# Things long gone **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [August 31, 2009, 9:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-long-gone/508338 "2009-08-31T09:34:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 7
**Author:** ![Martini\_Enfield](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/martini_enfield/32/11123_2.png) [@Martini\_Enfield](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Martini_Enfield)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2009, 3:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-long-gone/508338/121 "2009-11-08T03:45:37Z")
TVNZ used to play a short cartoon of their station mascots, TV Kiwi and The Cat, turning off the equipment and lights in the station before going to sleep in one of the dishes on the broadcasting tower when they signed off for the evening, but IIRC they switched to 24 hour programming in the mid-90s. Wiki says there’s a Digital TV channel in NZ still using the sign off, though. That makes me happy for some reason. I always did like TV Kiwi and The Cat. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Jolly\_Roger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2009, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-long-gone/508338/122 "2009-11-08T04:48:48Z")
Remember [ZOOM?](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F7gzHLKT5g4) ---
**Author:** ![Hockey\_Monkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a183cd/32.png) [@Hockey\_Monkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hockey_Monkey)\ **Post date:** [November 8, 2009, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-long-gone/508338/123 "2009-11-08T05:18:47Z")
> [@C3](#): > > We have a local dairy that still does home deliveries. Also, with more and more CSAs popping up, we have a few companies that will deliver fresh fruit & vegetables to your doorstep. Yep! Ain’t it wonderful? ---
**Author:** ![pabstist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/e99b99/32.png) [@pabstist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pabstist)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 2:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-long-gone/508338/124 "2009-11-09T02:39:36Z")
Remember home video game systems that used plug in game cartridges? The new systems all use discs (like CD’s) now. Between my Atari 2600, Atari 7800, Intellivision, and Colecovision I must have 300 carts. And all of those 300 separate games would probably fit on one modern disc. With much room to spare for another thousand games. ---
**Author:** ![kopek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kopek/32/337_2.png) [@kopek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kopek)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-long-gone/508338/125 "2009-11-09T03:03:52Z")
> [@FriarTed](#): > > Locally-produced entertainment TV shows. There are some local church shows, school-related shows, news shows (of course), but not talk/variety shows, game shows or hosted movies. Hosted horror is actually making a strong come-back in a lot of places. New England has Penny Dreadfull, Western PA has Its Alive and Midnight Monster, Buffalo has had a couple lately (Off-beat Cinema?), Ohio has quite a bit going as well. Problem is most are re-run to death but at least they are getting made. ---
**Author:** ![Jolly\_Roger](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Jolly\_Roger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jolly_Roger)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-long-gone/508338/126 "2009-11-09T03:39:26Z")
TV shows like [Doctor Shock](http://www.maskdr.com/DrShock/index.html)…I kinda miss that stuff, cheesey as it was. O course I miss MST3K, But Doctor ?Shock and shows like it were the precursor for them. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 4:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-long-gone/508338/127 "2009-11-09T04:17:28Z")
> [@needscoffee](#): > > I tried to link to that thread when I posted this but > couldn’t locate it. Probably looked on the wrong board. [Here it is.](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=535487&highlight=greenwich+1-1212) ---
**Author:** ![Milossarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/3ec8ea/32.png) [@Milossarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Milossarian)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 4:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-long-gone/508338/128 "2009-11-09T04:38:45Z")
The punchy sound of writing on a typewriter, rather than the clickety-clack of a computer keyboard. There are **adults** now who’ve never heard it. Bizarre to me. ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/46a35a/32.png) [@Tim\_T-Bonham.net](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_T-Bonham.net)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 4:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-long-gone/508338/129 "2009-11-09T04:56:40Z")
> [@C3](#): > > We have a local dairy that still does home deliveries. Also, with more and more CSAs popping up, CSA’s? What the heck are they? Confederate States of America – that’s long since dead & gone. ---
**Author:** ![kittenblue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/ba8739/32.png) [@kittenblue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kittenblue)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 5:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-long-gone/508338/130 "2009-11-09T05:08:39Z")
> [@C3](#): > > I would love to find cigar boxes. My son went to a camp a couple years ago and the counselor had a bunch of them that the kids decorated. He keeps all his “treasures” in it - it’s perfect. They’re the perfect size for storing small things in. I was going to ask at our local tobacco store, but they closed down. You can order them [Here](http://blackcatcigars.com/cigarboxes.html) and from a few other places. Our local craft store has blank white ones, but I can’t find them on their website. I just bought two kerosene heater wicks this past season at the hardware store, so they are still out there! Filmstrips. We used these a lot in school, especially Spanish. It was considered quite an honor to be the child chosen to turn the knob on the projector to advance the film when you heard the tone on the record that played along with it.There was much teasing and derision if you got out of synch, or turned the wrong way! ---
**Author:** ![AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/22d042/32.png) [@AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AboutAsWeirdAsYouCanGet)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-long-gone/508338/131 "2009-11-09T05:30:17Z")
> [@](#): > > Used to be, you could drive into Boston (the “Combat Zone”-lower Washington street) Twenty-ish years ago, when I was still in elementary school, I remember reading about the Combat Zone and for some reason I thought it was in Roxbury. Here’s another one…body worn FM devices/auditory trainers for deaf and hard of hearing kids. It was this box that you wore on your chest, and you had to wear a harness. _shudders_ ---
