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What items do you recall that were once....but are no more?

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Basil said:
Then there’s all the stuff in Tom’s house (ducks and runs);

Hand-cranked printing press

Butter churn

Ice Box ala Honeymooners

Hand-cranked wall phone (black)

Oil burning stove

Kerosene Lanterns

Scrolls reportedly from the library of Alexandria.

Mattress stuffed with straw

Cast Iron kettle over an open hearth.

Jars of Leeches 😳
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I remember when my parents decided to give up on their ice box and get a "fridge." My Mom said "I don't want a 'fridge', I want the whole refrigerator."
 
NutmegCT said:
Have to chuckle - sadly - when friends say "Look at the great pictures of Sarah's graduation". Then have to scroll through hundreds of tiny images, find what they want, and show them to friends on a 3x3 screen, sliding left and right, up and down. Like dumping the old family albums on the floor, and trying to find the photos they want from ten feet away.

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You ever try to find a slide in a carousel? Way worse than a cell phone.
 
wow - a slide in a carousel. Wonder how many people know what a 35mm slide is, much less a carousel projector!
 
My long gone maternal grandmother was a slide taking person, she used them to do presentations to Women's clubs, church groups and such for many years. She had been a teacher and from the later 40s after the war till she retired they had a group of teachers that took a week or two each summer and went somewhere, round Europe, North Africa, South America and so on. So she had tones of them, most not of people but of sights and of course unlabeled. But I do have, and need to get transferred to computer so I can make actual photos, a box of them from 1964 when she took me as a kid to New York and the World's Fair for a week. Even after all this time, I still remember doing the skyride, the Disney Small World ride and other stuff. We stayed in a cousin's kind of dingy hotel in Brooklyn so rode the subway and went for an afternoon to his home on Long island. So I don't want to lose the memories the slides have but do want them in an easier to use format and printed so they aren't lost someday.
 
Mike - get those slides digitized asap. Colors on film fade over time.

I still have the slides I took on my 1967 college trip to Europe. What memories those bring. Example:

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Fraulein Gabrielle Hoeltl, our tour guide. One look and I was in love. Hoo boy - was I ever in love.

TM
 
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OK, here's another one. analog clocks with actual hands and movements. And for the old grandfather and hang on the wall, powered by weights you have to reset regularly since "falling weight" powers them and not electricity.
 
mikephillips said:
OK, here's another one. analog clocks with actual hands and movements. And for the old grandfather and hang on the wall, powered by weights you have to reset regularly since "falling weight" powers them and not electricity.
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The grandfather clock I bought SWMBO 20 years ago (for our 30th) finally stopped chiming and is in the shop for a refresh as I type.
 
The gas station hose that rang the bell and the attendant that come out , pumped your gas, checked the oil and cleansed the windshield.
 
And another couple things.

Suits and hats once common to see, like the fedora or bowler as men came and went from work

Saw some video of a rail line shop rebuilding steam engines, what struck me was all the guys doing blacksmith type work, while having heavy aprons, all had ties on. This was from the 1930s.

Phone party lines, for a while we had one when I was a kid, mde getting through sometimes difficult since it would be the first person on the line tying it up.

And then when I was a little kid, dairy delivery to the house, we used to have an insulated box outside the front door and a couple times a week milk would arrive.
 
mikephillips said:
And another couple things.

Suits and hats once common to see, like the fedora or bowler as men came and went from work

Saw some video of a rail line shop rebuilding steam engines, what struck me was all the guys doing blacksmith type work, while having heavy aprons, all had ties on. This was from the 1930s.

Phone party lines, for a while we had one when I was a kid, mde getting through sometimes difficult since it would be the first person on the line tying it up.

And then when I was a little kid, dairy delivery to the house, we used to have an insulated box outside the front door and a couple times a week milk would arrive.
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We had uniform ties and slacks required in Catholic Grammar school and tie and coat in Catholic High school.
Once I flunked out of my High School nearly anything went in public HS.
We had party lines in Brooklyn at first around 1952.
Our uncle was our milk delivery man, I always wanted a truck like that.
 
Large Shredded Wheat biscuits and the information plus cut out cards in the box. Before Mini Wheats came out!
 
Granted, I don't have a grandfather clock but I do keep an old shortcase regulator running in the living room.
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PAUL161 said:
Large Shredded Wheat biscuits and the information plus cut out cards in the box. Before Mini Wheats came out!
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Miss the large Shredded Wheat biscuits but I make do with Trader Joe's minis.
 
Wheatena! Boy do I ever miss that!

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My grandparents had a grandfather clock in their house for 70 years. The shadow from the pendulum going back and forth across the floor wore a hole in the carpet.
 
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Thanks Elliot. Does it taste the same as years ago? To me it was a perfect texture of milled wheat, slightly "nutty", great smell, etc. I've read it's now made by a different company.
 
NutmegCT said:
Thanks Elliot. Does it taste the same as years ago? To me it was a perfect texture of milled wheat, slightly "nutty", great smell, etc. I've read it's now made by a different company.
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It tastes exactly the same. When we find it we usually get 3 boxes.
 
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