Things from the past that you wish were still around.

[BlueJazz]

We, of course, can't stop progress and naturally, wouldn't want to.

BUT....There are also things from the past that however or whoever
changed them, really did a dis-service to our culture.

Mine: I remember as a boy going into a store and ordering a Malted Milkshake...
The server would fill this large stainless steel container with REAL ice cream, Milk and malt and blend it into a delicious mess!

They would serve it in a huge glass and leave the container (which was still half full....Yum, Yum, Yum...

Now I ask for a shake and the person sticks a plastic cup under a "Milk-Product" monstrosity and it goes SPLAT!!...oh well..sigh.

What things from the past do you wish were still around or popular?

[MIScott87]

1. The Presidency of William Jefferson Clinton.

Enough said?

[flyingfish]

4. Could not agree more. First thing that popped in my head.

Probably the Golden Age of the American nation, the late 90s.
Low unemployment, no major economic problems, prosperity.
Remember when oral sex with an intern was the biggest crisis in our nation?
Oh, for the good old days.

[Breezy du Nord]

7. And the economy was so good when Clinton was getting blow jobs!

So all we really need in a leader is a guy to get a hummer every now and then.

Heck, I know a few guys who wouldn't mind that, lol.

[AquariDem]

87. Oh, definitely n/t

[zeemike]

2. A&W root beer stands.

You could get a large frosty mug of really good root beer for a dime and the carhop would bring it to your car on roller-skates in some places,

[sandnsea]

34. I got one!

No roller skates, but they'll still bring your food out on a tray and put it in your window! And root beer floats... yum! But nothing is a dime anymore. :-(

[Xithras]

93. Me too...with the skates!

n/t

[maveric]

107. ,Stingray bikes, Milk men, Bakery delivery men, Shake-A-Puddin...

Watching the Ed Sullivan Show, then Bonanza on sunday nights.

House calls by doctors.

Drug store soda fountains.

No meat on fridays (yeah I'm catholic).

25 cent saturday matinees, usually horror or hercules movies.

The whole family sitting around the B&W TV watching Jackie Gleason on saturday night.

Stingray bikes.

Neighborhood Variety stores(you could buy anything there).

Polio vaccination centers

"Creepy Crawlers" and the "Thing Maker".

The joy of having a whole 15 cents to buy an italian ice from the ice cream man(popsicles were 7cents).

"Ramblers" made by American Motors.

My parents bringing us kids to the drive-in movie in PJ's and letting us play on the swings/monkey bars before the movie started.

[cherryperry]

3. Oh, yes!

Do you have anything like a Mel's in your city? You know, something that gives old-time food? They always have those wonderful Malteds with whipped cream, nuts and a cherry (not a cherryperry!) on top. Just wonderful.

:yourock: :pals:

[HEyHEY]

5. I miss the way things were done more..

Like when I was a kid I would go to the beer store with my dad....you would walk up to the counter...there was nothing but a counter. and say what you wanted..then he would get on a mic, and tell someone out back what to get. Then it would be sent up front on rollers. I miss that. Although it is THE STUPIDEST SYSTEM FOR DOING ANYTHING IN THIS WORLD!

[bluestateguy]

6. 2 THINGS

1) Gas stations where you did not have to pay first.

2) Back when the classifieds was full of jobs, jobs and more jobs from 1995-2000.

[JitterbugPerfume]

9. five and ten cent stores

Kreskes (sp) had huge glass bins full of candies and nuts

you could buy a paper bag full of warm cashews for a dime

They has chocolate and peanut clustere , and chocolates with maple creme inside

Those were my favorites


remember when you could get a HUGE candy bar for a nickle?

[MissMillie]

78. Penny candy!!!!

long gone but oh so fun!

[MIScott87]

13. I think they still have those kinds of gas stations.

We usually get our gas, then go in and pay for it.

[Cheswick2.0]

8. three stations on the tv

it seems like there was more of interest to watch then.

