Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

[jamespowers]

You are on a different planet, the teachers at the school wherein I work do not have that mentality in any way whatsoever.
We like and care about are students.

Ours like and care about the money.

 

[Zombie_61]

Principal Messick was a jolly stocky man who seemed to delight in swinging the paddle just so that we could hear the eerie whistling sound it made. He would tell us how much he hated to use it yet we still got the feeling he enjoyed it...

The gym coach at the junior high/middle school I attended drilled holes in his paddle--less air resistance equals better impact. He was fair and not overly abusive, but he had no qualms about letting us know how much he enjoyed using his paddle on students who deserved it. These days the school would probably face lawsuit after lawsuit and that teacher would need to put his lawyer on retainer.

 

[Matt Crunk]

Ours like and care about the money.

I think most teachers would have to be in it for the love. None I know make that much money.

 

[HudsonHawk]

The gym coach at the junior high/middle school I attended drilled holes in his paddle--less air resistance equals better impact.

Yeah, but holes means the paddle has less mass thereby reducing the force. I'm not sure if the increased paddle acceleration caused by the holes overcomes the decrease in force caused by the loss of mass. I was never was able to do the math in my head standing there with my palms on the table.

 

[dnjan]

I've seen shows like Brit Cops and Motorway Cops and it blew my mind to see people merely getting a "caution" for offenses that would be serious ones in the US.

But don't drink and drive in Finland. First offence is a ticket with the cost being a percentage of your yearly income.
Second offence is jail.

Many people have home breathalyzers to check themselves in the morning after a night out.

 

[rjb1]

The theory in our school was that the holes in the paddle were intended to increase the sting/pain. No one ever mentioned either mass or aerodynamics...

 

[V.C. Brunswick]

Those of you who went to Catholic school will probably remember this...

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[Zombie_61]

Yeah, but holes means the paddle has less mass thereby reducing the force. I'm not sure if the increased paddle acceleration caused by the holes overcomes the decrease in force caused by the loss of mass. I was never was able to do the math in my head standing there with my palms on the table.

The teacher I mentioned was a rather large fellow, so I imagine the decreased mass was a marginal factor in his apparently capable hands. lol

The theory in our school was that the holes in the paddle were intended to increase the sting/pain. No one ever mentioned either mass or aerodynamics...

I was never on the receiving end of that teacher's disciplinary actions so I can neither confirm nor dispute that theory. However, based on the subsequent "testimony" of those who were, I believe it has merit.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Paddles, feh. My first-grade teacher used a ruler with a metal insert along the edge -- if you got out of line in her class she'd come over and crack you one across the knuckles with it. The first offense got the wooden edge. Subsequent offenses got the metal edge. There were no third offenses.

That teacher is still alive, and will turn 100 years old this year. And she still doesn't like me.

 

[HudsonHawk]

Paddles, feh. My first-grade teacher used a ruler with a metal insert along the edge -- if you got out of line in her class she'd come over and crack you one across the knuckles with it. The first offense got the wooden edge. Subsequent offenses got the metal edge. There were no third offenses.

That teacher is still alive, and will turn 100 years old this year. And she still doesn't like me.

My wife went to Catholic schools and swears the nuns made them kneel on rice. Which made you wish for a ruler across the knuckles.

 

[jamespowers]

That teacher is still alive, and will turn 100 years old this year. And she still doesn't like me.

Did she ever like anyone?

 

[LizzieMaine]

She liked my mother, at least when she babysat for her in 1940.

 

[Shangas]

We've all had teachers like that. My Year 7 English teacher used to tell us about her old school-teacher. One time, he called a boy up on some sort of misdemeanor and caned him in front of the class with a wooden ruler (a yardstick, or something similar). The stick broke in half and the piece which snapped off flew out the open window...

 

[jamespowers]

She liked my mother, at least when she babysat for her in 1940.

And I am sure she still remembers.

 

[BegintheBeguine]

Hickeys.

 

[Touchofevil]

Hickeys.

Not around here. Sadly, I see them on high school kids all the time. I give them grief, but that will never stop them.

 

[St.Ignatz]

There was one at our local airport last time I looked....

We still have several bootblacks in Philadelphia. Train stations, shoe makers and the better hotels mostly but a few mobile that show up in office buildings and street corners.

Good grief. That reply sure fell in a worm hole.

 

[Gregg Axley]

We still have several bootblacks in Philadelphia. Train stations, shoe makers and the better hotels mostly but a few mobile that show up in office buildings and street corners.

Good grief. That reply sure fell in a worm hole.

Excellent point. I'm not "downtown" anymore, so I don't see them in buildings as much as I did 15yrs ago.
But there aren't many left, certainly not on a bench or a stand like you'd see in movies from the Golden Era.
When I was a kid, there was one in a gov't building downtown. That was the early 70's, and he'd probably been doing it since he was a kid.

 

[jamespowers]

Not around here. Sadly, I see them on high school kids all the time. I give them grief, but that will never stop them.

Well, you do teach in a public school in California.

 

[jamespowers]

Excellent point. I'm not "downtown" anymore, so I don't see them in buildings as much as I did 15yrs ago.
But there aren't many left, certainly not on a bench or a stand like you'd see in movies from the Golden Era.
When I was a kid, there was one in a gov't building downtown. That was the early 70's, and he'd probably been doing it since he was a kid.

There is one over in San Franfreako right on the sidewalk. It is a small stand but the guy does a great job. We also have them in certain department stores as well---Nordstrom's comes to mind. I have had a few done there too. You can also get them done at any of the local cobblers too. You just have to look around here.