"Simple American Things Lost" list
Oct 6, 2018 19:05:52 #
DirtFarmer wrote:
I'm 79 and I remember it. It might have only been in urban and suburban areas.
Central cities and business districts mostly.
My home town had rural delivery but no in town delivery, you walked down town to the Post Office and picked it up. Parents often sent their kids on their bicycles to get the mail. Others picked up at the same time everyday and met friends to "exchange the news" aka gossip.
Oct 6, 2018 19:14:21 #
Jerry G wrote:
Milk with cream on top delivered by the milkman.
I'm only 75 but oh yes, I remember! I used to get my little butt warmed on occasion when I would take a teaspoon and scoop the cream off the top of the bottle before mom got it for her coffee. It was wonderful! Well worth the spanking.
Oct 6, 2018 19:45:10 #
buckbrush
Loc: Texas then Southwest Oregon
safeman wrote:
I'm only 75 but oh yes, I remember! I used to get my little butt warmed on occasion when I would take a teaspoon and scoop the cream off the top of the bottle before mom got it for her coffee. It was wonderful! Well worth the spanking.
As a fifth grader we had small milk bottles served with lunch that had a paper pull tab. Underneath that tab was a small bit of that cream you mentioned. I'll never forget how good it was to take the first sip. A local lady came to the school everyday to fix lunch for the approximate 40-50 kids in 1st to 8th grades.
WOW!!
Thanks everyone for showing what wonderful memories we all had.
Alex
Oct 6, 2018 19:48:55 #
Used to have to carry an opener in the glove box for bottles and cans of pop. Can't go to the snack bar at the movies anymore without using a credit card. Too dangerous to carry that much cash!
Oct 6, 2018 23:25:09 #
Oct 7, 2018 00:13:26 #
hj wrote:
Never saw that and I'm 77 years old.
One could consider the practice of delivering larger packages separately from smalls, letters, magazines, etc. delivering the mail twice a day but, I agree with you, I don't recall ever seeing the mailman cover a route twice on the same day. Maybe in some little towns where it only took a few hours to deliver everyone's mail but as a general practice, no, never seen it.
Oct 7, 2018 00:19:18 #
gerdog wrote:
Used to have to carry an opener in the glove box for bottles and cans of pop. Can't go to the snack bar at the movies anymore without using a credit card. Too dangerous to carry that much cash!
Took the wife to the cinema just the other day and I paid for the tickets, popcorn, sodas and her swedish fish with cash. I guess we live in a safer part of the country.
Oct 7, 2018 00:44:30 #
Oct 7, 2018 00:48:58 #
kaner82
Loc: Colorado
Rotary dial telephones, bag phones, console TV's, carburators, cabbage patch kids, common sense, our sanity.
Oct 7, 2018 01:01:11 #
Oct 7, 2018 01:09:48 #
sirlensalot wrote:
Several are still around. Paperboys now older and ... (show quote)
The reason cigarette machines are all but non-existent is, the machine can't tell the purchaser's age and it's illegal to sell tobacco products to anyone under 18.
Depending on where they live, lots of kids still walk to school. Just about every dinner and family style restaurant, and even some of the higher end restaurant my wife and I eat at have free refills on coffee, ice tea and sodas.
Hospitals did away with the ridiculous white dress uniforms and nurse caps because they were ridiculous, counter productive and ridiculous. Who do you think is going to do a better job of helping and attending to a patient's needs, the person in the stiff uncomfortable white outfit they don't want to get wrinkled or dirty or the person in baggy comfortable scrubs that can be thrown in the washer and dryer and worn straight out of the dryer.
There are also lots of full service gas stations in many parts of the USA. Sure, the gas and go with the Quiki Mart is far more common these days, but there are still gas stations that service vehicles and pump your gas and even check your oil.
Oct 7, 2018 01:10:28 #
DAN Phillips wrote:
We used to have service station wars, they would compete to see who could sell it the chaepest. Oh, you got a free glass with fill-up. In the late 50's/ early 60's gas was 19.9/per gallon. Roy Rogers hamburger joint became ARBY'S.
We still have a Roy Rogers joint about 10 miles from our place. Depends on the state...
Oct 7, 2018 01:18:57 #
Rolk wrote:
We still have a Roy Rogers joint about 10 miles from our place. Depends on the state...
Roy Rogers restaurants indeed do still exist. There are 54 of them !ocated mostly in the north east and mid Atlantic states.
Oct 7, 2018 01:41:17 #
Oct 7, 2018 10:27:28 #
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