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Posted: 6/25/2019 6:32:59 AM EST

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lawn darts and VCR

Posted: 6/25/2019 6:58:45 AM EST

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Car Talk on NPR

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The Paul and Young Ron Show on 94.9 ZETA (the station is also gone)

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I’ll agree with you on car talk. I miss the days of npr not being about Trump

Posted: 6/25/2019 6:59:47 AM EST

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The Experience of going to the Dump/Landfill. Single blade Walk behind Lawnmowers wider than 21”. BYOB outdoor concerts. Service Merchandise. Guns sold at Hardware and Department Stores. Banging hot Teacher without it being in the News.

Posted: 6/25/2019 7:12:33 AM EST

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kids playing outside until the street lights are on
kids playing

Posted: 6/25/2019 7:17:12 AM EST

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Posted: 6/25/2019 7:25:53 AM EST

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Hersheys chocalate milk mix, the powdered stuff, not the syrup

Posted: 6/25/2019 7:26:03 AM EST

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Common Sense

Posted: 6/25/2019 7:31:45 AM EST

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Name Something You Grew Up With That Is Gone and Not Coming Back

My uterus. That damn thing was a constant source of worry and aggravation. I was never so happy to be rid of anything else as I was that.

Posted: 6/25/2019 7:32:48 AM EST

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Maybe in the US, but still used in Cambodia

Posted: 6/25/2019 7:34:28 AM EST

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Just in case it hasn't been mentioned yet...

Posted: 6/25/2019 7:34:50 AM EST

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Thank you zima for all you did for me as a 16 year old.

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I actually have a six pack of these. They stopped making them in 2008. I’ve been tempted to try one.

Posted: 6/25/2019 7:35:54 AM EST

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The Experience of going to the Dump/Landfill. Single blade Walk behind Lawnmowers wider than 21”. BYOB outdoor concerts. Service Merchandise. Guns sold at Hardware and Department Stores. Banging hot Teacher without it being in the News.

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I go to the dump every other week or so. It's still a thing.

Posted: 6/25/2019 7:38:33 AM EST

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The dump is very much still a thing.

Posted: 6/25/2019 7:40:04 AM EST

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Good man!

Posted: 6/25/2019 7:43:16 AM EST

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Posted: 6/25/2019 7:48:17 AM EST

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The Experience of going to the Dump/Landfill.

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I go to the dump a couple or three times a week. The county dump and Walmart are the two most frequented social venues in my rural SE VA county.

Posted: 6/25/2019 7:54:01 AM EST

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A regular hairline.

Posted: 6/25/2019 7:59:06 AM EST

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When "Central" asked, "Number, please?".

Radio dials with the triangle-in-circle CONELRAD icons at 640 and 1240 KHz.

Posted: 6/25/2019 8:04:39 AM EST

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Real Coke in a 16 oz bottle.

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Remember that for years, Coke only came in 6 oz bottles.

Posted: 6/25/2019 8:07:03 AM EST

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Lawn Darts (w/metal tips)

Posted: 6/25/2019 8:09:07 AM EST

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Remember that for years, Coke only came in 6 oz bottles.

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And Pepsi made it an advetising point.

Pepsi Cola 1940's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PU1qeKGVmo

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Classic Timex Motorboat Commercial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NHq3Yze6s0

IIRC, they also did one where they couldn't get the motor to start.

Posted: 6/25/2019 8:09:12 AM EST

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I actually have a six pack of these. They stopped making them in 2008. I’ve been tempted to try one.

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The still distribute them in Japan, and apparently they brought them back in 2017 for a limited run in the US. I only remember trying that once, ...and once was enough. I seem to remember it tasting a lot like a Sprite malt liquer. I remember girls drinking them.

Posted: 6/25/2019 8:10:56 AM EST

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Why you need a roach clip?

Posted: 6/25/2019 8:17:40 AM EST

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This. Children are tied to their parents with a tether from their asshole these days. Parents at work literally need an hourly update from their children ago they know where they are and that they are alive.

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There didn't used to be the huge number of pedophiles and other degenerates roaming the streets like there are now. I don't blame folks for keeping tabs on their kids.

