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things you never see anymore.
Topic Started: Thu Apr 18, 2013 2:37 pm (1,370 Views)
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ReedEnterprise
Fri Apr 19, 2013 7:15 am
spocklet
Fri Apr 19, 2013 7:02 am
Attendants at gas stations !!
In New Jersey there it is. It is a law that you don't pump your own gas. I know another state has it too but I can't remember what one it is.

they just pump the gas.

it used to be that they'd wash your windshield
& check your oil and stuff too.
remember that scene from back to the future
where someone pulls up to a texaco and like four
guys swarm the car?
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Video store's

Oakley's

Doc Martin's

Everclear

Lucky Strike's

Acid Wash denim

Happy Meal's in cool packaging

Jockey underwear ad's in People Magazine

Those were the first things that came to mind, from my youth. I remember the Happy Meal's coming in styrofoam containers shaped like space ships. Now you get a bag if your lucky. BTW, if your looking for a quick afternoon snack a Happy Meal hits the spot like no other.

I never had a pair of Doc Martin's when I was a teen, we couldnt afford them, so I would get a used pair of drop boots from the Army/Navy surplus store. After I went to work full time I bought myself a pair, a green pair. Insanley expensive, they came to just under $100 after tax. I still have them somewhere.
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AWOLangel
Fri Apr 19, 2013 7:23 pm
ReedEnterprise
Fri Apr 19, 2013 7:15 am
spocklet
Fri Apr 19, 2013 7:02 am
Attendants at gas stations !!
In New Jersey there it is. It is a law that you don't pump your own gas. I know another state has it too but I can't remember what one it is.

they just pump the gas.

it used to be that they'd wash your windshield
& check your oil and stuff too.
remember that scene from back to the future
where someone pulls up to a texaco and like four
guys swarm the car?
Yeah I remember that, those are the guys I meant !!
R.I.P. Gummy, we'll miss you bro
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:) this thread is like a time machine, here's some more that popped to mind;

* On the food front

Clearly Canadian

Happy Steak

Orange Julius

Food Stamps

Drive through Dairy's

The Generic Isle

Food stamps in California are issued on a debit card now. They call it Golden State Advantage. I often find myself standing behind someone with an android phone, lots of jewelery, nice clothes and expensive tattoo's using it to buy steak.

Grocery store's out here used to have a "generic" isle. The most common goods were on this isle, but they were in plain white packages with black lettering designating what they were. Cola, beer, flour, rice etc.

Other items from time long ago;

Paper straw's

Lead based paint

Beeper's

Polaroid's

Nudity on broadcast tv

Polaroid's were a god send. You no longer had to go pick up your pictures and avoid eye contact with the technician. Also, there used to be places called "Photo Hut". They were in parking lots, usally by grocoery stores, very small and they were a place you could drop off film for developing.

Late at night and Saturday evening's you could see full nudity, and graphic violence, on broadcast tv. It came with a warning after each commercial break that it had "adult subjects and images, viewer discresion advised", but that was it. I remember the local Fox affilate showing Midnight Cowboy at like 2am. And they showed everything.
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Drive Inn movie theater's
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Ice cream sellers driving around with their chimes playing to attract customers - stop me and buy one !!
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we used to have one of those. But I didn't see him last year
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record stores
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wissaboo
Sat Apr 20, 2013 7:49 am
record stores
Are closing by the score, they can't compete with iTunes and YouTube, places where somebody can download music for free !!
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wissaboo
Sat Apr 20, 2013 7:19 am
we used to have one of those. But I didn't see him last year
There used to be loads back in the 60's, 70's and 80's in the UK, but haven't seen any ice cream sellers in a long time !!
R.I.P. Gummy, we'll miss you bro
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Sat Apr 20, 2013 8:19 am
wissaboo
Sat Apr 20, 2013 7:19 am
we used to have one of those. But I didn't see him last year
There used to be loads back in the 60's, 70's and 80's in the UK, but haven't seen any ice cream sellers in a long time !!
There are still quite a few of them about !! But not many so far this year because of indifferent or inclement weather !!
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video cassettes
video cassette players
audio cassettes
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AWOLangel
Sat Apr 20, 2013 7:38 pm
video cassettes
video cassette players
audio cassettes
audio cassette players
We still have those, don't use 'em much but they're there. But yeah, very much on the decline in general !!
R.I.P. Gummy, we'll miss you bro
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stigmata
Sat Apr 20, 2013 8:38 am
spocklet
Sat Apr 20, 2013 8:19 am
wissaboo
Sat Apr 20, 2013 7:19 am
we used to have one of those. But I didn't see him last year
There used to be loads back in the 60's, 70's and 80's in the UK, but haven't seen any ice cream sellers in a long time !!
There are still quite a few of them about !! But not many so far this year because of indifferent or inclement weather !!
We have a ice cream with a van that comes round most days & has done for the past 25 years!
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black and white tvs
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ReedEnterprise
Mon Apr 22, 2013 3:49 pm
black and white tvs
Yeah true, though if you're feeling nostalgic you could just wind the colour down to B&W !!
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he just had a grandchild....ive seen pics floating around
All my posts are done from my tablet. I apologize for all strange errors in my posts... as swype hates me. :violet:
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He also just opened his presidential library.
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