What else? I wish the air in the mountains smelled as fresh now as it did then.

I wish I could still dance for hours, drink have sex and still get up in the morning for work.

I wish I could still wear overalls, a peasant blouse, boys converse sneakers, a braid down the middle of my back, dangly earings, no makeup and feel completely beautiful.

I miss the days when kids could leave the house in the morning, come home at dusk and no one's mother freaked out. They knew we were playing some elaborate fantasy game we created like Indian tribe, wolf pack or TV Secret Spys (I was the only blonde so I always got to be Honey West and I had the costume too!)

Small schools where all the teachers knew your parents and you couldn't get away with ANYTHING DAMNITALL!

Glow in the dark superballs

[flamingyouth]

10. Flight to Mars at Seattle Center

Damn that Paul Allen and his crushing boot of "progress"!

[Breezy du Nord]

11. MST3K

and Seinfeld. Two really good shows that went off the air before I was old enough to apprecite them.

[DieboldMustDie]

25. Seinfeld hasn't gone off the air...

just out of production.   I can watch it at least twice a day if I really want to. ;)

[Rabrrrrrr]

12. Comic strips that were full size

and filled with art, and Sunday comics that didn't have to have the top panels be expendable for the papers too cheap to show the whole damn thing.

[SoCalDem]

14. Renting a phone from MaBell and having a phone bill of $12.00

INCLUDING long distance :(

Lime popsicles (not the crappy lemon-lime ones today)

Kresges, SS Kress,Woolworths, Neisners , Duckwalls (real 5 & 10s)

creaky wooden floors in stores..

wide traffic lanes & parking spaces

nickel payphones

real Mom & Pop stores..

REAL FOOD.... I make my own real food, but more and more , when you eat out, you get some concoction that your could buy yourself at Costco, and not have to go out to eat it and pay three times the price :(

BAKERIES...

we had a polish bakery that was HEAVEN.. If you did not get there before 6 am, you did not get any egg bread with poppyseeds:(
The bakers arrived at midnight , and by 9 am, they were sold out..:(

[TlalocW]

15. Boater hats

The kind you see on barbershop quartets. I just bought an antique one in near perfect condition from an 82-year-old lady (it was her husband's) to use as part of my costume for entertaining, and I have to say (slip into old tymie talk), I look like the cat's meow in it. Twenty-three skidoo!

TlalocW

[BrotherBuzz]

47. Spectator Shoes

I found the weirdest store in Kensington, California that specialized in Boater hats, Hawaiian shirts, and size 13 Spectator shoes (my size).
My kind of store! Heck, the owner even had a raccoon skin coat on display!

[DuctapeFatwa]

16. Real Chocolate Milk

Not chocolate flavored lowfat milk-inspired imitation beverage substitute, but chocolate milk as in whole milk, real chocolate, in thick glass bottles.

[Lizz612]

17. SSN

Okay so technically I'm not old enough to remember this but man do I long for it.
When my SSN was a number that told the government to take some money and hold on to it for me so I wont have to eat cat food when I'm old, unlike now when its just another way for corporations to know that I really do exist. Man that pisses me off to no end.

[NightTrain]

18. My innocence

The older I get, the more I miss it!

[pocoloco]

19. House Committee on Un-American Activities

and sic Joe on the facists!

[TrogL]

55. Joe was an idiot

and the people he supported were fascists.

After all that cafuffle, Joe managed to find not one communist in government. All he eventually did was drive out a couple of gays.

He died of alcoholism three years later.

[nothingshocksmeanymore]

20. A democratic house and senate

[BurtWorm]

72. Me too!

I was wishing that just yesterday while reading Al Franken.

[LynneSin]

21. Bill Clinton as our President

Seriously - I dare anyone to top that one!!!

[stlsaxman]

44. i'll take that dare- how about

Walter Cronkite as THE nightly news anchor.

The world may not be better as it would be under a Clinton admin but,
at least we'd have someone able and willing to tell the truth about the
evil things going on under the current regiem.