Posted: 6/25/2019 8:21:43 AM EST

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What do I remember?

Road Runner and Wile Coyote Cartoons, with acknowledgements to Acme Safe Co, Acme Anvil Co, Acme Dynamite Co, Acme Big Heavy Stuff Co.

15 cent hamburgers at McDonalds, 18 cent cheeseburgers.

15 cent a gallon gas, pumped by a station attendant who cleaned your windshield.

Being able to mail order rifles from ads in the back of magazines.

My high school had a shooting range in the basement for the rifle team.

Clipping baseball cards to your bicycle fender so that the spokes brushed against them, making a "motorcycle" sound.

Kids sports teams actually had "try outs". If you weren't good enough, you weren't on the team. No trophy for being a bum.

Athletic shoes were black or white, hi cut or low, Converse or Keds. That's all.

Buying a Funk and Wagnalls Encyclopedia at Krogers, one book a week.

Oldsmobile Cutlass 442 - 4 barrel carb, 4 speed stick shift, dual exhaust and 400 cubic inch V8. What an ass kicker. (I grew up in Lansing, so we made them there and had lots of them on the streets)

There was only enough talent in Hollywood for three TV networks. Which is still true today.

"we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and success of liberty." President John F. Kennedy. Can you imagine any democrat saying this today?

and finally,

A civilized society.

Posted: 6/25/2019 8:21:55 AM EST

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Common sense...

Posted: 6/25/2019 8:24:35 AM EST

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This. Children are tied to their parents with a tether from their asshole these days. Parents at work literally need an hourly update from their children ago they know where they are and that they are alive.

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You'll really lose your shit when I tell you that there was a time when momma raised her own kids at home and didn't send them to daycare to be raised by somebody else. Some still do.

Posted: 6/25/2019 8:24:50 AM EST

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Gunrights and freedom in NJ

Posted: 6/25/2019 8:25:08 AM EST

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And Pepsi made it an advetising point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PU1qeKGVmo

Live TV commerecials

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NHq3Yze6s0
IIRC, they also did one where they couldn't get the motor to start.

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Today we have at least a half dozen channels that are nothing but live commercials. The two biggest are HSN and QVC. But you can find channels that sell coins, others that sell jewelry, and still others that sell knives, swords, and various junk items ....all live.

Posted: 6/25/2019 8:27:22 AM EST

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Pretty much everything everyone else has posted, but for me I miss real Coca-Cola in the 6 ounce thick green bottles taken from one of those short little machines where you dropped a nickle (or dime) into turned the handle and pulled out an ice cold Coca-Cola.

PS I'll argue with anyone until the end of time that the taste of Coke out of those bottles tastes totally different than it does today new Coke notwithstanding.

Posted: 6/25/2019 8:28:38 AM EST

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The still distribute them in Japan, and apparently they brought them back in 2017 for a limited run in the US. I only remember trying that once, ...and once was enough. I seem to remember it tasting a lot like a Sprite malt liquer. I remember girls drinking them.

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I want to say mine are dated 2001. When I go back to my place in GA I’ll start a thread and do a taste test. They probably age like a cheap milk.

Posted: 6/25/2019 8:29:28 AM EST

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Pic heavy...some of this stuff might be around, but it's worth posting anyway...

Posted: 6/25/2019 8:30:40 AM EST

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There didn't used to be the huge number of pedophiles and other degenerates roaming the streets like there are now. I don't blame folks for keeping tabs on their kids.

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This. Children are tied to their parents with a tether from their asshole these days. Parents at work literally need an hourly update from their children ago they know where they are and that they are alive.

There didn't used to be the huge number of pedophiles and other degenerates roaming the streets like there are now. I don't blame folks for keeping tabs on their kids.

Sure there was. You just didn’t hear about them 24/7.

Posted: 6/25/2019 8:31:10 AM EST

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Freedom.

That and cutting wood for my parents buck stove each fall.

I thought it was a pain in the ass but I really enjoyed it.

TC

Posted: 6/25/2019 8:32:15 AM EST

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There didn't used to be the huge number of pedophiles and other degenerates roaming the streets like there are now. I don't blame folks for keeping tabs on their kids.

