Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

[HudsonHawk]

For some reason, I'm thinking you need a Led Zeppelin poster on the wall...

 

[Zombie_61]

I wanted this neon sign over the fireplace, but you wouldn't believe the fit my wife pitched.

I'm sure a few of us married guys would.

For some reason, I'm thinking you need a Led Zeppelin poster on the wall...

Nahhh, you need a black light for that.

 

[HudsonHawk]

Nahhh, you need a black light for that.

That's exactly what it looked like to me. I immediately thought of all the old 70s posters. I remembered the posters that came with the original Dark Side of the Moon album. I had those on my wall too.

 

[Trenchfriend]

I heared of magic-markers and black light.

 

[HudsonHawk]

I heared of magic-markers and black light.

Similar thing. Back in the 70s fluorescent posters with black light were popular with the rock n roll crowd. You should get one of these:

 

[Trenchfriend]

I will hold on my carefree tiles-table with crank. It's from 1990 and served my parents until 1999. Then on the attic, until 2010, because I want it for my own rental-flat. Since 2010, I'm enyoing it.

Why substitute this carefree, roomy and robust rock?

 

[HudsonHawk]

I will hold on my carefree tiles-table with crank. It's from 1990 and served my parents until 1999. Then on the attic, until 2010, because I want it for my own rental-flat. Since 2010, I'm enyoing it.

Why substitute this carefree, roomy and robust rock?

This is not a knock, because I know English is not your first language, and I usually follow along with what you're saying pretty well. But I swear, for the life of me, I have no idea what it is you just wrote.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Picture-search engine, great invention!

http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=tiles tables&qs=n&form=QBIR&pq=tiles tables&sc=5-11&sp=-1&sk=

 

[Trenchfriend]

I never bought any tubecleaner-chemicals, for real! Dispensable.

How many of todays twens got still a "Old Betsy"?
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q=pömpel&qs=n&form=QBIR&pq=pömpel&sc=8-4&sp=-1&sk=

 

[LizzieMaine]

I have one of those in my bathroom at home, but at work we have the futuristic CLOG EXTERMINATOR.

 

[ChiTownScion]

Cabooses ("cabeese?") on the rear end of freight trains.

At least my son got to see them in action before they were replaced by FREDs (flashing rear end devices).

 

[Trenchfriend]

@LizzieMaine

Great!

@ChiTownScion

What a photo!

 

[Inkstainedwretch]

The lower left corner of Lizzie's photo set off a train of thought. Once, there were candies you only saw in movie theaters: Good n' Plenty, Dots, Crows, Jujubes, Junior Mints, Bon Bons, a number of others. They were usually small candies that came in a box. The point is, you hardly ever saw them outside of a theater concession stand. With the emergence of the dollar store and the convenience store, now you see them everywhere, a sort of once-of-limited-availability-but-now-ubiquitous phenomenon.

 

[LizzieMaine]

That started to happen right around the time that home video became commonplace in the mid-eighties. The idea, presumably, was to recreate the moviegoing experience at home, by renting a videocassette, popping up some microwave popcorn, and passing around a box of Junior Mints. "It's a theatre right in your living room!" Except for the part where the tape jams up in the cassette halfway thru the show.

Our candy distributor tells me that the product that ends up in Wal Mart or the neighborhood dollar store, is old warehouse stock that gets liquidated for cheap to make way for the fresh candy. Make of that what you will.

 

[Trenchfriend]

Woohoo!

http://www.basenotes.net/ID26137904.html

 

[Trenchfriend]

I still got my lovely milk-glass-bathlamp, which belongs to the original interior of this rental-flat from 1968.

Like this:
http://www.bing.com/images/search?q...ab7c0d1eba60764957456d967e73899do0&ajaxhist=0

 

[2jakes]

Our candy distributor tells me that the product that ends up in Wal Mart or the neighborhood dollar store, is old warehouse stock that gets liquidated for cheap to make way for the fresh candy. Make of that what you will.

When I was in retail, a “pony” label company would distribute their top quality
made products to high-end stores @ $$$$.
While under another “name” label, this company would issue their products at
a lower quality to budget stores.
I haven’t kept up lately to relate more for what’s out there today.
One friend was surprised to find out when I mentioned the huge amount of products
that are now under a very iconic soda water drink which made a farm boy from
Georgia very rich.

Muffy saddles look comfy.
Not sure about the head-gear though!

 

[sheeplady]

When I was in retail, a “pony” label company would distribute their top quality
made products to high-end stores @ $$$$.
While under another “name” label, this company would issue their products at
a lower quality to budget stores.
I haven’t kept up lately to relate more for what’s out there today.

I have heard and read of this same thing occurring for all sorts of products. For tools, apparently the drill of brand X is a dramatically different drill if you buy it from Walmart versus Lowes. Apparently Walmart says, "we need to sell it for $40" and brand x re-engineers it to meet the budget.

Some of my husband's family are big discount food shoppers. They insist it's the same products of you buy Aldi Cheerios or brand-name Cheerios. Some products may be, but I've got to tell you, some certainly aren't because I have tastebuds.

But I am a very brand loyal shopper. I also admit to being somewhat of a food snob- I simply do not like bad tasting food. I would rather have less butter than have to eat margarine. If a store brand doesn't taste or perform as well, I'd rather deal with less of tge name brand than suffer.

 

[2jakes]

I have heard and read of this same thing occurring for all sorts of products. For tools, apparently the drill of brand X is a dramatically different drill if you buy it from Walmart versus Lowes. Apparently Walmart says, "we need to sell it for $40" and brand x re-engineers it to meet the budget.

Some of my husband's family are big discount food shoppers. They insist it's the same products of you buy Aldi Cheerios or brand-name Cheerios. Some products may be, but I've got to tell you, some certainly aren't because I have tastebuds.

But I am a very brand loyal shopper. I also admit to being somewhat of a food snob- I simply do not like bad tasting food. I would rather have less butter than have to eat margarine. If a store brand doesn't taste or perform as well, I'd rather deal with less of tge name brand than suffer.

Butter.
I realize that everyone’s taste buds are unique. And perhaps mine have gone out-of-alignement.

But I cannot find much difference between “real" butter & margarine lately.

I remember butter having a great flavor. Not anymore.

Any suggestions?

Thanks !

 

[Inkstainedwretch]

My best advice for this is----don't get old. Our taste buds deteriorate like our eyesight and all the rest. That's the reason for the old saying that brandy isn't for people under 40. When you're young your tastebuds are too sensitive for it. In middle age, you need the extra stimulation.