Some really old familiar things that no longer exist

[delthebike]

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...

Just fell out of favour, Clicky.

[Speshact]

God

[Mike J]

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

I saw some in our local Wilkinson's the other day - pointed out to the Mrs and said "I didn't think they still made that crap!"

[Torslanda]

Pointy boobie type bras are coming back. It must be true - Sarah Kennedy* said so.

Allegro/Marina door handles also featured on the Lotus Esprit.

*Talking of which - how does she stay in a job? Scary.

[Zoidburg]

The 1960s tea towel holder - yes, the ones that looked like a brown eye.

[Valiant]

Plastic floor runners/rug savers
Soda Stream machines
Top loading VHS Players
Hoooge Fergusen TVs

[Pedaldog.]

Reel to Reel Stereo Tape decks. Big and messy but so much better quality that the digital crap we have now.

[Jaded]

Cremola Foam

[JohnP]

Those bras that turned boobs conical.

in newspaper today - they may be making a come back.


sorry torslanda, missed your post.

[JohnP]

FACIT hand operated calculators - really miss the bell ringing.

Comptometer operators (mother & swmbo were both comps).

[Wobbly John]

Olde Jamaica sweet tobacco

I thought sweet tobacco was 'Spanish Gold'?

Olde Jamaica was a Rum/raisin chocolate bar made by Cadburys/Bournville - It's back in production - I've got a bar in the fridge. 

[Really Ancien]

Biscuits in tin boxes with cellophane lids, which stood at the foot of the shop counter, they were sold by weight and packed in brown paper bags, when you got them home you put them in the biscuit tin.

Damon.

[Tourist Tony]

Spangles.
Taking old newspapers to the chippy .
Blancmange

[Cudzoziemiec]

New bikes with cotter pins.

I have one. Bought new about 2 years ago. Lost one cotter pin nut in June this year. Most new bikes here have cotter pins. You're better off without them, I'd say.

[Cudzoziemiec]

And I made out a postal order in July. It's the only form of payment accepted by VFS (privatised visa-service monopoly, a company to make a profit of getting the right bits of paper to the right rubber stamp) will accept at the Indian "consulate" in Cardiff.

[mark]

And I made out a postal order in July. It's the only form of payment accepted by VFS (privatised visa-service monopoly, a company to make a profit of getting the right bits of paper to the right rubber stamp) will accept at the Indian "consulate" in Cardiff.

Postal money orders are still available around here, until pretty recently the US Post Office marketed them as a secure way for Mexican and Central American immigrants to send money home.

I remember 8-tracks, and I remember the first auto-reversing cassette player I ever saw (ca 1973). A fearsomely complex mechanism picked up the cassette, flipped it over and replaced it on the capstans in several multiples of the time it would take one to eject the cassette, turn it over and reinsert it. Is quadrophonic sound still around?

[SandyV]

Soda Stream machines

We still use soda streams (and bought a new one only last year)!

[rogerzilla]

The 1960s tea towel holder - yes, the ones that looked like a brown eye.

You can still get those.  Likewise floor runners.  What I haven't seen for at least 20 years are the hanging screens of coloured plastic strips put over your front door.  Whether they were to provide a psychological barrier to weak-willed thieves, stop the paint fading or keep insects out, I don't know, but my nan had one.

[Cudzoziemiec]

Keep flies out, surely? There was a proper name for them, but I can't remember it now.

[rower40]

Callard and Bowser Cream-Line Toffees.  Inna huge jar on the back shelf of the sweet shop, from which the nice man would weigh out 1/4 lb into the scales, then tip the sweets into a white paper bag.

Cyril Fletcher on "That's Life", presenting a humerous vegetable after a serious Consumer Affairs piece.

[peliroja]

Half penny sweets and five p crisps.

[Diver300]

Note where the Land Rover Discovery got its door handles.

For years the Land Rover Discovery got it's rear lights from the Maestro Van. The little chamfer of the rear corner came from that.

[Diver300]

[Jaded]

Keep flies out, surely? There was a proper name for them, but I can't remember it now.

Fly curtains. 

[MattH]

Izal bum paper

Wandering round one of the local antique centres (it's a nice walk out there, and they have delicious cake in the cafe bit!) I saw that they were selling a roll of Izal.