Commercials for aluminum siding from Sears. They used to be on TV all of the time, but I have not seen one in well over a decade. I do not even know if Sears even does aluminum siding any more.
What else?
Playpens for little kids, or big kids playing out in the streets after school or on the weekend.
Rotary dial phones.
My feet.
Women calling me, asking if I’m doing anything tonight.
Wait, they never did that.
Never mind.
Or…
commercials for (cue singing) Salad Shooter!!!
Tube testers. They used to be in all kinds of places: hardware stores, pharmacies, etc. Haven’t seen one in 20 years.
Fluoroscopes
Radium numerals on watch faces
2 ply tires
Column mounted stick shifts
Flathead engines
Zoot suits
Elk tooth watch fobs
Returnable 16-oz glass bottles of pop. I miss those!!!
Epiladies hair removers. I heard someone say using them was more painful than giving birth.
30 second TV commercials. Or ones with only two or three cuts from scene to scene.
Original VW Beetles. Dune buggies and / or Baja bugs made from same.
Cops with revolvers.
12 year-old girls without breasts.
Local department store companies.
Boeing 707s.
Metal ice cube trays.
Remember the fun those were?
AIIIIIGGGGH! My fingers are stuck to the frozen metal!
I miss the good times of trying to outsmart a kitchen instrument.
Whilst on the subject of Kitchen Stuff, i’d like to nominate some something I haven’t seen in awhile: A toaster that actually toasted well.
There are two settings on toasters: Barely warm or Burnt.
Or is this the way it has always been?
Penny candy
$2 bills
I’m starting to wonder if I’ll ever see a regular quarter again; between the millenium sets and the recent poppy quarters, they seem to be getting rarer by the day.
It seems that SAMSUNG has come up with a WEB-Capable toaster! You can surf the net whilst waiting for your toast to brown. What a stupid idea!
I have four metal ice cube trays in my upstairs refrigerator, and I believe my mother has three or four, herself. Yes, they still yank skin off just about every time they’re handled.
To the OP:
Leisure suits. (That’s really a good thing, though…we shouldn’t have ever been subjected to them in the first place.)
Glass blenders. I mean the actual unit you put things into to be chopped, blended, or whatever. The last couple I bought were plastic. While they’re easier on the wrist for pouring, I just like the glass ones better. I imagine you can still obtain the glass ones, but I also am pretty sure they cost a whole lot more, too. Quality does, as a rule. In fact, glass everything has slowly been replaced by plastic over the years. I know it’s cheaper and all that, but I just like glass containers (most of the time) better than plastic.
Percolaters. Sure, you can still get them, but hardly anyone uses them anymore. I think the next time I have to get a coffee maker, I’m going back to a percolater. Coffee made with drip-makers just don’t taste as good, IMO.
501 Levis. Of course styles and fashions change, but 501 Levis for women were just so 80’s-great. Although I can safely bet once the bell-bottom trend fades away, we’ll be seeing a new emergence of these, even if they’re renamed.
Weeping willows. I used to see them all the time as a kid and my friend had an enormous one on his front lawn that servec uas well for all sorts of games. THey used to be all over town – I haven’t seen a single one in years. Even more or less regionally, it’s rare for me to see them. I love those trees!
Drugstore soda fountains. I think the last time I saw one was around 1976.
I still have a rotary dial phone, though. It’s confusing as all get out to kids who want to use it–they have to ask me how it works.
Lawn darts.
I still have some of mine. It’s funny when I hear “what’s that thing”.