Awesome Shit That Has Disappeared

[Rockinonahigh]

my good sence,right out the windown poof gone!

[Licious]

What a fun thread! *subscribing*

I saw Wooly Willie at the dollar store the other day.

There is a candy store in my town that sells retro candies, including such controversial items as candy cigarettes, etc.

They have the wax bottles etc, also:







Okay is anyone old enough to remember This Stuff?

[Cin]

When I was about 6 my aunt gave me a 78 record of Peter and the Wolf. I was crazy about it and played it as often and as many times in a row as opportunity allowed. I just loved the different instruments playing the different characters. Not sure 78rpm recordings of Peter and the Wolf have disappeared, you can probably get a copy on ebay or something.

But serial stories in the newspaper there really isn’t much call for that. I don’t think it’s really been that popular since Charles Dickens, but when I was a kid (which was not in the Victorian Era, I assure you), every Christmas the local paper published a different Christmas themed story broken up into daily excerpts (except Sunday) that started on December 1 and finished on Christmas eve. I don’t know if the stories were syndicated or written by a local journalist or really who wrote them or where they came from, but I loved them and couldn’t wait for the opportunity to read the day’s offering. Of course I had to wait until the adults were done pawing over the paper, which sometimes took forever…but eventually I would get to read it. It’s such a little nothing thing but I don’t know how to convey the excitement and joy this story brought me every day in the month of December for most of my childhood.

Also I remember a TV special, Amahl and the Night Visitors, I guess it was an opera or something like that and I looked forward to it every year. All the adults were across the hall in my grandmother’s apartment celebrating before midnight mass so I was able to watch what I wanted on TV. I usually watched it alone because the other kids could never make it past a couple of minutes, mostly they thought it was stupid and boring, but I loved it. It became part of my own personal and singular Christmas tradition (I was always a very self contained unit, a SCUBA without the U, SCBA, I guess.) It was only on for a few years though and I’ve never seen it again. Probably for the best because no doubt I would have tried to get other’s to watch it and that never ended well.

[PoeticSilence]

The wooden boxes on everyones front porch or stoop where the milkman left your milk and cottage cheesees.

[Cin]

Originally Posted by PoeticSilence

The wooden boxes on everyones front porch or stoop where the milkman left your milk and cottage cheesees.

This reminded me of the way delivery trucks would leave bread, pastry, milk, juice, stuff like that, outside of little neighborhood corner stores in the early morning hours before the stores opened.

Because the adults in my life had to take off for work around 6am and I was too young to be left alone in the house or given a key, I was always wandering the streets until school started. I noticed all the donuts, juice, and milk left unattended and when I was hungry never hesitated to help myself to a free breakfast. I guess you could say it was the first privately funded free breakfast program.