I'm serving up at my next dinner party.

[emoji14]

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[dh66]

And don't forget a couple of those gas station pickled sausages made from "beef lips."

Too lazy to make sausage.

[emoji14]

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[dh66]

Oh.....and VC I have come across ojos at the local carniceria before, but always fresh, never pickled.

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[Trenchfriend]

How much neon-tubes are still living, today?

I got a great blue 18 Watt-neon-tube in my living-room (substructure-light in my wall unit) and it lasts since 2009. The inspiration was:
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=enterprise E bridge&qs=n&form=QBIR&pq=enterprise e bridge&sc=2-16&sp=-1&sk=

I wanted to have it, because of the important psychological effect with blue-heaven-colour.

Don't underestimate it!

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=neon tube blue&qs=n&form=QBIR&pq=neon tube blue&sc=0-0&sp=-1&sk=

 

[LizzieMaine]

We have a huge neon sign out front of the theatre -- and keeping it lit is a maintenance nightmare. Salt air and neon don't go together at all.

 

[HudsonHawk]

I wanted this neon sign over the fireplace, but you wouldn't believe the fit my wife pitched.

 

[Trenchfriend]

We have a huge neon sign out front of the theatre -- and keeping it lit is a maintenance nightmare. Salt air and neon don't go together at all.

But the lights at the Strand are one of the nicest neon-signs, I ever saw, for real!

 

[dh66]

I wanted this neon sign over the fireplace, but you wouldn't believe the fit my wife pitched.

Yes, I would......

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[Trenchfriend]

I find it astonishing, that the classic "Irish Spring"-bar soap is still in production by Colgate. In Germany, this soap is gone, anywhere in the 90's. Too much competitors.