# Things you just don't see much anymore. **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [April 30, 2005, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-just-dont-see-much-anymore/301895 "2005-04-30T22:26:02Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 4:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-just-dont-see-much-anymore/301895/61 "2005-05-03T16:46:29Z")
> [@Big Bad Voodoo Lou](#): > > Men wearing hats (fedoras, pork pie hats, knit caps) with suits and other “nicer” clothes. I say this because I’m looking for a nice hat, and nobody has any for sale, not even the men’s sections in the larger department stores. Try [here.](http://www.villagehatshop.com/mens-hats.html) Or [here.](http://www.jjhatcenter.com) (I shop at the latter. That’s where I got my favorite panama, a Biltmore, made in…_Canada?!!?!_ _“Git a rope!”_) ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2005, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-just-dont-see-much-anymore/301895/62 "2005-05-03T16:48:44Z")
> [@Nicodemus2004](#): > > Alpha-Bet cereal, or was it Alpha-Bits? . Were’d they go. I’ve looked in may stores for months and they are just _gone_. Do they still have Frosted Cheerios? Just like Alpha-Bits, only every letter is “o.” I mourn the loss, some 15 years ago now, of Post Fortified Oat Flakes. Yum. ---
**Author:** ![bizzwire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/958977/32.png) [@bizzwire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bizzwire)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-just-dont-see-much-anymore/301895/63 "2005-05-04T02:50:40Z")
Slide rules. I miss mine. ---
**Author:** ![bizzwire](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/958977/32.png) [@bizzwire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bizzwire)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 2:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-just-dont-see-much-anymore/301895/64 "2005-05-04T02:54:13Z")
Whoa…sorry, **BobLibDem** …I see you beat me to the punch. ---
**Author:** ![Tentacle\_Monster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ba9def/32.png) [@Tentacle\_Monster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tentacle_Monster)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 2:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-just-dont-see-much-anymore/301895/65 "2005-05-04T02:58:16Z")
**+MDI** : I didn’t realize that. I haven’t seen dog shit that had turned white since I was a kid. Did they change something in dog food, or am I just not noticing dogshit anymore? ---
**Author:** ![Cicero](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cicero/32/3594_2.png) [@Cicero](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cicero)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-just-dont-see-much-anymore/301895/66 "2005-05-04T08:14:13Z")
> [@Tentacle Monster](#): > > **+MDI** : I didn’t realize that. I haven’t seen dog shit that had turned white since I was a kid. Did they change something in dog food, or am I just not noticing dogshit anymore? I wish I hadn’t read that- I can’t stop laughing. ---
**Author:** ![hlanelee](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/3bc359/32.png) [@hlanelee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/hlanelee)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 11:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-just-dont-see-much-anymore/301895/67 "2005-05-04T11:18:04Z")
> [@Lobsang](#): > > You don’t see new places like you did as a child anymore. Life sucks. You spend your entire childhood craving adulthood, and when you finally become an adult the fact is revealed to you that childhood is better. Youth is wasted on the young. I had a closed head injury on June 1995, maybe you have seen one of my posts, and I forgot everything I ever knew. For a few years, from age 32 to about 36, lots of things were familiar but EVERYTHING was new. When I stopped feeling sorry for myself and faced it, my life became an amazing adventure. I’ve been blessed. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 12:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-just-dont-see-much-anymore/301895/68 "2005-05-04T12:14:18Z")
White eggs. Not easy to find in supermarkets in the UK. Still seen in farm shops, but high street retailers just seem to think everybody wants brown eggs. ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 3:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-just-dont-see-much-anymore/301895/69 "2005-05-04T15:29:02Z")
> [@danceswithcats](#): > > Honest politicians. > > Common sense. > > Lawyers with a conscience. > > Businessmen with ethics. Nostalgia just isn’t what it used to be, eh **danceswithcats**? I’m not sure that people in the professions you mention above have any more or less integrity than lawyers, businessmen, or politicians used to have. And common sense never was all that common, AFAIK. ---
**Author:** ![Scribble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scribble/32/3317_2.png) [@Scribble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scribble)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 3:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-just-dont-see-much-anymore/301895/70 "2005-05-04T15:31:13Z")
Crappy typo. See, now, that’s something I don’t see much of these days–a note or post by me that’s free of mistakes. 🙂 My second sentence should have read, “I’m not sure that people **who are now** in the professions you mention above have any more or less integrity than lawyers, businessmen, or politicians used to have.” Feh. ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [May 4, 2005, 3:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-just-dont-see-much-anymore/301895/71 "2005-05-04T15:57:57Z")
> [@meanoldman](#): > > The drive-in theatre seems to be almost gone as well. Totally bucking this trend, a drive-in theater opened in my town a couple of years ago. They have two screens, and every show’s a double feature. The concession stand has real food that you can make a meal out of, like cheeseburgers and pizza. They even have a [website](http://www.driveinusa.com)! ---
**Author:** ![Unregistered\_Bull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3da27b/32.png) [@Unregistered\_Bull](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unregistered_Bull)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2005, 3:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-just-dont-see-much-anymore/301895/72 "2005-05-05T03:01:31Z")
I feel lucky. Merry-go-rounds, teeter-totters/see-saws, and even some dome shaped monkey bars including a real big one all exist at some of the older parks in mine and a neighboring town. Something that I don’t see anymore is police officers carrying revolvers and fried pies under heat lamps at fast food type restraunts and convenience stores. ---
**Author:** ![jabiru](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/bbce88/32.png) [@jabiru](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jabiru)\ **Post date:** [May 5, 2005, 4:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-just-dont-see-much-anymore/301895/73 "2005-05-05T04:42:17Z")
Carbon paper. Does it even exist anymore? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/things-you-just-dont-see-much-anymore/301895.md?page=3)