What do ya'll miss?

daveinvegas

daveinvegas

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I miss cameras that use film.

I miss Polaroid.

I miss reel-to-reel tapes.

I miss vinyl records.

I miss cars with real styling ('57-'59 Chevys). I miss fins, cheese cutters, big bumpers with those bullet shapes and lots of chrome trim and wire wheels and spinners. Add wrinkle wall tires to that. I miss muscle cars.

I miss Smucker's cherry jelly.

I miss flair leg pants. With tight, straight leg pants I have to put on my jeans before my shoes. And there ain't no point in keeping a knife in your boot if you can't get the leg up to get to the knife.

I miss Orange Julius and Naugles (Google it).

I miss slot cars and the hobby stores that had slot car tracks.

I miss Coke and Dr. Pepper in green glass bottles. I miss RC Cola.

I miss car hops.

I miss juke boxes with the selector thingy at the table.

I miss drafting by hand with a pen on vellum.

I miss Roy Rogers and Clayton Moore.

I miss Skeeter Skelton.

I miss Texas.

I miss the good ole days.







On a more personal note:

I miss the dark colored hair in my mustache. The worst part about my mustache going gray is the light reflects off the gray hair and creates a glare in my glasses.

I miss being able to see things up close without glasses.

I miss being 150 pounds.


Next up: What object have you owned since you were a kid?
 
Wow Dave , I forgot all about Orange Julius , what a flashback .
I miss .19/gal. gasoline and the full service stations .
 
I miss the old Coke.
I could make a list a mile long of things I miss.
But I think most of all I miss my girls when they were little.
 
I miss Heckle and Jeckle on Saturday morning.
I miss when Rte.53 up through the arrowhead of Minnesota was a gravel road - now it's a four lane.
I miss being able to ride through town with your .22 rifle on your handle bars, 'cause everybody knew who you were, knew you were going down to the river, and knew YOU KNEW who to safely use it.
I miss car hops, too. Especially Peggy.
I miss drive-in movies.
I miss $.25 John Wayne and Tarzan movies and Wed. matinees during the summer.
I miss the swimming pool in the summer.
I miss catching buckets of night crawlers for the family's summer vacation fishing trip.
I miss watching my Dad work our English setters hunt pheasants.
I miss the family holiday dinners over at some relative's house where ANY Aunt or Uncle could thump ANY neice or nephew if they got out of control.
I miss watching Jim Brown get 5.2 yards per carry life time average IN THE MUD!! (Never played an indoor game or on artificial turf in his life)
I miss Gunsmoke episodes when they weren't re-runs.
I miss not having to be home until dark, and my parents didn't even know where I was.
I miss not locking the front door unless we went on vacation.
I miss 5 digit phone numbers.
I miss the family eating probably a dozen meals a week together.
I miss home made bread.
I miss home made pumpkin pie.
I miss knowing who was driving down the street one block over 'cause I knew the sound of his tailpipes.
I miss my 1960 Dodge Phoenix.
 
You can still get Orange Julius if you live in the right place. Every time my wife and I are in Spokane, WA we have to go to the Northtown Mall so she can get her fix.
 
I miss being able to read without glasses
I miss The old South West Conference football
I miss being in the Corps, never thought I would though.
I miss the old Real Thing Coke the kind that would freeze to a kind of slush when you pop the cap off the bottle.
I Miss Grape Nehi
But the thing I miss the most is My Dad.
 
The last time I got an Orange Julius, they refused to put in a raw egg. Some law prevented them from doing so.

Nuts!
 
daveinvegas said:
The last time I got an Orange Julius, they refused to put in a raw egg. Some law prevented them from doing so.

Nuts!
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I can't find a restaurant that will give me a medium rare hamburger . Hell , when I was a kid I ate hamburger raw from the fridge .
 
ONeill said:
Hell , when I was a kid I ate hamburger raw from the fridge .
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Yeah, used to be you could eat a lot of stuff fresh out of the package without worrying about catching something. :)
 
I miss Alex Trebek's mustache!!! :grumpy:


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Polaroid isn't dead , and it's gone digital !
I'm sure someone makes cherry jelly. Do a search , someone in the cherry growing area of MI must make it.
CHML in Hamilton Ont has old time radio between 10:00 pm and 2:00 am .Yes it's not the same thing as hearing it as a kid but it's still fun.
I miss things like the nearby drugstore where we'd go to get things like an ice cream soda served by a 'soda jerk' !!
I miss the earliest sounds I heard as a kid - the fog horns - though they are still there but I've moved away.
I miss the days when a kid carrying a pocket knife was not a major crime ! And there was respect for the teachers. And bad behaviour when seen by a neighbor was reported to the parents and the parents acted !
 
