Thread: something you never see anymore

I remember those blow dryer things, my mom had one, if I remember right it had like holes in it in the cap.

I have a bunch of VHS tapes which are rapidly becoming obsolete. I wish I could just keep a working VCR! I can't afford to replace all those movies on DVD, and some of them just aren't available on DVD.

I have TONS of vhs's, infact, were watching one right now LOL, godzilla versus king kong... when the girls were little everything was vhs and I kept it all, all of those clamshell disney etc..... as well as we have tons of dvd's LOL.

Does anyone have a record player? I got my dads records, and bought myself a nice old record player in a wood casing that looks like a piece of furniture, I brake them out every once in a great while to listen to them, while my teenagers roll there eyes LOL

Originally Posted by Airbuswife

going into a store and having a "soda fountain" or restaurant in the middle of the store. when i was little, i loved to walk downtown to GC Murphy's with my mom and after shopping, we would sit at the counter and have a soda or a rootbeer float before walking back home. oh and at the checkout, they would have "mexican jumping beans"!!! LMAO!! which was just some kind of larvae in a bean that would move around and make you think it was "jumping"!

I hated it when G.C. Murphy's closed. My Mom and I used to do the same thing when we shopped. I must have bought dozens of those jumping beans. I loved their candy and nut counter. When I was about 4 years old my Mom bought me 2 baby Live chickens at Easter. One was pink and the other was blue. I named them Phillip and Maggie. Mom figured they wouldn't live very long, ha, we kept having to build bigger cages for them and they died about five years later of old age. Both of them turned into Phillips. Yep, 2 mean roosters. Thanks for the memories!!

Originally Posted by nightrider127

Well, I am an old lady. I remember ladies pin curling their hair. Some of the gals around my age at the time would pull their hair back in a pony tail and pin curl that. I seem to even remember ladies curling their hair with those twist tie things that came on bags of ground coffee. I remember the orange juice cans too. Haven't seen any of that in years and years. H aven't seen curlers in a womans hair either. LOL, I still have some of those.

I don't hear anything about CB Radios anymore. I think they went when the cell phones came.

There is still radar detectors out there. I listen to a truckers radio program on the radio from time to time and they advertise one.

I'm old too! My aunt (my favorite one) still pin curls her hair. Do you remember spoolies? My mom used to put them in my hair when I was a kid. I got a catalog in the mail the other day, I think it was called Dr. Leonard's, and there were spoolies in it for sale. I couldn't believe it. I and my DH both still use radar detectors. We drive on I 75 in Ohio everyday and it is almost a necessity. LOL Ours are really helpful. They not only warn you of police radar, but of construction zones, slowing traffic and a bunch of other things.

Originally Posted by buglebe

Does anyone remember rolling her hair on orange juice cans or anything large like that?

Yes! I also had some huge curlers that you could put your whole hand inside. Can ya tell I grew up in the late 60's and 70's? LOL