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

[piglet50]

i love colorforms, too. i liked miss cookie's kitchen. i also loved my spirograph.

oh, and donna parker books. sort of like nancy drew but there weren't as many.

 

[C.Ann]

Trixie Belden books! The Bobbsey Twins!!

 

[mamacatnv]

Trixie Belden books! The Bobbsey Twins!!

I read Trixie and I have bought several for my daughter.

 

[HOGFAN]

Service Merchandise

Bobs Big Boy restaurant

 

[Pixie Dust for Me!]

My favorite children's story ever (I liked the Ricka, Flicka and Dicka books...particularly Ricka, Dicka, Flicka and the Strawberries), but I LOVED Martha the Movie Mouse by Arnold Lobel. Unfortunately, the book is out of print, but I did find one used copy at a used book store a number of years ago and gave it as a gift to my oldest niece. I'm just glad that my mom kept my copy. Even now I pull it out from time to time to read it.

K

 

[angelmav]

Just because I have seen it mentioned here a few times, we do have a Woolworth's where I currently live...In Heidelberg Germany!

 

[DawnM]

Does anyone remember a snack food called Space Sticks?

They came in chocolate, peanut butter, and not sure what else. They were advertised as having gone to the moon with the astronauts.

Oh goodness, Amazon sells them! I may have to get some!

http://www.amazon.com/Space-Food-Sticks-Mixed-Case/dp/B001238ZSI

Dawn

PS: Ok, Found this:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WSwEeRf1Tg. Guess they came in chocolate, chocolate malt, peanut butter, and caramel. I remember I used to get two kinds and eat them together, like PB and Choc.

 

[NHdisneylover]

Just because I have seen it mentioned here a few times, we do have a Woolworth's where I currently live...In Heidelberg Germany!

Sadly no soda fountain in it though. I just about fell over the first time I saw it. Did you? I had no idea they were still in business over here (they are in Mexico too).

 

[mrodgers]

The first is manual transmissions. When I was searching Autotrader.com for a car, I had over 10,000 within a 50 mile radius. When I filtered by transmission to include only a manual, the list went from 10,000 to about 20. I am extremely limited even when buying new because hardly anything is available new with a manual. Everything is automatic on my wife's small SUV including the stupid rearview mirror dimmer, which drives me absolutely crazy.

Pepsi in a convenience store in a can. I don't need a 75 gallon bottle of Pepsi. I only want 12 ounces and I can't stand pop in a plastic bottle. Cans seem to get colder and stay cold the entire time I'm drinking it, which is usually just drink it down. I don't need to cap it up and save it because it will be warm when I go to get another drink. I have only 1 convenience store where you can still buy a can of Pepsi or Coke.

Still have a local drive-in theater though. Haven't been there in years.

 

[C.Ann]

Thought about this as I was trying to figure out what to have for dinner tonight..

When I was a kid I loved the school lunches!! I swear - they were real food (not the junk I had to cook for the poor kids when I used to work in a school cafeteria)..

My favorites were the turkey lunches - with all the trimmings; - the mac ' cheese lunches; - and any time they had Apple Betty as the dessert.. Yum!!

 

[FlightlessDuck]

Music videos on MTV.

 

[r1lissa]

There is a drive-in ten minutes from my house, and it is only a few years old. You get to see two movies (new releases) for $6 per person. There is a putt-putt on site too.
There is an A&W/Long John Silvers restaurant in my town and a Weiner Schneitzel about 30 minutes away.

It's odd, but I miss when Reeses cups came in the paper wrapper and were sealed like a present with the folded corners.

 

[tabby1881]

Does anyone remember a restaurant called an Automat? At least I think that is what it was called. There was one in downtown Boston that my mother used to take me to in the 1970's. It was like a cafeteria that had little compartements with food in them. I think that you would open the little door of the food that you wanted and then pay for everything at the end.

I miss Howard Johnsons, too.

 

[MaggieMoo'sMom]

Any of you "children of the 80's" remember a candy called Sugar Nuggets? They were in between Sugar Babies and Sugar Daddys? The local store across the street had boxes of 3 cent candy on the bottom row with those and gum balls. My sister and I would take our pennies and count them out on the counter in stacks of 3 until we knew how many items we could get. Oh the sugar rush!!!!! I miss Sugar Nuggets!!!!!