Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

[Bushman]

T. rex as a Monopoly piece? Hello new favorite!

 

[Zombie_61]

Monopoly pieces that are now gone: wheelbarrow, thimble, and the boot.

Please welcome: a rubber duckie, a tyrannosaurus rex, and of course, a penguin...

Stories like this make me wonder if the people at Hasbro/Parker Bros. actually think the tokens are the reason people have lost interest in playing the game over the years.

 

[David Conwill]

More likely they know that the change will get people talking about it again and spur some sales.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Bring back the lantern, the cannon, and the rider on horseback.

 

[Zombie_61]

More likely they know that the change will get people talking about it again and spur some sales.

Probably. They also know there are "completist" collectors out there who will buy the game just to get the new tokens.

 

[Inkstainedwretch]

A few minutes ago I was in a local store and saw in the penny tray next to the cash register a wheat-ear penny. I swapped it for one in my pocket and took it outside, hoping for at least an early 50s coin. In the daylight I could read the date: 1936. Not mint, but in amazingly good shape, the highs slightly worn, no scratches, all the lettering crisp and readable. This one sat in someone's piggy bank for a long, long time. No mint letter, so I presume Philadelphia mint origin. Haven't made a score like this in a long time.

 

[green papaya]

I dont see "CHOP SUEY" on the menu at Chinese restaurants? it seems to be an outdated menu item? I heard it was an American dish popular in old school restaurants, Ive often heard them use it in those old B&W classic movies

The more modern word is just a stir fry served with noodles / rice

I was watching a old 1930's movie with Clark Gable and he said he was going upstairs to have some "Chop Suey" and asked his friend if he liked Chop Suey? and if he would join him.

I guess "Chop Suey" was slang for Chinese fast food / stir fry back in the Golden era. Egg Foo Yung with gravy, and Chop Suey with noodles.

in another old war movie called "PORK CHOP HILL" the soldiers said dont order Chop Suey because it's an American dish, the Chinese dont call it by that name.

 

[Inkstainedwretch]

Go to Hawaii. Still lots of Chop Suey joints, advertised as such. "Chop suey"just means something like "made quick." It was a stir-fried dish made by Chinese cooks for the early Chinese laborers from whatever ingredients they could find in California. And still pretty good stuff, if it's made right.

 

[LizzieMaine]

Hence "American" chop suey, which, as any school-lunch habitue knows, is nothing but a watery melange of elbow macaroni, crumbled hamburger, and a sauce with sorry pretentions of being tomato. We had this all the time at home, but called it "slum."

The regular chop suey, and its bedfellow chow mein, were still common on Chinese restaurant menus into the '80s, when they lost favor to such "authentic" dishes as General Tso's chicken and other "hot and spicy" fare.

 

[green papaya]

The Old Fashioned barbershop, when they use to always finish your haircut with hot lather and a straight razor and cut around the neck and ears, then finish it off with some hair tonic and then combed neatly , they would hand you a mirror so you could see the back and ask if it's OK?

a real man's barbershop, where they had hunting magazines, playboys, deer antlers on the wall , along with the veteran's photos from WW1 - WW2 on the wall, sometimes it would be a photo of his ship from his days in the navy.

not many WW2 vet barbers left, I remember all of them were vets, and some had the old tattoos of women in bikinis on their arms , old reminders of their younger days in the service.

 

[BobHufford]

The Old Fashioned barbershop...

The barbershop I go to hasn't changed much since 1961. The veterans are younger and the tattoos are a bit different, but the other things you mention are still there.

 

[Bushman]

The Old Fashioned barbershop, when they use to always finish your haircut with hot lather and a straight razor and cut around the neck and ears, then finish it off with some hair tonic and then combed neatly , they would hand you a mirror so you could see the back and ask if it's OK?

a real man's barbershop, where they had hunting magazines, playboys, deer antlers on the wall , along with the veteran's photos from WW1 - WW2 on the wall, sometimes it would be a photo of his ship from his days in the navy.

not many WW2 vet barbers left, I remember all of them were vets, and some had the old tattoos of women in bikinis on their arms , old reminders of their younger days in the service.

Hey, you're describing my go-to town barber. Right down to the hunting magazines and taxidermy decor. I always prefer going to them because of the hot lather and shave. Though, I admit, they have a habit of cutting my hair shorter than I like.

 

[Harp]

Go to Hawaii. Still lots of Chop Suey joints, advertised as such. "Chop suey"just means something like "made quick." It was a stir-fried dish made by Chinese cooks for the early Chinese laborers from whatever ingredients they could find in California. And still pretty good stuff, if it's made right.

After the Army I had a crash pad in Honolulu and there was this place in Makikki Heights that served real deal suey with shark tossed in.
A lady on staff spoke excellent English which she claimed took seven months to master.

 

[2jakes]

Hey, you're describing my go-to town barber. Right down to the hunting magazines and taxidermy decor. I always prefer going to them because of the hot lather and shave. Though, I admit, they have a habit of cutting my hair shorter than I like.

Perhaps this habit of trimming the
hair short came from barber school training.
I also remember that feeling as well.

Also the radio was tuned to baseball or a boxing match.
When I was real young a board
was placed across the barber chair
so that the barber could reach and
cut my hair.
Mostly it was a "crew-cut" other times I got a "flat-top" haircut.

The floors were checkered mostly
in black & white.
Long mirror with all kinds of bottles on the shelf.
Vitalis or bay rum tonic sometimes
reminds me of the aroma of the
old barber shops.

The pungent odor of sulpher reminds me of the women who
would use curlers on their hair
when doing a "permanent".

 

[Zombie_61]

Perhaps this habit of trimming the hair short came from barber school training...

That's possible, but my guess is it was because the barber was instructed by our dads to cut it that way. "He's a kid. Cut it short so his mother won't have to fuss with it so much trying to get him ready for school in the morning."

On the other hand, the woman who has been cutting my hair for the last 30+ years once told my wife and I that cutting hair is no different from any other skill set--some people have a natural ability, some people can be taught and become quite capable, and some people will never get it no matter how hard they try. So if your barber ignores your instructions and consistently cuts your hair shorter than you'd like, find another barber.

 

[2jakes]

That's possible, but my guess is it was because the barber was instructed by our dads to cut it that way. "He's a kid. Cut it short so his mother won't have to fuss with it so much trying to get him ready for school in the morning."

"High cuffs".
You'll grow into them in no time!

 

[Zombie_61]

"High cuffs".
You'll grow into them in no time!

Even worse were the shoes, buying them either a half or full size too big so they wouldn't have to buy another pair in six months. Does anyone even use a Brannock device anymore?

 

[2jakes]

Even worse were the shoes, buying them either a half or full size too big so they wouldn't have to buy another pair in six months. Does anyone even use a Brannock device anymore?

I was the oldest so I didn't have to worry about "hand-me-downs" !

 

[ChrisB]

Does anyone even use a Brannock device anymore?

Didn't need one back when we had shoe store X ray machines!

 

[LizzieMaine]

A Brannock is only useful when shoes are actually manufactured to specific standard sizes. Most of them, punched out in overseas slave-labor factories, no longer are.