Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

[Wally_Hood]

We truly live in the Golden Age of Ersatz, a generation of people who have been so thoroughly bleached of any actual culture of their own that they must subsist on what they can appropriate from others.

Or they ape some sort of near-culture that is flogged at them on television screens.

 

[Earl Needham]

You can fry grits, too, as I remember from when I was a little boy. I don't think I've seen anybody fry grits since around 1963 or so, but --

Let the grits sit in the pot in the refrigerator overnight, then scoop them out and shape them into patties to fry. As I recall, they were pretty good that way, but geez, it's been just about 50 years!

 

[AtomicEraTom]

My mom still fries grits and they are delicious.

 

[jamespowers]

My mom still fries grits and they are delicious.

uke: lol

 

[Stanley Doble]

Speaking of culture... Canada was supposed to combine an English government, French culture and American technology.

But somehow we wound up with a French government, American culture and English technology

 

[jamespowers]

Speaking of culture... Canada was supposed to combine an English government, French culture and American technology.

But somehow we wound up with a French government, American culture and English technology

:rofl:

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Here's how grits should be fixed. Not cakey,flakey,or gritty with the consistency of mashed potatoes or pasty rice ...but creamy and buttery like a thick gravy. A friend from SC told me that in many parts of the US..they are not cooked long enough and not seasoned right...which describes Indiana restaurant grits to a T. Tasteless!
But 'Low Country' shrimp and grits or sausage and grits is just simply delicious...and I shore am whistlin Dixie!

http://allrecipes.com/recipe/lowcountry-shrimp-and-grits/

 

[HoosierDaddy]

Shrimp and grits

Shrimp and cheese grits

 

[Mr_D.]

Sunday blue laws. Around here this meant no stores larger than a certain size allowed to be open at all on Sunday, so the corner groceries always did a booming business.

Chattanooga still does (or did in 2002) Blue light laws. But it was only after midnight Sat until 6 am Sunday. I hated it because I am a night owl so if I needed to go to wal-mart on a Sunday, I had to drive to Fort O'. Kinda a dumb law IMO.

 

[Mr_D.]

Tire chains. Does anybody use these anymore?

Yes. After the winter 2 years ago where we were stranded for 2 months. I decided to start parking at the end of the road in Winter. This year I joined the Vol Fire Dept and was given a set of chains for my car.

I also miss danger. Kids are such wimps these days. I left more skin and blood on the ground while doing bike tricks, jumping from monkey bars, and other such nonsense that, even if a kid today could escape his or her "helicopter parents" (yes, I heard it on Oprah), a helmet, gloves, knee/elbow pads, and a call to the insurance agent would be required for any such activity.

AMEN!! We used to take off at sun up and be gone all day till sun down, then would spend another 4 hours in the back yard climbing trees and shooting each other with rubber band guns.

Now you can't even get a kid to look at outside on TV, let alone GO outside.

Not my son though. We go out and play and build things and ride bikes and climb trees. He is 5, I am 33. My wife says she is not sure who the kid is when we play.

--card catalogs

YES!!! Man I remember working in the library at school and teaching other students to use the card catalog. Now it's lal on a computer, which is fine and great. but the look and smell of a card catalog.

 

[scottyrocks]

We truly live in the Golden Age of Ersatz, a generation of people who have been so thoroughly bleached of any actual culture of their own that they must subsist on what they can appropriate from others.

This statement has been banging around inside my head since I first read it. Kids in this neighborhood, who idolize, let's call them "urban 'musicians'", would crap their pants if dropped into the actual surrounds of their 'heroes.' Makes me wanna puke.

 

[richie1958]

I have gone away to sea and worked on British scientific research ships ever since I left school. I remember on one of my first cruises, we were steaming along somewhere in the Atlantic, when for no apparent reason, we stopped. We were just wallowing around not going anywhere.... I went and found the Old Man (Captain) and asked him what was wrong. "Nothing's wrong" he said "We're just waiting for a satellite to go over, so we can find out where we are" I believe we sat there for a couple of hours! That must have been the late seventies.
Richie

 

[countryclubjoe]

Barber shop poles

CCJ

 

[BigFitz]

Of course, they haven't completely disappeared but they are fewer in number than when I was a kid.

 

[LizzieMaine]

For that matter, what ever happened to the traditional Civil Defense logo?

It used to be all over the place, on fire trucks and ambulances and helmets and posters, and then all of a sudden it disappeared, along with the term "civil defense." "Emergency Management" may be trendier, but it doesn't have anywhere near as good a logo.

 

[jamespowers]

Of course, they haven't completely disappeared but they are fewer in number than when I was a kid.

Now that you mention it, yes, you are right there are far fewer now than there used to be.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

At Knott's Berry Farm there's a traffic/pedestrian tunnel underneath Beach Blvd that connects the main part of the theme park to the Independence Hall area across the street. For many years I remember there used to be a fallout shelter sign there.

 

[jamespowers]

At Knott's Berry Farm there's a traffic/pedestrian tunnel underneath Beach Blvd that connects the main part of the theme park to the Independence Hall area across the street. For many years I remember there used to be a fallout shelter sign there.

I don't think that would have been much protection against fallout.

 

[Shangas]

Barber shop poles

CCJ

A barbershop opened up down the street from my house. Every day I walk past, they hang the red and white pole out the front, and take it down every evening at closing-time.

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

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