Name Something You Grew Up With That Is Gone & Not Coming Back

[FromMyColdDeadHand]

The original recipe for the Krispy Kreme doughnuts creme filling. Thanks food nazis

The Dunkin Donuts glazed twists. Not the light and fluffy glazed twist; the heavy, doughy with a hint of maple twists. Don't know why they don't make them any more. Is Rhode Island like the mecca for donuts? I know New England is the land of Dunkin Donuts either way you get off the highway, but the only place I've seen possible pics of the glazed twists are from Mom and Pop places in RI.

[Doc Safari]

I miss Danish Go-Rounds from the 1970's. It was an attempt to make frosted Pop-Tarts more in the spiral shape of a cinnamon roll, but you heated them in the toaster just like Pop Tarts. I don't think they lasted more than a year or so.

https://www.metv.com/lists/15-bygone...ver-have-again

[MistWolf]

I miss surplus firearms, surplus ammo and surplus gear sold for surplus prices. Us kids could buy a web belt complete with pouches, canteen and bayonet with sheath for five or ten bucks and hunt rabbits like we were Audey Murphy looking for Nazis.

I miss the Great Western Gun and Knife Show that was held at the Pomona Fairgrounds twice a year and all the terrific deals, and personalities. Every year was that WWII Japanese fighter pilot selling his autograph, claiming he had shot down Pappy Boyington.

I miss the the airshows at Point Magu NAS back in the day when the Blue Angels and the Thunderbirds drove Phantoms, the Herkybird of the Blue Knights took off with JATO bottles roaring amid smoke and flames and a Skyhawk would drop live bombs. A lone Skyhawk would come in low, then shoot straight up in the sky and release its payload in a simulated nuclear bomb attack. The bomb would continue in an upward as the small jet fighter leveled out and raced for its life. The airshow would continue for many minutes, when suddenly there was a large explosion out to sea. It took the bomb that long to fall back to earth. I remember the building we always parked by. The giant letters painted across the large hangar doors left a lasting impression on me as a young boy- "PROPS KILL". To this day, I give spinning props a wide berth anytime I'm around running aircraft.

[jsbhike]

. The giant letters painted across the large hangar doors left a lasting impression on me as a young boy- "PROPS KILL". To this day, I give spinning props a wide berth anytime I'm around running aircraft.

My college safety course instructor in the 90's was a full time consultant and had recently reviewed a business that had a sign up stating, "Work safe, it's hell being a cripple!!"

[SteyrAUG]

I miss surplus firearms, surplus ammo and surplus gear sold for surplus prices. Us kids could buy a web belt complete with pouches, canteen and bayonet with sheath for five or ten bucks and hunt rabbits like we were Audey Murphy looking for Nazis.

No kidding. Before I got into high school I had an impressive collection of stuff from WWII.

[Safetyhit]

No kidding. Before I got into high school I had an impressive collection of stuff from WWII.

I had to see this after popping in for two minutes. Still have those you know what now stored away somewhere since we moved.

[OldState]

The Woolworth at the mall near me often had a small carrousel with M1 Carbines slathered in cosmoline when I was a kid in the 80’s.

At around 14 years old my friends and I walked into a gun store and bought 50’ of green cherry bomb fuse saying it was for our model rockets. Then we bought a pound of Pyrex. Used both to make little bombs with old CO2 canisters from our BB guns. We used a hand drill to bore a hole in trees then stuffed them in there to blow up the tree. Can’t do that anymore

Now kids want to stay inside all day to play Fortnight.....

[3 AE]

1) As mentioned, Drive-ins. Yeah there's a few left, but back in the day they were all over the place. It seemed like every month during the summer, someone's dad and maybe the mom would herd some of us neighborhood kids, about eight or nine of us, and cram us into a station wagon or in the trunk of a coup d' ville and go see at least a double feature for $5.00 a car load. We"d even bring are own food like fried bologna, mustard and pickle sandwiches wrapped in wax paper, hot dogs in a bun wrapped in foil, chips, and Old Dutch Mill sodas. Then one year the drive-in had Tombstone Pizzas. Boy we were shittin in tall cotton, what a blast! As we got older, it was a right of passage to go to the drive-in on double dates. I won't go into the details other than to say, Hickeys! Oh, almost forgot. I don't think there was a time that someone didn't drive off with those old speakers hanging off their window, ripping the speaker cords out of the posts!

2) Demolition Derby! Now this was a Father & Son moment show special! The roar of V-8s, squeal of the brakes, and the sound of crunching steel and smoke billowing out of dying engines. The winner getting a lip lock from the Derby Queen. Damn, it brings tear to my eyes just thinking of those days. Some of my buddies wanted to be policemen, some wanted to be firemen, me, I wanted to be a Demolition Derby driver and get that lip lock from the hot blond Derby Queen!

3) Roller Derby. There's a few local circuits around, but not like the old days where a national league was in place. Hell, even Raquel Welch did a movie about roller derby. The men were goons and the women were hot. Watching bodies getting slammed into and over the rails was something to behold. Yeah, a lot of the fights were staged but what the hell, it was cheap entertainment. Getting your picture taken with your favorite skaters with a Polaroid camera was the real deal braggin' rights!

4) Pro Athletes that played almost their entire careers with the same team. Before free agency, you could count on the same players being around from the time you were old enough to play the game to the time you graduated from high school. Most of them even had jobs in the off season to compliment their income from their sport. They were part of the neighborhood, and the city. You damn near cried when they retired or got traded.

Excuse me while I go off and have a good cry.

[Diamondback]

Not just theaters, drive-in restaurants too other than that poser Sonic. Anybody else remember when you could find an A&W that wasn't either in a Retail Hell Dimension (aka "mall") or co-located with KC and still brought root-beer floats out to your car in glass mugs that had been chilled in the freezer all day?

Thank God for Triple D on Food Network--Guy Fieri may be loud and obnoxious, but at least the show is good for helping find the last remnants of this particular dying slice of Americana.

[Diamondback]

The Woolworth at the mall near me often had a small carrousel with M1 Carbines slathered in cosmoline when I was a kid in the 80’s.

At around 14 years old my friends and I walked into a gun store and bought 50’ of green cherry bomb fuse saying it was for our model rockets. Then we bought a pound of Pyrex. Used both to make little bombs with old CO2 canisters from our BB guns. We used a hand drill to bore a hole in trees then stuffed them in there to blow up the tree. Can’t do that anymore

Now kids want to stay inside all day to play Fortnight.....

Damn, man, why couldn't that have been a Woolworth near Seattle around that same time?