Some really old familiar things that no longer exist

[rogerzilla]

Plastic bread bag clips.

http://www.organizingla.com/photos/uncategorized/bread_clips.jpg

Ring pulls that you could put inside the can before drinking (if you dared).

http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/1252179/2/istockphoto_1252179-aluminum-drink-can-top-with-ring-pull-clipping-path.jpg

Tall milk bottles (the current style was called "Pintie" when it came out).

Milk Bottle News: Photos: Bottles: L Collett Ltd

"Jugs" in pubs - still sometimes seen above the bar, but very rarely used.  The opposite of Jack Carter's "in a thin glass!"

http://www.inandoutinns.co.uk/grape/beer_mug.jpg

The once-ubiquitous "earthing strap" dangling off the back of cars, generally Austin Maxis.  I couldn't even find a picture of one of these, although this is the sort of vehicle that would have used one:



Yeah, I know it's not a Maxi, but I couldn't resist the picture   Note where the Land Rover Discovery got its door handles.

[clarion]

Marina had them handles, too.  Crap.

[pcolbeck]

And the original Range Rovers.

[Chris N]

Plastic bread bag clips.

http://www.organizingla.com/photos/uncategorized/bread_clips.jpg

My local bakery still uses them.  It's old fashioned round here.

[pcolbeck]

Wrights Yorkshire Pies -- sob. Wrights were a large chain of butchers in and around York up until sometime in the 90s. They had a processing place on the A19 near Skelton. Their Yorkshire pie was a single serving pie that came in a foil base rather like your average steak pie. No idea what was in it and that's probably best but it was some kind of minced meat and vegetable and it was peppery. One of these with baked beans was my favourite tea when I was a lad. Unfortunately Wrights are no more a victim of the supermarkets.

[Zoidburg]

Wrights Yorkshire Pies -- sob. Wrights were a large chain of butchers in and around York up until sometime in the 90s. They had a processing place on the A19 near Skelton. Their Yorkshire pie was a single serving pie that came in a foil base rather like your average steak pie. No idea what was in it and that's probably best but it was some kind of minced meat and vegetable and it was peppery. One of these with baked beans was my favourite tea when I was a lad. Unfortunately Wrights are no more a victim of the supermarkets.

Nothing to do with Wrights pies of Stoke On Trent then?

Wrights Pies - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Valiant]

I tried to buy some Old Spice the other day for sentimental nostaligia's sake. No luck.

[Zoidburg]

I tried to buy some Old Spice the other day for sentimental nostaligia's sake. No luck.

http://www.oldspice.com/

 

[delthebike]

I tried to buy some Old Spice the other day for sentimental nostaligia's sake. No luck.

You don't buy Old Spice! You get it as a present. 

[Zoidburg]

White dog poo.

When was the last time you saw some?

[Wowbagger]

The last time we fed our dog white dog chews.

[MSeries]

those large dual cell batteries that Ever Ready front lights used to take.

[Zoidburg]

those large dual cell batteries that Ever Ready front lights used to take.

They still make them IIRC

MN1203 General Alkaline - Duracell Direct co uk

[Wowbagger]

Starting handles.

New bikes with cotter pins.

[little miss mac]

Sock garters for holding up scratchy woollen school socks.

New shirts whose collars rub your neck raw.

Chillblains. What happened to them, eh?

[rogerzilla]

"Warlord" and "Battle" politically incorrect comics for boys.  I learned all my German from them.  Hande hoch!

[Zoidburg]

"Warlord" and "Battle" politically incorrect comics for boys.  I learned all my German from them.  Hande hoch!

They aren't "comics".

They are training manuals.

[little miss mac]

On that note, Bunty comic for gurls.

[Martin]

storage heaters
Olde Jamaica sweet tobacco
Corona bottles (my first ever LP Aladdin Sane was financed from taking back empties of these)
The lorries that used to deliver said bottles door to door
returnable soda syphon bottles (7s6d IIRC)
LED watches you had to push a button to tell the time
postal orders
Gestetner (a promitive photocopier that resulted in a lot of ink stained paper and fingers)
8 track
RCA vinyl videodiscs

[Zoidburg]

8 Track players.

Lawn Darts - so breath taking in lethality that it does make you wonder what they were thinking...

[rogerzilla]

storage heaters

Still around, and they still suck

LED watches you had to push a button to tell the time

They're back as an expensive novelty item.

[rogerzilla]

45rpm flexi-discs attached to the front of magazines.

[andygates]

That's the best-looking Allegro you'll ever see.

White dog poo - first the dog food got preservatives so it went white slower, then people cleaned it up.

Dial up modems.
Those bras that turned boobs conical.
Typewriters.

[Zoidburg]

Chocolate cigarettes - the best ones had a tiny hole in them and if you blew through them they gave out a puff of icing sugar "smoke".

They were banned, I can't think why...

[Fab Foodie]

Typewriters
Telex  machines
Ink wells
Formica
That sticky plastic stuff for covering shelves
Flock wallpaper
Izal bum paper
That plastic strip curtain for keeping the flies out
Proper Linoleum
Radiograms
Ronco and KTel
Pop Hits LPs by coverbands
Draft excluding snakes
Stair rods and carpet that wasn't 'fitted'
Kerrygold butter being 10 & 1/2p
The test card, Light program and Hilversum.
Half-timbered cars
String vests
Mangles