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What has disappeared since you were a kid

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Brenthoven said:
Ice cream trucks.
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We still have those around. They hit the baseball fields and small neighborhoods in our town, with music playing and the bells ringing.

The name on the truck is HokyPop... or something like that. ;) :p
 
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Wondering what body was under someone's clothes rather than having the wares displayed in living color, including brastraps and thongsand acres of flesh (sometimes more than a few acres)
 
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joecct said:
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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Some of those things we still have...the Original 6 got a little bigger, we added a 0 to the bill for private college and football recruits get foreign cars now.
 
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Console TV's (that weighed 400 lbs in a real wood case) with no remote and the big clunky clicker dial to change channels. Then when you turned it off the picture imploded into a little dot in the middle of the screen that disappeared.
 
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They must have made school desks out of something awesome if it could withstand a nuclear blast!
 
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Priceless said:
They must have made school desks out of something awesome if it could withstand a nuclear blast!
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I think that they figured that it would it easier to identify bodies, but we weren't told that.
 
Ralph Baer said:
I see one often on weekends around here.
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I saw one very weekend I was up in Big Lake, MN last summer, and usually every other weekend here in Coon Rapids. The one here is a rusty white van that has "Ice Kreem" crappily spray painted on the side. Seems pretty legit.
 
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Roy Rogers, for the most part.
 
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After school specials and that commercial about drugs with the teen saying, "I LEARNED IT FROM YOU!!!!!!!! I LEARNED IT BY WATCHING YOU!!!!" or the one with the fried egg saying, "This is your brain on drugs."
 
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Schoolhouse rock and Ads about not littering.
 
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leswp1 said:
Ads about not littering.
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Specifically this ad. Saw versions of it even into the 90s:

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Money that actually had value (silver quarters).

Stories in Time magazine about how the next Ice Age was starting.

Plastic benches at The Ralph. (14 "seats" --> 20 collegians)

On the golf course, woods that were actually made of wood, and irons that were actually made of iron.
 
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Long distance carrier commercials. Granted, they've been replaced by cell phone commercials, which are more numerous and worse.
 
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Widw World of Sports....Spanning the globe...Dundadundaaaaaaa

It is Saturday. we are having burgers, fries and beans and this is missing.
 
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