# Stuff that no longer exists **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 20, 2003, 12:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-no-longer-exists/208431 "2003-10-20T00:41:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-no-longer-exists/208431/81 "2003-10-21T15:31:52Z")
**Philster** : My living room phone is rotary. I like it that way. Little green army men are still available. I see them in drug stores like Rite-Aid. Most of my watches are “wind-up”. Actually, they’re automatic; but you can manually wind them. ---
**Author:** ![Jamlad](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/b77776/32.png) [@Jamlad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jamlad)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-no-longer-exists/208431/82 "2003-10-21T15:41:32Z")
Maybe this was a Quebec phenomena but we had potato chips delivered to our house. The Fiesta Potato Chip Man!! Hi Karate aftershave - smell’in sweet… ---
**Author:** ![Michael\_Ellis](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Michael\_Ellis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Michael_Ellis)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-no-longer-exists/208431/83 "2003-10-21T15:42:55Z")
I’ve got a pocket watch. And a vest. ---
**Author:** ![danceswithcats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9e8a1a/32.png) [@danceswithcats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danceswithcats)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-no-longer-exists/208431/84 "2003-10-21T15:45:25Z")
Burma Shave Signs Chewing Tobacco ads on walls of rural barns AM-FM simulcast (the original stereo) Conelrad stations (the triangular spot marked CD on the AM dial) Hand cranked ice cream Pushbutton automatic transmissions 3-on-the-tree manual transmissions Flying A, Esso, and Cities Service gas stations Odd-even gas rationing The white dot in the center of the B&W TV screen when shut off Ted Mack’s Original Amateur Hour (sponsored by Geritol) The Tonight Show with Jack Paar Barney and Fred puffing Winston cigarettes GM vehicles you could start and drive without a key ---
**Author:** ![Nanny\_Ogg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a87d85/32.png) [@Nanny\_Ogg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanny_Ogg)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-no-longer-exists/208431/85 "2003-10-21T16:16:31Z")
DeVena - you are my hero! Gues who else is going to place an order. Also Marathon bars used to be 12inches long of braided caramel covered in chocolate. When I was a kid I would do just about anything for one. My sister knew that and held a stash of bribes in supply. Our Mom could never figure out why I would do things for my sister that I wouldn’t do for anyone else! ---
**Author:** ![Nanny\_Ogg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a87d85/32.png) [@Nanny\_Ogg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanny_Ogg)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-no-longer-exists/208431/86 "2003-10-21T16:17:15Z")
DeVena - you are my hero! Guess who else is going to place an order. Also Marathon bars used to be 12inches long of braided caramel covered in chocolate. When I was a kid I would do just about anything for one. My sister knew that and held a stash of bribes in supply. Our Mom could never figure out why I would do things for my sister that I wouldn’t do for anyone else! ---
**Author:** ![Nanny\_Ogg](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/a87d85/32.png) [@Nanny\_Ogg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nanny_Ogg)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-no-longer-exists/208431/87 "2003-10-21T16:23:01Z")
Sorry… thought about Marathon bars and got carried away… my bad. ---
**Author:** ![Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spectre_of_pithecanthropus/32/12343_2.png) [@Spectre\_of\_Pithecanthropus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spectre_of_Pithecanthropus)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-no-longer-exists/208431/88 "2003-10-21T16:43:07Z")
Silver money! That was real money. So much so that in French the word for money and silver are the same. The heft, feel, and clinking sound of the old silver coins were distinctive. Now we just have these ugly copper-edged coins in the U.S., or, from what I’ve seen, mostly nickel-based coins elsewhere, that are magnetic. ---
**Author:** ![dwc1970](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/a183cd/32.png) [@dwc1970](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwc1970)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-no-longer-exists/208431/89 "2003-10-21T18:34:51Z")
I’m surprised nobody has mentioned phone booths yet. Any public phone in a glass enclosure you still see these days is a relic from days gone past. ---
**Author:** ![Mooney252](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7c8e57/32.png) [@Mooney252](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mooney252)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-no-longer-exists/208431/90 "2003-10-21T18:45:20Z")
Typewriters Gas wars and 25-cent gas Party lines for telephones B-W TV (and rabbit ears) Black vinyl records Saddle shoes Draft lotteries Phone booths Slide rules IBM punchcards Soviet Union Boone’s Farm wine John Lennon Tab low-cal soda Apartheid Burger Chef Berlin Wall LORAN drive-in movies Shah of Iran Checker cabs ---
**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-no-longer-exists/208431/91 "2003-10-21T18:45:31Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Archergal \* > \*\*Jeezopete, am I the only one that remembers milk before it was HOMOGENIZED? When we got milk delivered at home (I was just a little kid), the cream would separate and rise to the top. Then you could pull the little cardboard cap off and lick off the cream that stuck to the inner side of the cap. Mmmmmm… must be why I still love the taste of cream today. \*\* Oooh, ooh! The Irish variant to this was cutting ribbons out of your tongue by licking the foil cap off the milk. Mm cream. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 6:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-no-longer-exists/208431/92 "2003-10-21T18:50:48Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by DeVena \* > **I was gonna say Zotz candy…** Am I crazy or does Red Bull taste like lime Zotz? ---
**Author:** ![Iteki](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/eada6e/32.png) [@Iteki](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Iteki)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 6:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-no-longer-exists/208431/93 "2003-10-21T18:51:41Z")
Hit submit too fast, was going to ask the other Dubs if my memory of a restaurant called “King Burger” (no, not Burger King) was a false memory. I seem to remember it being in the Ilac just after it opened, oddly enough where Burger King now is… I know, I am not helping my case here! There was a difference between the two though, I preferred Burger King (cos I was collecting Disney glasses), but we often went to King Burger… Or not? ---
