Geritol. I though it left the earth when Ted Mack did.
That’s so funny. I was in the store yesterday and saw it on the shelf and had the same thought.
The other day, I was thinking about one of my childhood favorites: Toffifay The candy that’s too good for kids!
I was wondering whatever happened to that company. Then about a week later I see they have a display set up at one of the end aisles at my grocery store.
Talk about your weird coincidences.
Members Only jackets.
Saw a guy wearing one the other day and my eyebrows shot skyward. Fired up the Google Machine and sure enough, they’re still available.
mmm
Hell, I USE most of the products cited so far. And I grew up with Hydrox cookies, which my family was convinced were superior to Oreo.
Back before I grew a full beard…fifteen years ago…I shaved daily with Burma-Shave brand shaving soap. My old mug and brush are still in the bathroom cabinet.
You can get reproductions of pretty much every major American gun nowadays - I’m including the India Pattern Brown Bess in that because of its close association with the American War of Independence. But yes, it is surprising they’re so readily available - there’s evidently a huge market for them, but outside re-enacting you don’t tend to encounter them much.
I use it to make my own laundry soap, along with Arm & Hammer washing soda and Fels Naptha soap. You can buy it at pretty much any grocery or hardware store.
Hydrox made a brief comeback about 10 years ago.
They ARE better than Oreos.
That reminded me, and I had to look it up, but apparently Zubaz was resurrected not to long ago and a brick and mortar Zubaz outlet just opened up this last November.
I was also a bit surprised to see Drakkar Noir going strong. I thought that was a brand that went out with Z Cavariccis in the late 80s/early 90s, but apparently not.
Breck shampoo is also available.
“Darkie” brand toothpaste. Well, they’ve changed the name to “Darlie”, but that’s not fooling anyone.
Now there’s a product that needs to go away. As a young man I used to think in typical teen-guy-who-doesn’t-care-much-for-grooming fashion that all shampoos were virtually identical. Prell disabused me of that notion - I have oily hair and it still reduced me to a rat’s nest of snarls and tangles immediately after showering. It was almost comically bad IME.
This only tangentially works for the thread, but I was shocked to learn Zima was being produced as late as 2008! I thought for sure it didn’t make it past the 90s. Also, apparently, it’s coming back.
PhisoHex (spelling)
A very good skin cleanser.
Not seen in decades.
Now 'script only, sole indication is per-surgery scrub/
A good while back a Simpsons episode had dream sequence that included Screaming Yellow Zonkers. I mentioned it as being a dead product in a thread here only to have someone point out it was still being made.
Googling reveals that a “limited edition” version is still being sold.
(And add me to the list of Hydrox fans.)
I recently ran across a manga that features a certain type of pencil I used as a child but haven’t seen or thought about since then. They are flat, and filled with interchangeable short segments of colored “lead”, and some googling showed that they are still available.
PhisoHex was taken off the market in 1972 because the hexachlorophene in it caused brain damage.* They remarketed it as PhisoDerm.
*Insert joke about the 60s teens here.
I was so happy to find Necco wafers. No other snack combines the rush of real sugar with the grittiness of real Dover chalk.
In fact, I’m now on the Necco Diet: I can walk right by the free donuts at work if I pop a wafer (hmmm, can I find a church where they do Eucharist with these?).
Watch for my Necco Diet book, TED Talk, and appearances on the morning news shows.
Collyrium. Bought out by Bausch & Lomb, with more boring packaging but apparently the same stuff.
Astyptodyne. Now sold in a slightly modernized bottle but still good for your cuts & scratches.
THE treatment for any cut or scrap for my mother when I was growing up. Haven’t seen it in years. But it looks like even Walmart carries it.