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Razors of the past, that I once used and are now gone would include these:

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I never had one of these, but I think FrankC is still shaving with one:



You can probably find them somewhere, but I don't think you will see them at Wal-Mart these days.

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The picture window seems to be a thing of the past...

Back in the 1950's and 1960's most new houses that were built had a big picture window in front that faced the street. (I lived in one, but it wasn't as nice as the the one in the picture below.)



However, if anyone is still putting picture windows in new houses these days, I haven't seen any. If there are any, they must be few and far between.

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I believe that booth jukebox song selectors in restaurants are now long gone.

Back in the day they were usually fixed to the wall at the end of your booth, and magically connected to the jukebox somewhere else in the place. You flipped through the songs that their jukebox had, inserted your quarter into the slot, and picked out what you wanted to hear. Even though they had a limited selection to choose from, back then ALL of the songs on their jukebox were good...!



p.s. When I was young, the Candyland restaurant on Dominick Street in Rome, NY, had them. Sadly, not only are the booth jukebox song selectors gone, so is Candyland.

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I have not seen one in many years. They were common in dinners and bars.

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" Don't look back, The bastards might be gaining on you." - Satchel Paige

Frank

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liljol, still residing in a humble lil abode in Buzztime's Backyard, San Diego County, in The Horribly Site-Poor Golden State, California...

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F CUBS!!!!! FBOSOX!!!!!

FPDRES!!!!! FCHGRS!!!!!

Jukeboxes are still pretty common in bars and restaurants, you old fogies* just don't recognize them because they look just a lil'* bit different.

* fogies is a term of endearment in this context
* lil' copyright by LILJOL, used by permission

Liljol, that's a good one. You are absolutely right...!

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For decades (If not centuries) it was common for nearly all men to wear hats most of the time when they were outdoors. They wore hats for just about everything outside from going to work to going to baseball games. This died out in the mid 1950's. Today the only guys I see wearing hats are teenagers sporting baseball hats, that they wear backwards.

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I thought it was President Kennedy who killed hats. He did not wear one during his campaign or presidency.

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" Don't look back, The bastards might be gaining on you." - Satchel Paige

Frank

With that youthful, handsom shock of hair, why would he wear a hat?

Frank, I'll give you that Kennedy was probably the last nail in the coffin for men wearing hats. However, men's hats were on life support years before JFK ran for president.



........................................ "Gotcha, polling says no hat and I can't lose."

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not sure if this one was posted....

Baseball cards with the gum stuck to one of them

Back in the early 80's I got hooked on card collecting. Yes I was pushing 30 at the time, but it was fun in ways I'd rather not say. Back then I bought old packs of Topps from the mid and late 70's, and they still had the gum stick in them. Not only where they hard as a rock (well, sometime harder than), but they ruined a perfectly good card.

I wasn't state side in the 70's, so I didn't get a chance to buy them like a "normal" kid. I heard that many a good price card now a'days are in land fills, and some were attached to the spokes of bicycle wheels. But when I had my turn a the hobby, I had fun putting sets together with my dad. And the occasional card with gum stuck to it would take a very valuable card and leave a perfect stain on it.

YODA, all modesty aside, I consider myself a baseball card expert. I started collecting them in 1954, and have actually studied them as an adult. (I have a very sad story as to why I am no longer collecting baseball cards, but that doesn't apply to this discussion. However, if anyone wants to hear it, just let me know, but have a lot of tissue nearby, so you can cry along with me.)

Back to your post, of course damaged baseball cards lose value, but if the card is old, hard to find, and of a Hall of Famer, it's still going to be worth quite a lot, despite the damage. In all my years of collecting baseball cards, I've never run across a card where the bubble gum insert stained one. Yep, pinning them to your bicycle frame so the spokes made your bicycle sound like a motorcycle, would probably have a significant negative impact on their value. However, once again, if the card is old, hard to find, and of a Hall of Famer, it's still going to be worth quite a lot.

p.s. In the baseball card trading business, you should understand that there is a tremendous difference between the "bid" and "ask". The dealer's price for you to buy a card from him is a lot higher than what he will pay you to buy that card from you. The only way to get the higher price is to become a dealer yourself, but once you do that you are no longer a collector.

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I would love to chit chat with you sometime about baseball cards. You bring the Beckett catalog and I bring the cards.

and your "bid" and "ask" suggest that you know a few things about stocks.

so, my next post. Remember when companies gave out paper stocks when you invested with them?

Trivia, which company was the last to give out paper copy of your investment for their stock

It's been a very long time since I've seen bubble Christmas tree lights for sale. Does any company still make them, or are they just a thing of the past?

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It's been a very long time since I've seen bubble Christmas tree lights for sale. Does any company still make them, or are they just a thing of the past?



Here's some video of what they looked like in action:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mZIPRBflqZQ

p.s. Not only were they great, they didn't have any mercury in them.

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Cloudy, you are in lucky. You can buy them to your heart's content.
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss_ ... e%20lights

Thanks Jim. If I ever put a Christmas tree up again, it will be bubbling away with the glorious lights from my youth.

p.s. Please don't tell me that bubble Christmas tree lights are now made in China.

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Don't care. I think they would look nice on a tree. And it would piss off my wife

Wait 'til she discovers the fake icicles that you have to climb a laddder to pin them every foot to your roof's gutters for the Christmas season. You will have to move your ladder, while juggling the damn icicles every four feet, as you work your way across the front of your house, climbing up and down the ladder with them every time you move.

Putting the damn things up is only the beginning. When Christmas is over you have the joy of taking them all down, and trying to untangle them to put them back into the boxes they came in.

This is a "Bah, Humbug" for me...

Here's what they look like:



p.s. They light up, so you will need to get the extension cord out, and make sure they are all plugged into each other properly too.

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Yesteryear.......drive like a crazy person back home to make it in time to watch a tv show

Today.......use your cell phone app to send programming information to your satellite DVR to record your show. Watch it when you get home and skip through the comercials

I know that Hopalong Cassidy (William Boyd) has passed away, and I'm not sure if Bond Bread is still around, but back in the 1950s Bond Bread put a Hoppy sticker on the loaves of bread they sold to seal them. I wish I had kept the ones I saved, when I was a little kid, because I've got a feeling that they might be worth something today.

You'll have to be an old person, but does anyone else remember the Hopalong Cassidy Bond Bread stickers?

p.s. Hoppy never shot anyone to kill them. He would just shoot the gun out of their hand, or when necessary just wing them.

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Manual deletion of an unintended duplicate post, that provided no auto-delete option.

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Thanks YODA, I see that one of the Hopalong Cassidy Bond Bread stickers is being offererd for $5.00 on eBay. Hmm, I think I'll spend that money on beer, and just be satisfied with cherishing the memory of ripping Hoppy's picture off a loaf of Bond Bread, before my mom made me a peanut butter sandwich for lunch.

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You never know what "try to remember" items are on EBay