[ArkDem]

91. When we controled the

House and Senate.

[ikojo]

22. Respect

for teachers and others. Too often it is teachers who are blamed for the failures in today's society. if Johnny can't read then it must be the fault of the teacher, never mind that in many houses there are no books.

I miss soda in GLASS bottles and saving bottles to deposit when you were low on money.

Real chicken...the chicken today, even the store bought chicken, does not taste like it did when I was a kid.

The local pharmacy where I bought my comics and other magazines. Mr Watt knew my name.

The local bookstore where I would buy all of my Star Trek books. I would hang out at Shadids for many hours on a summer day.

Being able to leave your bike out without locking it up.

Riding my bike all over town during the summer.

[MissMillie]

79. We still get our deposits on bottles

and cans.

In fact, I turned mine in this weekend. Got back a whole $14.85--that's almost 300 bottles (can you tell we hadn't done this in a while?)

[UrbScotty]

23. $0.90 gallons of gas.

Not even five years ago, gas was that cheap!

[SoCalDem]

27. I used FILL up my full sized Dodge 4 door on $5.00

0.19 per gallon...premium leaded.. and THEY pumped the gas, cleaned the windshield, checked the oil & tire pressure..:)

1967...

[Wickster]

49. 1964-65

12 cents a gallon - they did all that and thanked you for stopping in even if all the kids in the car could only come up with 50 cents to replace the gas in my parents' car that we used up riding around all Sunday afternoon.

Damn, we had fun.

[redwitch]

60. we used to pile into a friend's vw bug and pool our change

and drive to New Hope Pennsylvania to buy incense and beads and blacklight posters and the stores were so much cooler then! I think this thread is depressing me- now I am missing my grandparents!

on edit the change we gathered was for gas- at .30 a gallon. Jesus I am sooooo old!

[TrogL]

24. Speedoes at the pool

the lastest fashioings in swimwaer are :puke:

Last time I was at the p9ol, ther was a guy trere in Speedoes and i was drooling all over and people noticed and started yelling.

[maxanne]

67. go to the beach in Florida

tons of speedos there. Of course they're covering ancient schlongs.
:evilgrin:

[EFF BrandyWine]

97. And what have you got against ancient schlongs?????

LOL.

[Deja Q]

26. 1968 style Hankscraft vaporizer,

Dr. Who
Commodore (loved the Amiga computer)
Loki Games (ported great Winbloat games to Linux)
My ex (I should really let him go, I mean I am over him...)

[nuxvomica]

28. Oh man, these are all very evocative replies for me

Especially the one about wooden floors creaking. I am drunk on a wave of nostalgia now. I can add:

Milkmen: who left milk, eggs, cream, butter, cottahe cheese, whatever was considered "dairy" on your doorstep early in the morning. The milk was in thick glass bottles with cardboard stoppers. For a time, we saved the stoppers because they each had a crude drawing of one of the presidents and I managed to collect them all.

S&H Green Stamps: my mom bought tons of things with those stamps. They even had their own special showroom near the Grand Union.

Mallo-Cups coupons of value. When I was a kid, if you collected $5 worth of their cardboard money you could send for a box of Mallo-Cups. Now I think they send you a dollar-off coupon if you send in something like a million bucks worth.

Fizzies: My mom wouldn't let us drink soda cuz it "rots your teeth." So we had Fizzies which were little flavored, non-medicinal Alka-Selzer-like disks. Drop one in a glass of water and it would fizz and dissolve until you had a suger-free soda. I often enjoyed just plopping on dry in my mouth to feel the effervescence on my tongue.
Fizzies disappeared with the ban on cyclamates, which I think are actually safer than aspartame.

I could go on....

[Lydia Leftcoast]

37. There was an urban legend

that some kids had died because the Fizzies wouldn't stop fizzing inside them.

