remember Sinclair giving away dinosaur balloons?
No, but then, we don’t have Sinclair gas stations in Canada. I did get a tiger tail from Esso, though (“Put a tiger in your tank”), so that was good.
And dinosaur-shaped soap (Dino-soap)?
The Old English cheese is still pretty common, and still in 5 oz glass jars.
I remember both it and the pimento cheese spread fondly (on Ritz crackers or Melba toast of course). I’ll have to look for some.
My family always stuffed the channel of celery sticks with it, and served them as hors d’oeuvres at family gatherings like Thanksgiving and Christmas.
All the JitB around here just closed.
Where do the stoners go at 2am for their munchy fix?
Taco Bell. 
Typewriters…
Unless you are well over 100 years old, typewriters don’t fit the premise of the thread, which is about things which really weren’t widespread (if they existed at all) when you were born, but then became ubiquitous, before fading away, during your lifetime; typewriters were already ubiquitous when you were born.
I think typewriters was in ref to JitB and Taco Bell posts.
Certainly Cecil Adams remembered that.
Stoners go to typewriters to get their 2am munchie fix??? That makes even less sense.
Yes, that poster replied to me, but it was pretty evident that it was their contribution to the overall thread, not a direct reply to my post.
okay, how about electric typewriters?
According to Wiki, the first electric typewriters appeared in the early 1900s.
The IBM Selectric, which is certainly familiar to a lot of us, was introduced in 1961.
Maybe if you were born before 1950. But electric typewriters in 1950s offices were pretty common, although apparently it was the 1961 introduction of the IBM Selectric [ETA: ninja’d by @Railer13], with the typeball element instead of all the keys, that really took off.
Electric typewriters never totally displaced manual ones, though: in the early 1980s I took my manual Brother typewriter (with correcting ribbon, ooooh 
) to college with me. And I still remember my smugness when a power outage hit campus one day (back when random power outages could be all-day issues) and I was typing my paper outdoors in the sunshine while all my classmates with their fancy-schmancy electric typewriters were lamenting that they couldn’t get any work done. 
I’m in my late 50s and grew up in a relatively technically deprived country (Pakistan) in the 1970s and 80s. I do not remember manual typewriters being in use when I was hanging around my mother at work. Certainly everything was electric by the mid 70s.
Of course I’m a young ‘un compared with most of you it seems. Between this place and the bridge table, I am able to counteract the feeling that I am old that I get from going to work each day. Only five of eighteen colleagues were born before 1990.
There is a difference between electric typewriters and electronic typewriters, which I think is confusing some people.
An electric typewriter works pretty much like a manual typewriter, except it uses an electric motor to move the striker rather than relying purely on mechanical force from your fingers.
An electronic typewriter (such as the IBM Selectric) uses electronics to translate your key press into the movement of something like a typeball or daisy wheel, with no actual mechanical connection between the key and the typing element.
ETA: I just read the Wikipedia article, and I just learned that the Selectric was electromechanical, not electronic. So it would actually fall into the “electric” category, albeit a very advanced electric typewriter.
I meant like people drunk call people, maybe they also post while stoned.