Vintage Things That Have Disappeared In Your Lifetime?

[scottyrocks]

 

[LizzieMaine]

We once did an extended bit on the radio involving a jar of Sea Monkeys, a Chia Head, and a ball of dirt in a nylon stocking with grass seed planted in it that we called "Marty Grass." When the last sea monkey died, there was an outpouring of listener grief.

 

[scottyrocks]

Do any of these recordings exist?

 

[LizzieMaine]

I don't think so, unless some sea monkey enthusiast was taping at home. The last sea monkey was named "Mondo," since he was quite large by brine-shrimp standards, and when he passed on, one listener called in and sang his original composition "I Sing A Rondo For Mondo." It was that kind of a program.

Of all the creatures, Marty Grass lived the longest, but he started to attract strange tiny white flies, and the station manager made us throw him away. Hmph.

 

[Inkstainedwretch]

Yellow-green lights on traffic lights. When I was a kid the green "go" light on traffic lights was a yellow-green color. Then they were changed to the current blue-green color. I was told this was so color-blind people could discern them more easily.

 

[scottyrocks]

I don't know about yellow-green and blue-green, but I do remember traffic lights that had no amber in the middle. They were just red over green, usually on poles on the corner, with no overhang into the street, or suspended on a cable over an intersection.

 

[LizzieMaine]

We went even further with that, and had traffic lights that were just flashing red or flashing yellow -- blinkers, as it were.

When I was growing up there was only one three-light traffic signal in the entire county. Everything else was blinkers.

 

[Fading Fast]

We went even further with that, and had traffic lights that were just flashing red or flashing yellow -- blinkers, as it were.

When I was growing up there was only one three-light traffic signal in the entire county. Everything else was blinkers.

And the three-light ones, I'll bet, went to all-flashing from midnight to 5am (or some similar time frame) - red facing the less traffic street / yellow to the busier one. Out town wasn't even that small, but that happened to our lights after midnight.

 

[Haversack]

Fading Fast wrote: "And the three-light ones, I'll bet, went to all-flashing from midnight to 5am (or some similar time frame) - red facing the less traffic street / yellow to the busier one. Out town wasn't even that small, but that happened to our lights after midnight."

Even in not-so-small towns. Up until 2002 the traffic lights on Potrero Avenue in San Francisco, (one of the mains routes leading out of town to the Peninsula), would switch over to blinking amber at 10:00 pm.

 

[3fingers]

We went even further with that, and had traffic lights that were just flashing red or flashing yellow -- blinkers, as it were.

When I was growing up there was only one three-light traffic signal in the entire county. Everything else was blinkers.

My little hometown was at the intersection of two state highways. At that intersection was a 4 way red flashing light suspended over the center of the intersection. It was our only traffic light and the only one in our county outside the county seat.

 

[Bushman]

We went even further with that, and had traffic lights that were just flashing red or flashing yellow -- blinkers, as it were.

When I was growing up there was only one three-light traffic signal in the entire county. Everything else was blinkers.

It used to be all these on the backroads in my area. They're slowly phasing them out.

 

[shazzabanazza]

Sea-Monkeys!!!! I always wanted some of these but never got them.

 

[scottyrocks]

Sea-Monkeys!!!! I always wanted some of these but never got them.

I never got any, either. But I was always curious as to what they actually were.

 

[3fingers]

I never got any, either. But I was always curious as to what they actually were.

They are brine shrimp. I never had any either, but one of my cousins did.
Unbelievably, Transcience Corporation is still around and still scamming I mean selling sea monkeys. People also grow them as DIY fish food.

 

[scottyrocks]

They are brine shrimp. I never had any either, but one of my cousins did.
Unbelievably, Transcience Corporation is still around and still scamming I mean selling sea monkeys. People also grow them as DIY fish food.

Well, they certainly don't look like monkeys! haha

Even as a kid, though, I figured if no adult I knew had herd of them then it had to be something false, somehow. And I never had a spare $1.25.

 

[Zombie_61]

Well, they certainly don't look like monkeys! haha...

They don't look like they do in that ad either.

 

[shazzabanazza]

They are brine shrimp. I never had any either, but one of my cousins did.
Unbelievably, Transcience Corporation is still around and still scamming I mean selling sea monkeys. People also grow them as DIY fish food.

I think the company Moose still sells Sea Monkeys too...although i'm not 100% sure.....

 

[Juanito]

Dime stores.

 

[scottyrocks]

Dime stores.

There are still 5&10s around. It's just that everything costs 5 and 10 bucks!

 

[Trenchfriend]

@shazzabanazza
Hi, I'm glad to see you back here!!