[Sick of Bullshit]

40. Fizzies! Yeah! I loved those damn things

Fizzies, and waxy Halloween candy whistles and syrup-filled skulls, imported candy bars at the five-and-dime, Grandpa's haberdashery in Joplin, MO, Bunny bread and Kitty Clover potato chips (7 cents for a lunch box bag), Kickapoo Joy Juice (tasted kind of like Mountain Dew), Western Auto, downtown hardware stores, floats and shakes at the downtown pharmacy, Saturday matinees for a quarter, Sunshine Yum-Yums, Jungle Juice (lemonade and punch flavors) for 10 cents a pint, local "dairy delights", Jolly Olly Orange and Rootin' Tootin' Raspberry drink mixes, wacky car trading cards (including "Chevy Eater" and "Bonzai Bomb"), penny bubblegum

[kodi]

29. my grandmother, she was quite a cook

and i once got her stoned, after which we cooked up a feast for the family who never knew why we did it.

god bless you grandmom, you made me what i am today, overweight.

[redwitch]

61. how funny!

my grandmas were naturally stoned, I think- and bad cooks in general. But one was the BEST baker- her pie crusts were heaven. I think the secret was lard!

[LWolf]

30. A slower pace.

The San Fernando Valley with orchards of oranges, open space, and kids could ride the bus anywhere without fear.

Long lazy summer days where I wasn't supervised and didn't have to do anything.

My little mustang and I climbing all over the hills from Calabasas to WestLake

All in the Family

The music

little glass bottles of coke (except I noticed some "retro" bottles at the grocery store recently)

The Ren Faire in Agoura

Drive in Movies

Cheech & Chong

[MidwestMomma]

31. Watching Johnny Carson on a summers night...

After playing out way past dark.

Colored pop in bottles pulled out of the vending machine and the satisfying hiss as you popped off the bottle cap on a hot summers day.

Frozen snicker bars at the swimming pool.

[DemNoir]

32. Beautiful vinyl records

The way god intended music to be stored... for $4-$5 bucks.

[Lydia Leftcoast]

33. REAL malts

seem to have disappeared, even in Minnesota.

A REAL malt is, as you said, made from milk and real ice cream with chocolate malt powder. It is the consistency of melted ice cream, only with lumps in it. There is nothing finer.

I even went to an old-fashioned diner near my neighborhood, and they seem to have gone over to the fake malts.

[sandnsea]

35. Trust

Just trust.

[Kool Kitty]

36. Asbury Park's boardwalk,

the way it was in the fifties and the sixties.

[Shanty Oilish]

106. Lately?

Been to Asbury Park lately? Last time I went there, it seemed like the whole town was stocked with psychiatric cases. Never saw so many hapless, vacant people in one place. :shrug:

[camero]

38. A human voice on the phone

When you call customer service (that's another thing I wish would come back because there is none anymore). Now they have all these voice activated systems that don't even work half the time.

[MissMillie]

76. This one gets my vote

Nothing worse than being on the phone for 5 minutes, because you didn't hear your choice among the menu options and then having to be put into a cue to talk to a rep.

Bring back the person who answers the phone.

[BiggJawn]

39. Guilt-Free One Night Stands.

Ah, the days of "Your place or mine?"
Making breakfast the next morning, the "That was great, see ya around"..
And if you were VERY unlucky you MIGHT catch Herpes...

Not any more.

Nasty diseases that WILL kill you, people who don't seem to be as emotionally "wrapped tight" as they used to, etc.....

[seeker4ever]

41. Full service gas stations at self-serve prices.

a small thing.

[NashVegas]

42. People Who Use Their Brains & Other Stuffs

I miss parents who didn't feel the urge to sue makers of child bathtub-seats because they left the kid unattended, while they took a phone call, to fall out and drown.

I miss grocery clerks who could count back change without relying on a cash register that calculated the amount for them. While we're at it, I miss baggers who understood bagging to be an art and didn't just throw shit in at random.

Back to phones, I miss people who would never imagine taking a social phone call while they were already entertaining guests, and guests who would never imagine making/taking a social phone call while they were someone else's guest.

