Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

[LizzieMaine]

There's still a few drive-ins in Maine, but they're pretty much coelacanths, surviving on the basis of novelty more than anything else. The days of $5 a carload are over though -- now it's more like $20 a carload.

 

[2jakes]

Looks like there’s a comeback in my neck of the woods.
The lights went on this Feb. on a drive-in I used to attend as a youngster.

One movie critic didn’t care for this flick.

 

[HudsonHawk]

Drive ins are in somewhat of a renaissance around here. There is one here locally, and while it's not by the carload, it is a double feature of first run movies. There are others around Texas, and they've become increasingly popular in the last few years.

 

[Fading Fast]

...coelacanths....

Seriously, am I the only one who had to look that one up? Nice use of it though - kudos.

And how funny that one of our coldest states still has a few drive in theaters.

 

[ButteMT61]

I have to say the one thing that's vintage that is now gone for me is optimism. Just don't have it any more...

 

[2jakes]

^^^^^
As long as there is Fedora Lounge in the world, how bad could things be?



Edit:
Add LizzieMaine as well.
(I’ve learned so much from her)

 

[kaiser]

I have to say the one thing that's vintage that is now gone for me is optimism. Just don't have it any more...

Good point, really only bad news out there today, I still try to remain optimistic though.

 

[Trenchfriend]

I was never optimistic. As a child, I was thoughtful from the beginning and mostly observing my surrounding, the people and what's going on. With 25 at the latest, I was comprehending, that my stragedy was right all the time. And with 27 at the latest, I checked off humanity itself. No further questions. Now, I'm just keeping busy with hobbies and people, which I like and love.

There's no other choice, than the (corrupt) market-economy...

 

[LizzieMaine]

I was raised with the philosophy "Expect the worst -- and then when something good happens you'll be pleasantly surprised."

 

[ButteMT61]

I expect the worst but it drives my wife nuts. I've tried to be more like her, but it's just not in my DNA.
Looking around, it's hard to see anything in the world that leads me to believe that I'm wrong...

 

[Trenchfriend]

Yes. I always think:
How can some people be that hedonistic, like they are? What's exactly going on, on their head, that they can cast aside the bad things going on?

Maybe, they are not thoughtful by nature.

 

[Trenchfriend]

But the good point:

In old Germany, there are more and more carneval-haters!

 

[oak1971]

I have to say the one thing that's vintage that is now gone for me is optimism. Just don't have it any more...

That's why I retreat into my hobbies and escapist films and literature.

 

[ButteMT61]

Maybe the thought that "all people are generally good" isn't really so? Maybe it's just the modern world where everyone is a text and not a face. Just never felt this sad in my life.

 

[HudsonHawk]

I was raised on the philosophy that "life ain't for sissies". The world will chew you up and spit you out if you let it. So go out and make what you wish. Don't be afraid, don't be an Eyeore, and don't let other people make you miserable. Find the good and it will find you back. I guess that's the definition of optimism.

 

[Stearmen]

Man, not sure who you all hang out with, that you think there is no humanity left tin the world. I know lots of nice people, and I hang around with so called Biker Scum! Yet, I would trust them with my last dollar. They might forget where they put it, but they would not steal it! Evey day, people do nice things, hold the door when you have an arm full of box's, let you into traffic, and just say thank you, when you do something nice for them! Turns out, old Spiro Agnew was right, when he said we should stop listing to all The Nattering Nabobs of Negativism!

 

[Zombie_61]

I was raised with the philosophy "Expect the worst -- and then when something good happens you'll be pleasantly surprised."

I can't say I was raised with this philosophy, but at some point I did come around to it on my own. My wife is the opposite--she expects things to happen as they should, then gets angry when they don't and can't understand why I don't get angry during those moments like she does. I've explained it to her a number of times over our years together, but she still hasn't completely come around to my way of thinking.

 

[Trenchfriend]

I just don't meet hedonists. They are too vigorous, too exhausting for me.

 

[Trenchfriend]

I would not call me a real "pessimist". I'm an observing (nostalgic/romanticistic?) realist and in 2010, I finally decided, not to talk further with everdays pessimists, which just get each other down with their talking on everdays encounters.

Because, THAT'S a big psychological problem, here in eastern Germany and I recognized it finally as an young adult on the age of 25. And since then, I don't like to get down my quality of life, just through these mostly middle-aged whiners, which not having hobbies (!), anymore.

Call me an relaxed cynical.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Every person born has the potential for limitless good and absolute evil. It's what they're taught growing up that tilts them toward one side or the other.