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ownedgirlie -> RE: Things you don't see anymore. (4/24/2007 11:35:07 PM)

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ORIGINAL: dcnovice

. . . glasses from the gas station . . .


We got a set of brown mugs with what I guess was supposed to look like icing around the brim.




brightspot -> RE: Things you don't see anymore. (4/25/2007 2:00:15 AM)

~Boxes of "Cracker Jacks" with a cool prize in the box.
~Banana seat bikes with the long handle bars and sissy bar on the back.
~We used to have Paper Drives at school as a way to recycle, all the kids would go all over the neighborhood(when kids went to the school that was closest in there neighborhhod!) collecting newspapers the people would save up all year and the 6th graders always won first prize.
~I loved the movie theaters too! Pratically lived at them on the weekends, and I remember too how wild they could be Popeye and all the making out in the balconies. It was like the Movie Theaters were babysitters.[:)]
~It used to take a whole day sitting in the sun to get a little bit of color to your skin, people would sunbath all day long, all weekend long!
~Music that had meaningful lyrics and some simple really great concerts for $12 a ticket!
~The neighborhood kids all play games together, like "60" at night, where two would have to be blindfolded for 5 minutes on a porch and the rest would scatter around on that block and would have to make it back to the porch and yell 60 before they were spotted and touched, the first 2 caught were the next 2 blindfolded.
~Jump Rope and Jacks, I loved to play Jacks!
~Peter Max art.
~ Black light posters.
~ "cigarette" rolling machines.
~Black and White photos only.
~ Matches or a Zippo type lighter.
~People willing to stand up in the streets, be arrested, beat in the head by the cops for what they belived in.

Missy.




MissDiscipline -> RE: Things you don't see anymore. (4/25/2007 2:14:35 AM)

Tell ya what- bring that Cheech -n- Chong album  and We can bake some brownies in My E-Z bake oven




proudsub -> RE: Things you don't see anymore. (4/25/2007 11:42:12 AM)

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Marraiges that last and venereal disease that didnt.


Hmmm i have both of those, married over 38 yrs and my HPV was cured, but i do understand what you are saying.[:)]




Lashra -> RE: Things you don't see anymore. (4/25/2007 12:13:28 PM)

Kids playing outside with other kids enjoying the nice weather, or riding their mini bikes or shooting tincans with their bb guns. Parents outdoors teaching their kids to fly kites or how to skip a rock across a pond. I know I miss rootbeer floats in the summer time. My Dad use to take me to Highs every saturday after work to get a root beer float. YUMMY.  I miss my Adam West Batman lunchbox, it was metal and had a thermos tucked inside, you could really clock someone upside the head with that thing lol
Trying to call somewhere to get customer service and having an actual PERSON answer the phone...

~Lashra




OedipusRexIt -> RE: Things you don't see anymore. (4/25/2007 2:21:28 PM)

I have really enjoyed reading this thread...  So many sentimental favorites...

Must be a lot more people my "age" here than I realized.




SDFemDom4cuck -> RE: Things you don't see anymore. (4/25/2007 2:37:30 PM)

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And how about those cast iron meat grinders that my mother used to use to make home-made hash?
Does anyone in here still have one of those?
She'd tighten it to the kitchen table with a built-in vice and start grinding up roast beef pieces or ham.


I have one, it was my grandmother's. I still use it to make sausage or bratwurst sometimes. Haven't done that in a couple years though. It's so heavy that I dropped it once and it dented the kitchen floor.

That's another thing I miss. Small appliances that last forever. They were made from metal and heavy as hell but they still held up over time. I went through a half dozen cheapo plastic housed hand mixers before I finally ended up buying a 30 year old one (for $1) at an estate sale. It was there and I figured for $1 even if it only lasted 6 months I would be happy. That was 9 years ago and it has lasted longer than the dozen before it did all together. Now I'm kicking myself for not buying the matching Kitchen Aid stand mixer and the blender as well.




MasterofDiscipli -> RE: Things you don't see anymore. (4/25/2007 2:48:02 PM)

how about service staff in shops who really tried to help...

