Things you don't see anymore.

[Beatnik]

Don Kirshners Rock Concert
The Midnight Special

People walking invisible dogs.

 

[dcmfan]

 

[CoogarXR]

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I'll take that and raise you this:

 

[Pio1980]

(Before grocery stores had barcode price scanners at the checkout). The cashier punching in the prices on the stickers that were put there by the stocker (always a man) wearing a white apron kneeled on the floor. Kuhchuungkuhchunuungkuhchooonkahcuuuung.....

I recall the sticker printing thingus was called a "Garvey" by the stock boys.

 

[Pio1980]

My Dad had a two-flat on the West Side side of Chicago and it had a coal boiler. We got our coal from O'Keefe, a big coal yard in Cicero. The delivery guys brought the coal in from the alley in wheelbarrows and dumped it in the basement coal bin through a wide chute at the base of the building.

My job was shoveling a big pile of coal on the automatic stoker ("Iron Fireman") every few days and pulling the clinkers out of the firebox and getting them out to the alley.

Iron Fireman had a contract to make gyros for Army RCAT drones in the 1960s, good quality stuff. I was in the unit that flew them for the training ranges around Ft. Bliss/ White Sands.

 

[Pio1980]

Still have a working rotary (Western Electric) in my basement workshop....it`s the only phone in the house that works when the electric goes out periodically....

I held out for this reason until 5 day delays in repairing the occasionally defective lines forced me to over-the-air service with Verizon. They do the best they can with the resources they have, I suppose I'm now part of that problem.

 

[g..v]

The "C promt" is still available in windows machines. You need to know where it is.

 

[Pio1980]

These are the good news (though this one has been flattened out):

You break off the curved portion that closed the can hole, and, then hook the narrower end into the slots on either side of the rings rivet. You then pulled the ring back, using the curved tab as a spring, and then let go. The ring would fly like a small Frisbee, accurately, for 25' or 30'

Bikers called the round ones from soft drink cans "Sicle nickles" because one with the tab broken off got you a half hour parking in a meter space.

 

[sKiZo]

Remember the asbestos octopus in the basement?

Ours was converted from coal to gas and probably had a hundred years on it before it qualified as an ecological disaster ... <G>

 

[dcmfan]

The "C promt" is still available in windows machines. You need to know where it is.

That's probably true for lots of things in this thread!

How about this, then?

 

[noogies]

Marshmallow bananas.

 

[John James]

Drinking straws made of rolled waxed paper; they went soggy or unrolled if you didn't drink fast enough.

The wrappers on the straws were loose enough you could blow them across the room at your friends too!

 

[Tom Brennan]

The wrappers on the straws were loose enough you could blow them across the room at your friends too!

In any early example of Momism the straw makers put those lousy vents on the wrappers so's you could no longer put someone's eye out with them.

 

[dosmalo]

These guys.
We called them horny toads but when I was a kid they were everywhere and I think the reason was back in the day most everyone kept a vegetable garden.
In my neck of the woods they disappeared - vegetable gardens too.

 

[1970's Fan]

Nurses who look more like nurses than car mechanics.

 

[mkane]

We called them barrels. Deep dish chrome reverse rims.

 

[tybrad]

Fascinating subject.

 

[tybrad]

Mars bar.

 

[tybrad]

 

[Pio1980]

We called them barrels. Deep dish chrome reverse rims.

Baby moons?