What has disappeared since you were a kid

[SteveP]

Quasi pleasant airline travel.

With meals served on china plates.

 

[Bob Gray]

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.

The runner did do some real random things at times. I think we just counted forward progress or something. We never used the passer, kind of the 3-yards and a cloud of dusty theory I guess. I remember once in awhile two players would hook arms and go round and round.

Sounds like it's actually making a comeback!

http://http://acn.liveauctioneers.com/index.php/component/content/article/58-toy-collector-magazine/271-tabletop-touchdowns

 

[Wholin1]

Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

Getting excited about the new car models coming out each fall. Ditto the new TV shows on the 3 networks.

 

[bigmrg74]

Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

Getting excited about the new car models coming out each fall. Ditto the new TV shows on the 3 networks.

The new Oldsmobiles are in early this year.

 

[The Rube]

Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

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.

Red Owl.....sigh. Family always went to the one in Brooklyn Center, off of Brooklyn Blvd. They didn't bag your groceries, you got this giant cardboard bin with handles to put your groceries in. And the Red Owl brand of pop? Horrid.

 

[zamboni crash-test dummy]

Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

tv dinners in metal trays with pirates and other fun designs embossed in the bottom. i believe it was an incentive to get kids to eat the peas.

 

[The Rube]

Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

Lemonade stands. They were rare even when I was a kid, and they are just about non-existent now.

10-cent or 5-cent candies, like Now'N'Laters/Red Hots/Lemonheads/etc. Some of the elders on here mentioned penny candies, well those are the equivalent to my childhood convenience store sprees.

And does anyone make cinnamon toothpicks anymore? A student at my elementary school made a, ahem, "fortune" (relatively) by selling this on the playground. Toothpicks dipped in cinnamon oil.

The quality of an Old Country Buffet. It used to be THE buffet to go to, and a good value. Now? Embarassing.

Chi-Chi's. I don't think they ever recovered from the HepA incident. It was decent food.

Someone mentioned Jarts. When my grandpa sold his house to move into a smaller condo, he obviously needed to get rid of a LOT of stuff. I immediately laid claim on the Jarts set he had. With some research, not only are they dangerous, because throwing metal-tipped darts are indeed dangerous, they are federally outlawed to be sold (even on eBay and such), the set I own have tips that contain lead. Yay!

 

[St. Clown]

Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

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.

Red Owl was owned by SuperValu. The vast majority of them dropped the Red Owl name and either adopted the SuperValu name or were upgraded into Cub Foods.

In Apple Valley, back in the late 70's and early 80's, we had an Applebaum's, which is where my mom always shopped. I'm not sure if it was part of a chain or a stand alone, but if eventually became a Rainbow Foods - at a different location than the current Rainbow Foods in AV, but within the same stripmall. There was a SuperValu across Cty Rd 42, but that's a bit sketchy in my memory - it may have even been a Red Owl.

 

[Dude Love]

Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

-plugging your car in during the winter
-station wagons
-real Christmas trees
-arcades

 

[leswp1]

Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

tv dinners in metal trays with pirates and other fun designs embossed in the bottom. i believe it was an incentive to get kids to eat the peas.

I forgot about those!

-plugging your car in during the winter
-station wagons
-real Christmas trees
-arcades

I own a mommy mobile and love it
We cut a real tree at the farm every yr
Hampton Beach has Arcades as does Salisbury Beach.

Lemonade stands. They were rare even when I was a kid, and they are just about non-existent now.

10-cent or 5-cent candies, like Now'N'Laters/Red Hots/Lemonheads/etc. Some of the elders on here mentioned penny candies, well those are the equivalent to my childhood convenience store sprees.

And does anyone make cinnamon toothpicks anymore? A student at my elementary school made a, ahem, "fortune" (relatively) by selling this on the playground. Toothpicks dipped in cinnamon oil.

The quality of an Old Country Buffet. It used to be THE buffet to go to, and a good value. Now? Embarassing.

Chi-Chi's. I don't think they ever recovered from the HepA incident. It was decent food.

Someone mentioned Jarts. When my grandpa sold his house to move into a smaller condo, he obviously needed to get rid of a LOT of stuff. I immediately laid claim on the Jarts set he had. With some research, not only are they dangerous, because throwing metal-tipped darts are indeed dangerous, they are federally outlawed to be sold (even on eBay and such), the set I own have tips that contain lead. Yay!