I miss the candy store where the clerks knew the name of every kid in the neighborhood and who their parents were.

[Snellius]

43. California

I grew up in California in the 50s and 60s and almost can't bear to go back any more to see what's happened to it.

[zanana]

45. My ass.

It was gorgeous.

[ForrestGump]

46. These guys, among many others

[eleny]

48. I miss front porches

Kids playing in the streets and people hanging out on their front porches and stoops.

[Interrobang]

50. Payphones that accept incoming calls...

Mass-produced vinyl records...

Analogue ringers in the POTSystem, so you could actually tell when a call was connected, and how many times it was actually ringing on the other end.

Affordable stereo systems with real knobs, especially for radio tuning.

Enough AM stations for me to practice my hobby of hunting for the elusive "skip."

UHF broadcast TV, so I could use it to tell when a tornado is coming.

Wishing Well pop.

*Real* Vernor's ginger ale, not the wimpy stuff they try to pass off as Vernor's these days.

The huge market of commercial short-fiction-publishing venues that used to exist, like Amazing Stories, Galaxy, Fantasy Book, Fantastic, and otherwise, a viable mid-list in book publishing.

[5thGenDemocrat]

53. Real Vernor's?

That's a Michigan thing. Just how Canadian are you?
I miss Luigi's Pizza. It was a Saginaw chain which made these real thin, crispy pizzas that they delivered to your house in portable ovens. They were like, 400 degrees when they arrived and consistently took the skin off your upper palate on the first bite. But they were damned good -- especially the pepperoni ones.
Plus, Luigi's sponsored Big Time Wrestling (with Bob Finnegan and Lord Apple-Layton (?)) on Saturday TV. George (The Animal) Steele, The Sheik, Bobo Brazil, Flying Fred Curry, Baron von Raschke -- all those guys.
John
And cars you could fix yourself. That's another thing I miss.

[SoCalDem]

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[StaggerLee]

82. old vernors sign uncovered in East Lansing MI

73-year-old creator says he talked of day ad would be revealed


Lansing State Journal (May 8, 2001)
http://www.curiousbooks.com/vernors.html

[angee_is_mad]

51. Men

GOOD men? They sure don't make them like they use too!!!!!!

[dawg]

56. Sure they do!

It's just that most of us are already married. :silly:

[angee_is_mad]

64. dawgs!!!

Yeah, and the ones who aren't married are dawgs!!!!

[dawg]

75. You should be so lucky as to find yourself a dawg!

We're warm, affectionate, fiercely loyal, and we'll bite anyone who tries to bother you.

[angee_is_mad]

95. lol, breed

Well, I guess it depends on the breed.

[Iverson]

52. John Lennon, George Harrison

MLK, Allen Ginsberg, my grandparents, James Baldwin, Langston Hughes, Flannery O'Connor, Robert Frost, Joseph Heller, Gandhi, and on and on ...

[ComerPerro]

58. right on

Im with you 100%

[xJlM]

54. Elected presidents

'Nuff said.

[redwitch]

59. I loved restaurants like that!

Malteds-YUM! But I miss general stores with a great selection of penny candy.

[Tikki]

62. Avocado colored appliances.....

...gold vein mirror tiles, open weave draperies and candy cane 'striped'
carpeting. Yes, I am redoing my home with a 70's decor.

Also 'ditto jeans' and 'dolphin shorts'...'cause they fit so well.

[corarose]

63. A & W Root Beer Drive In's,Fruit Float, Drive In Movies, The Good Life

Life before Raygun was better then anyone will ever know it unless you lived through it. Jobs were a dime a dozen and they payed the same wages that they pay today and I mean the same amount of money.

Milk in glass bottles.

A & W Root Beer Drive In's with car hops and Ice Cold Root Beer in mugs.

Fruit Float I loved the stuff and they took it off the market.

Pop Tart Pizzas that you put in the toaster.

Drive In Movie Theaters.

Watermelon Slice shaped coconut candy.