**Author:** ![kidneyfailure](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9f8e36/32.png) [@kidneyfailure](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kidneyfailure)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 8:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-long-gone/508338/132 "2009-11-09T08:29:54Z")
> [@kittenblue](#): > > You can order them [URL=“[http://blackcatcigars.com/cigarboxes.html](http://blackcatcigars.com/cigarboxes.html)”]Filmstrips. We used these a lot in school, especially Spanish. It was considered quite an honor to be the child chosen to turn the knob on the projector to advance the film when you heard the tone on the record that played along with it.There was much teasing and derision if you got out of synch, or turned the wrong way! Man, I loved those crappy filmstrips. It meant you got to sit in the dark for 30 minutes and the teacher wouldn’t know what the hell you were doing. And the strips themselves were always 30 years old (early seasons of The Simpsons had the best film strip parodies). Sometimes the filmstrip would last so long it wouldn’t be finished by the time class was over! The school where I teach uses Powerpoint for our presentations. I’d kind of like to see the reactions from the students if they saw an old filmstrip like I grew up with. ---
**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 12:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-long-gone/508338/133 "2009-11-09T12:04:27Z")
> [@Martini\_Enfield](#): > > There were still a few of those in NZ when I was a kid ('80s/'90s) but they were invariably being used in on farms as a washing machine for workclothes (because they didn’t require electricity, they could be kept in paddock sheds), or by elderly people who had purchased one new in 1946, and it worked perfectly for what they needed and had never broken down since, so they kept using it. Ma used one in the mid 60’s until it pulled her arm into the rollers. It popped open the rollers when it got almost to the shoulder. The new washer was in the house in a week. Some Mexican immigrants bought the old one. These washers were known to have ripped off arms and scalps, also to have permanently damaged arms and hands not ripped off. ---
**Author:** ![Angel\_of\_Doubt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/7cd45c/32.png) [@Angel\_of\_Doubt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Angel_of_Doubt)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 2:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-long-gone/508338/134 "2009-11-09T14:35:04Z")
> [@Harmonious\_Discord](#): > > Ma used one in the mid 60’s until it pulled her arm into the rollers. It popped open the rollers when it got almost to the shoulder. The new washer was in the house in a week. Some Mexican immigrants bought the old one. These washers were known to have ripped off arms and scalps, also to have permanently damaged arms and hands not ripped off. Hence the old expression "(whatever)..since Ma got her tit caught in the wringer) Oooowwch! Was her arm OK? ---
**Author:** ![Wheelz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wheelz/32/5718_2.png) [@Wheelz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wheelz)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 3:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-long-gone/508338/135 "2009-11-09T15:09:02Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Lower Sukhumvit Road is chock-a-block with streetwalkers at night over here… Does anyone else think this is an awesome name for a street frequested by prostitutes? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e99b99/32.png) [@Diogenes\_the\_Cynic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diogenes_the_Cynic)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 3:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-long-gone/508338/136 "2009-11-09T15:37:53Z")
Short shorts on NBA players. Ads to sell _Grit_ in the backs of comic books. Black quarterbacks as oddities, invariably described as “athletic.” Local wrestling shows. One heavyweight boxing champ, and championship bouts on regular TV. Inkwells on school desks. Ashtrays in stores. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-long-gone/508338/137 "2009-11-09T16:07:47Z")
> [@Peter\_Morris](#): > > google is your friend > > [harlem hubris: Ghetto Snack Hall of Fame - quarter waters](http://harlemhubris.blogspot.com/2008/10/ghetto-snack-hall-of-fame-quarter.html) Ah, [Lil’ Hugs](http://www.samsclub.com/shopping/navigate.do?dest=5&item=205515). Joe ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-long-gone/508338/138 "2009-11-09T16:27:17Z")
> [@Siam\_Sam](#): > > Here’s one I’ll bet a lot of people on this Board won’t remember: “Washers” that have rollers to wring the clothes through with a hand crank. > > I remember my grandmother had one of those. It was in what was called “the wash house” outside the main house on my grandparents’ property in a small Arkansas town. They bought the property in the early 1930s, and it must have seemed like the height of modern convenience back then. [You can still buy one new.](http://www.lehmans.com/store/Natural_Goods ___Appliances_and_Energy_Savers___ Home_Queen_Wringer_Washer___32901100?Args=) ---
**Author:** ![Icerigger](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icerigger/32/432_2.png) [@Icerigger](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icerigger)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-long-gone/508338/139 "2009-11-09T16:28:33Z")
More ancient A-V tales. Speaking of filmstrip projectors, in most cases there was a beep sound to advance the film. I went to parochial school so we were often shown religious themed filmstrips and instead of a beep there was the strumming of a harp. Also when we were shown a movie in class I remember the huge metal boxes with canvas buckle straps the film reels came in. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [November 9, 2009, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-long-gone/508338/140 "2009-11-09T16:50:10Z")
> [@](#): > > Speaking of filmstrip projectors, in most cases there was a beep sound to advance the film. I went to parochial school so we were often shown religious themed filmstrips and instead of a beep there was the strumming of a harp. ?? Our religious filmstrips also had the beep. I don’t recall ever having a harp. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-long-gone/508338.md?page=6) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-long-gone/508338.md?page=8)