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 remember when Neapolitan ice-cream was pink, chocolate and green (pistachio I think)

I remember when Neapolitan ice-cream was pink, chocolate and green

Are you sure?! When was this?

Advertising that seemed to transport you somewhere. For example Clarkes shoes advertisements use to make you want to go into a secret garden or computer game. I can't think of many advertisements with the same effects now. Maybe it's something to do with realism (or advertising standards?)

Holiday programs.
They always used to start after Christmas.

I’d watch one of those now.

Kids playing marbles at break time.
Artic Roll
Quiet Sundays
Dustmen
Road Sweepers
Leg warmers with pixie boots
Green cardboard library tickets
Individual frozen round mousses "Lovelies"
Sitting round the TV to watch on a Saturday night
Gigantic sanitary towels with thickness of a mattress

Dice hanging in cars. Also stickers on front window of car with your name and boyfriends/husband's I remember this as a child

@fedup21 white dog poo in my garden right now

@SherlockHolmesPipe artic roll still arlund though not restaurant prolific I know!

Kids playing conkers. I used to love collecting them and playing conkers at school

Broken biscuits from kwiksave

You can still buy boxes of broken biscuits from the milkman.

You can still buy boxes of broken biscuits from the milkman
Milkman?
I haven't seen a milkman in nearly 30 years - not joking, a new neighbor was asking about one the other month bit no one knows of any in our town. Theres never been one since I moved to the area I now live.

Toast topper, I used to love that and haven’t seen it for years.

I remember Neapolitan ice cream being pink, white and green. Would have been late 1960s.

cms1972
I remember Humphrey the song went something like, watch out watch out watch out watch out there’s a Humphrey about.

No we are not dead yet!

Oh yes and 'the party line'. When we first got a landline phone, we had to share our number with someone else. God knows who they were (MI5?) - but they could pick up their phone to make a call and hear you burbling away to someone on yours. I remember once a man broke into my conversation to say I'd been on the phone for ages & could I get off now as he wanted to make a call. There was no such thing as "confidentiality" in the 70s!

Cafe Noir biscuits and Fry’s 5 centres chocolate bars.

.. and dear Dillydally, I'm glad I'm not the only person who remembers "Humphrey"!

You can buy Arctic Rolls in Sainsbury’s, have half of one in my freezer!

I remember going off to uni to do a degree... no question of paying tuition fees & I actually felt short-changed because my grant wasn't QUITE enough to live on. Wow. Didn't know I was born did I?

@cms1972 In the 1980s, students got a grant, could sign on the dole in the holidays AND get Housing Benefit! Those were the days...

@Ounce

’The disappearance of bug splatter (and night time 'moth snow' in your headlights) is one of the most visible manifestations of the rapid climate catastrophe we're currently living through. Insect (and bird) life has declined massively since I was a girl 😢’

This is absolutely terrifying 😱 Hadn’t thought about it till reading it here. Time for us all to go vegan I guess 😱.

Apologies as haven’t read whole thread but;

Orange machines on the street with a silver handle you turn and it clicks and a cheap plastic egg comes out with a prize in 😃. (I had a bright turquoise plastic pendant in the shape of a diamond and a miniature book of jokes which I loved- it was tiny!!)

Fry’s chocolate bars which had different flavours in one bar - maybe orange, strawberry and something else.

Orange machines on the street with a silver handle you turn and it clicks and a cheap plastic egg comes out with a prize in 😃. (I had a bright turquoise plastic pendant in the shape of a diamond and a miniature book of jokes which I loved- it was tiny!!)

They're still around, but mostly in shopping centres and arcades these days. Not really safe to leave machines with money on the street - they'd just get nicked or broken into.