Things Rarely Seen Anymore

[WalterTrull]

OMG! Burma Shave signs...I really miss them. Unfortunately those who didn't travel back in the day may be scratching their heads over this.

Loved 'em

 

[It Aint Necessarily So]

What other things are seldom seen these days?

I've been keeping a running list of these kinds of things for some time now. Here are the items I don't recall seeing others post:

Polaroid cameras and flash bulbs
paint-by-number kits
hand held transistor radios
Fizzies and Necco wafers
skate keys
beepers
cigarette vending machines
typewriters
carbon paper
dial phones
postage stamps, hand written letters, pen pals, and corner mail boxes
purple mimeographs
mercury dimes and buffalo nickels
station wagons
Beeman's and Blackjack gum (five cents)
saccharine
bicycle pumps
rooftop antennas
car windows that need to be cranked up and down
tin (not aluminum) foil
bobbie pins
butch wax
shoe polish that rolled on as a liquid
Radio Flyer red wagons
leaded gas (and ethyl)
waitresses on roller-skates serving us in the car
Alka Seltzer and seltzer bottles
mail-in cereal box tops
Brylcreem and Wildroot
Blue Chip and Green Stamps
metal ice trays with levers
Fuller brush men
milk delivered to the door in bottles and neighborhood ice cream trucks
double features separated by cartoons or a newsreel and maybe at the drive-in
red pistachios
pinball machines
wax mustaches and teeth
mercurochrome
blackboards and chalk

 

[David1967]

What was bigfoot doing in the metro center?

Havent you seen "Harry and the Hendersons?"

 

[Aupmanyav]

We have them, we have them, we have nearly all of them, even honest politicians (Narendra Modi, our Prime Minister), though not the lp record player.

 

[Stevicus]

What other things are seldom seen these days?

I haven't heard of any Elvis sightings in a long time. Maybe he's dead.

 

[PureX]

Haven't seen car phones in a very long time. Skate boards I only see on videos these days, used to be kids on those all the time, it's all kick scooters now?

I never even see any kids, anymore. Used to be every residential neighborhood would have a pack of kids riding bikes or playing games in the street or on empty lots. You had to watch out for them when driving through. But now I never see kids out doing those things. Where did they all go?

 

[Jumi]

I never even see any kids, anymore. Used to be every residential neighborhood would have a pack of kids riding bikes or playing games in the street or on empty lots. You had to watch out for them when driving through. But now I never see kids out doing those things. Where did they all go?

Do you live in an urban area? Kids are still somewhat active where I live, though on average I'd bet not as active as we were as kids.

 

[BSM1]

Goat carts

 

[sun rise]

Lunch pails.

$219.99 on eBay.

 

[ChristineM]

Perforated printer paper
Music cassettes
Sony walkmans
Boom boxes
Crt TVs

 

[Brickjectivity]

Stand alone electric percolator. It 'Perks' your coffee grounds into coffee. This was what everybody used prior to the Mr. Coffee machines. I have never used one, but my parents used theirs frequently.

 

[BSM1]

White wall tires and curb feelers

 

[Skwim]

Haven't seen car phones in a very long time. Skate boards I only see on videos these days, used to be kids on those all the time, it's all kick scooters now?

Was in the airport a few days ago and saw a couple of children in their twenties each carrying a skateboard.

.

 

[Twilight Hue]

Game of Jarts with the metal tips

Horseshoes

Soft drinks in glass bottles

Beer cans that you can't crush with one hand

Flying kites in March

Oil cans with insertable metal spouts

Manual typewriters with ribbons and bells

 

[Twilight Hue]

White wall tires and curb feelers

I'd like to add on those metal wheel well covers that hide half of the rear wheels on cars as well as those metal half covers for headlights.

 

[YmirGF]

 

[Wu Wei]

 

[Wu Wei]

Cars on the street that actually look different from one another

 

[Revoltingest]

OMG! Burma Shave signs...I really miss them. Unfortunately those who didn't travel back in the day may be scratching their heads over this.

As a kid, it was a real treat to come upon them & read them.

 

[Revoltingest]