Things you won't find anymore...

[RadishRose]

 

[Oldeagle66]

How about the tv repair shop? I miss seeing those trucks around.

 

[JBR]

Boy wakes up and gets ready to go to his job. An experience familiar to me from age 13 in summer (and after school or on weekends... or more of the week, though not during school hours, in late teens).

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[ChiroDoc]

That's a 1950 Ford 4 door sedan. I loved that style from '49-'51. Those models were widely used for police vehicles.

BTW all my father's family is from Connecticut, mostly Jewett City. I have a cousin living in Mystic.

 

[squatting dog]

 

[squatting dog]

 

[squatting dog]

 

[Babs2u]

Remember these?

I have a pair like that for ice skating.

 

[chic]

Metal pill containers. They want people to carry any meds in the original prescription bottles but this would weight a lot. My mom takes a lot of meds so I buy her the little purse pill boxes. I use to buy them in hospital gift shops or at yard sales for a dollar or so. Now they've disappeared. They have lots of plastic ones but no pretty metal ones with painted lids.

 

[C50]

 

[OldOld]

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Plastic spoon now?

 

[Disgustedman]

I was responsible for keeping the color TV working.....

 

[Disgustedman]

Metal pill containers. They want people to carry any meds in the original prescription bottles but this would weight a lot. My mom takes a lot of meds so I buy her the little purse pill boxes. I use to buy them in hospital gift shops or at yard sales for a dollar or so. Now they've disappeared. They have lots of plastic ones but no pretty metal ones with painted lids.

https://a.co/d/26vWsmm

Amazon

 

[IrishEyes]

a 5lb box of Sees chocolates in my Grandma's dresser drawer

 

[DebraMae]

 

[Shoshana]

Kids playing with marbles, hula hoops, yoyo's, jacks, etc.

Kick-the-can, and hopscotch with the 'template' drawn with chalk (or a soft stone) on the sidewalk.

 

[Shoshana]

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Clothes-pin holder ?

 

[Shoshana]

At the dentist today I was told that many many years ago, the drill was powered by a foot pedal! See https://collection.sciencemuseumgroup.org.uk/objects/co97430/dental-treadle-drill-treadle-drill Ah, the good old days!

What nightmarish memories that brings back. And the office always 'reeked' of cloves :-(

 

[Shoshana]

Kids playing with marbles, hula hoops, yoyo's, jacks, etc.

My Grandmother had a 'little man' that was on a stand, and you could press on a 'plate' on the bottom to make the little man bend in all different directions. To me, much more fun than the electronic gadgets today. And the 3-D Kodak viewers with inserts so you could see the Florida Gardens, Hummingbirds, etc. And Kaleidoscopes -- although some version of those are still available. Paper dolls you got to cut out with real scissors and had little paper tabs to hold the outfits on the cardboard dolls.

 

[RadishRose]

My Grandmother had a 'little man' that was on a stand, and you could press on a 'plate' on the bottom to make the little man bend in all different directions. To me, much more fun than the electronic gadgets today. And the 3-D Kodak viewers with inserts so you could see the Florida Gardens, Hummingbirds, etc. And Kaleidoscopes -- although some version of those are still available. Paper dolls you got to cut out with real scissors and had little paper tabs to hold the outfits on the cardboard dolls.

 

[RadishRose]

 

[RadishRose]

 

[MACKTEXAS]

 

[MoBeans]

Hitch hikers. It was a valid form of transportation when I was young. The day we got out of high school a friend and I grabbed a couple backpacks and stuck out our thumbs in upstate NY. Three months later we were in Berkeley California. We got a place to stay every night except one along with food and other amenities. Some places we stayed for a while. Almost three weeks at one place in Boulder Colorado. You just can't do that these days. It was an amazing trip.

 

[dobielvr]

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YES!