Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

[2jakes]

What a pity!

Having an ethnic grandmother (who had a brother that was a baker we always had a wide variety of breads and rolls. Fresh, seeded rye, pumpernickle, buttercrust hard rolls, Kaiser rolls with salt or Kummel, salt horns, Vanočka, Babka...

Don't rub it in!

 

[1mach1]

What a pity!

Having an ethnic grandmother (who had a brother that was a baker we always had a wide variety of breads and rolls. Fresh, seeded rye, pumpernickle, buttercrust hard rolls, Kaiser rolls with salt or Kummel, salt horns, Vanočka, Babka...

That was a blessing for you. I do that now with breads, and I can tell my son really appreciates his lunches and snacks more than I did.

 

[1mach1]

Don't rub it in!

Hahahaha

 

[vitanola]

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Saw some at an antique swap meet and they were expensive!

Why?

Common as dirt.

They have a little value if made Akro Agate or brilliant green uranium gkass, but...

 

[Zombie_61]

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Saw some at an antique swap meet and they were expensive!

iCup.

 

[2jakes]

Deluxe eye cup.

This one came complete with eyeball and was a little bit more expensive.

 

[LizzieMaine]

What a pity!

Having an ethnic grandmother (who had a brother that was a baker) we always had a wide variety of breads and rolls. Fresh, seeded rye, pumpernickle, buttercrust hard rolls, Kaiser rolls with salt or Kummel, salt horns, Vanočka, Babka...

For us there was no joy like a well-baked New England Bulkie Roll. Soft, yet crusty. Some kids at lunch would bite a hole in the crust, pull out the insides, fill the resulting hollow shell with milk or baked beans or some combination thereof, and throw it across the room at their enemies.

We also got them at church, as communion bread, going well as they did with a tiny glass of Welch's Grape Juice. There's something profoundly theological about a baked good that can be used as much for good as for evil.

 

[TimeWarpWife]

What a pity!

Having an ethnic grandmother (who had a brother that was a baker) we always had a wide variety of breads and rolls. Fresh, seeded rye, pumpernickle, buttercrust hard rolls, Kaiser rolls with salt or Kummel, salt horns, Vanočka, Babka...

Lucky you! As a kid I mostly ate Wonder or Sunbeam bread with an occasional hamburger or hot dog roll thrown in, but it was all white and processed. I was an adult before I tried rye and pumpernickel.

 

[2jakes]

Lucky you! As a kid I mostly ate Wonder or Sunbeam bread with an occasional hamburger or hot dog roll thrown in, but it was all white and processed. I was an adult before I tried rye and pumpernickel.

I was an adult before I tried making biscuits and flour tortillas like my
grandmother used to make.
They were so delicious.
Even though I used the same ingredients, lard, baking powder and old fashion flour mix.
They came out hard as bricks.
It was about a year of trying different
methods before I found out what it was
that made them soft and tender like the
ones I remembered as a kid.
It was the mixing or blending of the dough.
The less I kneaded the dough resulted in
the biscuits and tortillas which I enjoyed as a kid. Adding butter and I was good to go.
Only thing is today's butter does not have the same flavor as from years back!

 

[Fading Fast]

Lucky you! As a kid I mostly ate Wonder or Sunbeam bread with an occasional hamburger or hot dog roll thrown in, but it was all white and processed. I was an adult before I tried rye and pumpernickel.

Thinking back on it, there were two breads in my world growing up and they were so far apart that there was nothing that seemed odd about the divide. Ninety-nine-plus percent of the bread growing up was store-brand, Arnolds or (occasionally when it was a high-cotton day) Pepperidge Farm (oddly, only once in awhile did we have Wonder or Sunbeam).

And then, one percent of the time, a real bakery bread would make it to the house or I'd have it at a deli or diner that did real bread. I'm not sure I even connected the two as being part of the same continuum. The one-percent bread was heavy (outright felt heavier), had real texture and flavor, usually, a really toothy crust and, sometimes, noticeable pieces of nuts or seeds or fruits in them.

