What do you miss these days?

[oldman45]

Back in the 50's, I was a young kid growing up (got older, never grew up) my father would buy me a candy called Tom's Peanut Butter Log. At the time, I would have sworn they were better than sex. The other day I got to wanting one and had not seen any for a long time. Well......being the person I am, I began searching where I could buy some. Nothing locally carried them anymore. So....I found who the distributor for the area is and went to see who he sold to or if he would sell me a case of them. He said he stopped carrying them two years ago. Time for real work and I found where the manufacturer is located (about 660 miles away) and called them. They stopped making them three years ago after over 70 yrs of doing so.

This made me wonder what else in life have we missed because it is no longer made.

A few of those here are old timers. What is it you miss that once was?

 

[G.T. Smith]

I was Born in '50 and on saturdays as far back as I can remember, I would usually wind up with one of these little figures, sometimes a car, sometimes some kind of animal, or plane, that was made from interlocking pieces. 3or 4 and they were bright blue, green, red,and yellow. I still think of them when I see something made up in these colors. Kids of today would immediately swallow all the pieces.
gordon. Oh yeah, I miss the wax whistles with sugary juice inside that you could chew after the juice was gone. gordon

 

[pownal55]

I remember candy bars twice the size you get today, they cost 5 cents, i guess that makes me old.

 

[rimfired]

Cheap gasoline, deep sea fishin' and youth.

 

[vytoland]

What do you miss these days?

Respect, Discipline, Common Sense.

 

[rondo]

Noodles Romanoff

 

[CQB27]

When I was 6 or 7 (I am 48 now), my Grandaddy would pile all of us kids in the bed of his F100 pickup and drive us to the store. All little country stores back then had a bid rack of penny candy up front. He would give us one dollar, not each, one dollar split between 6 kids. We would walk out of there with a brown bag with 100 pieces of candy inside. Back at the farm we would dump it on the floor and take turns picking. Man, I really miss the penny candy days

 

[handejector]

A REAL Coke.
That would be a 6-1/2 oz Coke, in a glass bottle, sweetened with SUGAR, with a crimped on cap you had to have an opener for. It cost 5 cents, unless you kept the bottle for 2 more cents.
Properly chilled, it was the embodiment of satisfaction.
Along about the late 50's, the King-sized Coke came out, and the slide to perdition and the end of the American Way of Life began.......

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The Soda Fountain in a drug store- marble topped, with stools that swiveled.

 

[judge]

A first class chocolate soda.

 

[USAF385]

A REAL Coke.
That would be a 6-1/2 oz Coke, in a glass bottle, sweetened with SUGAR, with a crimped on cap you had to have an opener for.

Have you tried the coke they have out in glass bottles these days? Some of them are also made with real sugar. I haven't tried any yet though... and I don't know if you need a bottle opener or if it's twist off.

 

[oldman45]

A REAL Coke.
That would be a 6-1/2 oz Coke, in a glass bottle, sweetened with SUGAR, with a crimped on cap you had to have an opener for. It cost 5 cents, unless you kept the bottle for 2 more cents.
Properly chilled, it was the embodiment of satisfaction.
Along about the late 50's, the King-sized Coke came out, and the slide to perdition and the end of the American Way of Life began.......

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The Soda Fountain in a drug store- marble topped, with stools that swiveled.

A person can still get the original cokes in Mexico.

There are still a few of the old soda fountains in some drug stores around the US.

 

[CAJUNLAWYER]

A REAL Coke.
That would be a 6-1/2 oz Coke, in a glass bottle, sweetened with SUGAR, with a crimped on cap you had to have an opener for. It cost 5 cents, unless you kept the bottle for 2 more cents.
Properly chilled, it was the embodiment of satisfaction.
Along about the late 50's, the King-sized Coke came out, and the slide to perdition and the end of the American Way of Life began.......

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The Soda Fountain in a drug store- marble topped, with stools that swiveled.

Lee, they call those Mexican cokes and they still make them in Mexico with the real cane sugar. We can buy them down here in the 6.5 oz bottles. Our cane farmers would love for coke to go back to using cane sugar-if they start usung all the corn for bio fuel you may very well get your wish.

As far as what I miss-it would be McKenzie's buttermilk drops ( a New Orleans bakery)

 

[Wyatt Burp]

Since this is a gun forum, I miss taking for granted that you could keep guns in a gunrack in the living room like my dad did and not worry about something bad happening, including theft. OK. I know there were theives in the early 60's, but it was just diff. then and now i have everything stuffed in safes, like most everyone here.
Oh. And I miss appreciating the four channels we got on TV back then. I get 10,000 channels now and still can't find nothin' on.