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I'm not so sure. I think we just didn't hear about it as much as we do today. Sort of like the way people erroneously believe the "Good old Days" were less violent and dangerous simply because they didn't have 24/7/365 news channels and feeds, reporting on it.

When our news was maybe the daily paper, and an hour in the evening, the daily dose of negative news was more manageable.

Posted: 6/25/2019 8:32:23 AM EST

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Privacy

Posted: 6/25/2019 9:10:17 AM EST

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That was some good stuff

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I'm your host E.G. Marshall

Loved that show.

Posted: 6/25/2019 9:14:55 AM EST

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There didn't used to be the huge number of pedophiles and other degenerates roaming the streets like there are now. I don't blame folks for keeping tabs on their kids.

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Sure there were. That's weapons grade naivete to think that somehow a generation corked up sexual weirdness and inappropriate feelings towards children, and few acted out on it. All that's ever changed is how widespread those acts are reported - thus - the 24/7 news and constant media generation started seeing pedos on every corner.

Parents are raising imbeciles because of irrational fears. That's a fact.

See Jonathan Haigt's excellent work on this, including the data on dangers to children.

Posted: 6/25/2019 9:17:36 AM EST

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You'll really lose your shit when I tell you that there was a time when momma raised her own kids at home and didn't send them to daycare to be raised by somebody else. Some still do.

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You'll lose your shit when I tell you wages stagnated, the cost of living rose and few people can afford it nowadays. Even tho some still do. Look at the CPI for families in the 1970's verses now, verses wages.

(BTW, my wife stayed home and raised our daughter, but we suffered for it and few of our peers followed suit...and they were better off for it financially. I still have mixed feelings about how wise it was)

Posted: 6/25/2019 9:18:51 AM EST

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Common sense
Courtesy
Humans interacting with each other

Posted: 6/25/2019 9:20:28 AM EST

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Pretty much everything everyone else has posted, but for me I miss real Coca-Cola in the 6 ounce thick green bottles taken from one of those short little machines where you dropped a nickle (or dime) into turned the handle and pulled out an ice cold Coca-Cola.

PS I'll argue with anyone until the end of time that the taste of Coke out of those bottles tastes totally different than it does today new Coke notwithstanding.

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And they had the city of the bottler molded into the bottom. We "travelled" with them, betting on who had the bottle from the city that was fartherest away.

Posted: 6/25/2019 9:21:10 AM EST

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Just in case it hasn't been mentioned yet...

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We used to take those pull tabs wrap a piece of electricians tape around them (2 inches in length) stick them in the coin boxes at car washes and get a free car wash

Posted: 6/25/2019 10:08:45 AM EST

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Good news for some of you.

The Marathon bar is a Curly Wurly

Planters Cheez Balls are back!

As far as arcades, we have one in walking distance from work...it's a bar with all the games on free play. Vast improvement

Posted: 6/25/2019 10:20:51 AM EST

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As far as arcades, we have one in walking distance from work...it's a bar with all the games on free play. Vast improvement

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That's a good point. So much of what's mentioned in this thread really is still around, even revered, and isn't going anywhere. It's just become a thing of nostalgia instead of a "on every corner" thing.

You can still buy classic cereals, metal lawn darts, classic cars, whatever - it's just boutique now.

I think some people are missing the point of the thread. Some things really ARE gone forever. Stuff from your childhood mostly is still around, if you have money or are serious about owning that stuff again or doing what you used to do.

Posted: 6/25/2019 10:45:04 AM EST

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How about: Being able to work on your own vehicle without having to plug in a computer that costs more than the part you need?

Posted: 6/25/2019 10:55:55 AM EST

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There didn't used to be the huge number of pedophiles and other degenerates roaming the streets like there are now. I don't blame folks for keeping tabs on their kids.

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This. Children are tied to their parents with a tether from their asshole these days. Parents at work literally need an hourly update from their children ago they know where they are and that they are alive.

There didn't used to be the huge number of pedophiles and other degenerates roaming the streets like there are now. I don't blame folks for keeping tabs on their kids.

There always has been. It just wasn't nationwide news. Most news was local or regional before the advent of the 24 hour news cycle. Additionally, most creeps were socially known by the local communities and kids were told to stay away.