Or - as a kid, being able to go out on your bicycle with your friends - and not having to worry about drive-bys or traffic...
and not having a house key - because no-one locked their doors
Or going out on hallowe'en and doing real trick-or-treat - and not having to worry about razor-blades in apples, or drugs in candies
Or spending every free minute outside, having fun - of course, you had to finish chores and homework first




dcnovice -> RE: Things you don't see anymore. (4/25/2007 6:12:51 PM)

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I miss my Adam West Batman lunchbox


You had a "Batman" lunchbox?! I am sooooo jealous.

Lately I've become addicted to watching old episodes on YouTube.




minnetar -> RE: Things you don't see anymore. (4/25/2007 6:18:51 PM)

How about penny candy and S&H green stamps.

minnetar




minnetar -> RE: Things you don't see anymore. (4/25/2007 6:19:57 PM)

lol my parents have been married 54 years - congrats to you!!

minnetar




dcnovice -> RE: Things you don't see anymore. (4/25/2007 7:07:18 PM)

. . . card catalogues . . . drive-in movies . . . those strips of white paper with candy dots on them . . . presidential campaigns that began the same year they ended . . . hats . . . changing the "golf ball" in an IBM Selectric . . . no answer . . . putting the phone off the hook during holiday dinners . . . missals . . . "Europe on Five Dolllars a Day" . . .




UR2Badored -> RE: Things you don't see anymore. (4/25/2007 7:45:43 PM)

Things I miss:
 
Right around the time after the first "moon" landing.  There was a candy called "space sticks".

picking wild strawberries and blackberries in the spring

Swinging from a rope tied to a tree over a bayou

An old black (dialup) telephone ringing  in my Grandmother's kitchen.

The unfractured family of my childhood

fishing and camping

The smiles and hugs of the departed

Picking out four leaf clovers from a patch










proudsub -> RE: Things you don't see anymore. (4/25/2007 7:48:18 PM)

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ORIGINAL: minnetar

lol my parents have been married 54 years - congrats to you!!

minnetar



Thank you and to them too. [:)]




minnetar -> RE: Things you don't see anymore. (4/25/2007 7:50:03 PM)

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ORIGINAL: proudsub

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ORIGINAL: minnetar

lol my parents have been married 54 years - congrats to you!!

minnetar



Thank you and to them too. [:)]


thank you it means alot to me.

minnetar




Sinergy -> RE: Things you don't see anymore. (4/25/2007 7:56:53 PM)

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ORIGINAL: dcnovice

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I miss my Adam West Batman lunchbox


You had a "Batman" lunchbox?! I am sooooo jealous.

Lately I've become addicted to watching old episodes on YouTube.


I have an original Batman quilt circa 1965.

POW!  WHAM! SMACK!

Might appraise it on E-bay.

Sinergy




LeMis -> RE: Things you don't see anymore. (4/25/2007 9:07:30 PM)

rotary dial phones (nobody ever said press 1 for English)

sitting around the TV together Sunday night watching "Bonanza"

riding in the back of an old pick up truck (the one where the wheels kind of stuck out)

bringing a battery operated, portable record player & your favorite 45's to school on the bus (most everybody wanted to sit by that person) lol






popeye1250 -> RE: Things you don't see anymore. (4/25/2007 9:25:49 PM)

Good paying jobs in Michigan. Now that the last two BONEHEAD Presidents got us involved in these "Free Trade" deals!




DonJ9069 -> RE: Things you don't see anymore. (4/25/2007 9:35:50 PM)

Well I've seen a bunch I've done & heard of doing & missing but some I haven't seen
Hand cranked homemade ice cream , fresh drawn water from a hand dug well spring fed,
fresh picked  iceboxwd chilled watermellon.
Not to mention a good ole  old fation family gathering  Sunday dinner & home baked pies that were cooked in a wood burning oven/stove.
Biskets were made from fresh homemade buttermild & homemade lard, & once done buttered with fresh churned butter that would just melt in your mouth good




DonJ9069 -> RE: Things you don't see anymore. (4/25/2007 9:38:15 PM)

oops  homemade buttermilk
& yes I'm from the south can't ya tell ??




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