Going, going, gone.

[Capt Worley PE]

I can't believe nobody mentioned this one yet on an engineering board:
Erector sets!

They still make 'em!

http://www.hobbyengineering.com/H1797.html

 

[snickerd3]

madonna, debbie gibson? remind me not to go to any concerts with you. j/k

Sometimes the 80's music is just what fits the mood I'm in.

Trapper keepers

 

[Supe]

Not THAT old, but thankfully phased out nevertheless: POGS

 

[wilheldp_PE]

Not THAT old, but thankfully phased out nevertheless: POGS

I have a ton of those things still floating around my parent's house somewhere.

 

[Sschell]

getting "goatse-ed" (hope hope)

 

[MA_PE]

Not THAT old, but thankfully phased out nevertheless: POGS

in the same genre - Pokeman cards

(I never got any for my kids and they never got into it).

power rangers

cabbage patch dolls

 

[snickerd3]

power rangers

Still around, was flipping channels a few weeks ago on a saturday morning and there it was.

 

[csb]

They make them, but when's the last time you've seen an ad for one, or even a kid playing with one?!

Last week! They are now a lot less of fire hazard.

 

[FLBuff PE]

Last week! They are now a lot less of fire hazard.

In other words, not as much fun as they used to be.

 

[csb]

correct! the untreated paper on a hot bulb over metal was a lot easier to use than the current version...

 

[Dleg]

Stuff that used to be common, but you don't see, or isn't done anymore.
Carbon paper

Typewriters

Elm trees (Dutch Elm disease wiped 'em out in the 50s)

Gas station attendants

Pop tops that separated from the can

PF Flyers

High dives at public pools

Public swimming at ponds

Milk trucks

Hitch hiking

slavery

the plague

prohibition

leeches

open sewers

pharoes

 

[Flyer_PE]

Manual transmissions

 

[geofs_PE]

barber shops

"mom and pop" hardware stores

3.2% beer

corner groceries and drugstores

soda fountains

returnable soda bottles

bell bottoms

vinyl records --> 8-tracks --> casettes

floppy disks

AM radio

TV antennas

milk in glass containers

stay-at-home moms

rear wheel drive vehicles

bias-ply tires

vinyl tops on cars

American Motors Corp. (makers of the '60's Rambler Ambassador, the '70's Pacer, and Jeep in the 70's and early '80's)

mini-bikes

Keds

penny candy

 

[Mike in Gastonia]

American Motors Corp. (makers of the '60's Rambler Ambassador, the '70's Pacer, and Jeep in the 70's and early '80's)

I had a '71 Javelin. Great car!!

 

[DVINNY]

^^ F'in AWESOME car BTW.

Muscle cars

Hey now.

Caring about the rainforest
Caring about acid rain

Caring about the hole in the ozone layer

Caring about AIDS

Captain Planet

^^ Did anyone ever give a sh!t?

lawn darts

^^ my lawn darts should still be in garage at grandparents, they were a few years ago last I checked. I may need to grab them next time I'm over

 

[Sschell]

slaverythe plague

prohibition

leeches

open sewers

pharoes

good list... you left out trebuchets

 

[jmbeck]

good list... you left out trebuchets

That reminds me.

Trebuchet Game

 

[RIP - VTEnviro]

^^ my lawn darts should still be in garage at grandparents, they were a few years ago last I checked. I may need to grab them next time I'm over

My folks may have some Jarts laying around. I loved those things. I'm surprised no one ever got impaled.

 

[Wolverine]

Polio

Dysentery

Smallpox

Glue sniffing

Smoking banana peels

Hippies driving VWs

Religious Right

Moral Majority

True Conservatives

Honest Democrats

Non-partisan newspapers

Nazi propaganda

 

[Sschell]

Glue sniffing Smoking banana peels

Hippies driving VWs

hey hey hey... slow your roll there dude!