What do you miss that we "don't" have anymore?

[C.Ann]

Drive-in movies (although I think there's still a few stragglers somewhere)

A&W Hamburger joints (none around here that I know of)

White Tower hamburger joint

The huge Sears, Penney's, & Montgomery Wards Christmas catalogs

Tru-Ade non-carbonated orange "soda"

Original Candyland game

Big Chief (?) writing tablets

Milkman (although I know some places still have them)

The horse-drawn Friehoffer Baked Good wagons

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I'm sure there's more that some of you will remind me of..

 

[hereyago]

My last drive in is now a super walmart. After the mall put in it's theater, the drive in dwindled down. The lot stood empty forever then walmart went there. I don't even go to that one, it wierds me out.

WHen I was little, we had Woolworths and it had a soda fountain place in it. That was the coolest thing.


Or RC in a bottle, a real bottle.


Mostly I miss what we don't have ,or people don't seem to use is: COMMON SENSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[TwinsinCA]

We still have A&W out in California. However, the menu is not how I remember it being when I was a kid.

 

[dodukes]

My last drive in is now a super walmart. After the mall put in it's theater, the drive in dwindled down. The lot stood empty forever then walmart went there. I don't even go to that one, it wierds me out.

WHen I was little, we had Woolworths and it had a soda fountain place in it. That was the coolest thing.


Or RC in a bottle, a real bottle.


Mostly I miss what we don't have ,or people don't seem to use is: COMMON SENSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Speaking of woolworths I used to love when my grandfather used to take me to eat there.

 

[C.Ann]

WHen I was little, we had Woolworths and it had a soda fountain place in it. That was the coolest thing.


Mostly I miss what we don't have ,or people don't seem to use is: COMMON SENSE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My aunt that used to live next-door to me when I was a child (back in the 1950's) would always take me to Woolworth's with her - set me up at the counter with a banana split - and go off to do her shopping.. Can you imagine?? No one ever approached me, no one tried to kidnap me, and the waitresses would chat up a storm with me in between other customers..

Common sense - good one!!! I'm often amazed at how complicated some people can make the simplest thing! Sometimes it's downright scary!

 

[C.Ann]

We still have A&W out in California. However, the menu is not how I remember it being when I was a kid.

Is the hamburger still in the foil bag? For some reason that just made it taste better.. LOL..

 

[kimblebee]

We have A & Ws all over the place up here. And yes, they do still come in the foil bags.

 

[C.Ann]

We have A & Ws all over the place up here. And yes, they do still come in the foil bags.

Oh man - I'd kill for one right now! They were sooooooo good!!

 

[tvguy]

We have A & Ws all over the place up here. And yes, they do still come in the foil bags.

The stand alone A & W's are gone. We have KFC/A&W combo restaurants. Yes the burgers, Pappa, Mamma, etc, still come in foil.

As a matter fact, as I recall a lot of the A & W's around here used to close for the winter.

 

[Sabeking]

Two things:

Charles Chips; they would deliver them to your door and you got to keep the big cannister they came in.

The dinner bell; we would leave on our bikes for the afternoon and hear my mom's dinner bell in the neighborhood. All five kids came back without a scratch and a funny story!

 

[krcit]

That's so funny because when we went to Lake George this summer, we went to a drive0in movie AND went to A and W for dinner


I miss these Regal crown candies that my brother used to buy for me. Sour Cherry, oh they were sooooo good!

 

[Slinky Dog]

I miss drive-ins too. There is one that I know of not too far from here. But I miss the ones that were local.

 

[Disneycrazymom]

I remember Wiener Schnitzel. They had the best hot dogs with all kinds of toppings! I have no idea if it was only here in the StL area but the only one I knew of is long gone.

Also the Pop In Store. An idea way before its time I think. You could drive through to the window and get simple grocery items like milk and bread. It went out of business years ago but I think it would do very well now! People just didn't get the time saver of staying in your car to shop back in the "old days"!

 

[happygirl]

Sunday drives
Ice Cream trucks
moblie libraries

 

[C.Ann]

That's so funny because when we went to Lake George this summer, we went to a drive0in movie AND went to A and W for dinner

Get out!!!! They still have the A&W in Lake George? AND a drive-in?? Do you have any idea how close I am to Lake George???????

I thought sure the A&W was gone (thought I asked someone).. I haven't been back over to the village since a few years before my DH passed away in 2005..

It's probably closed for the season now though - huh? Well - I know where I'm going for a burger NEXT year!!!

 

[C.Ann]

Sunday drives
Ice Cream trucks
moblie libraries

Way out here in the boon docks and the one thing we have - during the summer - is an ice cream truck..

 

[happygirl]

Way out here in the boon docks and the one thing we have - during the summer - is an ice cream truck..

I wish we did, My kids would love it

 

[Pixie Dust for Me!]

Oh, I loved woolworths. You could get everything there and they made the best malts!

I miss Tippins (loved their soup)...and lady at the bank that saved the orange safety suckers for me (and would patiently count up my rolled coins and tell me that I must have saved pennies a ling time to get $67 worth....instead of complaining about them). I also miss HR Salt fish and chips. And pepsi in the returnable bottles!

K

 

[krcit]

Get out!!!! They still have the A&W in Lake George? AND a drive-in?? Do you have any idea how close I am to Lake George???????

I thought sure the A&W was gone (thought I asked someone).. I haven't been back over to the village since a few years before my DH passed away in 2005..

It's probably closed for the season now though - huh? Well - I know where I'm going for a burger NEXT year!!!

We had never had A and W until we went summer of '09 and the kids talked about it all winter so we had to go this summer also. It's right on Route 9, I wonder if it closes for the winter The drive-in is in Glens Falls. I was dying to take the kids to one b/c I remembered going as a child. It was cool. I felt like I was in the movie Grease, lol!

 

[mamacatnv]

Farrels Ice Cream Parlors - I think there are 1 or 2 in S. California but I haven't seen a Farrells in 20+ years

School lunches where the ladies in the cafeteria actually cooked and served us on compartmentalized plastic trays

Teeter-Totters at park playgrounds - there are a couple of parks in Portland, OR. that have them and DD still loves to go for a ride whenever we are up there visiting.

Riding in the back of pick-up trucks

Baked goods and caramel apples in our halloween trick or treating haul

Cartoons before the movie started

Sunday night TV - The Wonderful World of Disney and Mutual of Omaha's Wild Kingdom. We looked forward to it all week.

Saturday morning cartoons