My hair. I miss my hair
This stuff? http://www.dpsgproductfacts.com/en/product/TAHITIAN_TREAT_FRUIT_PUNCH_20
I still see it every now and then. A couple of my friends used to drink it in high school sometimes. I’m diabetic so I never tried it.
The bing… bing… bing… page tones in department stores. Not only is the technology long gone, department stores in general are winding down as A Viable Business Model.
I had both, and the Incredible Edible molds were different from the Thingmaker ones. I suppose one could fill a mold with Plastigoop instead of Gobble-Degoop, however.
Hell yes. I had a great one, seems like it had about eighty different chemicals in it. Sure, there was a big book of “experiments” designed to produce various interesting effects, but they gave you way more materials than you would need to work through the book. I’m not even sure that every substance in the box had a use in the book. They clearly intended kids to just mess around! To try things, for real, just to see what happened! The stuff that was poisonous straight from the vial was labeled.
Can you buy tape for cap guns anymore? I use to love to use a rock to shoot them off. That was a bang from the past ! 
Those old narrow escalators with the wide wooden treads. Last time I saw them was in the NYC Macy’s, in the top floors. I always wondered how many women got their heels stuck in them.
I use to hit the whole roll with the end of a baseball bat.
Good times. Good times.
And yes, you can still buy them.
A bit of trivia, these killed a lot of children at the turn of the last century. Kids were getting tetanus from them.
I remember being a kid in the late 1980’s and my grandparents still used Mercurochrome when we scraped our knees. We also had cap guns with flash powder, candy cigarettes, bubble gum cigars, and real clackers.
I still see the candy cigars, cigarettes, and real clackers for sale near me regularly. Cap gun tape is still available at flea markets and the novelty shop near me.
Cracker Jacks with REAL toys:
Compass, tiny steel ball in a maze, and my fav - a magnifying lens able to fry ants on the sidewalk.
REAL milk shakes and Malts - no soybean crude, milk and ice cream and syrup.
And, while at the real fountain - Cherry Phosphate. Cherry syrup, a dash of phosphate, and a carbonated water to fill a 12 oz glass.
Sealed beam headlights - when it burns out (frequently), you remove three or so screws FROM THE OUTSIDE and then remove the retainer ring - the whole thing falls out. Unplug the dead one, plug in the new one and re-assemble.
No disassembly of the entire front end to get to a damned bulb.
Two-color paint schemes on cars - I can’t believe that masking and painting is a lost art. Best you can find is entire panels (door, hood, trunk lid, etc.) being black while the rest has some color on it.
People dressed completely for Church, flying, Medical/dental appointments.
Nobody ever even thought about wearing shorts, let alone T-shirts to any of these places.
The only time sandals were appropriate was near bodies of water - natural or artificial (swimming pools).
Men wore hats and removed them indoors.
Having bare wood floors meant you were too poor to afford carpet. Very large rooms could use Persian (quick - modern name of “Persia”?) rugs or equivalent.
Banisters suitable for riding.
Real mantels over real fireplaces - where you hung your stocking for Santa.
Ceilings at least 10’ high. Only the cheapest housing used 8’ - usually found in cheap apartments.
And for going downtown to shop in the department stores, before there were any in the suburbs.
And there were no T-shirts, only undershirts. Always white. And no sneakers, only black high-top tennis shoes. I think they were all Keds.
Oh, gosh, yes. I well remember going to Sunday school at our church, dressed in a shirt, tie, jacket, grey flannel trousers, and Oxford shoes every Sunday. And when our family travelled via plane or train, it was the same.
More than that: when I went to pro hockey games with my Dad as a child (we saw the Toronto Maple Leafs at Maple Leaf Gardens many times), I was dressed the same as when I went to church: shirt, tie, jacket, etc. Even more, Mom and Dad enjoyed fine dining in fancy restaurants, and again, it was shirt, tie, jacket, etc.
Basically, I learned that a child did not go to a grown-up event without being dressed like a grown-up.
Flavoured milk…when a bottle of milk (non homogenized) had the aluminium cap taken off, a dash of whatever flavour you wanted added, then the cap removed and the bottle vigorously shaken.
Sold with a paper straw…
Actually, yes, it does. A median IS an average, one of three kinds: mode, median, and arithmetic.
Mode is the one with the largest group of members.
Median is where an ordered list would divide in half.
Arithmetic requires adding all members and dividing by the number of them.
QtM’s claim that the average age of first intercourse to be 17 was, in the absence of a cite or qualification, undefined. It might have been any of the three kinds. If it was a median, half of the population were virgins at 17, and that’s what QtM said.
Sliding down a nice long hill on a toboggan or sled. Perfect long nice slide in my old home town that was packed with kids on winter days.
Now there are no sliding signs and the cops are called when someone tries.
I was thrilled to see kids sledding on the long hill on the golf course in the town I grew up in this past winter =)
All Units, we have a 51-50, children having fun, Swarm swarm.
Where is this? A good run on the best ‘suicide hill’ in Kansas City has a (very slight) chance of depositing you on a major street - and it is swarming with people after every snow fall.
Oh my God, I remember the smell of those caps, damn, that brings me back. I had the Rifleman Winchester cap rifle with the little gadget on the lever that pulled the trigger as fast as you could work the action. You could go through a roll of caps in seconds. The hand guns were dangerous, every kid I knew went all summer with a blood blister from pinching their hand in the action. Those were the days.
I’m guessing this is how kids got tetanus from the caps. While researching some local history I had read every news paper for the year 1903 in my city. There were a number of reports about kids dying from this.
I vaguely remember a 6 shooter that used the caps. I’d buy packs of the cap rolls. the temptation to expedite their demise usually occurred from at least one of the rolls per pack.