This subject was inspired by posts in another thread. What things from "The Brady Bunch" are now rare or extinct? Here are some.
S&H Green Stamps
typewriters
pay phones
TV with only antenna service
rotary dial telephones
record players/albums
cassette tape recorders
kids doing deliveries (newspaper, groceries, etc)
contests for most popular girl.
kids working after school jobs
local TV talent shows
transistor radios
cars with wood on the side
doctors making house calls
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Lettermen's sweaters (They'd switched to jackets by the time I hit high school in the early 1980s, not that I was athletic or coordinated enough to earn one.)
Party lines – the landline equivalent of chat rooms, but your neighbors could randomly turn your private conversation into a chat room without your knowledge or consent.
I've always said it's gotten to be a pretty dull world nowdays :(
Everything but cellphones are going out of existence, someday ppl won't even have houses.
I hate that Drs don't make housecalls not ppl don't do deliveries. Now days if you need something you go to THEM.
Home health will stop someday and mail will stop being delivered.
Just because we lose today's battle doesn't mean we've lost tommorow's war.
Saturday mail delivery is already on the way out. My local post office employees stopped working years ago, but they still expect money and benefits.
Some podiatrists still make house calls. With all due respect, podiatrists are not M.D.s. I can't remember the last time I heard of M.D.s making house calls.
I read a newspaper (those are on the way out) article a few years ago that milk delivery was making somewhat of a comeback. And the dairies that deliver milk frequently deliver other staples like orange juice, butter and bread.
I heard that diaper delivery was making a comeback. The Brady kids were much too old for that. If any of those kids needed diapers they had a serious problem.
My family also drank soda in returnable bottles in the '70s. Did the Brady's use returnable soda bottles? Did they call it soda or pop?
Please forgive me if I previously mentioned some of these things.
Did the Bradys drink water from the faucet? I don't remember them drinking bottled water. When I was growing up almost no one in the United States drank bottled water. The only people I knew who drank bottled water back then lived at the Jersey Shore. They said the tap water there tasted awful.
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My family also drank soda in returnable bottles in the '70s. Did the Brady's use returnable soda bottles? Did they call it soda or pop?
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Harvest green kitchen appliances
Double ovens built into the wall
Girls wearing knee-socks
Bunk beds
Drafting tables and paper blueprints
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I didn't know so many things went out, damn!! What do ppl do now days? lol
Just because we lose today's battle doesn't mean we've lost tommorow's war.
People still install built-in double wall ovens.
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Contests in which you won by coming up with an original advertising slogan or jingle. Alice won one of those in the episode about cindy tattling. Nowadays they just pick out contest winners at random.
shareThe Bradys did not recycle. They put everything in the trash.
shareI just saw the episode when Marcia, Peter and Jan worked at an ice cream parlor. Are ice cream restaurants with table service still popular? There are plenty of ice cream shops where I live, mostly Baskin-Robbins and Carvel. But I don't think there are any local ice cream shops with table service.
shareThere are some where I live and they're fab!
I guess I'm an odd bird. I wear dresses as often as possible including on a plane, have a Brady kitchen complete with orange counter tops, listen to my vinyl on one of my two vintage stereos, have a landline (that my mother insisted I keep. To bad they couldn't leave the rotary in the kitchen...I was bummed about that!), have a typewriter, a set of old encyclopedias on a shelf in my living room, no kids that make deliveries but there's a high school boy who comes to mow my lawn every week, have a transistor radio in the bathroom, I still use one of 'those big hooded hair dryers', and have metal ice trays. And I wasn't born until well after this show left the air! I prefer to think I'm 'edgy' instead of a relic!
The bee hunts in pairs....and other fruits
You are RETRO.
I still have a transistor radio in my bathroom. It is waterproof, not old style. I think it is good to have a battery operated radio in case of emergencies.
What a lot of people/posters don't understand is that some of the things that they see as having no use for are actually the best thing to have in case of an emergency.
Citywide blackout, how are you gonna charge that cell phone or radio. You'd better have batteries or a landline as back up.
Technically though. One really does not need to leave the house anymore. I thought Sandra Bullock character in "The Net" was exaggerated. I was lke "Who never leaves their house for ANYTHING??? That is sooo implausible"
That was until I had to have surgery and was put on bedrest. I quickly found out that I could work from home, have groceries and food delivered (Peapod was a blessing!), pay all bills online, order movies at home so I didn't need to go out... etc, etc.
but it does SPOIL you. You get complacent. And if that line to the outside world is cut off you are up sh!t's creek!
phones without call waiting
shareGotta add that most of those still exist...
Most mentioned, trading stamps, pom pom girls, slumber parties (WITH familiar families's daughters),
drive in's (though half of 'em are swap meets-Southern California, here, HAS helped to introduce the appreciation of the swap meet), and others are still around in various places, and most that I list here in Southern Calif. I don't know if these were mentioned, but how about..
things that seem obsolete on The Brady Bunch but still are around..
Like these candies
Tootsie Rolls
Necco Wafers
Abba Zabba Candies
(All of them much more linked to that era but still sold in a lot of places.)
Babershops with striped poles. We still have those (alright, so I fudged. I live in Whittier, where we have old time CHristimas festivals this time of year...)
I wonder if inner city or big town families still experience a lot of this, as them's supposed to be the hip, progressive part....
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There is a company called Hometown Favorites that sells nostalgic candies including Necco Wafers. Please click on
http://www.hometownfavorites.com/
Pop Rocks are my personal favorite. And I wash them down with a can of Coke.
Nothing at all nostalgic about Necco wafers. They are eaten every day. They are available at Dollar Tree, probably by the cash register. I mean the POS terminal.
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