To me - my mom didn't cook or bake so I had no real idea how food was made - they were just two different things that had the same name and were distantly related somehow. It wasn't until I got out of college and moved to NYC that I started to learn about bread and understand the continuum. The result of all that is an adult me who greatly appreciates good bread (and has made many a meal out of only good bread and butter), but still can enjoy a you-can-mush-ten-slices-into-a-tight-ball bread - that "other" type of bread - that I grew up with.

 

[1mach1]

Automatic doors using heavy hydraulic fluid and pneumatic lines, with floor mats as activation.

Thank God.

 

[3fingers]

Automatic doors using heavy hydraulic fluid and pneumatic lines, with floor mats as activation.

Thank God.

I remember being in the grocery store with my mom 40some years ago and seeing 2 boys jacking around with the door. Jumping on the mat,etc. The manager asked their mother to have them stop, but she wasn't interested in their high jinx. What we would now call karma ensued when one brother mashed the other between the back of the door and the pallets of dog food stacked behind. He squalled like a mashed cat.
I can still see his shocked little face looking through the glass.

 

[Inkstainedwretch]

White bandaids. It used to be the only color they came in. Then, in the '60s, they brought out "flesh-colored" bandaids. I don't remember the last time I saw a white one.

 

[BobHufford]

Automatic doors using heavy hydraulic fluid and pneumatic lines, with floor mats as activation.

Thank God.

Ha! I loved these as a kid. I thought about them the other day when I dropped into (the world's largest) CVS Pharmacy to pick up something and noticed that the doors, railings and mats are still in use. Back in the day this was Katz City and had just about everything you could possibly need under one large roof (and more fluorescent lights than were probably necessary). Today the CVS has cut the space in half and can barely utilize that. A ghost of its former self...

 

[Fading Fast]

Well, it looks as if our Necco Wafers will survive. And they are being bought by the company - Sprangler Candy Company of Ohio - that make one of the world's must confused foods: a sweet, kinda marshmallow candy, shaped like a peanut, known as the orange marshmallow Circus Peanuts. Confused, yes, but I don't care as I've eaten them since I was a kid and still like them. But more importantly for now, Necco lives on.

Necco is sold for $18.8 million at bankruptcy auction

By Katheleen Conti GLOBE STAFF MAY 23, 2018


It looks like Necco Wafers will continue to roll off the assembly line — at least for now.

Family-owned Spangler Candy Company of Ohio — which makes Dum Dums lollipops and the orange marshmallow Circus Peanuts — added Necco to its portfolio Wednesday with a winning bid of $18,830,000 during an auction for the Revere-based candy maker in US Bankruptcy Court in Boston.

With a packed gallery looking on during the nearly four-hour-long court session, Spangler beat out offers from Round Hill Investments LLC and Boston-based liquidator Gordon Brothers to become the new owner of the New England Confectionery Co., which traces its roots to 1847. A fourth bidder, kgbdeals Shopping Inc., dropped out before the proceedings started. Bidding, with Chief US Bankruptcy Judge Melvin S. Hoffman presiding, had started at $15,250,000.

The result means a reprieve for the country’s oldest continuously operating candy company best known for its chalky Necco Wafers sweets — at least through the fall. Operations will continue in its Revere headquarters, where Necco’s lease has been extended through November. Most of the company’s 232 full-time employees work out of the headquarters on American Legion Highway.



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The sale is expected to close Friday.

“I’m a fourth-generation Spangler; my great grandfather was the one who founded it back in 1906, and they’d be very proud of us today,” said Kirk Vashaw, Spangler’s chairman and chief executive. “We’re very excited . . . well, because it’s candy.”

Vashaw declined to comment further on the company’s plans for Necco.

Both kgbdeals and Gordon Brothers expressed interest in future talks with the winning bidder about potentially buying some Necco assets.

Necco’s top executive team, including chief executive Michael McGee, have committed to stay through July 31 during the transition, “and longer if they need us,” McGee said after the auction.

