Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

[jamespowers]

We tried steel pennies during the war, and they were highly unpopular -- once the zinc coating wore off they rusted badly and didn't work well in vending machines. Maybe we should just push the boat all the way out and adopt plastic coins --

I'm sure there's a nice factory in China where they'd make them for us.

Yes, we did indeed. Perhaps we can coat them with nickel this time. As it is today, we have zinc core pennies with a copper coating on them. Kind of the opposite of how it was when this was made:

I know I can literally bend pennies in half nowadays because they are so soft. :eusa_doh:
Plastics. Sounds like a line fom The Graduate.

 

[jamespowers]

They can have a chip inside to track their use. Double Sparkling Happiness Factory in Jungjin or Sung Bae Prastics in Xieching. Ask for Uncle Wong.

You can have Tupperware make them.

 

[scottyrocks]

Plastic coins - we could get them at Toys R Us. Would we pay for them with the old metal coins?

 

[jamespowers]

Plastic coins - we could get them at Toys R Us. Would we pay for them with the old metal coins?

Talk about irony.

 

[Gin&Tonics]

Canada just decided to phase out the penny. The Royal Canadian Mint will no longer be producing them come April 1st, I believe it is.

 

[Touchofevil]

You can have Tupperware make them.

Can Tupperware make a penny burp?

 

[jamespowers]

Can Tupperware make a penny burp?

Only gass off I am afraid.

 

[Touchofevil]

Only gass off I am afraid.

That is never good.
[huh]

 

[Ralphin Ormond]

Something that has disappeared from my own life that I would dearly like to have back is a certain type of brass belt buckle. I bought mine in 1968 and wore it through all the time and adventures of many great years. I think the design was fairly common back then: a large, crudely made brass circle with a bar through the middle and the loose part that goes in the leather hole on that middle bar. I found a similar one on ebay (even to the anchor stamped on back!) but it is oval and 4-1/2" wide. Mine was not quite that big and was definitely round. What a pity that, as we race through life, we must leave so many friends, sometimes warm, living people, sometimes even made of brass.

 

[Miss Sis]

Canada just decided to phase out the penny. The Royal Canadian Mint will no longer be producing them come April 1st, I believe it is.

New Zealand has phased out 1c, 2c AND 5c coins in the last number of years, and even more confusuingly for me (since I now live in the UK) they have changed the 10c coin which was silver in colour to copper coloured, which makes it look like an old 1 or 2c coin and also like a British 1 or 2p coin! I kept getting confused on my last visit as to what coins I had.

 

[Two Types]

I know it might not exactly be considered vintage but ....

Whatever happened to the distinctive youth groups? Back in my day, we had Punks, skins, mods, scooter boys, goths, rockabillys, teds, psychobillys, metallers, soul boys, funkers, bikers, indie kids .... the list is endless. And they all had a distinctive look. That has gone - nowadays every youth group sort of merges into the others (or am I just getting old?).

Having typed that I now have an overwhelming sense of nostalgia for the days when you could go out for the night and at least 50% of the girls were trying to look like Siouxsie Sioux.

 

[rue]

I know it might not exactly be considered vintage but ....

Whatever happened to the distinctive youth groups? Back in my day, we had Punks, skins, mods, scooter boys, goths, rockabillys, teds, psychobillys, metallers, soul boys, funkers, bikers, indie kids .... the list is endless. And they all had a distinctive look. That has gone - nowadays every youth group sort of merges into the others (or am I just getting old?).

Having typed that I now have an overwhelming sense of nostalgia for the days when you could go out for the night and at least 50% of the girls were trying to look like Siouxsie Sioux.

You're not getting old, it's true!

Siouxsie Sioux.... I haven't thought of her in years. In the states, they all wanted to look like Pat Benatar or Blondie (Deborah Harry).

 

[jamespowers]

You're not getting old, it's true!

Siouxsie Sioux.... I haven't thought of her in years. In the states, they all wanted to look like Pat Benatar or Blondie (Deborah Harry).

Or Patty Smythe or Madonna or Vixen or Lita Ford or..........

 

[rue]

Or Patty Smythe or Madonna or Vixen or Lita Ford or..........

Yeah... them too

 

[jamespowers]

Yeah... them too

I could go on. There were plenty of people for them to choose. Yes, I remember when music didn't stink.

 

[rue]

I could go on. There were plenty of people for them to choose. Yes, I remember when music didn't stink.

I never dressed like any of them, but I know girls that did.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

That was before your time!

Music was on the decline by the time the British Invasion hit, if you ask me. Country held on longer, taking its last traditional breaths in the 1990s.

I could go on. There were plenty of people for them to choose. Yes, I remember when music didn't stink.

 

[rene_writer]

.Country held on longer, taking its last traditional breaths in the 1990s

Where I work, I have been force-fed the same top of the charts country station day in - day out for the last year. Then one day they decided to do a pre-2001 music day and the difference was amazing. I would take Johnny Cash or Shania Twain over Rascall Flatts and Taylor Swift any day.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Amen to that! The new stuff's just a mess and all they worry about is 'crossover hits.' If you wanna hit the pop charts so bad, be a pop musician and leave Country-Western to the traditionalists.

I would take Johnny Cash or Shania Twain over Rascall Flatts and Taylor Swift any day.

 

[jamespowers]

That was before your time!

Music was on the decline by the time the British Invasion hit, if you ask me. Country held on longer, taking its last traditional breaths in the 1990s.

Not all music stunk after that. You had the 60s and the 70s where a lot of things stunk---not just the music.:laser: :hippie::hippie::hippie: There was a short period of time there where it wasn't too bad.
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