Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

[jamespowers]

Whitewall tires.

They are around:
http://www.whitewalltires.com/

This place has anything I want when I want it.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Yeah, but not like they were. How often do you see a new car with whitewalls, even most Buicks don't have them anymore.

They are around:
http://www.whitewalltires.com/

This place has anything I want when I want it.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I have them on my bike.

 

[Shangas]

that is a beautiful machine, Lizzie! Is it a Schwinn?

 

[LizzieMaine]

A 1946 Westfield Crescent. Salvaged from the dump about five years ago. Just another example of our dumb throwaway society.

 

[Shangas]

It looks so beautiful! Why the HELL would someone want to throw out such a wonderful machine!?

You should get one of those old dynamo headlamps and clamp it on the front...

 

[AtomicEraTom]

I have whitewalls on two of my cars, too. You just don't see them on new things anymore, not like you used to.

 

[jamespowers]

I have whitewalls on two of my cars, too. You just don't see them on new things anymore, not like you used to.

I have them on a few of mine too. Red lines on My mustang. I should have sent the link to Diamondback Classics instead. The other place is kind of wonky.
I think you can order new cars with any kind of tire you would like---it just costs more money.

 

[caul]

you guys are gonna laugh but I drive a 2005 prius and I was looking at getting whitewalls for it!

 

[scottyrocks]

I think that might actually look good (sorry for the quick freehand).

 

[caul]

yeah, they would definitely need to be the fat ones! That's my dad always had on his truck, which probably why I like them so much.

 

[jamespowers]

I think that might actually look good (sorry for the quick freehand).

Probably not a good idea for a white car. Back in the day, you could do it because the chrome and stainless trim broke up the color quite a bit. That isn't the case here.

 

[lframe]

I just saw a '58 Corvette on a business trip with the whitewalls. It was so beautiful.

 

[Stanley Doble]

It looks so beautiful! Why the HELL would someone want to throw out such a wonderful machine!?

You should get one of those old dynamo headlamps and clamp it on the front...

I bet it didn't look like that when she picked it off the dump.

 

[scottyrocks]

Probably not a good idea for a white car. Back in the day, you could do it because the chrome and stainless trim broke up the color quite a bit. That isn't the case here.

It was the only profile I could find. It was just for the idea.

 

[jamespowers]

It was the only profile I could find. It was just for the idea.

Oh I understand. Just saying.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I bet it didn't look like that when she picked it off the dump.

Nope. It was missing its seat and the tires were rotted. And it was covered with about thirty years worth of bird enamel. Took a couple days' worth of work to get it back on the road, and it's been my daily transportation ever since.

 

[Miss Moonlight]

These:

I was actually trying to think of what a certain kind of counter was called, when I came across this image.

I recall seeing these in a number of places when I was a child - I was born in 1970- and I always thought they were the niftiest contraptions. I haven't seen one in a long time.

This might be from the 60s/70s- anyone know if they're from earlier? I'd like to have one with dollars included for a trip to the grocery store. Instead of writing it down or dealing with a calculator that can get erased with one accidental press. It's the hand counter I was looking for.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Those are actually descended from the ball-strike indicators that baseball umpires had been using since the twenties, but the grocery-counter idea really didn't catch on until after the war, when self-service supermarkets fully supplanted the neighborhood store where the clerk picked the items of the shelf for you. We always had one around the house when I was a kid, and if I behaved myself I'd get to carry it when we went to the store.

There were also calculator-counter gadgets that used a metal stylus to move gears in a metal frame to add up the totals -- those predated the plastic indicator gadgets, and were in use as far back as the thirties.

 

[Miss Stella]

I remember my grandmother giving me the red counter to play store with!
Oh the things that got tossed away without a thought.