 

[DeathGrip]

Products that were made to last a lifetime,Made in the U.S.A.

Everyone pretty much speaking English.

Manners and respect for others.

Running the neighborhood without a worry in the world.

Holidays like Christmas without some idiot setting off fireworks and Halloween candy by the pillowcase that you could eat and the worst that would happen was a belly ache.

Boyscouts that actually had a mission other than pestering people at the store for a hand out.

Teachers that cared.Tough coaches.Good principals.Moms lunch packed with care.Walking to school.(or at least from the bus stop)

I could go on......I'm only fifty and have seen all of these things go by the wayside.

One more,personal responsibility.

D.G.

 

[firestrat]

My daugther will turn 1 on D-day. I have two step sons, 8 and 5. My cat of 12 years cries for attention because I can't give him as much as he used to get.

I miss peace and quiet.

 

[loutent]

Speaking of Cokes and "sodas" in general - we had a "gas station" about a block from where we lived. They had the glass bottles of soda stored in a rectangular cooler with cooled (refrigerated) water up to the neck. To buy one, you deposited your nickel or dime and slid the bootle of choice along the metal tracks that held them in place until you reached the end where you pulled it out to complete the purchase. I usually got an orange (being about 7-12 yrs old) but on occasion I pulled a "Moxie" to show I was a "man" and could drink a bitter tasting soft drink. You opened them with an opener mounted to the front.

A nickel bag of chips made everything perfect. Bad eating habits continue to this day

 

[oldman45]

Speaking of Cokes and "sodas" in general - we had a "gas station" about a block from where we lived. They had the glass bottles of soda stored in a rectangular cooler with cooled (refrigerated) water up to the neck. To buy one, you deposited your nickel or dime and slid the bootle of choice along the metal tracks that held them in place until you reached the end where you pulled it out to complete the purchase. I usually got an orange (being about 7-12 yrs old) but on occasion I pulled a "Moxie" to show I was a "man" and could drink a bitter tasting soft drink. You opened them with an opener mounted to the front.

A nickel bag of chips made everything perfect. Bad eating habits continue to this day

I have one of those "coolers" in my storage room. Takes a dime or else two nickels. No coin changers back then. When you pop the cap off in front of the machine, the cap falls into a catch basket. Mine held six types of drinks.

 

[handejector]

Dave was kind enough to bring the Mexican Cokes to Tulsa.
Very close. It was however, 10 or 12 oz.

The old 6-1/2 was perfection.

He had some single barrel bourbon that was excellent. I kept testing it to make sure.

 

[calmex]

A REAL Coke.
That would be a 6-1/2 oz Coke, in a glass bottle, sweetened with SUGAR, with a crimped on cap you had to have an opener for. It cost 5 cents, unless you kept the bottle for 2 more cents.
Properly chilled, it was the embodiment of satisfaction.
Along about the late 50's, the King-sized Coke came out, and the slide to perdition and the end of the American Way of Life began.......

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The Soda Fountain in a drug store- marble topped, with stools that swiveled.

Don't get mad at me, Big Guy, but you're always invited to visit. The Coca Cola formula in Mexico NEVER changed in 1986 when they did the "New Coke" thing. It's the old 1950's formula, and you can still get it in the glass bottles. I admit; there is a lot of plastic around, and it's cheaper and easier to deal with in the small Mom & Pop stores that dot all Mexican towns...but you can get it in the bottle, properly chilled, and the flavor you'd remember.

Near my reloading room (don't reload at home in case I get "checked" you know?) there's this little Mom and Pop place, and they ONLY have the slightly green tinted glass bottles...although here they're in Liters, not ounces...but it's truly a Blast from the Past.

You can get the king size, which is around .5 liter I think, and the "normal" size, and the small bottle you are talking about. They CHARGE you up front for the bottle (in case you don't bring it back) and then when you bring it back for another one, you just pay less because you returned a bottle. It would probably be a small miracle if they gave you MONEY for returning the bottle without buying another Coke. I mean, remember where you are. Or I am.

 

[NFrameFred]

What do you miss these days?

Manners, civility, and common sense.

 

[kennyb]

A REAL Coke.
That would be a 6-1/2 oz Coke, in a glass bottle, sweetened with SUGAR, with a crimped on cap you had to have an opener for. It cost 5 cents, unless you kept the bottle for 2 more cents.
Properly chilled, it was the embodiment of satisfaction.
Along about the late 50's, the King-sized Coke came out, and the slide to perdition and the end of the American Way of Life began.......

