Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

[John in Covina]

I miss the way advertising was done. If you listen to old time radio and get to hear some of the product and product placement ads as well as on tv way back some of the ads were a hoot.

I also miss the station "tones" like the the 3 tones you'd catch with the "N--B--C!"

 

[Effingham]

Unfortunately mom did pass away sometime ago. She was going to survive and recover well from the surgery but during the recovery she wound up getting some dreaded hospital based infections that eventually lead to her death. Hospitals do kill people.

Man. I'm really sorry to hear that. A very good friend's father was also zapped by a hospital infection.

Now I think I appreciate the hospitals' intention to get patients back out and home asap.

 

[KD5NRH]

Slide rules.

They're gone? Don't tell my three, or they might get lonely.

Also, on a clear night I can see the Milky Way from my backyard in town.

 

[Puzzicato]

Butter curls in restaurants. I used to think they were the height of sophistication, but you just don't see them now.

 

[Shangas]

So THAT'S what those things are!

I always thought they were fancy teaspoons...

I can't recall the last time I saw one in a restaurant either. But for some reason, I believe we do have one at home.

 

[ortega76]

The irony here is the number of times *I* waited in a doctor's waiting room -- half an hour, 45 minutes, more -- beyond the time I'd scheduled an appointment with the doctor....

Tony

John, sorry to hear about your Mom.

I get the feeling that this lady is a perpetually tardy mom. My doc is really good, reserving a block of her day for drop-ins and emergencies. The rest of the day is pretty tight since she doesn't believe in making people wait unless a true emergency arises. She's very highly rated and I like her because she takes no guff and doesn't beat around the bush.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Speaking of kitchen implements, when did you last see one of these?

The days of the pull-ring pop top can have all but eliminated that secure, content feeling we always got knowing we could easily fight off a burglar with our can opener.

 

[Puzzicato]

Speaking of kitchen implements, when did you last see one of these?

The days of the pull-ring pop top can have all but eliminated that secure, content feeling we always got knowing we could easily fight off a burglar with our can opener.

We've got one in the Kitchen Drawer of Doom along with 2 melon ballers. It's the only type of can opener my husband knows how to use, he keeps breaking my nice ones.

 

[John in Covina]

Speaking of kitchen implements, when did you last see one of these?

The days of the pull-ring pop top can have all but eliminated that secure, content feeling we always got knowing we could easily fight off a burglar with our can opener.

I have one that's pretty old. Occasionally a can will defeat my good openers and I have to use this.

 

[Feraud]

This really brings back memories of my dad opening cans of dog food for our pet husky! I bet he still has this can opener in a drawer at home..

Speaking of kitchen implements, when did you last see one of these?

The days of the pull-ring pop top can have all but eliminated that secure, content feeling we always got knowing we could easily fight off a burglar with our can opener.

 

[Effingham]

Man, that thing is flashback generator.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Floral Wallpaper.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Encyclopedias.

I hadn't realized how completely these have disappeared from modern consciousness until today, when one of the kids from work dropped by to take some pictures of my house for a school project. "What's that?" she asked, pointing to my 14th Edition of the Britannica lined up on a shelf. I explained it was an encyclopedia, containing articles on every worthwhile field of human knowledge, written and edited by renowned authorities in their fields.

"Oh, like Wikipedia?" she asked. As I wept for her future.

 

[rue]

It's really sad isn't it? My mom and I are the only reason my kids know about them. I remember the encyclopedia salesman too.
Along those lines.... The Dictionary

 

[Effingham]

Like.... Wikipedia?

Oh, dear Lord....

 

[sheeplady]

Encyclopedias.

I hadn't realized how completely these have disappeared from modern consciousness until today, when one of the kids from work dropped by to take some pictures of my house for a school project. "What's that?" she asked, pointing to my 14th Edition of the Britannica lined up on a shelf. I explained it was an encyclopedia, containing articles on every worthwhile field of human knowledge, written and edited by renowned authorities in their fields.

"Oh, like Wikipedia?" she asked. As I wept for her future.

When I was a kid, I used an encyclopedia set from the late 1890s for a lot of my school projects. Really great material on history- you get to see things how people back then saw it. I remember writing a killer report on the Suez canal (using that and several other sources). My history teacher questioned that source, so I brought in that volume. His eyes literally popped out of his head, I'm not sure he had ever seen a book that old, yet alone seen a high school student pull one out of her bag.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Back on my wallpaper kick lol. As I mentioned in another thread, when I was a kid, our kitchen had that wallpaper that had pictures of cooking utensils on it, don't see that anymore. (There's probably a reason for that lol)

 

[scottyrocks]

In general, I dont like wallpaper. Give me house with wallpaper and I'll take it down and paint every time.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I have fruit wallpaper on the upper half of my kitchen walls, and I'll get violent if anyone tries to take it away.

 

[Fletch]

"What's that?" she asked, pointing to my 14th Edition of the Britannica lined up on a shelf.

The 1928 edition! Will ya do me a kindness? Look up television and see what it says.

My little pals and I in the just post-Nam era were crazy about the EB, World Book, Compton's, etc., because we were military-crazy and they had all the various rank and branch insignia. (We were dum enuf not to understand stuff like boot camp, napalm, or PTSD.) We would get together during library time and draw the patches the best we could.