Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

[AtomicEraTom]

My dad's 52 Ford has them, and my brother just sold his Dodge that had them. I've had a few 50's/60's cars that had them. They're nice if you've got someplace nice to be, need some fresh air, but don't wanna mess your hair up lol

Henry has them

 

[beth]

One change is that because kids have so much home work in some areas, are playing computer games and have helicopter parents that won't allow them out with out constant supervision you don't hardly see kids playing outside anymore.

I know what you mean. But as Sheeplady said, thankfully it isn't always like that. In our neighborhood we have a group of 15+ kids that frequently are spending time with each other.
You will always see a few kids outside. I don't know how much some of our neighbors appreciate all the 'wars', forts, football and other commotion/activity though.

 

[Mae Croft]

I remember Brother word processors with black screens, orange texts that weigh nine million pounds.

 

[Effingham]

I remember Brother word processors with black screens, orange texts that weigh nine million pounds.

Oh, holy cow. Thanks for the flashback. I remember those.

 

[DNO]

Ice delivery, the milk man, 78 records, 45 records, cassette tapes, 5 1/4" floppy discs, 3 1/2" floppy discs, zip drives, F7 Diesel locomotives, black and white TV's, no-draft windows on cars, neighbourhood movie theatres, burlesque...this is getting depressing, got to stop.

 

[Miss Moonlight]

Ice delivery, the milk man, 78 records, 45 records, cassette tapes, 5 1/4" floppy discs, 3 1/2" floppy discs, zip drives, F7 Diesel locomotives, black and white TV's, no-draft windows on cars, neighbourhood movie theatres, burlesque...this is getting depressing, got to stop.

Actually- Portland has many neighborhood theatres, many have turned into movie pubs. Burlesque is completely in revival, probably not ever as big as it was again, but there are so many burlesque troops these days.

No one ever promises $1000 or free burial if you should die of fright watching a movie or the spook show.

Not to mention, there are no longer spook shows at the movie theater.

 

[Mr Vim]

I'm sure someone before has mentioned it but rotary telephones... My grandmother had one for years and years and I use to get excited when I knew we were going to visit and then one day it was gone... I know that wasn't their end but it was sometime in 1989 so pretty darn close.

Caveat: This statement written at 0248 AM while on a night watch, I am exhausted.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Cortelco produced the 500 style rotary phone until 2006.

I'm sure someone before has mentioned it but rotary telephones... My grandmother had one for years and years and I use to get excited when I knew we were going to visit and then one day it was gone... I know that wasn't their end but it was sometime in 1989 so pretty darn close.

Caveat: This statement written at 0248 AM while on a night watch, I am exhausted.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Rotaries were still dominant here into the mid-90s, and some of us still have 'em!

Speaking of telephones, most of you under 35 or so have probably never heard a mechanical dial tone.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

I know what you mean. But as Sheeplady said, thankfully it isn't always like that. In our neighborhood we have a group of 15+ kids that frequently are spending time with each other.
You will always see a few kids outside. I don't know how much some of our neighbors appreciate all the 'wars', forts, football and other commotion/activity though.

Generally, the kids I see out playing are the (expletive deleted) skateboarders. I can't stand them as they act like they own the streets.

 

[sheeplady]

I remember a time when you had to have the separate numbers for the local fire department, the county sheriff, and the ambulance service because there was no single emergency number (911 in the US).

One could always call the operator, but that took longer if you new the right number. In the US, can you still pick up a phone and dial 0 to get an operator???

 

[LizzieMaine]

You can -- but there's a pretty good chance she isn't actually in your town. Or even your state.

 

[caul]

From what I've read, the operator may not even be in this country.

 

[R.G. White]

I had a tour group of junior-high aged kids come thru the theatre today and I was explaining film projection to them. "Our film is just like the film in a 35mm camera you'd use to take pictures," I started to say, and every one of them looked at me blankly. They had no idea what *film* -- a transparent strip of celluloid covered with photographic emulsion -- is, no frame of reference for it whatsoever. They've never seen film, handled film, or even thought about film. Which was a terribly startling thought to me.

I'm a senior in high-school and I'm positive the majority of my class has actually seen/used a film camera. I find it difficult to believe that kids four or five years younger than me are completely oblivious to them. I believe you, it's just strange is all...

 

[AtomicEraTom]

That's how fast things are advancing. I'm shocked how many people I know that don't understand what Rabbit ears on a TV are for, and didn't know that people don't have Cable/Dish.

I'm a senior in high-school and I'm positive the majority of my class has actually seen/used a film camera. I find it difficult to believe that kids four or five years younger than me are completely oblivious to them. I believe you, it's just strange is all...

 

[R.G. White]

That's how fast things are advancing. I'm shocked how many people I know that don't understand what Rabbit ears on a TV are for, and didn't know that people don't have Cable/Dish.

What's really shocking is how people see old things utilized in the media (i.e. T.V., movies) and they still have no idea what you're talking about.

 

[St.Ignatz]

I've mentioned it before but most of us have forgotten why the T.V. remote is called a "clicker".
Tom D.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Well, I remember one Television, already a relic in my childhood, with a remote connected by a cord, and when you'd change the channel, it'd turn the dial on the TV, clicking. Not sure if that's why, but that's why I always thought it was.

I've mentioned it before but most of us have forgotten why the T.V. remote is called a "clicker".
Tom D.

 

[Pompidou]

Black and white TVs were still kicking around when I was little. My first bedroom TV was a little black and white one, because I needed something for my Nintendo. I didn't miss it when color TVs of gradually larger sizes replaced it in subsequent years. Lots of our first TVs still had rabbit ears, and the family TV was one of those gigantic, living-room, wooden furniture deals from before TVs were solely electronic gadgets.

 

[Shangas]

That's how fast things are advancing. I'm shocked how many people I know that don't understand what Rabbit ears on a TV are for, and didn't know that people don't have Cable/Dish.

OH MY GOD!! Rabbit Ears!!

I remember those! We had them on our first television set. I remember as a kid, constantly tweaking them and fiddling around with them to try and get the best TV reception. Gosh I haven't seen a pair of those in years! I doubt anyone below the age of 20 would even KNOW what rabbit-ears are. Gosh...

Last time I had to fiddle with one of those things to watch television, I was...five years old.