Remember When ---Classic products

[mattl]

Got this email, I seem to recall seeing it before, but I thought I'd share it...

 

[COLOR=#1f497d; font-size: 24pt]M[/COLOR][COLOR=black; font-size: 24pt]y entire childhood in one e-mail....[/COLOR][COLOR=black; font-size: 10pt] [/COLOR]

 

 

 

 

 

[arbilab]

A family member sent me that email. There are some things missing.

*When Coke still tasted good before corn syrup.

*When you could tell one American car from another without reading the badge.

*Electronic kits.

*"Unemployment" wasn't a word anybody knew.

*Banks paid interest on savings.

*There was only one flavor of potato chips, "potato".

 

[tolivac]

Jiffy Pop is still available.RR recorders-now in both digital and analog formats-recording studios still use them.Studer-Revox still makes them.Otari still makes them.Also some radio stations still use RR decks.

 

[Ultramatic]

Magicubes, Flip Flash

 

[Ultramatic]

Pepsi Light, I was so hooked on that when I was a kid.

 

[lordkenmore]

"RR recorders-now in both digital and analog formats-recording studios still use them.Studer-Revox still makes them."

Unfortunately from the perspective of the general public, these products are long gone. If they aren't available at KMart, they aren't made. Period.

I've had countless rounds of fascinating discussions about turntables. Many feel that they are--at best--an old fogey product hard to come by. News flash: turntables--at least ones of passable quality--are still being made. They just aren't as easy to find at megastores. (Of course, this discussion has gotten more complicated in recent years with the sudden appearance of junky antique radio like radio-phonographs in some stores.)

 

[Ultramatic]

Kodak The Handle Got it for my 14th birthday, and I still ha

 

[laundromat]

I remember Bonomo turkish taffie, Fizzies drink tabs, Spam, Prell, Swan dishwashing liquid, Lestare oxygen bleach packets (pre Action chlorine bleach packets), Fiesta wear, Centurian dinner wear, Concentration, You Don't say, Password, 7 Keys, House party, Truth or Consequences, P.D.Q., Spic n Span, Thrill dishwashing liquid, and Leonard appliances.I was kept indoors due to the massive seizures I'd get. Some of which would begin in the AM while waiting for my bus and not stop until the following day in the PM.So, I was not allowed to go too far outside.Instead, I'd watch TV and saw all the fun appliances given away on shows like Let's Make a Deal and Dream House.

 

[tolivac]

Something that will be going by the wayside soon-35MM and IMAX film projectors--they are being quickly replaced by digital ones.In the "Film-tech" website they mention a company that is GIVING AWAY 35MM projectors for free to whoever wants them-otherwise they go to the dump.IMAX film projectors and screens were going to the dump!So sad-thought film projectors were interesting peices of engineering.the place giving the old ones away is somewhere in Northern Calif.So--if you want a film projector for your movie memorabilia collection-there is your chance.Be prepared-these are large and HEAVY.

 

[arbilab]

KILOTONS of analog broadcast equipment went either to meltdown or landfill in the last 20 years. You could get a half $M machine just by backing a truck up to the loading dock of a TV station.

I'm not the least happy about that, since I was intimately involved with those machines. Nothing I can do to alter it though.

Since everything has become disposable, what will the next two generations have to remember their heritage by? Will they even care about their heritage? I fear not.

 

[whirlcool]

And through my Dual turntable website I occasionally get an e-mail from a viewer who states "My grandfather gave me his record player. How do I use it? How do you get the records to play?" Grandpa must have passed.......

I certainly do remember the days of reel to reel. I had quite a collection of 7 inch reel tapes with music. Until one day when I was off out of state in college when my mother threw them all away as "useless junk". So I never bothered with anymore recording gear. And soon the reel to reel unit was given away as well.

Let me add to the list, Mary Jane candy, The Bozo show (with Bob Bell as Bozo), Rin Tin Tin, GE MobileMaid, Electrolux vacuum (the ones without the wheels), elevated subways (The "L"), 1948 Kenmore dryers with the blue light inside), lots and lots of time waiting in airports (up to recently that used to be a constant in my life), soda fountains where the guy behind the counter would make you a cherry coke all from concentrate and soda water, Silvercup "round" bread, Vienna hot dogs on Maxwell Street in Chicago and finally the old Chicago Public Library on Michigan Ave in Chicago.