Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

[Miss Sis]

Well, my fridge and stove are white, if that eases your pain Maybe next house, I'll go harvest gold.....

My Parents built the house I grew up in in the early 70s and we had a mustard gold wall oven and hob..... really went with the shiny gold wallpaper in the kitchen..........oh the horror!

 

[grundie]

Local tailors - In particular the ones that tended to be 30-odd years behind the then current fashion trends.

Growing up in regional towns both England and Ireland I remember plenty of the types of tailor, whereas now there are none. These were tailors where the average working man could afford to have a quality suit made if he saved up for a bit. I remember one from my home town of Carlisle that had a beautiful Edwardan facade with huge glass windows that had a selection of swatches carefully displayed between mannequins showing samples of his work.

Sometime between the late 1980s and the early 1990s they all seemed to vanish.

Nowadays the only tailors seem to be in the big cities and they are very, very expensive. If you live out in the sticks you have no choice to but to buy off the peg or make do with a less than perfect made to measure service from one of the big chain stores. It's just not right,

 

[jamespowers]

My Parents built the house I grew up in in the early 70s and we had a mustard gold wall oven and hob..... really went with the shiny gold wallpaper in the kitchen..........oh the horror!

Shiny gold wallpaper?:eeek::eusa_doh: Well at least it wasn't shiny gold with fuzzy leaf patterns like this::eeek:

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Oh, Lord, I forgot about that garbage lol

Our kitchen wallpaper was very similar to this.

My Parents built the house I grew up in in the early 70s and we had a mustard gold wall oven and hob..... really went with the shiny gold wallpaper in the kitchen..........oh the horror!

 

[fortworthgal]

Since we're sharing... my in-laws house, built in the early 70s, had this wallpaper:

 

[jamespowers]

Since we're sharing... my in-laws house, built in the early 70s, had this wallpaper:

:eeek::eusa_doh: Now I know why I hate wallpaper in general.

 

[fortworthgal]

I've been in some 1930s and 1940s houses that have stunning original wallpaper. It isn't all shiny gold and harvest yellow daisies!

 

[jamespowers]

I've been in some 1930s and 1940s houses that have stunning original wallpaper. It isn't all shiny gold and harvest yellow daisies!

True but my experience with it is that someone has painted over it or it is coming apart at the seams. It is just too much work to keep right for long periods of time. I still have one room just as it was at least 50 years ago. It has a sort of greenish butterflies and floral wall paper with a red ceiling. I use it as a storage room.

 

[John in Covina]

I recall seeing pens at work that had a ball on the end used for dialing the phone.

 

[jamespowers]

I recall seeing pens at work that had a ball on the end used for dialing the phone.

Was the ball at the end red? I think I remember seeing some of those.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

My grandparents had a bedspread on their bed that looked identical to this!

Since we're sharing... my in-laws house, built in the early 70s, had this wallpaper:

 

[John in Covina]

Was the ball at the end red? I think I remember seeing some of those.

i seem to recall that there were red ones and black and also in a silver metal color ball.

 

[jamespowers]

i seem to recall that there were red ones and black and also in a silver metal color ball.

Ok, I remember them now. It has been a while.

 

[rue]

Ok, I remember them now. It has been a while.

That's cuz it was sooooooooooooo long ago

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Woolworths and the 5 and Dime. Ahh, the good old days of Downtown.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Woolworths and the 5 and Dime. Ahh, the good old days of Downtown.

There was an old time Woolworth's in downtown Santa Ana that even had the lunch counter. It closed in 1986 when the rest of the chain did. It's now a Starbucks.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Woolworth's in downtown Portage had a lunch counter, too. All long gone, sadly. Downtowns in general are long gone.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

The Starbucks in downtown Santa Ana (which is the county seat of Orange County) basically serves the new Federal Building and US Courthouse which is at the end of West 4th Street.

 

[Gregg Axley]

Starbucks is disappearing in our town, they've downsized across the US a bit, and here they closed a few locations that were VERY popular. Not sure why...
Yeah 5 and Dime stores have gone. We had TG&Y. I remember going in there and it was really neat. Oh sure not exciting for a youngster, but they had all sorts on things in there you just don't find anymore.

 

[jamespowers]

That's cuz it was sooooooooooooo long ago

You would know.