A Thing You Don't See These Days

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I found a picture of my mum standing on one of those big red coin operated weighing scales today. It had a big dial face. It was in our local shopping centre but I remember seeing them on piers, train stations etc too. Did you ever use them? Other than this picture of my mum I don't remember seeing one in use

Like this.

Bus conductors

Plenty of red phone boxes not a million miles from us!

We still have a milkman, too. Very convenient, you can order or cancel all sorts the day before. And glass bottles, though I think they do have plastic too.

@PostMenWithACat, I still have a tin of Ajax!
I still use it too, occasionally. The top is very rusty!

I have a milk man! He's an absolute godsend and I wouldn't be without him.

I hope these still exist somewhere but I certainly haven’t seen one for at least a couple of decades: mobile libraries.

they took away our telephone box, in fact since i have lived here they have taken 2

I saw camp coffee liquid in Waitrose the other day! Hadn’t seen it for 35+ years when my dad used to have it. It was absolutely disgusting..

Pushchairs/buggies with kids in them left outside shops

Charity collection boxes shaped like kids with leg a brace

My parents’ village has a mobile fishmonger. Len the Fish. He drives down from Grimsby once a week. Think he and his pals do half the Home Counties!

Some of this stuff is definitely still about - we have a milkman and a landline (aged 26 - free with our broadband package), there are several launderettes where I live as well as a Snappy Snaps, and I’ve been on a slam door train within the last couple of years!

I used to rub camp coffee on my face to give myself a suntan

We had a coin operated telly

Great thread! As well as salt n shake, they also for a while had flavour n shake (they were grim - a little sachet of eg prawn cocktail flavouring that would stick to one crisp).
Phones with a curly cable (my dd has some hair bubbles that remind me of them!) and round dials
Water fountains in the school playground- the white porcelain kind with a little metal handle. No one carried water bottles in those days and on hot days we were allowed 10 seconds max before it was the next kid's turn!

There are still working phone boxes in our town centre.

I buy Camp Coffee to use when making coffee cake!

@Miniestelle

Those charity collection statues outside shops of a little boy wearing calipers or a girl with a guide dog with a money slot in them.

There used to be either a PDSA or SSPCA one in the shape of a border collie outside a local shop. We had to cross the road to avoid it or our border collie would go apeshit and keep barking at it.

The school nit nurse.

Soda Siphons in people's houses. We never had one but a lot of my friend's parents did. I never saw one in use though.

Comb overs. It’s ages since I’ve seen a chap with a flip top bin hairstyle.

A big yellow pages
We had to explain what Blockbuster was to dd the other day

The X-ray machine in shoe shops for measuring children's feet!

Those government ads;
Charlie the cat
Mike who swims like a fish
The family who all know where to go , what to do when the ceiling springs a leak.

@Rowofducks

I went to Hayling Island the other day and they have one of those red scales in the arcade. Not sure anyone used it though. We still get a milkman round here and my Nan still gets the crisps with the little blue sachet of salt in them. No idea where from. She always bins the salt as she likes the crisps plain.

Things I don’t see anymore are those tall old slides that shot you half way across the playground and that long horse everyone used to pile onto. Beaded curtains, class statues with weird colours in them.

There was one of those long horses at the playground at the holiday village we used to go to in the 70s. An adult could stand in front of it and push it with their foot to make it rock backwards and forwards.
I remember DF doing that for me, all the other children in the playground then rushed over and piled on, he was there for ages because he felt it was mean to stop.

@FrangipaniDeLaSqueegeeMop

The milkman

I do.

Also, the cheery public information film with a group of chubby older people eating an enormous Christmas dinner- the man is struggling but his wife nags him to eat more and more- he keels over with a heart attack.