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Vintage things you're happy are still here.

Nobert

Practically Family
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832
Location
In the Maine Woods
Shoe Polish.
Clocks that tick and need to be wound.
Barbers (a career I once considered, since cutting hair is one of the few things they haven't figured out how to make a computer do yet).
Old buildings (which may be few and far between for some of you, but Portland's chock full of them).
Money printed on paper or minted in metal.
Trees.
I thought I would have more. I'm looking around my room and realizing how much of my stuff is not commonplace.
 
Messages
10,883
Location
Portage, Wis.
Pabst Blue Ribbon, the can has even changed little since 1958, same with Schlitz. Blatz, Hamm's, Lone Star, Miller High Life, Old Thompson, and Jack Daniels.

Cloth or vinyl tops on cars.

Here, too. All I ever have, or ever will wear!

Yes indeed, Old Spice works for me!

Still a quality product. I got a pair of Redwings for work and LOVE them.

Redwing Shoe Company
 

TidiousTed

Practically Family
Messages
532
Location
Oslo, Norway
Paper books
Paper newspapers
Museums
Privately owned cafés, restaurants and coffeeshops (not chains)
Jumble sales and street markeds
Shops that sell decent art material
Candles (we use a lot of them in Norway)
Hand made furniture
shops that sell film for my cameras and equipment for my darkroom
Hand tools (I love carpentry and wood work)
 

TidiousTed

Practically Family
Messages
532
Location
Oslo, Norway
We don't even have wooden forks in our local chippy anymore, it's criminal. I hadn't thought that the plastic was cheaper to produce, silly me. I just assumed that the health and safety people had made another one of their ludicrous judgements after someone in Skegness got a splinter or something.

Luckily we can still get wooden kitchen cutlery here and I use nothing else. Have even made a few myself and have some my daughters have made in carpentry class at school (maybe not the most elegant in the collection, but I woudn't dream of throwing them away)
 

LoveMyHats2

I’ll Lock Up.
Messages
5,196
Location
Michigan
Paper books
Paper newspapers
Museums
Privately owned cafés, restaurants and coffeeshops (not chains)
Jumble sales and street markeds
Shops that sell decent art material
Candles (we use a lot of them in Norway)
Hand made furniture
shops that sell film for my cameras and equipment for my darkroom
Hand tools (I love carpentry and wood work)

Spot on with this list, me too, working with wood!
 

Undertow

My Mail is Forwarded Here
Messages
3,126
Location
Des Moines, IA, US
From Lizzie:
Lipton's Noodle Soup
Plain Old Telephone Service
Newspapers
Fels-Naptha Soap
Spam (the meat, not the email)
Monopoly (the board game, not the business tactic)
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
The Social Security Act
Cut-Rite wax paper
Johnny Pesky
the Roosevelt Dime
the National Geographic
Wrigley Field
Ovaltine

From Travis:
pomade
Ace combs
sock garters
traditional barbershops
non filtered cigarettes

And I'd like to add Borax, washing soda, classic style men's clothing (since vintage sizes aren't about to fit around me), playing cards, good musicians still willing to play Golden Era music, and I'm sure there's more - my mind is fried on Friday! (and I'm just too excited to pick up my lady from the airport this evening! Brain is frazzled!)
 

LoveMyHats2

I’ll Lock Up.
Messages
5,196
Location
Michigan
Good grief, I am not sure anyone else made mention of this...but MONEY! hahahah yes indeed, it is vintage as it has been around for a while for sure....got to love having some...and am not shy about wanting even more!
 

Gregg Axley

I'll Lock Up
Messages
5,125
Location
Tennessee
And Rockports from what I've read.
Still good shoes though, I left New Balance for them. I have to admit I have 3 pair of Rockport "Dressports" over 20yrs old and still going strong, so I'm biased.
I'll add an agreement to shave soap in a puck form, I've got a few Col Conk soaps that way, and a few D.R. Harris soaps that come in a wood bowl. My nephew is just now discovering WHY his uncle shaves with it because of the cost over time, and the quality of the ingredients.
 

Connery

One Too Many
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1,125
Location
Crab Key
Very happy about this. Around since 1912

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