“We started as a family-owned candy company back in 1847, [and] we’re thrilled to work with a fourth-generation candy company that brings new stewardship to our brands,” McGee said. “I think our employees will be excited about the outcome.”

Necco’s sugar line products also include Sweethearts, Candy Buttons, Mary Jane, and Canada Mints. Its chocolate line produces Mighty Malts, Haviland Thin Mints, Clark Bars, and the Sky Bar.

Wednesday’s auction was the latest twist in Necco’s efforts to find a buyer to continue operations. In March, McGee notified state officials and Revere’s mayor that the company would lay off about 400 workers and executives if it could not find a buyer by May. Necco, owned by New York investment firm Ares Capital, was in private talks for a potential sale with Gordon Brothers, a global firm that specializes in acquiring distressed companies and that is currently working on the liquidation of the Toys ‘R’ Us chain.

Negotiations to sell the candy manufacturer to Gordon Brothers for $13.3 million were underway when three of Necco’s creditors in April filed a petition to try to force the candy maker into an involuntary bankruptcy, claiming they were owed more than $1.6 million.

In response, Necco filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection but asked the court to waive the federally required auction process, arguing it would probably not yield a better offer than the purchase price offered by Gordon Brothers. The court disagreed, and the auction went forward.

Court-appointed trustee Harry B. Murphy, of Boston firm Murphy & King, negotiated with Gordon Brothers to name them the initial bidder at auction. Murphy also negotiated with Necco’s landlords to extend the company’s $300,000-a-month Revere lease, originally set to expire in August, to Nov. 30.

“We’re very pleased that a candy company bought them,” Murphy said after the auction. “They’re going to be running a candy company — [it remains to be seen] where it’s going to be and how it’s going to be, but it’s going to be Necco.”

The candy manufacturer moved in 2003 from its longtime Cambridge plant to the massive 50-acre Revere site. Atlantic Management Corp. and VMD Cos. bought the property last year for about $55 million. With more overhead than necessary in its current location, Necco will probably relocate if it stays in business beyond the fall, Murphy said.

Meantime, the company’s bankruptcy case continues. Creditors have until July 13 to file claims for money they say they’re owed by Necco. In court documents, McGee, Necco’s chief executive, said the company had incurred “substantial” debt with liabilities exceeding $152 million. The new buyer is not responsible for Necco’s past debts.

 

[2jakes]

Well, it looks as if our Necco Wafers will survive. And they are being bought by the company - Sprangler Candy Company of Ohio - that make one of the world's must confused foods: a sweet, kinda marshmallow candy, shaped like a peanut, known as the orange marshmallow Circus Peanuts. Confused, yes, but I don't care as I've eaten them since I was a kid and still like them. But more importantly for now, Necco lives on.

Necco is sold for $18.8 million at bankruptcy auction

By Katheleen Conti GLOBE STAFF MAY 23, 2018


It looks like Necco Wafers will continue to roll off the assembly line — at least for now.

Family-owned Spangler Candy Company of Ohio — which makes Dum Dums lollipops and the orange marshmallow Circus Peanuts — added Necco to its portfolio Wednesday with a winning bid of $18,830,000 during an auction for the Revere-based candy maker in US Bankruptcy Court in Boston.

With a packed gallery looking on during the nearly four-hour-long court session, Spangler beat out offers from Round Hill Investments LLC and Boston-based liquidator Gordon Brothers to become the new owner of the New England Confectionery Co., which traces its roots to 1847. A fourth bidder, kgbdeals Shopping Inc., dropped out before the proceedings started. Bidding, with Chief US Bankruptcy Judge Melvin S. Hoffman presiding, had started at $15,250,000.

The result means a reprieve for the country’s oldest continuously operating candy company best known for its chalky Necco Wafers sweets — at least through the fall. Operations will continue in its Revere headquarters, where Necco’s lease has been extended through November. Most of the company’s 232 full-time employees work out of the headquarters on American Legion Highway.