Hmm, first you are removing me forcibly from the door in the lodge. Now I am an elder!!??

We have metal Jarts at the family Lake house. I don't think anyone died from them yet. Must not be trying hard enough.

 

[Ralph Baer]

Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

Lemonade stands. They were rare even when I was a kid, and they are just about non-existent now.

If you are referring to kids selling lemonade, I often see those on bike trails, usually with their parents nearby.

At the Folklife festival on the National Mall in DC in late June and early July, there are official stands that sell lemonade, limeade, and similar things, at what always seems to me to be inflated prices.

 

[goldy_331]

Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

-plugging your car in during the winter
-station wagons
-real Christmas trees
-arcades

We drive a station wagon now - of course it is smaller and lighter than the sedan we had when I learned to drive (and since it's AWD it goes way better in snow than the RWD chevy did).
We cut or buy a real tree every year.
There are arcades at bowling alleys and the State Fair.

 

[The Rube]

Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

A lot of people I know plug in their cars, along with our truckers at work.

 

[peanut]

Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

A lot of people I know plug in their cars, along with our truckers at work.

Good Humor ice cream trucks

 

[Handyman]

Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

Red Owl was owned by SuperValu. The vast majority of them dropped the Red Owl name and either adopted the SuperValu name or were upgraded into Cub Foods.

In Apple Valley, back in the late 70's and early 80's, we had an Applebaum's, which is where my mom always shopped. I'm not sure if it was part of a chain or a stand alone, but if eventually became a Rainbow Foods - at a different location than the current Rainbow Foods in AV, but within the same stripmall. There was a SuperValu across Cty Rd 42, but that's a bit sketchy in my memory - it may have even been a Red Owl.

I can't imagine that Applebaum allowed for a standalone of his namesake store.

Holiday Plus...I worked at the one in Plymouth (which is now Cub Foods after Applebaum bought them) and used to love that place.

Normal Target stores. I hate that every Target is now either a Greatland or Supertarget, back in the day there was only one Supertarget. The Target in St. Louis Park and Har Mar (aka Target number 1) were the original Targets style, no grocery store just retail stuff...and a bakery.

 

[MinnesotaNorthStar]

Normal Target stores. I hate that every Target is now either a Greatland or Supertarget, back in the day there was only one Supertarget. The Target in St. Louis Park and Har Mar (aka Target number 1) were the original Targets style, no grocery store just retail stuff...and a bakery.

Knollwood was number 2.

All Targets will have groceries in the next few years. Having them increases sales by a lot. I assume when they expand to Canada they'll have them too. The St. Louis Park store is still a "normal" Target (and yes, I do know what your point was )

 

[burd]

Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

Do kids still motorize their bikes with baseball cards? Cards usually came 5 in a pack, I think, with a wide, thin slice of pink bubblegum and a kind of powdery substance in the wrapping. Cheap. Yogi Berrra, Tony Oliva, Yaz--those guys never served as bike motors.

 

[BassAle]

Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

Battleship after supper.

of course mother and daughter are doing dishes in the background while father and son do something fun - they belong in the kitchen after all!

 

[state of hockey]

Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

I can't imagine that Applebaum allowed for a standalone of his namesake store.

Holiday Plus...I worked at the one in Plymouth (which is now Cub Foods after Applebaum bought them) and used to love that place.

Normal Target stores. I hate that every Target is now either a Greatland or Supertarget, back in the day there was only one Supertarget. The Target in St. Louis Park and Har Mar (aka Target number 1) were the original Targets style, no grocery store just retail stuff...and a bakery.

The Cub Foods in Fridley just off of 694 used to be a Holiday too. They still have the monstrous blue carts in the backroom.

I think the Target on Main Street in Coon Rapids downgraded from a Greatland to a normal Target. Pretty in name only, though. I think the greatland designation is being dismissed, they'll soon just be Target or SuperTarget.

 

[Foxton]

Re: What has disappeared since you were a kid

of course mother and daughter are doing dishes in the background while father and son do something fun - they belong in the kitchen after all!

Bout time someone pointed that out, although I had mentioned it in the congress thread.