**Author:** ![sugaree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/cc9497/32.png) [@sugaree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sugaree)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 6:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-no-longer-exists/208431/94 "2003-10-21T18:54:44Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Lynn Bodoni \* > **Most grocery stores also offered plates, bowls, etc., one piece a week. This way, you could get a matching set of dinnerware relatively easily, and not have to spend a lot of money at once. It also REALLY built up store loyalty, as you didn’t want to spend money at a store which didn’t offer your preferred type of dinnerware.** A lot of stores still do this. It’s how I got my dinnerware circa 1998. And many offices still have typewriters in order to fill out forms or finish up legal documents. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-no-longer-exists/208431/95 "2003-10-21T19:02:46Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Kricket \* > \*\*I remember sitting in front of the television eating those as a small child. I want to say it was like a Dick VanDyke variety type show. Did he have one of those? Maybe it was the Carol Burnnet show? \*\* Dick Van Dyke was a regular on the Carol Burnett Show in '77. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-no-longer-exists/208431/96 "2003-10-21T19:29:33Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jamlad \* > \*\*Maybe this was a Quebec phenomena but we had potato chips delivered to our house. The Fiesta Potato Chip Man!! \*\* In northeast Ohio, Charles Chips was our supplier of snack items. The company is still operating in [Philadelphia and the Lehigh Valley](http://www.dailyitem.com/archive/2003/0901/biz/stories/05biz.htm). **Archergal** : I remember going to a shopping center parking lot to see the dinosaur models the Jonas Brothers originally sculpted for the Sinclair pavilion at the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair. You can see a 1/10 scale reproduction of the Apatosaurus towards the bottom of [this page](http://members.aol.com/Dinogeorge/). ---
**Author:** ![Shayna](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shayna/32/17976_2.png) [@Shayna](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shayna)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-no-longer-exists/208431/97 "2003-10-21T19:36:30Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by PalJuicy \* > > \*\*Quisp cereal: it was brought back for a time – yes, I bought some. It was truly vomity. \*\* I actually used to have a Quisp doll! I miss “Teem Flakes”. Those things were so crunchy you could leave them in a bowl of milk for an hour and they still wouldn’t be soggy! And the CBS Radio Mystery Theater (and others of that ilk). I used to love laying in bed at night and listening to the scary stories with all the fun sound-effects. And they were soap-opera-like, in that you had to tune in every night for a week to hear an entire story play out. Penny candy. \ My sister and I could go to the corner drug store after dinner with a freaking DIME and get a whole BAG full of candy! I remember a scary amount of the things mentioned in this thread, including mercurachrome and iodine as antiseptics. We also had a Farmer’s Market truck that delivered fresh fruits and vegetables to our neighborhood. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 7:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-no-longer-exists/208431/98 "2003-10-21T19:48:29Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jamlad \* > \*\*Maybe this was a Quebec phenomena but we had potato chips delivered to our house. The Fiesta Potato Chip Man!! \*\* In northeast Ohio, Charles Chips was our supplier of snack items. The company is still operating in [Philadelphia and the Lehigh Valley](http://www.dailyitem.com/archive/2003/0901/biz/stories/05biz.htm). **Archergal** : I remember going to a shopping center parking lot to see the dinosaur models the Jonas Brothers originally sculpted for the Sinclair pavilion at the 1964-65 New York World’s Fair. You can see a 1/10 scale reproduction of the Apatosaurus towards the bottom of [this page](http://members.aol.com/Dinogeorge/). ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-no-longer-exists/208431/99 "2003-10-21T20:03:27Z")
Up until we moved in 2000, we were getting milk delivered to our house in glass bottles. There were actually two dairies in SE Virginia that were still delivering at the time - Yoder’s and Bergey’s. We used Yoder’s, and you could also get yogurt, butter, and egg nog at Christmastime. That egg nog was awesome. We have a local dairy here in NC that still bottles in glass, but you have to go to the store to buy it - no delivery. My parents had milk delivered to their house for years when I was a kid, and their house actually has a double-doored slot for it in the garage - the milkman would open the outside door, leave the milk on the shelf in there, and when my mom got up, she’d go out, open the door on the inside of the garage and bring the milk in the house. We also had Charles Chips back then - potato chips and pretzels - delivered. It’s nice to know they still exist. And vacuum tubes still exist as well - we’ve got a modern stereo amplifier that uses them. It takes forever to order new tubes though - I think there are only a few places in Russia and China that still manufacture them. Does anyone know if Grape Tang is still around? ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [October 21, 2003, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/stuff-that-no-longer-exists/208431/100 "2003-10-21T20:41:26Z")
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