What has disappeared since you were a kid

[XYZ]

Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

Ice Cubes, for the most part. Occasionally, I run into a jar of them for 50 cents each, but it's rarer than ever (and yes, I know that their popularity peaked long before I was born ).

I was just trying to tell someone about those the other day. So good...

 

[leswp1]

Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

Does anyone still play table football with the paper triangle as the "ball"?

As a mother of a child still in school I can wholeheartedly say they are still around and they are in the oddest places when I clean my house.

Ice Cubes, for the most part. Occasionally, I run into a jar of them for 50 cents each, but it's rarer than ever (and yes, I know that their popularity peaked long before I was born ).

 

[Hopkinja]

Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

Edit: penny hockey, too! 3 pennies, flush with each other, in triangle formation. Hit rear penny from straight above, shoots other two pennies outward. Then, shood the penny you hit, between other two pennies, by flicking your finger. After that, it is the other player's turn to hit the "middle" penny back between the two outer pennies! I did a horrible job of explaining it, but those who have played get the idea.

Used to play penny hockey all the time in 10th grade biology class. We got the teacher to play occasionally, too.

 

[Chickens@NU]

Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

My virginity.

 

[SteveP]

Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

We found 2 of those in my Grandparents' attic. My dad was excited because he played it all the time when he was a kid, so he tried to show us how it worked...it didn't. The thing vibrated and the players moved but they went everywhere, there was no way to make it work right.

Then the game worked exactly as it was supposed to!

I hear the Jacksonville Jaguars used one to build their offensive game plan!

My virginity.

Just a BIT more info than we need.

 

[FadeToBlack&Gold]

Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

Individually-wrapped chocolates, usually found in a jar next to the register:

 

[jen]

Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

After school specials (unless they're still on, and I just don't know about them)

Some stuff has disappeared, and then come back. Jelly bracelets. Friendship bracelets. I think I saw jelly shoes last year. Footwear only a kid could love.

 

[leswp1]

Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

Individually-wrapped chocolates, usually found in a jar next to the register...

Oh, I remember seeing them. Never had one tho.

 

[Wholin1]

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Quasi pleasant airline travel.

 

[leswp1]

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Stewardesses that wore little outfits and had to be young and skinny.

 

[brookyone]

Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

Red Owl grocery stores...although I've heard there was one still operating in some remote northern Minnesota location.

Those multi-colored little hard candy necklaces one would wear for a short time before eating. Don't know if they're gone but haven't seen one in thirty years. I don't buy candy anymore.

 

[peanut]

Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

As a mother of a child still in school I can wholeheartedly say they are still around and they are in the oddest places when I clean my house.

I got thrown out of an Outback in Toronto last year. I was wide right into a woman's hair.

 

[Bob Gray]

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Then the game worked exactly as it was supposed to!

I hear the Jacksonville Jaguars used one to build their offensive game plan!

True. It was not a game for those who wanted a serious simulation of football. But it was a lot of fun for kids.

 

[Kepler]

Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

True. It was not a game for those who wanted a serious simulation of football. But it was a lot of fun for kids.

The thing that usually ended a play was the runner losing his way. You would design wide sweeps to get you by the rugby scrum in the center of the field, and that would get you maybe 20 yards in a wide arc, but then your player - completely alone and with nothing between him and the goal line -- would circle around and head back to the line of scrimmage. My friend and I experimented with all sorts of the rules similar to soccer offsides to rule players who got free by say 20 yards to automatically score, or allowing mid-play adjustments to the ball carrier and defenders.

Passing was also pretty random. The same kicker doohicky was used for passing and it had quite a whip arm -- you could catapult the little felt football halfway across the basement. We eventually came up with rules that if a passing route was open and the QB could stay "in the pocket" for three seconds then a die roll determined whether the pass was complete, incomplete or intercepted.

There were also "live" and "dead" patches on the field (roughly correlating to where it had been dropped, stepped on by the cat, etc). As the game got older it rattled more and more and generally sounded like an HO transformer that was about to catch fire.

 

[Kepler]

Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

Stewardesses that wore little outfits and had to be young and skinny.

I'm even too young to remember this. Even the mildly passable stage of stewardessdom that I recall (80's) had them have the hard, over-made-up look of an Avon saleswoman.

It's all been crap since Eastern and Pan Am went belly up.

 

[leswp1]

Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

I was flying in the late 60s, early 70s. They had the boufant (sp) hair, the little outfits and the skinny, skinny bodies.

 

[Ned Braden]

Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

has Pluto been mentioned?

And on stewardesses, up through the late 70's the airline business was heavily regulated by the feds. If your competitors have to charge the same fares you do, you do what you can to get 'em in the seats.

 

[Ralph Baer]

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Individually-wrapped chocolates, usually found in a jar next to the register:

Thanks for the explanation. I was wondering since there are still some ice cubes in my freezer. (The do disappear due to sublimation eventually.)

 

[Ralph Baer]

Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

The thing that usually ended a play was the runner losing his way. You would design wide sweeps to get you by the rugby scrum in the center of the field, and that would get you maybe 20 yards in a wide arc, but then your player - completely alone and with nothing between him and the goal line -- would circle around and head back to the line of scrimmage. My friend and I experimented with all sorts of the rules similar to soccer offsides to rule players who got free by say 20 yards to automatically score, or allowing mid-play adjustments to the ball carrier and defenders.

Passing was also pretty random. The same kicker doohicky was used for passing and it had quite a whip arm -- you could catapult the little felt football halfway across the basement. We eventually came up with rules that if a passing route was open and the QB could stay "in the pocket" for three seconds then a die roll determined whether the pass was complete, incomplete or intercepted.

There were also "live" and "dead" patches on the field (roughly correlating to where it had been dropped, stepped on by the cat, etc). As the game got older it rattled more and more and generally sounded like an HO transformer that was about to catch fire.

I am amazed that people could actually play that game. I had one and probably used it about five times.

 

[state of hockey]

Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

Red Owl grocery stores...although I've heard there was one still operating in some remote northern Minnesota location.

The only one remaining is one in Green Bay, WI. I remember the one on Coon Rapids Blvd and Crooked Lake Blvd. It then turned into a Supervalu, then eventually into a Grand Slam. The Grand Slam is still there, and I hear it and Cheap Skate are great places to be touched inappropriately if you are a minor.