Things that disappeared, without you realising?

[jennymanara]

What things have disappeared in society, and you did not notice until much later?
So when I was young in every shopping street you would see old women wearing coloured polyester macs and headscarves. And then one day I suddenly realised that I had not seen a woman wearing this kind of clothing for a long time.
The same with plastic rainhoods. You used to see these for sale in newsagents, and elderly women would wear them when caught unaware by the rain. Again disappeared.

I agree - I don't have a watch as it seems unnecessary when I have my phone with me all day.

Soap on a rope...... i remember putting together a 'prison bag' for a friend whom was sent to prison for drug dealing in the early 90s. He was very pretty and i thoughr that a soap on the rope may be helpful in the shower .

Pipes..... We had a science teacher whom smoked a pipe in his lab room at a grammar school!

School staff rooms were found via a thick cloudy miasma that was escaping from the staff room door.

My parents’ more glamorous friends all had wall mirrors printed with Jack Daniels or Southern Comfort labels, whisky glasses printed with the names of whisky brands and pink side lights (early 80s). I haven’t seen any of that stuff in years.

They had fancy table lighters and ashtrays too, like the picture posted by a PP.

I remember the trend for wretched Pierrot. Always mispronounced as ‘perry-o’. My school friends would say, “my dad is decorating my whole room in perry-o and I’m getting a perry-o quilt cover and all”.

Plastic bats with a ball attached with elastic
woolworths
timothy whites
pelmets the wooden ones above curtains usually with a load of ornaments on them
wooden animal ornaments usually from boots

Proper Lemon Bonbons, with lovely lemony powder and lemon toffee inside. I’ve looked everywhere!

Thunder flys. Used to be plague like in summer, not seen one for years
And they stuck to sweaty skin!

*Faxes

Still very widely used in the NHS.*
Not in my hospital-there was too much risk of copies going astray. Now we send to an email address and out from there.

Go out in a bright yellow t-shirt and you will soon see thunder flies.

Taking a ticket at the butchers

I still use sheets, blankets and a duvet. I like a cosy bed! However, I don’t see any of those itchy blankets with grid type holes and a thick satin edging? Does anyone know what I mean?
Cellular blankets-we still have some we were given as wedding presents in 1975!

The hip screening programme for babies is why there is less people with built up shoes for leg length difference - and I was a baby that benefitted, without operations I would have needed them.

No ringo goes like a ringo goes!

Re: white dog poo. Since a neighbour (Dave the deer hunter) has been kindly bringing all sorts of waste bits of deer he has shot for the dog, his poo has turned white. It is the bone. Kibble makes dog poo brown. Raw food on the bone or with ground bone also results in white poo.

And our NHS trust has banned the fax from this week!

@wowfudge yes, dh and I fight over the vinegar ones.

John Lewis sell hostess trolleys. Modern, sleek looking ones.

Royal dalton ladies.

Macrame is definitely making a come back, you can take lessons at a number of places in Manchester and make your own thing to hang a plant pot in. Knitting and crochet classes seem to have sprung up everywhere too.

How does that work sassh ? Do you mean the mothers throw away the contraceptives and take thalidomide for leprosy?

Really, really showing my age now - memories from my childhood when my parents had a shop in what was the front room of a tiny Victorian miner’s end of terrace house - bacon, ham, cheese etc sat in a covered glass display tray all day and being sliced to order, vinegar being decanted from a large glass bottle into bottles brought in by customers, single cigarettes (Park Lane, Senior Service?) being sold, sweets in glass jars (nothing in plastic bags), triangular paper bags for the sweets, people coming at all hours in an emergency as we had a phone... i’m Sure there are more somewhere in the black hole that has developed in my head.

Wade Whimsies - little animal figurines, a feature of my 1970's childhood.

Also American Tan tights, we used to joke that women used to reach a certain age and would handed their regulation thick American Tan tights

Wildlife everywhere - red squirrels, smooth and crested newts in little puddles on “The Tip” (really was a tip which had been left to grow wild), lizards on the side of the railway (we used to cross over the tracks as kids), bullheads by the weir, hundreds and thousands of butterflies on Butterfly Field, when you drove in the car, having to have the windscreen wipers on due to the insects splattering against the windscreen.

That picture of a female tennis player lifting her skirt at the back and showing a bit of bum and knickers.

Has anyone mentioned cassette tape which had spooled out along roadside verges and got tangled in the cow parsley?

That picture was on lots of walls when I went to Uni.

Outside loos. We had one until I was about 8 or 9. The pipes were lagged in winter and there was a paraffin lamp in there. I used to sit and pick the peeling paint off the wall.

It sounds grim, but it really wasn’t. Most people on our street had them.

My brother lives near the woman in that tennis poster.