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What has disappeared since you were a kid

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My mojo, leather hockey skates and wooden sticks.


In order of seriousness of loss.
 
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leswp1 said:
Metal snow shovels
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I bought one when I bought my house. The corners have curled up on it. I wish there was a way to reinforce the corners so that wouldn't happen.


I had a Datsan Sentra in high school. When the company changed its name to Nissan, I think this is the only car model to survive. Others lasted a few short years, but then were swapped out as soon as new designs were practical.
 
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St. Clown said:
I bought one when I bought my house. The corners have curled up on it. I wish there was a way to reinforce the corners so that wouldn't happen.
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I'd be willing to bet some enterprising engineer has come up with some sort of a shovel brassiere.
 
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St. Clown said:
I had a Datsan Sentra in high school. When the company changed its name to Nissan, I think this is the only car model to survive. Others lasted a few short years, but then were swapped out as soon as new designs were practical.
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They have brought back the Z's, which are still pretty awesome.

Curled up corners on metal shovels are one hell of a nuisance.
 
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Wholin1 said:
Remember Cubco bindings? They were on my first pair of skis, wooden Northland models.
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Oh yeah, excellent chance of a leg break in those spring loaded monsters. I had the old bear trap style on my no name wooden skis and then on my Head Standards I got one of the first Salomon bindings. By the time I got my Rossignol Stratos I had moved up to the Look turntable. Got rid of the leather boots as soon as Lange plastic boots came out. Had Lange Standards, Comps and still have my orange Lange XLR's. Went through lots of skis over the years; Dynamic VR17, Rossignol ST, Rossignol 4S, Rossignol Haute Route (Off Trail/Powder Ski), Atomic Arc SL and Head Racing SL. Loved the long boards. My VR17s were 215 cm race stock GS skis I got from one of the Norwegians on the DU ski team. Everthing else but the Haute Routes were 205 to 207 cm slaloms.
 
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du78 said:
Leather ski boots
Wooden skis
Metal skis made by Head and Hart
Bear trap bindings
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That reminds me that I haven't been on a traditional pair of "thin" skis in over a decade. Those were the days. I think I owned some K2s before I switched to parabolical Rossis and never went back.

Oh that also reminds me - the days when snowboarding was strictly for teen/early 20s rebel-y types and banned at a lot of traditional resorts? Long gone.
 
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Northland hockey sticks with straight blades
Leather hockey helmets
 
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state of hockey said:
They have brought back the Z's, which are still pretty awesome.

Curled up corners on metal shovels are one hell of a nuisance.
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Yeah, they brought back the Z's, but the numbering's all different now. Weren't they Z250 and Z280 way back when? Now they're 350 or 370, something like that. And they're reminiscent of the old models in name only, really. I know the old ones were pretty good for a car company like Datsun, but they don't hold any real similarity to the current Z's.
 
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I remember a vibrating football game where it was a metal field and a bunch of little players on pedestals. You'd set up your players in some formation on each side, hit the button, and they'd move forward, more or less. I remember it was a lot of fun until my brother pushed me one day and I fell on it, breaking it. Haven't seen one of those in decades.
 
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Battleship after supper.
 
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That game rules. Of course the only flaw is that is depends on the honor system. HA! Fat chance.
 
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Battleship certainly hasn't disappeared. Google it and you get several on-line or computer versions. Maybe the Milton Bradley plastic pins version isn't around so much, but I consider even that high tech. I played it with pencil and paper.
 
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A friend and I were laughing earlier this week about how watching four and five-year-olds scrimmage in hockey reminds us of those old vibrating football games.
 
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Bob Gray said:
I remember a vibrating football game where it was a metal field and a bunch of little players on pedestals. You'd set up your players in some formation on each side, hit the button, and they'd move forward, more or less. I remember it was a lot of fun until my brother pushed me one day and I fell on it, breaking it. Haven't seen one of those in decades.
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There were several versions. The one I had had a little soft plastic "comb tooth" like appendage on the bottom. By bending each leg you could make your players go straight or curve (usually circling until they fell over). The place kicker was a strange looking apparatus that was about 3x the height of the other players. All the old team logos were around the base and there was a matte backdrop you could put on one side for the stands, and the scoreboard had dials. When it broke my father made a new one in his carpentry shop.

That brings back wonderful memories. :)
 
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du78 said:
Still banned at Alta
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Deer Valley still does too, I think. And some joint out East. I can remember when Aspen and a lot of others used to though.

I expect Alta will keep that rule for some time to come. I don't really hate boarders (unless they're parked in the middle of the slope), but it's cool to have one mountain that is still somewhat like the old days.
 
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