Things you don't see anymore.

[RCMerchant]

What are some things you remember that just seemed to disappear?

Ashtrays in new cars and trucks. Even if you didn't smoke it was a good place to toss loose change.

I went to the party store to get some aspirin. The only had ibuprofen. But they did have BAYER aspirin in boxes.
I just realized I haven't seen aspirin in tins for quite a while.


I just bought this off ebay for $10. I figure it would come in handy for weed when traveling.

[claws]

Punks and hippies. Extinct like dinosaurs.



Phone Booth.

[RCMerchant]

This is pretty recent- but movie rental boxes. Like Redbox. There was a movie rental box in the local grocery store- but it was replaced by a lottery ticket box. There was a Redbox outside the Dollar Store outside of town- but it's gone. I reckon it's because of streaming.

As for phone booths- used to be 2 in Lawton. Long gone. One old payphone hangs on the outside of the same grocery store. Hasn't worked in years.
Punks and hippies. I'm both a hippie and a punk. I got long hair and wear a Black Flag T. But there was never a lot of punks or hippies in Lawton ever. It's a small farm town. In fact- there were more metalheads than anything. But that was back in the 80's and 90's.
They're lotsa punks left. They just don't wear s**t like you posted. Hippies too. Their just older. You may not see them where you live- but they're still here- alive and well.

[chainsaw midget]

It's not just punks.  You don't see too many goths anymore either. 


Other things you don't see? 

Those little machine in stores that gave you cheap toys in a plastic egg for a quarter. 

You don't see Arcade machines everywhere anymore. 

Or comicbook racks in stores. 

There's no more videorental stores. 

Speaking of older punks and hippies though, I do want to mention one guy that's a regular customer where I work.  He's gotta be in his late 50s, possibly 60s, but he dresses just like he walked out of an 80s rock music video. 

[RCMerchant]

Those little machine in stores that gave you cheap toys in a plastic egg for a quarter.  

They got 3 of them in the little grocery store here in Lawton. And a gumball machine too!



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Or comicbook racks in stores. 

I haven't seen comic books sold anywhere in decades. 

[Trevor]

Newsagent kiosks in my city centre: long gone.
So called "tea room bioscopes": all gone.
Mom and Pop corner shop cafes: almost all gone.
Video rental stores: all gone.
Shops where you could buy movies, CDs and vinyls: very rare now.

[ER]

The owner of this site.

[Trevor]

The owner of this site.

That is a sad thing indeed.

I was FB friends with Andrew's wife Katy for a long time while I was still on there and I remember her saying her youngest son was crying because he wanted a hippo from Africa for Christmas and couldn't get one. I offered to send one and Andrew told Katy "Please tell Trevor thanks but please also tell him not to send a BLEEP hippo" 

I would really like to see him around here again.

[RCMerchant]

Magazines.
Way back when, there were monster , true west, porn, detective, ufos, mags like Creepy or Dracula Lives, hot rods, MAD, music, sports- all sortsa magazines. You could find them in a newstand or grocery stores. I haven't seen a store with a magazine rack in years. 

[claws]

I haven't seen a store with a magazine rack in years.

We have supermarkets with magazine and book racks. Our town always had a magazine/newspaper store. None of that went away here.
My sister worked at a rest stop and they also sell adult magazines with DVDs included. That's still a thing apparently. She said mostly truck drivers bought those  

[RCMerchant]

We had a newsstand back in the 80's, but it was replaced by booze bottles. Now it's a "party" store. 

[ER]

You know, in the last conversation I had with my father in law, the final few minutes I ever saw him even, he mentioned you no longer see candy cigarettes or Big League Chew, that shredded bubblegum in a faux chewing tobacco pouch. Even when I was a kid those things were everywhere. Probably still exist but not common anymore.

[RCMerchant]

^They still have both at the "party" store that used to be a newsstand.  

Before I retired, at work there was an area outside, like a gazebo, where we could smoke and shoot the breeze on our breaks and at lunch. But smartphones were invented. Everyone would smoke- and no one talked. They just stared at their f**king phones. I will NEVER own a smartphone. I miss people talking to each other in public. You don't see that too much anymore.

[ER]

Of course those beautiful old card catalogs in libraries are gone-gone-gone.

Heck, most malls that were around when I was little are gone too. Funny how a mall would sit in a spot and people quit going to it, but when they'd tear down the mall and put up a shopping center with many of the same stores, people flocked there.

Book stores. In fact when malls quit having book stores I lost all interest in them.

Know something else that's vanished? Remember the old glass-fronted nurseries in obstetrical wards in hospitals and you could walk up and there'd be all the babies in little blue or pink bassinettes? Those are mega-history and now getting in to see a baby is like entering a prison.

[RCMerchant]

Book stores. In fact when malls quit having book stores I lost all interest in them.

The had a Walden Books in a mall in Kzoo back in the 70's. That's where I bought many of my horror movie books back then. That and the record store is the only reason I ever went there. Both long gone.