Broasted Chicken that my Mom use to buy on Montrose Ave in Chicago.

Bowling Alleys.

MY MOM!

[WillParkinson]

65. A & W

We've still got some around here. We stop in every so often and but a gallon of root beer.

Mmmmmmmmmmm...beer.

[kayell]

66. Street cars

and passenger train lines to all the suburban towns.

Ok, these were really before my time, although I do have an early childhood memory of watching some street car tracks being torn up and how upset my mother was by that.

[GaYellaDawgDem]

68. I wish my metabolism was still around...

It went away some 10 years ago and everything I eat now sticks around longer...

:shrug:

I guess it doesn't help that there are several places around here that still make malteds like you describe...yum!

[angka]

69. Homestead Act

nt

[VolcanoJen]

70. My own Wave of Nostalgia (awesome thread, RadicalLiberal!!)

The nostalgic rush I'm getting from these responses feels too good!!

As for me, I miss:

- Buying a quarter's worth of Hersey's Kisses from the candy counter at the department store, while my mom shopped. I could barely see over the counter, and a quarter seemed like all the riches in the world to me back then.

- Drive-in movies with my dad. Especially the snack bar, and playground they always had right up front. Oh, and those speakers you hung off the car window seemed like miracles of science and wonder to us as kids.

- Riding on bikes. For hours. Do kids do this anymore?

- Chocolate milk sipped through a tiny straw out of a pint carton.

- Gas-station cola machines, the kind that sold Pepsi and Dr. Pepper and Orange Crush in BOTTLES that you had to slide out through a hole. Handy bottle opener right on the front of the machine.

- Pong, Merlin, those QuizWhiz game cartridges, and our stereo console television. :-)

- Fly strips. They were ugly, but I think they kinda worked.

- Not having air conditioning. Remember when summers were hot? How the only way to escape was the movies or the public library (our modern one, at least)? Looking back on that, I really miss it. Summers have never really felt like summer in my adulthood Or maybe that's just because I have to work all summer, now...

- When a movie of the week would come on one of the big three networks, and it was so exciting because you hadn't seen the movie since it was in the theater. The concept of renting videos was just a blip in the radar back then...

[GoddessOfGuinness]

71. The Knife Sharpening Man

When I was a little kid, there was a guy who'd drive around town in a truck that had a whetstone in the back. He'd sharpen people's knives, scissors, lawn mower blades, and anything else you could think of.

It's funny...I was just thinking this afternoon that we could use a visit from someone like that!

[MissMillie]

77. They did a story on this on NPR this year

apparently in some locations this service still exists.

[qb]

73. Thingmakers

Those hotplates with metal molds and liquid latex so you can make your own rubber creatures. Too bad they were a 2nd degree burn waiting to happen!

[arwalden]

74. Whee LO's

[SiouxJ]

83. You can still get those

I saw one in a store about a year ago and had to buy it :-). Hours of fun!

[CBHagman]

85. I remember Creepy Crawlers

and all the variations on those! There was a time when my neighborhood seemed full of those things.

They also had candy makers with a similar theme...

[corarose]

104. Creepy crawlers & Incredible edibles

You filled them up with Goop and the plates were so hot that I got burnt so bad that I almost ended up in the hospital but I still played with the damn thing.
I think that it was like the Spezak(?) thing of Mad TV.

[bif]

80. Fizzies

n/t

[kskiska]

81. Gas stations with attendants who wore a uniform

with a cap and their name stitched on their shirt. They'd fill your tank and ask to check your oil. You could then go into the office and choose from a wall full of free maps of anyplace in the 48 states.

Real telephone booths with doors and fans inside.

Those little side windows in cars that directed the breeze directly on you while driving.

Running boards.

Leather shoes that could be re-soled or re-heeled when worn out.

Real talk shows like Jack Paar and David Susskind, featuring authors and intellectuals, where substantive discussions took place, not the hawking of a star's latest film.

