Toys made out of metal, dammit!
MeTV (which is a syndicated over-the-air secondary digital TV channel, available in most U.S. cities) airs old Warner Brothers and other classic cartoons. They have a daily morning show, “Toon In With Me,” that’s meant to evoke the old, locally-produced kids’ cartoon shows, and they also show “Bugs Bunny and Friends” on Saturday mornings.
Foot operated headlight dimmer switches.
I know it’s not exactly the type of milk delivery you’re thinking of, but I’m sure Amazon Fresh or one of the other grocery delivery services would deliver milk to you.
ETA: Actually, grocery delivery is an old fashioned thing that actually is making a comeback. From what I understand back in the 1920s and 30s it was the norm for the grocery store to deliver your order to your home.
And pick-up games! (which actually seem to be making a small comeback)
I’ve driven cars with these, and also the kind where you pull the turn signal towards you. I don’t see any big difference in functionality or convenience between them—either one is fine with me. Is there any advantage to the foot switch that I’m missing?
This year our neighborhood tried to get everyone to sign up for a digital ‘treat map’. If you wanted to give out treats, add yourself to the app! Then when the parents drive their kids from house to house, they can do so more efficiently.
Gah. None of those people understood that Halloween is supposed to help bind neighborhoods together, let the kids meet the neighbors so they know stranger from neighbor, and allow the kids to have a night of their own with their friends to go around the neighborhood and have fun. Now it’s just another ‘activity’ planned by their parents where the kids are closely supervised, driven from house to house as efficiently as possible, then back home with the loot.
We did not participate in the treat map. We did give out treats, though.
Gernal manners would be nice to see again. I’m old enough to remember when people drressed up to go shopping and young people called older people ‘sir’ and ‘ma’am’.
The advent of technology in the 1990s knocked Saturday morning cartoons to the ground. Personal computers, VCRs, DVD players, and home video game consoles were becoming the way that kids entertained themselves. Cartoons like Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles , Animaniacs , and Pinky and the Brain kept Saturday mornings on life support, but the introduction of cable networks like Nickelodeon, Cartoon Network, and the Disney Channel provided alternatives for ways to watch cartoons. Crawling into the 2000s, Saturday mornings were now populated with re-purposed reruns from cable networks, or cheap cartoons brought in from other countries. Soon networks began pulling animated shows off of the Saturday morning line-up altogether and replacing them with live-action series that met the educational mandates of the government… The Saturday morning ritual was officially declared dead when, as mentioned above, The CW network aired the last of The Vortexx animated lineup on September 27th, 2014.
Coleman dairy used to have a Truck that sold milk,eggs, bread, coffee etc All it required was a phone call to have the truck stop at the address.
I think it was limited to certain neighborhoods and appartments. The truck wouldn’t drive somewhere for only one house.
It was a popular service. A lot of home bound people were disappointed when it ended.
Coleman later sold to Hiland.
I think a grocery Truck would make good money. Pick a neighborhood with older residents. You might have 15 stops. Go to the next neighborhood and do the same. People buy eggs and bread every week. A good business plan.
Yes, this.
My town is all bent out of shape since the girl softball players can’t play on the boys baseball diamonds!!! So they need to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on that project … WTF?!?.. we used to play in vacant lots.
I miss sliderules. They’re a great tool and not difficult at all to use. Some of my students were quite impressed when I showed them last year how to use one. They could not wrap their head around the idea that one does not need an electronic device to do everything.
Which leads me to: NON-ELECTRONIC toys and tools. Look at how many of the “nostalgic” items listed in this thread already are not electrical or electronic.
Spot on. Male interpreters used to wear ties, female interpreter used to wear chic. It made us look serious, and respected. That is wearing thin. I observe the same in many other professions. And in my clients!
That too.
I think we should bring back top hats and monocles as formal wear.
I’d like to see professional women who have long hair (and men, too, if it applies) tie it back or put it up in most workplaces, especially where they have close contact with clients. I’ve been to a medical office to have blood drawn, and the when the long-haired technician (female) leaned over my arm to take blood, her hair hung down like a curtain around her face and around my arm. Ewww. I’ve been examined by female doctors (I’m thinking of one oncologist in particular) who leaned over me and brushed me with their hair.
Call me old-fashioned (that’s what this thread is about, right?) but to me, a long, loose hairstyle, particularly when it’s draped over one shoulder is … well, it’s meant to be sexually attractive and alluring. Long hair inevitably needs to be tossed back or tucked behind the ear or brushed away from the forehead. To this Old Lady, those are classically flirtatious gestures and don’t belong in the workplace. Unless that is your work, I guess.
Dating.
Men would ask women out, maybe dinner, maybe putt putt.
Now, its Come over and we’ll watch videos. In other words, I am making no effort at all, youre not worth that.
My high school physics teacher required us to obtain and learn to use slide rules, because doing so requires you to properly read a scale.
Setting down with a bunch of friends and a stack of albums and making ‘Ultimate Mix’ Tape.
All chesterfields are sofas, but not all sofas are chesterfields. It’s a particular style.
I want Cup Custard and Sunshine Hydrox cookies back.
I’m surprised at all the people who want formal dressing back. I hated wearing panty hose and dresses and heels every day to work – even when I was a library page in high school. I knew a woman who had to wear dresses to work, and she worked installing PC’s and spent most of her day crawling on the floor. Do men want to wear neckties all day long again?
And don’t forget the abacus. While I was in Korea, in the Army, I was part of a square dancing group, During one dance, while on the sidelines, I was slooooooowly practicing an abacus multiplication problem. Another guy without a current partner saw me, he was Korean himself. He came over and with the quickest of finger flicks did the same problem. It was amazing.
Not in my dialect. If there was once any distinction, it long ago became genericized.