Things of The Past!

[Moksha]

McGuffy's Reader

The Original Coca-Cola

Deseret Alphabet

Postum

American Bandstand

[marshac]

Candy cigarettes

[Hemidakota]

Creme Soda in a bottle.

[Jamie123]

Victory V Lozenges

A few shops do still sell them, but they're relatively rate. There was a time when all corner shops sold them and you could get Victory V gums too.

If you don't know what I'm talking about, Victory V's are small, hard, rectangular brown lozenges that smell very strongly of chloraform. They they taste awful until you acquire the taste for them, and then you can't get enough of them. I used to go through a whole bag of them in 10 minutes. If you crunch them they splinter into little sharp shards that get stuck in your throat and make you cough.

Whenever I see any (which is disgravefully rare) I buy a pack and my wife then hates me because f the foul smell of my breath after sucking one.

Army and Navy lozenges are cool too. You rarely see them either these days.

[Jamie123]

Candy cigarettes

You can still get them here in the UK, though they call them "candy sticks" now.

[Jamie123]

Just found this on Wikipedia...

Victory V is a British brand of liquorice-flavoured lozenges. Originally manufactured in Nelson, Lancashire they were devised by Thomas Fryer and Edward Smith MD in the mid-1800s and were initially made by hand to ensure that each sweet contained the correct amount of therapeutic ingredients; ether, liquorice and chloroform. Victory V lozenges are available in specialist shops and online, but no longer contain chloroform or ether. Today they are manufactured by Ernest Jackson & Co. Ltd. in Devon.

I wondered why they don't taste the same as I remember them from my youth. I thought my taste buds were going. That's a relief...

So bring back the ether and chloraform!

[pam]

Creme Soda in a bottle.

You can still get that. I buy it quite often.

[miztrniceguy]

Dodgers are 39-33....more wins than losses.

[Tarnished]

Candy cigarettes

You can still get candy cigarettes in the States too. You just have to find the right kind of candy shop.

There is one such shop near where I grew up. They still sell:

Dots

Candy Cigarettes

Wax candy (such as wax soda bottles and wax lips)

Chocolate Coins

As well as many other types of lesser seen candies

I loved Dots when I was a kid, even now I still like buying a sheet of them.

[Dravin]

Candy cigarettes

The bubble gum kind with a lot of powdered sugar so if you blew on them a little cloud came out? I remember those, and the chewing gum cigars. They along with Big League Chew gum were verbotten in my household when I was growing up.

Oh, My answers:

Pepsi Clear, and Clearly Canadian in a glass bottle.

[pam]

The chocolate candies "Flicks" that came in a tube

[Mahone]

Didn't Opal Fruits turn into Starburst?

Yep indeed. It's the name I miss. I believe it was always called starburst in the USA, but but until 1998 was called opal fruits in the UK. They changed it to save money, basically so they didn't have to make two different brands for the same product. I still call them opal fruits.

[pam]

Dodgers are 39-33....more wins than losses.

Ahhh but I must add just to throw it out. My Padres are 42-30. Wooohooo

Edit - This is actually a reversal..something you didn't see much but now making a comeback.

Edited June 25, 2010 by pam
after thought

[Hemidakota]

"Rock ‘em Sock ‘em Robots" - one eventful Christmas present. I hear it is back on store shelves again.

[pam]

Letters

Seriously when my son went to basic training and I had to actually write a letter, I didn't even know how much a stamp was as I never send anything by mail any longer.

[pam]

TV shows with real theme songs. Any of them any more just have some classic pop or rock song they use. Think of the old tv shows and how we remember their individuality in the theme songs and could sing along.

[Hemidakota]

There was time, when I remember I was the remote control for our RCA TV Console. Anyone remember the four channels we received? The size of the console was half the wall.

"Son, get up and turned the knob to CBS. While you are at it, adjust the rabbit ears on the console!"

[Hemidakota]

Today, most of us could not live without our cells phone but I still remember this:

[pam]

I mentioned rotary phones earlier. It's funny I know of 2 people that still use them.

[pam]

Having to go to the ATM before you made a purchase, because you couldn't use a debit card at check-out.

I remember when there was no such thing as an ATM or a debit card.

[Hemidakota]

Or matchbox car for .23 cents. A movie for a dime (Air Force Base).

[pam]

Or matchbox car for .23 cents. A movie for a dime (Air Force Base).

I remember movies being free at the base in Kodiak, Alaska. Popcorn was .10 a bag

[Jenamarie]

Oh, someone mentioned Pepsi Clear! I was so sad when they discontinued that. I LOVED it. It tasted like gummy bears!

And Monterey Jack Doritos! Another discontuned flavor they really ought to bring back.

[pam]

Wasabi Funyuns

[Hemidakota]

What was those cherry flat sticks they use to sell at the movies?