Stuff you don't see much any more.

[Grand58742]

Those Sears boots were nuke proof.

Sears as a whole you don't see much of anymore.

Kinda sad too, they had the opportunity to become the next big thing had they taken the online leap when it was first coming out. The Sears catalog had anything you could ever imagine in it and they had a distribution network down pat along with decent quality goods and name brands like Craftsman and Kenmore. If they only would have jumped into the digital age during the early-mid 90s, we may not have been talking about getting "anything" from Amazon these days.

[Diamondback]

Yeah, if only... Sears getting in at the start of e-tail means no Bezos getting big money to fund the Radical Left.

OTOH, retail has NEVER been Amazon's primary moneymaker, their real game is Big Data, learning everything they can about you through your purcheses to sell that data to third parties just like Google.

[Arik]

Yeah, if only... Sears getting in at the start of e-tail means no Bezos getting big money to fund the Radical Left.

OTOH, retail has NEVER been Amazon's primary moneymaker, their real game is Big Data, learning everything they can about you through your purcheses to sell that data to third parties just like Google.

They also lease servers to the gov.

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[chuckman]

Sears as a whole you don't see much of anymore.

Kinda sad too, they had the opportunity to become the next big thing had they taken the online leap when it was first coming out. The Sears catalog had anything you could ever imagine in it and they had a distribution network down pat along with decent quality goods and name brands like Craftsman and Kenmore. If they only would have jumped into the digital age during the early-mid 90s, we may not have been talking about getting "anything" from Amazon these days.

I wore the toy section the hell out of that catalog before Christmas in the days of my youth. I bet you are right; I bet if they put more assets into the 'catalog' and online sales as they were shutting down brick-and-mortar stores they would not have gone the way of the dinosaur.

[chuckman]

Some of these ring with me.

My mom got scalded by a pressure cooker explosion when I was a kid. She canned A LOT before and after. Apparently not very common, but not rare either. Some kind of uncommon weird fluke with the vent tube/weight as I recall.

Lots of odd fuel filler locations on older cars. Or how about the trucks with the gas tank behind the seat? I've got an old truck with the starter button on the floor. It's next to the trans tunnel on the opposite side of the floor pan from the bright button. Anyone else remember driving heavy trucks with 2 shifters (2 - 4 or 5 speed trannys) and you HAD to double clutch them. For that matter, being able to say "tranny" in polite conversation and everyone knew you meant an automotive component. Now the first thing they do is either snicker or scream that you are a "transphobe".

8 tracks and 45 records

Kids taking their guns to school for "show and tell", we all got our .22 in third grade. Then took them back to school for hunters education as a part of gym class in 7th grade.

Cherry bombs and M-80's. Buying dynamite and blasting caps at the hardware store.

Lawn darts, steel tricycles, toy guns that fired choke hazards. How about toys kids were supposed to play with, not "collect" as an investment.

I'm fairly certain I actually grew up on another planet, this one seems so different than the one I remember.

Lawn darts....you'd see how close you could get to a kid standing 30 yards, whatever, away. I am sure it was us and kids like us who made them get banned.

[Hank6046]

Kids playing outside.

Thankfully it still exists in my small town to an extent, but lots of kids playing "sports" on their phones. And yes they said the same thing about us when people my age were kids with their game boys and video arcades, and to an extent it was true, but once every kid 12 years and older had a smart phone, that was the end.

So I guess I live in a smaller town, but I see more and more of people around me pushing there kids outside. I have 3 boys and it isn't much of a problem for me, but I don't think this is completely gone, and I don't think that is all the kids fault at all. I remember living in Saint Paul, Mn just a few exists from Downtown, and when I walked a dog there were a couple of kids who would ride there bikes to the nearby lake and fish, just as I did as a kid. People would make horrible small talk about how "the parents weren't around" or 'they should be involved in some summer activity or something", when I think to myself that the kids were being kids and there wasn't anything wrong with it.

[Arik]

How did people back in the day not need 800sq ft car with pounds and pounds of gear just to take the kids out of the house?

I was a kid in the 80s and my dad drove a car smaller than today's Corollas and my mom didn't need a gigantic stroller and bags of gear for my sister or me.

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[utahjeepr]

How did people back in the day not need 800sq ft car with pounds and pounds of gear just to take the kids out of the house?

I was a kid in the 80s and my dad drove a car smaller than today's Corollas and my mom didn't need a gigantic stroller and bags of gear for my sister or me.

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Well when I was a kid we had an F-250 and a Country Squire. Both with 460s. Maybe pops was compensating.

Speaking of Sears, an older gentleman I knew had 2 Thompsons purchased at Sears in the 40s. I made up a storyline about him going into Sears and buying socks, underwear, and a couple of Tommy Guns.

[Edm]

Corned Beef Hash, and that's a damned shame because that's s low cost meal that carried America through the Depression. Although that likely wasn't "Corned Beef".
Spam, by golly I miss my Dads Spam, egg and Velveeta sandwiches on Wonder Bread, extra Mayo please!
Real old school work boots. Tan leather, laces with a white sole. Used to buy them at Sears.
Folk's chewing "Red Man" tobacco. I think my Uncle "Slim" Hunt was the last one. He was a devil let me tell you.

We had corned beef hash for Thanksgiving breakfast. My whole family loves it. Corned beef and cabbage also. Made from real corned beef not out of a can, in my iron skillet...

[3 AE]

I had a great time going to drive-in theaters back in the 60's and early 70's. There was always a coupon in the local newspaper, "$3.00 a carload." We'd pack about 10 of us neighborhood kids and the parents into a station wagon with our pre-made hotdogs, chips, popcorn, sodas, a six pack or two for the mister and missus and just have a ball. A great place to hang out with everyone else in the neighborhood and watch a double feature.

Also, in Chicago, back in the 60's it was no big deal if Dad brought his young son(s) into a bar while he knocked back a few "Boilermakers" while we drank sodas and played that bowling game where you slid a metal puck down the lane sprinkled with that funky smelling sawdust. Ahh, those were fun times.