Things you won't find anymore...

Remember these? Did you ever lie to your kid and tell them it was broken?

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I don't think that teams have bat days anymore :rolleyes:

Thousands of youngsters hold up their Little League lumber on bat day. The Giveway of Bats and The Yankee Bombers' recent streak packed the house with 65,880, largest major league crowd in five years.
Photo by Frank Hurley/NY Daily News Archive

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I can remember when churches would routinely put out hand fans in the pews for attendees to fan themselves with during hot summer services. Air conditioning in churches was rare during those bygone decades, and you might if lucky have a floor fan or ceiling fans there.

The hand fans often had religious art on them or images of the church. They were often provided by…funeral parlors, whose name might also appear on the fans! 🙀

So if this is your Last Supper, remember that Williams Funeral Home is there for you!

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I didn’t go back over the older posts. Maybe this was listed.

TV Guide. It was an extravagance so we looked up the shows in the newspaper listings. Those don’t exist now either.

Adding: maybe TV shows won’t exist as we know them. It’ll all be streaming.
 
Jules said:
I didn’t go back over the older posts. Maybe this was listed.

TV Guide. It was an extravagance so we looked up the shows in the newspaper listings. Those don’t exist now either.

Adding: maybe TV shows won’t exist as we know them. It’ll all be streaming.
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The TV Guide Fall Preview was a huge deal at the time. I remember leafing through it and reading information about all the new shows coming up in the Fall.
 
Remember ”funny drunks” on television? They were almost stock characters on TV shows in the 50’s and 60’s.- - Want to get a laugh? Play a character who staggers, falls, or just acts stupid after having too many! They were almost all portrayed as lovable. Fortunately, we have come to see problem drinking as no laughing matter… 🍺 🥤

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Remember when one car families were the norm? My parents never owned more than one car at a time. My mother drove my father to the train station to commute to NYC and picked him up there daily. If I or my sister needed to go anywhere, my mother would drive us, or when of age I’d drive myself if I had permission to borrow the family chariot.

Today, it seems like many households have multiple cars, in some cases one for every member of driving age in residence. This is part of the reason why many roads are hopelessly clogged with a vehicle volume that they were never intended to handle!

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Fyrefox said:
Remember ”funny drunks” on television? They were almost stock characters on TV shows in the 50’s and 60’s.- - Want to get a laugh? Play a character who staggers, falls, or just acts stupid after having too many! They were almost all portrayed as lovable. Fortunately, we have come to see problem drinking as no laughing matter… 🍺 🥤

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is that Jackie Gleason on the right & perhaps Bob Hope on the left ?
 
Timewise 60+ said:
I wore out the knees on my blue jeans as a kid. My mom would iron on those knee patches they used to have for blue jeans. She would put them on the inside and outside. I would wear them out also. Our playground was dirt and gravel, perfect for marbles, not so much for jeans...

Our marble season would get frozen and snowed out in winter, so we switched to yoyo's.... who could do the most tricks was the deal...
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Remember the shoe shine boy? The mostly brown wing tipped shoes that always needed a shine. Brown or Dark Blue suits and the Wingtipped shoe status symbols.

Wonder what will replace the private Yacht, the Helicopter, Ferrari, Jets.
 
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