Teenage babysitters who earned 50 cents an hour to put the kids to bed while parents went out shopping and to shows and restaurants by themselves.

Double features at the movies that changed twice a week and were continuous on Sundays, along with short subjects, newsreels, and cartoons.

Record shops that allowed you to play the record in a booth prior to purchase.

Ocean liners to Europe. I remember driving down the West Side Highway in NYC and seeing all the liners in a row – The Ile de France, United States, Constitution, even the Andrea Doria, and the excitement of seeing someone off or picking them up.

Dramas on Broadway, not warmed over musical revivals.

[CBHagman]

84. The movies before the gross-out humor craze.

Proper punctuation in national newspapers.

The phrase "You're welcome" uttered in response to "Thank you." "No problem" is NOT the correct response here, folks.

Soda fountains in drugstores.

Walter Cronkite, as mentioned above, though he still is a force to be reckoned with.

When only the repairman wore pants low-slung enough to display a bit of rear end when he bent over. Given the state of fashion these days, I've seen almost as many backsides as a proctologist has.

Enforcement of environmental regulations.

When public office was a Bush-free zone.

[AquariDem]

86. The old Sesame Street

before Elmo completely took over (I've always liked Elmo, but he does not need the entire last fifteen minutes of the show), and it became dumbed down. They don't even air the cool "commercials" anymore!!! :(

[Liberal Veteran]

88. Ummm.....Disco?

Okay, I admit it. I like disco!

So shoot me already.

[commander bunnypants]

89. Shakey's pizza

It has been a long long time


DDQM

[qb]

92. The one in Rochester, MN has an awesome buffet!

[ArkDem]

90. That is still EASY to find in

Little Rock.

[Hubert Flottz]

94. Freedom!

Government By the People and For The People in America!

[Hong Kong Cavalier]

96. Movies in the past...

The sheer magic I experienced as a kid when seeing "Star Wars" for the first time. The lines around the block, (before the creation of the MEGAPLEX), when you realized that you just might not get to see the show when you wanted to. And when you got inside and sat down.
That reminds me...Drive in movie theaters.
Roller rinks.

[DEM FAN]

98. Women With Natural Breasts.

;-)

[angee_is_mad]

99. there are plenty of those

but would you appreciate her? Flat, saggy breasts and all! Don't lie be honest. lol

[DEM FAN]

100. YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES YES.

YES. ;-)

[angee_is_mad]

101. yeah right

Until you see them! Remember women get implants for men.

[EFF BrandyWine]

102. What I miss most is...

Respect. When I was growing up we respected people and their beliefs. The scariest thing that could happen to you in school was to be sent to the Principal's office. Once in a while a "tough" kid would talk back and was sent home with a note politely requesting the parents of "tough" kid to come to school and talk about the "tough" kid.

I miss the kind of movies they made in the forties and fifties. Call me an old romantic but somehow watching Linda Darnell or Lana Turner emote on the silver screen with gorgeous leading men really deserve to be called classics. No navels showing those days, thank God.

I miss the old drugstore with the long marble counter where a young guy in a peaked cap (he was called a soda jerk) made drinks like lemon phospates and green rivers. Never cared much for malteds.

I loved frilly dresses and proper white gloves and hats perched on the back of the head.

I still miss the smell of leaves burning in the Fall...and when I was little my Dad would make a huge pile of them for me to jump into.

I could make a really long list but I would still have to put Respect at the top. That is something I really miss.

[delete_bush]

103. All of those stores

that were replaced by franchises and chains.

[Shanty Oilish]

105. Mom

That's easily on top of my list. Drive-in movies would be nice too. Silver certificates. 3-cent postage. The right to burn leaves in the yard. The junkman. Wood in convenience stores (wood shelves, wood floors, wood smell). The milkman. Legal riding of bicycle on sidewalk. Cars you could stand up in. Hats and gloves. My first husband. Cops walking their beat. Airports where everyone knows you. Doctors doing house calls. One phone company. And about ten million dollars.