Stuff that isn't around anymore

[Vengeance of Rain]

I was going to ask you all what things you remember that no longer exist but, as it's possible to search for certain items, thought I would instead ask what are some things you remember from your childhood but don't see around anymore.

Anyone remember Fudge Town (sounds like a gay porn site!) cookies by Burrys?

Mystery Date (and I do mean the groovy one and not the more 50's looking one.)?

How about the interactive, stress-relieving candy Bonomo Turkish Taffy (the one you'd smack against a wall or hard surface to break up)?

Space food sticks?

Super Elastic Bubble Plastic (wonder how toxic that stuff was... I remember the smell being well, put it this way...you'd probably need a hazmat suit today)?

I can remember my mom using VO5 hairspray (the company is still around but not the lethal spray can that looked like it could survive armageddon and hey I just remembered the commercials had someone named Rula Lenska who sounded like a drag queen) and the sound from the aerosol can going on and on and on and on (sssssssss for what seemed for 20 minuites) and still wonder if she's responsible for one third of all the air pollution in the country.

There were signs outside a building that said "Save Soviet Jewry" and every time I passed it wondered why Soviet jewelry needed saving.

Mary Quant makeup (they used to sell it at Judy's which is no longer around)?

Huge poloroid cameras and ads for sea monkeys whatever those were...
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What things do you remember?

[GameTheory]

Originally Posted by Vengeance of Rain

I was going to ask you all what things you remember that no longer exist but, as it's possible to search for certain items, thought I would instead ask what are some things you remember from your childhood but don't see around anymore.

Anyone remember Fudge Town (sounds like a gay porn site!) cookies by Burrys?

Mystery Date (and I do mean the groovy one and not the more 50's looking one.)?

How about the interactive, stress-relieving candy Bonomo Turkish Taffy (the one you'd smack against a wall or hard surface to break up)?

Space food sticks?

Super Elastic Bubble Plastic (wonder how toxic that stuff was... I remember the smell being well, put it this way...you'd probably need a hazmat suit today)?

I can remember my mom using VO5 hairspray (the company is still around but not the lethal spray can that looked like it could survive armageddon and hey I just remembered the commercials had someone named Rula Lenska who sounded like a drag queen) and the sound from the aerosol can going on and on and on and on (sssssssss for what seemed for 20 minuites) and still wonder if she's responsible for one third of all the air pollution in the country.

There were signs outside a building that said "Save Soviet Jewry" and every time I passed it wondered why Soviet jewelry needed saving.

Mary Quant makeup (they used to sell it at Judy's which is no longer around)?

Huge poloroid cameras and ads for sea monkeys whatever those were...
.
What things do you remember?

Space sticks -- yummy.

Sea Monkeys were brine shrimp they sold through the mail for children to torture.

[elysiantraveller]

Originally Posted by GameTheory

Space sticks -- yummy.

Sea Monkeys were brine shrimp they sold through the mail for children to torture.

Had sea-monkeys but preferred ant farms. Would go out in the yard, collect other ants, and have ANT WARS!...

[Vengeance of Rain]

Originally Posted by GameTheory

Space sticks -- yummy.

Sea Monkeys were brine shrimp they sold through the mail for children to torture.

Aaah thank you. I have wondered about this for a few decades now (not nonstop, mind you) and so do appreciate the answer!

What do you remember (beside the food of astronauts)?

[Vengeance of Rain]

Originally Posted by elysiantraveller

Had sea-monkeys but preferred ant farms. Would go out in the yard, collect other ants, and have ANT WARS!...

Am I remembering this correctly... couldn't you send away for a vial of either red or black ants or have I lost my mind?

[johnhannibalsmith]

Good things like Candy Cigarettes available at the little league park concessions so we could be like the good players that preferred Chesterfields. (A.B.C. Always Buy Chesterfields). Good days!

[Vengeance of Rain]

Originally Posted by johnhannibalsmith

Good things like Candy Cigarettes available at the little league park concessions so we could be like the good players that preferred Chesterfields. (A.B.C. Always Buy Chesterfields). Good days!

The chocolate ones or the ones where you could blow "smoke" and hey what was that anyway... some kinda sugar?

Mmmm... healthy!

[elysiantraveller]

Originally Posted by Vengeance of Rain

Am I remembering this correctly... couldn't you send away for a vial of either red or black ants or have I lost my mind?

You would send away for a vial of ants that were from somewhere not around where I live... the reason I know this is those ants would absolutely thrash anything I put in there with them.

[johnhannibalsmith]

Originally Posted by Vengeance of Rain

...the ones where you could blow "smoke" and hey what was that anyway... some kinda sugar?

Mmmm... healthy!

Hey, if a guy couldn't swing lefty like Ted, you could always puff like him!

[RaceBookJoe]

How about morality on tv

[Ocala Mike]

Mello Rolls ice cream cones (might have been a NYC thing).

[tucker6]

typewriters
keypunch cards
8 track tapes
electronic repair shops (a dying breed)
45's and 78's
the beeping of the TV every ten seconds during a lunar landing. Drove me nuts.

[tucker6]

Originally Posted by Ocala Mike

Mello Rolls ice cream cones (might have been a NYC thing).

or the Mello Cups, and you could trade the denomination card that came with it for prizes.

[tucker6]

Encyclopedia salesmen

[Tom]

Originally Posted by elysiantraveller

Had sea-monkeys but preferred ant farms.

Surf and Turf. mmmmm mmmmm mmmmm