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.

My body and my sanity

Trellis marshmallow bars and pacer mint chewy sweets.

Armchairs and sofas with tassels all along the bottom

Illuminous shoe laces, cord bracelets,water Bangles - all the teens had them!!
Party areas in McDonald's
The sweater shop & Benneton

Lion bars are still around I bought some the other day.

I don't know where the poster has been to not see any combovers I still see them every day.

Hairdressers still have the overhead driers too. My Dd had a hair trial for her prom. They put her in curlers and under the drier. It's a modern hairdressers too.

Orderly queues at bus stops and people getting on a bus in turn

Fiat Multiplas were all the rage at one time and I never see any these days.

Witney Blankets!! My home town. The blanket factory, Earlys of Witney, is now a housing estate.

Athena was great. Loved those clacky poster books. Find the poster number then find it’s sold out. Where do teens buy posters now?

Reflective bands safety pinned on kids school coats.

From the same era as the Hare Krishnas, the Socialist Worker magazine.

There always used to be someone in the city centre shouting for people to buy it.

There were no sugar puffs at Sainsbury's yesterday!

Orderly queues at bus stops

Still happens in my home town. I was horrified when I went to London and was close to starting an arguement and then realised I was in the minority and it must be culturally acceptable!

Cereals with toys in

Oh, google tells me that SW still exists, but I still don't remember seeing anyone selling it for years.

A scramble for coppers when a bride was leaving the house to get married

I saw this recently for the first time while visiting my ILs (they're in the NE). MIL was amazed I'd never heard of it before.

*Don think they were ever in walkers crisps.

Smiths salt n shake though...

Just googled seems walkers bought them out you can still get them though*

The ones in Walkers were prizes. Top prize possibly a fiver in a little blue pack? Most of the time it was a free packet of crisps

@ JadziaSnax I bloody loved pyramints.
No one ever remembers them.

A scramble for coppers when a bride was leaving the house to get married

I've never heard of this either and I had to read it twice before I realised it didn't refer to phoning the police.

Rag and bone men with little horse and carts.

Frozen raspberry ripple mousses in little plastic tubs with a cardboard lid. Bought in long bags.

Stray dogs wondering about.

@ounce still hefty levels of bug splatter here

Hard toilet paper (was it called something like san izal?).
Greaseproof paper to wrap your sandwiches.
Real newspaper for fish & chips.
Telex machines.
Typewriters
Gestetner duplicators (purple print) in schools
Bells on emergency vehicles
Traffic wardens (proper ones under police control)
3 wheel Raliant cars
CB radios and huge car aerials for them

Yes you used to regularly see stray dogs and then they disappeared. I haven't seen one for years.
And I hadnt realised till I read it here that I hadnt seen anyone selling the Socialist Worker in the street for a long time. They always used to be in the City Centre on a Saturday shouting socialist woooorrrker.

@Notmybloodymonkeys What do you do with the coppers?

Never heard of this at all

This in my bathroom burninglikefire my Spanish friends are fascinated by it