Things/Behaviors You Don't See Anymore

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Re: Things/Behaviors You Don't See Anymore

Postby PufPuf93 » Tue Aug 30, 2016 3:39 pm

Doctor visits at home.

Car hops at drive ins (a big treat was going to Mel's in Walnut Creek)

Car hops on roller skates (there was a drive in in Grants Pass OR that continued this into the 1980s)

Malted milk shakes.

45 rpm singles.

No helmets on motor cycles or bicycles.

Nuclear attack drills in elementary school in 1960s (and building home air raid shelters, some later to become wine cellars)

Wolfman Jack on the radio.

More rural people rode horses in USA.

Wind up watches.
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Re: Things/Behaviors You Don't See Anymore

Postby 82_28 » Tue Aug 30, 2016 3:46 pm

Amway salesmen.

People from Texas going door to door with big boxes of grapefruit.

"Key parties". (I know nothing of this as am still 41. I just saw it in films)

Emergency breakthroughs on the phone.

Getting a flight pin as a kid boarding a flight. Hell, dressing up to board a flight.
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Re: Things/Behaviors You Don't See Anymore

Postby 82_28 » Tue Aug 30, 2016 3:57 pm

Non network time. Speaking of wind up watches. I remember going to church as a kid and on the hour everyone's beeping of their digital watches within around a few seconds or even minutes of one another. You knew someone needed to get a new battery or check their clocks at home.

Beep beep.

Beep beep.

X20. All out of "synch".

Everyone was living in "different" times. So to speak.
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Re: Things/Behaviors You Don't See Anymore

Postby identity » Tue Aug 30, 2016 6:15 pm

Dentists smoking while working


Surgeons smoking outside the operating theater
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Re: Things/Behaviors You Don't See Anymore

Postby Nordic » Tue Aug 30, 2016 7:19 pm

Whatever happened to The Avon Lady? Are they still in existence?
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Re: Things/Behaviors You Don't See Anymore

Postby identity » Tue Aug 30, 2016 7:29 pm

^
Not to mention the Welcome Wagon lady!
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Re: Things/Behaviors You Don't See Anymore

Postby Burnt Hill » Tue Aug 30, 2016 7:56 pm

Nordic » Tue Aug 30, 2016 7:19 pm wrote:Whatever happened to The Avon Lady? Are they still in existence?


Its Mary Kay Cosmetics now- with a pink Cadillac,


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*not literally, its a different corporation- very popular in my area.
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Re: Things/Behaviors You Don't See Anymore

Postby norton ash » Tue Aug 30, 2016 9:45 pm

Can you eat Jenny Craig with Mary Kay on your face though?

I'll go stand in the corner now.
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Re: Things/Behaviors You Don't See Anymore

Postby Burnt Hill » Tue Aug 30, 2016 9:53 pm

norton ash wrote:Can you eat Jenny Craig with Mary Kay on your face though?

Be worth a try, anyway :wink:
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Re: Things/Behaviors You Don't See Anymore

Postby Luther Blissett » Mon Sep 05, 2016 11:59 pm

My surf trunks are probably shorter than mid thigh.
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Re: Things/Behaviors You Don't See Anymore

Postby Freitag » Wed Sep 07, 2016 1:00 am

Hats.

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Re: Things/Behaviors You Don't See Anymore

Postby seemslikeadream » Wed Sep 07, 2016 1:12 am

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Re: Things/Behaviors You Don't See Anymore

Postby backtoiam » Wed Sep 07, 2016 1:45 am

Little kids running all over the neighborhood in the streets after school, running through the neighbors yards until 9:00 or 10:00 at night hiding and yelling and playing kick the can and hiding go seek, and nobody cared at all, they just helped watch for the safety of all the kids, and if it annoyed them they kept it to themselves and didn't complain.
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Re: Things/Behaviors You Don't See Anymore

Postby Pele'sDaughter » Wed Sep 07, 2016 7:56 am

Actual butchers at the grocery store. All the meat comes pre-cut now, so you can't get specialty items. I remember camping down at Garner State Park near San Antonio and visiting a country store in Leakey because we wanted steaks for dinner one night. The butcher took us to the cooler and pulled out an entire side of beef and asked us what cut we wanted. Best steaks ever. Another thing that is going fast is roadside veg and fruit stands. We used to have one near me but the city put up big stones blocking off access to the space where they parked. :grumpy
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Re: Things/Behaviors You Don't See Anymore

Postby 82_28 » Wed Sep 07, 2016 10:15 am

I suppose it's where you are and what store you go to but several Kroger outlets (QFC) here cut their own meat. Not all of them have it. But some do. I don't know if it's gruesome or a sign of quality when I look at the carcasses hanging on hooks. :shrug:
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