When i was 18 I was the PROJECTIONIST at a drive-in theater. My first obsolete job. we did family films until the end of August, then switched to X films. Guys used to bring their dates to the drive-in to watch X films. Now there are platter system projectors which the popcorn monkey can turn on (they run themselves, no reel switching every 20 min.)
I still have a muscle car, (74 Duster, which I'm dropping a 360 4-barrel in) and a big (69 Monaco) Dodge I miss leaded high octane gas and I miss being able to afford to use the Monaco as my daily driver.
I miss Kodachrome 25P
I miss being able to make a living as a photographer

I miss decent LIVE music in bars

-Page
 
mete said:
CHML in Hamilton Ont has old time radio between 10:00 pm and 2:00 am .Yes it's not the same thing as hearing it as a kid but it's still fun.
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I enjoy listening to those too, on 770 CHQR, Calgary. Even though I didn't exist to hear them the first time around.

I miss my friend Jill.
I miss Koogle.
I miss Grandma's Kuchen.
I miss carburetors.
 
My Father, My Grandfather, and old school wrestling, you know when it was "real" because you where a kid.
 
A pk of Luckys out of the mach. was 25 cents but had 3 cents taped
to it for your change.
Over at Brigmans station gas was 11 cents a gal. but karosine was 7 cents, so we mixed it. boy did it smoke![ Henry J ]
1 hr lunch break from school=hot dog with chili & onions, with a Barqs root beer=16 cents.
My dad raised hell because the power bill one month was $2.56
Sunday afternoon was 48 hours long.
Those were the good old days
 
I miss picking up the phone and telling Sarah ,the operator, who you wanted to speak to ( just the name, she knew how to find them).

I miss running around barefoot all summer. I remember going to school and some of the kids came barefoot ( in the city of Norfolk,VA). Not because they were poor, because they hated wearing shoes.

My first appartment was $65/mo. My first mortgage was $142/mo.

This is one of my favorite songs:

Saturday morning serials chapters 1 through 15
Fly paper, penny loafers, Lucky Strike Green
Flat tops, sock hops, Studebaker, "Pepsi, please"
Ah, do you remember these?

Cigar bands on your hand, your daddy's socks rolled down,
Shticks, snow globes, and aviator caps with flaps that button down
Movie stars on Dixie Cup tops and knickers to your knees
Ah do you remember these?

The Hit Parade, grape Tru-Ade, the Sadie Hawkins Dance
Pedal pushers, duck-tail hair and peggin' your pants
Howdy Doody, Tutti-Frutti, the seam up the back of her hose
Ah, do you remember those?

James Dean, he was keen, Sunday movies were taboo
The Senior Prom, Judy's mom, rock and roll was new
Cracker Jack prize, stars in your eyes, ask daddy for the keys
Ah, do you remember these?

The boogey man, lemonade stand and takin' your tonsils out
Indian burn and wait your turn and four foul balls you're out
Cigarette loads and secret codes and savin' Lucky Stars
Can you remember back that far?

The boat neck shirts and fender skirts and crinoline petticoats
Mum's the word and a dirty bird and a double root beer float
Moon hubcaps and loud heel taps and "he's a real gone cat"
Ah do you remember that?

Dancin' close, little moron jokes, and cooties in her hair
Captain Midnight, Ovaltine and The Whip at the County Fair
Charles Atlas Course, Roy Roger's Horse, and "only The Shadow knows"
Ah, do you remember those?

Gable's charm, froggin' your arm, loud mufflers, pitchin' woo
Going steady, Veronica and Betty, white bucks and Blue Suede Shoes
Knock Knock jokes -- who's there? Dewey! Dewey who?
Do we remember these? Yes we do!
Ah, do we, do we remember these!

Stacy
 
fitzo said:
Yeah, used to be you could eat a lot of stuff fresh out of the package without worrying about catching something. :)
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...now this was about the same time they called "cancer" consumption, right?
 
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