Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

[Atticus Finch]

Law books have all but disappeared since I was licensed. Now attorneys simply access statutes and case law Westlaw or Lexis. I have friends who've decorated their offices with old volumes of the North Carolina Reports and Southeastern...but those books haven't been updated in years. They're just there to make clients feel like they're in a real law office.

AF

 

[1mach1]

Blue prints and hard copies of architectural building plans. It's all done on the computer now. I find it so irritating having to scroll down and then enlarge. I get lost sometimes, and it is more difficult. Give me a large hard copy, and I can bang out a job much faster.
Plus, I miss the smell of blue prints.

 

[Stearmen]

Blue prints and hard copies of architectural building plans. It's all done on the computer now. I find it so irritating having to scroll down and then enlarge. I get lost sometimes, and it is more difficult. Give me a large hard copy, and I can bang out a job much faster.
Plus, I miss the smell of blue prints.

I am surprised at that. When I subdivided a peace of land this year, I had to have a bunch of copies made for each step in the process. I think at least six different steps and four or more copies each time. The real kicker was, after all the surveying and plats, it ended up being divided exactly where I circled the division. The only difference was, a slightly deeper utilities easement on both sides! Plus it cost a lot.

 

[HudsonHawk]

Blue prints and hard copies of architectural building plans. It's all done on the computer now. I find it so irritating having to scroll down and then enlarge. I get lost sometimes, and it is more difficult. Give me a large hard copy, and I can bang out a job much faster.
Plus, I miss the smell of blue prints.

Blueprints began to disappear in the 1940's. I don't think I've ever worked with a true "blueprint", having mostly used the diazo "whiteprints" or 'blue lines", which smelled like ammonia (in fact, the whole room would knock you over with it). And everyone I work with still works with large printed hardcopies, at least in the field. We don't have a room full of draftsmen creating them by hand anymore though.

 

[Gregg Axley]

Blueprints began to disappear in the 1940's. I don't think I've ever worked with a true "blueprint", having mostly used the diazo "whiteprints" or 'blue lines", which smelled like ammonia (in fact, the whole room would knock you over with it). And everyone I work with still works with large printed hardcopies, at least in the field. We don't have a room full of draftsmen creating them by hand anymore though.

I'm hoping they'll go to CD some day soon.
Why?
I deal with them too, and carrying a shoebox full of CD's is lighter than carrying a few hundred pounds of paper.

 

[LouisBailie]

Common sense seems to have been eliminated from society. Right along with score cards in youth sports.

 

[Bugguy]

Fluoroscopes (x-ray) for shoe fitting that left us with a whole generation of irradiated young boys and their mutant off-spring.



Sounds like a Sci Fi concept.

 

[EliasRDA]

Fluoroscopes (x-ray) for shoe fitting that left us with a whole generation of irradiated young boys and their mutant off-spring.

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Sounds like a Sci Fi concept.

Wow, I remember one of those in the shoe store we used to go to in SE CT. I used to love playing with it & we never thought anything of it. And it didn't stunt my brother or I, he's 6'3"-6'4" with size 14's & I'm about 6'1" with currently a size 12.

 

[Horace Debussy Jones]

I have a theory that this is what caused all those cases of unsightly, gnarled, yellow toenails. :eeek:

Fluoroscopes (x-ray) for shoe fitting that left us with a whole generation of irradiated young boys and their mutant off-spring.

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Sounds like a Sci Fi concept.

 

[rjb1]

"And it didn't stunt my brother or I, he's 6'3"-6'4" with size 14's & I'm about 6'1" with currently a size 12."

Maybe the shoe-radiation gadget is why you're both so big.
Wasn't Godzilla the result of radiation exposure?

 

[jamespowers]

"And it didn't stunt my brother or I, he's 6'3"-6'4" with size 14's & I'm about 6'1" with currently a size 12."

Maybe the shoe-radiation gadget is why you're both so big.
Wasn't Godzilla the result of radiation exposure?

Yeah, that was what I thought. The radiation had the same effect on The Incredible Hulk. Don't make them angry....

 

[EliasRDA]

LOL
Actually, my temper is one reason I do not drink very much. I already am part irish, along with yankee (English) & American indian, my dad is full blooded swede so add in the Viking side & when I get drunk I am a mean nasty drunk. Not a side of myself I like, so I rein in my drinking. In 27 years I've only gotten **** drunk 3 times, luckily I've never drunk driven & I do not suffer hangovers so I remember every minute without the ill effects of headaches & such.

And for my brother & I being so tall? Again, my dad is full blooded swede, he's 6'1" & 70 some years ago & still acting like a 40 y/o. My mom is the "mutt", part amer indian, irish & English. She is 5'10" so we already come from tall stock.

 

[dh66]

Not disappeared completely yet, but those credit card type hotel room keys pretty much seem to be the norm these days.

 

[jamespowers]

Not disappeared completely yet, but those credit card type hotel room keys pretty much seem to be the norm these days.

Was the Wig Wam?

 

[jamespowers]

LOL
Actually, my temper is one reason I do not drink very much. I already am part irish, along with yankee (English) & American indian, my dad is full blooded swede so add in the Viking side & when I get drunk I am a mean nasty drunk. Not a side of myself I like, so I rein in my drinking. In 27 years I've only gotten **** drunk 3 times, luckily I've never drunk driven & I do not suffer hangovers so I remember every minute without the ill effects of headaches & such.

And for my brother & I being so tall? Again, my dad is full blooded swede, he's 6'1" & 70 some years ago & still acting like a 40 y/o. My mom is the "mutt", part amer indian, irish & English. She is 5'10" so we already come from tall stock.

So it stunted your growth then.

 

[dh66]

Was the Wig Wam?

Not so much really....but the coolness overcame the coldness.

 

[jamespowers]

Not so much really....but the coolness overcame the coldness.

You didn't have a fire in the center of the room?!

 

[dh66]

You didn't have a fire in the center of the room?!

Just the space heater. I figured if I lit a fire they might throw me out.

 

[Bugguy]

Not disappeared completely yet, but those credit card type hotel room keys pretty much seem to be the norm these days.

Did you forget to turn it in when you checked out? They also stopped personalizing the ash trays... just the shampoo.

 

[Stearmen]

Pay 'n Pak. they were a great harware chain! I also miss the sound of the Thunder Boats. Remember Miss Pay'n Pak? [video=youtube;SUB9cJxsrDo]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUB9cJxsrDo[/video]