Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

[DutchIndo]

Scooter pies !, Screaming Yellow Zonkers, Army men , Sting Ray and Schwinn 10 speed bikes , Cox gas powered Airplanes (the ones you flew in a circle) and 25 cent a gallon gas................

 

[Custom79]

almost forgot this one

Black Cat bubble gum.

C79

 

[Lefty]

Do kids still get chicken pox? I think there's a vaccine now, but I know nothing about it. I had them when the great chicken pox epidemic of second grade hit.

 

[Warbaby]

Paris Green
Kerosene Ranges
Iceboxes
Oleomargerine that came with a packet of yellow dye.
Paragoric
Store clerks that waited on you. Respectfully.
Cars you could repair yourself
Critical Thinking
Saturday Matinees with Serials
Spud Guns
Carbide Cannons
Blowing up tin cans with carbide
Polio
KiddeCars
War Surplus Stores with real war surplus stuff

 

[carter]

Spud gun

Paris Green
Kerosene Ranges
Iceboxes
Oleomargerine that came with a packet of yellow dye.
Paragoric
Store clerks that waited on you. Respectfully.
Cars you could repair yourself
Critical Thinking
Saturday Matinees with Serials
Spud Guns
Carbide Cannons
Blowing up tin cans with carbide
Polio
KiddeCars
War Surplus Stores with real war surplus stuff

Spud Guns can still be ordered online http://www.dollysmixtures.com/potat...standard&OVADID=906320522&OVKWID=144624229522

 

[BegintheBeguine]

LePage mucilage, with the cool coppery-red rubber tip. Please tell me this is still available, I need some.
AirWick with a real wick of fiber attached to metal that when pulled up really cleared out the funk in a room quickly. If I can't find it at Vidler's http://www.vidlers5and10.com/ then I think it doesn't exist but i'm hoping someone will tell me it's still made and where to find it.

 

[Dr Doran]

Critical Thinking

Long gone.

Spud Guns can still be ordered online http://www.dollysmixtures.com/potat...standard&OVADID=906320522&OVKWID=144624229522

Carter, have I informed you recently that you are THE MAN? That is marvellous that you know where to find those.

LePage mucilage, with the cool coppery-red rubber tip. Please tell me this is still available, I need some.

My dad used to use that. Is that the one that had a logo of an anthropomorphized boar's face on the label? Orange and blue ink with white background? Or am I confusing that with RUBBER CEMENT (does that still exist?) Orange/red rubber tip, I remember that.

 

[pigeon toe]

Rubber cement still exists! I would use it all the time in high school when I would make zines. My parents would occasionally get concerned that I was "huffing" it because I would spend many hours in my room with a can of rubber cement! I was just collaging!

 

[carter]

If only the Irish had known

...
Carter, have I informed you recently that you are THE MAN? That is marvellous that you know where to find those. ...

Thanks, Doran, but that was an easy search. Heck, you can find plans for SPUD CANNONS online.

 

[BegintheBeguine]

Don't let's start that rumor.

Gosh, no, it's not rubber cement, that's alive and well and several new jars are living in the supply cupboard at work.
It's this:

LePage's mucilage, with the rubber tip with a slit in it. When you turn it over and press down the right amount of glue comes out ready to spread. Better than a glue stick, better for some things than Elmer's. Not for every glue situation of course, but that's why Gorilla Glue was invented.

 

[LizzieMaine]

You can still find mucilage in office-supply stores -- I use it to reattach labels that have fallen off radio transcription discs. And it still has the convenient spreader tip, even though the bottle itself is plastic.

As for rubber cement, it was the main reason people volunteered to join the school yearbook staff.

 

[BegintheBeguine]

Thank you thank you thank you, LizzieMaine. I remembered the bottle as being plastic already, hm, maybe I've used it more recently than I thought or maybe I'm not as vintage as I thought.
The AirWick company informed me they have something similar to the old liquid stuff, but not in a glass bottle. Good, because I have a smelly basement that needs help.
Now, Waverly Wafers, anyone?

 

[Dr Doran]

Yes, I remember the slit in the tip of the mucilage thing. Rubber cement was applied with a brush that was fixed into the lid of the bottle.

The name mucilage is kinda gross, though.

 

[Kassia]

You can still find mucilage in office-supply stores -- I use it to reattach labels that have fallen off radio transcription discs. And it still has the convenient spreader tip, even though the bottle itself is plastic.

As for rubber cement, it was the main reason people volunteered to join the school yearbook staff.

Here it's called Contact Cement and my dh uses it all the time.. He buys it in big jars at Home Depot...

 

[DerMann]

Just became aware of this today.

In their heyday, Sheaffer produced bottles of Skrip with an ingenious internal "well" which would hold a small amount of ink so that you could both get the most out of a bottle of ink and not have to dunk your nib in so deep.

Well, when I first messed around with fountain pens, I was about twelve (think 2002ish). My mom was actually able to buy a bottle of Skrip (like the one above) in a local OfficeMax (of all places).

Apparently, around the millennium, the glass company that made the bottles for Sheaffer either went out of business or refused to make such a small number of them. As a result, both the manufacture of the ink and bottles were reformulated and production was moved to Slovenia. The new bottles and boxes look like this:

Even though the ink isn't nearly as good as it was when it was produced in the US and the bottles lack the well, it's still a fairly good ink, just nothing to write home about.

 

[Dr Doran]

it's still a fairly good ink, just nothing to write home about.

hee hee. Well, I finished a bottle of that ink quite recently and the well in the glass bottle was wonderful. I wonder if I still have the empty bottle somewhere -- I could conceivably put new ink in the old bottle.

 

[DerMann]

Lots of people do it. Pendemonium, VintageInks, and a few other pen and ink sites sell empty bottles of Skrip as people love the wells.

Heck, I'll buy it off you if you'd like (PM me ).

 

[Jay]

What about...

Stamps you actually had to lick to stick them on an envelope. Remember those? Now they're like little stickers. I kind of miss that taste...

 

[univibe88]

Dittos!!!!!! I'd forgotten about those!lol

Somehow I bet my elementary school is still using them. lol

 

[LizzieMaine]

Stamps you actually had to lick to stick them on an envelope. Remember those? Now they're like little stickers. I kind of miss that taste...

Buy your stamps from a vending machine -- they still sell the gummed ones from rolls there.

I have a bunch of old 1/2 cent stamps in my desk drawer -- they date back to when it was my grandfather's desk, and I've never actually cleaned the drawer out -- and I'm sorely tempted to see if the gum tasted the same then...