Vintage things you're happy are still here.

[rue]

I used to put them out for guests at parties.....in the days when people smoked.

You're a good man A.C.

 

[HadleyH]

Yep me too!! I have not succumbed to the Kindle - yet.

Yes, same here!

 

[Nobert]

Shoe Polish.
Clocks that tick and need to be wound.
Barbers (a career I once considered, since cutting hair is one of the few things they haven't figured out how to make a computer do yet).
Old buildings (which may be few and far between for some of you, but Portland's chock full of them).
Money printed on paper or minted in metal.
Trees.
I thought I would have more. I'm looking around my room and realizing how much of my stuff is not commonplace.

 

[AtomicEraTom]

Pabst Blue Ribbon, the can has even changed little since 1958, same with Schlitz. Blatz, Hamm's, Lone Star, Miller High Life, Old Thompson, and Jack Daniels.

Cloth or vinyl tops on cars.

Here, too. All I ever have, or ever will wear!

Yes indeed, Old Spice works for me!

Still a quality product. I got a pair of Redwings for work and LOVE them.

Redwing Shoe Company

 

[TidiousTed]

Paper books
Paper newspapers
Museums
Privately owned cafés, restaurants and coffeeshops (not chains)
Jumble sales and street markeds
Shops that sell decent art material
Candles (we use a lot of them in Norway)
Hand made furniture
shops that sell film for my cameras and equipment for my darkroom
Hand tools (I love carpentry and wood work)

 

[Miss sofia]

I used to put them out for guests at parties.....in the days when people smoked.

You sure know how to throw a decent party Sir! (Doffs hat...)

 

[TidiousTed]

We don't even have wooden forks in our local chippy anymore, it's criminal. I hadn't thought that the plastic was cheaper to produce, silly me. I just assumed that the health and safety people had made another one of their ludicrous judgements after someone in Skegness got a splinter or something.

Luckily we can still get wooden kitchen cutlery here and I use nothing else. Have even made a few myself and have some my daughters have made in carpentry class at school (maybe not the most elegant in the collection, but I woudn't dream of throwing them away)

 

[Atterbury Dodd]

Still a quality product. I got a pair of Redwings for work and LOVE them.

Yes, they will usually last a few years of very hard daily wear. I know a few loggers that wear them, and they really put them through the mill.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

I saw Gold Metal Flour at the store the other day.

 

[LoveMyHats2]

Paper books
Paper newspapers
Museums
Privately owned cafés, restaurants and coffeeshops (not chains)
Jumble sales and street markeds
Shops that sell decent art material
Candles (we use a lot of them in Norway)
Hand made furniture
shops that sell film for my cameras and equipment for my darkroom
Hand tools (I love carpentry and wood work)

Spot on with this list, me too, working with wood!

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Allen Edmonds

Alden

Shoes & boots with leather soles in general

Brand new DE razors.

shaving soap that comes in puck form

 

[Connery]

Free weights versus machines

Books

Tube amplifiers

 

[Undertow]

From Lizzie:
Lipton's Noodle Soup
Plain Old Telephone Service
Newspapers
Fels-Naptha Soap
Spam (the meat, not the email)
Monopoly (the board game, not the business tactic)
The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
The Social Security Act
Cut-Rite wax paper
Johnny Pesky
the Roosevelt Dime
the National Geographic
Wrigley Field
Ovaltine

From Travis:
pomade
Ace combs
sock garters
traditional barbershops
non filtered cigarettes

And I'd like to add Borax, washing soda, classic style men's clothing (since vintage sizes aren't about to fit around me), playing cards, good musicians still willing to play Golden Era music, and I'm sure there's more - my mind is fried on Friday! (and I'm just too excited to pick up my lady from the airport this evening! Brain is frazzled!)

 

[LoveMyHats2]

Good grief, I am not sure anyone else made mention of this...but MONEY! hahahah yes indeed, it is vintage as it has been around for a while for sure....got to love having some...and am not shy about wanting even more!

 

[Wambleyburger]

How about Hush Puppy shoes as well as Buster Brown shoes. And grape Nehi soda..... Mmmmmm, yummy.

 

[LoveMyHats2]

How about Hush Puppy shoes as well as Buster Brown shoes. And grape Nehi soda..... Mmmmmm, yummy.

Good ones there!

 

[PoohBang]

How about Hush Puppy shoes as well as Buster Brown shoes. And grape Nehi soda..... Mmmmmm, yummy.

Unfortunately the Hush Puppies are made in china... just like the converse...

 

[Gregg Axley]

And Rockports from what I've read.
Still good shoes though, I left New Balance for them. I have to admit I have 3 pair of Rockport "Dressports" over 20yrs old and still going strong, so I'm biased.
I'll add an agreement to shave soap in a puck form, I've got a few Col Conk soaps that way, and a few D.R. Harris soaps that come in a wood bowl. My nephew is just now discovering WHY his uncle shaves with it because of the cost over time, and the quality of the ingredients.

 

[Connery]

Very happy about this. Around since 1912

 

[LoveMyHats2]

Unfortunately the Hush Puppies are made in china... just like the converse...

They still make hush puppy shoes here in Michigan....