Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

[amador]

I guess the vintage Sears catalog with the thin pages has Adiosed as well.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

I was known to have these stickers on my Caprice, Crown Victoria, Bel-Air, Delray, Impala, and Electra back in high school. With Calvin peeing on 'imports.'

With all this Ford vs. Chevy talk, it's a miracle nobody's come up with a Peeing Calvin icon.

Those dinosaurs are a fine bunch, but I like fins, chrome, and the small-block Chevy more than running boards, and spoke wheels, unfortunately. Not that, I don't appreciate both, though! I did used to run around in a 31 Model A Pickup with a 350/TH350.

Fine. Show us some.

I don't see a running board in the lot!

UGH! Vacuum tanks!

vacuum tanks

This is a dandy, but Pop said no 57 Chevy wagons. He doesn't like 'em.

But is was cheap. :rofl:
Ok then:
http://sfbay.craigslist.org/sby/cto/2793947917.html

 

[dnjan]

:eeek: ewww you used to tip them over..nasty :lol:

Outhouse tipping was for when you needed a break from cow-tipping.

 

[Benzadmiral]

Know what else has disappeared? Typewriter erasers (along with typewriters and their ribbons). It was a pencil-like thing with a wheel-shaped eraser, very narrow, on one end, and a brush on the other. You erased the letter you'd mis-typed, then turned it around and brushed the flakes away before re-typing with the correct letter.

Made obsolete by first eraser tape, then White-Out, and now by the Backspace key in word processing software.

 

[dnjan]

There is a typewriter eraser at the (outdoor) Seattle Sculpture Park.

Wonder how many people recognize what it is.

 

[Doctor Strange]

I knew I'd seen one somewhere else... it's in Washington DC too:

http://dcmemorials.com/index_indiv0006303.htm

It looks identical, and is by the same artist: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claes_Oldenburg

Addendum - I see there's one in Vegas too: http://www.coroflot.com/jaybrett/Eraser/2#scroll

 

[randooch]

Eastman-Kodak in Rochester, NY.

Javier, do you have any up-close and personal observations?

 

[HadleyH]

Eastman-Kodak in Rochester, NY.

January 20 2012
Kodak filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection on Thursday, raising the specter that the 132-year-old trailblazer could become the most storied casualty of a digital age.



very sad....

 

[rue]

Today I heard that Hostess is going bye-bye too.

 

[Earl Needham]

Dublin Dr Pepper!

http://blog.chron.com/lorensteffy/2012/01/dr-pepper-goes-from-dublin-to-dumber/

http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/01/11/3653725/dr-pepper-deal-leaves-small-town.html#storylink=cpy

 

[jamespowers]

Today I heard that Hostess is going bye-bye too.

No. They filed for bankruptcy. They will still be open through the reorganization. I know the discount center down the street from where I work is going to be fine. Eat more twinkies and wonder bread.

 

[TimeWarpWife]

I find myself missing the sound of a regular house phone ringing. Truthfully, they're not all vintage. But that old ring from older phones is just not something you hear much anymore. I heard one the other day and it was truly heartening for a moment.

We don't have a landline here because we all have cell phones. I'd rather have a land line, but I rarely use any phone... so I'd be wasting money.

Also, when I was a child (1970s), the phone company had a store where you had to buy phones to use, you had to get extra cords from them. I'm not sure when that stopped but it was a loooong time ago.

I bought a couple of Crosley retro phones and both have the old sounding ringtones - takes me back to my childhood whenever the phone rings now.

 

[1961MJS]

No. They filed for bankruptcy. They will still be open through the reorganization. I know the discount center down the street from where I work is going to be fine. Eat more twinkies and wonder bread.

Buy twinkies for Armageddon. They aren't great fresh, but after years in the baggie, they're still worth eating. It's all of the chemicals.

Later

 

[TimeWarpWife]

Oh my word, don't even get me started on vintage vs modern vehicles!!! I have to make a mental note of exactly where I park my car because they ALL look the same now. One day I didn't make the mental note of where the car was, walked out of the store and up to "my" car, kept pressing the unlock button and nothing was happening. I was about to call dh when I happened to look at the make of the car and it wasn't even my car. :eeek: It wasn't even the same make as my car, but it looked like my car. Lord, how I long for the days when you could tell, just by looking, which car was yours in the parking lot rather than looking at a sea of look-a-likes.

 

[jamespowers]

Buy twinkies for Armageddon. They aren't great fresh, but after years in the baggie, they're still worth eating. It's all of the chemicals.

Later

I actually found the recipe for something that appears very similar in one of my wife's vintage cookbooks.

 

[1961MJS]

I actually found the recipe for something that appears very similar in one of my wife's vintage cookbooks.

James, isn't a Twinkie basically a filled pound cake? I eat them occasionally, but I like the chocolate cupcakes better.

They had deep fried Twinkies at the Kansas State fair, and they weren't worth the money but I did learn a valuable lesson. Putting Smucker's blueberry pancake syrup on a microwaved Twinkie is pretty good.

Later

 

[jamespowers]

James, isn't a Twinkie basically a filled pound cake? I eat them occasionally, but I like the chocolate cupcakes better.

They had deep fried Twinkies at the Kansas State fair, and they weren't worth the money but I did learn a valuable lesson. Putting Smucker's blueberry pancake syrup on a microwaved Twinkie is pretty good.

Later

I think it was actually a filled angel food cake. Probably even better than a Twinkie.

Interesting with blueberry syrup I bet.

 

[Miss Moonlight]

I bought a couple of Crosley retro phones and both have the old sounding ringtones - takes me back to my childhood whenever the phone rings now.

Nice to know.

I don't even own a phone for a landline right now. It simply isn't conducive to saving money, and that's a priority at the moment. I have a cell phone, and that's something I originally got for emergencies only, and has become a staple of my life. Partially because I have a child and I like being able to be reached at all times should I need to go out and leave her with anyone for a bit.

However, I had to hang up on someone last night, in a moment of anger, all I wanted was to be able to slam a receiver into its cradle. lol And all I could do is tap the darn screen. NOT the same effect at all.

 

[Dixie_Amazon]

Winesap apples. They are still around but don't ship as well as new varieties so they don't make to the stores down here. I think they are the best for candied apples.

 

[jamespowers]

Winesap apples. They are still around but don't ship as well as new varieties so they don't make to the stores down here. I think they are the best for candied apples.

Well, I suppose the next best thing would be to grow your own winesap apple trees. That would give you plenty of them in a few years.