They’re cool little animals with rhinestone eyes, little metal collars with a bead hanging from them. They’re molded glass, so some are nicer quality than others, but they were considered cheap giveaway toys at one time.
These first two are specific to the US, but:
Legalized and “normalized” sex work.*
Viability and affordability of train travel between major cities.
And more generally:
Fashionable hats on men (not these ferkakte baseball caps) and women (women still wear fashionable hats but not as often as they did back in the day.
*I’m not sure how “normalized” it was, and I’m sure sex workers faced all sorts of discrimination and whatnot, but there was a time in this country when a gentleman stopping into a brothel was just a thing that happened and few people cared. I’d like to see those days brought back, though obviously with controls to, say, make sure that children aren’t brought into the trade, that STIs are managed and prevented, etc. etc. etc.
Just googled. Those are pretty neat!
Did you post in the collections thread?
I’d like to be able to buy solidly made home appliances that have simple mechanical controls, do exactly and only what they need to, and last thirty years.
I don’t turn mine off, but I turn the sound off. I got in the habit of leaving it on when I had an elderly mother in California and a friend in hospice here. One night I got up to pee about 2 in the morning and there was a voicemail from my mother. She had gone down to the curb to wait for her caregiver to pick her up… at midnight. She didn’t realize it was the middle of the night, just thought it was just cloudy and overcast. She came back to the apartment in a huff to call me and complain. 
Both she and my friend are deceased now, so I guess I could turn the phone off, but turning off the sound accomplishes the same thing.
I adore bow ties!
I used to have a very serious, businesslike little doggie-- a corgi mix. I used to say that if he were a person, he’d wear a bow tie and carry a briefcase.
I think Speed Queen still makes washers and dryers with mechanical controls, much like the machines of old.
My wife hates them. She says it makes me look like a weather man or a college professor. So I only wear them on my once-weekly trip to the office, and sometimes I’m just too lazy/casual to wear one. A checker at Trader Joe’s on Tuesday said she liked it, and someone else gave me positive feedback somewhere else.
No Speedos?
the snow was a big problem, and not just because of corrorsion. If you got into the car with snow and ice stuck to your shoe, it was almost impossible to use the floor-mounted switch for the headlights. You couldn’t feel the switch–you had to kick and slide your foot around , pressing down randomly in several places till you heard the “click” and the headlights changed.
Putting the switch on the steering wheel is much safer…
Actually, I think shorts ave gotten too long. OK, maybe they don’t need to be quite as short as 1970s basketball shorts, but ankle-length (well, knee-length) shorts are a little long. (On a search, I see that there are short running shorts; but I’ve never seen anyone wear them. NB: IANA runner.)
Yeah, I’m not going to go tromping around in a foot of snow in ‘dress’ clothes. Speedos are right out too 
I do wear a Tilley hat about half the time now, but it keeps snow off my sunglasses, and sun out of my eyes… Also helps for driving into sun that is right on the horizon.
High diving boards at pools.
Only on special occasions. It wouldn’t be fair of me to over-arouse the lady folks. My neon green Speedos stretched taut over my sexy beer belly is a force to reckon with.
I have a thing for weather men (meteorologists, that is, not 60s radicals) and college professors.
On behalf of womankind, thank you.
The classic clean models are still old school.
They also sell perfect clean machines that use very little water and the newer tech.
My issue with modern washers is they’re designed for lightly soiled clothing. Office workers and computer techs.
Car mechanics and laborers need a old school washer that fills the tub and has an agitator.
I’m plan on buying a Speed Queen washer later this year. Fortunately there is a local appliance dealer that stocks them.
Nope, but I should!
Only problem is it might expose how obsessive I am. 
Alright, alright. Since you’re twisting my arm, I’ll take a photo of me posing in my Speedos and post it here.
Reading between the lines again, eh? I thought the judge warned you about that…
I aim to please.
So…how YOU doin’?
Shouldn’t that be under your sexy beer belly, as in a case of Dunlop’s disease (second definition)