Things not made anymore that you miss

[eveled]

30 years ago I had a pair of leather work gloves. Similar to WellsLamont, no idea who actually made them.

They had the cinch strap with the red plastic ball. What made them special was they were lined with material similar to cotton long johns (with the little squares). I’d love another pair, but no luck.

They were just right in every way. Sigh.


What is the thing you cant find anymore?

 

[Rocdoc]

Remember the outside description, never had any, too poor 30 years ago for anything but the cheap split-leather work gloves

 

[hittman]

Right now it’s Liver Cheese.
There’s others I’m sure.

 

[GunnyGene]

Pay phone booths at gas stations.

 

[Bob Wright]

Williams and Colgate shave soap, the mug refills.

Mug soap is still available, but by mail order only. And its expensive for most brands.

Bob Wright

 

[txramfan]

Curtis Mathis televisions.

The last made in the USA tv.

 

[Snake45]

$10 bricks of .22LR ammo.

As a model builder, there are dozens of paints I used for decades that simply aren't available anymore.

 

[Rocdoc]

Another one: the catalogs for Western Auto, Montgomery Wards, Sears, and JC Penny. Dreamed of all the guns they featured. Little kid (me) could never have any of it, but enjoyed browsing and thinking maybe some day I can have that

 

[noahmercy]

Just in shootables:
Ruger Red Label
Ruger #1
Lyman Flintlock Great Plains Rifle
Marlin 39

Yes, they can be found for sale from time-to-time, but desirable + discontinued = "collectable", and drives the prices up beyond my means.

 

[Fox Mike]

This outfit also made a sugar coated honey-bun that I would love to have another. Unfortunately they went out of business in the 1970's

 

[Bob Wright]

$10 bricks of .22LR ammo.

As a model builder, there are dozens of paints I used for decades that simply aren't available anymore.

Nor are they twenty five cents a bottle!

Bob Wright

 

[Bob Wright]

And, Snake45,

I remember my first plastic model, a Lockheed P-80 Shooting Star. I had made many balsa wood models using "dope" to paint them. Sooooo, used the same paint on the plastic. Disaster, as the lacquer dissolved and crazed the plastic!

Bob Wright

 

[Snake45]

Nor are they twenty five cents a bottle!

Bob Wright

When I started building models, the "little bottles" of Testor and Pactra paints were 10 cents. I watched the price rise to 11c, to 12c, to 13c, to 15c (they skipped 14c for some reason), and they've been going up ever since. Pactra paint hasn't been made in decades, and I think the last little bottles of Testor I bought were $2. Funny thing about those prices, every time oil prices raised, Testor jacked up the price, but when the oil price came back down, the paint prices did NOT.

 

[hittman]

Curtis Mathis televisions.

The last made in the USA tv.

Oh wow ….. I worked for a Curtis Mathes dealer in the late 70s early 80s.
Been to the plant, etc. in Athens TX for meetings, training, etc.

 

[txramfan]

Oh wow ….. I worked for a Curtis Mathes dealer in the late 70s early 80s.
Been to the plant, etc. in Athens TX for meetings, training, etc.

The company ( manufacturers representative) I worked for sold Curtis Mathis during its last year or so of existence and we visited the plant.

 

[rex1]

Williams and Colgate shave soap, the mug refills.

Mug soap is still available, but by mail order only. And its expensive for most brands.

Bob Wright

try a bar of dove bath soap

 

[Bob Wright]

try a bar of dove bath soap

Doesn't fit my mug, nor does it have the same fragrance. I've been using Col. Conk soap of late.

Bob Wright

 

[Wyandot Jim]

The company ( manufacturers representative) I worked for sold Curtis Mathis during its last year or so of existence and we visited the plant.

We still have a 1969?? Curtis Mathis cabinet stereo and our first color TV in 1967 was a cabinet model 21" C M that cost $435.00

 

[Arizonagunsmith]

Zenith electrical products. Stores that sold huge chunks of dairy milk chocolate that wasnt some big name for a reasonable 5 cent price.

 

[Chief 101]

Pay phone booths at gas stations.

If there were pay phones as there once was I would not feel the need to carry this flip phone in my pocket