Things you won't find anymore...

[ChiroDoc]

I bet they have some Patsy Cline on that juke box!

 

[Inept]

Cigarette girls.

 

[RadishRose]

 

[dobielvr]

Loved those cameras. Could just drop off your film at the drive-thru fotomat and be on your way...

 

[ChiroDoc]

Our family used those for years. In fact my mother kept using hers long after they stopped making them. She only quit after not being able to get the film cartridges or flash cubes any longer. A very reliable no fills Kodak camera.

 

[CooCooforCoCoPuffs]

Pant stretchers. We used them for Levis.

 

[CooCooforCoCoPuffs]

Cheap spray starch. It has gone from .99 to 1.98 in three years.

 

[Victor]

Coal furnaces. Had one in 1967. Worked well using vents

 

[jujube]

OMG, I hated them. It was like trying to sleep on little rocks!

Brush curlers were the worst. It was like sleeping with your head on a porcupine, several porcupines....

 

[RadishRose]

 

[Twostep]

Pant stretchers. We used them for Levis.

At your service Amazon.com : pant stretchers for drying

 

[CooCooforCoCoPuffs]

LOLOL We had bright pink and yellow ones!! They'd dangle from the ends of our hair and we would flip them around. I female version of "you're gonna shoot (whack) your eye out!!"

 

[CooCooforCoCoPuffs]

At your service Amazon.com : pant stretchers for drying

Thanks! Also saw pant waist line stretchers! Those would be good for around the holidays!

 

[Twostep]

Thanks! Also saw pant waist line stretchers! Those would be good for around the holidays!

Try wrap skirts instead.

 

[Twostep]

RadishRose - can you please elaborate? What is this?

 

[CooCooforCoCoPuffs]

Try wrap skirts instead.

My DH is going to look mighty strange in a wrap skirt, and he isn't a Scot either!

 

[CooCooforCoCoPuffs]

RadishRose - can you please elaborate? What is this?

Those are enamel ware. OLD OLD to match OLD OLD stoves and kitchens from 1800s. In storage, we have DHs grandmother's old cooktop table that matches it.

 

[Twostep]

My DH is going to look mighty strange in a wrap skirt, and he isn't a Scot either!

Just tell him he has good legs or try this which is a bit more traditional Expandable Waist Pants | Men’s Elastic Waist Pants | Haggar

 

[RadishRose]

RadishRose - can you please elaborate? What is this?

Enameled metal cookware of yesteryear, We didn't use them but other families did. My mother never tolerated anything chipped or cracked

 

[Twostep]

Enameled metal cookware of yesteryear, We didn't use them but other families did. My mother never tolerate anything chipped or cracked

I remember the wash basin thing with the soap holder. It spent a lot of time on the wood stove in the mountain cabin. It was hell to wash long hair with melted snow water.
Every outdoor store/out fitter has blue enamel ware. SO brought a mug home from a play date. The mugs were given to active participants and meant unlimited coffee. Now it is in a bird seed bin. Falcon Enamelware may appeal to you.

 

[RadishRose]

I remember the wash basin thing with the soap holder. It spent a lot of time on the wood stove in the mountain cabin. It was hell to wash long hair with melted snow water.
Every outdoor store/out fitter has blue enamel ware. SO brought a mug home from a play date. The mugs were given to active participants and meant unlimited coffee. Now it is in a bird seed bin. Falcon Enamelware may appeal to you.

Thanks, 2step, but they don't appeal.

 

[ChiroDoc]

Those were pretty good cookware in their day. The problem of course was that they chipped fairly easily They've come up with better products since, but I'm still leery of Teflon or the like. Easy to clean, but they don't last forever.

 

[Twostep]

Our family used those for years. In fact my mother kept using hers long after they stopped making them. She only quit after not being able to get the film cartridges or flash cubes any longer. A very reliable no fills Kodak camera.

If you use Google - film is out there!

 

[ChiroDoc]

If you use Google - film is out there!

Thanks for the tip, Twostep. But my mother is long gone, and i don't ever take pictures. My wife is the photographer. She has several quality cameras, and of course, her iPhone...

 

[horseless carriage]

Holly started a thread: A Glimpse of London 1930's, in colour. There's a picture of a bus, a rear platform bus, the type that you paid your fare to a bus conductor. Chances are that back in the 1930's it didn't matter if you went upstairs or down, you would be met by a fug of tobacco smoke.

Come the late 1970's and segregation was brought in. Smoking was only permitted on the top deck. Curiously though, single deck buses were also smoking segregated. Smoking was not permitted in the first four rows of seats. As if that's going to segregate the drifting smoke.

So what's this about? Well, next Saturday is the 14th, Valentine's Day, and it was on Valentine's Day, 1991, that smoking was prohibited on all buses, anywhere on the vehicle. Mind you, the driver, being separated from the passengers, would often have a crafty smoke.

The ban was faced with derision and the possibility of a head-on clash over it with drivers and conductors and a large section of passengers, it was decided to put notices in the buses which read: “request passengers to refrain from smoking.” rather than the more draconian; "No Smoking."

How times have changed.