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The sale is expected to close Friday.

“I’m a fourth-generation Spangler; my great grandfather was the one who founded it back in 1906, and they’d be very proud of us today,” said Kirk Vashaw, Spangler’s chairman and chief executive. “We’re very excited . . . well, because it’s candy.”

Vashaw declined to comment further on the company’s plans for Necco.

Both kgbdeals and Gordon Brothers expressed interest in future talks with the winning bidder about potentially buying some Necco assets.

Necco’s top executive team, including chief executive Michael McGee, have committed to stay through July 31 during the transition, “and longer if they need us,” McGee said after the auction.

“We started as a family-owned candy company back in 1847, [and] we’re thrilled to work with a fourth-generation candy company that brings new stewardship to our brands,” McGee said. “I think our employees will be excited about the outcome.”

Necco’s sugar line products also include Sweethearts, Candy Buttons, Mary Jane, and Canada Mints. Its chocolate line produces Mighty Malts, Haviland Thin Mints, Clark Bars, and the Sky Bar.

Wednesday’s auction was the latest twist in Necco’s efforts to find a buyer to continue operations. In March, McGee notified state officials and Revere’s mayor that the company would lay off about 400 workers and executives if it could not find a buyer by May. Necco, owned by New York investment firm Ares Capital, was in private talks for a potential sale with Gordon Brothers, a global firm that specializes in acquiring distressed companies and that is currently working on the liquidation of the Toys ‘R’ Us chain.

Negotiations to sell the candy manufacturer to Gordon Brothers for $13.3 million were underway when three of Necco’s creditors in April filed a petition to try to force the candy maker into an involuntary bankruptcy, claiming they were owed more than $1.6 million.

In response, Necco filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection but asked the court to waive the federally required auction process, arguing it would probably not yield a better offer than the purchase price offered by Gordon Brothers. The court disagreed, and the auction went forward.

Court-appointed trustee Harry B. Murphy, of Boston firm Murphy & King, negotiated with Gordon Brothers to name them the initial bidder at auction. Murphy also negotiated with Necco’s landlords to extend the company’s $300,000-a-month Revere lease, originally set to expire in August, to Nov. 30.

“We’re very pleased that a candy company bought them,” Murphy said after the auction. “They’re going to be running a candy company — [it remains to be seen] where it’s going to be and how it’s going to be, but it’s going to be Necco.”

The candy manufacturer moved in 2003 from its longtime Cambridge plant to the massive 50-acre Revere site. Atlantic Management Corp. and VMD Cos. bought the property last year for about $55 million. With more overhead than necessary in its current location, Necco will probably relocate if it stays in business beyond the fall, Murphy said.

Meantime, the company’s bankruptcy case continues. Creditors have until July 13 to file claims for money they say they’re owed by Necco. In court documents, McGee, Necco’s chief executive, said the company had incurred “substantial” debt with liabilities exceeding $152 million. The new buyer is not responsible for Necco’s past debts.

Wow...I do believe you have posted the longest thread in
Fedora history.

Cool!

 

[Fading Fast]

Wow...I do believe you have posted the longest thread in
Fedora history.

Cool!

Good point, should've just posted the link. I think my enthusiasm for the wafers surviving overcame my (always limited) judgement.

The other outcome of all this, I now want some of those stupid circus peanuts.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I'm glad there's another person in the world who likes those, and is tired of seeing them turned into a cheap punch line. Pick on some overrated candy that deserves it, like Mast Brothers.

 

[2jakes]

I'm glad there's another person in the world who likes those, and is tired of seeing them turned into a cheap punch line. Pick on some overrated candy that deserves it, like Mast Brothers.

 

[1mach1]

I'm glad there's another person in the world who likes those, and is tired of seeing them turned into a cheap punch line. Pick on some overrated candy that deserves it, like Mast Brothers.

I've always been a fan of them, and am glad they are sticking around. My favorite bit is the light powder dust they have, and their pleasing crunch.