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The Soda Fountain in a drug store- marble topped, with stools that swiveled.

i have a 1950 coke machine out in the garage...still works just fine...those small cokes can be hard to find and pricey when you do but so correct...they are great!i find them on occasion in the 6 1/2 oz.rarely...more likely in the 8oz.size

 

[roscoesheater]

Good manners, concern for your fellow man, responsibility for actions taken, 57 Chevy's and last of all, a cold RC in the bottle and a Moon Pie on a hot summer day.RH

 

[ladder13]

Yeah, plenty of Coke available in Mexico.........................so I've heard.

 

[feralmerril]

I was lucky. I was raised in a old fashion large country general store durring world war two. It was at auroaville wisconsin. Sat on a large mill pond with good fishing, a dam and the willow creek ran right behind the store. I knew everyone. Mom let me range a good mile at 5 to 6 years old. Showed the area to my wife and she could hardly belive it. Said my mom would be in jail in this day and age.
Now about coke. Yes I know they claim the cane surgar stuff from mexico is the same stuff as we had in the 40s and 50s. I bought a case or two of it recently. I DONT BELIVE IT! It is not the same! When I was a kid you couldnt hold it in your cheeks long without it stinging.
There use to be choclate covered marshmellow cups called mellow cups. A few years ago there was similar called cups of gold. Both are gone now.
We had the loafer benchs on the outside of the store in summer and in winter maybe 4 or 5 chairs around the stove on one end of the store.
In summertime one night a week we had a free show night. Some crippled guy would set up a screen in a empty lot and show old "B" westerns or whatever. They would pass a hat for him. Most villages also had similar once a week. Small towns like berlin would usualy have wrestling matchs at the eagles hall or whatever. They would (maybe still do) have fisherees on the ponds and rivers in winter.
In my case my folks would send me to bible camp a week every summer at spencer lake. Truth is I got in some pretty good scraps there!
It used to sound like a war durring duck season around that pond! Old harv dalton that ran the bar across the road from our store would put the juke box on large loudspeakers and we would serrinaded while we fished!
Friday nights all over wisconsin was fish fry night at every tavern.
There was no drug activity in those days, however there was A LOT of drinking and some pretty good fights.
There was usualy events as the weather changed all the time. Spring was carp spearing. Summer all kinds of events like corn roasts on the streets, maxwell street days, carnavals, fairs, fishing contests, boat races, tractor pulls, stock car races, winter was snow mobiling (I missed that), Deer hunting was the big thing, both bow and guns. There were trap shoots, field trials working your dog, turkey shoots. It seems I dont do much of any of that in my area now. Maybe they still do some of it back home.

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

Some of the old brands of soda I miss-from the Northeast, specifically NY and NJ, are Cott's, Hoffman's, White Rock, and here in Central NJ there was a local brand called E.L. Kerns-I can still see the elk they used as a logo. I still say soda tastes better in glass and I pour mine into a glass whenever I can.
Yes, the Good Old Days when you could roam your neighborhood without your elders searching the Internet for all the registered sex offenders.
When women didn't compete with men in being foulmouthed. When being foulmouthed at the very least marked you as an uncouth and uneducated individual and someone to be avoided.
When mental cases were locked up and not allowed to roam the streets
both for their protection and the protection of others.
When a girl who got pregnant in high school "went out of state to live with an aunt."
Holidays like Christmas that had a communal quality to them-even for those who didn't believe. And those who didn't believe didn't try to spoil it for others.
Parents that cared.

 

[NCTexan]

It might sound strange, but I kinda miss the Sinclair dinosaur.

 

[rlsbee]

Bonomo's Turkish Taffy..Vanilla, Chocolate, Strawberry, and Banana (my favorite). There is an imitation but it's not the same.

 

[HAWKEYE10]

I miss neighbors. Houses all around but no neighbors like we used to have. Don

 

[BLACKHAWKNJ]

I think TV, then airconditioning and now the Internet killed off neighbors.\
I like to sit in front of my apartment on a pleasant spring or summer eve, I see NO ONE else sitting on their front step.
I miss corporations that were run by people who knew what they were doing.

 

[jimmyj]

There was a cookie that came eight in a box. The cookie was two vanilla wafers with a mashmellow in the middle. Also grapeaid soda that came in a small hourglass shaped bottle. Jawbreakers and a pack of "Toms Toasted Peanuts" poured into a bottle of Nehi Orange Soda.