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What has disappeared since you were a kid

Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

streaker said:
Specifically to Detroit and other:

..., Joshua Doore Furniture... just to name a few.
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"You got an uncle in the furniture business,..Joshua Doore" Funny what we remember.

I remember Sinclair gas stations. They used to give away plastic toy dinosaurs. I had a toy box full of those things.
 
Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

Bakunin said:
Saturday morning wrestling and squiggle porn.
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Agreed, NWA/WCW Power Hour(used to be Friday Night) and WWF Wrestling Challenge on Saturday mornings, NWA's Worldchampionship Wrestling and WCW Saturday Night on TBS, NWA/WCW Worldwide on Saturday nights followed by the USWA/GWF on Saturday nights. Then AWA All-Star Wrestling and WWF Superstars and All-American wrestling on Sunday mornings, and NWA/WCW Main Event on Sunday nights. Then WWF Prime Time Wrestling/Monday Night Raw on Monday Nights.

Also gone related to pro wrestling, the Indian Strap Match. Amazing when being politically correct makes its way into the pro wrestling world.

Scrambled porn hoping to see a boob is long gone....
 
Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

16-bit video games you controlled with a joystick and a single button
Han shooting first
3 networks (4 if the weather was good)
Hiding under the couch whenever the news interrupted programming for a special report because I was sure the Russians had launched
Cassettes
Betamax vs VHS
Bipartisanship
Waiting for 6pm for the news, weather and sports
 
Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

We used to walk from down by Hanscom AFB to the center of Bedford (MA) must have been at least a few miles to the penny candy store. Got a little bag of candy that you picked out for a few cents a piece and then walked home eating it.

Rec dept programs in the summer where you did stuff like crafts and archery- all for free- just walk down to the forest where they held it and do whatever. No signup :eek:
 
Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

Much of my hair, my slim figure, the pigment from my remaining hair, endurance, muscle tone, distance vision, close vision, flexibility, short term memory...
 
Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

Movie villains that were from Russia/Vietnam and movie heroes from the Taliban.
Mail in the mailbox from people you know.
OJ Simpson was a happily married football hero and movie star.
Peter Graves and Leslie Nielsen were serious actors.
 
Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

America Online, CompuServe, Prodigy, "You've Got Mail", 5 1/4" and 3 1/2" discs, Zip Discs, Wang Computers, dial-up modems, DOS, Sim City 2000.
 
Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

Reber's Butter Beans, a food I loved for at least 50 years and as of last year, gone forever. It's hard to face my remaining years without them. Sniff.
 
Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

-Arcades (I know they still exist, but they are getting rare)

-Clearly Canadian soft drinks (an occasional treat for me in the early 90s - can't find it anymore)

-Actual newspapers (OK OK, you can still get delivery, but in the Digital Age who does?)

-Hockey in Texas, Florida, North Carolina, and Arizona

-"eBay" and "Google" are now verbs :D
 
Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

There were some good ones in this old nostalgia thread :
  • Carbon paper
  • Wacky Packs
  • Clear beer
  • Morganna the Kissing Bandit
  • Pogs
  • phone booths
  • Interstate signs in kilometers when Jimmy Carter trying to convert the USA to the metric system

I don't recall having participated in Duck & Cover drills in grade school but I remember seeing the pamphlets & posters & instructional movies as a young kid in the 70's.
 
Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

8th Man
Gigantor
black and white TV
day baseball
463' to center field
The Early Show
The Late Show
Million Dollar Movie
Kid's TV shows - Wonderama, Captain Kangaroo
Willie, Mickey, and the Duke
Original 6
Wilt vs. Bill
Winter playoffs done in April
Meatless Lent
Packed Churches on Sunday
4 priests to a parish
Latin
The six o'clock whistle
The only good commie is a dead commie
The KGB Chicken
$6,000 a year to go to private college (tuition, room, board)
no facemasks
wooden sticks
Trans Ams for every football recruit
no helicopter parents
 
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